Sat.Oct 20, 2018 - Fri.Oct 26, 2018

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Use These Survey Questions to Predict and Increase Customer Retention

GetFeedback

When it comes to measuring the probability for a customer to return to a brand and make new purchases, many businesses rely on the typical customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey question: “How satisfied were you with your experience today?”. While it may seem that this question will determine customer retention , research on customer feedback tells a different story.

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Takeaways from CEM Asia 2018: Quantifying the Impact of CX

CloudCherry

On September 27th, I had the great pleasure of moderating a panel at CEM Asia attempting to answer the question: How do business leaders quantify the ROI of CX? The discussion was so valuable to those in attendance, I wanted to take the time to crystallize some of our thoughts to share them further so more of the CloudCherry audience could benefit from their insights.

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Why You Must Create and Sustain a Customer-Centric Culture

Beyond Philosophy

Most companies today know that putting the customer at the heart of everything they do is vital. Doing something about it, however, tends to fall into the unknown category. The fact is, improving your Customer Experience means you must also become more customer-centric. But what is customer-centricity and how do you do it? What aspects of the experience should you focus your efforts to improve?

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How to Achieve Personalized Customer Service with AI Tools

TechSee

Hello. Thanks for calling our Hotel. How may I help you? Vs. Good morning, Laura. I see you are a Loyalty member since 2007, and have stayed at our property in London every year around this time. Are you calling to make another reservation? If so, I see you have 345 Loyalty points available to use towards your stay. Personalization as a driver in customer service.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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How Two CX Leaders United Their Organizations Under Shared Value Systems to Transform Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

In my recent Daily Dose video, I talk about the importance of letting your purpose unite your company and share two case studies regarding companies that embody their values. In this podcast, I’m expounding on this concept and revisiting conversations from two CX leaders who have united their organizations to conduct a CX transformation led by a specific purpose and mission that enhances the overall experience. .

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Creating the customer service agents of the future

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Author: Anne-Claire Bellec - Marketing Director Creating the customer service agents of the future. Published on: October 24, 2018. Author: Anne-Claire Bellec - Marketing Director Customer service is changing dramatically, with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation leading more and more consumers to interact with brands through technologies such as self-service.

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Guest Blog: Five Star Hotel, Minus Five Star Service

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Tim Richardson who writes about a hospitality experience gone bad and then reminds us what must be done to provide a great guest experience. – Shep Hyken. Think about an incredible service experience you’ve had recently. What company or organization comes to mind? What about the service experience was extraordinary?

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What Consumer Goods Companies Can Learn From Healthcare. 7 Lessons of Customer Service Excellence

C3Centricity

If you work in consumer goods you probably think you have nothing to learn from healthcare, right? After all, you have consumers in your industry name and well healthcare’s reputation is not that great. But think again. I was recently in a clinic for surgery and was surprised by how customer (patient) centric they are. I remind my clients that exceptional customer service examples can come from anywhere!

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Priceless insight: A Q&A with Smithsonian Media’s Linda Lawrence on achieving early success with an insight community

Alida

The media industry is undergoing radical changes. With two sets of customers, advertising partners and the audiences they advertise to, media companies require new types of insights and the ability to get them quickly and cost-effectively. Staying in the consideration set of ad agencies, and the brands they represent, is a constant challenge. Syndicated research is expensive and often isn’t customized to match the brand of media companies and their partners.

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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 Delivering Memories Drives Word of Mouth and Business Growth

Oracle

The following post includes excerpts from Jeanne’s new book: Would You Do That To Your Mother. Professor and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman is considered the “memory guru” by many. His writing and research have clarified the importance of memory and why it elevates companies and their people when they embrace memory creation as pivotal.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of October 22, 2018

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. Pizza store employee makes 225-mile delivery to man on hospice by Brad Devereaux. (Kalamazoo News) For Julie Morgan and Rich Morgan of Indianapolis, it was the nice gesture that came with two pizzas delivered from their favorite pizzeria soon after they learned that R

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Comcast is making customer experience its best product

Customer Enthusiast

Last week I had the privilege of traveling to Philadelphia to visit the newly-opened Comcast Technology Center where I was joined by a cast of customer experience (CX) influencers: Jay Baer , Chip Bell , Jeanne Bliss , Joey Coleman , John Dijulius , Matt Dixon , Moira Dorsey , Shep Hyken , Scott McKain , Adam Toporek , Bill Quiseng , and Jeannie Walters.

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Great News: Temkin Group Joins Forces With Qualtrics

Experience Matters

I’m thrilled to announce that Temkin Group has been acquired by Qualtrics. Together, our goal is to create the world’s premiere center of excellence for all things experience management (XM). This new center––the Qualtrics XM Institute––brings together the industry’s foremost thought leaders to help shape the future of experience management, establish and publish best-practices, drive product innovation, and enable certification and training programs that further build a community of XM professi

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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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Google Review Not Showing Up? Here’s Why.

