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3 Leadership Behaviors That Prove Your Commitment to Customer-Driven Growth

Customer Bliss

As a customer experience leader, you need to have a good understanding of your organization’s culture. The culture is defined by actions, not words. It is consistent behaviors that give people direction on what to “model.” It’s decisions made and actions taken that prove that the customer commitment is real and not lip service.

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The State of Voice of the Customer (VoC) for B2B Companies

GetFeedback

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs have been emerging across the board in the last few years. But have they been thriving? Bob Thompson of CustomerThink doesn’t believe so. . In CustomerThink’s recent study on Customer Experience Success , they found that only one in four CX initiatives are “Winning,” which they define as “being able to connect the dots from the good work being done to benefits that sponsoring executives care about.”.

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6 ways to improve your Customer Experience Dashboards

iPerceptions

A great Customer Experience dashboard is so much more than just pretty charts.

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Ideas are Your Fuel for an Improved CX

Heart of the Customer

Think about the last time you lead brainstorming to improve your customer experience (CX). Did you give people Post-It Notes and have them shout out ideas while they put them on the wall? Doing that is a ton of fun. But it’s also a terrible way to develop ideas. So, stop doing it. You reply, “But […]. The post Ideas are Your Fuel for an Improved CX appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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The Recession is Coming; Will You Be Prepared?

Beyond Philosophy

You turn on the news, and the newscaster says, “There’s a lack of confidence in the stock market,” which we know means that the market is about to drop. However, confidence is a feeling. It’s not an actual physical thing, but, apparently, not having it can be costly for your net worth. . The question becomes, are we talking ourselves into a recession?

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Five Customer Service Strategies That Win

Team Support

Simply put, your business needs customer service strategies that improve their productivity and customer satisfaction. The right strategies help your customers resolve their issues faster and enable your agents to provide better support. Here are five of the winning customer service strategies every business should be using: 1. Self-service. Often the fastest and easiest way for customers to resolve a technical or support issue is just to do it themselves.

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The Future of Brand Building is Customer Centricity

C3Centricity

Marketing is an old profession. It’s been around for hundreds of years in one form or another. But w ith the advent of digital in the early 80’s, companies began taking a serious look at their marketing strategies. Many organisations realised that it was time for a major overhaul of their primarily outbound strategies. Consumers no longer appreciated being interrupted in their daily lives, if they ever did!

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"Customer experience can't be managed"? and other hard truths

Perceptive

“The idea that the customer experience can be managed is a joke”. This hard-hitting line comes from Matt Watkinson, CEO at Methodical and author of The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences. You might wonder why a man in his position would throw so much shade over his own industry, but here’s the reality: he’s not wrong. CX can’t be “managed” in the traditional sense.

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How to Identify At-Risk Customers and What to Do About it

Totango

In a customer-centered economy, where a lot of revenue growth occurs within the established customer base, churn is a big problem. Customers grow more valuable over time, so you must keep them happy and interested in renewing. Still, dissatisfaction can creep up on any customer relationship, especially if you don’t communicate the value of your product regularly.

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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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How to Earn Customer Loyalty and Maximize Employee Retention With A Unique People-First Culture Strategy

Michel Falcon Experience

Loyalty is hard to understand and even harder to achieve. For me, I can only think of two brands I’m truly loyal to, Nike and SWAT Health (my gym). And, when I say loyal, I actually am. I don’t wear Adidas anymore. In fact, I gave away my Ultra Boosts because I only align myself with Nike. As for exercising, sure I go to the occasional Barry’s Bootcamp but I wouldn’t allow anyone else to train me other than the trainers at SWAT Health.

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Does Your Sales Team Have Bad CX Habits?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Leaders want to deliver exceptional experiences. We all want to deliver for our customers, starting with a sales experience that builds trust between our organization and our buyers. After all, sales sets the stage for the entire customer journey. Sales is where current challenges are discussed and in turn, promises are made. Those promises may be made with the best of intentions, but if your sales team doesn’t have a full understanding of the entire customer journey, it’s difficult to avoi

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The Power (and problem) of Profanity

Horizon CX

A few years back when I started taking drum lessons, my instructor gave me some sage advice about my performing. The advice he offered was ‘just because you can, doesn’t mean you should’ which came from a common English saying, meaning that there are some things that you should not do, even if you are able to do them. It was originally meant as advice to someone who might be using their money, power, or skill in a way that’s not very wise.

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Chick-Fil-A knows how to do Chicken and CX!

Innovative CX

I must admit that I’m considered a “late-adopter” when it comes to technology. I’m not the first one to buy the latest smartphone, convert from cable TV to streaming apps or leap into the world of social media. So, it was with Chick-Fil-A. Until last week, I had only heard about the fantastic chicken, great service and Sunday closings but never experienced them firsthand.

