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ROI and the Secure Customer Index (SCI)

Horizon CX

Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty vs. Quarterly Numbers—The Conflict. As the Senior Manager of Customer Experience, I found myself amidst an executive leadership conflict that had been playing out for a few years and way above my pay grade. The issue at hand was the conflict that debated the company priority: Customer Satisfaction or quarterly numbers.

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10 Signs to Know if you have Won a Loyal Customer

Pink Guava

Customer – Vendor relationships are often treated as guarded, professional, and more transactional. Looking at today’s dynamic market behavior and so many options available for anyone to choose from, this belief is sure going to impede your business success. Bottom line is that if we need to stand out in the market and continue to grow our client base, we must start looking at customers as humans and treat them so!

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Make CX Easy: Give Your Customers What They Want

Daniel Group

Are you ready to give customers what they want from you? This blog is the first of a four-part series that focuses on this question. Throughout the series, we will explore the importance of the following topics: Make CX Easy. Here at The Daniel Group, we pride ourselves on supporting our clients in making CX as easy as possible. We do this by gathering information by surveying our clients’ customers.

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The European Customer Experience Organization is now live! The Time to Evolve Together arrived!

eglobalis

The European Customer Experience Organization the real associationpractical , employee experience , experience design , innovation launch Ricardo Saltz Gulko and Adrian Swinscoe. The post The European Customer Experience Organization is now live! The Time to Evolve Together arrived! appeared first on Eglobalis.

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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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How to Handle Lost Luggage: A Lesson From the Airlines

ShepHyken

It’s been almost a year since my last business trip. I’m excited as I’m writing this article because I’m about ready to take the first trip since the COVID-19 lockdown. I reflected on what I love about travel, and even some of what I don’t love. Falling into the latter category of what I don’t love is checking luggage. I’m not sure if there is a term for this phobia, but I have the fear of airlines losing my luggage.

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5 Technologies that help your Customer Service Team drive more Sales

TechSee

“Do you want to SuperSize that?” and “Do you want fries with that?” These lines – uttered with every Mickey D order – are probably the most famous upsell and cross-sell out there. But the days of relying on sales staff to entice customers to re-open their wallets are coming to an end. The rise of new digital engagement channels is making it easier than ever for Customer Service staff to do the (selling) deed, while pushing the CX to the next level.

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How a Better Brand Experience Turns Consumers into Loyal Customers

Second to None

Your brand experience is a multi-layered avenue that draws a connection between you and consumers — positively or negatively. It’s your personality, values, and attitude that fuels your brand’s perception out in the world. You can, and should, use the brand experience as a frontline tool to turning consumers into customers — and loyal ones. But how can you do that?

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Amazing Business Radio: Elma Beganovich

ShepHyken

The Perks of Influencer Marketing. Using Social Media to Build an Engaging Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Elma Beganovich, founder and COO of A&E Digital Marketing. They discuss the importance of influencer marketing in the customer experience. Top Takeaways: Influencer marketing is a way to add to your customer journey. It starts with social media.

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It’s No Wonder Why Your Doctor, Lawyer & Accountant Suck at Service

The DiJulius Group

5 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1) Customer Service Feature Story One thing for sure, when customer service rankings come out, if you want to see where lawyers, doctors, or accountants fall, keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. You will find them with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, internet providers, and airlines. Read Full Article.

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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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3 Behavioral Economic Principles for Customer Success

ChurnZero

“But I did everything right.”. Have you ever bemoaned this common refrain after a customer unexpectedly churns? You adhered to the best practices. Your customer said they were happy. You thought everything was going swimmingly, perhaps even exceptionally well. Customer engaging? Check. Customer satisfied? Check. Customer seeing results? Check. . But still, when presented with the opportunity to leave, your customer just up and churns on you.

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Human-Centered Customer Experience with Amanda Chavez

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by Amanda Chavez to discuss human-centered customer service and design. Amanda has over a decade of experience working in this type of design and shares expert advice worth listening to. Tune in to the podcast below to discover how Amanda incorporates human-centered design into all aspects of customer experience.

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Guest Post: 5 Tools to Uplift Your Store’s Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Deb Mukherjee , a SaaS marketer with DelightChat. He shares five customer-related applications worthy of taking your eCommerce customer service to the next level. In this day and age, eCommerce is a booming industry. The global eCommerce market size was valued at 9.09 trillion dollars in 2019. As we’re still embracing remote work and social distancing, folks would be purchasing from online stores.

