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3 Highlights from Customer Experience Experts at the XI Forum Singapore

InMoment XI

This year, the InMoment team put together the first ever XI Forum Singapore—and what a day it was! With 100 delegates and five customer experience experts from the leading brands in Southeast Asia, this day was one to remember. On the main stage, customer experience experts from Alliance, HSBC, and Foot Locker taught delegates what to do to elevate their experience program.

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Customer Experience Planning: Ask These Reflection Questions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Within the natural cycles of any business, there are times that offer a chance to review, reflect and recharge. Some of the most common moments include: The end of the calendar year. The end of your fiscal year. As you wrap one quarter and prepare for the next. Before budgeting season. Any time changes demand you assess and adjust your goals, strategy, and tactics.

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How to Turn NPS Feedback Into Reviews, Recommendations and Referrals

Retently

Net Promoter Score® lets you measure and analyze customer satisfaction to learn more about what people like (and dislike) about your product or business. It’s a valuable metric – for most companies and it’s the most valuable metric available for measuring customer loyalty and satisfaction. A good Net Promoter Score can fuel your business growth, generate word-of-mouth referrals from Promoters and help you bring in more business without spending as much on traditional advertising or inbound

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5 Ways Visual Engagement Technology Counters the Rising of Cost of Fuel in Field Service

TechSee

The rising cost of diesel and gas are hitting the balance sheets of contractors and corporations around the world. This pain is felt particularly acutely in the field service industry, where transportation costs are often considered unavoidable. This creates a dual pressure on field service leadership, to both reduce demand wherever possible, and improve the efficiency of their performance across every step.

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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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At a Glance: 3 Employee & Customer Experience Program Use Cases for Financial Services Brands

InMoment XI

Financial services brands know that customers take their money seriously, so many of them leverage employee and customer experience programs to understand what their customers need, then create experiences that build trusting, positive customer/brand relationships. However, these relationships aren’t the only things experience programs can support for brands.

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The Difference Between Good and Great

ShepHyken

If you had to have surgery, would you rather go to the most skilled surgeon or the nicest surgeon? . I was at a party the other night and someone I met shared his opinion of the difference between a good doctor and a great doctor. A good doctor makes you well. A great doctor makes you well and calls you the next day to see how you’re doing. . I thought about that all weekend.

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Irrefutable Evidence: Great CX Brands Outperform Competitors & Stock Market Significantly, in Any Economy

The DiJulius Group

How do companies outperform competitors and the stock market by significant margins, in any economy? By being customer experience leaders in their industries. Make no mistake about it, there is a direct correlation between love, loyalty and profitability. According to Bain & Co., companies achieving the highest Net Promotor Scores (NPS) in their industry consistently.

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If It Is Not Fun Then Why Keep Doing It?

One Millimeter Mindset

Those are the words of one of my greatest mentors. I think his words are even more relevant today than they were before. During our careers we get caught up in taking the next steps up the rungs of someone else’s idea of what a corporate ladder looks like. Or, we become chameleons: acting and dressing and living according to others’ expectations (or even demands).

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In Case You Missed It: 3 Major InMoment Announcements You Need to Know About

InMoment XI

It’s been a huge month for those of us in the InMoment Community! We’re always looking for the next opportunity to take Experience Improvement (and the experience industry as whole) to the next level, and this month, we made three major InMoment announcements that tell the world about the next steps in our mission: InMoment’s acquisition of ReviewTrackers, InMoment being named a leader in “The Forrester Wave : People-Oriented Text Analytics Platforms, Q2 2022,” and, finally, the launch of the la

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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 12 Best Customer Service Software Tools for 2022

Kustomer

A new era in customer service has arrived. The transformed landscape requires engagement like never previously seen, and customer service software is here to help. Spanning multiple channels, across both brick-and-click locations, customers want immediate answers to product questions, swift resolution to their problems, and personalized brand interactions.

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The complete guide to local marketing

BirdEye

As a business owner, you already know marketing is essential to your success – but do you have a plan to reach local customers? In this article, we’re going to take a closer look at local marketing. You’ll learn what local marketing is, why it works, and easy ways to overcome problems you might face. These expert tips can help both brand new and well-established businesses reach new and existing customers in their immediate area.

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Your First 100 Days as an Account Management Leader: Everything You Need to Know

Kapta Customer Success

As an account management leader, there are a wide variety of responsibilities to manage. Between improving client relationships, growing your business revenue, and prioritizing consumer retention, there is so much more to becoming a successful account manager, or key account manager.

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Audience Research: Level up your Market Research Game

QuestionPro Audience

Have you ever wondered what’s the role of your audience in research? can you identify when an audience choice has been a mistake? QuestionPro is here to help you understand the role of audience research in your data collection process. . Audience research seeks to answer a variety of business questions such as how customers feel about existing products, what interests them, who influences them, what problems they have, and their opinions about branding and service.

