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The Great Debate: Is Customer Experience The New Marketing?

Doing CX Right

Is CX & Marketing the same? Is Customer Experience the new Marketing? Read expert views and what you can do with the information to advance success. The post The Great Debate: Is Customer Experience The New Marketing? appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Effective Communication in Customer Success

Helpware

Optimize business communication for customer success growth with these effective strategies.

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Uncovering the Reasons for Customer Churn: An Interview with Anita Toth, Chief Churn Crusher at The Churn Crusher System

Education Services Group

Churn. Nobody likes it. Everybody hates it. It might as well go eat worms. But addressing churn is an essential part of the work of every company with a subscription-based business model. You can’t avoid it. So, what can you do? You can face it head-on, do the work to uncover the reasons your customers churn, and become a better, healthier, more mature company as a result.

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3 Activities for Quick Wins in Customer Experience (& 3 More to Avoid)

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Who doesn’t love a quick win? Customer experience leaders often have to celebrate quick wins and show other leaders fast, to earn that next round of support. But I get nervous when people ask me about customer experience shortcuts. Too often, shortcuts within the wrong areas lead to shortfalls and short-sightedness on what really matters. Customer experience management can feel like a lot.

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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 Insight Communities Improve Customer Experience

Alida

Customer communities help companies build relationships with customers, listen to their needs, and gather valuable customer insights. When multiple customers feel that they are a part of something bigger, your organization becomes a force to be reckoned with.

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Amazing Business Radio: Ray Wang

ShepHyken

Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants. Shep Hyken interviews Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder, and Chairman of Silicon Valley, based Constellation Research, Inc. They discuss Ray’s book, Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants , a groundbreaking guide that reveals which companies will thrive and get crushed by the powerful forces now at work.

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Easily Retain Customers with 3 Customer Service Best Practices

ReviewTrackers

One of the key aspects of reputation management that we here at ReviewTrackers continue to stress to all of our clients and partners, regardless of size, is the importance of having a holistic reputation strategy. Holistic reputation management seeks to cover all bases, ensuring that enterprises are going beyond visibility and analysis and are taking the necessary steps to make corrections to any aspect of the customer experience that might be hindering the perception of the business organizatio

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Are You Prepared for the Great Resignation?

Middlesex Consulting

The Great Resignation combined with the silver tsunami will absolutely challenge all of us who are responsible for building and maintaining our organizations! From the Article Earlier this year, I shared my thoughts on an urgent situation facing industrial business leaders: the silver tsunami. As older employees begin planning for retirement, it’s time for industrial […].

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The 23 Keys to Creating Raving Fans Part 2

C3Centricity

This is the second part of “The 23 Keys to Creating Raving Fans” post by Alan Hale from CMG (Consight™ Marketing Group) in Chicago. As mentioned last week, you can download the full white paper HERE. In addition to using NPS, we also like to use other diagnostic questions to see how we can improve. In general, it is critical to get the importance level of each function as well as our performance score.

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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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Tomorrow’s Customer Experience Starts Here with Brad Birnbaum

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by Brad Birnbaum , CEO of Kustomer, to learn about how companies can win with their customers in this new space. To learn more about Brad’s vision for future customer success, listen to the full podcast below. A New Wave of Customer. The modern customer demands that companies are accessible on their preferred platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 8-2-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read many 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 Experience Strategies to Annoy or Delight Your Customers by Phil Britt. (CMSWire) Let’s be frank: no company goes out of its way to produce miserable customer experiences.

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How to craft the perfect NPS Email Survey for your business in 2021

Zonka Feedback

Net Promoter Score®(NPS) has become the gold standard Customer Experience Metric. More than two-thirds of the Fortune 1000 list currently use the Net Promoter Score to determine customer loyalty. Thousands of leading brands such as Apple, Intuit, G.E., and American Express began using NPS to measure customer loyalty and engagement.

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2 new survey types: 3-point CSAT surveys and 7-point CES surveys

delighted

As our customers expand their experience management programs to multiple touchpoints across the customer lifecycle, they’ve let us know that they’d like a bit more flexibility in the rating scales at their disposal. That’s why, right on the heels of our new eNPS and PMF surveys, we’re excited to announce two more survey templates to help you optimize how you collect feedback and measure your customer experience: A 3-point Smiley Customer Satisfaction Score survey (CSAT-3) A 7-point Customer Effo

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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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Pink Guava - Untitled Article

Pink Guava

How Empowered Customers can make a difference to your Business In today's digital age, the lines between the physical store and digital experience have vanished. There has been a complete shift as the brick-and-mortar store experience, and multi-digital channels are governed by customer behavior, engagement, and expectations. Businesses earlier focused just on reaching customers, and it was more than enough for customer connect.

