March, 2018

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You’ve Got Data? Well Don’t Start There!

C3Centricity

Did the title about data make you curious? Great! Of course, in today’s data-rich environment I’m not really suggesting that you actually ignore it! However, in working with clients around the world and in numerous industries, I have found that many are lost by the wealth of information that is available to them. In fact it seems to drown out their reasoning of what to do and they remain frozen in indecision.

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The Future of Customer Experience for B2B Companies

Lumoa

B2C customer experiences have set the tone of CX transformation. All the people, who receive advanced personalized customer treatment, come to work and. very often experience the same old "traditional" system. Instead of online catalogue, they have to download a pdf or even order a paper brochure. Instead of usual "order in three clicks", they have to call.

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How to conduct systematic sampling?

QuestionPro Audience

In school, while selecting the captain of sports teams, most of our coaches asked us to call out numbers such as 1-5 (1-n) and the students with a random number decided by the coach, for this instance, 3, would be called out to be the captains of different teams. It would be a non-stressful selection process for both the coach as well as the players.

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What's in Your #CX Budget?

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay What's in your customer experience strategy budget? Traditionally, customer experience professionals have no budget. By that I mean that they have no allocated financial resources for improvements to be made as a result of the learnings from surveys and other listening posts, journey mapping, and other customer experience strategy exercises that become the catalyst for onstage customer experience or behind-the-scenes process improvements.

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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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Uncovering the “why” delivers higher research ROI for CX leaders

Alida

Note: This article is part of our ROI Matters series , which explores the value of research ROI to C-suite executives and leaders in product innovation , customer experience, marketing and customer insight. . It’s not enough to treat the symptoms of an illness—you need to understand the cause. Similarly, customer experience (CX) and market researchers must look beyond just fixing individual transactions and in-the-moment interactions with consumers to effectively demonstrate the return-on-invest

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Bad Feedback Is the Best Feedback. Are You Listening For It?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

As an employer, you need to provide oodles of feedback to employees to ensure they know what they’re doing, what they’re supposed to be doing, what they’re doing well and what they could be doing better. Bad feedback from employees and customers alike provides a way to prevent little annoyances from becoming reasons for good people to leave you.

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Customer Experience Strategy: An A to Z Glossary

Lumoa

Customer experience has been on the rise during the last couple of years. From the traditional product-oriented businesses we’re moving towards customer understanding and customer-centric approaches. Whether you’re new to customer experience or coming for little inspiration, this is the right place. We have explained each term and provided lots of extra sources, if you want to dive deep into the topic.

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How to carry out Simple Random Sampling

QuestionPro Audience

What is Simple Random Sampling? Simple random sampling is a subset of a sample chosen from a larger population. Each individual is chosen randomly and purely by chance, such that each individual has the same probability of being chosen at any stage during the sampling process. This process and technique is known as simple random sampling, and should not be confused with systematic random sampling.

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Predictive Analytics, Dealer Service Centers, and the Promise of Forecasting Vehicle Breakdowns Before They Occur

InMoment XI

So, you’re out for an evening at the mall and when you return to your vehicle, it won’t start. Or, like the woman above, your vehicle starts sputtering as you’re driving, the “check engine” light comes on and you’re fortunate enough to pull to the median inside emergency lane of a busy freeway where it. View Article.

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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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Report: 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings (U.S.)

Experience Matters

2018 marks the eighth straight year that we’ve published the Temkin Experience Ratings, a cross-industry, open standard benchmark of customer experience. To generate these Ratings, we asked 10,000 U.S. consumers to rate their recent interactions with 318 companies across 20 industries and then evaluated their experiences across three dimensions: success, effort, and emotion.

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The Top 5 Women Customer Experience Influencers [Infographic]

CloudCherry

Over the years, women have played an immense role in shaping Customer Experience. They’ve been at the forefront of creating processes and policies that have helped numerous companies drive loyalty, retention as well as profitability. And what better way to celebrate Women’s day than by giving a shout out to some of the women who have been highly instrumental in defining this CX space.

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Getting emotional: experts share secrets to CX success

Vonage

A customer’s interaction with a brand evokes strong emotions that can have a lasting impact on the business – for better or worse. Brands that get this right and create customer experiences that drive positive emotions dramatically outperform those that get it wrong in retention, revenue and even stock price growth. So, what’s their secret? And how can other businesses follow suit to successfully harness the power of emotion in their customer experience strategies?

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7 Add-Ons That Improve the E-Commerce Experience

GetFeedback

The e-commerce experience is the key to success for online retailers. Anand Srinivasan of Hubbion shares 7 simple web elements that make all the difference.

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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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Stratified Random Sampling: Definition, Types and Benefits

QuestionPro Audience

Let’s consider a situation where a research team is seeking opinions about religion amongst various age groups. Instead of collecting feedback from 326,044,985 U.S citizens, random samples of around 10000 can be selected for research. These 10000 citizens can be divided into strata according to age,i.e, groups of 18-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, and 60 and above.