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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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87% of Consumers Want to Be Contacted in Their Preferred Channel. Enter: Hybrid Customer Experience.

Kustomer

In a post-pandemic world, consumers have undergone an inadvertent shift in mindset and expectations surrounding customer experience (CX). The pandemic created a new normal born out of necessity — a normal in which human interaction came to a screeching halt and alternative methods for communication and, more specifically, customer service, became a requirement.

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How WFM Tools Create Success for Omnichannel Contact Centers

Playvox

During the global pandemic, customers massively turned to digital communications, and, according to consumer studies , this change is here to stay. While presenting a tremendous opportunity for business growth, this trend also creates challenges for contact centers. Customers now expect to do business with an omnichannel contact center that delivers consistent and seamless customer experiences regardless of the channel they use.

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Achieve a seamless interplay between customer service and field service scenarios in Service Cloud

SAP Customer Experience

Part I: Introduction Customer Service and Field Service represent a major part of every business with end customer satisfaction in mind. Both are key parts of a typical Service organization, and are closely interconnected. Despite that, each of the processes has its own scope and specifics, and collaboration between them.

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3 Things CMOs Should Do During an Economic Downturn

Totango

The primary mission of a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is to foster growth, attract new leads, and increase sales by effectively communicating the value the company’s products and services can provide. But during an economic downturn , when companies are cutting costs and putting a halt on investing in new products, the CMO’s focus has to switch from facilitating growth through new customers to promoting growth via the company’s current customer base. .

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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 Examples of Proactive Support You Can Follow

Kustomer

As the modern retail experience has shifted in recent years, so have the expectations of the modern consumer. Traditional, reactive customer support, during which companies only address customer issues after they’ve taken place, is no longer enough for today’s customers. In order to keep customers happy and loyal, companies have to employ a proactive customer support strategy to stay ahead of needs and issues long before a customer has the chance to be dissatisfied.

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Connect every job role to purpose

Customer Enthusiast

Recently, I was a guest on a podcast with Wanda Wallace. She posed some great questions, including one about how to connect every job role, including support roles that operate behind the scenes, to the organization’s purpose. In reflecting on the question, I am reminded of three priorities: Relevance trumps virtue. Everyone contributes. Don’t settle. … Continue reading "Connect every job role to purpose".

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Referral programs 101: Driving sales with your happiest customers

delighted

This post is a guest contribution by Emma Kimmerly, Partner Marketing Lead at Friendbuy. Every brand loves a happy customer, and knowing that you have recent buyers who love your product enough to give you positive feedback is a great feeling. But your happiest customers can do more than provide validation and direction – they can also become significant revenue drivers for your business through a referral program.

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How to Keep Exceeding Customer Expectations with Digital Customer Service

SaleMove

Customer expectations for digital service keep increasing. Here are three key Digital Customer Service steps to ensure you stay ahead of them. The post How to Keep Exceeding Customer Expectations with Digital Customer Service appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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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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Frequently asked local SEO questions answered by an expert

BirdEye

Believe it or not, 75% of people never make it to page two of Google when conducting an online search. That makes the first page of Google the most valuable real estate on the internet. But ranking on that first page is easier said than done, especially when the Google local search algorithm is constantly changing. That’s why, in a recent webinar, Birdeye teamed up with Search Engine Journal and Multi-Location SEO Expert, Steve Wiideman , to break down the latest changes from Google and the impa

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Amazing Business Radio: Adam Alfia

ShepHyken

Convenient Customer Feedback In Realtime. How to Use Customer Feedback to Improve Performance. Shep Hyken interviews Adam Alfia, co-founder of Feedback. He has a firmly entrenched background in high-end hospitality and entertainment. He shares how companies can utilize customer feedback to create a great experience. Top Takeaways: There is a slow death of customer service.

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An Interview For Change: Khoros Expert Opinion on Change Management

Lithium

Change management is complex and could make or break changes in process or strategy. That's why we spoke with our Khoros expert on change management to get the run down on making a refreshing and powerful change. The half-life of knowledge in any given field dictates how long knowledge remains accurate before proven incorrect or outdated. In business, once the half-life of knowledge reaches its tipping point, radical change is often necessary to continue being relevant and functional as an organ

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Four Ways to Build Personalization in Your Commerce Program

Merkle

While companies continue to win with customer experience, not every platform or piece of technology is created equal when it comes to meeting consumers in the context of their commerce journey. Even the best technology for your company won’t get you there right out of the box. Critical roadblocks to success include a siloed approach to commerce environments and capabilities, as well as complacency toward customer experience management (CXM) best practices.

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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