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The Three Principles to Build Customer Loyalty

Bill Quiseng

Every week, in the month of June, I will offer each one of the Three Principles to Build Customer Loyalty. Why only three? Because nobody can remember Number Four. Who is the first President of the United States? Surely, George Washington. Who is Number Four? Who is the first person to walk on the moon? Neil Armstrong, of course. Who is Number Four?

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Why employee experience is the missing link in Europe’s CX plans

eglobalis

Why employee experience is the missing link in Europe's CX plans The post Why employee experience is the missing link in Europe’s CX plans appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Driving Business Growth With a Focused Effort on Customer Feedback

customer sure

We’ve had the privilege and pleasure of working with Polypipe Building Products, the UK’s leading manufacturer of plastic piping systems and low-carbon heating solutions for the residential market, for some time now. The team’s approach to customer feedback and improving customer experience are often cited by us as a beacon of best practice, but they’re actually going one step further.

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10 Use-Cases for Leveraging Generative AI for Better CX and AX (Agent Experience)

eGain Blogs

Generative AI, in the form of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other tools, is very much in the public eye at the moment. As a consumer searching for content or ideas, generative AI offers the promise of a clear, concise response that can be clarified or refined, albeit with a chance that it may be incorrect or out of date. Business needs, especially for customer service, are different from consumer 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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Can ChatGPT Be Used for Customer Service?

CSM Magazine

Mike Myer, CEO of Quiq, explores the impact of ChatGPT on the world of customer service. Everyone is chatting about ChatGPT these days because it’s one of tech’s most intriguing new developments. Within five days of its November 2022 introduction, over a million people were using it. However, the fear, uncertainty and doubt about ChatGPT is rampant.

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Please Put Me Back On Hold!

ShepHyken

“Please put me back on hold. I want to keep listening to the music,” said nobody, ever – unless they were listening to the hold music at the Kansas City Foot and Ankle medical practice. The owner of this four-office podiatry practice with seven doctors and 25 staff members, Dr. Mark Green, has always focused on creating a positive, unique and frictionless patient experience.

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In Today’s Competitive Market, AI is the Key to Winning Customer Loyalty

C3Centricity

If you haven’t already heard, AI is the key to winning customer loyalty today! As the digital revolution transforms the business landscape, customers demand more from their interactions with companies. They expect personalised, seamless experiences across all channels and touchpoints, and they want their needs to be anticipated so they are met both quickly and efficiently.

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During Cisco Live 2023 – Upstream Works Supports Cisco’s Commitment to Deliver Exceptional Customer Engagements

Upstream Works

Upstream Works is excited to introduce you to our newest product offering – Upstream Works for Amazon Connect. We enhance Amazon Connect with a unified desktop, digital channel flexibility, seamless integrations and management simplicity The post During Cisco Live 2023 – Upstream Works Supports Cisco’s Commitment to Deliver Exceptional Customer Engagements appeared first on Upstream Works.

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6 easy steps for creating a winning benchmarking strategy

BirdEye

Benchmarking drives greatness. Consider the four-minute mile. Experts thought it impossible that anyone could run a mile so fast, that is until Roger Bannister did so in 1954. Since then, roughly 1500 people have achieved “the impossible,” and it’s pretty much the benchmark for becoming a world-class runner. In the same way, a benchmarking strategy can propel your company to achieve your loftiest goals.

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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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Untangling the Modern Customer Journey: A Guide to Effective Marketing Attribution – Part 1

Optimove

It’s one of the busiest crossroads at which the different revenue teams intersect and sometimes collide – attribution junctions. A well-documented battle of egos, bonuses, and, ultimately, optimization. At the heart of that low-key struggle is the cold hard truth that marketing touchpoints can become innumerable – not just in the figurative sense, but impossible to count, let alone quantify, measure and optimize.

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Chatbots: Empowering Customer Service Amid Turbulent Times

Team Support

Chatbots are fast becoming part of the digital core of tech tools that companies utilize as a secret weapon to increase their competitive advantage in the customer service arena. At the same time, chatbots are solving a very real problem taking place today: of a decrease in available customer service agents and positive customer experiences due to an economic downturn.

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It’s all about context stupid! Why most businesses fail to take this into account

Beyond Philosophy

Organizations don’t think enough about the context in which a customer enters the experience. Most believe that every customer is the same. However, understanding the context in which your customer has your experience is critical to your customer strategy. Context is everywhere. When I started working in Customer Experience in 2001, people hadn’t thought about the experience economy, the customer experience, or anything else in this area.

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Explore the 11 best customer feedback tools of 2023

BirdEye

Microsoft’s State of Global Customer Service Report showed that 77% of customers view brands more favorably if they seek out and apply customer feedback. If your business isn’t actively gathering feedback, it may be time to rethink your stance. In this blog post, we’ll explore the best customer feedback tools you can use to quickly gather, manage, analyze, and action customer feedback.

