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6 Dos and Don?ts for Improving Your Customer Onboarding

ChurnZero

Is your customer onboarding turning into a fixer-upper? The proper upkeep and continual improvement of a home (and onboarding process) are essential to maintain its value over time. When done right, it’s a worthwhile investment that substantially increases your return. Of course, you need good bones and strong foundation to build from—no aesthetic enhancements (or amount of shiplap) will remedy a weakening structure.

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How Customer Service Solves Churn Problems

ProProfs Chat

I bet you’ll agree with me on this one: Customers stop doing business with you when they are unhappy. In fact, 68% of customers leave because they believe you don’t care about them. More than that, only 1 in 26 unhappy customers will complain about what they don’t like about your service; the rest will churn. And that’s the problem.

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Using the Lens of Human Emotion To Improve CX

Martin Hill-Wilson

According to Lisa Barret Feldman and other leading neuroscientists, emotion is a constant. It is part of our brain’s core function – to interpret what is going on and then respond: based on ongoing simulation and prediction. The result is our everyday reality. Here is her three minute explanation if you want more insight. In this context, emotion is crucial to the accuracy of that ongoing interpretation.

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Improve Your Voice of the Customer Program: Focus on These 3 Things

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

My client walked me into the lobby of their shiny new headquarters. He exclaimed: “You’ll love this! We have the Voice of the Customer on screens everywhere!” The first screen I saw, behind the receptionist, rotated between company logos, inspirational sayings, and a colorful dashboard of graphs and numbers. “There it is!” My client proudly pointed to the dashboard.

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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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The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense: Part 2

Beyond Philosophy

In our last issue of Why Customers Buy, we discussed how doing things differently than your competition could be the most reliable path to success for your brand. Today, we are going to discuss in more detail why this works and what you can do to implement these surprising ideas that don’t make sense to encourage the success of your brand. Before we get into that, let me remind you that this issue is based on a conversation we had on our podcast recently with advertising legend Rory Sutherlan

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Customer Experience in the Era of Product-Led Growth

Wootric

Executives and end-users look for different things when choosing software products. An executive, for example, might be more interested in ROI and scalability, while the end-user often cares more about just getting their work done, quickly and easily. . There was a time when executives were the gatekeepers who decided which B2B software products their companies purchased while the end-user experience took a back seat—but that era has ended.

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Ecrion Enhances Its Customer Experience Platform Providing More Customization

Ecrion

With the upgraded CCM platform, Ecrion is providing a faster, user-friendly customer communication management solution. Ecrion announced the release of the latest version of its customer communication (CCM) and customer experience (CX) platform. This release, based on a microservices architecture, also introduces a new suite of digital experience (DX) applications, designed with specific business processes in mind, including insurance claim processing, loan applications, patient onboarding, and

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The Dark Art of Creating Magic in Brands

Beyond Philosophy

Business as usual is anything but usual today. How things will change in the “new normal” and what you can do to manage it is almost anyone’s guess. However, if you can open your mind to trying new things other than what you normally would do, you might discover the magic trick that makes it all work well for managing your customer behavior.

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Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Field Service

TechSee

Today’s number one challenge in field service is the knowledge gap between Baby Boomer technicians – an aging workforce – and the next generation of technicians who have less experience and want more independence. The population aged 60+ is growing faster than any other group. According to the United Nations’ 2019 World Population report, by 2050, 1 in 6 people will be over the age of 65, up from 1 in 11 in 2019.

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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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Chatbot Best Practices: 8 Tips & Tricks you Can Benefit from Today

Inbenta

1. Set a goal for your chatbot. As obvious as it may seem, this is the number one chatbot best practice to keep in mind when starting to design a conversational agent. You can create a bot for almost anything nowadays, so setting a clear goal for yours and outlining what it’s supposed to do, right from the beginning, will prevent you from getting carried away.

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Live Chat vs Phone Support: Which is better?

ProProfs Chat

In one of its studies, American Express discovered that for more complicated interactions, such as payment disputes, 40% of customers prefer talking to a real person over the phone. However, the tables turned when Econsultancy discussed how 79% of businesses prefer to use live chat at their website instead of email (61%), phone (44%), and social media (48%) platforms to communicate with customers for instant support.

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Ridiculous Interpretation of Rules

ShepHyken

This is one of those unbelievable customer service stories that borders on the ridiculous. I actually thought I was in the middle of a Seinfeld episode—or maybe there was a hidden camera hoping to get a crazy reaction to the interaction I’m about to share with you. I was at an airport and wanted some breakfast. There was just one person ahead of me in line.

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Give your agents the right tools to succeed in a remote work scenario

Talkdesk

It has been a few months now since the coronavirus (COVID-19) took the world by storm. As social distancing and quarantine measures were put in place by governments across the globe, businesses had to quickly reinvent themselves in order to ensure a successful work-from-home (WFH) shift. The change was not easy. Many organizations had little-to-no prior experience with remote work, and therefore lacked the infrastructure, processes and policies required to ensure collaboration and continuity of

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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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Podcast: Designing Customer Experiences and Will Employees Really Care About the Business?

