August, 2018

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The Three Pillars of Customer Experience Management

CloudCherry

Customer expectations are higher than ever. In a world where convenience is everything, companies need to work harder than ever to meet and exceed their customer’s expectations. But the methods we’re using to manage the customer experience are stuck in the past. We’re still surveying customers the same way we were in the 90s, still battling siloed data and processes, and still relying on guesswork or bureaucratic reports to choose potential initiatives.

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Thurstone vs Guttman Scale

QuestionPro Audience

Content Index. How to construct a Thurstone Scale? How to construct a Guttman Scale? Thurstone vs Guttman Scale. Attitude measurement is an important parameter to understand the thoughts and opinions about a target sample. Attitude measurement surveys have been successful in gaining feedback on respondents attitudes about the topic under discussion.

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These 3 Reasons Explain Why Omnichannel Sucks

Omnicus

Here’s why your omni-efforts are failing your business.

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The Six Laws Of Customer Experience (Video)

Experience Matters

This video explains The Six Laws of Customer Experience. By understanding these fundamental truths about how people and organizations behave, companies can make smarter decisions about what they do, and how they do it. You can download the free eBook and see our infographic. Video Script: Just like the laws that govern physics, there are a set of fundamental truths that explain how organizations treat their customers.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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Are You Ready for the Future of Customer Service?

BlueOcean

Did you know that 32% of customers worldwide will quit doing business with a brand – even if they love it – because of just one bad experience? This statistic from a PwC survey is an eye-opener for any organization that interfaces with customers on a regular basis. But what constitutes a bad experience? Although the surface reasons may be broad, often the root cause is a failure to evolve the customer service solution.

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CRM vs CEM: Where should you put the money?

CloudCherry

How do successful brands stand out from the rest of the crowd? It’s the constant and unending focus on the customer experience. The customer plays such a crucial role that organizations rely on customer data and analysis to best understand customer behavior and what gets them all the way to the end of the sales funnel. There’s such a healthy market for customer management and analysis software that they’ve now branched out into two distinctive categories: Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

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Dealing with Detractors in 4 Simple Steps

GetFeedback

If you use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to keep tabs on customer happiness, then you know how painful a low score can feel. While NPS is a valuable customer experience metric , it also opens you up to a lot of criticism from detractors, or customers who give you a score of 6 or below. It’s the feedback no one likes to get: this person would definitely not refer business to you.

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The Impact of AI and the Empathy Economy on the Customer Service Experience

Omnicus

Why you should reinvent your organization to take advantage of the best of digital and human capabilities.

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Report: ROI of Customer Experience, 2018

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, ROI of Customer Experience, 2018. Here’s the executive summary: To understand the connection between customer experience (CX) and loyalty, we examined feedback from 10,000 U.S. consumers describing both their experiences with and their loyalty to different companies. The CX scores used in this model come from the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings (TxR), which evaluated 318 companies across 20 industries.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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You Need to Know the TRUTH About Customer Empathy!

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

We toss the word empathy around these days, especially in customer experience circles. And while most of us agree it’s vital to have and show empathy with customers, many rarely go beyond that in really capturing the touchpoints to understand emotions. The best customer-centric organizations leverage customer empathy to create a more positive journey for all customers.

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Three Clever Ways to Know the Competition Better

C3Centricity

What is the secret to success in business? That’s easy! It’s how well you know the competition. Alright, maybe this is a slightly over-simplified perspective, but it always surprises me how many companies work with a primarily internal focus. I have written many posts about knowing your customers, such as “Why Customers Are The Answer To All Your Problems (If You Ask the Right Questions).” Watching and listening to them in order to fully understand their rational needs a

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How to Choose the Best Survey Touchpoint for a Banking CX Program

Centriam Customer Experience Lab

As you begin building a customer experience (CX) program, a common first step is gathering feedback from your customers. We’ve found that surveying customers about their interactions across major touchpoint is an easy place to start. We recently published a three step guide to starting a CX program based on this method. Download our Community Banking CX Blueprint here to get a jumpstart on your CX planning.

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Online Panel: Market Research Panel

QuestionPro Audience

What is a market research panel? A market research panel is defined as a group of research participants, selected for market research studies. These research panelists help a researcher to evaluate a brand or products/services offered by the brand, thus also called brand research panel. A market research panel is a more popular option as compared to the more traditional phone interviews.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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10 Funny Customer Experience Cartoons

Omnicus

Lessons Learned Through Laughter.

