Sat.Jun 29, 2019 - Fri.Jul 05, 2019

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Survey Reporting: How to Communicate Your Survey Results

GetFeedback

Survey reporting isn’t a prescribed formula. You need a way to present your findings in a meaningful way that caters to the audience at hand. To do so, many marketers create a presentation and a report. A presentation can provide need-to-know insights in a quick, informative way. Meanwhile, a report can provide a deep-dive of statistics, methodology, and executable actions.

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What Happens to Customer Service When Unemployment Hits Historic Lows?

BlueOcean

A low unemployment rate is cause for celebration. It means people are working, paying taxes, and bringing home the bacon. That’s why most people see the current 3.6% US unemployment rate as fantastic news – it’s an astronomical improvement over the 10% unemployment rate after the 2008-09 Great Recession. But there’s a hitch for folks who are tasked with hiring, especially those hiring for contact center teams: when more people are working, there are fewer active job seekers.

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Customer Experiences for All

CX Accelerator

When you have a child on the Autism spectrum , you gain an unusual view of Customer Experience. By the time my youngest son was 6 years old, I (Sheri) understood barber shops, grocery stores, restaurants, doctors offices, dentists, and most recreational activities were not built for us. We created our own solutions. His older brothers learned how to cut his hair, eating out meant drive-thru meals, recreational activities consisted of visits to the local parks or the local YMCA until we were aske

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of July 1, 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. Is Customer Service The Same As Customer Experience? I Debate Myself by Steve Olenski. (Media Post) Like many others, I’m sure, I talk to myself quite frequently.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Twitter's Top 10 Tips for Member Engagement

Alida

Twitter knows a thing or two about engagement. They launched Twitter Insiders , run on the Sparq customer insights platform, to uncover direct, consent-based feedback they could use to complement and augment traditional media metrics, behavioral and usage data to become experts in engaging new and receptive audiences for advertisers.

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Designing Surveys: 4 Key Things to Consider

GetFeedback

Not many companies spend the necessary time to designing surveys that look good. Design is often overlooked, which is a shame because it’s an essential part of getting the best survey results. As a society, we’ve become more design conscious and even use design as a way to tell which companies deserve our business. According to a 2018 Adobe and Econsultancy study , organizations that describe themselves as design-driven, outperform their peers by a considerable margin, and 73% of the respo

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Amazing Business Radio: Adrian Swinscoe

ShepHyken

Punk CX with Adrian Swinscoe. Painting Outside the Lines of Customer Service. Shep Hyken interviews Adrian Swinscoe. They discuss his new book, Punk CX , and talk about how to apply punk sensibility to the customer service world. The Interview with Adrian Swinscoe: The speed of change is unceasingly fast, but true progress can be impeded by too much to quickly.

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The La-cross-e Between Coaching and CX

CloudCherry

I have been coaching high school lacrosse for 4 years now. I love the game of lacrosse and all that it can teach young athletes. I played the sport for 12 years and found that I love to coach just as much as I love to play. I value the relationships I build with my fellow coaches and my players. As a coach, I know that I can have a big influence on these young men as I interact with on a daily basis throughout the season.

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Customer Service Success Stories: Visual Assistance Saves the Day

TechSee

Customer service calls are usually pretty routine: customers can’t log in, something isn’t working, they need help setting up a device, or they need clarification on a bill. But sometimes, in the midst of the mundane, comes the mind-boggling: crazy, funny or hair-raising B2C customer service success stories that make your day and inspire you to deliver ever-better service.

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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 Measure Net Promoter Score® (NPS®) With Salesforce

GetFeedback

Net Promoter Score is a fundamental customer loyalty metric. Learn how to integrate NPS with Salesforce to drive real results from customer feedback.

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Proactive Customer Support

ShepHyken

Just last week I wrote about the concept of predictive customer support. Now, we take a slightly different angle with the concept of proactive customer support. The concept is simple. The company reaches out to the customer before the customer has a chance to reach out to the company. More often than not, the customer may not even know they have a problem.

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The Vital Art of Creating Memorable Messaging

Beyond Philosophy

The Vital Art of Creating Memorable Messaging. When we make buying decisions, we usually are choosing from a short list of options. Our memory assembles these options. So, from a Customer Experience perspective, it is vital that your product or service is one of these options recalled at the moment of the buying decision. In this episode of The Intuitive Customer podcast, we explore how our memories generate these choice sets for buying decisions.

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This Will Be the Year of (Really) Building Rapport with Customers

Myra Golden

For all of my onsite customer service workshops and keynotes, I arrive at least 45 minutes before we start so I can meet and talk to the people who’ll be spending several hours with me. Now I didn’t always do this. In the past, I’d hide out in the back of the room, mentally preparing and praying, and only go up after I was introduced.

