June, 2014

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Who Wants To Talk To Dad About Life Insurance?

InMoment XI

The life insurance business is facing an unprecedented falloff in insurance purchase rates by Generations X and Y, those born after 1965. Interestingly, these age groups know they are underinsured, especially if they have families, but they have not corrected the situation. At the same time, recruiting agents in these generations is also becoming increasingly.

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GetFeedback Summer ’14: Team Administration

GetFeedback

GetFeedback introduces team administration and collaboration for all of your customer survey projects. Check out our Summer '14 Product Feature Tour.

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Is your value proposition this strong?

Joe Rawlinson

'Every company, including your company, needs a strong value proposition. At the core, the value proposition is why a customer should do business with you and not somebody else. If you don’t have this differentiation, your business is doomed to struggle or die. Take a look at this email I got from L.L.Bean, the outdoor clothing retailer, and pay special attention to the big reminder they give the customer of why they should do business together: 1.

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You Can’t Buy Customer Loyalty, You Need to Build It Each and Every Day

Win the Customer

'Value is hard to come by these days. If you can crack customer experience code and get service right, you’re “in” with your customers - loyalty for life.

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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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5 Signs You May Not Be As Customer-Centric As You Think You Are

PeopleMetrics

'You know the familiar saying: “ Culture eats strategy for lunch ”? Well, I would wager that there is just one word in those five that would be commonly defined by all of us. Yup, you guessed it. Lunch. That’s because culture, like strategy, is intangible, soft and elusive. About as concrete as steam. And yet, so many businesses claim that they have or aspire to have a customer centric culture - to become more customer-centric, to put the customer first, to be customer-inspired

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Listen Up! Bank Customers Want to be Heard

InMoment XI

Like many bankers I know, my chosen profession was not the result of some well thought out plan or career aspiration that I had growing up. After three years of tossing pizzas in college, a part-time bank teller position seemed like the perfect job to gain some professional experience, plus I got to swap an. View Article.

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Creating Multi-Language Surveys

GetFeedback

New capability of GetFeedback: create multi-language surveys with full translation of the interface for your survey recipients.

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Book Review: The War of Art

Joe Rawlinson

'Steven Pressfield is a successful writer who shares his deep insights into being a successful creative in The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. If you create anything at all, this book is for you. If you are a writer, artist, entrepreneur, business owner, or hobbyist, this book is for you. Pressfield’s book reads more like a serious of short essays that are easy to digest.

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Lead Magnets: Giving Customers What They Want, to Get What You Need Every Time

Win the Customer

'Lead magnets create the ultimate positive customer experience as it delivers customers the right information at the right time your customers need it.

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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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Driving Incremental Service Revenue from Customer Success

Amity

I have participated in several discussions around how to manage your Customer Success organization and the value it brings to your customer base and company. And a question I hear quite often is – is there opportunity to also drive incremental service revenue from your Customer Success staff? Traditional Professional Services offerings such as training and consulting services will likely always be offered on a cost basis, as these services are key to a successful new customer deployment, a

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The Impact of the Chief Customer Officer, Part I

CCO Council

'Today''s customers require access to a company''s offerings through many forms of media in order to meet their preferences and lifestyles. Furthermore, they also require a consistent customer experience across these channels since they can easily choose to change vendors if they do not receive support that meets their expectations. So multi-channel accessibility and consistency of experience across those channels have become essential components to winning the competition for customers.

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Listen Up! Bank Customers Want to be Heard

InMoment XI

Like many bankers I know, my chosen profession was not the result of some well thought out plan or career aspiration that I had growing up. After three years of tossing pizzas in college, a part-time bank teller position seemed like the perfect job to gain some professional experience, plus I got to swap an.

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Invest in customer service for a rainy day

Very Best Service

'Invest in customer service for a rainy day Sometimes, the trading environment for your company deteriorates considerably. This might be due to factors beyond your control such as interruption of public services, supplier failure, natural catastrophe or other unforeseen circumstances. When this happens, customer and employee loyalty becomes a major determinant of a company''s survival.

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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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Discover Your Wow Factor with Customer Journey Mapping

Touchpoint Dashboard

'We’re all looking to wow our customers, right? So how are you doing in that area? Take a pop quiz and find out. Ask yourself… • Do you know what really wows your customers? • Is your company providing the wow your customers want at the exact points in their customer journey where they need […].

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The Journey to Excellence or Excellence as a Journey?

Strativity

What do you envision when you think of excellence? Is it a Nobel Prize winner? A world leader? With the FIFA World Cup right around the corner, could it be Lionel Messi… or Cristiano Ronaldo? When you associate excellence with people like that, you subconsciously put excellence out of your reach. You make the concept unattainable by relating it to people you’ve never met and only read about post-achievements.

