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Top 5 Types of Customer Expectations

Zonka Feedback

One of the most important things a company can do is meet customer expectations. Businesses can lose money and face brand image issues if they don't take steps to ensure customer satisfaction. Meeting and exceeding customer expectations can be challenging, but making an effort in this direction will lead to better results down the road.

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Customer Survey Statistics: Everything You Need to Know

InMoment XI

All types of businesses leverage customer surveys , and they’re as important for small, growing businesses as they are for established corporations. When you’re creating a customer survey, whether it’s for the first time, or something you do each year, it’s helpful to understand what to expect. What is a good survey response rate? What are best practices for customer surveys?

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Customer lifetime value: The most important metric everyone overlooks

Alida

Customer lifetime value (CLV) is not a new concept. It’s the total revenue from a customer over the entire duration of their relationship with your business , from first to final purchase.

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What Is a Journey Health Score?

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

Visualize, monitor, and manage your journeys with a customized metric designed around your needs, your organization, and your customers.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Bringing Automation to Customer Service – 5 Chatbot Examples for Any Industry

Comm100

The life of chatbots in customer service has been turbulent. However, as bot technology has rapidly improved, so too has organizations’ readiness to adopt chatbots in their customer service operations. By introducing a chatbot, organizations are now expanding customer service availability, cutting costs, increasing team efficiency, so much more. In this blog, we’ll look at some of the best chatbot examples across industries, revealing how organizations are using automation and the benefits each

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How to Promote Self-Service to Your Customers

Team Support

Most businesses maintain some sort of customer self-service tools, whether it’s a chatbot or guide bot framework or a collection of knowledge base articles. Chances are your business maintains some sort of a self-service option, but does your business do a good job of promoting that to your customers? Self-service provides customers the opportunity to solve a question on their own without directly involving your customer support team or help desk ticketing software.

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How an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Can Revolutionize Your Customer Support Operation

Solvvy

Chances are, the last time you called a customer support number, you interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot. If the company had a great AI chatbot, the interaction might have been so natural that it took a while to realize that you weren’t actually talking to a human. Artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the types of experiences chatbots can deliver.

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Turn Away The Bots, Not Your Customers

Forrester's Customer Insights

We’ve all been there — we’re on our favorite website trying to buy the latest gadget, reserve concert tickets, or claim an advertised reward. We may be in a rush, we may be excited to snag the item we’re looking for, and we fill in our information and click along to complete the transaction. Just […].

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7 Steps for Implementing a Closed-Loop System

InMoment XI

With so much riding on each interaction with your brand, you can’t afford to leave a negative customer experience unresolved. Research shows that it takes about 12 positive experiences to make up for one unresolved negative experience. In fact, a study by Lee Resources reveals that 91% of unhappy customers won’t return to your brand at all. That’s where a closed-loop system comes in!

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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What are the Benefits of Omnichannel Customer Service?

Comm100

As consumer shift from the traditional customer service channels of phone and email towards newer digital channels, organizations are finding that they need to be available in more places, all at once. Live chat, social media, and SMS have all become popular customer service channels, and organizations need to keep up or be left behind. Omnichannel customer service platforms are making this transition easy, as they connect every digital channel together in one place.

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CX Tech Top-Ups: All Treats, No Tricks, New Features!

IntouchInsight

Happy Halloween and happy new features! This month we are happy to announce that we have launched several new features across the Intouch Insight Platform, IntouchCheck™, and IntouchSurvey™.

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How to Launch a Successful Outsourced Contact Center Implementation

BlueOcean

The launch of your outsourced contact center implementation may be a strenuous time – there's so much at stake for your business. That said, it shouldn’t be a headache.

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What Is the Difference Between Voice of Customer and Market Research?

InMoment XI

A lot of folks believe that voice of customer (VoC) programs and market research mean the same thing—but they’re actually quite different! In fact, each discipline differs in purpose, design, analysis and outcomes. However, even though they’re different, it’s important to point out that one isn’t necessarily better than the other—and brands need both if they want their customer experience (CX) programs to reach their potential.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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5 Digital Strategies that Increase University Enrollment

Comm100

The state of higher education is changing, and the way that admissions teams work to increase university enrollment must change as well. While digital recruitment strategies have levelled the field for some institutions, others may find it challenging adapting to the new landscape. To increase university enrollment, higher education institutions now need digital strategies to reach students where they are and how they want to connect.

