Sat.Mar 19, 2022 - Fri.Mar 25, 2022

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3 Challenges Utilities Brands Face When Aligning Strategy, Ops, and Services to CX Needs

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) leaders from utilities brands are facing unprecedented challenges in 2022. Increased government regulation and new market entrants with unique service-based offerings are creating a disruptive wave of change that traditional utilities need to respond to. But here at InMoment, we don’t like to merely dwell on obstacles and complexities.

Brands 397
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5 Steps to Building an Effective Customer Survey in 2022

Alida

Only one in 26 customers are likely to complain about the product or service issues they are facing on their own. The rest will gradually become unhappy and leave your company without you ever getting a chance to learn what went wrong or how you could address the issue.

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The State of B2C Complex Customer Care

BlueOcean

When it comes to complex B2C customer care, the customer is anything but a faceless number in a sea of consumers. These are real people with real lives that inform their expectations and define their needs with every shift and change of the world around them. B2C brands had their worlds turned upside down by the pandemic, but what does complex customer care look like now things are leveling out?

B2C 156
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Remaining Competitive in Retail: How to Optimize Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

In retail, the customer is king. It is common knowledge that the retail industry thrives on positive customer interactions and feedback, so when reviewing the ways in which organizations can grow and remain competitive in their field, it is vital to craft plans that revolve around optimizing the customer experience. For retail business, the customer journey extends far beyond the initial sales engagement.

Retail 119
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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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Understanding “The Great Resignation” and Brands’ Own Role in Creating It

InMoment XI

The news media has been rife this last year or so with stories of The Great Resignation—an unprecedented tidal wave of job market churn that has seen millions upon millions of employees quit their jobs. As with most topics related to employment and the economy, the finger-pointing over who and/or what’s behind this phenomenon has been incessant… and loud.

Brands 370

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5 Essential Features for Customer Service Success

Kayako

ECommerce is growing like wildfire, offering exciting business insights via analytics and data. Sometimes it is easy to forget that there are people on the other end of the transaction. No matter how much information companies provide before the sale, most customers will still need help. 83% of consumers expressed a need for some help on their online shopping journey.

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Customers Give Feedback Every Day. Most Brands Just Aren’t Listening.

Heart of the Customer

After decades of steady improvement, coinciding with the emergence of customer experience (CX) as a discipline, the America Customer Satisfaction Index now reports that customer satisfaction has been on the decline since 2019, erasing years of gains. This despite organizations focusing on and investing more in CX than ever before. SuperOffice’s survey of 1,920 business […].

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Three Tips to Fire Up Your Customers to be Your Best Sales Force!

Daniel Group

Three Tips to Fire Up Your Customers to be Your Best Sales Force! At The Daniel Group, we are learning more and more about referral activity in the B2B world, and we now have three tips to help you increase your referral activity and fire up your customers to become your best sales force. My own Google research revealed that there are about 25 times more resources to “fire up your B2B sales force” (3.2 billion results) than there are for getting “getting referrals in B2B sales&

Sales 105
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Chatbots and Automation: I Don’t Think We’re Quite There Yet

CSM Magazine

The rise of automation in customer service has become more prominent within many industries. But along with the positives and time saving tasks it can provide, it can also prove to be a deterrent for its users. How many times have you needed to contact a company and struggled to find the correct department or even just a central phone number? Did you try to go though a chatbot to quickly find an answer to your question only to be directed to the FAQs, articles, or a customer forum?

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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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How to identify and reduce customer friction points

ChurnZero

Nowadays, marketers are hyper-aware of the importance of the customer journey and creating an intuitive user experience. In most cases, however, there are still plenty of opportunities to streamline the process and reduce customer friction. . Customer friction points are any obstacles that stand between the customer and what they want — think clunky checkout processes, complicated phone menus, or any steps that feel extra and unnecessary.

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Are You Experiencing A Great Professional Recalibration? You Should Be.

One Millimeter Mindset

There is a great professional recalibration going on. Are you experiencing it? If not, you should be. Let’s explore together, shall we? By now, you are reading plenty about the Great Post-Pandemic Resignation. This phenomenon primarily is a response to employer mandates focused on a 100% return to the office, ending many pandemic-based initiatives. Plus, some of you tell me that your employer has moved headquarters.

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Good Habits Are Just as Important as Talent and Skill

ShepHyken

I recently received a note from my friend and Shepard Letter subscriber, Michael Staenberg. He commented on the recent Never, Never, Never Be Late article and sent a list of what he referred to as Things that Require Zero Talent. At the top of the list was being on time. . I’ve seen lists like this before. They include being on time, having a good work ethic and a positive attitude, doing more than expected, and more. .

