Sat.May 08, 2021 - Fri.May 14, 2021

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Customer Experience Management Defined: How is it Different From CX?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer experience exists whether you are intentional about it or not. After all, your customer is experiencing the brand via every interaction, touchpoint, service call, and delivery. The customer walks away with a perception of what the brand is, and whether or not this brand lives up to its promises, with every step along their personal journey.

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The Best Customer Experience Needs the Best Agent Experience – Expert Commentary

Comm100

Ten years ago, it wouldn’t have been uncommon to see people switch off merely at the sound of ‘customer experience’ in conversation. Once considered an ephemeral buzzword that would fade away, these same organizations now boast of their CX-first culture that puts customer experience at the forefront of everything they do. The reason for such a rapid and overwhelming change of heart is simple and unsurprising.

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The 3 Principles of Brand Loyalty After COVID-19 Rocked Our World

BlueOcean

Brand loyalty is a reflection of a customer’s commitment to a relationship with a given retailer or service provider. But, of course, the pandemic changed everything about all our relationships. We quickly got used to holding everything and everyone at arm’s length – and for many customers, that included the brands they had once been loyal to. Read on to discover the three principles of brand loyalty after COVID-19 shifted our buying behaviors (and one interesting exception to the rule.).

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Driving change through the post-support case interaction survey

GetFeedback

How CX leaders embark on the journey of asking, listening, and acting on customer insights.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto

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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How AI Impacts Contact Center Agents

NICE inContact

Change management is part of every successful technology transformation effort. You can nail the technical implementation, but if the people using the new capabilities aren't on board, your project will struggle out the gate.

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Amazing Business Radio: Ron Karr

ShepHyken

Applying the Velocity Mindset in Customer Service. How Empathy Accelerates Great Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Ron Karr, CEO of Karr Associates, Inc. and author of The Velocity Mindset. They discuss the impact of empathy in delivering customer-focused service. . Top Takeaways: . Often in customer service, we tend to put self-imposed limitations that get in the way of delivering great experiences to our customers and slows down the process.

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Transactional NPS (tNPS)

GetFeedback

Learn why transactional NPS surveys are valuable for your business and when it’s appropriate to use them.

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What Customers Really Think of Chatbots

NICE inContact

Ready for a statement that will make you think? Gartner predicts that 85% of customer interactions will be managed without humans in 2021. This might be a scary notion for agents who are sensitive to job security but rest assured that human agent jobs aren’t going away. Why? The Contact Center is still inherently a forum for human engagement. The 85% of interactions that can be offloaded from human agents will be represented by the pesky repeat issues and questions that customers have that can s

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Join me at Medallia’s Experience 21 Event

Kerry Bodine

On Wednesday, May 19, I’ll be joining forces with my friend and former Forrester colleague Megan Burns at Medallia’s Experience 21 event. In an engaging panel discussion led by Medallia’s own Brian Andrews, we’ll share our unique perspectives from decades of observing and shaping the customer experience landscape. Join this session to hear our thoughts on the past, present, and future of customer experience.

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4 HR Predictions for 2025: Supercharge Your Employee Experience with Internal Communications

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

The future of HR is here, and it's all about collaboration, innovation, and impact. Join us for a forward-thinking session where seasoned experts Miriam and Carolyn will share insights and practical strategies to help you stay ahead of evolving HR trends. Discover how to build strong partnerships with internal teams to craft a transparent, authentic, and connected workforce experience.

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What’s Normal for Us Can Be Amazing to Others

ShepHyken

During my live presentations, there is a part of my speech where I talk about Moments of Magic. These are positive experiences we create for our customers, including our internal customers, also known as our fellow employees. (If you’ve been following my work, you already knew that.). In the speech, I’ll ask audience members to share an example of when they created that experience.

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Best places for customer service certification & training

GetFeedback

Learn why earning a customer service certification will benefit your business and find organizations offering training and certifications.

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Top 3 Takeaways from Kerry Bodine’s Alida Activate Keynote

Alida

Last week at Alida Activate, a customer experience (CX) masterclass event, Kerry Bodine took to the virtual stage for an unforgettable keynote on Demystifying Customer Experience. Kerry provided meaningful insights into what it takes to deliver exceptional customer experiences, and how to champion CX transformation within your own organization. With such an information-packed session, it wasn’t easy, but we’ve narrowed down our top three takeaways from Kerry’s spectacular keynote presentation.

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1Habit of the World’s Greatest Leaders

Storyminers

How did you meet Steven Sambliss? He reached out to me on LinkedIn about two years ago. He was researching a virtual training concept and looking for funding. The original concept was a year or two early, then the pandemic hit. Now he’s proven the great potential of the 1Habit concept, and he’s really running with it. It’s both an editorial slant and a publishing production system.

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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 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-10-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 8 Ways to Win Customer Loyalty With Streamlined Customer Support by Samuel O’Brien. (CustomerThink) How do you, as a business owner, introduce processes and initiatives to streamline your customer support in order to win over your customers?

