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Building a Customer Experience (CX) Strategy

CX Accelerator

More and more companies are realizing the importance of formalizing and strategizing the customer experience. However, many are unsure where to start, which leads to a common question, “How do you build a customer experience strategy?” This article will help you understand what a CX strategy is and how to build one by adapting the philosopher Vanilla Ice’s famous words, “.

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Relating CX to Everything and The Rockstar Orgin story

CloudCherry

Wanna be a Rockstar? Take it from Jerry Garcia himself, who said, “You shouldn’t be trying to be the best in the world at what you do. You should be trying to be the ONLY person in the world that does what you do.”. That’s precisely what this week’s ‘Sweets of CX’ guest chose to do, and it changed his life. We’re talking about the one and only Rockstar-turned-CX Rockstar, James Dodkins – International Key Note Speaker, top CX Influencer, Best-Selling Author, Host of Amazon Prime’s ‘This We

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How to Calculate the ROI of Customer Experience

GetFeedback

This guide will teach you how to quantify the value of your CX initiative through a step-by-step process of calculations.

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Make Customer Experience Development as Important as Product Development

Customer Bliss

Today, leaders in just about every industry understand that improving customer experience is essential for ease of customer interactions, reputation management, business efficacy, and overall success. Customer experience is already a core focus for many retailers, but diverse organizations including governmental bureaus , grocery stores , and financial service institutions are implementing CX changes to better accommodate customer needs.

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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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Building a Customer Experience (CX) Strategy

CX Accelerator

More and more companies are realizing the importance of formalizing and strategizing the customer experience. However, many are unsure where to start, which leads to a common question, “How do you build a customer experience strategy?”. This article will help you understand what a CX strategy is and how to build one by. adapting the philosopher Vanilla Ice’s famous words, “.

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Coding Qualitative Data: How to Code Qualitative Research

Thematic

How many hours have you spent sitting in front of Excel spreadsheets trying to find new insights from customer feedback? You know that asking open-ended survey questions gives you more actionable insights than asking your customers for just a numerical Net Promoter Score (NPS). But when you ask open-ended, free-text questions, you end up with hundreds (or even thousands) of free-text responses.

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Creating a collaborative contact center culture

TechSee

The traditional contact center – with agents in cubicles following scripts and rushing to meet individual KPIs – will soon be a thing of the past. Modern customer-centric operations are increasingly defined by a collaborative contact center culture, with agents working together to respond to customer requests more efficiently by drawing on shared knowledge and experience.

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Building a Customer Experience (CX) Strategy

CX Accelerator

More and more companies are realizing the importance of formalizing and strategizing the customer experience. However, many are unsure where to start, which leads to a common question, “How do you build a customer experience strategy?”. This article will help you understand what a CX strategy is and how to build one by. adapting the philosopher Vanilla Ice’s famous words, “.

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NRMA Utilizes Voice of the Customer (VoC) to Improve NPS Scores

InMoment XI

NRMA: Getting smarter about the voice of customer NRMA revitalises its member experience management and sees NPS soar after investing in a new voice of customer platform For a company that receives over 200,000 customer responses each year, implementing a voice of customer (VoC) platform can seem more than a little daunting. Add in some. View 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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A practical guide to Customer decision making

Beyond Philosophy

A practical guide to Customer decision making. When the Nobel-prize winning economist professor Daniel Kahneman wrote his book Thinking Fast and Slow , he introduced the concept that we had two ways of thinking about things. He named them System 1 and System 2. The two systems work together to help us make decisions about things. When we applied these concepts to decision-making in Customer Experience for our book, The Intuitive Customer, we renamed them.

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Regence Gets a 360 View to Improve Member Experience

Alida

The foundation of an excellent healthcare experience is the ability to repeatedly connect with consumers and their families. This connection needs to be transparent, consent-based , and ongoing to uncover insights that allow teams to validate ideas, develop programs, and continually iterate and improve.

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Three Customer Experience Details Most C-Suite Leaders Overlook

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

The C-Suite Leader was asking a seemingly straightforward question: What is customer experience, really? Now, this person was no slouch. This was a high-achieving, take-no-prisoners, BOSS of a person who I respect. And I was struggling to answer. I didn’t want to insult this person. I didn’t want this leader to feel like I was condescending.

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Guest Blog: Building a Human Powered, Technology-aided 21st Century Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Joseph Michelli who has written a new book about how Airbnb has used convenience and personalization to deliver an amazing experience. Years ago, while writing my book The Starbucks Experience – 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary , former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz shared that “we aren’t in the coffee business serving people, but in the people business serving coffee.

