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5 Tips for Customer Retention

Joe Rawlinson

All too many companies spend much of their energy and budgets on customer acquisition without investing sufficiently in customer retention. Of course, where subscription services are concerned, there’s a greater realization that keeping the customers one has is much cheaper, and theoretically, much easier, than trying to get new customers. But whatever your line of business, the basic principle applies.

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How to Address Ageism in the Workplace with Patti Temple Rocks

Russel Lolacher

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with author, speaker and age inclusivity advocate Patti Temple Rocks on ageism in the workplace, what it look like and how to address it. A few reasons why she is awesome — she is a speaker and consultant with 4 decades of experience in marketing, PR and advertising. She is the author of the book I’m STILL Not Done: It’s Time to Talk about Ageism in the Workplace” which was named one of INC Magazine’s 9 Books every Professional Should

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23 Inspiring Women to Watch in 2023

TechSee

As part of our Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day initiatives, we asked our own TechSee Super Women to highlight some of the amazing leaders in the technology, service, and support industries who inspire them, have helped grow their careers, or simply deserve to be celebrated for being awesome. 1. Elizabeth Parks, President, and CMO, Parks Associates – We never miss a new post or research from Elizabeth and her team.

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The Power of Customer Empathy in Supercharging Your Customer Experience

Lumoa

In the world of customer experience, “customer empathy” is not just a buzzword, it’s a game-changer. Put simply, it means genuinely caring about the experience your customers have with your brand. And when you master this skill, you can create an emotional bond that sets you apart from the competition. Let me give you a real-life scenario of how it works in general.

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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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Using Customer Feedback to Drive Company Growth with Michelle MacCarthy

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Human-centric CX design is all about communicating with customers, and this goes beyond a one-off survey. It is about regularly speaking with customers directly to deeply understand the customer. It is uncovering where they’re benefiting from your product and identifying barriers or pain points that they are experiencing. Bringing engaged customers who are utilizing your products and services into the design process can help shape great outcomes for your company.

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5 Reasons To Offer Multiple Messaging Channels

Team Support

In today’s fast-paced and digital world, messaging has become an increasingly popular form of communication for customers. It is important for companies to adapt to their customers' preferences in order to provide the highest levels of satisfaction, gain more customers, and provide the best customer experiences. That’s why we’re excited to announce the addition of two new messaging channels to our live chat software: WhatsApp and Google Business Messages.

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Free social media audit template for 2023

BirdEye

Social media is a crucial component of any company’s marketing strategy. With billions of people using social media platforms every day, it’s no wonder businesses are eager to establish a strong online presence. However, simply having a presence on social media just isn’t enough. By conducting a regular social media audit, companies can make sure they’re maximizing their social media presence.

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Guest Post: Top Tips for Companies Providing Remote Customer Service

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Kathleen White, a business manager who helps organizations improve career opportunities and employee engagement. She writes about how companies can adopt a remote workforce and enhance customer service delivery. There’s no doubt that there are challenges to providing remote customer services, but with careful planning, they’re easy to overcome.

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Pooled Customer Success Management: The Water’s Fine

Gainsight

Customer success (CS) is on the verge of a digital revolution, and one-to-many tactics that increase Customer Success Manager (CSM) efficiency are making a real splash. For nearly a decade, CS has been built through one-to-one relationships between CSMs and their customers. There’s just one problem: This approach now needs to scale. To build a durable business in this market, organizations simply can’t increase CSM headcount to keep pace with business growth.

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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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Warner Bros. Discovery leverages research communities to identify trends and make business decisions

Alida

WBD uses panels to narrow down trends with highest potential to identify key opportunities for growth

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Top  benefits and tips of social media for business

BirdEye

Research predicts that the number of people using social media will grow to about 5 billion in 2023. This year alone, 300 million more people are set to use social media than the previous year. With this dramatic growth, it only makes sense for companies to create and manage their social media pages on top platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

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Virtual Assistance: A Guide to Industries in Need

Magellan Solutions

In today’s digital world, businesses are constantly trying to stay ahead of the competition. However, keeping up with the demands of digitization can sometimes lead to a sacrifice in productivity and efficiency, particularly when employees are reliant on traditional methods. One increasingly popular solution to this problem is the employment of virtual assistants.

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The ultimate guide to creating great customer experiences

Method:CRM

Creating great customer experiences is essential for any business. It makes the difference between your customers staying with you or taking their business elsewhere. In this ultimate guide, you’ll look at how to measure customer experience, and 7 customer experience improvement strategies you can use to create an exceptional customer journey.