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Everything You Need to Know to Turn Customers Into Brand Ambassadors

Kustomer

In a crowded marketplace, where consumers are often bombarded with marketing claims made by brands, it can be difficult for them to know who to trust. In these situations, many turn to their peers for recommendations or advice. Recent research carried out by Kantar found friends and family to be the most trusted source of recommendations in all age groups.

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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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How to transition customers to a new CSM in 4 steps

ChurnZero

Have you ever dealt with onboarding a new CSM to your team or having a tenured CSM leave your team — or both at once? It’s in these situations, you wish you could just hit pause until you sort it all out. But alas, time — and customer accounts — waits for no one. The show must go on. Figuring out how to shift around a CSM’s book of business is a delicate balancing act, and one of the most challenging Customer Success processes to get right.

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That’s a Wrap! Global Executive Forum 2022 Delivers Inspiration, Demonstrations & Conversation

Totango

We were thrilled to bring back our in-person Global Executive Forum last week and have the opportunity to host customer success leaders at the beautiful Carmel Valley Ranch in Carmel Valley, CA. It was refreshing to reconnect with our customers and peers in the customer success community and inspire businesses across the globe with purposeful presentations and product demonstrations, meaningful conversations and fun social interactions. “ It was one of the more productive gatherings I’ve a

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Guest Post: How To Support And Inspire Your Customer Experience Team?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Anjan Pathak, Co-founder and CTO at Vantage Circle , an Employee Engagement Platform. He shares how rewarding your customer experience team is critical to building an inspired, high-performing team. Your brand’s name will eventually suffer if you don’t have a strong core team handling customer inquiries, keeping them pleased.

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Why Changing Consumer Preferences Will Mean a New World of CX

Kustomer

The future. It can be a mysterious thing. If the past is any indication, our whole worlds can be turned upside down in the blink of an eye. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that change has been happening at hyperspeed over the past two years, and these developments have made it clear that preparing now for the future of CX is essential for business success.

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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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Let’s be GREAT out there!

Bill Quiseng

“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” Samuel Johnson. In the 1980s TV police drama series, Sgt. Phil Esterhaus, portrayed by Michael Conrad, cautioned his officers at the end of roll call with “Let’s be careful out there” When I was GM at The Henry Dearborn-Autograph Collection, Dearborn, MI, one of our senior sales managers ended their daily morning stand-up meeting with “Let’s be safe out there” But I told them

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How KeyBank Made a Brilliant Comeback After Frustrating Customers

The DiJulius Group

Several months ago, KeyBank has been focusing on delivering an excellent customer experience, improving their customer satisfaction rate, and minimizing customer churn rates – made changes to the ATM software which allowed clients the freedom to choose their bill denominations. Historically, ATMs only provided twenty-dollar bills, regardless of the amount of the withdrawal.

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We Ate the Dog Food!

TechSee

Well, not literally. It’s an expression used when employees, especially leadership, actually use their own products or services the same way a customer would. Here at TechSee we regularly eat dog food for quality assurance, but also because it’s fun and we really like using our products. We recently held our annual Sales Kick-Off all-hands meeting. Like so many companies today, we were unable to meet in person as we would have preferred, but we still managed to get a lot of work done and have a

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The Importance of Capturing Experiences

SAP Customer Experience

Customer experience is key to improving your bottom line. Today, customers have become accustomed to and have grown to expect a seamless, user friendly experience with agility and flexibility on any mobile device anywhere at any time. The better the experience, the stronger the loyalty, therefore, it is important to.

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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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How Retirees Returning to the Workforce Benefits Your Contact Center

Playvox

If the labor shortage has left your contact center scrambling for staff, you might have overlooked a potential goldmine of knowledgeable, eager future team members: retirees. According to research by Goldman Sachs , five million people have left the workforce since the beginning of the pandemic, and most were over age 55 (3.4 million). Researchers say 1.5 million of those older-worker exits were early retirements.

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4 Foundational Steps to Improving Service Delivery in Government

Comm100

Improving service delivery in government comes with unique challenges. Governments must be accountable to citizens in a way that the private sector is never constrained by. While a private sector business can identify its target audience and deliver an experience to cater for this specific subset, governments must ensure they don’t prioritize any demographic over the other.

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Average Survey Response Rate You Should Aim For

Lumoa

Setting survey response rate benchmarks can help you assess the performance and overall growth of your customer experience management (CEM) system. While benchmarking is a common process in many companies, the exact steps and data collected need to be adjusted to each organization’s requirements. If this process isn’t tailored to your company, you’ll set inaccurate survey response rate benchmarks and compromise all future evaluations.

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Everything You Need to Know About the SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement Implementation Workshop 3Steps2ECE

SAP Customer Experience

Do you want to provide good quality SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement customer implementations? Have you considered upskilling yourself and gaining a knowledge badge? The 3Steps2ECE implementation workshop could help. Treating customers as individuals means factoring in every single interaction across every single touch point in real time, to provide meaningful.

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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.