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The Case Against Quantitative Customer Experience Data

Blake Morgan

   Most customer experience data strategies include two types of insights: qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative data tells the stories behind the customers, and quantitative data shares trackable metrics of customers’ actions and a brand’s performance. But according to Jim Kalbach, author of The Jobs To Be Done Playbook, modern CX teams have an over-reliance on quantitative data, which can distract from building strong customer relationships.

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How Aegon Is Reaping the Benefits of Customer Centricity

InMoment XI

At Forrester CX EMEA, we heard from InMoment client Aegon, a Dutch public company for life insurance, pensions, and asset management. The key message throughout the conference was to be bold and ensure that organisations are aligned, focused, and ready for the future. Aegon are certainly delivering on this agenda and are continuing to succeed by connecting people and processes across the entire organisation to achieve shared goals and focus on growth.

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The 5 Most-Used Automated Customer Service Examples

Comm100

Wherever you look, automation is popping up across customer service teams as organizations look to improve efficiency, reduce support costs, and scale their business. While we read about the many benefits of automation in customer service, it can be difficult to know how exactly to introduce this into your own organization. This blog will help you on your way, providing the top automated customer service examples that can be used across industries.

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Listening to the Voice of Patient is the fastest path to improved experiences

Alida

Communities have emerged as the most effective way to capture patient feedback and turn it into actionable insights and higher satisfaction.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Improve Contact Center AHT and FCR with Automated Visual Flows

TechSee

2023 has been the year of efficiency. Across sectors and around the world, enterprise leaders have been carefully managing expenses and streamlining processes. The service industry is no exception. However, improving contact center efficiency cannot come at the cost of delivering a great customer, agent, or technician experience. Automation is the answer to service industry staffing shortages and efficiency requirements.

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Customize invoice QuickBooks Online: How to personalize your invoices

Method:CRM

Everyone knows that sending invoices is crucial to getting paid for your products or services. So there’s nothing more frustrating than doing everything right in the invoicing process but still having to wait forever for payments. But here’s what many businesses don’t realize. When you send a generic invoice with nothing on it but the total amount due, you miss out on your full revenue potential.

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How Aegon is Benefiting From Customer Centricity

My Customer

How Aegon Is Reaping the Benefits of Customer Centricity At Forrester CX EMEA, we heard from InMoment client Aegon, a Dutch public company.

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Deploy generative AI models from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart using the AWS CDK

AWS Machine Learning

The seeds of a machine learning (ML) paradigm shift have existed for decades, but with the ready availability of virtually infinite compute capacity, a massive proliferation of data, and the rapid advancement of ML technologies, customers across industries are rapidly adopting and using ML technologies to transform their businesses. Just recently, generative AI applications have captured everyone’s attention and imagination.

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Contact Center Team Leaders: The Key To Engaged and Motived Employees

COPC

Most contact centers recognize the importance of team leaders. However, the team leader role is also one of the most overlooked from a skills development perspective. This article uses insights from the following research to reveal the quantifiable impact of contact center team leaders on employee satisfaction, retention and performance. COPC Inc. US Employee Engagement Research Report COPC Inc.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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How Much Could Noncompliance Cost Your Contact Center?

MiaRec

Considering that 83% of companies have already experienced more than one data breach, it is more than likely that your contact center is next. In fact, cybercriminals often target contact centers first.

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Leave Me Alone as the next CX

Zeisler Consulting

I write a lot (these days, at least, it seems) about cars. Last year I had a lot of interactions with my car company and other support organizations having to do with my automotive needs. So I guess with it front of mind, it seems appropriate that this little anecdote popped into my head the other day: Do you remember in 2022 when BMW decided to make heated seats a subscription service ?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

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How to Transform Your Customer Experience with Web3

Helpware

Web3, also known as Web 3.0 is taking over the internet bit by bit. Its aim to decentralize the internet and give more power to the people has it being touted as the way of the future. Needless to say, it begs a lot of questions. At the top of that list are what is it, what does it have in store for us, and how can companies capitalize on Web3 to transform the customer experience as we know it?

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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Why you need to be providing a global customer experience

MyCustomer

Voice of the Customer Why you need to be providing a global CX

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Accelerate machine learning time to value with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and PwC’s MLOps accelerator

AWS Machine Learning

This is a guest blog post co-written with Vik Pant and Kyle Bassett from PwC. With organizations increasingly investing in machine learning (ML), ML adoption has become an integral part of business transformation strategies. A recent PwC CEO survey unveiled that 84% of Canadian CEOs agree that artificial intelligence (AI) will significantly change their business within the next 5 years, making this technology more critical than ever.

