Tue.Jan 09, 2018

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15 CX Experts Talk about the Future and Challenges of Customer Experience in 2018 [part 1] 

Lumoa

Customer experience has been already a hot topic in business during 2017 and is promising to be even of higher importance in 2018. “CX transformation is no longer a nice-to-have, it's a necessity” – concludes Forrester , one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world. It’s predicted, that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator when making consumer choices.

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AI and Customer Care: The Future is Here

BlueOcean

Siri, Alexa, and OK Google… these are the virtual interactions that Sci-Fi movies have portrayed for decades past. The future is, it seems, here at our fingertips. These technologies are sparking new expectations in today’s consumers on an almost daily basis. We want intelligent interactions that are personalized to our own situations and we want them on demand – not after we waste our precious time sitting on hold.

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PPV Customer Service Case Study: Cable Company Avoids a TKO

TechSee

In anticipation of the biggest boxing fight of the year – Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor- a major US cable company had high expectations. Pay-per-view (PPV) is one of their most lucrative revenue streams, especially when broadcasting live combat sports such as boxing, mixed martial arts and professional wrestling. The PPV fee was set at $99.95 , and based on past sales, an estimated six million homes in the US and the UK were expected to purchase access to the private telecast.

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8 Must-Read Posts to Start Your CX Strategy on the Right Foot

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay Does your company place top priority on culture and employees? I've asked this question many times over the last several years - over the last 25 years. I've said more times than I can remember: "Quite simply, without employees, you have no customer experience." Companies have to put employees first. They have to make sure employees have a great experience.

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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Every Company Should Practice What They Preach—We Do!

InMoment XI

At MaritzCX we focus on helping organizations understand and improve their customers’ experiences through our sophisticated technology platform and our research expertise. We help our clients learn and understand their customers better so they can take the appropriate actions to improve their experiences—while being able to make better, more-informed business decisions.

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Every Company Should Practice What They Preach—We Do!

InMoment XI

At MaritzCX we focus on helping organizations understand and improve their customers’ experiences through our sophisticated technology platform and our research expertise. We help our clients learn and understand their customers better so they can take the appropriate actions to improve their experiences—while being able to make better, more-informed business decisions.

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How to Create the Perfect Customer Satisfaction Survey: Questions, Tips & Templates

Comm100

Running a successful business requires more than just a great product — it also means that you need to please your customers and ensure their satisfaction. However, knowing whether or not you are delivering service that meets their expectations can be difficult if you don’t reach out to them. Many businesses assume they know what their customers want, when those assumptions can be very different from their customer’s experiences.

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Why Every Salesforce Admin Should Use an IDE

West Monroe

In an effort to become a more powerful Salesforce administrator, I’ve recently been knocking on the door of the developer world. You don’t need to master Apex to take advantage of developer tools. My favorite trick has been using an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to speed up manual tasks, such as creating thousands of fields in minutes. This has saved me from literally hundreds of hours of configuration work.

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How to Create the Perfect Customer Satisfaction Survey: Questions, Tips & Templates

Comm100

Running a successful business requires more than just a great product — it also means that you need to please your customers and ensure their satisfaction. However, knowing whether or not you are delivering service that meets their expectations can be difficult if you don’t reach out to them. Many businesses assume they know what their customers want, when those assumptions can be very different from their customer’s experiences.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Amazing Business Radio: Jesse Cole

ShepHyken

Doing the Opposite of Normal Can Lead to Better Customer Service. Shep Hyken Interviews Jesse Cole, Author of Find Your Yellow Tux. Do your “fans” come first? When customers come first, success follows. . . ? <span style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” data-mce-type=”bookmark” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>?

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Conversational Interfaces: The Next Disruptive Technology Wave Is Here

West Monroe

Two common interactions in every business environment are looking up a piece of information or checking the status of a task. How does one usually go about seeking such information? It’s almost always easier to “ask a friend,” the person sitting next to you, or your assistant. In some instances, it’s easier to stretch your legs and take a stroll to another department to ask a question of an expert, your IT staff, AR/AP coordinator, or HR rep.

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Be Bold & Push Boundaries in 2018: Design Trends that are Authentic, Vibrant & Sophisticated

Truthlab

Reading Time: 2 minutes In my last post, I shared some top design trends for 2018. While that article spoke more to product and technology design, this article addresses visual and delightful design. Previously, I spoke about the demand for designers to think beyond the sticky note and create products that are truly personal, secure and valuable. Aesthetically, […].

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5 Ways to Go Above & Beyond for Your Customers

Rant And Rave

Our customers are presented with so much choice in the way they shop, communicate and interact with us.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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ROI of Human Capital and Organizational Change Management: My Personal Story

Natalie Petouhof

Tweet I was working for a company that had found themselves in a situation where they had poor morale. Raises were few, partially because of the economy and as a result, people were working very hard and not feeling appreciated. HR came to me to ask what to do. As an early design-thinker, my reaction was always to ask the “customer.” In this case, the “customer” was our own employees.

