March, 2021

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How Can Educational Institutions Elevate their Customer Service?

Comm100

If you work in post-secondary education, you’ll know just how competitive an industry it is. Institutions compete with one another to win national and international students and spend huge amounts of money to do so. New York University reportedly spent $500,000 more on marketing in June 2020 than in June 2019, despite the financial challenges caused by Covid-19.

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Don’t Accidentally Sabotage Customer Experience — Do This Instead

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Sure, you may not intend to, but there are probably ways you, as the leader of your department or organization, are sabotaging the experience your customers have. And who can blame you? Today, leaders have more expectations with fewer resources. We’re asked to spend more time reporting on what’s happened than making things happen. Time is limited and people are pressured.

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ROI and the Secure Customer Index (SCI)

Horizon CX

Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty vs. Quarterly Numbers—The Conflict. As the Senior Manager of Customer Experience, I found myself amidst an executive leadership conflict that had been playing out for a few years and way above my pay grade. The issue at hand was the conflict that debated the company priority: Customer Satisfaction or quarterly numbers.

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7 tips for designing a seamless checkout funnel

GetFeedback

How to enhance your digital checkout funnel and increase conversion rates.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto

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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The European Customer Experience Organization is now live! The Time to Evolve Together arrived!

eglobalis

The European Customer Experience Organization the real associationpractical , employee experience , experience design , innovation launch Ricardo Saltz Gulko and Adrian Swinscoe. The post The European Customer Experience Organization is now live! The Time to Evolve Together arrived! appeared first on Eglobalis.

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How Texting Keeps Your Contact Center Agile in 2021

NICE inContact

The challenges of 2020 put contact centers agility to the test. And with a lot of those challenges continuing in 2021, many contact centers are still struggling to manage with a variety of issues.

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Learning Paths: What Are They, & How Can They Create Customer Experience Success?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

“ Customer service shouldn’t just be a department; it should be the entire company” – Tony Hsieh (CEO, Zappos) . The late, great CEO of Zappos promoted this idea and he was absolutely right. To deliver exceptional customer experiences, everyone in your organization needs to be on board. But what does that mean? And what’s most important to prioritize in education?

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2021 is the Year of Omnichannel Customer Engagement – Here’s Why

Comm100

Very few people have avoided the consequences of Covid-19 in their workplace. The pandemic has driven more people than ever to work from home, while forcing millions more into unemployment. Companies across industries slashed their budgets to accommodate the economic downturn, all while scrambling to meet new health guidelines and escalating customer demands.

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Stepping up your organization’s CX Maturity: 4 takeaways from our CX leader roundtable

GetFeedback

Best practices, pitfalls, and next steps for leveraging a CX maturity model at your organization.

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4 HR Predictions for 2025: Supercharge Your Employee Experience with Internal Communications

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

The future of HR is here, and it's all about collaboration, innovation, and impact. Join us for a forward-thinking session where seasoned experts Miriam and Carolyn will share insights and practical strategies to help you stay ahead of evolving HR trends. Discover how to build strong partnerships with internal teams to craft a transparent, authentic, and connected workforce experience.

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Storytelling for innovation

Storyminers

If your strategy includes a new service, product, or platform, one of the best ways to get started is not with a story at all! Instead, it’s with a well-designed experience that adds value to your customers, engages your employees, then benefits the bottom line. It’s essential to focus on profit-making last in the design process so that you stay focused on what your customers want most and will genuinely adopt.

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How to Stop Giving Customer Service Like a Useless Scarecrow

Steve DiGioia

The lowly cornfield scarecrow hangs idly in the field while a flock of birds, having long since gotten over their fear of the fake man, eat their share of the surrounding crops. He has failed in his mission. The scarecrow now serves no purpose and has outlived its usefulness. Sadly, it serves as a reminder of what once was. Today’s post tells you how to stop giving customer service like a useless scarecrow. 3 Examples of Scarecrow Customer Service. 1.

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From Cost Center to Value Center – How to Choose Software to Transform Your Small Business Call Center

NICE inContact

The quality of service delivered by small business call centers used to be limited by the functionality of their PBXs or VoIP services. Modern call center software features that can transform the customer experience (CX) were only available to the big guys with their big wallets.

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What Are Micromoments, & Why Are They So Important?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Note from Jeannie: Back in 2012, I recorded a talk for TEDx around what I then referred to as “micro-interactions.” In the nine years since, I’ve placed these at the core of the mission of Experience Investigators, and coined the term micromoments to better describe them. I’ve adapted the talk for you into the article that follows.

