December, 2019

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Do You Have a Strategy to Elevate Your Company for Decades to Come?

Customer Bliss

Can I be blunt? I mean, we’re friends, right? For longer than you can imagine, I’ve been on the front lines of corporate efforts to be more responsive to customers, which also implies to be more successful in the marketplace. Here’s the lesson I’ve learned: No amount of tactical improvements will elevate your company above all others. The only thing that will do this is to have a vision of how your company will be viewed 20 years or more from now.

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The Complete Guide to Detractors – How to Turn Them into Promoters

Retently

Detractors are kind of a “taboo” topic in the business world – nobody really likes talking or thinking about upset customers. But those customers are actually vital for business development and this quote should sum up just how important they really are: “The brand is no longer what we tell the customer it is – it is what the customers tell each other it is.”- Scott Cook.

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Customer Experience: 5 Startling Predictions for 2020

Beyond Philosophy

Here we go, beginning of 2020 and a whole new decade. It is essential to reflect where we have been and where we want to go at this time of year. With that in mind, I have some predictions for the trends in Customer Experience for 2020 and beyond. . I discussed these predictions on a recent podcast. However, it isn’t just predictions. I also shared the research I undertook in the last quarter of 2019 to position my global Customer Experience consultancy in the marketplace. .

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Putting the ‘Q’ in CX – People are the measure of everything

ijgolding

Quality is the key pillar of excellence – one of the vital components enabling success in Customer Experience. Often, when we think about Quality, we instantly dive into something objective. Perhaps a physical product; objectives that are easy to measure; that we can standardize; and so on. . This is validated by all standard business definitions of Quality: ‘ Quality is the extent to which a product or service meets a customer’s expectation.

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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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‘Tis the Season to Find Pain Points in Your Retail Customer Journey

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

When Santa delivers stress… As December furiously barrels on toward the holidays, your customers will become more and more hurried and stressed as they try to find the perfect gifts. How well will your retail experience handle it? Do you have a working customer journey map? If you don’t, the holiday season is a perfect time to get started so you know your customer journey will be up to snuff throughout the coming year.

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Business Value and ROI of Customer Experience: The Step-by-step Guide

Lumoa

Understand how changes in customer experience drive changes in customer behaviour and how that translates to financial measures – to revenue and profits.

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How to Be a Better Retail Customer During the Holidays

Steve DiGioia

The “holidays” are everyone’s favorite time of year. Time to share a meal with great company, whether family, friends, or coworkers. It’s a happy, festive time for all. But, is it? Those working in the retail industry may have a different take on the holidays. For them, it’s a time for stress, a time to deal with frantic shoppers looking for the perfect gift, and a time to work long hours with little time for themselves.

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Guest Blog: Five Tips to Providing a Five Star Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Katie Mares who explains how any business or organization can provide its customers with a five-star experience. The best way I can describe ‘customer service’ is by using the word transaction. ‘Service’ is what we do, it is a product or the transaction to receive the product. According to dictionary.com an experience is; “a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: or the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally

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Five Ways to Prepare for Being REALLY Busy

ShepHyken

If you’re reading this article the day it comes out, it’s Christmas Day. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or any other holiday around this time, you know that the holidays often bring a frantic level of busyness and even stress. Depending on where you work or the industry you’re in, some of you get crazy busy during the holidays while others actually slow down.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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In the Trenches with a CX Champion

CloudCherry

Join us, CX Soldier…. …As this week, on the ‘ Sweets of CX’ , we jump right on in the trenches with VP of Client Happiness & Success (i.e. Brand Manager) for Promomash , and one of CloudCherry’s 2019-2020 CX Champions- Sarah Meyerdirk. Need a little back-story on how our CX Champ ended up joining the frontlines in the CX World at Promomash? Five years ago, she met the team at a Trade show and- in her own words, “fell in love with the idea of saving all my time away from spreadsheets, and mov

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New Research Shows Strong ROI of CX

Experience Matters

The XM Institute has published new research that examines the impact that customer experience has on the loyalty of U.S. consumers across 20 industries. You can download these reports for free: The ROI of Customer Experience. This research examines the correlation between customer experience and the likelihood of consumers to exhibit the following behaviors: purchase more products or services, recommend a company, forgive a company, trust a company, or try a company’s new product or service.

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The Best Way to Create a Customer Journey Map

Lumoa

The customer journey map is a visual representation of the customer journey. Customer journey mapping is a way to overview the customer journey that helps you to manage the customer experience.

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How to Use Text Analytics to Improve Your Customer Experience

GetFeedback

With text analytics, you can examine open-text feedback for an organized, actionable, high-level view on the feelings and the comments your customers make about your company. Paying attention to open-ended feedback is crucial if you want a clear representation of your customer experience (CX). An added advantage of text analytics is that it helps uncover trends that you might not have even realized existed–questions you might not even be asking on your customer surveys.

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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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Get access to high quality respondents with QuestionPro Audience

QuestionPro Audience

QuestionPro Audience is an economical and quick market research solution that fits your budget. You can access and buy survey respondents from around the globe from our panel and get results quickly. It gets you immediate answers for brand research and tracking, product testing and development, market segmentation, advertising testing, consumer behavior, and more.

