2024

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Beyond Deliverables: How AI and Customer Centric Strategies Are Redefining Professional Services

eglobalis

Introduction In professional services, the stakes are high, and the margin for error is razor-thin. A single misstep—be it an overlooked deadline or a missed client update—can strain, or even sever, client relationships. But imagine transforming each client engagement into an indispensable experience that not only meets but anticipates and exceeds client expectations.

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How to Align Customer Service and Experience to Drive Lasting Business Growth

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

When customers face a challenge and need help, customer service or support representatives are their heroes — and organizations have invested a lot of time to make customer support a breeze in a growing number of channels: Store representatives are trained to empathize with customers and know how to quickly get them tailored solutions in person. Call centers assist customers at any hour of the day, with expert scripts and knowledge bases designed to help them navigate even the trickiest situatio

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Unlocking the Secrets to Exceptional Customer Service with Paul R. Jones

BlueOcean

This blog post has consistently ranked as one of our most popular year after year. The insight about exceptional customer service and the customer experience is still rock solid, and so we decided to revisit the article entering 2025. When it comes to customer experience , there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry.

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B2B Customer Experience: The Complete Guide

InMoment XI

Managing the B2B customer experience is a key growth strategy for organizations across a wide variety of industries. For good reason: delivering great customer experience (CX) leads to increased loyalty, lower churn, more referrals, positive word of mouth, and higher-value customers. B2B (business-to-business) transactions often involve ongoing relationships and partnerships.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Stuck in an Outdated CX Framework? Here’s Why You’re Missing Out on Real Results

eglobalis

Originally posted at [link] Introduction In the realm of business-to-business (B2B) interactions, customer experience (CX) is often approached through standardized frameworks and prescriptive methodologies, frequently rooted in models from major industry analysts like Gartner, Forrester, and others. While these established tools offer foundational guidance and structure, they may fall short in capturing the unique essence, “personality,” and competitive edge of individual companies.

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17 Key Ways to Improve Customer Experience in 2025

TechSee

Customer experience, or CX, is a fundamental component that determines the success of a business. Companies thriving today recognize that finding ways to improve customer experience is not just an option but a strategic necessity for 2025, with all the opportunities and challenges that it entails, and beyond. With so many aspects of CX to consider, we think it’s important to break down our suggested improvements into four key concepts.

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The Five Easiest Customer Service Tactics Anyone Can Do

ShepHyken

Its the holiday season, and whatever holiday you choose to celebrate or choose not to celebrate gifting is the norm. So, I have a gift for you: the five easiest customer service tactics that anyone and everyone can do and they wont cost a thing! I was recently asked in an interview, What are the easiest and least expensive customer service or experience tactics a company can implement?

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Transforming Your Competitive Advantage with Radical Consumer Centricity

C3Centricity

Many brands today claim to be consumer-first or consumer-led. However, their attempts often fall short of expectations, resulting in actions that lack the authenticity and depth consumers seek. Radical Consumer Centricity changes that. This approach involves embedding consumer insights into every part of a company, driving long-term success by anticipating and meeting consumer needs precisely.

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Google reviews not appearing? 14 expert solutions to fix

BirdEye

The verdict is clear: your online reputation lives and dies by your Google reviews. A recent Birdeye study reveals that consumers check online reviews 68% of the time before choosing a local business, and more than half of them read at least five reviews before deciding. With such high stakes, every Google review on your profile counts. Missing reviews are so concerning – they create critical gaps in your business’s credibility.

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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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Operationalize

Zeisler Consulting

I used to say that I don’t know anything about Marketing. Then I started spending a lot of time with marketers. They’re an interesting bunch, and considering that, as I like to say, Marketing and CX share two sides of the same coin—that being the Brand Promise—I’ve had many conversations as our work compliments each other. But what of that interaction; the interaction between Marketing and Customer Experience (functionally, I mean)?

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Discover The Secret of How to Gain Actionable Customer Insights

Beyond Philosophy

Customer feedback is critical to managing and improving your customer experience but it isn’t easy to get. Worse, it isn’t always useful and enlightening on what you are doing well, or perhaps more importantly, not so well. In this episode, we tackle a common problem many businesses face: how to get more actionable customer feedback. Our guest, Tim Waterton , Chief Revenue Officer of HappyOrNot ® , brings over 20 years of experience in helping companies gather and analyze customer insights.

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Customer Experience ROI: Tying CX Investments to Business Success

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer experience leaders, you arent the only ones expected to prove ROI on your initiatives! Every business team or department has to measure its results to understand what is and isnt working (or worth the organizations investment): Marketers show how social media campaigns and ebooks attract new leads Salespeople explain how account-based tactics help land big-ticket sales Human resources pros tie culture initiatives to improved retention and faster recruitment Customer experience teams are

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Achieving Transactional Process Improvement for a Multinational IT Corporation: A Case Study

BlueOcean

When a global IT corporation sought to modernize their customer service operations, we transformed potential revenue loss into strategic advantage. Through smart automation and people-first business process optimization, Blue Ocean achieved $25,000 in quarterly savings while reducing manual processing time by 22 hours per month. The Client A Multinational IT & Networking Technology Corporation This company has been our client for more than 10 years.

