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Moving at the speed of CX: How to keep up with escalating expectations

Vonage

Whether or not customer service has been improving in your particular industry, it has improved over time at enough companies with broad consumer reach that customers have begun to expect better and better customer service across the board—in every industry, every niche, every price point. Customers expect you to provide better customer service because they’re already getting it elsewhere.

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Don’t Aim for the Moon

Smith+co CX

Brands who over-promise and underwhelm are dead before they’ve got going. The customer experience has to be approached with as much pragmatism as ambition, and it needs grown up heads to ensure it is both sustainable and deliverable. One of the biggest mistakes I see is when organisations assume that they should differentiate on every part of their marketing mix.

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Hidden CX: Why It’s Critical For Your Business

Beyond Philosophy

Businesses are in a rut. Speed, efficiency and convenience are all rational factors companies focus on when they think about customer experience. But good experience isn’t that simple. It involves more than you think. For years, research has indicated that the future of success for business is in customer experience. But recent PwC research shows that businesses have a customer experience disconnect.

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Checklist Of Customer-Centric Skills That Employees Must Possess

Customer Guru

Some say that to be perfect in a customer-driven industry and to deliver 100% customer satisfaction is next to impossible. However, isn’t that what makes it more desirable? If the idea of customer service excellence were so easy, every organization would be at the top of their game! An essential starting point to make the impossible possible is to have an employee base that is customer-centric.

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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 steps to turn an unhappy customer into your greatest advocate

Lumoa

Every company dreams of having no negative feedback and no unhappy customers, yet many companies fail to identify their detractors and turn them into promoters. Why is that important? First, let’s get back to statistics : At least 30% of consumers stop interacting with a brand they love after the 1st bad experience and around 50% of all the consumers leave the brand for good after several bad experiences.

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The Top 5 Infographics of May

QuestionPro Audience

May brings fresh flowers, and fresh infographics! We love a good data dive at QuestionPro Audience, and we know you do too. Especially when they come in our favorite guilty pleasure—a colorful infographic. So, we’ve curated a list of the top 5 infographics of May for your reading enjoyment. . 1 – THE BEST DAYS & TIMES TO POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA .

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Progressive Profiling: The Solution to Form Fatigue

GetFeedback

If you’re a data-driven marketer, you want all the lead information you can get your hands on. Unfortunately, if you ask for it all at once—in one big, ugly form—people aren’t going to bite. It’s a problem marketers come up against all the time. You need the data, but how do you get it without putting people off? One data collection method is gaining popularity among innovative marketing teams: progressive profiling.

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Lumoa raises €650 000 seed funding to take AI-powered customer experience analytics to the new markets

Lumoa

Finnish SaaS company Lumoa , which provides AI-powered customer experience analytics software for medium and large sized companies across the Nordics, has announced €650 000 in funding. The investment was led by Icebreaker.vc, along with serial entrepreneur Ali Omar and Business Finland. Lumoa, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, offers a simple and intuitive service for analyzing large amounts of customer feedback.

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Report: What Happens After a Good or Bad Experience, 2018

Experience Matters

To understand how the quality of a customer’s experience – whether it was good or bad – affects their behavior, we asked 10,000 U.S. consumers about their recent interactions with more than 300 companies across 20 industries. We then compared results with similar studies we’ve conducted over the previous seven years. Download report for $195 Here are some highlights: About 18% of the customers who interacted with TV & Internet service providers reported having a bad experience – a considerab

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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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Optimize Your Company’s Business Strategy With Customers In Mind

Customer Bliss

As “customer experience” has become a hot topic and nearly every industry has embraced it as a priority for their business, it is important that it also become united across your organization. And that means building a one-company approach to business strategies. What I know from 25 years as a CCO practitioner and ten years as Coach to Customer Leadership Executives and their Leadership Teams is that we’ve got to take the reactive nature out of this work.

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Retail Auto: The Case for Change in Commission Plans to Emphasize CX

InMoment XI

Car dealers have been stuck in a “transactional model” for far too long, giving less equal priority to the customer experience. And in many cases, customer retention is automatically assumed in far too many transactions. There is a huge opportunity to differentiate the dealership beyond just price and item, and make it stand out positively.

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Tales from CX Obsession: Green Drop Garage

AskNicely

Back in April, Portland’s customer experience gurus gathered for the first-ever CX Obsession event. Some of the Rose City’s greatest brands came together to share tales of real-word customer obsession — in 7 minutes or less — to a packed house of their peers. The result was an evening of awesome stories, connections new and old, and of course, customer love abound.

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Progressive Profiling: The Solution to Form Fatigue

GetFeedback

It's time to ditch the lengthy lead forms. With progressive profiling, you can capture meaningful marketing data over time without aggravating your leads.

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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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Starbucks Training Should Focus on Broken Brand Promises

Experience Matters

Last week, Starbucks closed all of its stores for racial sensitivity training after an incident in April when two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia store. My Take: Starbucks training was well intentioned, but misguided. As I said in my previous post, it’s great that Starbucks’ leaders took such swift and decisive action to condemn the incident.

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Retail Auto: The Case for Change in Commission Plans to Emphasize CX

InMoment XI

Car dealers have been stuck in a “transactional model” for far too long, giving less equal priority to the customer experience. And in many cases, customer retention is automatically assumed in far too many transactions. There is a huge opportunity to differentiate the dealership beyond just price and item, and make it stand out positively.