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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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Complaints and Problems Are Opportunities to Show How Good You Are

ShepHyken

I love hearing about complaints and problems that are solved to the point that the customer wants to tell the world about the experience. That’s exactly what happened to Bill Paretti, one of our faithful Shepard Letter subscribers. He was so excited about what happened that he shared it with me, hoping I would share it with you. Here’s the short version of the story, followed by my commentary and the lesson we can take away from his experience.

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Birdeye hits another milestone: 100,000 businesses now use its all-in-one platform

BirdEye

Digital customer experience has become one of the most critical factors in building a successful business. With the majority of customer interactions happening online, local brands and businesses must ensure that their digital presence is up-to-date, easily accessible, and user-friendly. Enter Birdeye — a platform that makes it easy for local businesses of any size to deliver top-notch digital experiences to engage customers and grow sales.

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One For All: Listerhill Credit Union Provides Digital Service For All Skill Levels

SaleMove

Digital service can be alienating for those without tech skills: here’s how Listerhill Credit Union made sure theirs was intuitive and accessible for all. The post One For All: Listerhill Credit Union Provides Digital Service For All Skill Levels appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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What Telcos Can Learn About CX From Other Industries (And The Other Way Around)

Lumoa

In today’s competitive telecommunications industry, customer experience (CX) has become a crucial factor in retaining customers and driving business growth. With an increasing number of options for consumers, telcos must prioritize CX to stay ahead of their competitors. Delivering top-notch CX increases customer loyalty and enhances brand reputation, which can boost revenue.

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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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AI and the Human Element: How to Strike a Balance in the Workplace

Doing CX Right

Brian Solis, Author, and VP of Global Innovation at Salesforce joins Stacy Sherman's DoingCXRight podcast about creating superior customer experiences by balancing AI, emerging tech & human interactions. The post AI and the Human Element: How to Strike a Balance in the Workplace appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Do You Know Which Professional Qualities Changed Recently?

One Millimeter Mindset

I anticipate meetings with clients and colleagues differently since 2020. Why? I am discovering that your and my professional qualities changed, even if we are unwilling to acknowledge this situation. So, rather than perceiving a meeting as getting together with old friends, I set my expectations differently in 2023. I look forward to meeting strangers, friends I have yet to make.

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Customer Engagement Initiative Projects for SAP CRM and Customer Experience are open for registration until March 10, 2023

SAP Customer Experience

Take advantage by participating in one of the SAP CRM and Customer Experience projects of the first Customer Engagement Initiative cycle in 2023 and register until March 10, 2023: Analytics Vision for SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement Cross-channel use cases for Intelligent Selling Services for SAP Commerce Cloud Enterprise-level outbound data.

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How to get Insights from Customer Conversations & Analytics

Lumoa

Every company wants to know what its customers think of its product- but few think of simply asking them directly. Conversations with customers are the ideal way to get valuable insight and feedback into an organization’s performance. It allows companies to pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses and work on these issues quickly and flexibly. Garen Di Bernardo, Product Marketing Manager for Lumoa- a feedback analytics platform- provided some valuable tips on how to read customer conversa

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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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Why Your Chatbot Needs a CMS Integration To Enhance Business Operations

kommunicate

Last Updated on March 11, 2023 Chatbots have become an integral part of modern businesses, providing efficient and personalized customer support. This includes providing quick answers to customer inquiries, and delivering personalized recommendations based on customer preferences. However, to truly enhance the capabilities of your chatbot and provide a seamless customer experience, it is essential [.

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Five tips on AI prompt writing (with real world Customer Success examples)

ChurnZero

Are you interested in using AI to make your Customer Success job easier? If so, this article is for you! We’ll walk through how to write prompts to help you better serve your customers, with examples you can add to your CS toolkit. Top tips include how to consider the customer perspective, use consistent language and formatting, and the best structure for efficient, effective results.

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Promoting health equity for women: Highlights from scientific literature

Clarivate

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate explores an area of disproportionate inequality for women: health equity. Today is International Women’s Day. Each year, the United Nations acknowledges International Women’s Day as a day to not only honor women, but also bring awareness to prevailing challenges faced by women and girls around the world [1].

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How to get Insights from Customer Conversations

Lumoa

Every company wants to know what its customers think of its product- but few think of simply asking them directly. Conversations with customers are the ideal way to get valuable insight and feedback into an organization’s performance. It allows companies to pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses and work on these issues quickly and flexibly. Garen Di Bernardo, Product Marketing Manager for Lumoa- a feedback analytics platform- provided some valuable tips on how to read customer conversa

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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.