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The Rise of the Remote Workforce

Perceptive

In the same way COVID-19 has sped up the e-commerce trend, it had challenged the conventional view that offices are critical to productivity, culture, and securing top talent. At the beginning of Alert Level 3, we saw businesses scramble to set up remote working arrangements for their employees.

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How to Improve Customer Engagement

Lumoa

What is customer engagement, how do you measure it, and most importantly how do you improve it? Learn everything you have to know about customer engagement. Feed generated with FetchRSS

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Create a Compelling CX Vision

Heart of the Customer

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Three Lessons From Leaders on Adapting During the Pandemic

Customer Bliss

Over the past few months, I’ve been hosting live interviews with a range of C-Suite leaders on my LinkedIn and Twitter. We’ve had discussions about their role in developing a customer experience strategy within their organization or for other organizations, and about how they’ve had to recently pivot in their jobs. I’ve also spoken to gurus, authors, and evangelists about the ways in which leaders can continue to guide their teams through the pandemic as customer behaviors continue t

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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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Focalism: The Reason You Sometimes Make The Wrong Decision

Beyond Philosophy

Many decisions that we make in life are subjective, without a “right answer.” We weigh the benefits and drawbacks and make the best choice we can based on the information we have. Giving your brain some time to sort through the data points available can increase the chances of making the best choice possible. However, when you don’t provide it with time, sometimes we emphasize the wrong information, which results in less than optimal decisions.

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Crisis Reveals Character: Launching an Outsourced Customer Care Program in a Pandemic

BlueOcean

The pandemic has put a thousand things on hold. From your kid’s first day of school to your epic summer travel plans to your favorite team’s season tickets. And, of course, your company’s plan to launch a new outsourced customer care program. We get it – the thought of signing on with a new partner amidst the uncertainty of the pandemic can be overwhelming.

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Customer Experience Quotes to Inspire Your Entire Organization

ReviewTrackers

There is a vital shift happening in the business world: a growing class of savvy, empowered consumers are demanding more options, fairer prices, and better interactions across the entire customer journey. As a result, businesses across a wide range of industries are being compelled to adopt a more customer-centric approach. It’s no longer just about product, or pricing, or promotions, or place.

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Want Greater CX Success? Build Your CX Success Statement

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What Does CX Success Look Like in Your Organization? “Our top CX goal is to create an all-around customer experience.” Sure, this sounds nice… But when you really think about it, it doesn’t really say much, does it? Yet many leaders are given something like this to work with. When we do this, we set our leaders up for failure.

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Amazing Business Radio: Simon Glass

ShepHyken

The Voice of the Customer. How to Collect Customer Insights to Drive Your Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Simon Glass , CEO of Discuss.io. They discuss strategies for collecting customer feedback and how to use those insights to help your business succeed. Top Takeaways: Using video can be a great way to connect with your customers and collect their feedback.

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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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How to Meet & Exceed Customer Expectations

ProProfs Chat

Customers are getting smarter. They know that their experience today won’t be the same as yesterday. That’s why customers have higher expectations from you. They want more personalization during their experience with your brand. “Looking at growing customer expectations, 70% of businesses are working towards improving the customer experience as they expect more personalization.”.

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This is the BIG Reason You Make Mistakes

Beyond Philosophy

THIS is the Big Reason You Make Mistakes. We make a lot of subjective decisions. Without the guide of “right” and “wrong” to direct us, we weigh the pros and cons and do the best we can. However, our brains can thwart our best efforts for an optimal outcome by focusing on the wrong things. Focalism is a concept that describes how our minds can overemphasize specific points of information over others, and often the wrong ones.

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Calculate the ROI of your CX program

SurveySensum

Why do you need to measure the ROI of your CX program? . To answer simply, how are you going to design, measure, and optimize your CX program if you don’t know its return on investment? . And if you are making an investment, you need to make sure that there is a defined and forecasted return on that investment. . CX leaders often face challenges in quantifying the ROI of their CX program to make a strong business case for the boardroom.

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Successful Tech-Touch Onboarding In Three Steps With Gainsight PX

Gainsight

The onboarding process is a critical predictor of a customer’s success and an essential element for avoiding churn. So imagine, if you will, a product-onboarding process for every new customer that’s intuitive, efficient, and easy to scale. Such tech-touch onboarding would boost brand affinity for end-users who embrace (and would likely evangelize) a product with robust features and functionality that’s also easy to navigate and has built-in responsiveness and support. .

