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Medallia vs. Qualtrics vs. Lumoa: A Buyer’s Guide

Lumoa

Every interaction with your business has the power to build or damage the relationship with your customer – and can directly impact your revenue. 78% of customers have backed out of a purchase due to a poor customer experience (CX). The pressure is rising for businesses to step up their CX game. More than 80% of business leaders see customer experience as a growing priority in 2024.

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Financial Services Reputation Management: Secure Lifelong Customers

InMoment XI

Did you know that over half of financial services consumers say they have low trust in their provider? And, of those consumers, only 34% of them would recommend their brand to friends and family. Financial services providers are tasked with a unique challenge. Since finances are such a personal part of our lives, consumers in the industry are the most withholding of their trust.

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How to Triumph Over Budget Cuts and Prove Your Marketing ROI

C3Centricity

As we all know and, unfortunately, have probably also experienced, every dollar in our marketing expenditure must be justified, and we have to prove our marketing ROI or risk budget cuts! Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) face the dual challenges of managing budget constraints while also demonstrating the return on investment (ROI) of their marketing initiatives.

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Top 9 Questions: ESG & the Contact Center RFP

BlueOcean

The concept of ESG has had its place in the business world for a couple of decades, but it is only recently that it has become mainstream. One of the more complex aspects of upholding the standards a company values is ensuring its vendors are similarly committed. This holds especially true in the world of outsourced customer service, where your vendor is literally representing your brand and your values.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Grocery Store Customer Experience: A Brief Insight

IntouchInsight

As grocers fight for space in customers' pantries (and minds), letting someone hang alone in their store for five minutes without assistance is not an experience they want to provide. (Hint: we actually found this data.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Strategically Addressing Low-Volume Customer Concerns

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

“Where should unique customer experiences fit in our prioritization of projects, and how do we show value in situations where the number of customers impacted may not be high?” Discover the paramount importance of empathy in crafting a brand’s reputation and fostering unwavering customer loyalty, especially through the delicate handling of unique customer issues.

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A Complete Guide to Generative UX Research

Alida

Generative UX research is like being a detective. You're digging deep to understand why your users do what they do. You're looking for those "aha" moments that reveal what your customers really need. It's all about exploring and generating new ideas, not just testing what's already there. Let's dive into what generative UX research is, its value, and how you can leverage it to achieve your goals.

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How to Use Psychology to Build Customer Loyalty That Creates ROI

Beyond Philosophy

In this episode, Colin and Ryan tackle a listener’s question about the psychology of customer loyalty , delving into its emotional and relational aspects. Loyalty, they explain, goes beyond mere repetition of behavior; it is rooted in deep emotional attachment and often requires sacrifice. Drawing parallels to personal experiences, such as loyalty to sports teams (Lutown Town Football Club, recently reinstated in the Premiership) and brands like Apple (naturally), they highlight the import

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From Vision to Execution: Building Your Customer Experience Dream Team

Heart of the Customer

Building Your Customer Experience Dream Team Starting Out As the leader of a customer experience team, you want your team to be the best it can be. But what makes some teams rise above the rest? What can you do to truly unlock your business’s potential? And most importantly: how can you prove your success? […] The post From Vision to Execution: Building Your Customer Experience Dream Team appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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The Power of Integrated CX Part 3: Smartest Actions

InMoment XI

True excellence in customer experience (CX) demands more than just understanding and insights; it requires actionable strategies that drive tangible results. InMoment’s Integrated CX offers a transformative pathway to success, encompassing Strongest Signals , Richer Insights , and Smartest Actions. In this blog post, we’ll explore how your organisation can take the smartest actions, the final piece of the puzzle of our Integrated CX approach.

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Defining the Value of Customer Experience: A Guide for Creating CX ROI in A Constantly Changing World

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

The landscape of consumer expectations is constantly evolving, and understanding the value of customer experience has emerged as a cornerstone for businesses aiming to sustain growth and maintain a competitive advantage. CX leaders know customer experience (CX) is not just about transactional exchanges; it’s about building lasting relationships.

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8 Questions to Ask When Selecting a Research Community Technology Partner

Alida

As a well-established technology company with over 20 years’ experience, we’ve seen all sorts of challenges over the years.

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Revolutionizing large language model training with Arcee and AWS Trainium

AWS Machine Learning

This is a guest post by Mark McQuade, Malikeh Ehghaghi, and Shamane Siri from Arcee. In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have gained attention for their effectiveness, leading various industries to adapt general LLMs to their data for improved results, making efficient training and hardware availability crucial. At Arcee , we focus primarily on enhancing the domain adaptation of LLMs in a client-centric manner.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Simplifying CX Design: How Leading Enterprise Tech Firms Overcome Complex Challenges

ECXO

gdcvte Simplifying CX Design: How Leading Enterprise Tech Firms Overcome Complex Challenges Part I The article was originally posted here: [link] Seamless customer experiences and clear interfaces are two key elements leveraged by successful tech enterprise to generate adoption, with design being the key to overcoming solution complexity. Intuitive, clear designs make it easier to generate adoption, decrease customer success costs, and help customers adopt the solutions easily with the right onb

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153: Improving Customer Service Reps Productivity Through AI with Juan Jaysingh

The DiJulius Group

Is your company’s watchful AI eye crossing the line into employee privacy? On this episode of The Customer Service Revolution, John tackles this contentious debate head-on, sharing his astonishment at the corporate practice of monitoring employee communications through artificial intelligence. Guest Juan Jaysingh, the brains behind Zingtree, shares the role AI plays in customer experience.