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Find out how top retailers are winning with CX at NRF 2018

ForeSee

Winning retailers understand that the competition doesn’t rest in the post-holiday shopping season. They know that the best way to keep their edge is with strong customer experience (CX). But. The post Find out how top retailers are winning with CX at NRF 2018 appeared first on ForeSee.

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Brooklinen’s Winning Formula for Customer Service Training and Performance Management

Stella Connect

Brooklinen , a fast-growing online retailer that made its debut in 2012, wasn’t founded on a whim. It was developed as a simple, consumer-friendly solution to a familiar problem: the typically inflated cost of luxury bedding. After falling in love with the bedsheets in their Las Vegas hotel room and reeling at the $800 price tag, founders Rich and Vicky researched the main cost drivers (middleman markups, mostly) and set out to find a way to make high-quality bedding affordable.

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Syngro Eye customer intelligence software

Maru/HUB

Syngro Eye is our world leading customer intelligence platform enabling businesses to put customers at the centre of everything they do. Our omni-channel platform offers a range of customer experience specific analytics, performance management and self-service reporting functions that can be overlaid with your businesses financial, operational or other data to identify crucial relationships.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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The Road to Success: Using CX to Conquer the Hearts & Minds of Customers

Confirmit

There are five facets of maturity that lead to sustainable success in Voice of the Customer programs. Becoming “data driven” is the goal for all organizations today. So why do only 8% of businesses indicate that they use their data effectively enough to understand and address customer needs? Best-in-Class firms are able to deliver truly personalized and consistent customer messages across all channels through these stages.

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Syngro Eye customer intelligence software

Maru/HUB

Syngro Eye is our world leading customer intelligence platform enabling businesses to put customers at the centre of everything they do. Our omni-channel platform offers a range of customer experience specific analytics, performance management and self-service reporting functions that can be overlaid with your businesses financial, operational or other data to identify crucial relationships.

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Confirmit Action Management: An Overview

Confirmit

A Voice of the Customer (VoC) program is only valuable if you take action to improve the customer experience. And, considering that 74% of consumers identify word-of-mouth as a strong in?uencer in their purchase decisions, it is imperative that businesses follow up on customer experience problems fast! Confirmit Action Management automates that process.

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What’s the Difference Between Business Reviews and Product Reviews?

Grade.us

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Amadeus: Delivering an Exceptional Customer Experience

Confirmit

The hospitality team at Amadeus is dedicated to partnering with its customers to help adapt to new business challenges and market opportunities, and share success with key business stakeholders. Since partnering with Confirmit, the hospitality division of Amadeus has been able to maintain the flexibility and competitive advantage it requires as it continues to grow worldwide.

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The Secret Recipe of Empathy

Smith+co CX

“Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it’s accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another’s eyes or heart.” - Sue Monk Kidd. My job was to create a brand tone for the social media channels and help a team of agents familiarise themselves with the sort of language and responses that fitted the tone.

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On-the-go with Confirmit: A Guide to our Mobile Solutions

Confirmit

Whether you want to collect feedback from your customers, conduct a market research project, or better enable your employees, mobile accessibility needs to be a primary consideration and Confirmit is here to help! Confirmit makes the most important aspects of our comprehensive Horizons solution accessible from mobile devices to help you increase response rates and drive employee productivity.

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Credit card fee changes: The hidden impact on small businesses & consumers

Helen Dewdney

Press release. Companies will no longer be able to charge fees for using credit cards, following the implementation of a new EU directive. Since April 2013 traders have not been able to charge consumers fees that exceed the cost for using a particular method of payment. However, from 13 January 2018 companies will no longer be able to charge any fees for the use of credit or debit cards.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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Forrester Report: The Future of CX Measurement

Confirmit

Even companies that have an advanced CX measurement program need to innovate further to remain relevant and effective. That’s because of three trends that are disrupting how companies measure customer experience. Download this report to learn more. Three trends are disrupting how companies measure customer experience (CX). These trends make it imperative for companies to innovate — or face the certainty that even their advanced CX measurement programs will break down over time.

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Confirmit Horizons Version 23

Confirmit

Confirmit Horizons™ Version 23 is the latest release of our award-winning software for Voice of the Customer, Voice of the Employee, and Market Research programs. It provides you with richer insights, so you can make smarter decisions and react faster to business needs. You can listen to what customers are saying across a range of different channels, analyze that information and assign actions appropriately to manage business change.

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Confirmit for B2B

Confirmit

B2B Organizations need a better way to collect, analyze, and react to customer, market, and employee feedback. Confirmit’s solutions can do all this! We help B2B organizations listen to customers, markets, and employees. Then we help you analyze insights and facilitate action to drive business growth. Trusted by top B2B companies and leading Market Research companies alike, Confirmit provides value beyond all others because it is designed to empower you.

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