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5 Steps to Train Your Employees in New CX Initiatives

inmoment

With over 15 years of experience in the customer experience (CX) space, I have seen multiple companies employ training efforts to get their employees involved in new CX programs and initiatives. I have witnessed this process from the perspective of an Account Manager, Implementations Manager, a member of the Product Team, a Business Operations Manager, and now as the Director of Learning Services.

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3 Customer Retention Strategies to Hold the Keys to Customers’ Hearts

iPerceptions

It is five times more expensive for you to acquire a new customer than it is to retain one. With Customer Experience statistics like these, brands are under more pressure than ever to boost customer retention.

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When Eating the Elephant, Don’t Boil the Ocean

Heart of the Customer

I’ve interviewed about twenty CX pros this year, as we work our way up to 100 interviews exploring the current state of CX as a discipline. What I’m finding is that the massive nature of the end-to-end customer experience makes for some daunting challenges. CX is the totality of all interactions between customers and your […]. The post When Eating the Elephant, Don’t Boil the Ocean appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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6 Customer Experience Best Practices to Transform Your Patient Experience Program

InMoment XI

In many important ways, healthcare organizations and consumer businesses are fundamentally different. And yet, there is no question that today’s patients bring a distinctly consumer mindset to their healthcare experiences. That means patients are better informed about their healthcare choices. They have easier access to information and reviews about providers and facilities.

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Exploring CX Strategy and Technology Adoption: A Decision-Makers Chart

A high-quality customer experience creates loyal customers for years to come and makes for an easy win against businesses that are competing on other factors like price and quality. We partnered with ContactBabel to uncover the biggest hurdles businesses face when trying to improve CX and offer practical suggestions to overcome them.

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6 Ways to Spread the Customer Love

ChurnZero

6 Ways to Spread the Customer Love. Did you know the iconic Sweethearts candies started out as lozenges? This may not sound like a far stretch for a candy that’s notoriously likened to Tums. (Nothing says “Kiss Me” like the taste of a chewable antacid, am I right?) Undergoing a bankruptcy-induced hiatus last Valentine’s Day (which strikingly, and rather strangely, garnered public outrage and media coverage), the conversational hearts turned controversial after arriving back in stores this year n

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Common Customer Experience Training Obstacles — And Their Solutions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

CX Training Takes a Cross-Functional Team. There’s a reason we use the term “it takes a village” when referring to educating children. Learning is an ongoing process that requires more than one point of input or opinion. We’d never send our 5-year old child to one class with one teacher and declare their education over. We know that lifelong learning is really what leads to success, and there are needs for specific study as well as general education throughout our lives.

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Ten Ways to Supercharge Your Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Is your customer service in need of an overhaul? Luckily, there’s no need to spend a fortune revamping your entire customer service operation. Here are ten quick and easy ways to take your customer service to the next level. 1. Give a warm welcome. The art of welcoming guests is sadly an art that is in danger of extinction. The good news is it isn’t difficult to reclaim that art and help your company culture stand apart from the competition.

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How Red Bull Embraced CCPA to Strengthen Customer Engagement

Alida

As we rang in the new decade, January 1st brought the effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The law protects personal information and requires greater transparency from companies who collect the personal information of California residents.

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24x7 Customer Service Performance Optimization: Constantly Monitor, Measure, Recognize & Reward Quality

Playvox

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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How to Turn Your Customer Service Strategy into a Continuously Improving Customer Experience (CX)

Advantage Communications

Customer service is now what distinguishes your brand, but that means simply answering your customers questions when asked is no longer enough. Your brand needs to go above and beyond, creating a proactive approach that delights your customers and significantly improves the customer experience (CX). 2020 simply must be the year in which your company transforms its approach to customer service.

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Creating Experience Transformation That Lasts: Why You Must Start with LEGACY

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. To start defining your legacy and your “Three Blocks Long,” click here for downloadable worksheets.

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The Worst Thing That Happens Is Your Customer Loves You

ShepHyken

What if the worst thing a customer ever said about you was, “I love you!”? Even on a bad day, you’re still so good that they love you! Are you that good? Do customers love you even when there’s a problem or complaint? Here are six ways to make customers love you no matter what! Become customer-focused. This means that in addition to creating an amazing customer experience, every decision keeps the customer in mind.

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Improving customer experience with a virtual agent

Talkdesk

“81% of all customers across industries attempt to take care of matters themselves before reaching out to a live representative.” Gartner’s Four Best Practices for Implementing Extreme Customer Self-Service. Who is answering calls when your contact center is closed? Who is helping your customers when they have questions and problems outside of business hours?

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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Customer Contact Week: Just How Do You Drive Seamless Digital Engagement Anyway?

Bold360

I’ve just returned from Nashville where LogMeIn was a sponsor at Customer Contact Week – a multi-day event focused on customer-centric best practices and transformative ideas in service. Luckily for me, the event occurred with Music City as a bustling backdrop for education, networking, and yes, a little bit of fun. Challenges to be met – walls to be climbed.

