Sat.Feb 15, 2020 - Fri.Feb 21, 2020

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Build Customer Intuition and Empathy to Expand Your Brand

Chadwick Martin Bailey

Customize, personalize, localize, humanize – these are the elements of a customer-centric program that is designed to expand brand reach, and to cement relationships with existing users. A deep commitment to customer-centricity at every level of the organization is the key to customer engagement and brand expansion. Your goal should be to go beyond mere understanding of your customer, and to instead build your company’s empathy for and intuition about your customer.

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The difference between transactional surveys and relationship surveys

Lumoa

There are two types of surveys: relationship surveys and transactional surveys. Relationship surveys measure the overall health of your relationship with your customers. Transactional surveys are used when measuring something about a specific interaction with a customer.

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3 Marketing Best Practices That Improve Customer Experience

Alida

Today, an organization's ability to competitively position and differentiate depends upon the experiences they create for their customers. Experiences that resonate change the way a company is perceived, forge customer trust, and improve financial performance. If the experience falls flat, companies face not only losing one customer but also others within the dissatisfied customer's network.

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Measure Customer Loyalty With NPS in Salesforce

GetFeedback

You can learn a lot about your customers by asking one simple question: On a scale of 1-10, how likely are you to recommend us? . This question is the most basic NPS question and it can yield powerful insights about customer loyalty at key stages of the customer journey. Measuring NPS can show you who your most loyal customers are—and who’s about to walk out the door.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Build Admirable Acts, Guided by Your Non-Negotiables

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. For the previous video about this topic, click here to read the transcript and access the video.

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Where AI Meets CX: How Conversational Commerce Effects Customer-Driven Growth

Beyond Philosophy

Technology, human behavior, Customer Experience are intersecting through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and taking marketing in a new direction. To understand how it requires a better understanding of what the inventor of the hashtag Chris Messina’s calls Conversational Commerce. We spoke to Messina on a recent podcast about this concept and how it applies to customer-driven growth.

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The Cult of Amazement

ShepHyken

In the updated and revised edition of The Cult of the Customer , I cover the concept of amazement. This may be old news to my followers, but it is worth repeating. Amazement does not come from a WOW or over-the-top experience. Those happen on occasion, especially when problems are handled well. But on a day to day basis, amazement happens when you deliver experiences that are consistently and predictably above average.

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Measure Customer Loyalty With NPS in Salesforce

GetFeedback

The reasons you should use NPS, and our three pillars for improving your NPS program with the GetFeedback Salesforce integration.

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11 Live Chat Mistakes You’re Making and How to Avoid Them

ProProfs Chat

I love using live chat because it’s simple, easy, and helps me get a solution instantly. But what about you out there, reading this? Has it leveled up your customer support process? Well, from what I’ve seen and heard from other business owners – yes, live chat definitely brings a lot of value addition as a support tool. That’s because you get to save a lot of time since you can manage more customers and website visitors at the same time.

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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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Where AI Meets CX: Inventor of the Hashtag Shares Innovative Concepts Pt 2

Beyond Philosophy

We recently learned about the inventor of the hashtag Chris Messina’s concept of Conversational Commerce and how it has changed the way brands interact with their customer on social media platforms. Today we will learn about how this relationship will continue to evolve as we move into a new year and a new decade. . We spoke with Messina in a recent podcast about how a brand can humanize itself for its customers.

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Amazing Business Radio: Claire Sporton

ShepHyken

The Customer Experience Revolution. How to Fish the “Big Data Lake” for Customer Experience Insights. Shep Hyken interviews Claire Sporton. They discuss the importance of investing in the customer experience and how CX professionals can communicate that need with leadership and executives. Top Takeaways: It isn’t enough to simply gather data.

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The Ecosystem of CX Solutions

SuiteCX

Like customer experience (CX) more broadly, there are a number of platforms that create the ecosystem of tools available to manage and understand their Customers’ experience. The confusing part is that a number of tools all call themselves “Customer Journey Tools” which tends to muddy the market. Here’s what we see as the distinct market segments operating under the customer experience/journey banner: 1.

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How to Make a Quality Customer Journey Map (Fast!)

Ecrion

Every business owner knows the value of getting into the minds of their target audience. What makes customers tick? What problem do they face and what solution can you offer? Beyond simply identifying your customer’s pain points, you need to understand the motivation behind the customer journey. Tracking, recording, and examining customer behavior provides valuable insight into how clients are interacting (or not interacting) with your brand.

