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Customer Experience Management Defined: How is it Different From CX?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer experience exists whether you are intentional about it or not. After all, your customer is experiencing the brand via every interaction, touchpoint, service call, and delivery. The customer walks away with a perception of what the brand is, and whether or not this brand lives up to its promises, with every step along their personal journey.

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The Best Customer Experience Needs the Best Agent Experience – Expert Commentary

Comm100

Ten years ago, it wouldn’t have been uncommon to see people switch off merely at the sound of ‘customer experience’ in conversation. Once considered an ephemeral buzzword that would fade away, these same organizations now boast of their CX-first culture that puts customer experience at the forefront of everything they do. The reason for such a rapid and overwhelming change of heart is simple and unsurprising.

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The 3 Principles of Brand Loyalty After COVID-19 Rocked Our World

BlueOcean

Brand loyalty is a reflection of a customer’s commitment to a relationship with a given retailer or service provider. But, of course, the pandemic changed everything about all our relationships. We quickly got used to holding everything and everyone at arm’s length – and for many customers, that included the brands they had once been loyal to. Read on to discover the three principles of brand loyalty after COVID-19 shifted our buying behaviors (and one interesting exception to the rule.).

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Amazing Business Radio: Ron Karr

ShepHyken

Applying the Velocity Mindset in Customer Service. How Empathy Accelerates Great Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Ron Karr, CEO of Karr Associates, Inc. and author of The Velocity Mindset. They discuss the impact of empathy in delivering customer-focused service. . Top Takeaways: . Often in customer service, we tend to put self-imposed limitations that get in the way of delivering great experiences to our customers and slows down the process.

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2024 State of Customer Education Report

Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.

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Best places for customer service certification & training

GetFeedback

Learn why earning a customer service certification will benefit your business and find organizations offering training and certifications.

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Follow the Chain of CX Value to Drive Impact

Heart of the Customer

Done right, CX is a business discipline where organizations thrive by investing in an improved customer experience. That notion is largely accepted, even though it’s not always practiced. The challenge there is knowing where to invest. Success requires finding the sweet spot where an improved experience leads your customers to spend more with you, stick […].

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-10-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 8 Ways to Win Customer Loyalty With Streamlined Customer Support by Samuel O’Brien. (CustomerThink) How do you, as a business owner, introduce processes and initiatives to streamline your customer support in order to win over your customers?

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How Support Teams Can Improve Customer Retention

Help Scout

Great customer service delivers real business value. That’s a foundational belief at Help Scout, as outlined in our support-driven growth articles. Even so, it can be difficult for empathetic customer service staff to think about customers in terms of business revenue. It somehow feels more “fair” to treat every customer equally, being helpful and responsive without regard to the money involved.

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Exceptional? Sales? ?People? ?Deserve? ?to? ?Sell? ?Outstanding? ?Products

TechSee

Here at TechSee, we are incredibly proud of what we’ve created and what it has to offer. In the span of only six years, we’ve established ourselves as the market leader in visual assistance, selling to more than 100 Tier-1 leading enterprises worldwide. Our patented Computer Vision technology uses AI and AR to install and fix technical devices like routers and appliances in the most straightforward and cost-effective way.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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Top 3 Takeaways from Kerry Bodine’s Alida Activate Keynote

Alida

Last week at Alida Activate, a customer experience (CX) masterclass event, Kerry Bodine took to the virtual stage for an unforgettable keynote on Demystifying Customer Experience. Kerry provided meaningful insights into what it takes to deliver exceptional customer experiences, and how to champion CX transformation within your own organization. With such an information-packed session, it wasn’t easy, but we’ve narrowed down our top three takeaways from Kerry’s spectacular keynote presentation.

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What’s Normal for Us Can Be Amazing to Others

ShepHyken

During my live presentations, there is a part of my speech where I talk about Moments of Magic. These are positive experiences we create for our customers, including our internal customers, also known as our fellow employees. (If you’ve been following my work, you already knew that.). In the speech, I’ll ask audience members to share an example of when they created that experience.

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How Good A Liar Are You Really? Does Lying Affect Your Customer Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

This podcast is sponsored by Verint. Verint helps the world’s most iconic brands build enduring customer relationships by connecting work, data, and experiences across the enterprise. The Verint Customer Engagement Cloud Platform draws on the latest advancements in AI and analytics, an open cloud architecture, and The Science of Customer Engagement to meet ever-increasing, ever-shifting consumer interactions and demands.

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Cha Ching! How Support and Success Join Forces to Drive Revenue

Team Support

“You’re not paying close enough attention to your customers.”. That’s how TeamSupport CEO Pete Khanna and ProfitSword VP of Sales and Marketing Paul Bennie began their speaking session at the recent TSIA Interact annual conference. This blog provides the highlights from their talk. It was a provocative statement to introduce the session. What did they mean ?