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How customer success teams drive value through collaboration

Totango

Recent years have seen an astonishing rise in the popularity of subscription-based products and services. The world of ownership is being replaced by Spotify, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and a host of other on-demand services. And of course, customers can easily cancel the very second they become dissatisfied, lose interest, or feel they aren’t getting the value they expected. .

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Contact Center Location Strategy in a Remote World

BlueOcean

How do you continue to offer seamless customer service and experience in this new world of remote work? Blue Ocean offers some insights on how to create a contact center location strategy in a remote world.

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5 Brands That Became Bigger Than Their Products (And How You Can Too)

Brandwatch CX

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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Awesome Customer Service from the US Post Office

CSM Magazine

“I think recognition and applause are needed when we encounter awesome service” – John Tschohl . I was on the public tennis court on a Thursday in Bloomington at about 3 PM when my former mailman, Scott Pelton, got out of his delivery vehicle and approached me. He had a package from Switzerland that had arrived Monday at my former office.

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Automate classification of IT service requests with an Amazon Comprehend custom classifier

AWS Machine Learning

Enterprises often deal with large volumes of IT service requests. Traditionally, the burden is put on the requester to choose the correct category for every issue. A manual error or misclassification of a ticket usually means a delay in resolving the IT service request. This can result in reduced productivity, a decrease in customer satisfaction, an impact to service level agreements (SLAs), and broader operational impacts.

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Make Ideas Actionable By Becoming Understandable

One Millimeter Mindset

Your actions, assumptions, and perspective impact making ideas actionable and understandable. Are you one of “those” team members who is always throwing new ideas out on the table, like a jump ball? And are team members “jumping” at the chance to play around with your ideas? Or do your ideas fall with a loud “thud” on the table, without being bounced around at all?

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Product review websites: A guide for local businesses

BirdEye

According to research from Fera.ai, 93% of consumers say they read product reviews before moving forward with a purchase. Another 78% reported being happy or satisfied with their purchase because they took the time to read reviews. So, what does this mean for you? If your business isn’t posting product(s) on product review websites, you’ll lose out on more customers — and therefore, more revenue.

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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Contact centres: How to look after your employee’s mental health

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post from Julie Mcintosh, Chief Culture Officer at Kura, the largest independent outsourcer in the UK. The mental well-being of your employees […]. The post Contact centres: How to look after your employee’s mental health first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Testing approaches for Amazon SageMaker ML models

AWS Machine Learning

This post was co-written with Tobias Wenzel, Software Engineering Manager for the Intuit Machine Learning Platform. We all appreciate the importance of a high-quality and reliable machine learning (ML) model when using autonomous driving or interacting with Alexa, for examples. ML models also play an important role in less obvious ways—they’re used by business applications, healthcare, financial institutions, amazon.com, TurboTax, and more.

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11 Mistakes to Avoid When Creating Feedback Surveys

Zonka Feedback

Crafting effective customer feedback surveys is an art. To get feedback from your customers, you must think like them and make their feedback experiences smoother than they may be expecting.

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What is CSAT Score and How to Boost it Using Chatbots

kommunicate

Last Updated on October 10, 2022 Tracking the overall performance of your business involves mapping out the terrain of customer experience. Whether it involves your product or customer support, customer experience and satisfaction are the pillars of sustainability in business. Today, companies use CSAT scores (customer satisfaction scores) to determine how satisfied their customers are [.].

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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How to create and update your Foursquare business listing

BirdEye

Foursquare is an incredibly useful tool for your business. Since its launch in 2009, Foursquare has become a go-to app for users looking to connect with friends and explore new places. Nearly 2 million businesses have already created Foursquare business listing to join the conversation and connect with customers. So, what are you waiting for? Table of contents What is Foursquare for business?

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How Amazon Search runs large-scale, resilient machine learning projects with Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

If you have searched for an item to buy on amazon.com, you have used Amazon Search services. At Amazon Search, we’re responsible for the search and discovery experience for our customers worldwide. In the background, we index our worldwide catalog of products, deploy highly scalable AWS fleets, and use advanced machine learning (ML) to match relevant and interesting products to every customer’s query.

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A Guide to Building Effective Product Feedback Loop

Zonka Feedback

Product Feedback is anything your customers tell about your product based on their experience with your product. It can be a simple comment like “Amazing! It’s super easy to use!” and also be a long testimonial or a long email complaining about a bug or poor interface.