July, 2021

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The top five ways to build retail customer loyalty with Salesforce

PK

Building retail customer loyalty is no small feat. Beyond delivering high-quality and effective products, retailers must contend with customers who expect an engaging, personalized, and frictionless experience. More than ever, […]. The post The top five ways to build retail customer loyalty with Salesforce appeared first on PK.

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Why empathy is the answer to understand your customers better?

SurveySensum

I have seen many businesses wonder, ‘How can we build better rapport with our customers?’ or ‘How can we ask them to trust us?’ All of this and much more to improve their bottom line. And then they ask themselves, . “Do we need to post more on social media?” . “Should we follow suit and do what the competition is doing?” . “Should we dive headfirst into the latest marketing trend?”.

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Understanding Your Customer Journey Solves Problems Before They Arise

Feedbackly

We are going to start with a typical scenario today. You receive negative feedback from customers complaining about your delayed delivery service.

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How Customer Listening Assessments Create Better CX

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

How Customer Experience Maturity Develops. There is a natural arc to how an organization matures when it comes to customer experience. Let’s look at a common example scenario: First, it starts with an idea: customers are important! We should pay more attention to them. Next, it moves to what can be done. Typically, this means collecting customer feedback.

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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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These 10 Phrases Will Make Someone’s Day Better

Steve DiGioia

Along with all the responsibilities of your job and the myriad of tasks you must do each day, I want to add a few more things to that list by asking you to use these 10 phrases that will make someone’s day better. Most everyone we come across has their own issues that lurk under their sometimes-false façade. They deal with anxiety and health issues that weigh heavily, financial and personal matters that keep them up at night, and a host of other problems that make their day more stressful

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Strategies for Customer Experience: Measurement 101

IntouchInsight

A customer experience management (CEM) program without a measurement strategy is like having a sports car without any gasoline. Data is the fuel that powers an effective program - helping to set benchmarks, track the impact of your actions over time, and inform future initiatives.

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Behind the scenes: Onboarding and training our customers from kickoff to implementation

NICE inContact

The success and satisfaction of our customers is our primary focus. The main feedback that the education and onboarding team receive post-training is regarding the positive relationship our customers build with the trainers and onboarding managers they work with. Read more about our customers and their success stories.

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4 Ways Small Businesses Use Free Chatbots to Drive Sales

Comm100

For many small businesses, the idea of launching a chatbot to handle customer support and sales questions seems out of reach. The cost to run it, the expertise to set it up, and the time to manage it – all this needs a level of resource that they can only dream of. But what if a chatbot was free, didn’t need any technical skill to create, and required almost no maintenance?

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Create Your CX Charter with These 6 Questions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer experience (CX) programs often begin with an idea and a dash of sincere enthusiasm…and little else. To arrive at real outcomes, CX programs depend on cross-functional leadership to turn words and ideas into actions. But what is that cross-functional team supposed to do, exactly? . A Customer Experience Charter can answer that question.

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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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Uniphore & Jacada Help You Innovate Your CX

Uniphore

On July 27th 2021, Uniphore and Jacada signed a definitive agreement according to which the two teams will become one. We are poised to democratize AI and automation so that citizen developers can collaborate with developers and data scientists to make the world of CX better for everyone, with clicks not code. We hope that you’ll join us on this journey to innovate customer experience at record speed.

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So You're Ready to Try a Discussion Forum?

Alida

This post covers the logistics of getting a discussion forum set up for your community. For more information about what to do once you're up and running, check out our Best Practices for Moderating Discussions post.

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The High Cost of Being Unprepared: How Field Services Can Create a Disaster Recovery Plan

TechSee

2020 and 2021 have been roller-coaster years for businesses, having to respond and pivot from one crisis after another. From a global pandemic and blocked Suez Canal, to natural disasters like the freeze in Texas, fires in California, and floods in Australia, to technical disasters like massive cyber-attacks and a global microchip shortage, businesses across all industries have been caught off-guard and unprepared.

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CX excellence award winners stand out in CXone community of winning customers

NICE inContact

Learn more about how CXone’s smart technology, strong partners and deep expertise can be the winning combination for transforming your organization’s contact center and CX.

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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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11 Customer Service Leaders We Can All Learn From

Steve DiGioia

Back in 2018, I had the pleasure to interview some of the nicest people I have ever come across. I was amazed at how warm and welcoming they were and their willingness to embrace, support, and welcome me into their fold. To say the least, they’re all leaders in their respective fields of customer service, hospitality, social media, consulting, coaching, podcasting, and keynote speaking.

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Why We Must Do the Customer Math and Practice Leadership Bravery

Customer Bliss

I’ve had the great honor of working with Southwest Airlines for many years and spent a lot of time talking to, not only Herb Kelleher, but Colleen Barrett who was the president (now president emerita). Once, I was talking to Colleen, and what she said was: Jeanne, at almost every board meeting, we have to fight to make sure that we don’t let those fees seep in, that we don’t start charging change fees or luggage fees, because that’s the foundation upon which people believ

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3 Ways Employee Disengagement Is Hurting Contact Centers

Uniphore

Employee disengagement is rampant in contact centers. Imagine a fire department where two-thirds of the firefighters on duty weren’t ready to respond to a call. How about a restaurant where two-thirds of the wait staff weren’t talking to patrons. Both of these situations would be totally unacceptable. But it’s actually the everyday reality at the contact center, according to Gartner’s recent report “Rampant Employee Disengagement is Driving Turnover and Harming Customer Outcomes.

