Sat.Jan 26, 2019 - Fri.Feb 01, 2019

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Customer Service Quality Assurance ROI: What is it and How do you Measure it?

Playvox

We all know it’s important to deliver the best possible customer service. But is it possible to see just how important? Delivering a positive experience is a must to retain customers and ensure repeat purchases. Consumers who enjoy the best past experiences with a brand spend 140 percent more.

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Top 5 Customer Experience Trends To Look For in 2019

iPerceptions

In 2019, the heat will be turned up on Customer Experience (CX) professionals to design positive, memorable experiences that will attract new consumers, and keep existing customers from fleeing to their competition.

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Moving from Reactive to Proactive Customer Success

Strikedeck

Clayton shares how to move from reactive to proactive Customer Success, and the necessary strategies to advance!

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Personalized Customer Experience: What, How and Why

Lumoa

What is personalized customer experience and how to build it? Learn from the best customer-centric companies about the importance of customer experience personalization.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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5 Smart Ways to Use Your NPS Survey Results

GetFeedback

The results from Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys are the most underutilized tool in business. Okay, it’s a bold statement, but the potential locked up inside your NPS survey results is huge. From telling you that the majority customers are extremely annoyed with your new website design to predicting that your customers are about to switch to your closest competitor, there are so many valuable insights that are lost if you’re only looking at your NPS as a number. .

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Who’s Hiring Journey Managers?

Kerry Bodine

The emerging role of the journey manager represents one of the most important developments since the creation of the Chief Customer Officer, yet many in the customer experience field have yet to encounter a journey manager within their organizations—or to develop a working knowledge of their typical job responsibilities and challenges. That’s not surprising: Compared to the 1.6 million product managers that you’ll find today on LinkedIn, journey managers number fewer than 2,000.

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2019 predictions for ambitious contact centres

Vonage

It’s my favourite webinar of the year – our most popular and great fun! This year we had registrations from New Zealand to New York in order to share views on this year’s predictions. Jonty Pearce, editor of callcentrehelper.com pointed out that the annual webinar, which this post is based on, has a pretty good track record. Nine out of the ten topics mentioned in our inaugural 2014 version have become mainstream.

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The State of “Things” in America

QuestionPro Audience

A new syndicated study from EBONY/QuestionPro considers whether African-Americans today feel as hopeless as slaves heading to the New World during the transatlantic slave trade. In Neil Gaiman’s television adaptation of American Gods , African deity Anansi (played by Orlando Jones) appears to a group of slaves heading to the New World on a Dutch ship.

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Lessons in CX Shared by Behavioral Scientists

InMoment XI

Creating value in and out of the workplace is a challenge for all businesses, especially when it comes to their CX programs. And understanding how to create that value, is an entirely different challenge. Since the 1950’s, behavioral scientists have combined economics and psychology to study human behavior in business models; effectively introducing solutions that.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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What is Customer Experience in 2019 according to 15 CX Experts

Lumoa

What is customer experience? We asked 15 CX experts and practitioners to define customer experience management and trends in 2019.

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7 Contact Center Glossary Terms You Need to Know

NICE inContact

I could take you through a litany of common contact center terms and definitions … but why? There are plenty of places you can go to find that information. In fact, I’ve included a link to an unbiased market source at the end of this blog. There are, however, some terms you should know today, that might not be on lists of old. . To understand todays technologies and what they mean to your business is key to help make the right investments in your customer experience – here are some of the mo

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New and Improved! GetFeedback Survey Templates

GetFeedback

New Pre-Built Survey Templates by GetFeedback. We’re excited to release our new and improved in-app survey templates. Rather than starting from scratch, GetFeedback provides pre-built templates for every stage of the customer journey so you can successfully create surveys with ease. They say that motor oil is lifeblood for a car. It travels through all parts of your engine, keeping each component greased so it can function properly.

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Making Insight Actionable: Closing the Loop and Driving Action

InMoment XI

Customer experience is driven by a company’s ability to recognize opportunities and act on them at the proper time. The tools that provide the best outcomes are achieved by combining specific programs with appropriate actions. Bryan Rhodes and Brian O’Connor, two MaritzCX professionals, give their insights and a step-by-step process on how to incorporate a.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Focus on Earning a Long-Term Relationship, Not Making the Sale

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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10 Steps to Reduce Call Center Attrition

NICE inContact

Keeping good employees is a priority in every industry. But in call centers, it can be significantly more challenging. QATC estimates that the turnover rate in the call center industry ranges between 30-45%. If you’re a veteran of the industry, you already know this because hiring and retaining good agents is something successful contact centers constantly focus on.