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Gainsight Pulse—Towards a Digital, Enterprise-wide Strategy for Customer Success

Gainsight

This article was written by Phil Wainewright and originally published in Diginomica. At its tenth annual Pulse conference last week, Customer Success (CS) platform Gainsight unveiled a new product designed to digitally connect the various fragments of customer experience, oriented around CS and supported by a new company-wide licensing option. This aligns with the vendor’s view of Customer Success, particularly among its largely SaaS customer base, as something that should permeate across

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Top 10 Qualtrics Alternatives To Capture Customer Feedback Effectively

Zonka Feedback

Finding Qualtrics too expensive and complex for your customer experience strategy? Or need a survey software with simple UI, advanced analytics, real-time feedback collection, and cost-effective solution? Switching to a Qualtrics alternative can be the right step. From being a single-product survey company for academic market research, Qualtrics transformed itself into a multi-suite organization empowering businesses to create exceptional experiences.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: David Nisbet, 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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Focused on end-of-year taxes? Find out why year-round tax planning is the best strategy!

Pretium Solutions

Year-round tax planning allows better opportunity for strategy There is more to tax planning than simply lodging your tax return and increasing your deductions. Tax planning is an ongoing process that requires continuous attention throughout the year. Your actions throughout the year can have lasting effects on your future tax liabilities or refunds.

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The Critical Role of Customer Experience Training for a Customer-Centric Culture.

McorpCX

In a customer-centric organization, everyone has an “experience influencing” role. Customer centricity is a way of doing business that puts the customer and their needs at the center of decision making. It’s a strategic approach ingrained in the DNA of an organization, affecting every role – and not just executives, or customer-facing teams.

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Kustomer Secures $60M in Funding to Unleash Its Potential as a Standalone Company

Kustomer

Original investors Redpoint, Battery and Boldstart Ventures reinvest in Kustomer, the industry leading Conversational CRM platform aiming to disrupt the way companies and customers communicate across modern messaging channels. New York — May 23, 2023 — Kustomer, the industry leading Conversational CRM platform, co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Brad Birnbaum and Jeremy Suriel, announced it has raised $60 million in a new financing round co-led by previous investors Battery and Redpo

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Behind the Customer Feedback Disconnect

Ann Michaels and Associates

I have often wondered why so many large corporations and businesses opt to spend a lot of money on annual customer feedback surveys. Are they reliable? After all, is a customer going to recall every service touchpoint over a full year and be able to provide clear, actionable answers to survey questions? While annual customer satisfaction surveys can provide some insights, they may have limitations that can make them less effective in capturing the dynamic nature of customer satisfaction.

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Customer Experience Myths Guidebook

A CX myth is something widely believed or implemented that is based on “how we’ve always done it” thinking, rather than delivering truly innovative customer experiences. What CX myths are holding organizations back from top-level customer experience performance? What can companies do to find solid ground and move forward successfully? In this guidebook, we answer those questions and more as we explore three key myths and two strategies that you can use to replace them.

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Mastering customer feedback forms for growth

BirdEye

Customer service is the beating pulse of your business. For your company to thrive, customer satisfaction has to be a priority. And feedback forms are one of the best ways to understand your customers and gather insights to improve the customer experience. This article deals with all you need to know about customer feedback forms including tips to design an effective feedback form.

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Why Your Online Gaming Site Needs a Smart Search Engine

Optimove

When it comes to player loyalty, user experience is everything. The battle for attention and engagement is fierce, and the last thing you want is for players to get lost in a maze of irrelevant content or experience the friction of searching for their preferred games or betting markets only to be passed from pillar to post. The solution? A smart search engine, an intelligent beacon that illuminates their journey, guiding them swiftly to their desired destination with just a few keystrokes …

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Enterprise SEO: What It Is and How to Get Started

Merkle

Enterprise SEO is a process that helps large-scale organizations keep their websites optimized to compete for visibility in search results. It requires dedicated SEO subject matter experts collaborating with UX, development, marketing, and content teams to apply content and technical optimizations at scale. That is a lofty objective, as enterprise organizations struggle to keep pace with the ever-evolving landscape of search results.

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Insights from CXPA’s CX Leaders Advance Conference: May 15-17, 2023 Orlando, Florida

CX University

The CX Professionals Association (CXPA) recently organized the CX Leaders Advance Conference, bringing together CX experts, thought leaders, and enthusiasts from around the world. I had the privilege of presenting on the topic of “Design Skills to Master Change and Emotional Impact” during this event. In this article, I will share key takeaways and insights from this conference. 1.

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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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Ensuring Patient Privacy: The Importance of HIPAA Compliance in Medical App Development

CSM Magazine

The creation of medical applications aiming at enhancing patient care, optimizing workflows, and raising engagement among patients has significantly increased as the need for healthcare services rises. The need for them to adhere to HIPAA regulations, however, grows as the number of such applications rises. The US Congress established the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996 in order to protect the security and privacy of patient health information (PHI) by setting

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How to Get a Full Picture of Customer Satisfaction [+Guide]

dscout People Nerds

Sometimes NPS doesn’t do the trick. Here are other methods your team can employ to really understand customer satisfaction.

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The Importance of Specialized Customer Service

CSM Magazine

In today’s competitive business environment, providing excellent customer service is crucial for any company’s success. However, not all customers have exact needs or expectations regarding service. It has led to specialized customer service, which tailors support and assistance to meet specific customer requirements. But what exactly is specialized customer service?