Michel Falcon Experience

In this episode, I talk to Tania Dasilva (Clinic Director) about: Getting employees to care about the business. My 3:1 ratio agreement with employees. Designing customer experiences with my wants vs. needs model. Listen to the podcast here (Apple users) or here (Andriod users). The post Podcast: Designing Customer Experiences and Will Employees Really Care About the Business?

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3 ways to create a consistent, omnichannel experience (and why it matters)

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Author: Guest author - Blake Morgan 3 ways to create a consistent, omnichannel experience (and why it matters). Published on: June 03, 2020. Author: Guest author - Blake Morgan Today, customers demand a seamless experience from companies – whatever channel they use to make contact. How can businesses respond and meet this vital need?

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What is Employer Reputation Management?

ReviewTrackers

Online review management and review-based marketing have increased at an unprecedented speed. But so has the proclivity of less-than-ethical businesses to find shortcuts that boost their reputation or, alternatively, sink that of their competitors. The latter has been around for a while, and was first detected as a common practice among hoteliers. The number of leads or lead validations originating from review sites such as Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Expedia brands were so strong that many gave in t

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Telling Stories Clients Need to Hear instead of Want to Hear.

One Millimeter Mindset

The stories clients need to hear are about the stuff they need to know. So we get to where we need to go. Together. One millimeter at a time. Are you playing it safe, altering your business and use cases, and your HR and design team stories? So you dance around topics which should be emphasized? Soft-selling project attributes which, if otherwise ignored, might come back to haunt stakeholders?

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Stacey Hanke

ShepHyken

Redefining Influence in the Customer Experience. Showing Up as Your Best Self to Create the Best Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Stacey Hanke. They discuss Stacey’s book, Influence Redefined…Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday® and how redefining your concept of “influence” can revolutionize your customer experience. Top Takeaways: Influence is not what most people think it is.

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Loyalty marketers: get ready for the deliberate consumer

Currency Alliance

The long break in spending habits due to Covid-19 will cause customers to re-evaluate their relationship with brands. People in Barcelona are buying a lot more ice-cream lately. From my balcony in the evening, it looks like 2 in 10 are enjoying an ice-cream cone. One year ago, there might have been 2 people in 50. This isn’t just a casual observation, but a sign of a widespread consumer trend which every loyalty marketer should be thinking about.

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Pinterest Perfectly Positioned to Sell Recipe Ingredients

NetBase

Online shopping is here to stay, COVID-19 has seen to that. And Pinterest is perfectly positioned to sell recipe ingredients to its significant and highly engaged consumers! If you aren’t thinking about how to rebuild your business strategy to adapt to this new consumer capability, you should be! But if you’re not sure where to start, we can help. In this channel exploration, we’ll share consumer and market intelligence around: Pinterest’s latest ecommerce offering and why other soci

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Facebook Messenger Customer Service – Integrate Social Media in Your Customer Service

kommunicate

Nowadays, every business has a Facebook page, and your customers are likely to reach out to you via social media. However, most of the companies do not have a dedicated support team for social media. It creates a support overhead on your side. Therefore, it is crucial to connect your social media to your customer [.]. The post Facebook Messenger Customer Service – Integrate Social Media in Your Customer Service appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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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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Bet on Your New Players the Right Way

Optimove

Great opportunities come to those who are ready to win. Champion sports betting operators know that every game counts, and your CRM strategies should already be put in place to kick off a successful season. With the predicted average future value of repeat bettors being 3X higher than that of one-timers , a sport bettor’s first couple of weeks of experience with your brand are critical for long-term relationships and revenue.

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?Transient? Members In A Work-From-Home World

SaleMove

There is no doubt that life after the pandemic will be forever changed. However, there are certain aspects of the professional landscape that are coming into focus. The after-effects will be far-ranging, but, without a doubt, one of the megatrends triggered is the sudden work-from-home (WFH) phenomenon. Companies who may have questioned employees’ productivity in their home environment have been forced to dive headfirst into the remote workforce to keep business running as usual.

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Five Leadership Principles For Truly Driving More Diversity And Inclusion

Experience Matters

The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others have sparked a renewed outrage against racial inequality around the world, leading many organizations to consider changes to how they operate. That’s great, but I’ve seen too many of these situations create an immediate response with no lasting change. I don’t have answers for solving deep injustices in broader society, but I want to apply what I’ve learned to help organizations become more inclusive and diverse.

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Do Your Work-From-Home Contact Center Agents Have What They Need? Our Benchmark Study Can Help

NICE inContact

Has the pandemic permanently changed the way people work? Specifically, are all the employees currently working from home really going back to the office? It's hard to see how. In fact, some employers have already announced permanent changes.

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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.