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Inside the ROI of Consistency in Customer Interactions

Topdown

Have you ever been passed around on a phone call and gotten frustrated at repeating your explanation each time the call was transferred? That moment of frustration is a perfect illustration of what happens when a company does not provide consistent customer interactions. The negative feeling that develops in this customer experience (CX) has more impact than some may realize.

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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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Common customer experience strategy mistakes—and how to avoid them

Alida

Haste makes waste, as the saying goes, and that waste is often due to mistakes made in the rush to realize your customer experience strategy as soon as possible. While customer experience (CX) transformation is an urgent matter, a CX strategy without direction guarantees pitfalls. According to Forrester Research, a focus on CX is a must in the age of the customer.

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Singing the Anthem and Flying the Flag of CX

InMoment XI

In two days it will be the fourth of July. During this time, people all across America gather with their families and display their patriotism by putting up an American flag. It’s also a time to renew our loyalty and commitment to the values we espouse as a country. Being Advocates for Customer Like Country. View Article.

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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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How AR Instruction Manuals Drive Superior Product Engagement

TechSee

“Instruction manuals” The words conjure up images of thick black-and-white tomes, boring, underused, maybe even untouched for years in our homes. But no longer. Augmented reality has “blown the dust” off the instruction manuals of yesteryear. Augmented reality (AR) is maturing as a technology and its adoption on mobile devices is growing steadily.

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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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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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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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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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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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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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How to Create a Local SEO Strategy for B2C Companies

ReviewTrackers

This article is written by Holly Rollins. Holly is the president and owner of 10x digital. She has more than 20 years experience in marketing, public relations, digital marketing and content marketing. She has created successful content marketing and digital marketing/PR for diverse sectors; from healthcare and wellness to global retail and commercial real estate.

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AskNicely NPS for Marketing Cloud

AskNicely

Marketing and Customer Success: Do you know how to activate your Wonder Twin powers? . Wait, who or what are Wonder Twins? You may remember the the Wonder Twins from the SuperFriends cartoon TV series. They are Zan and Jayna, alien siblings from the planet Exxor with shapeshifting abilities — but they can only activate them when they touch hands. Zan has the ability to morph into any form of water, while Jayna can transform into any animal.

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Common customer service mistakes to fix ASAP

Vonage

Customer service is not always easy to pull off, and it's certainly not something that “just takes care of itself” or is “just common sense.” However, there are some parts of delivering great customer service–or, more accurately, avoiding poor customer service–that are straightforward, easy to fix, and high-impact. Here, I’ll highlight a handful of these customer service “worst practices” and provide an achievable solution for each that can get your customer service back on track.

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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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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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How to Manage Seamless, Eat24, and GrubHub Reviews

ReviewTrackers

The food delivery industry is booming. “Consumers are staying home more than ever before and, increasingly, even when they’re eating out, they’re eating in,” writes Matthew Cochrane in an article in the Motley Fool. The U.S. home delivery food market will increase 79 percent in the next five years, according to the investment firm Cowen. In addition, in the first quarter of 2018, active diners on Grubhub increased 72 percent year over year at 15.1 million, according to a release from Grubhub. .

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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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Into the Unknown! The parallel universe of self-publishing – the experience of publishing a book about customer experience!

ijgolding

Regular readers of my blog know that being a customer experience specialist does not protect me from encountering lacklustre, frustrating and sometimes embarrassing experiences as a customer of the organisations I interact with. I regularly blog about my suffering with various airlines, restaurants, retailers and care hire businesses in the sincere hope that those organisations are listening!

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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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Singing the Anthem and Flying the Flag of CX

InMoment XI

In two days it will be the fourth of July. During this time, people all across America gather with their families and display their patriotism by putting up an American flag. It’s also a time to renew our loyalty and commitment to the values we espouse as a country. Being Advocates for Customer Like Country. View Article.

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2018 Temkin Effort Ratings: Wegmans Earns Top Spot

Experience Matters

Effort is one of the three components of a customer’s experience (along with success and emotion), so it’s a fundamental element for companies to track. In this post, I examine the eight annual Temkin Effort Ratings for U.S. companies. It’s one of the components of the overall Temkin Experience Ratings, the open standard CX metric.

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Why Employee Engagement Is the Most Important Link in Your CX Value Chain [Video]

IntouchInsight

Cameron Watt, President and CEO at Intouch Insight discusses how we can use technology to engage and leverage frontline employees.

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Top 5 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Live Chat Experience

Kayako

Live chat software is relatively new to the customer support world, but it’s caught on like wildfire. Today, most websites offer live chat support as an option. That’s because customers overwhelmingly rank live chat as their preferred method of contact. But are businesses meeting customer expectations when it comes to live chat support? The answer is a resounding no.

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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 004 – It’s All About the Money - Transforming the Customer Experience

Kristina Evey

Episode 4 – It’s All About the Money. Focus on CX to Grow Profits. Shownotes: Money and profits – not bad words. CX is now recognized as the tipping point. in 2014, 89% of companies planned to use CX as their primary competition platform by 2016. It’s 2018 now… that means that 89% of companies are aware of CX, what it is, and are trying to use it as the tipping point to gain customers.

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Net Promoter Score 101: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners

Retently

Satisfied clients don’t just help your company generate more leads and acquire more business; they also enable you to increase the customer lifetime value , reduce your churn rate and finally bring in more revenue. How likely are your customers to recommend you to their friends, colleagues and work acquaintances? Wouldn’t it be convenient if there was a metric that you could use to assess that?

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Improving Customer Experience Management in a State Government Agency

Customer Bliss

How do you transform a bureaucracy that was generations in the making? In today’s episode, I speak with Greg Derwart , Managing Director, Administration & Customer Experience at Maryland Department of Commerce. We explore transforming customer and employee experience within a state government agency, and how this work is managed across multiple departments and agencies.

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The Best Brands Focus on Emotion for CX Success

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What is the backbone of CX success? They say in every relationship, it’s important to have more positive interactions than negative ones. In the healthiest of relationships, the ratio of positive to negative is 2:1 or greater. The same holds true for the relationship you have with your customer. In fact, your customer needs even MORE from you.

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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Episode 4 – It’s All About the Money - Transforming the Customer Experience

Kristina Evey

Episode 4 – It’s All About the Money. Focus on CX to Grow Profits. Shownotes: Money and profits – not bad words. CX is now recognized as the tipping point. in 2014, 89% of companies planned to use CX as their primary competition platform by 2016. It’s 2018 now… that means that 89% of companies are aware of CX, what it is, and are trying to use it as the tipping point to gain customers.

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12 Great NPS Survey Question and Response Templates (That Actually Work)

Retently

There’s much more to an NPS® survey than just the quantitative rating customers give to your business. You can keep track of your score and its changes, but it’s the qualitative feedback that gives you the “why” behind it, bringing the voice of the customer to the front. Ask the right NPS question to get a constant pulse on your customer satisfaction and you will gain an accurate understanding of how your company, product or service is perceived.

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The Continuum of Data-Driven Success

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay I originally wrote today's post for Logi Analytics. It appeared on their blog on December 14, 2017. Data is just data until you do something with it, right?! That statement has plagued companies for a long time. For a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that they just don’t know what to do with the data. In December 2017, I hosted a webinar with Logi Analytics titled 5 Steps to Making Data Actionable , in which I shared tips on moving beyond data for the sake

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