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How Tiny Businesses Can Offer Stellar Customer Support

Kayako

In all the best practices and how-to’s, it’s easy for a small business to get lost with applying every customer service tip. You don’t have the budget of Amazon or the resources of Nordstrom. Forget a 50-person department dedicated to customer support – you don’t even have fifty employees, period. Does that mean tiny businesses don’t have what it takes to provide amazing customer support?

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Customer Focus Boosts Employee & Business Performance

Experience Matters

It turns out that having a customer focus isn’t only good for customers, but it’s also good for employees and financial results. We asked more than 5,000 U.S. employees to identify what they felt was the top priority for their senior executives. We also asked them about their work efforts and the financial performance of their organization.

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The Top 5 Women Customer Experience Influencers [Infographic]

CloudCherry

Over the years, women have played an immense role in shaping Customer Experience. They’ve been at the forefront of creating processes and policies that have helped numerous companies drive loyalty, retention as well as profitability. And what better way to celebrate Women’s day than by giving a shout out to some of the women who have been highly instrumental in defining this CX space.

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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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3 key customer service trends for 2018

Vonage

Three years ago, Gartner predicted that more than half of businesses would implement significant changes to improve customer experience by 2018. We are now living on the other side of that deadline – where CX must be at the top of your mind and the top of your game. Otherwise, it could cost you. The estimated price tag of losing customers due to poor service has reached $1.6 trillion in the U.S., according to Accenture’s Digital Disconnect in Customer Engagement report.

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6 Tips on Upping Email Support Efficiency

GetFeedback

Customers count on email support for quick, convenient help. Learn how to maximize support efficiency without sacrificing quality with these 6 simple tips!

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How the Entertainment Industry is Using Data Collection

QuestionPro Audience

Hollywood is learning what those in the market research world have known for years: follow the data. For years, film studios have had only a vague understanding of who’s buying tickets to their films. As mobile becomes more popular, however, the entertainment business is using the technology to capture what was lost in the relationship between the studios and the consumer, and convert that data into meaningful insight into what works and what doesn’t.

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The Customer Experience Landscape: Interview with Jim Tincher (Part 1)

IntouchInsight

We recently sat down with Jim Tincher, founder of Heart of the Customer and Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP), to get his take on the customer experience landscape and how it is changing in 2018.

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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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Humanize Customer Experience (Infographic)

Experience Matters

As you hopefully already know, Temkin Group has labelled 2018 The Year of Humanity. As part of our focus on this topic, we put together this infographic that focuses on how we can Humanize CX. It identifies six fundamental characteristics of human beings—Hopeful, Intuitive, Self-Centered, Emotional, Motivated, and Social—that you need to keep in mind when you’re thinking about your customers and employees.

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Customer unhappiness and how to create it. A masterclass by Emirates

ijgolding

Before I even start this article, I must make it clear that Emirates are not the only airline to make customers unhappy. In fact, they are far from being alone in any industry around the world at creating masterclasses in customer dissatisfaction. The airline industry does seem to excel at providing examples of shocking and inhumane treatment of people – the very people who hand over large sums of money to use their products and services.

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How to hire extraordinary employees for your customer-facing vacancies

Vonage

Hiring the best employees for customer-facing jobs is an absolute essential for providing great customer service. Yet company after company overlooks the necessity of finding employees who are inclined and equipped to work face to face (or terminal to terminal) with customers. This shortsightedness grows from the extreme urgency of business life, the feeling that customer-facing positions need to be filled now, by whomever is breathing and in the neighborhood, so that the phones get answered and

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Are Moments of Truth Really Worth All The Fuss?

Steve DiGioia

how a single interaction can ruin the entire customer experience This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. “Although companies are investing record amounts of money in traditional loyalty programs, in customer-relationship-management (CRM) technology, and in general service-quality improvements, most of these initiatives end in disappointment.

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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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How to conduct Convenience Sampling?

QuestionPro Audience

What is Convenience Sampling? Convenience Sampling (also called availability sampling) is a non-probability/non-random sampling technique used to create sample as per ease of access, readiness to be a part of the sample, availability at a given time slot or any other practical specifications of a particular element. The researcher chooses members merely on the basis of proximity and doesn’t consider whether they represent the entire population or not.

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United Airlines Needs a Lesson in Apologizing - Transforming the Customer Experience

Kristina Evey

It’s all over the news… a United Airlines flight attendant insisted that a passenger put her dog carrier containing her 10-month-old French bulldog, Kokito, in the overhead compartment. Fellow passengers state the family told her there was a dog inside the carrier, but the attendant insisted the carrier be placed in the overhead compartment.

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What Is Voice Of The Customer (VoC) And How To Capture It

NICE inContact

Voice of the Customer (VOC) is the entirety of a customer’s expectations, experiences, and feedback from on-boarding through to successful implementation and beyond. The problem—this encompasses such an expansive amount of interactions and touch points between you and your customer that it can be difficult trying to understand (and tie together) tools to successfully capture VOC.

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