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How to Kickstart the Next Digital Experience Trend

InMoment XI

Digital experience trends are the new road maps of modern day business. Are you still using a paper map to direct you when you’re driving to work? Of course not, you’re using your smartphone that tells you where you are, when to turn, and if there is an accident up ahead. Think of digital experience trends being the new maps application in your business.

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Blue Ocean Wins Contact Center Thought Leadership Award

BlueOcean

We often hear from our readers how helpful our published content is when they are in the decision-making process for partnering with a new contact center outsourcer. We were excited to see that the readers and award committee of the 2022 Customer Contact Central MVP Awards agreed! Our article, How to Launch a Successful Outsourced Contact Center Implementation, won second place in their quest to spotlight the highest-value content from industry thought leaders.

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Is your Voice of Customer program is reaching the right people?

Alida

Finding and keeping the right insiders is the first challenge you’ll encounter when establishing a VoC program.

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20 easy social media post ideas for your marketing strategy

BirdEye

Over 90% of marketers use social media as part of their marketing strategy because they know it’s a powerful tool. However, coming up with social media post ideas can be challenging and time-consuming. To help you get started, here are 20 simple social media post ideas you can use today. Table of contents 1. Share your company’s content 2. Highlight relevant industry news 3.

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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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XI Café Podcast, Episode 1: The legalsuper Journey Towards Becoming a CX-Focused, Data-Driven Organisation

InMoment XI

Welcome to the XI Café Podcast! In order to continue Experience Improvement, the XI Café Podcast was created so that CX program owners around the world could join the conversation and learn from global businesses and industry experts about the latest experience improvement innovations in technology and research services, industry and market expertise, and customer (CX) and employee (EX) engagement best practices.

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Live Chat vs Messaging Apps: The Modern Hybrid Solution

Kustomer

When organizations are considering a chat strategy, there’s a common debate over whether live chat or a messaging app is the right method to use for client communication. Both models have pros and cons, but technologies have evolved to make a hybrid approach not just possible, but effective. By blending both models together, you can test, collect feedback, and grow — and new tools make it easier than ever to take the best from each approach.

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Meet the winners of the 2022 ChurnHero Awards for Customer Success

ChurnZero

The winners of 2022’s ChurnHero Awards, recognizing and celebrating ChurnZero customers who champion Customer Success with remarkable results, have been announced! For the third year running, we asked CS teams who’ve challenged the status quo with innovative, meaningful, and customer-centric approaches to enter the ChurnHero Awards and tell us all about it.

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A New Take on ROI: Reduce Failure Demand to Save on Business Cost

InMoment XI

My name is Ton Luijten, Customer Success Director + Data Science Lead in APAC—and in this post I’ll help you unlock a new take on ROI —through failure demand. When we manage client programs at InMoment, return on investment (ROI) is always top of mind. We strongly believe this should be a top priority for any team trying to improve customer or employee experiences to show that they are positively contributing to the financial outcomes of their business.

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The importance of Google reviews for local businesses

BirdEye

It’s no secret that customer reviews have become an essential part of running a successful business. In particular, there is great importance to Google reviews because they can have a direct impact on local businesses success. Most people search for products and services on Google, and these reviews provide important information about the value of your products and services.

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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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Digital engagement and employee experience are brands’ top priorities for 2023

Think Customers

It’s impossible to know what 2023 will bring but, as we head into the new year, some clear challenges (and opportunities) are emerging and businesses have clear priorities when it comes to elevating customer and employee experience. We polled business leaders on TTEC’s LinkedIn page, asking “What will be the biggest CX focus in 2023?” Among the 457 people who responded, employee engagement and digital engagement got the largest shares of votes at 37% each.

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3 Main Challenges Field Service Leaders Face in 2023

TechSee

Today’s field service leaders face a growing number of challenges, many of them not dissimilar to those faced by their predecessors. However, the simultaneous arrival of economic, operational, and technical challenges is straining many field service organizations. In this post we will examine the trends shaping these challenges, and why leaders are increasingly adopting new strategic approaches to overcome these challenges.

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Voice of Customer Analytics: What, Why, and How to Do It

Lumoa

Voice of Customer (VoC) is not a new concept. It’s a strategy that many companies have used for years to understand and prioritize customer needs. However, how VoC data is collected, analyzed, and acted upon has changed. Companies are finding that innovative technologies can make collecting voice of customer analytics more effortless than ever—and these technologies have opened up exciting new possibilities for improving customer experiences.

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How to create the next great social media campaign

BirdEye

A well-crafted social media campaign can turn your brand’s content into a powerful marketing tool. However, it’s not always easy to create a campaign that’s guaranteed to help accomplish your specific business goals. You’ll need to spend time and effort pre-planning your campaigns if you want to see more followers, higher engagement, and boosted brand awareness.

