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JULY 5, 2022

Many restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs) are overwhelmed by the impact of online reviews. As of last year, close to 214 million reviews have been posted to Yelp, and 45% of consumers say they’re likely to read a business’ reviews there before visiting. Meanwhile, nearly two-thirds (64%) of people now Google a business before visiting—and a whopping 94% say a negative review has caused them to avoid a business altogether.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 7, 2022

The Future of Brick and Mortar. One of the features of The Intuitive Customer podcast is “I’m in a Pickle,” where listeners come to us with business problems that they would like our advice on solving. We had a pickle about the future of brick-and-mortar after the pandemic that I thought I would share with you, too. Here’s what Bjorn had to say: Hello, Ryan and Colin, and thanks for a great show.

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Alida

JULY 7, 2022

This may come as a surprise, but survey design can be a creative process. With so many question types available, it can be overwhelming. Which question type should you choose? Why?

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Solvvy

JULY 8, 2022

You may have heard, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” It certainly rings true when considering goals like improving efficiency or controlling labor costs. Quantitative metrics allow you to assign a number to the current state, compare it to the past, and track your company’s progress toward your goals. However, not everything is easy to measure.

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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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InMoment XI

JULY 7, 2022

When customers are looking for a solution to a problem, they will often turn to a company they trust. Sometimes, they will choose that company even if the product is slightly more expensive because they recognize and trust the name. For example, if a customer is looking for a quick OTC pain reliever, they may turn to Tylenol over a drugstore generic alternative because they know the brand and trust it.

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Totango

JULY 5, 2022

In uncertain economic times, attracting new customers becomes exponentially harder as budgets get tighter and priorities shift. As a customer success leader, it’s important to ensure resources are focused on delivering value and creating exceptional customer experiences, while also keenly identifying any potential opportunities for revenue and expansion.

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Brandwatch CX

JULY 6, 2022

With so many Twitter analytics tools out there, it’s hard to know which ones to trust with your Twitter account. Some may wish to track the tweets about their brand or competition, some will want to engage with leads or clients, and others may wish to track the success of their campaigns, among tons of other options. You can plenty of this with Twitter search.

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InMoment XI

JULY 4, 2022

2022 is being branded as “ The Year of the Squeeze. ” Challenging economic conditions that are bordering on a recession have forced businesses to either raise prices, cut costs, or a combination of both. And due to these conditions, businesses need to justify the return on investment (ROI) for every initiative—including their customer experience (CX) program.

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Optimove

JULY 5, 2022

We all know that personalization is key to the success of any CRM Marketing strategy and that is especially true when it comes to a key component in those strategies – mobile app marketing. Long gone are the spray-and-pray days that inevitably resulted in irrelevant, inconsistent messaging, meaningless content, and failure to take into account past interactions and personal preferences.

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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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ShepHyken

JULY 5, 2022

Earning Customers for Life. How to Prevent Your Customers from Shopping Your Competition. Shep Hyken interviews Matthew Holman, head of growth at QPilot , an eCommerce software company that makes subscriptions more flexible for brands and customers. He shares how subscription models can shape the customer experience to meet the changing needs of their customers.

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SaleMove

JULY 8, 2022

How do you ensure your communications platform is secure? Explore key questions financial institutions should ask their fintech providers about security. The post How Do You Ensure Your Engagement Platform is Secure? appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 6, 2022

As CSMs, finding new and creative ways to engage with customers is not always easy. And as customer success leaders, it’s even harder to develop programs and processes to give your team the freedom and flexibility to engage with customers in this way. . Often used to open the door to these more unique customer experiences, customer loyalty programs can be an excellent idea for CSMs and team leaders alike to delve into some of these new ways to connect and engage with customers.

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Comm100

JULY 5, 2022

As organizations look to expand their digital customer engagement offering, chatbots are becoming more and more commonplace. Compared to traditional support, chatbots deliver faster, more available support, all while cutting costs and retaining high customer satisfaction (CSAT). Research shows that 45% of users already prefer chatbots as the primary mode of customer service communication. .

