Sat.Mar 20, 2021 - Fri.Mar 26, 2021

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How to Prepare (the Right Way) for Customer Success Software Implementation

ChurnZero

Implementation doesn’t have to be a dread-inducing undertaking that makes you contemplate if it’s even worth purchasing a new tool or switching platforms. We’ve all experienced or have heard secondhand of a software implementation gone wrong – whether it’s perpetually delayed timelines, data mapping nightmares, or miscommunicated requirements – which stirs those uneasy and queasy feelings at the very thought of the task.

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Follow Six Steps to a Successful Customer Journey Analysis

Totango

A customer journey analysis helps you improve SaaS client experience and increase retention by optimizing the steps customers take in their relationship with your product and brand. Today’s concept of the customer journey takes a customer-centered perspective that unifies the pre-sales (buyer) and post-sales (customer) experience of your brand into a single lifecycle.

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Don’t Accidentally Sabotage Customer Experience — Do This Instead

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Sure, you may not intend to, but there are probably ways you, as the leader of your department or organization, are sabotaging the experience your customers have. And who can blame you? Today, leaders have more expectations with fewer resources. We’re asked to spend more time reporting on what’s happened than making things happen. Time is limited and people are pressured.

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The Most Important Measurement In Business

ShepHyken

This is the first of a number of lessons I’ll be sharing from my newest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again. A few years back I wrote about the idea of measuring customer satisfaction versus customer behavior. We’re revisiting that topic with a fresh point of view. Today’s lesson is about the exciting topic of measurement and data.

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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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How to create and measure customer service goals

GetFeedback

Goals can improve your overall customer service, customer retention, employee experience, and more.

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Customer Retention Strategies for Banks: Customer Experience is Key

ReviewTrackers

Bank Customer Retention: Why It Matters. You’ve probably heard this more than a dozen times: retaining a customer is so much cheaper than acquiring a new one. This holds true for banks and financial services providers, too. Here are some bank customer retention statistics to consider: According to Customer Think , the costs of acquiring a banking customer are estimated to be around $200 while the typical customer generates only $150 in revenue each year.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of March 22, 2021

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. Forget Customer Experience. Forget Employee Experience. Enter Total Experience by David Roe. (CMSWire) ECM and content services, while related, are not the same.

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Banks & credit unions: Improve your metrics by putting customers first

Alida

The digital revolution offers incredible opportunities for credit unions, community banks, and retail banks to deliver better customer experiences , increase engagement, and build lasting relationships. The widespread availability of digital banking features, personalized support, and self-service tools has completely changed how people do business with their banks.

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5 Rules for Making Customers Feel ‘Cared For’ and ‘Valued’

Beyond Philosophy

Customer emotions are essential in Customer Experience. Being deliberate about which emotions your experience evokes is critical, too. Today, we will take a deeper dive into making your customers feel “Cared for” with the 5 Rules for Making Customers Feeling Cared For and Valued. Before we get into the rules, it’s essential to know what you’re aiming at and why.

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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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Reflecting at the Year Mark: 3 Lessons on Leadership from a Year of Coronavirus

Customer Bliss

As we round the corner on the one-year mark of this pandemic, I want to take a moment to reflect on some of the key lessons that still hold true. Even as more people get the vaccine and we slowly edge into “normal life,” it’s vital for us not to waste this opportunity. We must take the lessons of this last year and use them to shape how we lead our organizations into the future.

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Guest Post: How to Make a Company Culture Video That Wins Your Customers’ Hearts

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Victor Blasco , CEO of Yum Yum Videos. He writes about how creating a company culture video helps your business to build stronger relationships with your customers. When we think about the advantages that small business es hold against big compan ies, the first thing that comes to mind is the close relationship with their customers.

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4 simple strategies for improving customer retention

delighted

It takes a lot to earn a customer’s loyalty. And once you bring someone into your company’s ecosystem, the last thing you want to do is lose them. By emphasizing customer retention as a key performance indicator (KPI) for your business, you can ensure your priorities are in the right place. What’s your customer retention rate? Before you can focus on improving customer retention, you must benchmark how you’re currently doing in this department.

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5 Tips to Build a World-Class B2B Customer Support Organization

Team Support

A customer can be very satisfied with the products and services of a company, but that doesn't mean they’ll remain loyal. Competitors can attract them by offering better customer benefits, including proactive customer support. Customer experience is decisive for both satisfaction and loyalty. However, most companies do not offer great customer experiences.

