August, 2022

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Creating a Customer-centric Culture: Four Steps to Get Started

Quadient

Creating a Customer-centric Culture: Four Steps to Get Started. Marissa Feigen. Mon, 08/01/2022 - 18:38. After what feels like forever, I recently got a chance to re-engage in my favourite pastime – meeting people in person at a Quadient-hosted event located here in London, UK. At the Experience-driven CCM event, I had the opportunity to explore how Quadient can further solve the challenges that our current and future customers face.

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CX 101: Everything You Need to Know About the Customer Satisfaction Survey

InMoment XI

It’s every company’s dream to have loyal, lifelong customers. In order to get this, you need to understand what your customers want, how they view your brand, and how they feel about your products and/or services. To put it simply, you need to understand their entire customer experience, from beginning to end. One way to do this is through customer satisfaction surveys.

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4 Ways to Provide Personalized Customer Service

Kayako

The lockdowns and aftermath of the 2020 global pandemic spiked growth in e-commerce sales as brick-and-mortar stores and restaurants closed their doors. Meetings and classrooms shifted to Zoom almost overnight. The pandemic pushed late adopters into new ways of shopping and interacting. Today even as people are returning to stores, the share of purchasing due to eCommerce continues to increase steadily. eMarketer estimates that by 2024 almost 20% of total retail sales will be via eCommerce, and

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Alphabet Soup of CX Metrics

Alida

Ten years ago, I emerged from the intensely analytical digital agency world of clickthrough and conversion rates, funnels, and seasonality, and dove headfirst into the CX space. It took me a year of immersion to really understand the CX landscape and how to speak and think about it properly and confidently.

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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 11 Key Customer Support KPIs You Need to Measure

Solvvy

Key performance indicators (KPIs) give businesses a way to measure and monitor progress toward business goals and ensure leaders are steering their companies toward a great track record with customer satisfaction and business growth. You can monitor KPIs for virtually every facet of your business. However, some of the most important metrics to track are customer support KPIs, which can provide crucial insights into your operation and the health of your business, from customer satisfaction and re

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CCO + CMO: Unstoppable Duo for Business Growth

Vanilla Forums

Recently, Higher Logic CCO, Jay Nathan, sat down with some special guests to discuss the importance of the relationship between the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Customer Officer (CCO).

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Voice Needs to Be Part of the Digital CX – Not the Legacy Annoyance

CSM Magazine

When it comes to customer experience transformation, the discussion tends to focus on faster and more efficient digital channels. But unless brands fully integrate voice into customer journeys, it’s hard to claim that they provide a fully joined-up customer experience. Despite the rush to digital, voice remains the most-used service channel – particularly for complex issues.

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There’s no Customer Experience without listening to employees

Alida

In times of economic upheaval, Voice of Employee (VoE) is critical to gather insight to deliver strong customer, product and employee experiences.

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CX Leaders Are Overly Optimistic About Their 2023 Budgets

Forrester's Customer Insights

Forrester contends that CX leaders are overly optimistic about their budget prospects. Learn where to trim your CX budget in 2023 and key areas to increase investment dollars.

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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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Struggling to Prove the ROI of Customer Experience? You Could Be Missing These 3 Keys to Success

InMoment XI

More than ever before, proving the ROI of customer experience is absolutely vital. Businesses are under pressure (amidst the Year of the Squeeze, declining employee retention, etc.) to look at cutting discretionary spending. And, unfortunately, customer experience programs may fall on the chopping block. In fact, research shows that 30% of businesses reported having budget related issues to their CX programs.

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How to Promote Responsible Sales for Multi-Location Businesses

IntouchInsight

When managing a multi-location business, it’s important that employees at every touchpoint understand the laws and regulations that apply to their industry. Promoting responsible sales and ethical selling is crucial and requires a structured approach, as noncompliance can result in punitive damages for a brand. Responsible sales can include day-to-day decisions that are made on the fly by employees, or larger campaigns that are publicized to show the company's values in practice.

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4 Stats that Show How Universities Can Increase Enrollment 

Comm100

Reaching students has never been more challenging. In US postsecondary education, spring enrollment decreased by 7.4% from 2020 to 2022. With student enrollment down, competition for student attention and engagement is heating up. To beat the competition, colleges and universities need to put students first. This means catering to student behaviors and providing a customer experience matching the one they get from their favourite B2C brands.

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Selection Bias: What it is, Types & Examples

QuestionPro Audience

Researchers may need help with findings that don’t match the realities of the target community. There are numerous causes, but selection bias is the most important. It occurs when the study sample needs to accurately represent the population of interest, resulting in variations in the research results. Understanding selection bias, its practical impacts, and the best ways to avoid it will help you deal with its effects.

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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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What is survey fatigue and how can you prevent it?

Lumoa

“How likely would you recommend (insert business name) to someone?” – a never-ending question asked to a customer in multiple ways and various forms. Somehow, it feels like it’s a DeJa’Vu moment happening daily because as what every company tells its customers, “Your opinion matters” or “You are important to us”. I mean, we get it. engaging customers till the very end to keep customer loyalty and treating every customer journey with equal importance contributes to the bus

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Launch CX programs in minutes with Program Accelerator

GetFeedback

Learn more about GetFeedback's newest product feature, Program Accelerator.