ReviewTrackers

Chances are that your listing isn’t the only one that suffers from Google reviews not showing up. There isn’t one solution to this issue. However, we managed to find some solutions that could explain the sudden disappearance of a few Google reviews. Google My Business Listing Issues. There are a few scenarios that point to problems within a Google My Business (GMB) listing as that leads to a Google review not showing up.

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The New End

ShepHyken

I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Sam Stern , a principal analyst at Forrester Research for my Amazing Business Radio show. One of the ideas we discussed was Daniel Kahneman’s Peak-end rule. The short version of this concept, applied to customer interactions, is that customers judge their experience on how they felt at its peak and at its end.

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7 Tips for Building a Memorable Customer Experience This Holiday Season

ProProfs Chat

Busy streets, decorated stores, crowded bars, and an atmosphere filled with laughter – it’s holiday season. And it’s just around the corner. Like every year, you’ve pulled your sleeves up to tackle all customer queries efficiently. You’ve got your support operators in place to ensure that no question goes unanswered. But how about making this holiday season a memorable one for your customers?

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Pizza Brands Are Using Mystery Shopping To Measure Compliance To Brand Standards

Second to None

Pizza has become one of the fastest growing segments in the food market in recent history. In 2017, 954 pizza chain establishments opened in North America in addition to the already saturated market.[1] Beyond a great tasting pie, price, convenience and sheer-availability are the major factors that push consumers towards these restaurants. With the onslaught of fast-casual, point-and-pick pizza chains like Blaze Pizza and MOD Pizza disrupting the homeostasis of the industry, it is important that

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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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How to Respond to Google Reviews

ReviewTrackers

Businesses need to learn how to respond to Google reviews to make the most out of their Google listings. The ways reviews are managed can have a major impact on a listing because of Google’s popularity with customers. A survey showed that 63.6 percent of consumers are likely to check Google reviews before visiting a business. That’s the highest percentage of consumers for any reviews site.

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Amazing Business Radio: Jason Bradshaw

ShepHyken

It’s All About CEX. Building a Community of Champions. Shep Hyken sits down with Jason Bradshaw to talk about his new book, It’s All About CEX: The Essential Guide to Customer and Employee Experience. They also discuss the compounding effect of being 1% better, how customers and employees measure success, and how to build a community of champions.

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Implementing a Robust Customer Service Training Program

CSM Magazine

Delivering a great customer experience is of utmost importance to any business, small or large, as it affects the profit margins and the company’s goodwill significantly. A study published by Harvard Business Review found that customers who have a positive experience with a company are likely to spend as much as 140% more than average. Also, these customers tend to stick with a business six times longer than those who have had a negative experience from the same business.

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Do We have a Couch Potato Storytelling Culture?

One Millimeter Mindset

Does our organization engage in a couch potato storytelling culture? We know the plot. A client has a problem. They are in crisis and call our company. Our company solves the client’s problem. And everyone lives happily ever-after. And returns to their couches. End of story. Yes, solving big hairy problems for clients certainly is both dramatic and impressive.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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7 Reasons Why Your VoC Program Is Not Improving Customer Experience

IntouchInsight

What is it that prevents many customer experience (CX) pros from improving CX through the VoC? Here are seven reasons.

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RapportBoost’s CEO, Jenny Craig USA’s Director of North America’s Sales Center, to co-present Mitel-Sponsored Webinar on turning contact centers into profit centers Oct. 23

RapportBoost

– Event, hosted by Customer Service Experience and sponsored by Mitel, designed to demonstrate the vision and leadership of Jenny Craig’s corporate contact center and how live chat innovation drives financial and cultural success at one of nation’s most respected health, wellness brands – Tony Medrano, CEO of RapportBoost , the leading provider of augmented intelligence solutions to contact centers using live chat for conversational selling , along with Heidi Rote, Director of the

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How to Say No to A Customer: Difficult but Indispensable

Call Center Pros

Everyone who works in customer service has been found in the cumbersome task of having to say no to a customer occasionally. There are situations where we can’t avoid this difficult task. Either because we do not provide exactly the service that the client needs, because we do not have the operational capacity at that moment or simply because it is not the type of client we would like to work with, it is essential to do it in the right way.

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‘CSM & Product’ Is the New ‘Sales & Marketing’

Gainsight

If you take a look at my LinkedIn page (and scroll way, way down), you’ll see exactly where my career took a left turn. (No, not Chipshot.com—you scrolled too far!). I started my professional career as a product manager. Well, I tried to start my career by doing a Master’s in Computer Science in college, which taught me I wasn’t smart enough to be a developer, but maybe I could hang with them.

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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.