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The Right Survey to Measure Each Touchpoint of the Customer Journey

GetFeedback

To prepare for a recent business trip, I booked a roundtrip flight, hotel, and rental car. All done via Expedia, because it gives me one place to handle all travel arrangements, and provides a very nice app to remind me what I booked along with directions, phone numbers, and more. . As my trip progressed, I got email requests for feedback at each step.

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Seeking a New VOC Vendor? Here’s How to Make the Transition

CloudCherry

As with any business solution, it’s not uncommon for companies to feel trapped by their voice of the customer (VoC) vendor once they’ve already implemented VoC tools and attempted to put them into practice. Even if the solutions in place aren’t delivering the desired return on investment, and even in the face of vendor incompetence, the prospect of switching vendors may appear more costly and disruptive than sticking with the existing solution and hoping it eventually works to the company’s adva

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3 Ideas to Improve Your Voice of the Customer Methodology

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

How do you make your Voice of the Customer plan more meaningful? Four words: More customer, more voice. Quick Voice of the Customer Overview. You are probably familiar with the term Voice of the Customer, often referred to with the shorthand “VoC.” The idea behind a true Voice of the Customer program is to consistently, reliably and intentionally gather customer feedback.

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If You Want Customers to Say Yes, Try THIS

Beyond Philosophy

Sometimes people say no to sales offers out of habit. They have rules or expectations going into the interaction that preclude them from saying yes. There are ways to overcome these habits. The scientific name for it is Escalation of Commitment, but it is also the basis of many sales techniques, and it is an excellent way to get your customers to say yes. .

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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 Use Artificial Intelligence in Your CX Program

GetFeedback

Artificial intelligence (AI) is improving all the time and slowly making its way into our offices, activities, and homes. The idea of AI holds a lot of promises such as savings in cost and time for businesses as well as supporting skilled professionals by effectively executing the mundane routine tasks. Artificial Intelligence has already been making an impression on the business industry with data collection for marketing and changing how people interreact with IT.

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Integrate Live Chat & AI to Your eCommerce Business [& Learn How to Do It Right]

Win the Customer

2018 saw the eCommerce industry grow by over 25 percent with 2019 showing no signs of a slowdown for the industry. The eCommerce boom has resulted in lots of competition. Businesses need to rise to the challenge to stay relevant. This article will look at why a business should integrate live chat as well as AI to their eCommerce business as well as how to integrate them correctly to your eCommerce business.

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Why Your CX Job is Probably on the Line This Year

Beyond Philosophy

Forrester predicted that one in four Customer Experience Professionals will lose their job in 2020. It is a bold prediction, and I agree with it. Why are so many Customer Experience professionals facing the ax this year? They have neglected to focus on return on investment for the initiatives they have implemented. . We discussed this problem in a recent podcast.

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How to Use Artificial Intelligence in Your CX Program

GetFeedback

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a powerful tool for delivering great customer experience (CX). Here are 4 ways you should apply AI in your CX program.

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Visually Enhancing Agent Experience Creates Better CX

TechSee

With days jam-packed with frustrated customers, confined to a cubicle and often on a low pay scale, it is inevitable that poor agent experience leads to reduced motivation and even burnout. In fact, the latest research shows that small-sized call centers (less than 50 seats) have an annual turnover rate of 17%, medium-sized contact centers witness a 37% attrition rate and large-sized operations lose 44% of their reps per year.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Jim Gilmore

ShepHyken

Excellent Service in an Experience Economy. How to Create an Experience That Wins Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Jim Gilmore. They discuss the new edition of The Experience Economy: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money , which Jim co-authored with Joseph Pine. Top Takeaways: The economy has evolved over time from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy, then to a service economy and finally to an experience economy, where the experience a customer has is the most valuable com

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What You Must Know About Your Bias in Decision-Making

Beyond Philosophy

We do research called an Emotional Signature ® that examines the Customer Experience from a subconscious psychological perspective. Therefore, by definition, you get a different viewpoint after you undertake it for your organization. . However, in our global Customer Experience consultancy, whenever we present our findings to an organization, you usually get at least one person that tries to bend the results to meet their agenda.

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2020 Customer Experience: 20 Wishes

ClearAction

2020 Customer Experience: 20 Wishes Lynn Hunsaker. 2020 customer experience management is at a turning point. Get ahead by making significant turns yourself now. Forces on customers and business may otherwise make some turns that leave you behind. It’s a new decade that will be characterized differently by social, economic, technology, legal and competitive forces.