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How Employee Experience Initiatives Help Brands Retain Talent, Grow Workforces, and So Much More

InMoment XI

This article probably isn’t the first place you’ve seen the terms “Great Resignation”, “Great Reshuffle” or “Big Quit” on the internet, and from the looks of things, the battle to retail talent won’t settle anytime soon. The causes and effects of employee churn are complicated, but the bottom line for brands and organizations the world over is simple: employee expectations have changed, and workplace cultures’ view of the employee experience must change as well.

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Summer 2022 Convenience Store Trends

IntouchInsight

With compounding external factors such as supply chain issues, labor shortages, and rising inflation impacting the daily operations of convenience stores, consumer insights serve as a foundation for informed action. That’s why Intouch Insight releases regular reports on trends and data we’ve collected via ongoing consumer surveys, mystery shopping, and operational audit programs.

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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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Top 5 Benefits of Chatbots in Customer Service

Comm100

You might already know that you can automate a high portion of common support questions with chatbot software , but it can do so much more. Just like any new technology that disrupts an established industry, the benefits of chatbots are far-reaching. With unlimited capacity and availability, chatbot benefits go well beyond adding a little automation. .

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Undercoverage Bias: How to Avoid it in Survey Research

QuestionPro Audience

Convenience sampling is one of the most common forms of sample selection when conducting a research study. This type of sampling is used because it allows researchers to collect data quickly and easily. However, this process can lead to undercoverage bias as researchers will only select certain groups or individuals that are more easily accessible to them.

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Retail Consumer Trends and Real-Time Feedback: Monitoring How Price Hikes Impact Market Sentiment

Lumoa

According to Deloitte’s Global State of the Consumer Tracker survey, 77% of retail consumers are concerned by the increasing prices of everyday products. This number is even higher in specific regions like Ireland, Poland, and the United States, where more than 80% of people have openly expressed their concern with booming inflation. Companies in the retail space have traditionally leveraged indicators like customer sentiment to better understand their target audiences.

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Customer Service Representative - Roles and Responsibilities

Omnicus

While it might not be as glamorous as building a new feature or launching a product, customer support is still an important part of every business. And no one is better suited to providing that service than a Customer Service Representative (CSR). But what exactly does the role entail? And how can you attract the best candidates to fill it? In this article, we’ll explore what makes a good CSR and share some tips for hiring managers looking to post a job description for one.

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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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Shopping for Experiences, Not Products: A Primer on Retail Customer Experience in the Experience Economy

InMoment XI

Retail brands’ primary objective used to be providing a great product , but as competition heats up and consumer expectations grow more complex, retailers need to find new, bolder ways to stand out from the crowd. And that’s why the retail customer experience is more important than ever before. Consumers are no longer satisfied with “just” a product and are finding different, more fundamental means of identifying (and spending money) with brands.

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CX Tech Top-ups: Save time, organize, and analyze!

IntouchInsight

This month at Intouch Insight we have launched several new features to the Intouch Platform and IntouchCheck™ that will help you to organize and analyze your data as quickly as possible.

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What is a Chatbot and How Do Customer Service Teams Use Them?

Comm100

Customer service is an always changing landscape. While many aspects of providing excellent customer service have held true over decades, the reality is that customer expectations have grown and shifted with technology. As consumers have adapted to digital technologies for communication in their personal lives, their preference for digital communication channels has crept into the customer service space.

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NPS vs. Social Media For Market Research

Retently

One of the most common questions we receive, as an NPS®-focused software business, is how Net Promoter Score® differs from the type of data you can extract by studying people’s reactions on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This is an easy question to answer, although one that’s best tackled in detail. Discussion on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter can be a powerful, accurate and valuable signal of public opinion, whether it’s aimed towards a business,

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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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The Ultimate Headache-Free Contact Center RFP Template

BlueOcean

“I love building RFPs!” Said no one ever. We get it. When you’re evaluating new outsourcers for your contact center, you know that a boilerplate RFP isn’t going to cut it. But writing a new RFP is a headache. That’s why, at Blue Ocean, we’ve never been shy about sharing what we believe are the best contact center RFP questions. In fact, we’ve even offered a downloadable template in the past.

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Context in Customer Service: Why Is It Important in Customer Experience

Kayako

Let’s say you are a teenager and want to borrow your aunt’s car. Do you ask her right after she just hung up from an annoying call? How about when she comes inside after mowing the lawn on a hot day – that same lawn you were supposed to mow yesterday? Most likely, you would choose a different time to ask for the car. Why? Because in those examples, the details surrounding her situation, also known as the context , are not favorable to you getting the keys to freedom anytime soon.

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4 Ways a Quick Service Restaurant Chain Refreshed a Stale Customer Experience Program

InMoment XI

When you think of going to get a quick bite to eat, you’re probably thinking of getting a burger. With so many quick-service restaurant chains to compete with, how can one chain expect to stand out above the rest? One family decided to perfect freshly sliced sandwiches, custom menu items, and a never before seen “light” menu that features low calorie salads and sandwiches.