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Uncover and Action Comprehensive Insights with Flexibility

Alida

Voice of the customer (VoC) and customer experience (CX) initiatives are becoming more important every day. As customer expectations skyrocket and buying behaviors turn on a dime, companies are tasked with keeping up—something nearly impossible to do without some level of insight into what customers want and are expecting.

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Guest Post: 5 Rules for a Great Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Ashwini Dave, a digital marketing expert at Acquire , a conversational customer experience software platform. She shares five rules that businesses should follow to create a great customer experience. If you think brands can get away with a shoddy, below-average customer experience and put the blame on COVID-19, consider this: “Post-COVID, 59% of consumers care more about customer experience when they decide what company to support or buy from” In

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The Massive Gap Between Customer Expectations and Organizations’ Ability Post-Pandemic

Beyond Philosophy

Only half of the organizations around the world feel prepared to support customer engagement post-COVID. When I read that headline from Verint, an organization specializing in the Voice of Customer, it struck a chord with me—a minor one with lots of extra dissonance. Could we face a big gap between what customers expect and what organizations are prepared to deliver when we emerge from this past year?

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Ten guiding principles for a better customer experience

PK

Many businesses are working to foster a better experience for their customers. With customer experience being a new area of focus for many, we have found that businesses are ramping into the field very quickly and are sometimes missing some key base principles in the process. This is a set of ten guiding principles that act as a foundation in our CX practice.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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TSIA Interact Spring 2021: Key Takeaways

Education Services Group

TSIA’s conferences are always jam-packed with best practices, real-life examples, success stories, and lessons learned from some of technology’s biggest names. This spring’s virtual TSIA Interact was certainly no exception, with three days of sessions from TSIA researchers and industry-leading companies and experts. With so many impressive sessions and speakers, it was hard to choose which to attend each day!

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3 Ways Upstream Works for Amazon Connect Will Improve Your Contact Center

Upstream Works

Upstream Works is excited to introduce you to our newest product offering – Upstream Works for Amazon Connect. We enhance Amazon Connect with a unified desktop, digital channel flexibility, seamless integrations and management simplicity – and it’s all optimized for enterprises. Bring flexible cloud omnichannel solutions to your contact center to accelerate innovation, transform the customer experience and increase efficiency.

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Optimize Stakeholder Engagement and Management With These Key Strategies

Totango

Stakeholder engagement and management is critical for customer retention. Here’s how to plan an effective stakeholder management strategy and track your performance. How Do You Optimize Stakeholder Engagement? A well-designed stakeholder engagement and management strategy includes two key components: An action plan for promoting stakeholder engagement.

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Focus on Brain Cross Training To Vitalize Team Collaboration

One Millimeter Mindset

Brain cross training is a potent strategy for becoming more professionally visible, cross-functionally relevant, and strategically valuable. And this hybrid skill set is tailor-made for what is new and next in our workplaces. Sound daunting? It’s easier than you think. Just give yourself permission to move one millimeter beyond what is currently professionally comfortable.

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Unlock the Future of Learning Growth and Retention at Cognition24!

The annual Cognition virtual conference is back on October 16, and this year it’s FREE! You’ll enjoy: Inspiring Keynotes from top learning industry leaders, providing fresh perspectives to help you outperform the competition. Hands-on, Skill-Building Sessions to elevate your growth, retention, and product adoption strategies. Exclusive First Look at the latest innovations from Thought Industries, empowering you with tools to grow faster.

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The customer journey is changing. Is your marketing team adapting?

BirdEye

The sheer number of digital touchpoints that are now available to consumers today means there’s no sure-fire way to know precisely how people discover your products — or what they’ll do next. A customer can discover your business through review sites, social media, or search engines. Thousands of touchpoints could be used in multiple combinations to create hundreds of unique consumer journeys, all for the same, single product.

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3 Strategies for Turning Your Customers Into Promoters

PeopleMetrics

Word-of-mouth marketing is the best way to drive customer loyalty and organically create enthusiastic brand advocates. In this session, we share 3 strategies to help you turn your customers into promoters, starting with Net Promoter Score (NPS) - a universal metric that helps you understand your relationship with customers and identify opportunities to turn passive customers into brand promoters.

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10 Selling Principles That Are the Foundation for Stronger Customer Relationships

Integrity Solutions

Just about everything in our world is changing, but there are still some fundamentals that remain constant. Now more than ever, the traits of a great salesperson come down to selling principles and behaviors rooted in ethics and integrity. What are the traits of a great salesperson in 2021? Many sales leaders are grappling with this question as they navigate today’s rapidly evolving selling landscape.

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Customer loyalty: 5 strategies for creating lifelong fans of your brand

delighted

It’s a term that gets thrown around a lot these days, but “customer loyalty” has never been more important. If you want to build a business that’s sustainable – not just a flash-in-the-pan success – you have to prioritize the long-term loyalty of your customers. The significance of customer loyalty. It’s easy to get caught up in sales and onboarding new customers that you forget about the importance of retaining them.

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.