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How to Use Surveys to Land More Business Leads

GetFeedback

Listening to what your customers have to say and providing what they want is fundamental to the success of your business. Unfortunately, many companies make the mistake of deciding that they know better than their customers. How, though, can a modern business stay in touch with customers? With their opinions, concerns, and demands? . That’s where surveys come in. .

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The State of Customer Experience: 3 Important Stats You Need to Know

Customer Bliss

Imagine a baby boomer, a Gen X’er, a Millennial, and a Gen Z’er walk into a bar. Sounds like the start of a joke, right? But think about it. How did they each choose the bar? Are they at the same place? What did they order? And if you were to ask them about their experience afterward, how would they answer? Their responses would be vastly different.

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A Day in the Life of an Insight Community Manager

Alida

Running an insight community is as much about attitude as it is aptitude. To succeed, a community manager needs to have a progressive mindset above all else and be constantly looking for ways to innovate and evolve the community program.

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What exactly IS a CX Vision?

CloudCherry

Acclaimed Writer, Consultant, CX Trainer, and this week’s guest of ‘The Sweets of CX’, Jeff Toister , likes to think of it as, “a compass that always points you in the right direction when you’re creating a customer experience. Technically, it’s really just a shared definition of an outstanding experience.”. So, we have the WHAT. But, wouldn’t it be nice to know WHY it’s critical to have a firm grip on this ‘compass’, and HOW to best create one?

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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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Introducing Blue Ocean’s New Website – a Celebration of the Customer Experience

BlueOcean

Blue Ocean, a North American provider of customer care solutions, is excited to announce the new face of Blue Ocean at blueocean.ca. When Blue Ocean embarked on the website redesign journey, the primary goal was to center the focus around the total customer experience. The result is a design that celebrates the company’s commitment to its clients’ customers.

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Keep Your CX Roadmap Relevant, or Risk Going off Track

InMoment XI

This article was originally published by the CXFocus Magazine. Creating Relevant Customer Experience Plan With firms failing to perform the core CX management activities and index scores for 2019 not looking promising, at first glance this may look like doom and gloom for the CX sector. However, this actually makes the case for CX stronger. View Article.

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A CX Snapshot: 2019 Insights from B2B Organizations

CloudCherry

Photo by Austin Distel. Photo by Ambrose Chua. Originating in the tech sector, customer experience (CX) is now a hot topic in the B2B space—so hot, in fact, that many B2B CX experts believe it will define their companies’ competitive strategies in the coming years. Gartner found that over 80% of organizations expected to compete mainly based on CX in 2019.

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Improve Employee Experience to Improve Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

The employee experience can feel hard to manage. As leaders, we ask our employees to care about a lot of things, even those that are only tangentially related to their job descriptions. As an industry, we’re overwhelming employees with messages about the next big thing they need to learn… Digital Transformation! Personalization! Blockchain Technology!

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The Secret of Creating an Effective Customer Experience (CX) Strategy

Beyond Philosophy

The Secret of Creating an Effective Customer Experience (CX) Strategy. What is the experience you are trying to deliver to your customers? This is one of our key questions we ask organizations when we consult with them. It seems a very simple question and yet in reality, the answer is very strategic and critical to moving your CX to the next level. What is surprising is most organizations do not know the answer to this question!

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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 Use the CSAT Metric in Your CX Program

GetFeedback

How to measure your Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) and use the insight to optimize your customer experience (CX) program.

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Thank You is Never a Short Message

CloudCherry

You might have heard the news. If you haven’t please find it here. . It seems like ages ago we started in that 400 Sft office in Chennai with very little money, a tiny bunch of people and a VERY big dream. I now recognize that tiny bunch for what they are – absolutely the best crew in the universe! . I have written countless internal mails during this journey – many of them ultimately became our Culture Manual but this might be the most groundbreaking one of them all.

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Why You Should Eliminate “No Mercy” Policies!

Customer Bliss

In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. Buying an extended warranty sometimes feels like burning money to me. If I don’t buy it, I need it. If I do buy it, I need it one minute, one hour or one day after the warranty runs out, and if I do call just a bit after it runs out, the answer is, “Sorry, the warranty is over.̶

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Guest Blog: How Should You Grow and Sustain Your Customer Lifetime Value?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Lukas Sitar who writes about growing and sustaining customer lifetime value for the entire customer cycle. While many marketers look at metrics like conversion rates, net profit per sale, average value of a lead, and average customer order, they often overlook their customer lifetime value. This is a metric that allows you to compete with your biggest competitors, establish longevity in your marketplace, and allow you to maximize the effectiveness of your marke

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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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What to Do if You Have a Poor CSAT Score

GetFeedback

Detailed list of steps to take to improve your poor Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) and optimize customer experience (CX).

