October, 2022

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The Importance of CX During Economic Instability

IntouchInsight

Rising inflation and concerns about economic instability have both brands and consumers concerned. But, after years of pandemic-related restrictions and guidelines, no one wants to give up their "new normal". This makes customer experience programs even more important than ever.

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5 Challenges Facing Your Customers and Brands, and What They Mean for Your CX Program

InMoment XI

A great deal of customers and the brands that serve them are facing unprecedented uncertainties; understanding them is key to organizational success, delivering Experience Improvement (XI), and ensuring that your customer experience (CX) program is operating optimally. All of these obstacles affect both customers and brands to some extent. Because half the Experience Improvement process is knowing what these challenges are, today’s conversation addresses five of the most prominent ones that I’ve

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Why Customer Experience Is Key to Scaling Revenue Growth

Lumoa

It’s no secret that customer experience is key to a company’s success. But what may be surprising is that as businesses compete more and more for customers, customer experience is becoming the new competitive battleground. . What does this mean for companies? It means that in order to stay ahead, they need to focus on delivering not just a good product or service, but a great customer experience as well.

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Customer lifetime value: The most important metric everyone overlooks

Alida

Customer lifetime value (CLV) is not a new concept. It’s the total revenue from a customer over the entire duration of their relationship with your business , from first to final purchase.

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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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Customer Success Team Structure: Four Best Practices

Totango

Your customer success team structure forms the organizational backbone supporting your CS strategy. A well-designed structure can help you streamline your operations for greater efficiency to deliver your customers better results. In this blog, we’ll share some of the most important keys to effective CS team organization: We’ll look at what we mean by customer success and CS team structure.

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3 Necessities for Seamless, Stand-Out Retail Experiences

InMoment XI

It is no secret that today’s retailers are faced with unique challenges. The rapidly-changing, ever-evolving retail landscape continues to present questions, roadblocks, and pain points that retailers need to address. These tribulations can take many forms; defining customer loyalty in emerging consumers, creating seamless retail experiences across channels, tracking a customer base that seems to be in multiple places at once, and keeping up with a digital landscape that changes as frequently as

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5 strategies for managing customer expectations

Team Support

A customer can expect everything from the ordinary to the seemingly impossible. But whether or not a customer is asking you to take them to the Moon or provide a simple reporting apparatus, your business needs to be able to meet their expectations in at least some manner, or risk the consequences. So in the cases where a customer is asking for something you can't provide, whether that's faster response times or new features (or a trip to the Moon with Wallace and Gromit), your business needs to

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Customers are changing — are you?

Alida

It’s no secret that customers are capricious. However, as we navigate an era of change, it’s easy to feel like this is the most volatile period in business history.

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Changing Your Loyalty Program? Here’s What To Consider

Forrester's Customer Insights

Today, brands leverage loyalty programs to acquire and retain customers, particularly those they lost during the height of the pandemic. But loyalty programs are a symbiotic relationship: Consumers look to programs for better experiences and cost savings, especially in light of the current economic crisis. As both customer and business needs change, programs are evolving […].

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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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The Best Customer Experience, Data and Design Books of 2022

eglobalis

The Best Customer Experience books 2002 list, Data and Design Readings of 2022, CX, experience design, cx strategy. The post The Best Customer Experience, Data and Design Books of 2022 appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Guest Blog: 10 Chatbot Features That Make Your Bot More Helpful to Customers

Comm100

Chatbots are quickly becoming a long-term solution for customer service across all industries. A good chatbot will deliver exceptional value to your customers during their buying journey. It boosts customer engagement because it’s quick, simple, and puts the user in the driver’s seat. But you can only deliver that positive value by making sure your chatbot features offer the best possible customer experience.

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5 Things We Learned from EMEA Customer Experience Experts at XI Forum Europe

InMoment XI

After nine EMEA customer experience experts, 200+ delegates, eight workshops, and hours of fun and networking at the colourful evening reception, it’s safe to say the XI Forum Europe was a success! We heard from award-winning CX speakers from some of Europe’s biggest brands—TRUMPF, ASOS, Brakes, Primark, Solus, BD Medical, NatWest and Euro Car Parts, as well as thought-provoking keynotes from InMoment Global Leader, CMO Kristi Knight, and Stan Swinford, CEO and Founder of NPSx by Bain & Comp

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The Best Customer Experience Conferences in 2023

Lumoa

After a couple of years of hiatus, many Customer Experience Conferences are going back to live events, as you have already seen in late 2022 – or at least they are trying to. There are nonetheless also many options for those who are still not ready to travel and meet people, as organizers have become better and better at offering an experience that is comparable to face-to-face interactions.

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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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The Best Social Media Channels for Customer Service

ShepHyken

Social customer care may not be the most popular channel to deal with customer issues for most businesses, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. More and more customers are turning to social media to get help. More on why in just a moment. For now, let’s address why companies aren’t using social channels. . When a company tells me they don’t want to participate in social media customer care, I ask why.