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Contribute Meaningfully: The Power of a Research Strategy

dscout People Nerds

Chris Geison walks us through the distinctions between “strategic research” and “research strategy” to unpack how the latter is the key to improving team bandwidth and securing a seat at the table.

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Uncover and Action Comprehensive Insights with Flexibility

Alida

Voice of the customer (VoC) and customer experience (CX) initiatives are becoming more important every day. As customer expectations skyrocket and buying behaviors turn on a dime, companies are tasked with keeping up—something nearly impossible to do without some level of insight into what customers want and are expecting.

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5 Ways Ecommerce Brands Can Increase Customer Loyalty

ModSquad

Every interaction with your customer is an opportunity to build your connection and inspire a sense of loyalty with them. Creating loyal customers is more essential to your ecommerce business plan than attracting new buyers. It can cost five times more to attract a new customer as it does to retain existing buyers. Keeping customers is a company-wide effort; here are five ways to build your customer’s loyalty.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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How Support Teams Can Improve Customer Retention

Help Scout

Great customer service delivers real business value. That’s a foundational belief at Help Scout, as outlined in our support-driven growth articles. Even so, it can be difficult for empathetic customer service staff to think about customers in terms of business revenue. It somehow feels more “fair” to treat every customer equally, being helpful and responsive without regard to the money involved.

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The 2021 state of online reviews: Statistics you need to know

BirdEye

Online reviews are a vital component of attracting new customers for any local business. They help increase brand discovery and visibility through improved local search ranking , influence purchasing decisions, and provide valuable feedback that helps improve the customer experience. As more businesses begin to reopen their doors to the public, it’s important to understand how consumers are interacting with online reviews and how businesses have streamlined reviews management for success.

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Happy Birthday, TechSee!

TechSee

Getting up close and personal with the founders of Techsee, Eitan and Amir . May 12th will mark six years since TechSee’s founders set out on a mission that seemed to critics – at the very least – to be a bit, well, far fetched: to build tech that went beyond the dumb chatbots to which we’ve all grown accustomed and make something far better.

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The Practical, No Nonsense Guide to Starting a Career in User Research

dscout People Nerds

There is no “right” path for becoming a user researcher. We walk through tips for accumulating the skills you need to get started in UX with a flexible budget and schedule.

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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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Customer Story: Brain.fm

Help Scout

When you provide a tool that your customers rely on to achieve their daily goals, a common guiding value is a user-first mentality. But what does this actually mean? For Brain.fm, this means achieving as much visibility into and consistency of customer success as possible. Brain.fm was founded in 2003 by Adam Hewett with the goal of helping people focus, relax, and sleep by way of neuroscience-backed functional music.

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How Good A Liar Are You Really? Does Lying Affect Your Customer Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

This podcast is sponsored by Verint. Verint helps the world’s most iconic brands build enduring customer relationships by connecting work, data, and experiences across the enterprise. The Verint Customer Engagement Cloud Platform draws on the latest advancements in AI and analytics, an open cloud architecture, and The Science of Customer Engagement to meet ever-increasing, ever-shifting consumer interactions and demands.

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Exceptional? Sales? ?People? ?Deserve? ?to? ?Sell? ?Outstanding? ?Products

TechSee

Here at TechSee, we are incredibly proud of what we’ve created and what it has to offer. In the span of only six years, we’ve established ourselves as the market leader in visual assistance, selling to more than 100 Tier-1 leading enterprises worldwide. Our patented Computer Vision technology uses AI and AR to install and fix technical devices like routers and appliances in the most straightforward and cost-effective way.

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GOL Airlines Launches New Features for its Virtual Assistant with Inbenta

Inbenta

WhatsApp chatbot and check-in. GOL, a brasilian airlines who has been a customer of Inbenta since 2016 , has launched new features to enhance the capabilities of GAL, the airline’s virtual assistant, on WhatsApp. Still unprecedented in the segment, the platform was launched at the end of last year. Until then, WhatsApp was only used as a pilot channel, used by customers to ask questions to human agents, without any bot involved.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Guest Post: 5 Rules for a Great Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Ashwini Dave, a digital marketing expert at Acquire , a conversational customer experience software platform. She shares five rules that businesses should follow to create a great customer experience. If you think brands can get away with a shoddy, below-average customer experience and put the blame on COVID-19, consider this: “Post-COVID, 59% of consumers care more about customer experience when they decide what company to support or buy from” In

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TSIA Interact Spring 2021: Key Takeaways

Education Services Group

TSIA’s conferences are always jam-packed with best practices, real-life examples, success stories, and lessons learned from some of technology’s biggest names. This spring’s virtual TSIA Interact was certainly no exception, with three days of sessions from TSIA researchers and industry-leading companies and experts. With so many impressive sessions and speakers, it was hard to choose which to attend each day!

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Cha Ching! How Support and Success Join Forces to Drive Revenue

Team Support

“You’re not paying close enough attention to your customers.”. That’s how TeamSupport CEO Pete Khanna and ProfitSword VP of Sales and Marketing Paul Bennie began their speaking session at the recent TSIA Interact annual conference. This blog provides the highlights from their talk. It was a provocative statement to introduce the session. What did they mean ?