July, 2018

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4 ways to increase customer service survey response rates

Maru/HUB

Last month we talked about survey fatigue and how to produce a well-designed survey that’ll allow you to get the most actionable information with little effort from the respondents. However, prompted customer service surveys are much more difficult to even get the respondents to complete, never mind extract information from. That’s why this week we’ve put together some best practices that will not only make participants complete a full customer service survey, but also result in more insightful

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Investing in customer success: a venture capital perspective

Vonage

There’s no question that customer success impacts today’s businesses. We know that unhappy customers will not only take their business elsewhere, they will share bad experiences with friends, family, and colleagues, on social media and with anyone else who will listen. Do you know who else is listening? Venture capitalists. Investors take customer success seriously when assigning value to your business.

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CX Lessons from the best SaaS organizations

Customer Guru

The SaaS world is replete with cut-throat competition; the same services are provided by many brands, all of which have wonderful products. In such a scenario, what differentiates one SaaS brand from the other? Customer experience, but of course. This blog discusses what customer experience lessons one can learn from the best-in-business SaaS brands.

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Limitations of Using Social Media Exclusively to Measure CX

InMoment XI

I read recently about a senior manager at a prominent organization who was considering stopping their CX programme because he believed he could get everything he needed to know about the voice of the customer solely from social media. I have some concerns here and in this Café post, we talk about some of the. View Article.

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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

Lumoa

Most business leaders believe that customer experience will be the key driver for their company’s competitiveness going forward. However, when it comes to the actual customer experience management, things get difficult. It is not too difficult to listen to the customer. Companies receive real time feedback in massive volumes, if they only start listening to their customers.

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The Six Key Traits of Human Beings (Video)

Experience Matters

One of the most important – but often forgotten – elements of customer experience is that it’s all about human beings. Customers are human beings, employees are human beings, and executives are human beings. This video identifies six key characteristics to keep in mind whenever you’re dealing with all types of people. This video is a great introduction to a discussion with your team.

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3 Ways to Get the Most Value out of Your Mystery Shopping Program

IntouchInsight

Learn more about how mystery shopping helps improve customer experience at your business.

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Representative Sample: Definition, importance, & how to obtain a representative sample with examples

QuestionPro Audience

What is a representative sample? Representative sample definition: A representative sample is defined as a small quantity or a subset of something larger. It represents the same properties and proportions like that of a larger population. For example, consider a brand that is about to launch a new product in a US city. It will be practically impossible to send a survey to collect insights into the product’s features from every person in the city.

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How Well Do you Know Your Customers? 13 Questions your Boss Expects you to Answer

C3Centricity

Be a true leader; share this post with the members of your team who need the inspiration and support. Your boss expects you to be able to answer all his questions and especially to know your customers. Here are the 13 things your boss is likely to ask you and a handy Checklist to prove to him that you know your customers better than he realises. Everyone speaks about customer centricity and the importance of the customer, but just how well do you know yours – really?

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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3 Tips To Create A Great Banking Touchpoint Survey

Centriam Customer Experience Lab

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3 Tips on Maximizing Salesforce Survey Data

GetFeedback

Customer feedback makes Salesforce even more powerful. When survey results live on the customer record, you not only gain visibility into your customer experience, but you can use those insights to drive action across your business. Today, we’ll share a few simple tips on improving visibility and driving action with Salesforce survey data. 1. Create a Salesforce survey dashboard.

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The Value of Measuring Customer Delight

CloudCherry

Are your customers successful and happy with your products and services? Are they telling their friends and business partners to buy from you? If they have a concern, are you making meaningful change to address it? These are questions that all businesses need to ask themselves to ensure everything is being done to create customer delight. Happy customers are not only retained but they also help create more happy customers.

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The Power of a Smile

InMoment XI

You often hear of the positive power of a smile. A recent business trip brought this to light to me, as well as the negative power that is portrayed when it is missing. My colleague and I were on our way to see a client and we decided to stop and get a coffee. The first. View Article.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

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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All you need to know about “Cluster Sampling”

QuestionPro Audience

First, let’s be honest. Although it is now a commonly used term, if you’re not familiar with “cluster sampling”, it can come across as a bad episode from the Twilight Zone. There’s something eerie about the word to make one feel like he/she is about to get probed by aliens. Ok, perhaps it is just me and my wild imagination. Unless you’re 70 years old, cranking stats in a windowless basement office, market research terminologies can make even the brightest of the bunch take a mulligan or spurt an

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How to Update Your Marketing with a Customer First Strategy

C3Centricity

“Never miss an episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.”. All marketers know their marketing 5Ps, but how do you update your marketing when you adopt a customer first strategy? Here are some tips and ideas for you to adopt – or adapt. People. This is the easiest of the marketing 5Ps for a customer centric organisation to adapt because a customer first strategy is all about your customers.

