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The Key to Cultivating Loyalty: Taking Action on Customer Feedback

IntouchInsight

Your source for the best knowledge on collecting data to drive business improvements.

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5 Challenges Customer Service Managers Face Today

CSM Magazine

Check out these five challenges currently facing Customer Service Managers on the quest for top-rated customer service. The field of customer service is a constantly evolving one, particularly as technology advances continue to come at a fast and furious pace. While this can present new opportunities for companies in terms of their customer service, it can also create new challenges that must be overcome.

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Are You Stepping Up to the Challenge? Prepare for Disruptions and Adapt to Consumer Behaviors

Customer Bliss

As a CX practitioner, I continue to see how technology ushers in disruptions across retail and other B2C service industries, but I want you to remember that customer behavior is the actual impetus for these disruptions. I thought this concept would be worth briefly discussing (and revisiting), especially as I came across NJ Goldston’s, 5 Strategies on How to Stay Ahead of Customer-Driven Disruption on Forbes.

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Building a CX Dashboard

CX Accelerator

If you’re running a CX program, you need a way of communicating your progress to your superiors and the broader organisation. We are all guilty of not communicating enough on occasion.so what’s required is something that will break down the walls of the CX department allowing everyone in the business to see how the organisation is performing relative to customer expectations and its targets.

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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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You say you want a Revolution?

CloudCherry

Shep Hyken- acclaimed author, speaker, CX Expert, and this week’s ‘Sweets of CX’ guest- discusses his latest book, ‘The Convenience Revolution’. And- trust us- it’s a Revolution you want to be a part of. From Amazon to Uber, to the travel convenience of a guitar that folds in half (no, we’re not joking), companies and products that are truly making a mark know that convenience is king.

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10 reasons why businesses enjoy the benefits of test marketing

QuestionPro Audience

Test marketing is defined as a strategy used by companies to check the viability of their new product or a marketing campaign before it is being launched in the market on a large scale. It is used across the business world to find out what consumers want and need in their everyday lives. It is no more than an experiment conducted in a field laboratory (the test market) comprising of actual stores and real-life buying situations, without the buyers knowing they are participating in an evaluation

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It Turns Out, Customers LIKE Email

NICE inContact

As far back as 2013, Forbes was publishing articles like, 5 Ways Email Makes Your Employees Miserable and How To Get Rid Of Email In Your Company. I can think of several technologies that have promised to replace email, like Slack and other messaging applications (e.g., Apple Chat or WhatsApp). And yet, it turns out customers like. email. And they like it more than companies think they do.

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Creating a Customer-Centric Culture: Share Data with Purpose

CloudCherry

Photo by Austin Distel . Photo by Oleg Laptev . Even just 20 years ago, the job of “Chief Customer Experience Officer” at companies like a regional credit union, a large insurance company, or national retail organization was unheard of. Today, this new job function is evidence of one of the most important competing factors in today’s business environment: customer centricity.

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I’m Sorry, We’re a Little Short-Handed Today

Steve DiGioia

never ever say that to a customer I went to my local Petco store last week to buy a few more guppies for my fish tank. I got this tank for my kids a few years ago but they never bothered to look at the tank and I don’t think they’ve ever even fed the poor fish. But that’s another story. Anyway, since there wasn’t anyone in the fish department to help me, I went to the cashier to ask if he could please get someone to help me.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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7 risks of a bad research sample

QuestionPro Audience

The purpose of customer research is to develop new knowledge about the market. In order to do this, surveys must be designed to gather accurate, reliable data about customer preferences, from the right research sample. Then, the collected data are analyzed to produce new insights. The quality of information and insight that one can extract from marketing research will determine the success or failure of the product or service.

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Building a CX Dashboard

CX Accelerator

If you’re running a CX program, you need a way of communicating your progress to your superiors and the broader organisation. We are all guilty of not communicating enough on occasion.so what’s required is something that will break down the walls of the CX department allowing everyone in the business to see how the organisation is performing relative to customer expectations and its targets.

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Top 10 Things to Assess on Your Contact Center Vendor Site Visit

BlueOcean

Choosing a strategic partner to deliver an outsourced customer care solution is a significant business decision – maybe one of the most significant decisions you’ll make in your career. You’ll task your team with running a tight procurement process to assess potential contact center partners. Undoubtedly, that will involve a number of stakeholders on your side including the sourcing professionals who make their living running RFPs.

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How to Keep Members Engaged & Excited about Your Member Hub

Alida

Craig Troop, Deputy Director of Research, and Carol Powanda, Research Analyst at the Pennsylvania Lottery share these tips based on their experience leading the PA Lottery Insiders insight community. They involve their players early on in the product life cycle in an effort to optimize games and accelerate innovation.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Amazing Business Radio: John Rossman

ShepHyken

Think Like Amazon. Innovation from the World’s Leading Customer-Obsessed Company. Shep Hyken interviews John Rossman. They discuss John’s new book, Think Like Amazon , and how to utilize the key factors that drive Amazon’s success. The Interview with John Rossman: Innovation and success come from developing and committing to systems. Be deliberate in how you approach your work and have a “playbook” you can pull from for any situation.