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CX Myth #2: You Need A 360-Degree View of Customers

Experience Matters

Many common beliefs about customer experience are misguided, based on oversimplifications or a lack of consideration for real-world constraints. In this series of posts, we debunk these myths. CX Myth #2: You Need A 360-Degree View of Customers What’s Wrong: If companies had an unlimited set of resources to plow into their customer insights efforts and an equally unlimited number of people prepared to take action on those insights, then shooting for a 360-degree view of your customers woul

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11 Customer Service Metrics to Start Measuring

GetFeedback

Customer service has long been an area of focus for marketers and support specialists. After all, 67% of consumers list bad customer experience as one of the primary reasons for churning and 39% of consumers avoid vendors for over 2 years after having a negative experience. Businesses understand that great customer service isn’t optional–it can make or break a brand’s reputation.

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Strategies for Improving Restaurant Efficiency and Guest Loyalty

IntouchInsight

Learn how to streamline your restaurant operations to improve the customer experience and drive guest loyalty.

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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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4 Ways to Stop Being a Business of No

Steve DiGioia

you gotta be kidding with all these rules. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. You took out a big loan to open your business; maybe even got a second mortgage on your home. Then, product and supplies were ordered on credit cards. You even convinced your spouse and kids to work there because there’s no money left for payroll. But you opened a “business of no”.

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Car-Shopping in 2018: Consumer Insight

QuestionPro Audience

Buying a car used to be a rite of passage in an American’s life, but after seven straight years of growth in new vehicle sales, 2017 reported a decline of 1.8% , with 17.2 million cars and trucks sold. Even worse news for manufacturers, it’s predicted 2018’s number will drop to 16.8 million vehicles sold. It used to be that consumers were stuck with whatever price the car dealership offered them, give or take a little wiggle room.

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The Fundamental Guide to the Contact Center RFP

BlueOcean

Planning for 2019 already? You’re in good company. Contracting a new contact center outsourcer may be one of the most impactful decisions you make all year (no pressure, right?) You’re putting your brand and your customers in the hands of someone new, whose efforts will have a direct impact on your business, its ROI, and all its related KPIs. It’s the type of decision that is well-suited to a formal RFP and procurement process.

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CX Myth #1: The Customer Is Always Right

Experience Matters

Many common beliefs about customer experience are misguided, based on oversimplifications or a lack of consideration for real-world constraints. In this series of posts, we debunk these myths. CX Myth #1: The Customer Is Always Right What’s Wrong: Like all human beings, customers aren’t always right. They sometimes complain when the company did nothing wrong, request things that the company can not or should not provide, and periodically just make mistakes.

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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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Are Point-of-Sale Surveys Pointless?

GetFeedback

The point of sale is an incredibly important time for retailers to engage their customers. However, most are stuck using outdated feedback methods (think receipt questionnaires and kiosk surveys) designed to collect mass feedback rather than reveal key customer experience issues. Generic and impersonal, these point-of-sale surveys do a poor job of uncovering meaningful insights.

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What really makes customers happy?

ijgolding

Over time, several words have been used to describe the organisational focus on customers. They include: Customer Experience. Customer Focus. Customer Centricity. Customer Service. Customer Success. Customer Outcomes. Customer Relationship Management. Customer Management. I am sure you can add more to the list! The fact that there are so many variants, at least demonstrates that the world of business does, deep down, recognise that customers are connected to the reason their organisation exists

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4 Ways to Build Customer Loyalty for Convenience and Gas Retailers

IntouchInsight

Here are four ways to keep customers loyal at your convenience and gas chain.

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Judgmental Sampling: Definition, Examples and Advantages

QuestionPro Audience

Judgmental Sampling Definition. Judgmental sampling, also called purposive sampling or authoritative sampling, is a non-probability sampling technique in which the sample members are chosen only on the basis of the researcher’s knowledge and judgment. As the researcher’s knowledge is instrumental in creating a sample in this sampling technique, there are chances that the results obtained will be highly accurate with a minimum margin of error.

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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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Promoting Mental and Physical Well-Being in Service Roles

CX Accelerator

Working in customer service or customer experience can take a massive toll on your physical and mental well-being. When combining the stress that comes with never-ending customer requests, pressure from all types of internal stakeholders, and the sometimes crippling weight of life outside of work, the result may be too much to bear. How can we create an environment that gives life instead of sucking it out of us?

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4 Ways Building a ‘Customer Room’ Can Reshape Your Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

In today’s episode, I chat with Daniel Coullet , Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Experience, and Elizabeth Curtin , Customer Experience Practice Manager at PTC , about defining customer success, and the value of designing customer room for enhancing employee and customer experience. PTC is a B2B global software company that offers a technology platform and solutions to help companies design, manufacture, operate, and service things for a smart, connected world.

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11 Customer Service Metrics to Start Measuring

GetFeedback

How do you know where you really stand with customers? Here’s a look at 11 customer service metrics that help companies measure support quality at scale.

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