Sat.Dec 25, 2021 - Fri.Dec 31, 2021

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7 Reasons Why Nobody Is Replying to Your Surveys (and How to Make Sure They Do)

SurveySensum

Why are you NOT Getting Enough Survey Responses: 7 Solid Reasons. Your survey is too long and you’re asking too much. You don’t A/B test delivery time. You don’t give them a reason to fill your survey. Your surveys are not personalized. You forget to double-check your surveys. You don’t give your respondents an option to skip a question. Your surveys aren’t powered by conversational AI.

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How to spot and act on agent training opportunities

NICE inContact

Training agents to be digitally fluent is a widespread opportunity. To get you started, download "The Ultimate Guide to CX Agents: Hiring, Training, Onboarding, and Measuring Contact Center Agents in a Post-Pandemic Digital World." This eBook is packed with insights from industry experts that will help you optimize your agents' skills.

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How to Fight Excessive Customer Churn: 4 Winning Strategies

Totango

Knowing how to fight customer churn is critical for keeping SaaS business models sustainable. The more customers you lose to churn, the more you have to invest in new customer acquisition to maintain your revenue, and the harder it becomes to grow your business. On the other hand, the more customers you can retain, the more revenue you gain from new customers you acquire, and the more your profit margins grow.

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Digital Customer Experience: The Value of “Slamming” Your Assumptions

InMoment XI

In the world of experience (especially when we’re talking about digital customer experience), we’re constantly making predictions or hypotheses about what the customer is expecting from their experience. And whether we’re making a change to the website, opening a new store, or debuting a new product, that prediction will either be right or wrong. When we’re wrong, or surprised, it can be easy to feel like we have failed.

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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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Reimagining the IT Help Desk with Tech Mahindra’s Lawrence Sathiaraj

Uniphore

The IT help desk is becoming an increasingly critical component for the hybrid workforce. However, despite its newfound prominence, many help desks struggle to effectively resolve its employees’ issues. In fact, according to a recent Computer Weekly article, employee confidence in their help desk’s ability to address their needs has dropped to 25 percent.

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How Much Do You Trust Your Customers?

ShepHyken

One of our loyal subscribers, Darrell Grant, The CXO at Hightower Wealth Advisors, shared a great story that provides an excellent learning opportunity. . Darrell stopped by a local bakery to pick up some treats for a client. There was a longer than usual line, and some of the customers were becoming frustrated. Apparently, the internet was down so they couldn’t ring up sales.

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Three CX Strategy Webinars to Ramp Up Your Program

InMoment XI

After a year of quarantine, brands had a lot of gaps to fill in their customer experience (CX) programs. Most businesses around the world seemed to be asking, “what’s changed or stayed the same for our customers?” It’s fair to say that we all learned a few crucial lessons within the past year(s) about the shift in customer expectations and needs—and we’ve strived to put our learnings into a few CX strategy webinars.

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The Corporate Playbooks Used to Combat Organizational Trauma (And Why They're Not Enough)

dscout People Nerds

Design professionals report on organizational trauma—and the inadequate ways their org address It.

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5 Ways Customer Success Leaders are Fighting Burnout

Totango

Burnout is a dangerous and costly condition that should not be taken lightly. If you’ve noticed any signs of burnout within your team, it’s important to take action immediately to prevent any long-term consequences to the health of your employees as well as to your organization. Check out these five tips for how to fight burnout and keep your customer success team healthy and effective. . 5 Ways to Fight Burnout.

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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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Guest Post: Why You Should Rethink Your Customer Service Goals

ShepHyken

Karen Hertzberg is the Senior Content Marketing Specialist at Siege Media. She shares 5 customer service strategies that improve customer retention. People may cut companies some slack if a product doesn’t quite work as expected, but only when the customer service experience makes up for these missteps. . It’s no secret that customer service is a critical component of any successful company’s strategy.

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Webinar Wrap-up: Company-Level Engagement

InnerTrends

How To Use Company-Level Data for User Onboarding and Engagement. Join guest speaker Jane Portman, Co-Founder of Userlist and host Claudiu Murariu, CEO and Co-Founder of InnerTrends , as they dive into an insightful conversation about company-level engagement: how SaaS companies and tools can implement company-level data, the problems that can arise when it is neglected, and easy solutions that you can apply when getting started.

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How Improving Brand Equity Can Increase Your Profit

Feedbackly

What is brand equity? Why is it important for your business? What does CX have to do with it? Brand equity refers to the.

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How to Build a Customer Centric Roadmap for Your SaaS Product

Totango

Knowing how to build a customer-centric roadmap helps you align your product development with what your clients truly want. This promotes customer satisfaction, benefiting your clients and bringing your business higher retention rates and upsell revenue. In this blog, we’ll look at the keys to building a customer-centric roadmap. First, we’ll consider why being customer-centric with your product development is so important in today’s digitized economy.

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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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A Year in Review: Top 5 Vanilla eBooks of 2021

Vanilla Forums

2021 was a wild year - we produced so much content and we can’t believe how many of you found it worthwhile! Thanks for sticking with us these past 12 months, we’re super excited for the next!