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Building a CX Dashboard

CX Accelerator

If you’re running a CX program, you need a way of communicating your progress to your superiors and the broader organisation. We are all guilty of not communicating enough on occasion.so what’s required is something that will break down the walls of the CX department allowing everyone in the business to see how the organisation is performing relative to customer expectations and its targets.

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Do you say you want a Revolution?

CloudCherry

Shep Hyken- acclaimed author, speaker, CX Expert, and this week’s ‘Sweets of CX’ guest- discusses his latest book, ‘The Convenience Revolution’. And- trust us- it’s a Revolution you want to be a part of. From Amazon to Uber, to the travel convenience of a guitar that folds in half (no, we’re not joking), companies and products that are truly making a mark know that convenience is king.

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How Spark Aligned its Approach to Frontline Training, Recognition, and Rewards with Excellence in Customer Outcomes

InMoment XI

Creating a Measurable Training Initiative To drive a customer centric culture, Spark overhauled its approach to frontline training, recognition and rewards to align with excellence in customer outcomes. Launching a scalable, personalised development framework grounded in team sourced best practices has increased staff knowledge and engagement levels.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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How #socialmedia is changing the marketing landscape

QuestionPro Audience

Social networking and social media are no longer in their infancy. As these platforms keep on developing quickly, they become significant bits of the online design and experience that reshape how brands engage with their consumers. In the world of business, marketing has always been of primary importance. In days gone by, marketing was all about the conventional methods that had been around for a very long time.

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How to win new customers with better experiences – Part 2

Kayako

In our previous post we talked about what customers were expecting from companies they did business with. In this post we will cover the steps you must take as a business to ensure you’re doing everything you can to remain relevant to your customer at each step of their journey. At a high level, the customer journey looks like the following five steps we identified in the previous post – Awareness, Research, Evaluation & Trial, Purchase, and finally Customer success and Support.

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Contact Center Benchmarks Provide Continuous Improvements

NICE inContact

How do you know how your organization is really doing? How you stack up against external standards and industry peers? That you’re taking the right steps towards improvement in the contact center and beyond? Contact center benchmarks , that’s how. You’ll learn the answers to these and other important questions in this informative and insightful webinar featuring two dynamic presenters: Angie Luckey-Succes – Director of Client Experience, Landauer, Inc.

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What Can You Do To Create a Better Experience For Your Customers?

ShepHyken

If you’ve ever seen one of my speaking presentations, you’ve most likely heard my story about my favorite cab driver. It is an example of excellent customer service. It’s universal—I don’t know of anyone that hasn’t been in a taxi. If for some reason they haven’t, I can’t imagine they don’t know what one is. In the story, I talk about the “amenities” the driver offered, which made me want to ride with him the next time I was in his city.

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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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The Secret of Creating Loyal Customers

Beyond Philosophy

I have a few things that drive me crazy in the business world. In this episode of The Intuitive Customer, we are going to talk about how organizations often define loyalty, and why I think they have it all wrong. It makes me upset when I think about it. Many, if not most, companies believe that when a customer gives you all their business, it means they are a loyal customer.

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Get Rid of Opportunistic Fees & Improve Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. A drink of water from a bottle in my hotel room just cost me about 42 cents. Most big box stores sell a 24-pack of bottles like these for about eight bucks or 33 cents a bottle?

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Managing Gen-Z and Millennials in the Contact Center

NICE inContact

Millennials – born between 1980 and 1995 – have been workforce rookies for the past 15 years, but there is a new kid in town, Generation Z. Gen-Z was born between 1996 and 2010, with the oldest workers of the era being 23 years of age, and prime entry-level job candidates in your contact center. While both generations have commonalities, it’s important to recognize the differences and how to cater your performance management strategy to their unique needs and preferences.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of August 19, 2019

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Which is Your CX Priority: Satisfied Customers or Profit? by Mary Drumond. (LinkedIn) What should your ultimate goal be when designing your customers’ experiences?

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Marketing Operations Efficiency: The Essential Checklist

As marketing becomes more tech-driven, the role of marketing operations (MOps) is getting more complex. Today, the discipline is increasingly interwoven with other vital go-to-market motions — including sales and customer support — and is responsible for all business elements associated with marketing, including the tech stack. In this eBook, we’ll show you how marketing operations can create efficiencies in your tech stack, reporting, and budget that will not just improve internal processes, bu

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Episode 62 – Treat Your Customer Service Representatives Like Royalty

Kristina Evey

Customer Self Help options and channels are on the rise – Studies suggest that as many as 76% of customers … Read More Episode 62 – Treat Your Customer Service Representatives Like Royalty. The post Episode 62 – Treat Your Customer Service Representatives Like Royalty appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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7 Hacks For Your Small Business to Ensure Strong Customer Service and Customer Satisfaction

Joe Rawlinson

The first step to providing strong customer service is taken by ensuring that all employees within your company have an extensive knowledge of the inner and outer workings of your product or service. If the customer suspects that the person they’re talking too isn’t well-informed on their issue, they’ll quickly begin to lose trust in your company, which is something you want to avoid at all costs.

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Digital Customer Service on a Shoestring

NICE inContact

A penny saved is a penny earned, right? That’s certainly true in business, and nowhere more visibly than in small and medium enterprises. The smaller the company, the smaller the budget and the more pressure managers are under to justify every expense. But there are some things no company should skimp on, and digital customer service is one of them.