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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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Consumer Duty is an opportunity for both improved customer outcomes and a deeper understanding

Maru Group

By Steve Brockway Maru/Matchbox | December 2022. Consumer Duty raises the bar of regulatory consumer protection in the financial services sector by shifting the regulation paradigm from a process-driven approach to one based on customer outcomes. To achieve this, firms need improved customer insight to engage teams and consistently provide products, services, and communication to deliver good outcomes.

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How to Control Call Avoidance and Interaction Avoidance

Playvox

During my career in workforce management, call avoidance was always an issue — regardless of the location of the business, the nature of the business, or the location of the agent. Call avoidance , now known as interaction avoidance, denotes the steps an agent takes to avoid handling a customer interaction. It can take time and resources to determine whether actual interaction avoidance has taken place, but, ultimately, identifying instances of interaction avoidance can save your company money.

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11 Potential Customer Experience Themes to Make 2023 Your Best Year Ever

The DiJulius Group

Now is the best time to create your Customer Experience theme for the new year, one that you can rally your entire organization around. Here are some excellent and actionable insights to kick off brainstorming for making 2023 your best year ever: 1. The Great Retention Great companies help people live amazing lives. Great. Read Full Article. The post 11 Potential Customer Experience Themes to Make 2023 Your Best Year Ever appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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10 Types of social media content to grow your business

BirdEye

Social media has completely changed the way businesses can grow. With a single post, you can catch the eye of millions and make your brand a household name overnight. That said, the content that launches one business into success might produce completely different results for others. If you’re looking to improve engagement and increase your brand awareness, you’ll need to know which types of social media content appeal most to your followers.

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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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3 Ways AI Enables End-to-End CX

Upstream Works

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be a defining trend for contact centers in 2023, and IT leaders must be prepared to think broadly about the possibilities. When it comes to AI and customer service, automation usually comes to mind. While that’s an important driver, it’s not the only use case. Chatbots are the most common way to automate self-service, but to get fuller value, a wider spectrum needs to be considered.

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Guest Post: The Concept of ‘Quiet Quitting’ and Its Impact on Contact Centers

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Stephen Holliday, CEO and Founder of Level , an on-demand pay platform that helps employees manage their financial well-being. He writes about ‘quiet quitting’ and how contact centers can resolve this challenge in their organization. The concept of ‘quiet quitting’ has become a popular term within the working world.

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Can Your WFM Solution Accurately Forecast In A Modern Digital Contact Center?

Playvox

Let’s face it, the call center of yesteryear is not wholly relevant when looking at customer service operations today. Even the terms “call center” and “contact center” are called into question, given the images they evoke of rows of agents in cubicles lined up to fill a room. For convenience, I’ll use the term “contact center,” but what does a modern contact center or customer support center look like?

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24 Reasons Why You Should Setup a 24-Hour Telephone Answering Service

Magellan Solutions

Why You Need 24-Hour Telephone Answering Service? Call handling may seem like a small part of a business. Which is why, when things are busy, businesses tend to focus on things that matter more. They don’t realize that just answering a customer call can have a big effect on their operations, productivity, and reputation. 24 Reasons Why Get a 24-Hour Telephone Answering Service.

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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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Beyond ICP: Why Customer Success needs to stress ideal customer behaviors to increase user adoption with Jason Whitehead

ChurnZero

As a CSM, do you have to chase customers into doing the bare minimum required to see product gains, whether it’s responding to an email, showing up to a meeting, or finishing a task? Your first instinct might be to blame sales for a bad-fit customer…but the account matches your ideal customer profile (ICP) to a T. It’s not down to a lack of structure either, since you have defined processes and roles for every journey stage.

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Why is CS hiring so hard? Tips for finding your people

Totango

As subscription models and recurring revenue become the norm for both SMBs and enterprise solutions, customer success is becoming an essential part of businesses across the globe. It’s clear to corporate leaders that strong onboarding and ongoing engagement help convert tentative new relationships into happy customers and established revenue streams; and risk management protects hard-earned customer trust and shines a light on opportunities for expansion.

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Want your post to go viral? Here is the secret formula…

Beyond Philosophy

Going viral is the goal of any passionate social media poster. Posting your content and watching as the views and shares grow exponentially is the dream for marketers trying to build a brand online. Unless, of course, the viral post is about how you broke a guitar during a customer’s flight and then showed “indifference” to their complaint.

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Amazing Business Radio: Lesley?Mottla

ShepHyken

Creating a Culture of Member Obsession. Understanding Your Customers Using Quantitative and Qualitative Data. Shep Hyken interviews Lesley Mottla, Chief Product & Experience Officer at ButcherBox , a subscription business that delivers meat and seafood to its members. She shares how to get teams across your organization to buy into a culture of member and customer obsession.

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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.