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Fantastic Customer Success Meetup featuring BMC Software, Nulogy and ScribbleLive

Amity

There was so much interesting and meaty content in last night’s Customer Success Meetup, we could barely keep up with capturing it all. After the regular community announcements (see the end of the blog post) and panel introductions the discussion was well underway. And to be honest we served up the first couple of scripted questions, but the audience engagement and natural flow of the conversation just took over.

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The Six Components to Customer Engagement Strategy

CCO Council

'Customer engagement needs to be a disciplined strategy with ownership, accountability, broad reach, goals, accountability, measures, and a marketing plan of its own to communicate with employees, customers, and other stakeholders. Here are six essential components to a successful customer engagement strategy: Purpose In order to devise an effective strategy, you must first identify what you want engaged customers to do for you.

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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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Listen Up! Bank Customers Want to be Heard

InMoment XI

Like many bankers I know, my chosen profession was not the result of some well thought out plan or career aspiration that I had growing up. After three years of tossing pizzas in college, a part-time bank teller position seemed like the perfect job to gain some professional experience, plus I got to swap an.

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How to Increase Sales 27% for E-commerce

customer sure

E-commerce is a great business model. Low overheads, scale up fast, punch above your weight, and a whole wide world of potential customers. But it comes with a challenge when figuring out how to increase sales effectively, as there’s a big disadvantage compared to traditional business: You never get to meet your customers. Derek Bacharach, owner at the store www.SimplySuperHeroes.com describes how this affects him: “One of the drawbacks to having an e-commerce store is not being able

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“No Soup for You” – A Lesson in Customer Experience from Seinfeld

Touchpoint Dashboard

'Bad customer experiences can come back to bite you! I was reminded of this last night when I was watching Seinfeld re-runs and came across the ever-popular “Soup Nazi” episode. If you haven’t seen it, the plot centers around a tyrant owner of a soup shop. This guy makes amazing soup, and his secret recipes […].

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News and Updates – June 2014

Strativity

Webcast: Accelerating Cultural Transformation. Date: June 17, 2014 Time: 3pm – 4pm EDT . Click here to register. Consistently engaged employees are the key to creating better customer experiences and loyal customers, but as companies struggle to keep up with the fast-paced world of cultural transformation they are losing the hearts and minds of their employees.

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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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The Problem with Predictive Analytics for Customer Success

Amity

I recently read yet another very informative blog post from Corey Eridon over at Hubspot , entitled The Problem with Predictive Analytics. Along with an explanation of predictive analytics and its increasing use in marketing, her analysis got me thinking about the use of predictive analytics in customer success. If marketing is using predictive analytics wrong, then chances are the nascent industry of CS is likely doing it too – or rather placing too much emphasis on them.

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13 Best Practices for a Successful PSIM Deployment

Customer Interactions

'I was asked a few weeks back to host a webinar. When I was told I could pick my own topic, it got me to thinking. I speak at security conferences throughout the year and host PSIM Workshops as well. The one question that always comes up is ‘what can I do to make my PSIM deployment successful?’ So to answer this question, I went on a fact finding mission.

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Video: Taking Your CE Program Global: Cultural Sensitivity

InMoment XI

Cultural Sensitivity means more than just knowing what dealers and head office types want to measure. It’s practical stuff – like being sure you’re servicing clients in their own time zone. A few more thoughts on taking your customer experience program global. Until next time. @christravell PS Go Nico! PPS A quick reminder to check out.

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Why You Should Build Customer Relationships with Email Marketing

customer sure

Customer relationship building is essential in converting prospects and web visitors to full paying customers – and even advocates of your business. Email is one of the best ways to do that, and relationship building should be the no.1 priority of all your email marketing activities. All too often ecommerce stores take the view that email marketing is about delivering mini-catalogues of products and special offers into the inbox of past and potential customers.

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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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Q&A on Social Media Customer Support

Brad Cleveland Blog

Is your organization waking up to the complexities of providing social media customer support? An interview that I did with Salesforce.com provides answers to many common questions about social media customer support. You can read the full interview here.

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The Top 3 Company Culture Fixes That Don’t Work

Strativity

People create culture- so why is it so hard for people to change it? Culture is made up of many influences over the course of a long period of time. It’s a pattern that has evolved with the people that practice it. It’s not a written law. When you’re changing culture, you’re changing the intangible. Companies know culture is important, but they tend to get a little lost when they try to make positive, lasting changes to it.

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Amity combines Workflow, Automation and Customer Insights to Create the First Closed-loop Customer Success Platform

Amity

The benefit of building a customer success platform is that your own customer success team can use it – and we do. And what we’ve discovered, and confirmed with our customers, is that taking action makes a difference in customer success. Customer insights alone don’t address the key question – Now What? But delivering the right service to the right customer at the right time does.