November, 2021

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The Top 3 Customer Service Trends to Expect in 2022

Comm100

The customer service landscape is forever changing as technologies and consumer expectations develop, but 2021 has seen a shift of proportions that we have arguably never experienced. Organizations relying on call center support were forced to transition to digital channels during lockdowns. Query volumes spiked as customers (and companies) faced unprecedented problems, placing huge stress on customer service agents.

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Three Steps to Align Your CX Program Goals with Business Initiatives

InMoment XI

Has your customer experience (CX) program matured or just begun? Or is it somewhere in the middle? No matter where you’re at, CX program goals need consistent tweaking to be aligned to greater business initiatives. And with the proper alignment, your company can drive better decisions that will positively impact your customers, employees, and bottom line.

ROI 397
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Wondering how to improve customer experience in your contact center? Try these 10 best practices

NICE inContact

Watch our demo video to see CXone in action and then contact us to find out more about how CXone can help you improve your business results through more satisfying customer experiences.

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Best New Customer Experience and Design Books – 2021 List

eglobalis

Best New Customer Experience and Design Books – 2021 List best employee experience and design books. The post Best New Customer Experience and Design Books – 2021 List appeared first on Eglobalis.

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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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Creating Customer Personas: Solutions to 4 Common Challenges

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Creating customer personas is an important part of any customer journey mapping exercise or really any customer experience management program. But what are they, really? How are they created? And how can you overcome the obstacles that tend to keep organizations from creating truly great, useful personas? That’s what we’ll tackle today. What is a Customer Persona?

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The Granny Food Thief Strikes Again

Steve DiGioia

Thinking back on some of the fun, and weird, things that have happened during my 20+ year hospitality career, I was reminded of this old lady, I’ll call her “Granny Food Thief”. Many years ago, while I was supervising a banquet event, I came across this sweet little old lady who would constantly crash the cocktail hours for the business events. My property hosted many groups that, after their day-long meeting, would have a 1-hour farewell reception for the attendees.

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Luxury Retail: Three Elements to Closing the Physical and Digital Experience Gap

InMoment XI

Black Friday is right around the corner and you know what that means. Shopping, shopping, and more shopping! But not just any kind of shopping. This once a year occasion means customers are looking for the perfect gift for someone special—and the best deals they can find for the best and most luxurious products on the market. The thing is, any customer making a luxury purchase will have high expectations for not only the product, but the experience—whether it’s online or in store.Bridging that p

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Business Value and ROI of Customer Experience: The Step-by-step Guide

Lumoa

Is it possible to determine the ROI of customer experience, if so, how do you do that? In this article, we explain the relationship between revenue growth and customer experience. In addition, we share tools that will help you calculate the ROI of your own customer experience projects. Most business leaders believe that customer experience will be the key driver of their company’s competitiveness going forward.

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How Live Chat Improves the Digital Customer Experience

Comm100

87% of senior business leaders see customer experience as their top growth engine, and yet only one in three feel prepared to address this. Although this level of uncertainty is worrisome, the first step towards improving customer experience (CX) is far simpler than many realize. To begin the journey towards improving CX, organizations must offer live chat – and in this blog we will explain why.

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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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How to Build a Customer Experience Persona

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Developing CX Personas: The Step Before Journey Mapping. In my work consulting, training, and running workshops , one consistent theme I find is teams are super eager to begin the Customer Journey Mapping process. I get it. Customer Journey Mapping can reveal — and help solve — a lot of problems in the customer journey. But in order to do so, those journey maps must be built on a foundation of a true picture of your customer.

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Q&A WITH J.CREW: Using Voice Of Customer To Improve Experiences

Alida

We sat down for a virtual fireside chat with Jenny Yi, Sr. Community Insights Manager at J.Crew Group, Inc. to learn their secret to long-standing success in the retail space. In such a highly competitive industry, retailers can’t afford to miss the mark, but J.Crew has uncovered the key to navigate the retail landscape—by putting customers first. They’ve built a Voice of Customer program, powered by Alida’s TXM platform, that enables the organization to invest confidently into new product lines

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It’s a mad, mad world out there. Can contact centers provide some calm—and even a little happiness?

NICE inContact

We all get mad. Boy, do we get mad. We all have our triggers. Someone cuts us off in traffic. We’re given the wrong order.

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Reducing Customer Churn: Do You Need Prediction, Interpretation, or Both?

InMoment XI

Customer behaviour prediction—including customer churn prediction—is at the top of our clients’ agenda—and for good reason. Who doesn’t want to be able to predict the future for their customers, employees, and business? What Is Predictive Modelling? In the world of customer experience, predictive modelling means using data to predict the future needs, wants, and behaviours of your customers and employees.