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ShepHyken

JULY 4, 2022

Each week I read many 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. 7 Top AI Trends in Customer Service by Zendesk. (EnterpriseAI) Ever-evolving technology is constantly changing how customer service is done.

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SAP Customer Experience

JULY 3, 2022

Continuing the blog series of Building Communication Channels for Personalized Engagements Here we are going to create a campaign to invite your existing customer base to join the Communication Category. You should define the target group that is relevant for your communication channel or newsletter. This invite might not relevant.

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Totango

JULY 8, 2022

It may sound counterintuitive to say that now, in these times of economic uncertainty, is the time to invest and not to cut back. But in fact, you should be investing now more than ever in customer success. In order to protect your core business, which is your current customer base, you need to be making the necessary changes to keep up with delivery and communication of value to your customers.

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ChurnZero

JULY 8, 2022

This article was originally published on Forbes.com. “Oh, by the way, what’s your customer retention?” asked the managing partner of a venture firm while we were in the final stages of their due diligence. It was the turn of the millennium, and I was raising a round for a B2B software company—one of four companies that I founded over the course of my 25-year career as a repeat entrepreneur.

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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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ShepHyken

JULY 6, 2022

In our customer service training workshops , we have an exercise that introduces a concept called The Five Levels of Service. The levels advance from Unacceptable to Basic to Good to World Class to Trademark. Any company should be happy with World Class , which is when the company is consistently and predictably delivering a level of service that gets customers to come back.

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SAP Customer Experience

JULY 3, 2022

Are you facing challenges to improve the engagements with your marketing campaigns? Is it difficult to share content that your customers are really interested in consuming? Defining the right audience and content is the key to reach better engagement. In additional to building intelligent contact segmentation for your campaigns, you.

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Lithium

JULY 7, 2022

Plant the seeds of a flourishing community with SEO. Just because you built it in the digital world doesn't necessarily mean the people will come. Communities across the digital sphere are dependent on the life-blood of traffic. A thriving community is often based solely on user traffic. Traffic can come from various sources: Twitter ads, Facebook posts, in-app guides, word of mouth, etc.

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BirdEye

JULY 5, 2022

Patients across the country turn to HealthGrades when they’re searching for new healthcare providers. HealthGrades reviews are trusted by millions of Americans – and if your practice isn’t listed on HealthGrades, you could be missing out on patients who instead choose providers with strong HealthGrades reviews and profiles. HealthGrades should be a major part of your marketing strategy if you’re a medical provider looking to improve your online reputation.

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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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Zonka Feedback

JULY 3, 2022

When you think about the importance of customer experience, you could be forgiven for your mind wandering to the B2C environment. After all, customer experience and satisfaction have long been one of the top priorities for B2C businesses, yet it’s only now that B2B businesses are catching up. But let’s consider just a couple of things here; firstly, your customers are your business.

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Interactions

JULY 7, 2022

The current labor shortage is a big problem, especially for contact centers. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal , “The average number of live job openings in call, contact and customer care centers advertised on Ziprecruiter.com in February was more than double that of the average the year earlier before the pandemic, according to the recruitment platform.”.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 7, 2022

Total Experience can be a powerful tool for engagement and growth, but only with an intentional strategy behind it. Kate Kompelien, Executive Director of Experience Strategy at Avtex, explains. For too long, customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) have been pursued in silos, led by separate departments working from different data sources toward different goals.

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BirdEye

JULY 7, 2022

Eighty-five percent of Americans bring their smartphones everywhere they go. Their iPhones and Androids are constantly in their pockets, purses, and the palms of their hands – and that’s why texting is one of the most powerful ways to communicate with your customers. As you continue to scale your business, you might have trouble staying connected to your growing customer base.

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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

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