August, 2021

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23 CX statistics shaping the new reality

MyCustomer

2Your customer experience has changed and there’s no going back to how things were. You know the narrative for the past year because you’ve. 6th Sep 2021. By John Aves Chief Executive.

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The True Cost of Employee Disengagement in the New Normal

Uniphore

Demanding callers. Complex processes. Impossible expectations. These are some of top contact center pain points driving employee disengagement today. In our webinar, What Your Call Center Agents Rant About on Social Media , we went beyond the annual Voice of the Employee survey to explore how agents really view the contact centers they work in—and why they’re leaving at an alarming rate.

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The Year of CX Data Shifts Into Overdrive

Heart of the Customer

Do you feel it? That rumbling beneath your feet? It’s a seismic tremor that’s changing the CX landscape. Back in December, I predicted 2021 would be The Year of CX Data. This summer we’re seeing that play out on an even grander scale than I expected. This pivotal moment in CX history makes designing compelling […]. The post The Year of CX Data Shifts Into Overdrive appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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7 Moments, 7 Customer Feedback Questions for Better CX

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What are the Best Customer Feedback Questions to Ask? I talk and write a lot about customer feedback. If you’ve read my article on Listening Assessments or downloaded our free Customer Interview Guide resource , you know I love customer feedback that tells a story and contextualizes our other data. When I talk with folks about customer feedback, one thing I often hear is “What questions should we be asking customers?

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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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Start with Hiring People Who Show Humanity at Work

Customer Bliss

A little while after Indra Nooyi was named the CEO of PepsiCo, she traveled home to India to visit her mother. The morning after she arrived, piles of visitors began pouring into her mothers’ home. They walked past Nooyi and straight to her mom where they congratulated her on her daughter’s accomplishment. They praised her for her ability to raise a daughter who would become CEO.

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The Many Faces of Mystery Shoppers

IntouchInsight

If you've followed our blog you’ll know that mystery shopping is one of the main channels we recommend for customer experience measurement. But who exactly are mystery shoppers can still cause some confusion.

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FREE Webinar! Procurement From The Outside-In: Moving To A Customer-Centric Mindset

Kerry Bodine

I hope you’ll join me on Tuesday, August 17 at noon Central time , when I’ll be teaming up with the global procurement and supply chain consultancy Proxima for a fun webinar. The folks at Proxima share a mindset that’s near and dear to my heart: transformation through customer centricity. So… how exactly does customer centricity apply to the procurement function?

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How to Prioritize Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Workplace

Alida

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) have been at the forefront of a lot of organizational leaders’ minds in the past few years. But is all that thinking and policy-drafting actually amounting to anything within your business?

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3 Activities for Quick Wins in Customer Experience (& 3 More to Avoid)

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Who doesn’t love a quick win? Customer experience leaders often have to celebrate quick wins and show other leaders fast, to earn that next round of support. But I get nervous when people ask me about customer experience shortcuts. Too often, shortcuts within the wrong areas lead to shortfalls and short-sightedness on what really matters. Customer experience management can feel like a lot.

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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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Multimodal User Experience Design Best Practices

Uniphore

Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant—virtual assistants have transformed how we interact with technology and what we expect from it. Today’s most popular assistants offer a multimodal experience — the ability to interact on multiple channels — and are a major leap from the voice-only assistants that dominated the market just a few years ago. Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline.

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10 Actions to Bring Your Team Into Your Confidence Zone

Steve DiGioia

Who cares what your employees say! The opinions of your employees don’t matter. Really. They don’t. You prove this each day by your actions. You continue to leave them in the dark about upcoming actions and decisions that affect them. You do little to address their concerns. Now, they question you. They’re losing faith in you. They don’t believe in your leadership.

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Utilize Customer Journeys to Transform the Customer Experience

Lumoa

As we see the business world shifting towards a more remote and digital landscape, the communication between customers and service employees is playing a more pivotal role in customer experience due to the lack of opportunity for face-to-face interactions. This rise in customer expectations partnered with ever-evolving technology means the road to satisfaction isn’t set in stone.

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4 ways to create the perfect retail experience

GetFeedback

Notable trends in consumer preferences that will influence how retailers run their CX programs.

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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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Streaming Providers Use Voice of Customer (VoC) Insights to Improve CX

Alida

There’s no doubt about it: The pandemic turned media streaming from a rising star to a consumer staple.

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How to Run an Effective Customer Experience Team Meeting

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Cross-functional leadership is a key factor in leading any customer experience program. This often means creating a team of leaders who regularly meet to discuss priorities, resources and accountabilities that drive CX forward. These teams are sometimes called a CX Strategic Council, a CX Team, or something similar. But whatever you call yourselves, running effective meetings that keep the team engaged, excited, and working together is key to your success.

