Sat.Jan 20, 2024 - Fri.Jan 26, 2024

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Text Analytics in Customer Feedback: The CXO’s Secret Weapon

Lumoa

Have you ever traveled to a country where you didn’t speak the language? If you have, you must know how exhausting it can be to get help with the simplest of requests. I remember spending over 40 minutes trying to get change for a €20 bill in Paris until a kind stranger finally understood what I was asking for. After that frustrating experience, I had a newfound appreciation for customers who have to deal with unresponsive customer experience (CX) teams that fail to act on customer feedback!

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4 CX Trends for 2024: Your Guide to Navigating the Year Ahead

Alida

Community is a feedback collection method built on trust. There are four reasons you might consider building one: deeper access, stronger engagement, faster time to insights, and centralized customer experience.

Trends 130
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7 Golden Practices for Customer Experience Analysis

Helpware

Customer experience has been a hot topic in business conversations for over a decade. Customer expectations for CX quality are rising, and businesses are having to adapt in order to stay ahead of competitors.

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How Applying Key Sports Principles Can Boost Your Customers’ Experience

Beyond Philosophy

You might recall how I like to say, “None of us are as clever as all of us.” Recently I decided that I would like to leverage the power behind that phrase. So, we asked you, our readers to submit your thoughts, ideas, reactions, lists, or whatever else you have to offer, that we can then discuss. Sound fun? Then, click here to learn more and submit.

Sports 78
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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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When to survey

Zeisler Consulting

I know I rail on about VoC (truth be known, that’s not my strongest topic of expertise; I’m much more of a Process Engineer)…Sure, VoC and Customer Insights inform the work we do to improve and better align our Customers’ Experiences with our Brand Promise, but it’s really just the first step. Nevertheless, I get a lot of inquiries from clients about the surveying process and techniques.

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What can Disneyland teach us about the customer journey?

MyCustomer

Why is Disneyland the most magical place on earth? Shrewd customer design choices, of course. Tricia Cleppe-Fortier explores Disney's "desire paths" and how this method can be adopted to enhance the customer journey and experience.

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AI in Financial CX: The Future of Banking Experiences

InMoment XI

The financial sector is at the forefront of a significant transformation, driven largely by the buzzword of the decade: artificial intelligence. This somewhat novel tech isn’t just a tool, but a revolution of sorts. CX will be forever changed in the world of retail banking in the coming years by the unstoppable wake of AI. Our take: most industries are already there in large part.

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Customer Experience Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities with Steven Van Belleghem

Blake Morgan

                                        In a saturated market, customer experience transcends price and product; it’s the ultimate differentiator. Across the globe, brands are constantly innovating and refining their CX strategies to meet the evolving expectations of their customers. Europe, with its diverse markets and cultural nuances, presents both challenges and opportunities for customer experience (CX) practitioners.

Trends 64
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2024 Expectations: The forefront of the next generation of customer success

Totango

This year, the customer success (CS) industry faces a critical choice — either assume the role of strategic growth driver by adopting revenue goals for the business, providing greater accountability to customers, and forming tighter cross-functional alignment with partners—or stick to the status quo, maintaining business as usual and leaving untapped potential on the table.

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

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, 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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CX Tech Top-ups: A New Grade-A Feature!

IntouchInsight

At Intouch Insight, we’re constantly working on releasing new features to help you reach the top of your game. We are starting the new year with an enhancement to custom dashboards across the Intouch Insight Platform.

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How We Think The Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Can Help Shape Your CX Strategy

InMoment XI

When it comes to creating your customer experience strategy, and deciding which partner to execute that strategy with, it is always important to look at third-party research. That is where InMoment believes that evaluative Analyst reports like the Gartner® Magic Quadrant can come in. What is the Gartner Magic Quadrant? Gartner defines this report as: “A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s

Strategy 195
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What’s the True Cost of Your In-House Contact Center? (And How Does It Compare to Outsourcing?)

BlueOcean

It’s a question we get asked a lot, and it’s one of the hardest ones to answer because it’s rare and challenging to determine a true apples-to-apples comparison, especially when there are intangible impacts like damage to brand when things go sideways. That said, we know you’re trying to make a business case here, and the hard numbers do matter after all.

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[Experience Action Podcast] How Do You Balance Innovation and Simplicity?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Unlock the secrets to a customer experience that’s both innovative and effortless. On this episode of Experience Action, Jeannie Walters peels back the layers on how to introduce new features and services without overwhelming your customers. Discover how customer-centric design and clear communication can make all the difference, as she offers up actionable strategies rooted in understanding customer pain points and the art of incremental changes.

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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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Build enterprise-ready generative AI solutions with Cohere foundation models in Amazon Bedrock and Weaviate vector database on AWS Marketplace

AWS Machine Learning

Generative AI solutions have the potential to transform businesses by boosting productivity and improving customer experiences, and using large language models (LLMs) with these solutions has become increasingly popular. Building proofs of concept is relatively straightforward because cutting-edge foundation models are available from specialized providers through a simple API call.