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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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Actionable Insights: What, Why and How

Lumoa

Knowledge is power. It’s a cliche saying. But, like most cliches, it’s true. We spend lots of time, energy, and effort getting feedback and insight from customers. Whether it be through surveys, heat maps, or some other means, we try to learn all the time. Gathering information is an important thing to do. But what’s most important is what you do with the information you get.

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Interview with CX Ambassador Mike Cancel about Pandora's customer experience program

GetFeedback

We talk with Mike Cancel, user support operations manager at Pandora—the largest streaming music provider in the US—about his career in the customer experience space.

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Market-Proven Ideas to Keep Your CX Transformation on Track

Storyminers

During this CX Quick Tips expert, Mike Wittenstein joins this week’s CX Quick Tips (less than 10-minutes) discussion with CX Expert and Editor in Chief of CX Global Media Jim Rembach. We will discuss a list of techniques people with ongoing projects can use to keep the momentum up and encourage an ever-greater number of team members (internal or partners) to participate and adopt new ways of working.

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Best Technologies for Small Businesses

Win the Customer

Running and maintaining a small business is a challenge. Because of limited personnel and limited financial resources, small business owners often need to wear multiple hats to keep their business afloat like the use of another address for their mailbox company. The Importance of Using a Secure Fax and a virtual office address where the service provider will forward all of your mail, this is a really good one for Modern technology has made it easier for small business owners to manage and trac

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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What is Customer Effort and How Does Contact Center AI Impact it?

NICE inContact

In these days of over-the-top service examples, sometimes we lose sight of the fact that many people just want their problems solved with very little effort on their part. In fact, the results of a study published in the Harvard Business Review* revealed that reducing customer effort is a better way to build loyalty than trying to delight customers.

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Interview: Creating a Clean Experience

Heart of the Customer

How would you respond if your deliberately behind-the-scenes customer experience efforts were suddenly thrust to the foreground? That’s the challenge Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services’ CEO Todd Hopkins faced when COVID changed the way we all think about cleaning. I met Todd after customer service guru Shep Hyken recommended him in response to my call […].

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How To Calculate Survey Sample Size: A Simple Guide

Lumoa

In this article, you will learn how to calculate survey sample size to ensure statistically significant results. It seems in any given group of friends there are a number of casual experts. Maybe one is really into movies or music. Or, perhaps, there’s a “foodie” in the group. Since we don’t have direct access to lots of experts, those people in our lives tend to be who we consult if we’re curious about that topic.

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What is Customer Experience Management?

GetFeedback

How CXM helps increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, and brand advocacy while cutting costs.

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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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Cultural nuances you need to take into consideration when using storytelling as a tool

Storyminers

Each organizational and national culture is unique; so yes, you do need to be sensitive to them. Here are some general guidelines: Be conscious of the role hierarchy plays. In certain cultures there is a deep hierarchical bent; and if so, unless the ‘story’ comes from a ‘senior’, it may not really have the impact you want. In these cultures, you may need additional skills, etc., and facilitation to get full participation.

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How to Care More About the Customer Than the Sale

ShepHyken

It seems that most of the companies that customers love to do business with have something in common. They focus more on the customer than they do the sale. Sure, they want to make the sale, add more revenue and get higher ratings. What company doesn’t want that? But when they focus on the customer’s needs, the rest seems to fall into place. A great example of this comes from Dawn Mushill, one of our Shepard Letter subscribers.

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Visual Transformation in Telecom: Endless opportunities

TechSee

If there’s one feeling consumers have grown familiar with in their dealings with the telecom industry, it is – by all accounts – frustration. There’s just something about waiting for the cable guy to show up some time between noon and 6 p.m. to fix your internet connection only to have him arrive late and leave with the issue unresolved.

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Don’t Leave Your Customers in the Dark!

Heart of the Customer

At Heart of the Customer, we work across many different industries – in the past six months alone, we’ve partnered with life insurance, SaaS software, healthcare delivery, property and casualty insurance, non-profits, and staffing enterprises. These organizations serve a wide variety of customers who have very different needs. Or do they? We’ve found that there’s […].

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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3 Ways to Use AI Right Now to Support Remote Contact Center Agents

NICE inContact

Contrary to some science fiction movies, artificial intelligence (AI) hasn't subjected humans to robotic overlords. And contrary to some current opinions, contact center AI isn't all about replacing customer service agents with armies of bots.

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Customer satisfaction survey questions

GetFeedback

Your guide to all things customer satisfaction, from measuring CSAT to example questions and best practices.

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Storytelling in driving change

Storyminers

It’s a misconception to believe that stories can drive change or make it happen. The root of that belief is that leaders can ‘make’ people change to do new things in new ways. The fact is that nothing is farther from the truth. If your leadership style is punitive, consider changing it. It’s rapidly going out of fashion in the 2020s.