Sat.Oct 24, 2020 - Fri.Oct 30, 2020

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5 common CX metrics: What they measure and where they fall short

BirdEye

Without accurate measurement of customer sentiment, delivering great experiences is close to impossible. Without the right data and the right metrics, you and your team may be shooting in the dark in your attempts to improve business operations. Let’s discuss why customer experience is so crucial, which metrics your business needs to track, and how you can reliably wow your customers in every interaction.

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Developing True Business Integrity Throughout Your Organization

Integrity Solutions

Values statements are helpful, but they’re not nearly enough. The “culture champions” — those organizations that make integrity a way of doing business — are the ones that stand apart from the rest. The Value Of Integrity. How important is integrity in business? In its Culture 500 Index , MIT Sloan Management Review/Glassdoor includes integrity as one of the ‘Big 9’ values — those values that are most frequently cited and that “are linked to a variety of desirable outcomes like finan

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It’s Finally Time for Frictionless Financial CX

Think Customers

It turns out the coronavirus pandemic is also a time machine. Instead of a lengthy march to digital transformation, the pandemic condensed years of change into a few months. For financial institutions, what was a slow shift toward mobile banking, contactless transactions, and digital insurance sped up when COVID-19 reinforced the need for fast, secure, and remote access to funds and financial information.

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Experience Perception – The Journey Design to Resonate with Customer and Employees… or Not

eglobalis

Experience design Customer Perception Design The Journey to Resonate with Customer and Employees , customer experience , employee experience. The post Experience Perception – The Journey Design to Resonate with Customer and Employees… or Not appeared first on Eglobalis.

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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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Improving your Voice of the Customer listening posts? Ask these questions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs often start with a general plan on how to gather customer feedback. The plan typically includes suggestions for customer listening posts. Customer listening posts are specific tools, locations and mechanisms to gather customer feedback along specific touchpoints on the customer journey. Listening posts: Help us understand individual customer needs and experiences closer to real-time.

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Facemasks, safety signs, and hand sanitizers won’t keep your customers

Bill Quiseng

Facemasks, door signs, floor decals, partitions, and hand sanitizers won’t keep your customers. Such safety protocols in response to the pandemic are expected from your customers. While failing to implement them will cost you customers, maintaining those standards will not guarantee that you keep them. Your competitors are doing the exact same thing which means what you are doing is average, heightened like everyone else, but still average.

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Build Your Customer-First Foundation, Align Your Team, and Unite the C-Suite with Data-Backed Insights

Customer Bliss

As many of us continue to work from home and shift working styles due to the pandemic, I’ve been interviewing practitioners and thought leaders about how we can adapt and continue to show up as our best selves in our roles. To that end, I want to share with you my recent interview with Camille Harrison , the SVP & COO of Guidewell Commercial Market, and Guidewell Innovation.

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The Five Rules for Affecting Real Culture Change

Beyond Philosophy

You can have a great philosophy, deliberate strategy, and cunning tactics to inspire customer-driven growth, but if you don’t change your culture, they won’t work. Changing the culture within your organization is vital if you want to deliver a Customer Experience that fosters customer loyalty and retention. Culture change is not easy. I was running a workshop with a utility client many years ago about the concept of Customer Experience.

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The 11 Tracks on our CX Playlist

CX Accelerator

Collected and written by your CX DJ, Jeremy Watkin. ,, In the #CXQOTD for Friday, October 16 we challenged our community to come up with a CX playlist. The question was, “What song sums up your aspirations as a CX leader?”. Let’s look at what the CX Accelerator community came up with. And a quick apology for being a bit heavy on the Coldplay. But what can I say?

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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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Human Motivations Amid Disruption: 5G, COVID-19 & More

Chadwick Martin Bailey

Answer : Massive disruption as we know it. Let’s start with the global pandemic. Like everyone, my household has had to adapt drastically in the face of a pandemic. In addition to stocking up on toilet-paper , our family’s digital dependence has sky-rocketed. It has exposed the limits of our internet access and Wi-Fi functionality, and frayed the fragile fabric of our family’s functionality.

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5 Common Digital Transformation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Kustomer

You’ve no doubt heard of digital transformation before. Maybe the term has been batted around the boardroom, maybe you already have a strategy in place, or maybe you’ve skipped over it, deciding it wasn’t necessary for your business. Digital transformation is more important now than ever before. Smart technology is allowing people to work remotely , and the future of healthcare has embraced telemedicine.