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Customer Experience Is Like Maintenance on Your Car

ShepHyken

I was talking to a friend the other day. He purchased an expensive new car just eight months ago. Unfortunately, the car turned out to be a “lemon,” and he has taken it back to the dealer multiple times for various problems. The car has spent more time at the repair center than in his garage. If it were me, I’d ask the dealer to replace the car. Apparently, he has more patience than I do and was giving the dealer another chance to fix the car.

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Simplifying CX Design: How Leading Enterprise Tech Firms Overcome Complex Challenges

eglobalis

Simplifying CX Design: How Leading Enterprise Tech Firms Overcome Complex Challenges The post Simplifying CX Design: How Leading Enterprise Tech Firms Overcome Complex Challenges appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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Improve LLM performance with human and AI feedback on Amazon SageMaker for Amazon Engineering

AWS Machine Learning

The Amazon EU Design and Construction (Amazon D&C) team is the engineering team designing and constructing Amazon warehouses. The team navigates a large volume of documents and locates the right information to make sure the warehouse design meets the highest standards. In the post A generative AI-powered solution on Amazon SageMaker to help Amazon EU Design and Construction , we presented a question answering bot solution using a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline with a fine-tune

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Crafting Compelling Stories: The Key to Unlocking True Customer Engagement

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Once upon a time… These four words are the unmistakable beginning of a story, and if there is one thing we humans love, it’s stories. We love them in our news, in our dinner conversations, and even in our commercials.

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Trends Shaping the Insurance Agent-Carrier Relationship

SaleMove

Based on research with more than 500 insurance agents, these are three top trends shaping the agent-carrier relationship. The post Trends Shaping the Insurance Agent-Carrier Relationship appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of April 29, 2024

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 comments about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 5 Reasons Why VIP Customers Are the Key to E-Commerce Growth by Josh Kim (Total Retail) VIP customers significantly impact a business’ bottom line, often contributing a substantial portion of total 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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Transparency vs. Black Box AI: Navigating the Landscape of Feedback Analysis

Thematic

Around 2014, I was an AI consultant when several companies asked if I could help them use AI to save time analyzing open-ended survey responses. Since survey responses are traditionally coded by market researchers, I spoke to several of them about how AI can help. They all raised the same concern: I don’t want a black box! Fast forward 10 years, and the AI that most companies use today, is basically a black box.

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Fast-Track CX ROI with 3 Levels of CX Improvement featuring Lynn Hunsaker

ECXO

he European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) is excited to announce our second episode of the series — Fast-Track CX ROI with 3 Levels of CX Improvement featuring our distinguished guest Lynn Hunsaker, CCO at ClearAction Continuum. Join us on May 15th, 2024, at 4 PM CET | 3 PM GMT | 7 AM PST. Subscribe here: [link] The European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) is an Open Access CX professional business network: Become a member here: [link] Want to learn more about CX ROI?

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Crafting Memorable Moments: 5 Strategies for Elevating CX Interactions

Interactions

In today’s busy, crowded world, good experiences drive loyalty. And with an endless variety of choices and never enough time, consumers will quickly move on if a business doesn’t provide frictionless, memorable, respectful, and — above all — human-centered customer service experiences. Yet, it’s easy to negatively impact CX with technology solutions that promise good service for lower costs, but end up falling short.

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Top 10 Strategies to Build Effective Client Relationship Management

Helpware

Client relationship management (CRM) revolves around cultivating robust, enduring connections between clients and providers. Although small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often prioritize acquiring new leads, nurturing meaningful partnerships with well-suited clients can prove to be a transformative element in their success journey.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Completing a White Space Analysis to Increase Customer Retention and Growth

Kapta Customer Success

Account managers can easily identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities with a white space analysis to increase customer retention and growth. Here’s how.

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Trends shaping the electric utility distribution business in the Eastern U.S.

West Monroe

The transition toward cleaner, more sustainable energy systems in the Eastern U.S—like elsewhere across the world—is complex and multi-faceted. From a policy, regulatory, and technology standpoint, utilities are also faced with the challenge of navigating a complex landscape of having to modernize the electric grid while simultaneously decarbonizing our economies.

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5 Capabilities of Business Intelligence for Social Media Monitoring and Analytics

CSM Magazine

With the vast amount of data generated on social media platforms every second, harnessing this information effectively can be challenging. In this article, we’ll explore five key capabilities of BI that empower businesses to monitor social media conversations, analyze sentiment, conduct competitor analysis, create customized dashboards and reports, and integrate social media data with other sources for comprehensive analytics.