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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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4 Ways to Define Your 5G Customer Experience (Before a Competitor Does It for You)

Think Customers

The next generation of cellular networks—also known as 5G—is set to greatly enhance the speed, connections, and responsiveness of wireless devices. So, what does that mean for the customer experience? Given that the average U.S. adult spends nearly four hours using a smartphone each day, 5G will have a significant impact on consumer behavior and offer new levels of data-driven engagement.

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Omnichannel versus Opti-channel: The evolution of customer contact channels

Interactions

This day in age, with consumers more connected than ever, there is a big opportunity to leverage communication between brands and customers to drive business. Specifically, brands should place a big focus on channels, which can include voice, text, chat, smart speakers, and more. When it comes to customer convenience, it’s important for companies to offer channels that will best support the customer and what they are trying to accomplish.

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How to Write to Customers

CSM Magazine

As a customer service representative, you need a lot of patience to deal with the huge amount of responses you send each day. Every response you send matters because your email has an impact on how the customer views your company. Simply writing an email without giving it a second thought does not work. You must pay attention to some golden rules when corresponding with your customers.

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Driving Sustainable Growth and Diversifying Success

Strikedeck

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Matt Myszkowski, VP of Customer Success at SAP, shares a strategic approach in creating a "growth mindset" in the organization and modernizing the CS program.

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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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How Low Can You Go?! Customer Success for Your SMB Segment

CSM Practice

Some foundational questions still require attention in our growing customer success community. These questions include customer success funding and reporting, as well as appropriate customer segmentation. As SaaS companies mature, they are presented with bigger challenges that are associated with scaling. Over the years, TSIA has conducted surveys , published researches, held webinars and virtual summits in the customer success community.

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How to ensure your CX programme has 2020 vision

MyCustomer

Download the Guide. Lead goal. 200. TM Form. TM Form. Internal or External. Internal. Disable T&Cs requirement. Email intro text. Thank you for downloading our resource.

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Discussing The Experience Economy With Joe Pine

Experience Matters

Bruce Temkin and Joe Pine discuss the Experience economy, and the re-release of Pine's seminal book. The post Discussing The Experience Economy With Joe Pine appeared first on Experience Matters.

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Survey Best Practices that Increase Customer Response Rates

InMoment XI

MaritzCX “Survey on Surveys” Measures Increase Customer Feedback Requests Survey Results Provide Valuable Customer Insight Unbiased feedback is a precious gift from customers. After all, customers who share their feedback want their input to matter and to be valued by the company that serves them. It is important to not only collect insight through surveys, View Article.

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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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5 Ways to Win in the Visual Economy

GetFeedback

It’s been stated that customer experience is the new brand, but what about the visual customer experience? Constant online interaction and social media engagement has piqued our need for visual stimulation and trained us to assimilate more imagery than ever before. And we’ve extended these expectations to eCommerce. We call this new reality “ the visual economy ,” and in it, product imagery and interaction along the purchase journey is as important to consumers as the product itself.

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How VMware, Stitch Fix, and Red Bull Effectively Leverage Customer Insights

Alida

At our very own Insights Day event in San Francisco, some of our most successful customers—VMware, Stitch Fix, and Red Bull—all took to the stage to discuss how they each effectively leverage customer insights to establish strong relationships with stakeholders , create personalized customer experiences, and fuel product innovation.

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XM Versus BI: No Real Comparison

Experience Matters

Experience Management (XM) is a discipline for driving insightful actions across an organization, while BI is a reporting tool. The post XM Versus BI: No Real Comparison appeared first on Experience Matters.

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What’s the True Cost of Your In-House Contact Center? (And How Does It Compare to Outsourcing?)

BlueOcean

It’s a question we get asked a lot, and it’s one of the hardest ones to answer because it’s rare and challenging to determine a true apples-to-apples comparison, especially when there are intangible impacts like damage to brand when things go sideways. That said, we know you’re trying to make a business case here, and the hard numbers do matter after all.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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5 Ways to Win in the Visual Economy

GetFeedback

Follow these 5 visual economy rules to deliver the best visual customer experience on your site.

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Empowering CX with employees first

CloudCherry

“Basically, be a heart with ears”… …One of my favorite quotes from this week’s “Sweets of CX” guest- Customer Experience Manager for NumberBarn , co-founder of CustomerServiceLife.com , certified health coach, CloudCherry’s 2019-2020 CX Influencer Champ, and the founder of Jenny Dempsey Wellness – Miss Jenny Dempsey herself. So, what’s she referring to?

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Using Plain Language & Personalization in the Contact Center for Better CX

NICE inContact

It’s plain and simple, using plain language in customer interactions is good business for your contact center. When you use plain language across the customer journey, you’re offering better customer service. You’re achieving higher first-call resolution (FCR) rates. You’re lowering call volume. This all leads to cost savings in your contact center.