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The Top 10 Sparq Enhancements of 2019

Alida

Over the past 15+ years of working for software companies of all sizes and serving many different markets, I’ve noticed a few constants. A basic observation that really shouldn’t be rocket science is that if you aren’t in business to make your customers’ lives easier, then you should probably find another business that isn’t dependent on customers. Oh wait, aren’t all businesses dependent on customers?

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How Learning Well Can Improve the Experience for Customers

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

The goal of learning in any workplace is to be, well, better. Better at serving customers. Better at increasing efficiency. Better at employee development. Better at staying ahead of the competition. All of that is achievable with the options in learning today, but how often are we really taking advantage of it? The learning paths for everyone should include an overall outcome from the start.

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2020: The Year of Insightful Actions

Experience Matters

As 2019 comes to an end, it’s time to think about what we’ll see next year. I collaborated with our XM Institute faculty (Aimee Lucas, Ben Granger, Isabelle Zdatny, and Moira Dorsey) to pull together a picture of where we think XM will be heading in 2020. As we looked across the different elements we were expecting to see, an overall theme for 2020 emerged… The Year Of Insightful Actions.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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7 Questions That Reveal Whether Your Company is Committed to CX

Beyond Philosophy

When I started Beyond Philosophy back in 2002, I could ascertain whether a company was customer-focused or not right away. I wondered how I did that. When I thought about it, there were some common telltale cultural signs organizations share that indicate where their focus lies. This answer became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience , which explores how the culture of a company reflects how customer-centric the organization is.

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Write the Perfect Customer Thank you Email

GetFeedback

A good customer thank you email can go a long way in creating a great customer experience and brand perception. Use these 5 tips to craft the perfect note.

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Customer Service Trends 2020

TechSee

Companies now know that customer experience is the key competitive differentiator. Data shows that organizations which excel in CX outpace laggards on the S&P 500 index by almost 80%. Their customers are more likely to make repeat purchases, to try additional products or services, and to recommend the brand to family and friends. However, many companies are still struggling to make the customer service experience as effortless as possible.

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Stakeholder Hubs: The Best Way to Share Insights with Stakeholders

Alida

Recently, our Director of Professional Services, Lisa Ketola, shared some information about a #newMR webinar she attended about the best way to share insights with stakeholders. Knowing how much great insight our customers are getting from their insight communities , those insights are not helping the business if stakeholders aren’t receiving them.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Revisiting Our Top 10 Most Popular CX Posts Of 2019

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

2020 is Almost Here… With the new year — and the new decade! — just two weeks away, we’re all turning our attention to where CX will go in 2020 and beyond. And while I’m all about looking forward more than I look back, it’s worth remembering that a lot of the articles written on Experience Investigators in 2019 are just as relevant in 2020… some even more so!

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11 Doctor Reviews Sites Where You Should Have A Listing

ReviewTrackers

In 2018, online reviews influenced 66.3 percent of consumers when they were looking for a new primary care physician, which is the second-highest influence of any industry. More than ever, patients are visiting multiple websites to find a new healthcare provider, and reviews are influencing their decisions. Healthcare Review Site Statistics. Before we look at which sites you should be monitoring, here are some interesting numbers worth considering: A staggering 94 percent of Internet users who h

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Why The Intensity of Customer Emotions is Crucial to Your Customer Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

Customer emotions have a strong influence on your Customer Experience outcome. From our research in our global Customer Experience consultancy, we know that over 50 percent of experience is about how a customer feels. . Organizations don’t consider customer emotions enough. Moreover, they also fail to recognize the intensity of that emotion. Understanding the significance and managing the power of customers’ emotions is essential to your Customer Experience outcome.

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Why customer feedback is critical for digital transformation in 2020

Thematic

Digital transformation is one of those terms that has been taking the corporate world for the past years. Like it or hate it, it’s here to stay. Here is proof from Google trends showing the growing popularity of the search term “digital transformation”: There are some great examples of digital transformation already happening in industries that aren’t typically digital-first.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Utility Customer Experience: Why Suppliers Need to Make it Effortless

TechSee

The customer service game has changed for energy, gas and water companies. When customers contact them to pay a bill, check their usage levels or report an outage, they demand personalized, streamlined and convenient interactions. It’s no longer just about providing a reliable service to customers who have been loyal for decades – it’s about providing effortless utility customer experience.

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20 Ways To Create An Amazing Customer Service Experience In 2020 (Part Two)

ShepHyken

Last week, I shared ten ideas to drive a better customer experience in 2020. As promised, I’m back with ten more tips. If you haven’t read part one yet, you can do so here. Or, you can see all these suggestions at once by reading my recent Forbes article. Without any further delay, here are ten more ways to create a better customer experience in 2020.

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Astea is now proud to be part of IFS

Alliance by IFS

Combined company strengthens its leadership position in field service management (FSM) by integrating two of the most established and well recognized players in the market. London, United Kingdom and Horsham, Pennsylvania, December 11, 2019 – IFS , the global enterprise applications company, announces that it has concluded the acquisition of 100% of the shares of global software company Astea International (USOTC: ATEA).