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Measuring the Customer Experience in a Socially Distanced World

Second to None

The pandemic has been a catalyst to new consumer behaviors and expectations. Brands in all industries have had to pivot their business models to match these new expectations. . The problem is, even with the needed adjustments, many businesses are still seeing customer churn — and they don’t know why. And it’s even more important than ever to track the customer experience at every touchpoint, to make sure customers are feeling safe and aren’t putting in too much effort to interact with your brand

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The New Executive Position: CLO (Customer Love Officer)

ShepHyken

The word love is not used that often in the corporate or business world. It may have been Tim Sanders in his revolutionary book, Love Is the Killer App , who helped bring the word love to the forefront for leaders trying to build a stronger culture and create a better experience for their customers. People were scared to use the L-word in business. Some still are.

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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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Are UnDiscovered Conversations The Key to Client Retention?

One Millimeter Mindset

What happens when you are open to undiscovered conversations? Instead of relying on scripted client conversations to guide your discussions with clients. These memorable conversations arise spontaneously. A dynamic dialogue begins. You both feel your brains expanding as you connect to, and become interconnected with, the other individual. As you begin your dialogue, you and your client start the conversation you are supposed to be having with each other.

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For B2C, Cleanliness Is the New Black

Heart of the Customer

Let’s not beat around the bush: $#@&*%! coronavirus trashed your journeys. Prior to the pandemic, organizations had clear strategies on how to serve their customers, working to deliver an ever-improving experience to earn loyalty. A better experience is still required…but how we go about providing it – and what “it” even is – has completely […].

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How to Write Good Customer Survey Questions

ProProfs Chat

Are you happy with our product? How likely will you recommend our product to your family or friend? Where can we improve? These customer survey questions are a great way to check your customer’s happiness with your products and services. . Good customer survey questions capture the real emotions of the customers that reflect the perception of the brand.

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Guest Post: How Voice Technology Can Improve Customer Service

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Esther Lowde, a Marketing Executive at telbee. She writes about how businesses can utilize modern voice technology to create a better experience overall for their customers. What is the best way to improve relationships with your customers? The answer is simple but often overlooked: Focus on delivering five-star customer service.

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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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Why Companies Have a Social Responsibility to Fight the Loneliness Epidemic

Hallmark Business Connections

* This article was originally published on AdAge March 3, 2020, prior to the widespread recommendation of social distancing and limited in-person interactions. Initiatives that directly impact mental health and wellbeing also make good business sense. Facebook’s dating app, co-working spaces, adult dormitories and friendship apps are all positioned as ways for people to create meaningful offline connections.

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Why You Need to Improve Your Client Engagement Today

Ecrion

Understand Your Audience’s Needs | Improve Brand Loyalty | Help Them Share Your Brand With Others |. Increased Sales and Conversions | Increase Customer Engagement. It’s no secret that having a will directly translate to increased revenue for your company. But, it’s not always obvious how you can improve this metric. If you’ve found yourself struggling to improve the level of engagement your audience has with your brand, there’s a handful of changes that you can make.

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Part 1: Soft Skills Customer Service Staff Need to Make Customers Happy

Team Support

Customer service can effectively make or break your business in the eyes of customers. According to Small Biz Genius , 95% of customers indicated that customer service is a decisive factor in their brand loyalty. In addition, 58% of customers said that bad customer experience can lead to them abandoning a brand they otherwise enjoyed purchasing from.

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Amazing Business Radio: Matthew Barnett

ShepHyken

Automate the Process, Never the Relationship. The Secret to Building Amazing Company Culture. Shep Hyken interviews Matthew Barnett , the CEO and “Papa Bear” of Bonjoro. They discuss strategies for delighting your customers by delivering amazing service. Top Takeaways: Prioritize your company culture above anything else. When customers purchase from you, they’re really buying into your culture.

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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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Overcoming the CXM plateau: Take customer experience to new heights

Alida

Creating a better customer experience is great for business, so it’s no wonder that so many brands have made customer experience management (CXM) a top priority. After all, what’s good for the customer is always good for the business too.

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5 Rules for Affecting Real Culture Change

Beyond Philosophy

5 New Rules Guaranteed to Build Trust. A lot of Behavioral Economics can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. A great idea is a beautiful place to start when it comes to improving your Customer Experience to benefit your bottom line.

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Here's Why You Should Outsource Retail Customer Service

Advantage Communications

The retail sector is highly competitive and a bad customer experience could be devastating to your business. Online shopping and the growth of an ‘instant world’ means customers now expect an immediate solution, or they’ll simply move on to the next retailer. A study from American Express found that 95 per cent of retail consumers talk about poor customer service experiences with other people, likely putting them off of ever shopping with that company.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of October 26, 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. Predictions 2021: B2B Marketers Build Digital Pathways To Distanced Businesses by Lori Wizdo. (Forrester) As B2B marketing leaders wrap up 2020 with a keen eye on customer satisfaction and revenue acceleration, they must start looking forward to make sure they are pla

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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.