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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 Engagement Initiative Projects for SAP CRM and Customer Experience are open for registration until June 16, 2023

SAP Customer Experience

Take advantage by participating in one of the SAP CRM and Customer Experience projects of the second Customer Engagement Initiative cycle in 2023 and register until June 16, 2023: Composable Storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud – SDK and BFF for frontend solutions Delivery Mode & Costs for SAP Commerce Cloud.

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You Need To Have Your Own Back First

One Millimeter Mindset

Have your own back first, instead of solely relying on others to have your back. It’s that simple. When you have your own back, you first and foremost have a clear concept of your own goals and opportunities. Then, as others present options to you, you are better able to assess and evaluate what works for you and what doesn’t. Otherwise, you are easily influenced by other people’s agendas.

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Guest Post: The Future of The Customer Experience: Understanding the Impact of Data Analytics on Your Customers

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Miika Makitalo, CEO of HappyOrNot , the company behind the Smiley Touch™ customer experience improvement solution and a leader in data analytics. He discusses how feedback and data analytics can make or break the customer experience. The customer experience has come a long way in the past decade. Ten years ago, customer interactions were often limited to in-person or phone calls, and businesses had limited means to track customer behavior and preferences.

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Unlock valuable insights with SMS text message survey

BirdEye

Did you know that SMS messaging has a 98% open rate? Because of this, it has become a popular method for businesses to engage with customers. To leverage this opportunity, companies use it to gain a better understanding of their customers through SMS text message surveys. In this blog post, you’ll learn the best ways to optimize your SMS surveys and what scenarios you can use them for so you can get the most out of them.

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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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Are You Spending Enough Time Experiencing Your Own Customer Experience?

The DiJulius Group

With overall customer satisfaction in all industries dropping to twenty-year lows, most likely caused by the great resignation, more and more CEOs have decided to literally get on the front lines on a regular basis to better educate themselves on what it is really like to be their customer and customer-facing employees. What about you? Read Full Article The post Are You Spending Enough Time Experiencing Your Own Customer Experience?

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How to Use WhatsApp for Customer Retention

Kustomer

More than 2.5 billion people use WhatsApp per month, worldwide. Its primary function might be to help families and friends stay in touch, but the app can also support brand-to-customer interactions via the WhatsApp Business application and WhatsApp API. WhatsApp Business allows businesses to reach consumers via messaging, and WhatsApp API is a paid-for integration for CRM that’s designed to help larger businesses achieve a similar goal.

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Transactional VS Emotional Customer Loyalty with Mark Ross-Smith

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Loyalty programs are used in different industries to attract new customers and retain existing ones. They typically involve incentives for spending money on a brand through points, perks, upgrades, or free products. Loyalty programs have now evolved to include enhancing the customer experience. In the recent Achieving Customer Amazement study , 69% of customers say loyalty programs are important to them.

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Unleashing the power of competitive benchmarking

BirdEye

To measure anything is to compare it to something else. When you’re in business, there are few better ways to compare your progress than by measuring it against your competitors. Taking a hard and closer look at how you stack up to your competitors will help your company improve and grow. In this article, we’ll tell you how to use competitive benchmarking to improve nearly every aspect of your business.

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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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Can Visual Appeal Boost the Customer Experience?

Steve DiGioia

We shop at any business for the products or services they offer. Hopefully, their service and price are in line with our expectations too. But does the look of the business matter and can the visual appeal boost the customer experience? Here’s what I mean… The Power of Visual Appeal Many years ago, some themed restaurants like Fridays, for example, thought it was cool to hang all kinds of assorted “junk” on their walls.

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Did your customer champion leave? Use this five-step playbook to reduce churn risk

ChurnZero

A Customer Success Manager at a Series-B stage SaaS company had just learned a key contact—their customer champion—was moving on to a new role. The risk of churn was high since the new point of contact indicated they wanted to make some changes. “I just want you to know I’m probably going to replace you all with another tool,” the customer said.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of May 29, 2023

ShepHyken

Each week, I read many 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. In a Tumultuous Market, Target Companies That Always Put the Customer First, Cramer Says by Julie Coleman (CNBC) In times of market turbulence, CNBC’s Jim Cramer advised investors on Tuesday to focus on companies that make customer service their core philosophy.

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The Power of AI: How Retail Marketers Can Do More With Less Ahead of the Holidays

Blueshift

In the fast-paced world of retail and e-commerce , staying ahead of the competition requires innovation, strategic decision-making, and the right tools to get it done. As the busy holiday season slowly approaches, it’s crucial that marketers adopt strategies now to ensure efficiency and maximize customer outreach later. This is where AI comes in, especially as marketers are tasked with doing more with less.

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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.