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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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Five Things CEOs Want Their Sales Leaders To Know

Integrity Solutions

When it comes to the sales leader’s performance, the best CEOs are holding them accountable for more than just the number; they expect them to grow their people, too. As the revenue producers, it’s not surprising that the sales function is always on the mind of the CEO. But it’s not just because the sales organization is out there closing deals. The CEO knows salespeople are the ones on the front lines, talking to customers and prospects, gaining insights about the competitive landscape and pick

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We knew we were #1 at what we do. Nice to know that a top IT analyst firm agrees!

eGain Blogs

We provide omnichannel customer engagement software, powered by knowledge. According to Gartner’s just-published critical capabilities report on customer engagement, our average score for digital engagement and knowledge management at 4.5 out of 5.0 is the highest among all the 14 vendors evaluated! We are not surprised. After all, we are a pioneer with more than decades of experience in both those spaces, and we lead the industry in the breadth and depth of supporting digital channels such as m

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Service is a principle, not a campaign

Customer Enthusiast

This week is Customer Service Week (Oct. 7-11), one week out the year when customers and customer service quality are celebrated. As much as I enjoy and support recognizing customers and service quality, I can’t help but question the superficiality of hanging banners, donning t-shirts and buttons, and ordering pizzas to honor customers for one […].

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Showing Up On Time

ShepHyken

When I was a kid, my father taught me about being on time and why it is important. There were two times he gave me the “show up on time” lesson—neither of which I’ll ever forget. Before I get to the story and the lesson, let me give you some insight into my personality. I’m a people-pleaser. I like to make everyone happy. Maybe that’s the reason I’m so focused on creating amazing experiences for my clients and my clients’ customers—and, of course, everyone else.

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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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6 Reasons to Get Excited About Gainsight and the Next Decade of Customer Success

Gainsight

Customer success has taken the business world by storm, and not just in tech and SaaS. CSM is one of the fastest growing jobs worldwide across industries and geographies. Check out this State of Customer Success report based on LinkedIn data —you’ll see it’s a good time to be in customer success. As a company, Gainsight’s success has been firmly pegged to the success of the customer success movement.

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Why Positive Customer Experience Increases Customer Retention

NICE inContact

I love ice cream. I’d eat it every day if I could. And I would always choose my favorite flavor: mint chocolate chip. The combination of tangy mint and the deep sweetness of chocolate gets me every time. If ice cream flavors were brands, I’d be a die-hard customer devoted to The Mint Chocolate Chip Company for life. Am I a creature of habit? Probably.

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Customers Need to Trust We Will … | #CustServ National Customer Service Week

Kate Nasser

We ask customers to do something hard -- trust us. So remember customers need to trust we will do the following. By Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | Customer Service | Customer Experience | Leadership | Teamwork. The post Customers Need to Trust We Will … | #CustServ National Customer Service Week appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Amazing Business Radio: Sam Lessin

ShepHyken

Customer Service Drives Value. Measuring the Customer Journey to Meet New Expectations. Shep Hyken interviews Sam Lessin of Fin Analytics. They discuss the changing needs and expectations of customers, and how to keep customer service simple while delivering satisfaction. The Interview with Sam Lessin: The world is becoming more customer-centric, but not every company is keeping up.

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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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How to Make the Most of Customer Experience Feedback

Totango

Acting on customer experience feedback gives you a competitive advantage. No other enterprise has access to the information you can gather from your customers. No one else gets to have a personal conversation with the very people your product is designed to serve. When you listen to what your customers tell you and incorporate their feedback, you encourage loyalty in your existing customers and create a customer experience that will attract others to your product.

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Customer Journey Mapping

Call Experts

A company must understand how their customers behave, their patterns, and their pain points. Customer experience is not necessarily linear. Often, the customer journey is influenced by motivations and trends unrelated to your company’s service. Every customer interaction is unique, and the most efficient way to create a general understanding is with a customer journey map.

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How To Be A Great Relationship Builder

The DiJulius Group

*The following is content taken from John’s newest book The Relationship Economy, Building Stronger Customer Connections In The Digital Age AVAILABLE October 8, 2019. There is a seismic shift happening today. Technology is changing the world, and not always for the better. For all the benefits it is bringing to businesses, it is coming. Read Full Article.

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5 Ways Cloud Technology is Transforming Customer Experience Management

Oracle

This is a preview of the on-demand webinar, Digital Transformation of Customer Experience Management: The Role of Cloud Technology. Cloud technology plays a key role in helping brands take their CX management to the next level. In a webinar co-hosted by Aberdeen and Oracle, Aberdeen VP and Principal Analyst Omer Minkara shares that brands that master their customer experience as part of digital transformation experience several key benefits: • 94% greater annual increase in customer lifetime val

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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.