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Utilize Customer Journeys to Transform the Customer Experience

Lumoa

As we see the business world shifting towards a more remote and digital landscape, the communication between customers and service employees is playing a more pivotal role in customer experience due to the lack of opportunity for face-to-face interactions. This rise in customer expectations partnered with ever-evolving technology means the road to satisfaction isn’t set in stone.

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Total Economic Impact™ Study Finds Kustomer’s CX Platform Produces More than 400% ROI

Kustomer

Study Further Finds That Centralizing CX Operations And Use of Automation and Intelligence Provides Measurable Value To Brands. New York, NY – August 3, 2021 – Kustomer , an all-in-one, top-rated AI-powered CRM for modern customer experiences, today releases findings from Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study showing that organizations that switch to Kustomer see up to a three-year 422% in return on investment (ROI).

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The True Cost of Employee Disengagement in the New Normal

Uniphore

Demanding callers. Complex processes. Impossible expectations. These are some of top contact center pain points driving employee disengagement today. In our webinar, What Your Call Center Agents Rant About on Social Media , we went beyond the annual Voice of the Employee survey to explore how agents really view the contact centers they work in—and why they’re leaving at an alarming rate.

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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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CRM Marketing at Its Best: See How John Hardy Increased Monthly Average Net Revenue By 53% (along with other KPIs)

Optimove

Like most customer-centric organizations, John Hardy’s marketing team is determined to deliver customer-first experiences, industry-leading customer satisfaction, and nurture meaningful customer loyalty. Because they, too, understand the strategic importance of smartly growing through their existing customers. Especially since the shift in focus from wholesaling and brick-and-mortar stores to direct-to-consumer digital sales created major challenges – and opportunities – in how

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In-House Call Center: 5 Reasons to Outsource Your Customer Service

Advantage Communications

Customer service is an essential part of your business. High-quality customer care leads to improved customer loyalty, upsell and cross-sell opportunities, enhanced brand reputation, happier customers, word-of-mouth marketing and improved business growth.

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Would You Rather Go to the Dentist or Call Customer Support??

ShepHyken

Here is a stat that’s hard to believe: . Forty-eight percent of Americans would rather go to the dentist than call customer support. . OUCH! It seems that going to the dentist to get a filling or a root canal is preferred over having to call customer support. This statistic comes straight from the 2021 Achieving Customer Amazement Study we conducted this year.

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Agent Engagement: Why it Matters and 6 Ways to Nurture it

Playvox

I n a world where customer experience is a key to business success, contact center agents play an important role as brand ambassadors of your organization. By the time a customer reaches an agent, they’ve likely tried all self-service options and want someone who can talk with them, understand their problem, and quickly resolve it.

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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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Why is (micro-) Segmentation the Most Critical Ingredient in Retaining Your Customers?

Optimove

In a recent CommerceNext survey of CMOs, “Retention/Loyalty Marketing” was named the area where marketing leaders are looking to increase their investment the most. Within it, “scaling segmentation” – an essential requirement for a proper retention/loyalty strategy – came in second as the biggest challenge in retention marketing.

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Simple Yet Effective Ways to Enhance the Experience of Your Customers

Steve DiGioia

Last weekend, my wife, daughter, and I spent a lovely afternoon at a local farm, which also happened to be hosting a food truck festival at the same time. Of course, we ate too much but at least we got some sun on our faces and a day in the fresh air. We decided to take the haybale ride around the farm and got ready to see the sights. But the sights I saw were the farmer’s missed opportunity to make this ride something special and to enhance the experience of his customers.

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Guest Post: Top Benefits of Outsource Call Centers

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Charlotte Blackmore, an SEO Executive and content creator based in Essex. She writes about how using an outsourced call center can be a successful strategy for keeping customers happy. One of the most effective ways of growing a business is through streamlining your customer communications. Providing a quality experience for your customers has a positive impact on generating increased sales and improving overall brand reputation.

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4 Effective Strategies for Communicating with Upset Customers

Totango

Strategies for communicating with upset customers can help you retain clients and transform escalations into opportunities. In this blog, we’ll look at some common causes of customer communication problems before presenting four effective strategies for managing difficult conversations. We’ll consider a variety of issues that can cause communication difficulties, ranging from misunderstandings to money to technical barriers.

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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.