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Digital transformation addresses these 5 top customer expectations

NICE inContact

Did you ever see the episode of “Friends” where the always-principled Phoebe Buffay spends the entire show on hold with her phone company’s customer service?

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Simple Yet Effective Ways to Enhance the Experience of Your Customers

Steve DiGioia

Last weekend, my wife, daughter, and I spent a lovely afternoon at a local farm, which also happened to be hosting a food truck festival at the same time. Of course, we ate too much but at least we got some sun on our faces and a day in the fresh air. We decided to take the haybale ride around the farm and got ready to see the sights. But the sights I saw were the farmer’s missed opportunity to make this ride something special and to enhance the experience of his customers.

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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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Accelerating the Customer Experience post-COVID

Lumoa

Before we begin, we’d like to acknowledge the reality that COVID-19 is still an active pandemic. Although we refer to the “post-pandemic world” in this article, we understand that we’re still in the middle of it all — we just hope we can provide a little hope and guidance for the present and future reality of a post-COVID world. In any case, customer experience used to be the largest way to differentiate your brand among the turbulent sea of competition.

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Warranty Cost Management: Guarantee Satisfaction & Profitability

TechSee

Product warranty management has become an area of focus for many manufacturers. When a product breaks or does not function properly, the OEM is typically liable for the repair, replacement, or refund of that item according to the terms of the warranty. Aside from the high direct costs involved, warranty claims incur significant indirect costs such as: . reduction of market share . decrease in customer satisfaction . lower levels of brand loyalty.

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Integrating CX Can Potentially Increase Your Profit by the Millions

Alida

It is a widely accepted fact that a happy customer is a returning customer. Someone who has enjoyed your service (in-store or online), product, and price are more likely to buy from you again and more importantly recommend you to their friends and family. But, with competition increasing and the barrier of change decreasing, providing a universally good shopping experience is no longer enough.

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QuestionPro Audience’ quick sample. Insights for $1 only!

QuestionPro Audience

Pay only $1 per response with Quick Sample. Have research budgets ever stalled your study before? Gathering audiences online can get expensive and time-consuming, leaving researchers to compromise on the sample size they initially set. Moreover, are you running a simple gen pop study that does not require you to pay exorbitant fees for respondents? Welcome to QuestionPro’s Quick Sample, where you can access the general population from the US at just a dollar an interview.

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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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Personalized customer experience: Create great customer service with what 60% of customers expect

NICE inContact

A couple of years ago, my wife, two daughters, and I took to the high seas aboard a Disney Cruise along with Elsa, Mickey, and all the other who’s-who of Disney favorite characters.

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Beat Up Ideas, Not People

Kerry Bodine

Yesterday I read a disturbing article in The New York Times about cultural change at Twitter. In a nutshell, Twitter brought in an executive to “revamp Twitter’s design team and make it more diverse.” Part of his process: asking employees “to go around the room, complimenting and critiquing one another” in a two-hour meeting. The Times reports that several attendees cried.

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Personalizing the Customer Experience Is a Competitive Differentiator

ShepHyken

I recently released my 2021 Achieving Customer Amazement research. We surveyed 1,000 consumers in the U.S. and asked them numerous questions about topics related to customer service, customer experience, loyalty, reviews, and more. One of the questions had to do with creating a personalized experience. . We asked customers to rate various customer service experiences on a scale of one to five, in which a score of one signified not important at all with five being very important.

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5 Ways Anyone Can (and Should) Grow Their Careers #SteerYourCareer

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. My… The post 5 Ways Anyone Can (and Should) Grow Their Careers #SteerYourCareer appeared first on.

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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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More Than Just a Survey Platform: BDG Partners with Alida

Alida

For BDG, impactful relationships with Alida is the key to their survey success.

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How COVID Has Shifted the Contact Center RFP Timeline

BlueOcean

Decision making got a whole lot more difficult in the wake of the pandemic, didn’t it? From the most basic choices, like where to shop for groceries or who to visit in-person; to the most complex business decisions, like what to do about employee safety or how to ensure business continuity—suddenly there were more questions to ask, more at stake, and more ways to fail.

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5 ways to improve customer satisfaction scores using customer empathy

NICE inContact

Simply put, applying customer empathy means understanding and integrating your customer’s expectations. And lucky for you, we’ve outlined what that looks like with help from three industry experts in the eBook, “Cultivating a future-proof customer journey strategy.” Get your copy now.