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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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The Top 5 Customer-Centric Goals for an Enterprise

Totango

These days, customers expect personalized service. Whether they’re shopping for software or a way to increase sales, they expect you to be right there next to them searching for every potential edge that will help them grow their business. The digital transformation of business means that customers can easily leave a professional relationship that isn’t working for them.

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Grow with Optimove’s Actionable Customer Data Platform

Optimove

Grow with Optimove’s CDP. G2 Grid ® for Customer Data Platform (CDP) Software. Grow with Optimove’s Actionable Customer Data Platform. Improve customer experience, retention and lifetime value with Optimove’s Customer Data Platform. Unify and view all customer data in a single customer view. Autonomously receive actionable insights that drive measurable growth.

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Guest Experience Management will make your Restaurant Profitable. Here’s How!

SurveySensum

Engage them, listen to them, delight them and that’s how you turn them into your super-fans. Give reasons to your restaurant guests remember you for the best-in-class experience you deliver. Experience is the influencer in the hospitality industry. Especially, for restaurants, it’s become pivotal to get more guests and earn customers loyalty. Real-time and actionable insights can drive a successful guest experience management for restaurants.

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How to Get Angry, Irate or Unreasonable Customers to Back Down (3 Steps)

Myra Golden

Imagine your next phone call is from an angry, irate customer, and you’ve only got a few seconds to gain control. Are you 100% confident you can handle it? If not, I’ve got the perfect program for you. Tae my 3 0-minute De-escalation Online Training , and you’ll be able to: Handle Any Difficult Customer. I promise, after just 30-minutes with me in this special “3-Step De-escalation Method” on-demand workshop, you will be inspired and thrilled with how much more productive you can be at getting a

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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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Is Packaging Part of Product or Promotion? Should it be Both?

C3Centricity

Which did you answer subconsciously when you read the title? Do you consider your packaging to be a part of the product, protecting its contents and framing its on-shelf life? Or do you consider it to be an integral part of your connection with your customers at an important moment of truth, that of purchase and usage? If you answered both, then I believe that you are making maximum use of your packaging or at least you recognise its potential for communication.

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Why has Online Shopping Become so Unpleasant? CRM Pros, You’re Missing the Target

Optimove

I’ve worked in the CRM realm for many years, and it sometimes feels like most CRM organizations and professionals are still dipping their toes in the shallow end of the pool. As teenagers, they are more excited about features (quick fixes) than substance. It may sound harsh, so let me explain. A few months ago, I relocated to the UK with my partner to head Optimove’s London office.

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Reflecting On 6 Principles Of Success

Experience Matters

Given the recent closing of Temkin Group, it seems like a good time to reflect on what I’ve learned over the last decade or so of building a successful business, creating a world-wide association, and nurturing the CX movement. Looking back, here are six principals that have helped me succeed: Actively Simplify. When faced with new situations, it often seems easiest to add layers of rules or additional concepts.

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What is Intelligent Process Automation (IPA)? ?

Bizagi

Intelligent Process Automation is one aspect of a broader shift in technology, that of Automation as a whole. From driverless cars to autonomous drones, automation is helping make seemingly space-age technologies available today by creating and leveraging new forms of intelligence. Whether it’s customer communications in the form of desktop assistants, or automated tasks across an enterprise, automation is transforming the way we live and work.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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What Are Onstage and Backstage in Customer Experience?

Customers That Stick

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How to use Gainsight and Microsoft Dynamics 365 for a Better Customer Experience

Gainsight

This year at Pulse 2019, Gainsight officially made our biggest product announcement ever. We unveiled the Gainsight Customer Cloud that includes incredible products like CS, PX, CX, CDP and RO—all purpose-built to drive customer success across the entire company. But there’s one announcement that’s just as big of a deal that may have flown under the radar compared to the Customer Cloud: a deep integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365.

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A customer success mindset can't save CX alone - but it's a start

MyCustomer

Engagement. A customer success mindset can't save CX alone.

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How to Chat With Customers Online: 9 Effective Tips for Customer Support

ProProfs Chat

Customer expectations are on the rise. Now, how updated are you in meeting their expectations at all times? No doubt, instant help is their top priority, and live chat is the solution. Except, it’s just the first step. Your customer support operators need to know how to chat with customers online to keep them hooked with your brand. In this post, we aim to cover nine amazing online chat tips to help your business reduce 67% of customer churn and increase acquisition. 9 Amazing Tips on How to Cha

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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.