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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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Stop asking basic demographic questions, and here’s why

QuestionPro Audience

Demographic questions are at the crux of every research survey. Researchers usually place these questions at the beginning of studies to quickly visualize their respondents. Knowing your respondent mix well can help you make better, more accurate decisions. But, demographic questions contribute to the length and time taken to complete surveys. Basic questions like age, gender, income, education, occupation, etc., are essential and they help you picture your respondents better.

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Top Live Chat Best Practices for 2022

Comm100

If you’re reading this, you likely have either just implemented live chat on your website or are thinking about it. If you’re the latter, let us help you make your decision – 75% of people prefer live chat over any other channel and it leads to a 40% increase in conversion rate. Convinced now? Whatever your industry, live chat is an incredibly effective channel – when used correctly.

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5 Ways to Optimize Your Customer Feedback Program

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

A customer experience leader’s role is often tied to collecting, analyzing and acting upon customer feedback. Many leaders are tasked with developing customer feedback programs, including how and when to send surveys, where to insert feedback tools like kiosks or chatbots, and how to report on the feedback once it’s gathered. But there’s a serious challenge in many organizations.

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How to Do Really Great Video Research

Alida

Nowadays, more and more people are capturing and sharing their everyday lives through a combination of pictures, short videos, and even full-length vlogs (video blogs). Not to mention the increased usage of Zoom during the pandemic. The use of video allows a personal view into people’s lives, uncovering moments of intimacy previously reserved for private eyes.

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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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Take off the blinders! Your customers have already engaged with your business before engaging your contact center

NICE inContact

I bought a new "assemble-it-yourself" desk and chair last month to better accommodate my work-from-home lifestyle.

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You Ask, We Tell: How Do I Increase Survey Response Rates? Should I Shorten My Survey?

InMoment XI

I’ve been looking back over my 20+ years of various research consulting roles and during that time, I’ve continuously fielded questions from clients and others within the industry. In this blog, I’m going to focus on one question that continues to come up in conversations with CX practitioners and data analysts and my answer may surprise you. How Do I Increase Survey Response Rates?

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Lumoa x Slush 2021

Lumoa

Chat with Lumoa at Slush Built from the ground up with AI, Lumoa allows you to make faster, smarter, and the right decisions based on the Voice of the Customer. Fill out the form below to book a time to meet Lumoa at Slush on 1-2 December. What is Slush? Slush is a student-driven, not-for-profit movement on a mission to create and help the next generation of groundbreaking entrepreneurs, originally founded to change attitudes toward entrepreneurship.

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Top 4 Steps to Integrate Chatbots into Customer Service

Comm100

Customer service isn’t easy, but new technologies are making it easier. With artificial intelligence like chatbots, brands can serve more customers faster than ever before – all the while keeping a high level of service quality. Not only are chatbots convenient, but they’re also quickly becoming necessary thanks to their ability to provide customers with 24/7 service.

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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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CX Leader Roundtable wrap-up

GetFeedback

During the latest CX Leader Roundtable, we explored the connection between employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX).

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What Is Product Experience and How Does It Relate to CX?

Alida

A substantial part of your customer’s opinion of your brand comes from their direct experiences with your products—how they interact with products and how products make them feel. Understanding how people perceive and use your product is important to ensure you meet their needs.

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The top three things that will win over business leaders for contact center technology investments

NICE inContact

Other contact centers are upgrading their technology to keep up with customer and competitive demands. To get a more macro view of technology investments, download the complimentary ContactBabel report, State of Contact Center Transformation in the New Digital World. Get started on your digital transformation today!

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What Is the First Step in a Customer Experience Transformation Roadmap?

InMoment XI

Whether your program is just getting started or has stagnated over the years, this post is for you! Every brand—across industries and around the globe—has a unique opportunity to overhaul outdated ways of managing customer experiences, and move toward actually improving experiences for customers and employees. Achieving this is no small task, and often requires customer experience transformation.

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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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Introduction to Customer Experience Design

Lumoa

The relationship between businesses and their customers is changing. As companies increasingly pivot towards providing online interactions, it’s essential for your business to keep the customer experience in mind. To do that, you’ll need to come up with a strategy for how you integrate multiple technologies to attract, retain, and delight your customers at every stage of your sales pipeline.

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5 Reasons Why Colleges & Universities Need Live Chat & Chatbots

Comm100

Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ll have heard of, and likely used live chat. You have probably interacted with chatbots too, knowingly or unknowingly. In both cases, students definitely have. Today’s students are digital nomads. Technology doesn’t only come easy to them – it’s where they want to interact. If colleges and universities want to improve student engagement and retention, they need to be where they are – online.

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River sampling: What it is, types & examples

QuestionPro Audience

Sampling is undoubtedly a very important process in an investigation. Thanks to this process, the correct answers or the most actionable results can be obtained. That is why today we decided to learn more about River Sampling so that you can evaluate if it is what you need for your project. River sampling is a type of non-probability sampling that came to be incorporated into the already impressive set of available data collection methodologies.

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