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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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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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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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What Type of Relationship Do Your Customers Expect From You?

Beyond Philosophy

Imagine you are selling a used car. Now, imagine your surprise that the person who wants to buy it is your brother. How would that be different from selling your vehicle to a stranger? Would you haggle as hard? (Now, to be fair, if it was my brother Neil, my answer is yes.). People act differently in various types of relationships and transactions. This distinction between these two types of situations is something that psychologists have studied, and the subject of our recent podcast.

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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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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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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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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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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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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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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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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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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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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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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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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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How to Improve NPS: 7 Proven CX Strategies

Pointillist

By Steve Offsey Customer Experience metrics like Net Promoter Score® (NPS®) clearly matter. NPS has gained a lot of traction in recent years and is now the most widely used CX metric. But now that you’re measuring it, how do you improve NPS? In this post, I’ll provide a detailed look at how to improve NPS. Why You Should Make It a Priority to Improve NPS A 10% improvement in a company’s customer experience score can translate into more than $1 billion in increased revenue. — Forrester In a Bain

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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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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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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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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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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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3 Things to Know Before You Talk to Your Next Challenging Customer

Myra Golden

You already know it’s best to not say words like “Unfortunately,” or a hard “no,” and you probably even know that you need to let angry customers vent for at least a few seconds, but there are some other things you should know before trying to get customers to accept your word as final, especially when you have to give customers bad news. I’m sharing three tactics from my handling demanding customers workshops to help you assertively (and politely) control challenging interactions with customers

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX