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Eliminate the Trust Gap: Six Ways to Create Trust with Your Customers and Employees

ShepHyken

There is a trust gap between customers and the companies and brands they do business with. The two questions to ask that will define this gap are: Do you think your customers trust you? (This is opinion.) Do your customers trust you? (This is fact.) The difference between the two questions is the trust gap. If you think your customers trust you, that’s a 100% score.

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Optimizing your customer feedback strategy in 2023

Lumoa

Your customers are sharing their experiences online. They’ve been doing it for years, but with the continuing proliferation of social media platforms, their voices are only getting louder. No matter what industry you’re in, your customers are eager and encouraged to share their feedback: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Businesses that want to grow in 2023 (and beyond) realize that this isn’t a problem—it’s an opportunity.

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Building Customer Loyalty Through Social Media

LoyaltyPlus

by Frik van der Westhuizen At the end of January this year, there were 28 million social media users in South Africa. Over the past 12 months, social media has become an integral part of people’s lives and has had a significant impact on how consumers perceive and interact with brands. It has become vital for companies to have a strong social media presence in order to build and maintain brand loyalty.

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Why your business needs a social media manager

BirdEye

Having a social media presence is crucial for success in today’s market. Social media has become a primary way for people to discover and purchase new products, which means hiring a dedicated social media manager can seriously benefit your business. With help from a social media professional, your business can maximize its online potential, expand its reach, enhance customer engagement, create brand awareness, and ultimately increase revenue.

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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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Mastering Knowledge Management: Elevating Customer Services in 2023

CSM Magazine

The year 2022 marked a significant milestone for those in charge of customer experience. With the emergence of self-service, the increased use of mobile devices, and remote work after the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with noteworthy advancements in AI technology, customers have come to expect exceptional digital experiences like never before. As stated in NTT Ltd.’s 2021 Global Customer Experience Benchmarking Report , 91% of organizations believe that customer experience is a crucial diffe

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A Comprehensive Guide to 5-Star Surveys

Retently

There is nothing more important for a business than understanding the level of satisfaction and overall attitude of its customers. While talking to every customer personally is almost impossible, CX surveys take this function on. Still, although 71% of consumers expect a personalized experience, most of them are unwilling to spend time responding to an endless stream of questions.

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Seven Questions to Ask When Selecting Your Service Team’s AI Provider

TechSee

With new AI capabilities and compelling use cases being demonstrated daily, the service industry looks forward to a new generation of AI providers that answer their needs for high-quality service automation. Better chatbots, self-service flows, virtual assistants, and AI avatars are being developed worldwide, so how can you find the right AI solution for your organization?

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How to create a Facebook Business Page without a personal account

BirdEye

With nearly three billion monthly users worldwide, you can’t ignore the many opportunities Facebook can bring a business. However, if you believe in the old adage, ‘don’t mix business with friendships,’ then you likely also wonder how to create a Facebook Business Page without a personal account. In this article, we’ll walk you through the precise steps of how to create an account and page without your personal info, examine Business Page features, and what you should consider when creating your

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XI Café Podcast, Episode 4: Launching a VoC Program With State Revenue Office Victoria

InMoment XI

Welcome back to the XI Café Podcast! In order to continue Experience Improvement, the XI Café Podcast was created so that CX program owners around the world could join the conversation and learn from global businesses and industry experts about the latest experience improvement innovations in technology and research services, industry and market expertise, and customer (CX) and employee (EX) engagement best practices.

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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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Retailers embed customer insights into their DNA

Alida

Successful innovators not only listen to their customers. They make their feedback an integral part of their decision-making process.

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Why are We Still Talking About CX in Financial Services?

Lumoa

The past few years have witnessed a substantial increase in attention and investment in customer experience (CX) across various industries, including the financial services sector. But some important questions arise: How relevant is CX to modern financial services? How does a company remain committed to providing first-rate customer service in an economic downturn?

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AI – Not Just for Chat

Upstream Works

By: Rob McDougall, CEO, Upstream Works Software Conversational AI is often used as a tool for providing customer service through channels like chat or voice. However, email is still a major communication channel for many businesses, and is often overlooked when it comes to AI-assisted customer service. This is especially surprising given that email volumes are often significantly higher than messaging traffic and can represent a not-insignificant portion of a company’s contact volume.

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Salesforce Service Cloud and Playvox Workforce Management Collaboration Gives CX Leaders Best of Breed Salesforce WFM

Playvox

Customer experience leaders are more challenged than ever. They are under constant pressure to reduce operational overhead costs, lower recruiting, onboarding and training costs – all while exceeding customer demands and delivering exceptional customer service. When contact center managers look to decrease overhead, they think first to eliminate manual processes through automation.