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Using Customer Insights to Focus Employee Improvement Efforts

Gold Research

For over 30 years, the concept popularized by Harvard’s “Service-Profit-Chain” of “Delivering the Employee Experience leads to Delivering the Customer Experience” has been talked about in every company across the globe. The topic rises to the top of the C-Suite agenda during times of talent shortages and customer experience failures.

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3 Ways Online Data Can Influence In-Person Experiences

Blueshift

We may only be a couple months into 2020, but we’re already well underway with making predictions and gathering insights about the decade that lies ahead — especially in terms of the future of marketing. Mid-January, the National Retail Federation (NRF) kicked off their 2020 Vision conference. Leading brands presented their outlook on what will […].

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Best Customer Support and BPO companies according to Clutch

Helpware

As we move into 2020, we are forecasting our biggest growth year yet. And we’d like to start with a major announcement.

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Unlock the Future of Learning Growth and Retention at Cognition24!

The annual Cognition virtual conference is back on October 16, and this year it’s FREE! You’ll enjoy: Inspiring Keynotes from top learning industry leaders, providing fresh perspectives to help you outperform the competition. Hands-on, Skill-Building Sessions to elevate your growth, retention, and product adoption strategies. Exclusive First Look at the latest innovations from Thought Industries, empowering you with tools to grow faster.

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A Guide for B2B Community Managers Everywhere

inSided

Here at inSided, we talk a lot about online communities and the benefits they bring to SaaS companies looking to reduce churn, increase retention and boost customer engagement. But one thing that we’ve talked less about in the past—and that we believe is really important to cover—is how you can actually go about this. What’s involved in managing an online community?

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5 Great Customer Experience Automation Cases

Lumoa

Within customer experience management there are many manual and repetitive activities that have the potential to be automated. We'll explain why you should automate activities within customer experience management, and we share real-life cases of customer experience automation.

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Interview With CX Ambassador Graham Clark

GetFeedback

We kicked off our Customer Experience (CX) Ambassadors Program in January featuring an interview with Myshka Sansoin , manager of customer advocacy and self-service activation at BRP. This month, a few members of our team — including yours truly — had the privilege of meeting, Graham Clark, one of our CX Ambassadors, at his place of work: B Cellars Vineyards and Winery in Napa, California.

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A Glimpse To The New Trends In Humanizing Technology

Beyond Philosophy

Social media has changed many things about our lives. Not only can we have a blow by blow account of what our friends and family are up to, but we can also see what they had for dinner. We can even see what friends of our friends had for dinner. One of the other ways social media changed our lives is in how we interact with brands. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter gave us direct access to brands in a way we hadn’t had before.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Expert Insights: Using Behavioural Science ‘Nudges’ to Deliver Elegant and Effective CX

InMoment XI

Optimizing the Customer Experience with Brain Science All humans, including your customers, use mental shortcuts and behavioural biases automatically. It’s important to understand fundamental behavioural science cues to optimise the customer experience. Jez Cowry, Chief Choice Architect of Cowry Consulting, talked CXForum delegates through a series of practical ‘nudges’ that can be applied to your CX programme.

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Our 5 Favorite Customer Experience Articles Right Now

BlueOcean

You know we’ve always got your back, dear Reader. We’re continually exploring, expanding, reading, learning, asking questions, and sharing our insights. Trends are gonna trend and we’ll be here to bring you up to speed, challenge the status quo, and let you know what you need to know! With that mission in mind, we’re sharing five of the best articles we’ve discovered recently that are on the top of our minds.

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Interview With CX Ambassador Graham Clark

GetFeedback

Interview with Graham Clark, sales and marketing manager at B Cellars, a vineyard in Napa Valley, CA, about his career in the customer experience space.

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What Can a Digital First Contact Center do for Customer Experience?

NICE inContact

Mike Bowman, Director of Operations for Educational Computer Systems Inc (ECSI) experienced his customer base (largely made up of students with loans) specifically telling him that they didn’t want to speak to agents, which led to him deploying an omnichannel contact center.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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Testing-Content-Locker

C3Centricity

We need to better understand shoppers. Why? Because retail is in crisis. Investment in bricks and mortar stores has declined 30% in the US and a staggering 50% in Europe. In the UK 50,000 of the 500,000 high street stores are empty , that’s a whopping 10%. But that level can even be higher, double or triple that in some parts of the country. The government in the UK just upped its rescue fund to a billion pounds and slashed its rates in the hope of lowering rents.

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What is Unified Data Analytics and why should you care?

Thematic

Before we get into the nitty gritty detail of Unified Data Analytics, let’s remind ourselves of the cautionary tale of one of pioneers of the Internet… Have you ever heard of Netscape? This company, which created one of the first web browsers, is most famous for its downfall: Once owning 90% of the market, within a few years it lost almost all of it.

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What are your Customers’ expectations of “Fast?”

Wired and Dangerous

The fact that time is a completely made-up component in nature was one of the hardest concepts to get your head around in high school physics class. All of nature knows night from day, but your dog is clueless about what 9:30 means. When we tell someone, “Why don’t we meet in an hour,” we are not only operating on a “made up” agreement regarding the precise moment of rendezvous, we are relying on a made up understanding of what “an hour” means.