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5 Smart Ways to Use Your NPS® Survey Results

GetFeedback

A Net Promoter Score isn't just a number. Learn how to use your NPS survey results to boost customer retention and provide the best customer experience.

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Computer Vision: The pathway to a personalized CRM experience

TechSee

Samantha is preparing for a party she’s hosting this weekend. She’d like to purchase a standalone freezer so she can cook in advance. Between carpool, the dry cleaners’ closing time, and the dog’s appointment at the vet, there is simply no time to hit the stores, or browse through a myriad of online options. Samantha takes 30 seconds to snap a photo of her available space and uploads it to the snap-to-purchase app.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Building Blocks of a Customer Experience Transformation Strategy

CX Journey

Do you know all of the building blocks of a customer experience transformation strategy? I've mentioned the CX Perception Gap before, right? You might know it as Bain's Delivery Gap, which states findings from their 2005 research: 80% of executives believe they deliver a superior experience, while only 8% of customers agree. What gives? I wrote about that massive gap last year and cited two reasons that Bain offered up for its existence: (1) a focus on acquisition over retention, and (2) a mispl

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Millennial Specialty Insurance Expands Business and Increases Customer Satisfaction

NICE inContact

As Americans continue to re-think the whole question of owning versus renting their homes, the percentages of those who are choosing to rent is surging—across all regions and demographic groups. For Millennial Specialty Insurance (MSI), this definitely a case of being in the right place at the right time. Working with agent-partners rather than direct-to-consumer, MSI focuses on niche markets, primarily renters and condominium insurance for multi-family housing.

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New and Improved! GetFeedback Survey Templates

GetFeedback

GetFeedback provides pre-built survey templates for every stage of the customer journey so you can successfully create surveys with ease.

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Who’s Hiring Journey Managers?

Kerry Bodine

The emerging role of the journey manager represents one of the most important developments since the creation of the Chief Customer Officer, yet many in the customer experience field have yet to encounter a journey manager within their organizations—or to develop a working knowledge of their typical job responsibilities and challenges. That’s not surprising: Compared to the 1.6 million product managers that you’ll find today on LinkedIn, journey managers number fewer than 2,000.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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Episode 36 – Building the Right CX Team

Kristina Evey

Shownotes… The majority of your Customer Experience works falls on the shoulders of the people you put in charge of … Read More Episode 36 – Building the Right CX Team. The post Episode 36 – Building the Right CX Team appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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What is a Progressive Dialer?

NICE inContact

Progressive Dialing covers the “middle ground” between manual dialing, and the more advanced Predictive Dialing solutions. . A Progressive Dialer, just like a Predictive Dialer, is implemented to avoid agents having to manually dial customer phone numbers to make outbound calls. Progressive Dialers are used in any vertical, for customer service, sales, telemarketing, collections and any other environment that requires making outbound calls from a list and does not want to saddle their agents w

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How the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden Approaches the Visitor Experience

Customer Bliss

Quite a few of the CX leaders I’ve spoken to on the podcast have shared that previous experiences in sales, retail, and hospitality helped create a foundation for the skills required to be a successful CX champion in their organization. In today’s episode, I chat with Rhiannon Hoeweler , the Vice President of Visitor Experience, Strategy, and Fun at The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.

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Five Ways to Keep Your CX Program Alive and Well in 2019

Beyond Philosophy

Customer Experience is having some growing pains. There are a lot of reasons for it, which I have shared before. However, by adopting a renewed focus on the following five concepts in Customer Experience, you can overcome these challenges, and, perhaps more importantly, stay ahead of the competition. We discussed these five areas in a recent podcast.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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The Evolving Role of Customer Service: Your Questions

Esteban Kolsky

While my blog was being “reworked” (read: unhacked), I posted in Linked-In about the webinar I did last week with Microsoft. That was the first of a three-webinar series on the challenges affecting customer service these days and for the next couple of years. The first webinar was on the evolving role of customer service and how it is going to look in the next decade.

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Gartner’s Critical Capabilities Report – We Received Highest Scores in 4 out of 5 Use Cases

NICE inContact

We’re pleased to let you know that NICE inContact has received the highest score in Customer Engagement Center use case in Gartner’s “Critical Capabilities for Contact Center as a Service” research report , just out in mid-December. We believe that the exemplification of NICE inContact’s critical capabilities applied to real-world use cases is especially interesting because it demonstrates our customer-centric vision and strategies and our commitment to helping customers like you achieve y

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The Best Feedback Question

ShepHyken

“Please stay on the line to answer a short, one-question survey at the end of this call.”. That’s what I heard just before the agent picked up the phone to help me. Just a one-question survey? Sounds short enough. Sure, I’ll give them an extra minute of my time. So after the call, I stayed on the line. What came right after the call was the promised simple question.

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