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CX Tech Top-Ups: All Treats, No Tricks, New Features!

IntouchInsight

Happy Halloween and happy new features! This month we are happy to announce that we have launched several new features across the Intouch Insight Platform, IntouchCheck™, and IntouchSurvey™.

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What’s On the Minds of Today’s Top CX Experts?

BlueOcean

Are you ready for the customer of the future? Today’s 6 th graders —who are playing video games on a TV while their laptop shows someone else playing video games on YouTube all while talking with friends through a PlayStation headset—are tomorrow’s customers. And it’ll happen faster than you could ever expect. That’s just one bite of insight coming out of last month’s CXOutsourcers Mindshare event in Las Vegas.

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Bringing Automation to Customer Service – 5 Chatbot Examples for Any Industry

Comm100

The life of chatbots in customer service has been turbulent. However, as bot technology has rapidly improved, so too has organizations’ readiness to adopt chatbots in their customer service operations. By introducing a chatbot, organizations are now expanding customer service availability, cutting costs, increasing team efficiency, so much more. In this blog, we’ll look at some of the best chatbot examples across industries, revealing how organizations are using automation and the benefits each

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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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Survey Methodology

InMoment XI

When it comes to collecting data, one of the best ways to do so is a survey. Most companies put out surveys of some kind for customers and employees at different points. But there’s more to a survey than just a series of questions. In fact, surveys typically have a method behind them to gather specific types of data and to make them as effective as possible.

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Product News – September 2022

Lumoa

Here are the improvements we have brought to Lumoa in the past month. Share data with other users. We want everyone to be able to act based on the voice of the customer. Due to this, we made a few changes to how Dashboards and Cards can be shared with others: Your Private Dashboard can now be shared with other users – for example, this lets you make a template to give new users for easy onboarding ; Cards can now be linked and shared among your coworkers – this lets you quickly sprea

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The Top Ten Takeaways from Calabrio Customer Connect (C3)

Calabrio

Our annual Calabrio Customer Connect (C3) event has wrapped, and we are still feeling the buzz of excitement. For us, C3 is not only a time to share our vision for the future, but to hear the business challenges our customers are trying to solve and which best practices they are using to get the insights they need. This year’s theme was “Power Up,” and little did we know how fitting this theme would be, after Hurricane Ian changed course.

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Intouch Insight's 2022 Drive-Thru Study

IntouchInsight

The 2022 Annual Drive-Thru Study is here! This study was first launched 22 years ago and is the leading industry benchmark for drive-thru performance. It examines how ten of the top quick serve brands rank for key metrics like speed, accuracy, and friendliness.

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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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Kustomer Pricing: Here's what you need to know

Omnicus

Before purchasing your customer service software, I recommend always scheduling a demo with customer success to let them show you how you can reach your full potential and the goals you’ve set for your customer success team. Also, when looking at different price tiers, keep in mind that as your needs evolve, pricing change quite a bit if you’re on the Kustomer platform.

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5 Digital Strategies that Increase University Enrollment

Comm100

The state of higher education is changing, and the way that admissions teams work to increase university enrollment must change as well. While digital recruitment strategies have levelled the field for some institutions, others may find it challenging adapting to the new landscape. To increase university enrollment, higher education institutions now need digital strategies to reach students where they are and how they want to connect.

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7 Steps for Implementing a Closed-Loop System

InMoment XI

With so much riding on each interaction with your brand, you can’t afford to leave a negative customer experience unresolved. Research shows that it takes about 12 positive experiences to make up for one unresolved negative experience. In fact, a study by Lee Resources reveals that 91% of unhappy customers won’t return to your brand at all. That’s where a closed-loop system comes in!

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Alida Fall ‘22 Product Release: Engage more customers faster with Conversational Surveys

Alida

The launch of this product headlines our Q4 release, which also includes several new features bound to enhance the Alida TXM platform.

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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 Echo

ShepHyken

There are many definitions of the term brand. One of my favorites is this: A brand is a promised delivered. . Is what you’re known for delivered consistently? Consider Ace Hardware, whose brand promise is The Helpful Hardware Place. When you visit an Ace Hardware store, do they keep their promise? Are they helpful? Based on all their awards and the comments from happy customers posted on social channels, they deliver. .

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Deploy a machine learning inference data capture solution on AWS Lambda

AWS Machine Learning

Monitoring machine learning (ML) predictions can help improve the quality of deployed models. Capturing the data from inferences made in production can enable you to monitor your deployed models and detect deviations in model quality. Early and proactive detection of these deviations enables you to take corrective actions, such as retraining models, auditing upstream systems, or fixing quality issues.

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How to Launch a Successful Outsourced Contact Center Implementation

BlueOcean

The launch of your outsourced contact center implementation may be a strenuous time – there's so much at stake for your business. That said, it shouldn’t be a headache.