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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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The hidden success for brands in the future

Beyond Philosophy

Where AI Meets CX: The Remarkable Future for Humanizing Brands. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will transform the customer experience in many ways in the coming years. One area that we see interesting applications of AI Technology is the brand personification and social media management. This new way of creating meaningful interactions with your customers will build emotional engagement with your company, even though the entity doing it is not a human being.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 17, 2020

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. 10 Ways To Provide a Cutting-Edge Retail Customer Experience by Janelle Estes. (Street Fight) What does that look and feel like?

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The Two Ultimate Questions For XM Metrics

Experience Matters

Experience Management (XM) programs often rely on one or more key metrics that track items such as likely to recommend, satisfaction, effort, or engagement. As I’ve written in the past, the success or failure of these metrics often has little to do with the actual metric. Instead, the key to success is the program that is wrapped around those numbers (see our 5 steps for an effective CX metrics program).

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10 Best Customer Service Software of 2020

SurveySparrow

Customer Service is an integral part of customer experience. In fact, according to stats, ‘90% of Americans use customer service as a factor in deciding whether or not to do business with a company.’ Well, you can’t mess up when it comes to customer service then. When that’s the case, you’ll need skilled employees, proper strategies and a robust customer service software to level up your game. 10 Best Customer Service Software in 2020.

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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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Customer Experience is more than a Score

Daniel Group

Our clients often ask about how to most effectively use the outcome score (e.g., NPS ® , loyalty index, overall satisfaction, etc.) to improve the customer experience. Over the years, a number have opted to include an objective for Net Promoter Score® performance, as an example. The outcome measure becomes a part of the manager’s evaluation and compensation.

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Checklist for Digital Transformation

Interactions

First off, let’s start by establishing that digital transformation for customer experience is truly a transformation. It’s not as simple as adding an additional channel such as a chatbot, but more about elevating the entire customer experience. This requires backend integration and process design across all (existing and new) channels and touchpoints to create a seamless and effortless digital experience. .

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Early EX Lessons from Emotive CX

Martin Hill-Wilson

The core principle that drives Emotive CX is that customer needs and expectations span both the functional and emotive. As a result, customer decisions, memories and perceptions of an organisation are strongly influenced by how they feel. A great deal of this emotional influence takes place at a. sub conscious level. According to Harvard Business School professor Gerald.

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We all have a Superpower to better Understand Others

The DiJulius Group

1. Customer Service Feature Story We all have a Superpower to better Understand Others We spend much of our time trying to understand what our customers, employees, significant others, and children really mean by what they say or don’t say. Too often we try to analyze, decode, or judge without ever knowing what is going. Read Full Article. The post We all have a Superpower to better Understand Others appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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5 Mistakes That Are Ruining Your Product Experience

Gainsight

Are you delivering a product experience your users want or are you just going through the motions? In a world full of products offering the same results as yours, one of the best ways to stand out is through your product experience. What makes companies like Slack and Amazon so successful is their dedication to their user’s needs (you might know it as “customer obsession”).

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7 Reasons Why Nobody Is Replying to Your Surveys (and How to Make Sure They Do)

SurveySensum

You send the surveys and you may have even put some serious effort into writing the survey questions. But you fail to get the response you wanted or sometimes a response at all. What went wrong? Well, below are seven reasons why nobody is responding to your surveys, and how to make sure they do. Though this article was written with an email survey response rate in mind as email is one of the most popular channels for distributing a survey.

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How to Use Customer Lifetime Value to Manage Employee Empowerment

Customers That Stick

Employee empowerment is one of the most underrated tools in the customer experience leaders toolbox. Employee empowerment is what I call the win-win-win of customer experience leadership. By empowering employees to solve customer issues in real time, customers win, employees win and the organization wins. Yet leaders often struggle with empowerment.

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6 Customer Outreach Tips On the Fly From the Marketing Pros

Oracle

In partnership with Convince and Convert , Oracle CX Marketing has been producing “On the Fly”—a video series with small, 2-minutes-or-less bites of marketing tips, advice, and training from marketing experts, delivered while they are on the road, at the airport, or otherwise on-the-go. Here are 6 customer outreach tips from the marketing pros as derived from the series.

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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.