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The true cost of not understanding customer feedback

Thematic

Last year was a hard one for me! . To reset and recharge, I booked a 2-week retreat in a remote part of Peru. . To get there, I had to take a flight to San Salvador, stay there overnight, board onto another flight, take a boat trip, and then walk for 3 hours into the jungle. . As usual, I am most productive on the road, and this was a long one! . So here I am, getting ready for my trip, when I realized that the popular (paid!

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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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Guest Post: The Secret to Stand-Out Store-Level Customer Service

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Brett Patrontasch, CEO of Shyft. Brett provides three insightful ways to help improve customer satisfaction and employee empowerment. Most retail businesses understand that the best service strategies won’t succeed if store-level employees don’t feel motivated. When given proper training, support, and encouragement, employees can make your business.

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The Secret of Pricing

Beyond Philosophy

The Secret of Pricing. Academia has a problem with names. They are not always, well, intuitive. Hyperbolic Discounting is an excellent example of a pertinent business area disguised in a difficult-to-interpret label. Hyperbolic Discounting does not mean what you might think. If you take a look at the words in the name, you probably imagine it means embellished markdowns.

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The Top 7 Churn Management Strategies for B2B Enterprises

Totango

You are not powerless in the face of churn. There are almost always indicators that a customer is going to churn, which means that if identified early, a good Customer Success team can mitigate the risk and execute a successful recovery plan. Some churn is inevitable no matter what business model you employ, but it does not just occur randomly. Think of churn like a risk that can be negotiated like any other. .

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3 customer churn symptoms and cures

Eptica

Date: Friday, January 24, 2020 Author: Tom Walmsley - Business Development Manager 3 customer churn symptoms and cures. Published on: January 24, 2020. Author: Tom Walmsley - Business Development Manager With the continued rise of customer experience programs often championed at the board-level, we see many companies investing heavily in the key battleground of increasing Customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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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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501 Ways to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers by Donna Cutting (a One Win Book Review)

Customers That Stick

In this One Win Book Review, we take a look at 501 Ways to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers by Donna Cutting. Check out the video below to hear Adam’s one win that you can take away from 501 Ways to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers to improve your organization’s customer experience and customer service. About 501 Ways to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers.

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Avoid this massive mistake being made with AI

Beyond Philosophy

How AI will Change CX for the Future. Customer loyalty is what most businesses want. The more your customers buy from you, the more you improve your bottom line, not only in increased sales but also in decreased customer acquisition costs. Improving your Customer Experience to foster customer loyalty is often an expense that senior management can get behind.

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Batteries Included

ShepHyken

“There are two kinds of people: Batteries Included and Batteries Not Included.”. That quote comes from Dan Sullivan, founder and president of the Strategic Coach program. If you’ve been following my work, you’ll probably recognize his name. I’ve learned a lot over the years by attending his workshops and coaching sessions. He recently released a book that included many of his quotable words of wisdom.

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Customer Advocacy – A Term Changing the Dynamics of Marketing

ProProfs Chat

If I were to ask you what’s the most trusted source for knowing whether a product or service is worth taking? Would you say: Product/service reviews? Research? . Competitor Prices? What if I were to tell you that the aspect that genuinely tops the list is what your friends and family think? Let’s say a friend buys something you absolutely adore, and you ask them where they got it from.

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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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2020s Customer Value: 20 Wishes

ClearAction

2020s Customer Value: 20 Wishes Lynn Hunsaker. 2020s customer experience management is at a turning point. Get ahead by making significant turns yourself now. Forces on customers and business may otherwise make some turns that leave you behind. It’s a new decade that will be characterized differently by social, economic, technology, legal and competitive forces.

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Press Release: Heart of the Customer and Usermind Partner to Accelerate CX Innovation for Enterprises

Heart of the Customer

SEATTLE, Jan. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Heart of the Customer (HoC), one of the nation’s leading journey mapping consultancies, and Usermind, a pioneer in Experience Orchestration (XO), today announced a strategic partnership that will revolutionize how businesses map, orchestrate, and optimize their customer journeys. The demand for ROI on experience-focused initiatives is higher than ever before, and Forrester predicts one in four […].

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 20, 2020

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. Customer Effort Score or Customer Satisfaction? by Martin Powton. (CustomerThink) Customer Effort Score is a popular metric used to measure customer service satisfaction using one single question.

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HOW TO SET GOALS WITH EMPLOYEES (AND ACHIEVE THEM) FT. SUNNY VERMA

Michel Falcon Experience

BREAKING IT DOWN EPISODE 2 FT. Sunny Verma the CEO of TutorBright. In Breaking It Down, I sit down with entrepreneurs and business executives to help them solve company culture, employee engagement and customer experience challenges in their organization. I HAVE NOT BEEN PREPPED. What does this mean? My answers and solutions are honest, authentic and TRUE.

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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.