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The Google Local Guide Program: How It Impacts Your Reputation Management Strategy

InMoment XI

The Google Local Guide program features a global community of users that companies can engage with to support their marketing activities, build brand reputation, manage online reviews and ratings, and improve online search visibility and exposure. While the impact of Local Guides on brand reputation management strategy is largely dependent on the quality and quantity of the contributions from the Guides, businesses can respond to these contributions and leverage the program to enhance their onli

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How to boost your brand with automated review sharing

BirdEye

Reviews are the modern-day word of mouth. They build trust and help businesses understand what they’re doing right and where there’s room for improvement. Reviews can also be repurposed for various channels and become one of your best marketing tools. But constantly compiling positive excerpts and turning them into tailored social media posts is hugely labor intensive.

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Avoiding Customer Experience Missteps in 2024: A Guide to Sidestepping Common Pitfalls and Outdated Trends

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

It feels like the world is changing at lightning speed. Customer experience leaders are not just expected to keep up with trends in the marketplace, customer expectations, and technology, we simply MUST do so to serve customers and stay ahead of the competition. Let’s discuss common missteps, mistakes, and general mayhem to avoid! Former CX “Trends” to Leave Behind 1.

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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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Deploy a Microsoft Teams gateway for Amazon Q, your business expert

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Q is a new generative AI-powered application that helps users get work done. Amazon Q can become your tailored business expert and let you discover content, brainstorm ideas, or create summaries using your company’s data safely and securely. You can use Amazon Q to have conversations, solve problems, generate content, gain insights, and take action by connecting to your company’s information repositories, code, data, and enterprise systems.

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Revolutionizing Retail with AI-Driven Customer Experiences

InMoment XI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) was no more than a vague, abstract concept for the vast majority of people until recently. Today, AI has gone mainstream, infiltrating both our personal and professional lives AI is still in its infancy, but already, it’s transforming the way businesses across all sectors engage with their customers. Retail is one industry that’s experiencing major disruption.

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All about the new Google Business Profile reinstatement steps

BirdEye

As of January 2024, Google has introduced a revamped process for reinstating suspended Google Business Profiles (GBPs). These changes, first observed in the EU and now in the US, aim to streamline the process and enhance transparency. This guide provides a comprehensive understanding of these changes and practical tips for successful reinstatement of GBPs.

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Unlocking Customer Insights Mastering the Art of Effective Customer Research

Beyond Philosophy

This has been created in partnership with YouGov. Our listeners will enjoy $ 500 off their first survey from YouGov. Click here. Customer research has some big problems. You might think the big problem with customer research is not asking the right questions. But it isn’t. Then, surely it’s asking the wrong people the wrong way, right? But that’s not it either.

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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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Build a vaccination verification solution using the Queries feature in Amazon Textract

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that enables automatic extraction of text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents, surpassing traditional optical character recognition (OCR). It can identify, understand, and extract data from tables and forms with remarkable accuracy. Presently, several companies rely on manual extraction methods or basic OCR software, which is tedious and time-consuming, and requires manual configuration that needs updating when the form changes.

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Future-Proofing Customer Service with Artificial Intelligence with Anuj Bhalla

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Staying ahead of industry trends involves embracing technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a critical role in analyzing and improving customer service. AI can offer companies access to valuable insights into customer behavior and preferences, adding value to the customer journey. Organizations need to know what data and information they should be measuring and tailor it to the processes that make sense to their business.

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How to Enhance Your Local Brand Awareness

Joe Rawlinson

Building local brand awareness is just as important as creating a strong online identity. It enables you to attract nearby customers to your business and build a strong reputation for being credible and trustworthy. Local brand awareness is particularly important for smaller businesses that are trying to grow in their chosen industries. However, it’s something that every brand can benefit from and should think about.

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How Testing & Training Conversational AI Can Reduce Channel Hopping

Cyara

The omnichannel customer experience (CX) is quickly becoming the norm, and consumer expectations are likely to continue rising. According to data from Retail Dive , 88% of Gen Zers expect a mix of digital and physical interactions with brands.

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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 Ultimate Guide to Community Management

Brandwatch CX

Master community management with our ultimate guide. Build a strategy, humanize your brand, and create lasting relationships.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

Warren Buffet said “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management?

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How customer journey orchestration changes your marketing approach 

Optimove

Re-engage your churned customers with this guide Download Now Why it Matters: Customer Journey Orchestration is a game changer for marketers. It differs from traditional campaigns and it’s crucial for creating personalized experiences that boost engagement, sales, marketing attribution and customer loyalty. Key takeaways: Customer Journey Orchestration is a game-changing strategy reshaping the marketing landscape.