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Best Customer Experience: Be Plentiful & Ready | #CX #CustServ

Kate Nasser

To deliver the best customer experience be plentiful & ready in these specific ways. Insights from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post Best Customer Experience: Be Plentiful & Ready | #CX #CustServ appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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ChurnZero Raises $25 Million in JMI Equity-Led Series B Funding

ChurnZero

New resources to help market-leading Customer Success platform expand its ecosystem, team, and product development capabilities. ChurnZero, the highest-rated and fastest-growing Customer Success platform for subscription businesses, today announced that it has received $25 million in Series B funding led by JMI Equity, a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software companies.

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Part 2: Achieving Customer Success by Reducing Churn

Team Support

In Part 1 of this blog series we introduced the new imperative for customer support and customer success—achieving success for your customers… and for your bottom line. The first way to do so is to ensure product adoption and use. The second way is to use B2B customer support tools to proactively strengthen your customer relationships and reduce churn.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of March 1, 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. Three Common and Enormous Mistakes Companies Make with Customer Experience (CX) Programs by Augie Ray. (Gartner) I will share three significant ways organizations may seed the eventual downfall of their CX programs in their early days.

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4 steps to effectively optimize location-based employees to boost customer experience

Talkdesk

Learn more about an all-in-one mobile workforce solution that puts real-time communication tools in the hands of location-based employees. When I was preparing to move from one country to another, I wanted to put all my finances in the right order: close some bank accounts I haven’t been using, ask for bank statements, etc. To do so, I needed to spare half of my day, because these activities could only be managed by going to a bank branch and waiting in line to be helped. .

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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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Expand Member Reach with Virtual Branches

SaleMove

2020 and social distancing fundamentally changed how customers interact with businesses. Close, in-person interactions were largely replaced with virtual exchanges. As the initial chaos of the pandemic gives way to a new reality, how can credit unions and banks meet the needs of customers while still delivering a superior customer experience? . In a recent report, “ Beyond COVID-19: Five key priorities to accelerate post-crisis transformation for banking and capital markets ,” PwC lists key stra

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How to Calculate and Improve Your Customer Retention Rate

Totango

Customer retention is the lifeblood of any savvy enterprise. It’s the only way to be successful in this customer-centered economy and ensure scalable long-term revenue. To retain customers, companies must make the customer experience better and ensure customers never stop seeing value from their product or service. As such, you will need to keep a close eye on your customers as they progress along the customer journey to avoid churn and gather the data needed to calculate your retention rate.

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Target Working with the Best so You can be Your Best!

One Millimeter Mindset

When you target working with the best so you can become your best, you always have one question that is top-of-mind. “Who are the best of the best in our organization?” Why, how, and when did they accomplish this? The key to upskilling and reskilling for the post-pandemic workplace starts with discovering who your best workplace colleagues are. Even if you currently do not work with them at all.

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Next-Gen Contact Centers: The Tech You Need to Support CX

Upstream Works

Next generation technologies for the contact center are readily available and quickly becoming core drivers of digital transformation. While many contact centers are still running on legacy, premise-based technology, the expectations of today’s digital customers have surpassed what these legacy applications can provide. Here are three essential capabilities IT decision makers should consider as part of their digital transformation with cloud and AI technologies.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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New Report From Vivantio Provides Roadmap for Next-Generation B2B Service Infrastructure

CSM Magazine

Vivantio , a leading provider of customer service optimization software and solutions, has launched a new report, “ Leveraging Breakthrough Service to Transform Your B2B Enterprise.”. The report identifies the distinct benefits of centralizing customer service and offers B2B business owners a detailed process for implementing it at their organization, inclusive of proven strategies for overcoming common challenges.

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Building the hybrid contact centre with Microsoft Teams

Eptica

Date: Friday, March 5, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Building the hybrid contact centre with Microsoft Teams. Published on: March 05, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Moving forward the needs of customers – and customer service staff – are changing radically. How can contact centres transform successfully?

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Top 3 Customer Success Takeaways from SaaStock Remote

ChurnZero

Last week SaaStock hosted their 2nd annual SaaSock Remote event, which was focused on helping SaaS leaders gain traction, grow and scale in a hybrid world. . Did you know that 92% of SaaS companies fail within 3 years due to poor product-market fit, lack of cash flow, and/or overall mismanagement? Being a part of an expert-led community like this SaaStock Remote event gives access to the knowledge and experience SaaS leaders need. .

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Your Post Pandemic Career Strategy Evolved. Now what?

One Millimeter Mindset

Your post pandemic career strategy is different than originally designed. What will you do? Are you feeling guilty? And are you attempting to comply with what satisfied you before? Rather, let’s celebrate together! It is time to move forward beyond where you were yesterday and where you are today. Time to get to where you really need to go tomorrow.

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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.