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All you need to know about knowledge management for chatbot functioning

Knowmax

The post All you need to know about knowledge management for chatbot functioning appeared first on Knowmax.

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When should you upgrade your payment terminal?

BirdEye

If you have a brick-and-mortar store, you might not realize that people may be unhappy with your payment experience – and that can cost you sales (more on this later). For now, here’s a fun fact – the first credit card reader was created in 1979, and the majority of terminals today still use that original technology. They run a transaction and print a receipt — that’s it.

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Turn your Passion for CX into a Career Opportunity

The DiJulius Group

It is no wonder why companies want to lead their industry in customer experience (CX). CX leaders grow revenue faster, charge more for their products and services, and enjoy higher retention of customers and employees. CX has now replaced marketing when it comes to creating a brand perception and it requires a skillful professional to. Read Full Article.

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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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It’s a Wrap! 2021 Product Highlights in Review

Totango

In our State of the Customer Success Industry and Salary Report for 2021 customers told us that their top challenges for 2021 included: Ability to scale and connect with more customers. Greater visibility into customer adoption and health. Reduce the time spent by CSMs on low-value tasks. Many of the new features and enhancements that we’ve added to our platform in 2021 reflect our commitment to addressing these key challenges as we work hard to continue to deliver a great experience and value f

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The Importance Of Customer Identity Loyalty

Blake Morgan

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. How do customers come to form a sense of who they are? . Brands often focus on loyalty, but much of that loyalty was thrown out the window during the pandemic as customers reevaluated their priorities and tried new products and services. . But even with turmoil and change, some customers stayed loyal to their favorite brands.

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When should you upgrade your credit card terminal?

BirdEye

If you have a brick-and-mortar store, you might not realize that people may be unhappy with your payment experience – and that can cost you sales (more on this later). For now, here’s a fun fact – the first credit card reader was created in 1979, and the majority of terminals today still use that original technology. They run a transaction and print a receipt — that’s it.

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What to do with unwanted gifts

Helen Dewdney

This is a version of the article What to do with an unwanted Christmas gift that originally appeared on The Metro website on 26/12/21. The Unwanted Gifts that Keep on Giving. Hopefully this Christmas Santa brought you everything you wanted. However, all of us at some point have received a gift that didn’t meet our hopes. The jumper that doesn’t fit, something to which we are allergic… The list is endless and however grateful we are for the thought, we are sometimes stuck with that unwanted prese

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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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Preparing for a Customer Business Review

ClientSuccess

As we reach the end of 2021, customer success teams are hard at work compiling end-of-year reviews for their customers. Whether your team conducts business reviews quarterly, bi-annually, or yearly, preparing well in advance is critical to presenting proactive, well-researched information to your customers. Your CSMs can be more confident and prepared for their upcoming business reviews by following these steps to prepare for customer business reviews: 1.

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ICYMI, Part 2: 2021 Impact Roundup

Heart of the Customer

Last week, I spotlighted some of our best tech-related posts from 2021. This week, as we close the book on this challenging year, I’m focusing on 2021 posts about the most important outcome of our work in CX: showing business impact. We know we can do this by improving the experience for customers, but to […]. The post ICYMI, Part 2: 2021 Impact Roundup appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Wow, What a Year! What is Our Personal and Business Learning for The Year

Beyond Philosophy

Customer satisfaction is at the worst point it has been for 15 years. People want positive experiences, so it’s up to businesses that want them as customers to provide them. However, the old way of doing things is going away, presenting an opportunity to solve these problems differently. Understanding how the customer behaves digitally by combining the power of artificial intelligence (AI), data, and behavioral science is imperative to turn this around.

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Amazing Business Radio: Rebecca Morgan

ShepHyken

Calming Upset Customers. How Leaders, Managers, and Staff Can Stay Effective During Unpleasant Conversations. Shep Hyken interviews Rebecca Morgan, an international speaker, management consultant, and bestselling author. She wrote the bestseller, Calming Upset Customers that sold more than 250,000 copies. They discuss what leaders and managers can do to help customer service staff manage upset customers and avoid issues in the future.

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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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The Most Popular Blog Posts of 2021

SmartMessage Blog

As we embrace the new year, we analyzed the interest for our 2021 content as a tradition. In the light of statistics, we can clearly state that email marketing is here to stay. The demand for marketing automation continues while chatbots are more engaged with business life. Here are the top 2021 blog posts from SmartMessage. Benefits of Email Marketing For Your Business.

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Increasing Trust For Long Term Customer and Employee Relationships

Doing CX Right

Charles Green, author, and creator of the Trust Equation™ explains how to build trust and be a better leader to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. The post Increasing Trust For Long Term Customer and Employee Relationships appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Wow, What a Year! What is Our Personal and Business Learning for The Year

Beyond Philosophy

Did you know that customer satisfaction scores are the lowest they have been in the past 15 years? It’s true, and you can’t blame it all on COVID, although there is some blame to be cast there. Per the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), only 30 percent of companies tracked by ASCI improved their score; that means 70 percent didn’t, and that’s alarming.