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How L&Q improves customer experience by listening to diverse voices

Alida

Over the last 16 years, the barriers to change between competitors have decreased due to the rapid digitalisation of companies. With competitors being only one click away, having competitive pricing and high-end product quality is no longer enough. Since everyone can, in an instant, compare companies on all things related to the customer experience , delivery time, customer service, return policies, and even branding are included in the decision process.

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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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Overcoming the Challenges of Medical Device Support

TechSee

In the medical technology field, manufacturers must provide medical device support for their products across a wide range of settings, including hospitals, urgent care centers, physicians’ offices, nursing homes, mobile units, and even individual homes. It’s therefore no surprise that the global medical device market size is approximately half a trillion U.S. dollars.

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Virtual Journey Mapping Bootcamp: September 2021

Kerry Bodine

Hard-hitting content. Sessions that fit into your workday. Our two-part virtual bootcamp delivers a practical primer on journey mapping that you can immediately put into action for your organization. Part 1: Introduction to Journey Mapping. This introduction will help you build a solid understanding of the journey mapping methodology and how you can apply it to specific business challenges.

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Effective Tips for Powerful Insurance Social Media Marketing

ReviewTrackers

Insurance and Social Media. Social media marketing for insurance is experiencing major growth. According to a report by consultancy firm ITDS: 100 percent of 20 major global insurers are active on Facebook. 100 percent are also active on LinkedIn and YouTube. 95 percent are active on Twitter and 75 percent are using Instagram. But there are challenges.

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The Shortest Customer Service Keynote Speech Ever!

ShepHyken

I’ve written about today’s topic before. The idea I’m about to share is really common sense. Even if you didn’t read my past articles or watch my videos about this, you still know and understand it. Yet, it’s worth bringing up again, as I have a new twist on it. In my latest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , I share a story about the shortest customer service keynote speech I’ve ever delivered.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Sales Development Representative

Uniphore

WE'RE HIRING. SALES DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE. Sales Development Representative. If you thrive in the thrill of the hunt and celebrate gaining the interest and respect of prospective buyers, then we need to talk! We’re seeking a curious, gritty and persuasive professional with sales development experience in the enterprise software space. The right candidate will have a knack for learning a new domain and using that knowledge to nurture and persuade senior stakeholders (Director, VP and C-level

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Alida Summer ‘21 Release Provides Richer Insights to Elevate CX

Alida

Summer is here, and the Alida team has been hard at work to deliver our third quarterly product release of the year—and it’s a big one!

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#07: How Companies Are Learning From Pro Sports to Lead Their Teams with Cody Royle

Michel Falcon Experience

To listen to this episode on an Apple device, click here. To listen on Spotify, click here. To listen to this episode on another platform, click here.… The post #07: How Companies Are Learning From Pro Sports to Lead Their Teams with Cody Royle appeared first on.

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Is Outsourcing Your Customer Experience Really A Good Idea or Just Wrong?

Beyond Philosophy

Sometimes your Customer Experience requires you to outsource a portion of it to a third party. Maybe it’s an installer or a tow truck service, or even an entire call center, but whatever or whoever it is, this part of the experience is not under your control. Today, we will examine whether this is a good idea or not. We discussed this topic of outsourcing on a recent podcast , where my co-host shared a story about his friend who ordered a trampoline.

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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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2 Quick wins for digital customer experience transformation

NICE inContact

For more information about modern call center design, download "The state of contact center transformation in the new digital world." It includes insightful information that can inform your digital transformation strategy. Or, if you’re ready to transform your customer experience and build relationships that last, speak to one of our digital experts to help get you started.

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How to Say YES – Every Time

ShepHyken

How do you say Yes to every customer request ? Is it possible? Is this customer service utopia? My friend Christine Trippi wrote a book titled Yes Is the Answer. And Cameron Mitchell, about whom I’ve written before, wrote a book with a similar title, Yes is the Answer. What is the Question ? Both of these authors have a hospitality background. Trippi is a world-class, award-winning hotel manager and Mitchell is a super-successful restauranteur.

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How to Cut Call Center Agent Onboarding In Half

Uniphore

How to Cut Call Center Agent Onboarding Time in Half. and Make Every Agent Your Best Agent. August 25th | 11 AM EDT | 4 PM BST. Register Now. Brian Cantor Leading CX Industry Analyst Contact Center Week. Kumaran Shanmuhan CX & Automation Consulting Leader Jacada. Live Demo Featuring 10 Ways to Simplify Agent Onboarding With AI & RPA. Embed learning in the flow of activities that employees and the enterprise perform to deliver their outcomes.