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The 3 Hottest Trends Impacting Outsourced Customer Care

BlueOcean

The only constant in the customer care world is change, and if you don’t keep up, you’ll be left behind. That’s why we’ve compiled these must-read articles to keep you updated and give you some food for thought as you think about the future of your outsourced customer care. Strategic Partnerships with Contact Centers. “ 60% of B2B clients are emotionally indifferent toward their suppliers. ”.

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How to Create an Omni-Channel Customer Journey Map in Retail

GetFeedback

This is a guest post by Tom O’Brien, Director of Digital Marketing at TimeTrade. Retail is changing in 2018. What’s key? Creating an amazing customer experience through omni-channel customer journeys that engage your prospects where they are and help shuttle them through your sales funnel. In this post, we’ll explain how to create an omni-channel customer journey map for your retail business—and how you can use it to improve your customer experience.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Collage of 2018 Customer Experience Infographics (So Far)

Experience Matters

We’re always looking for ways to share interesting data and concepts, so we regularly publish parts of our content in infographics. In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a collage of the infographics that we’ve already published this year. Here are the individual infographics: Six Laws of Customer Experience Mastering Customer Experience Metrics Building A Strong Voice of The Customer Program Online Training For a Customer-Centric Organization Humanize Customer Experi

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Are You Looking to Upset Your Customer?

Steve DiGioia

because one size doesn't fit all. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. I’m easy to please, at least I think so; and I’m not high-maintenance. I don’t have unreasonable requests, and I understand things don’t always go as planned. I’m flexible and adaptable. I wish more people were like that too (boy, I’ve dealt with some crazies over the years…).

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4th of July Facts & Stats: Infographic

QuestionPro Audience

To celebrate America’s Independence Day, we put together this infographic with facts and figures to show how Americans are celebrating. Please refer to the firework section before you light anything tomorrow! We wish you a happy and safe 4th of July from QuestionPro Audience.

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5 Business Success Factors (So You’re Ready for Anything!)

C3Centricity

Every winter, the media is full of stories of record snowfalls somewhere in the world, whether in the US, Europe or in the Far East. Despite all the sophisticated technologies at our disposition, we just never seem to be prepared. So what are the success factors of readiness? Remember winter storm Juno in the USA in 2015? It dropped a couple of feet of snow on the Eastern coastline of North America.

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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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How the best Customer Experience Brands balance Technology with Humanity: MIT Tech Review

CloudCherry

What better way is there to learn about delivering an amazing customer experience than examining how the best in the business do it? The MIT Technology Review: Getting To Iconic report is based on surveys conducted with over 550 business executives at global firms—including retail, IT, logistics, healthcare, IT, and more— in over 30 countries between May and July 2017.

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Are You Tuning Out the Voice of the Customer?

GetFeedback

When you’re truly in sync with your customers, it shows. Communications are personalized and thoughtful. Customer support is frictionless. New products are consistently well received. And customers are happy to send new business your way. But that kind of synchronicity is pretty rare. Despite all the customer data and technology at our disposal, most companies don’t know their customers as well as they think they do.

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What is Net Promoter Score? (Video)

Experience Matters

Net Promoter® Score (NPS®) is one of the most popular CX metrics, so we are often asked to discuss it with clients. In addition to helping build successful NPS systems, we often provide a basic overview for executive teams and broader audiences of employees. That’s why created this video. It’s meant to explain what NPS is all about and why it may be a valuable approach for some companies.

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2-Minute Video: What You Need to Know About Mobile Form Software

IntouchInsight

Watch now! A 2-minute overview about how you can use IntouchCheck mobile form software to build your own mobile forms, save time, and find & fix issues faster.

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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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The Top 5 Infographics: July Edition

QuestionPro Audience

It’s that time again—when we scour the internet for the most interesting, colorful, well-designed infographics of the month, and this month’s group is no exception. From AI in healthcare, to investment tips for 20-year-olds, we cover it all. 1 — THE ART & SCIENCE OF DELEGATION IN A SMALL BUSINESS. Every small business owner should take a look at this infographic. 20% of small business fail in the first year, but this infographic tells you how to grow your company, and avoid burno

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What is a Good Net Promoter Score? (2018 NPS Report Update)

Retently

One of the most frequently asked questions that we get is “What is a good Net Promoter Score®?” And even though we repeatedly tell our clients that the score itself is irrelevant , we do understand the idea that comparing performance to other companies can help them show a more accurate picture of where they are standing at in a competitive landscape.

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The Science of Predictive Customer Experience Management

CloudCherry

Customer experience is becoming an increasingly popular topic, with many forward-thinking businesses thinking it can set them apart in today’s highly competitive landscape. And they’re right — a recent study by Forrester showed that organizations with a cross-team CX approach were nearly twice as likely to have exceeded their top 2017 business goals.