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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 Analyze Survey Data Like a Pro

ProProfs Chat

It’s no secret that customer feedback is the lifeblood of all major brands and corporations. Talk to any marketer, and they will tell you at least 4 or 5 different ways to collect customer feedback. What they will also tell you is how hard it is to get actionable customer feedback. Receiving customer feedback is not just about surveys and data collection.

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8 Reasons Why Now is the Time for Contact Center Digital Transformation

Tricia Morris

Often considered a company cost center and the Rodney Dangerfield of departments, contact centers have historically been overlooked and underfunded when it comes to digital transformation initiatives. But doing nothing today is only driving costs even higher – to the tune of millions of dollars – as disconnected agents spend their time trying to get […].

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5 Steps to Delivering Exceptional Customer Service While Working from Home

Oracle

In early 2020, nearly half of US of employees found themselves in a new working environment—their homes. They set up desks, plugged in monitors, and settled in for what now feels like the long haul. And while many will go back to the office when risks abate, a Gartner survey of CFOs and finance leaders found that 74% of organizations plan to keep some of their workforce remote post-pandemic—and they’re not alone.

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5 types of customer expectations and why they matter for your business

BirdEye

“One thing I love about customers is that they are divinely discontent. Their expectations are never static- they go up. It’s human nature.”- Jeff Bezos. No matter how hard your team works to exceed customer expectations, the job is never done. It’s a constant work in progress. In this guide, we’ll discuss the 5 different types of customer expectations and how managers can put the right processes in place to ensure that they are constantly staying ahead 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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Guest Post: Post COVID-19 Retail–How Contactless Payments Will Impact Customer Experience in the Future

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Mathew Cooper, a Content Marketing Head at POS Plaza. He writes about the advantages of contactless transactions for both employees and retailers during the pandemic and beyond. The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced us all to the new world that is still adjusting to strict social distancing regulations and lockdown and quarantine periods.

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Part 2: Using Data from Reports to Improve B2B Customer Support

Team Support

In Part 1 of this blog series on how to use reports from your B2B customer support software solution to interpret key data and implement strategies as a result. Next, we explore how to use reporting to determine how happy your customers are and what to do if they’re not. Why? When B2B companies were asked to state the single most exciting opportunity for 2020, the number one response was customer experience (or CX), beating content marketing, video marketing and social!

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Personal Narratives Bring Retailers Closer to Consumers

NetBase

Retailers are always on the lookout for a way to connect with consumers, and what better way than capturing their exact verbatims about your brand? Our “personal narrative” theme makes short work on this challenging goal, offering companies amazing insight into the loves (and hates) of consumers. Let’s see how that looks! In this article we will cover vital information on: Why brands’ searching isn’t always enough and how filters can help pull specific information you’re lookin

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3 Ways To Balance Customer Acquisition and Retention Strategies

Lumoa

You can’t grow your business without expanding your customer base. However, should your marketing budget be more focused on customer acquisition or retention is a tough question and one that will eventually define your growth. Talking about customer retention, you possibly already know the merits of investing time and money in keeping your existing customers satisfied and hooked.

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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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The Importance of Contextualizing Realtime Player Marketing – Part I

Optimove

Identifying the ideal time to communicate with every player is one of the toughest questions you face with realtime marketing today in Real Money Gaming. At least a portion of communications can be easily timed like triggering messages to players in reaction to realtime activities. This provides you with the opportunity to strike while the iron is hot and communicate with your players when they are most likely to convert.

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Part 1: Using Data from Reports to Improve B2B Customer Support

Team Support

Reports. We all have to run them, and read them, and receive them, or submit them, and definitely explain them. But sometimes we get so caught up in the actions surrounding reports that we neglect to actually understand them. As a customer service professional, you have all sorts of data at your fingertips. From time to first response to hourly ticket totals to the number of chat sessions per day and everything in between, a good customer service system can provide you with the metrics needed to

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MVP vs MVE

Storyminers

Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a popular term that speeds software products and other services through the design process. The concept’s essence is to release early so that potential users can participate in design through their early feedback. The more learning cycles of the development team and prospects go through together, the better the product, the better-tuned the features, and the faster the development.

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Customer Service VS. Customer Experience: What is the Difference

Lumoa

We live in a competitive world. Every business wants loyal customers, but figuring out how to create customer loyalty isn’t easy. While customer service and customer experience are two key terms often used in discussions about customer loyalty… what do they actually mean? Are they different, or are they two ways of describing the same thing? Let’s clear up the confusion with a little head-to-head comparison.

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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.