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.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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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.

Banking 260
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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.

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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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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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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 260
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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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Architect defense-in-depth security for generative AI applications using the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs

AWS Machine Learning

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications built around large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to create and accelerate economic value for businesses. Examples of applications include conversational search, customer support agent assistance , customer support analytics , self-service virtual assistants, chatbots , rich media generation , content moderation , coding companions to accelerate secure, high-performance software development , deeper insights from multim

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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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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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

Strategy 260
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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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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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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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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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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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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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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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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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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 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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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.

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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How to stop customers changing their minds

MyCustomer

Colin Shaw discusses how a sophisticated customer journey map can provide the insight needed to understand how the customer thinks and feels.

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140: How to Build a World-Class Sales Team

The DiJulius Group

When sales guru Morné Smit sits down to chat, you know it’s time to take notes. His journey from a humble sales start to revolutionizing company growth is nothing short of inspiring, and that’s precisely what we get into in this episode. On this episode of The Customer Service Revolution, with Morné at the helm, Read Full Article The post 140: How to Build a World-Class Sales Team appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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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.