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Nike versus Adidas: Who will win the digital transformation race in apparel retail?

Alida

Great minds think alike—even fierce competitors. This is especially true in apparel retail, where longtime rivals Nike and Adidas have both recently invested heavily in digital transformation and innovation to stay at the top of their game. Competition between the two brands is long-standing, so it makes sense it would extend to their digital transformation efforts.

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Jobs-To-Be-Done: A Lens To Keep Journeys Customer-Focused

Kerry Bodine

We’re often asked how the framework of customer jobs-to-be-done fits with the methodology of customer journey mapping. Here’s my perspective on how jobs theory can complement your mapping efforts. The term “jobs-to-be-done” first surfaced in 2003, coined by Clayton Christensen in The Innovator’s Solution , but its philosophy shares underpinnings with older models like goal-directed and activity-centered design.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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Vital CX lessons from 3 Fortune 500 companies

Vonage

Observing how the biggest companies in the world provide customer service can help your business reach new heights. They've hired the finest minds in their industries and spent billions testing what works and what doesn't. Here's a closer look at how three Fortune 500 companies approach customer service and the vital lessons you can learn. Netflix. In under 20 years, Netflix has grown from a DVD rental service to one of the biggest creators and distributors of TV and film on the planet with over

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Eastern Bank & Bangor Savings Bank Q&A

InMoment XI

What Does Winning Look Like? Eastern Bank and Bangor Savings Bank Q&A: Banks’ Partnership Inspires Greater CX Success An interview with Joyce Clark Sarnacki; Executive Vice President & Chief Customer Experience Officer of Bangor Savings Bank and Richard Dorfman, the VP Customer Experience for Eastern Bank. The following is a chapter from the book Unlock the.

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Imagine That You're a Human.

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay Now there's a crazy statement to make during a customer experience design session. "Imagine for a second that you're a human. " Yikes! Unfortunately, more companies need to start thinking this way! Sadly, there is no shortage of stories about customers being treated badly, even inhumanely. The one that always - instantly - comes to mind is the one of the poor doctor who got dragged off that United flight just a year ago.

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Brands That Deliver the Best #CX Achieve 54% Higher Revenue Growth

Storyminers

(This is a guest post from KPMG. It’s included because it’s one of the best reports in years on #CX.). To read the full KPMG Global Customer Experience Excellence report: Tomorrow’s experience, today , please visit: www.kpmg.com/customerfirst. Brands that deliver the best customer experience achieve 54 % higher revenue growth , according to a new KPMG Global Customer Experience Excellence (CEE) report.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Omnichannel Customer Experiences: Do Consumers and Businesses See Eye-to-Eye?

NICE inContact

In today’s digital economy, there have never been more opportunities for businesses and their customers to interact. Chat, text, social media, websites, IVR, even traditional phone calls with customer service representatives – the list continues to grow. Modern customer expectations have never been higher, and businesses understand that customer experience is a leading brand differentiator.

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Eastern Bank & Bangor Savings Bank Q&A

InMoment XI

What Does Winning Look Like? Eastern Bank and Bangor Savings Bank Q&A: Banks’ Partnership Inspires Greater CX Success An interview with Joyce Clark Sarnacki; Executive Vice President & Chief Customer Experience Officer of Bangor Savings Bank and Richard Dorfman, the VP Customer Experience for Eastern Bank. The following is a chapter from the book Unlock the.

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Contact Center AI – What’s out there?

Comm100

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is undoubtedly a buzzword that’s been around for a while. From the early days of Science Fiction and Kubrik’s groundbreaking 2001: A Space Odyssey to the more recent chess match between Deep Blue and Kasparov, AI has long captured our imaginations. As technology continues to advance, companies are coming to realize that many benefits can be accrued from employing it.

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How To Harness Customers Unseen Behavior

Beyond Philosophy

Each of us has a time when we decide and a time when we act. Once we act, we pass the point of no return on our decision. In other words, once we take action on a decision, we are less likely to change our decision—even when we run into challenges. It’s all a matter of mindset. The Rubicon model is a psychological principle that distinguishes our decision-making method or deliberative mindset from our execution course or implementation mindset.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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The future of Co-browsing: 5 Trends to Watch

TechSee

Show, Don’t tell. George is eagerly looking forward to setting up his new smart home. He unboxed and installed all his newly-purchased connected devices and downloaded the software successfully. Now all that’s left is to configure it all via the website. But… it’s not working. He can‘t find the menu he needs and the icons are simply not where they are meant to be.

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The Heart of the Experience Professional

Michelli Experience

For an Experience Professional Practicing Otherness in a Selfish World is Essential. One of the core values at our company The Michelli Experience is otherness. Our team knows that otherness is a seldom used word but we like the sound of it and moreover we like the concept behind it. For us, otherness is: the antidote to selfishness. a virtue that is in short supply. the right way to do business. a brand differentiator. a characteristic that is much needed in a polarized world.

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The Three I’s of AI – One More Time, With Gusto!

Esteban Kolsky

I wrote before this: AI will never match human intelligence because it lacks the three I’s: Intuition. Imagination. Innovation. These things can be programmed, of course – everything can, but even if programmed are not going to “continue to grow on their own” as human’s do. The lack of any of the three, or the three, is what distinguishes humans from machines today (among many, many, many other things) and somewhat the final frontier in AI becoming a more powerful e