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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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Restaurant Reputation Management: Increase Diner Feedback & Demand

InMoment XI

When you’re thinking of ordering takeout, or planning a date at a fancy restaurant, what’s the first thing you look at? Online reviews are the most trusted source of information for most people interacting with a restaurant for the first time. This is where restaurant reputation management can be the difference between a new client and a lost opportunity.

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Empathy Won’t Save You: Why CX Thrives on Action, Not Sentiment but Outcomes?

eglobalis

Are We Injecting Empathy into Organizational Culture ? Over the past few years, empathy has become a buzzword in CX conversations—and while it’s great to emphasize understanding, empathy alone is practically useless if issues in B2B or B2C experiences remain unresolved. What good is being empathetic if customers still face recurring problems? Emotional design may help create empathetic, user-friendly solutions, but empathy without action falls flat.

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Best 7 Customer Service Quality Assurance Software for Ecommerce & Retail in 2024

Retently

Table of contents Key Takeaways: What is Customer Support Quality Assurance? 1. Retently as a Top QA Tool for Ecommerce and Retail 2. Medallia Agent Connect (former Stella Connect) 3. Loris AI 4. Playvox 5. MaestroQA 6. Zendesk QA (formerly Klaus) 7. EvaluAgent Final Thoughts: Choosing the Right QA Tool When customer interactions lack consistency and quality, it can lead to dissatisfaction, lost loyalty, and even negative reviews.

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Redefining the Customer Experience with Advanced AI Agents

TechSee

These days, businesses know that top-notch customer service isn’t just a competitive advantage – it’s an expectation. Luckily, many new AI and automation tools help CX departments boost customer satisfaction while cutting overhead. Still, not all service challenges are the same. It’s different answering a simple question versus helping with complex tasks like troubleshooting.

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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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Let’s Play 20 Customer Experience (CX) Questions – Part TWO

ShepHyken

This week, Im tackling the answers to 10 more of the 20 questions I answered last week. (Heres a link to the article that featured the first Ten Customer Experience questions and answers.) Are you ready? Lets go! What would the title of your CX superhero alter ego be? Id be Captain Amazing, working with clients who want to create amazing customer and employee experiences.

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Art in Games: How Video Games Inspire Creativity and Imagination

CSM Magazine

Video games have become much more than just entertainment. With the growth of the gaming industry, they have evolved into complex forms of art, combining storytelling, music, design, and interactive experiences. Today, games also have the power to develop positive skills, educate, and inspire millions of players worldwide. From creating game environments to producing fan-made content, video games are transforming the boundaries of creativity in remarkable ways.

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12 restaurant SEO tips to dominate search rankings 

BirdEye

Imagine potential customers searching for a great dining spot, only to find your restaurant buried on the second page of Google results. This oversight can lead to lost opportunities, reduced foot traffic, and decreased revenue – all direct consequences of a poorly executed restaurant SEO (search engine optimization) strategy. Local restaurant searches consistently dominate Google, and being visible at the right place and time can supercharge growth.

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Top 2025 Consumer Trends for CPG: Practical Strategies to THRIVE in 25

C3Centricity

The consumer landscape is transforming profoundly, presenting CPG companies with challenges and immense opportunities. Based on the results of a recent poll I ran on LinkedIn, the key trends predicted to dominate in 2025 are: Ultra Personalisation (44%) Digital Engagement (25%) Sustainability (19%) Wellness (13%) Although the sample was small and skewed toward professionals, the respondents were primarily corporate leaders, so I was happy that the results were similar to those of more representa

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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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CX University and Mauricio Alanís Launch Spanish Version of Customer Experience Specialist (CXS)™ Program

CX University

CX University, a leader in Customer Experience (CX) training, is excited to announce the launch of its Customer Experience Specialist (CXS) program in Spanish, developed in collaboration with renowned CX expert Mauricio Alanís. This innovative program, designed for Spanish-speaking professionals, offers comprehensive training in the five domains essential for excelling in the field of Customer Experience.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Get B2B Partners Aligned with CX

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What if aligning your vision with your retail partners could transform your B2B customer experience strategy? In this episode of Experience Action Podcast, we explore how B2B suppliers can effectively engage retail partner staff to ensure a seamless customer experience that resonates with everyone involved. Through transparent communication and targeted training, Jeanne uncovers actionable strategies that go beyond traditional sales tactics, emphasizing the value of shared goals and mutual succe

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When to Outsource Customer Support: Is Now the Time for a Pilot Program?

BlueOcean

With global growth expected to remain flat and underwhelming in 2025, it’s clear that caution is in the air. Consumers are spending as hesitantly as businesses. That means customer expectations are high, and only companies that meet them will gain loyal buyers and thrive in the coming years. As your business grows and scales to meet the increasing weight of customer demands, decisions must be made – especially when it comes to your customer support operation.

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Customer Feedback Questionnaire: Capturing Actionable Insights from Customers

InMoment XI

Understanding customer expectations and behaviors is crucial to delivering consistent value and accomplishing key business metrics. In fact, 66% of customers expect companies to understand their needs. With the help of the tried-and-tested customer feedback questionnaire, businesses can take the first step toward boosting satisfaction, retention, and brand reputation.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.