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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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The 3 Stages of the Visual Transformation Journey

TechSee

With the new digital-first mentality, the need for remote support and enhanced customer engagement, brands are recognizing the need for a visual-first strategy for acquiring and keeping their customers. Yes, the Visual Transformation journey is already underway. In Part 1 of this 2-part series, we explored the key trends driving this transformation and the benefits organizations can expect when they include the visual element in their digital transformation efforts.

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There is a More Dangerous Pandemic Happening with No Vaccine

The DiJulius Group

5 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1. Customer Service Feature Story There is a More Dangerous Pandemic Happening with No Vaccine I was recently in Florida enjoying a few days of vacation and warm weather. One of the many things I have always loved about being at a vacation place is how. Read Full Article. The post There is a More Dangerous Pandemic Happening with No Vaccine appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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What Does an Allergy Have To Do With Customer Service?

Steve DiGioia

Those of us in the customer service industry focus much on procedures, ease of use, product availability, and the steps of service, to name a few, all in the hopes of providing our customers the best overall experience. When we have these processes down pat, we believe that’s “all we need” to ensure a steady stream of satisfied customers. But we’re leaving out a significant aspect of service and something very valuable for a customer in need.

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How Cross Functional Opportunities Redefine Professional Value

One Millimeter Mindset

How many cross functional opportunities do each of us have every day? Because these opportunities can redefine our professional value, moving forward. Cross functional opportunities are created both intentionally as well as arising quite unintentionally. Often, because we do not realize we are in the midst of such an opportunity. Mostly because we seem to toil on teams with people who may not bring out our professional best.

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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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Pink Guava - Untitled Article

Pink Guava

What’s the right way to keeping your Customers First! Keeping the customer first and foremost in the decision-making for organizational endeavors is an effective strategy for business success. Organizations across the globe have been able to build and grow with a “Customer First" approach; for example, Amazon, Apple, and the list can go on and on. This is simply because a business's prime function is to serve the customers through its products and services and the "Customer First" approach suppo

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How appointment scheduling can help you deliver a superior customer experience and improve retention

BirdEye

The following post is from a guest contributor. People never forget how you made them feel! This holds true for your customers. Delivering a positive customer experience will call for efforts, but yield you great returns in the long run. . Customers today have a huge number of choices at hand, and it’s very easy for them to choose a competitor over your business.

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Why WPS Health Solutions Puts Member Experience First

Alida

WPS Health Solutions is a not-for-profit health insurance provider with a footprint that extends across the United States. Over its 75-year history, WPS has grown from a regional player in the Wisconsin market to become a leading force in the U.S. health insurance sector. The company offers a wide range of insurance products, working closely with members, employers, and the medical community to support a higher quality of care.

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7 Employee Engagement Superpowers for More than Mere Mortals

Russel Lolacher

You have employee experience superpowers and you may not even know it. I’m a super hero nerd. I grew up on Marvel comics and reading about the latest adventures of Spider-man, Avengers and the X-men, and with the rise of Marvel movies I’m a very happy, happy boy. Watching these extraordinary people show the world their astonishing abilities is fun to watch.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Howard Tiersky

ShepHyken

The Customer Love Formula. How to Make Your Customers Love Doing Business with You. Shep Hyken interviews Howard Tiersky, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance. They discuss how valuable customer love is to succeed in an ever-changing world of business. Top Takeaways: The reality of today’s digital world is that the transformation of technology is never done.

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Birdeye’s new podcast: The Modern Experience Marketer

BirdEye

Today Birdeye is officially launching its new podcast, The Modern Experience Marketer , designed with the multi-location marketer in mind. The podcast helps marketers make sense of the new world of Experience Marketing , one in which businesses no longer set the terms of engagement for customer experiences, but rather are having the terms set for them by customers themselves.

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Building an Intelligent IVR for More Predictive, Contextual, and Conversational CX

UJET

The IVR isn’t a topic that gets enough coverage. We gravitate to the shinier objects and tend to focus more on the agent experience, omnichannel, and artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, your IVR can be one of the biggest drivers of good vs bad CX. The IVR is often the reason customers start yelling and screaming before ever talking to an agent, and more often than not it’s the reason that most conversations start with frustrated customers and flustered agents.

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Empathy is a Powerful De-escalation Tool

Myra Golden

Many people are surprised when I bring up empathy in my de-escalation workshops. They’re looking for hard-hitting tools and frameworks to help them bring down the temperature in interactions with customers. But empathy? How does this soft skill fit in? Empathy helps you come across as a compassionate, non-judgmental listener. With customers in intense situations, empathy helps you begin the de-escalation process.

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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.