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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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Start Asking The Questions You Really Need To Ask

One Millimeter Mindset

Do you find yourself in conversations where you dance around asking the questions you really need to ask? Instead, you stop yourself short. As a result, information which can clarify context for decision making is left hanging in the air. Later on, you replay that conversation. You kick yourself for not having the courage and confidence to ask at least one more question.

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Cost Constraints Force Customers to Settle for Less-than-optimal CX

Interactions

Cost constraints may lead some companies to prioritize downsizing measures over investing in customer experience (CX). However, controlling costs are just one factor influencing business decisions about resource allocation. Companies that prioritize customer experience may find that it pays off in increased customer loyalty and satisfaction. On the other hand, companies that focus solely on cost-cutting measures may discover that it produces the opposite result.

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The Battle For Customer Attention: How To Come Out On Top

Beyond Philosophy

Time is our most valuable resource. It’s a resource that you aren’t able to get any more of, no matter what you do, and you are losing more of it every second. When you look at it like that, asking people for their time a much bigger deal that you might have considered at first. Therefore, when you are spending it with them, you should make the most of it.

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Meeting High Consumer Demands for Online Account Opening with Digital Customer Service

SaleMove

Having a seamless digital account opening experience helps financial institutions stay competitive. Here are the tools to do that. The post Meeting High Consumer Demands for Online Account Opening with Digital Customer Service appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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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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How to take an evidence-based approach to building a scholarly community

Clarivate

International research collaboration is critical to scientific discovery. Just as the research landscape grows in complexity, the landscape of collaboration continuously changes, making it more challenging to track progress. At the University of South Florida (USF), the fastest rising university in the U.S. News & World Report’s U.S. rankings, maintaining the pace of global engagement, high-impact research and innovation is supported with a metrics dashboard that informs strategic planning a

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The Role of Automation Technology in Customer Service

Interactions

We’ve seen in recent years a growing trend of businesses adopting automation technologies like chatbots and intelligent virtual assistants (IVA) to help with customer service. But what role do they play exactly? What are the benefits and challenges of their use? And what does the future hold? How Automation Technologies Impact Customer Service Automation technologies are increasingly important in improving customer service and offer a wide range of benefits — but they are not without chall

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Telling Your Brand Story Through the Customer Experience with Christoph Trappe

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Customer experience, including customer service, is marketing. Create an experience that gests people to say, “I’ll be back,” and makes them want to share it with others. Understand what your customers want and deliver consistently. Customers usually have many options. When your product is available in other places, customer experience becomes the differentiator that determines if your customers continue to do business with you or move on to your competitors.

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The Customer Success Roadshow and You: Why CS Leaders Need to Go on Tour

Education Services Group

Customer Success leaders have a lot in common with rockstars. We’re all excellent storytellers. We are energetic about our work. We aim to deliver the absolute best experiences imaginable. We do well in front of crowds (i.e., customers). And we both go on tour. As a CS leader, you might not be as familiar with that last quality, but I can promise you that going on tour is an extremely valuable exercise that more of us can – and should – take advantage of.

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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 Metaverse and Online Communities: Khoros 101

Lithium

“Metaverse” is a term first coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, captured the imagination of emerging generations and has gained unsurprising traction in recent years. From fully digital lives in online worlds, like Second Life , to a plethora of movies like Ready Player One , each provide a glimpse into what the metaverse could mean and how it could play a part in our daily lives.

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Reporting on Bots – Why It’s as Bad as IVRs Ever Were

Upstream Works

By: Rob McDougall, CEO, Upstream Works Software Reporting on the performance of conversational AI applications is often challenging, as they must be tailored to a specific business and its needs. As a result, it is difficult to gauge the success of a chatbot in interacting with and meeting the needs of customers. To understand this issue, it’s helpful to look back at the history of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems.

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Why Is Answering Service Support Essential?

Call Experts

Companies need to be available to their customers 24/7, and often outsourcing for answering service support is the easiest way to accomplish this goal. It is not always practical for businesses to have staff to answer calls around the clock. And this is where we come in. At Call Experts, we are dedicated to providing businesses with around-the-clock customer support and care.

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From Reactive to Proactive: How to use customer feedback to drive engagement and loyalty

Zonka Feedback

Customer feedback is a powerful tool for any business that wants to drive engagement and build customer loyalty. It allows businesses to understand their customers' needs, preferences, and pain points, which can help them improve their products, services, and overall customer experience.

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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.