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Thank You is a never a short message

CloudCherry

You might have heard the news. If you haven’t please find it here [link]. It seems like ages ago we started in that 400 Sft office in Chennai with very little money, a tiny bunch of people and a VERY big dream. I now recognize that tiny bunch for what they are – absolutely the best crew in the universe! It seems like ages ago we started in that 400 Sft office in Chennai with very little money, a tiny bunch of people and a VERY big dream.

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Customer Feedback – A Handy Guide to Understanding Your Audience

Retently

In order to genuinely understand customers and increase retention, businesses need to focus a big part of their resources and manpower on customer feedback. The way someone approaches feedback can make or break their business. In this guide, we’ll show you just how valuable customer feedback can be, and give some actionable tips on how to collect and act on it.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of August 26, 2019

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. 37 Customer Experience Statistics You Need to Know for 2019 by Toma Kulbyt?. (Super Office) Customer experience has fast become a top priority for businesses and 2019 will be no different.

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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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Customer Retention Optimization Strategies to Keep Customers Long-Term

Totango

Your customers are your enterprise’s life’s blood. When you get a new customer, work to retain them and grow customer lifetime value. While the sales team will always be looking for new customers, retaining a current customer is far cheaper than finding a new customer to replace them. When you retain a customer, you’ve won a valuable patron who will be far likelier to want future sales or try new products. .

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There Isn’t a One-Size-Fits-All Customer Support Platform

UJET

Contact-Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS) providers like to make big promises. Some go as far as saying they have every currently available feature and tool and will fill all your support needs. Let’s go down the list: Voice. IVR. Web chat (desktop and mobile). Email. Text (SMS/MMS). RCS ready. In-app VoIP. In-app Chat. In-app text. Visual IVR. Chatbots. Artificial intelligence.

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Why Many CX Strategies Fail

Second to None

Great CX is not the result of desultory or half-hearted actions. Though your company may agree that it is an essential component of your overall strategy, it takes more than a conversation or the mere recognition of its importance to boast a winning CX program. In many cases, it takes a movement. The reality is that more CX programs fail than succeed.

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Amazing Business Radio: Chris Bauserman

ShepHyken

The Emotional Customer Experience. Understanding the Emotion Behind the Experience Economy. Shep Hyken interviews Chris Bauserman. They discuss how emotions and personalization play a large role in the customer service and experience of today, and how we can use data analytics to harness that knowledge for improvement. The Interview with Chris Bauserman: The experience economy has changed dramatically over time.

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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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Why customer service is key to building brand trust

Eptica

Date: Thursday, August 29, 2019 Author: Pascal Gauvrit - CTO Why customer service is key to building brand trust. Published on: August 29, 2019. Author: Pascal Gauvrit - CTO As the Summer holidays come to an end, and as customer service teams prepare for the peak Christmas season , it’s the perfect time to highlight the importance of service and experience to business success.

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The 6 Best Ways to Show you Respect your Customers

C3Centricity

More than one year after the introduction of GDPR in Europe and the CCPA in California, I wondered what has changed. And more importantly, I got to thinking about customer privacy and how to build a mutually beneficial relationship whilst also respecting it. Customers don’t want to be automatically segmented and followed as they go about the web, viewing different sites.

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Company Culture & Customer Experience Keynote Speaker: Subway Global Convention (2019)

Michel Falcon Experience

Before 2000+ attendees in Toronto, I was Subway’s headline keynote speaker. During my keynote speech, I shared company culture, customer experience and employee engagement strategies with the Subway franchise owners. Watch this video to learn how my company interviews employees and onboards them memorably which ultimately delivers a better customer experience.

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It’s Not Where You Are. It’s Where You’re Going.

ShepHyken

Sometimes you find life lessons in unexpected places. This time it was on the golf course. Almost every Sunday throughout the summer I play golf with some great guys. One Sunday we decided to play the championship tees—meaning we hit from the furthest point away from each hole. Obviously, this makes the game longer and harder. The extra distance usually translates into taking a few more swings at the ball than normal.

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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.