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How to Turn Reactive Customer Experience into Proactive CX

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Listen to this article. Is Your Organization’s Customer Experience Proactive, or Reactive? Customer Experience is about designing the right experience, actively working to understand customer needs before they tell you, and supporting the backend processes and employees who deliver those experiences. That is oversimplifying customer experience, but for the sake of a definition, it works.

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7 Strategies for Turning Customers into Advocates

Totango

Given that peer recommendations are among the most trusted sources of information about a business, positive reviews from existing customers can quickly turn into genuine inquiries from potential new clients. Happy customers can multiply your revenue base since each satisfied client might recommend your services to dozens of their peers. You can activate word-of-mouth recommendations by turning customers into advocates , and display their advocacy through case studies published on your website,

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Guest Post: Customer Experience – Can It Work With Email Marketing?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Alex Souchoroukof, a content writer at Moosend. He shares some digital marketing strategies that can help to create a more meaningful customer experience. There are a lot of tools in today’s marketing that can help drastically increase your revenue and grow a successful brand. The problem is that most of them don’t focus on the customer experience , which is a vital element to stand out.

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What Do You Do To Get Ahead? – Tip #20

Steve DiGioia

Is your glass half-full or half-empty? Are you a positive influence or one of negativity? Do you sugar-coat things or get straight to the point? What do you do to get ahead of others and separate yourself from the competition? Much can, and has, been said about the best way of approaching a situation or a way of doing business that can be stressful for many.

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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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How to improve online sales with digital feedback

GetFeedback

How to apply the ask, analyze, and act framework to gain rapid insight into the online purchasing funnel and improve sales.

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Office Politics and The Fine Art of Sucking Up

Storyminers

This dynamic trio really turn up the heat on the controversial topic: ”OFFICE POLITICS AND THE FINE ART OF SUCKING UP!” Certainly, an episode not to be missed as this hilarious trio dish out the down and dirty on sucking up! They agree to disagree and even draw up organisational “Sucking up” charts in this hour of friendly banter. – Have we piqued your curiosity yet?

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How to Reduce Field Service Costs to Meet Optimization Goals

TechSee

Field service organizations have long been implementing measures to reduce their high operational costs. In particular, technician dispatches are a huge drain on operating expenses when considering labor costs, vehicle expenses, and the opportunity-cost of having technicians unavailable for revenue-producing activities. Field services may be tempted to decrease field service costs through various ‘quick fix’ methods, including: reducing technician headcount. minimizing hours of servi

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Introducing the new GetFeedback platform

GetFeedback

Quickly adapt to your customers’ evolving needs with a modern CX solution.

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Customer Feedback Loop: What Is It and How to Close It

Lumoa

The customer feedback loop is a term that you might have heard before. But what is it actually? In this article, we’ll explain to you what customer feedback loops are, explain the difference between the inner and the outer customer feedback loop, and give some concrete examples of them. More and more companies are turning to customer-centric business strategies to differentiate themselves from the competition with customer experience.

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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4 ways digital CABs drive business value

Alida

Customer advisory boards (CABs) are a great way for organizations to sit down with their high-profile customers and gather feedback and advice from this VIP audience. CABs present an opportunity to find out what you’re doing right and where adjustments could be made to better serve the needs of your most important customers.

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Ritualizing the Customer Experience

ShepHyken

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What’s in a Name? Your Ability to Please Your Customers

Heart of the Customer

I’ve always been a big reader, but the pandemic has given me even more time to indulge my passion. I recently devoured Conscious Capitalism, by John Mackey and Rajendra Sisodia. It really struck a chord with me, particularly this paragraph calling on businesses to stop using the term consumer: “Businesses must think of their customers […]. The post What’s in a Name?

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IT Priorities Shift in the New Normal: More Pivotal to Contact Centers than Ever

NICE inContact

Businesses need to plan and prepare for the post-pandemic world and IT departments should leverage their new status to influence what that looks like. But what are the post-pandemic priorities?

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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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B2B Customer Experience Best Practices

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

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Aligning Customer Communication Styles With Your Own

Integrity Solutions

The Behavioral Styles ® model is an easy-to-use tool for assessing the behavioral characteristics that fall within four distinct customer communication styles: Talker, Doer, Controller and Supporter. Does communication style matter when it comes to sales? More than you might expect. Studies show that over 80% of customer dissatisfaction is rooted in emotional issues rather than intellectual ones.

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The New Brandwatch Help Center

Brandwatch CX

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Are Labor Efficiency and Exceptional CX Mutually Exclusive? How to Achieve Both with Workforce Management

NICE inContact

Most contact center leaders have access to data that enables them to assess just how busy their agents are and if they have capacity to take on additional work. They also have the ability to optimize results that impact customer experience (CX). This balance of efficiency and CX is made possible by strong workforce management practices.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Top Customer Service Considerations for Retailers in a Post-COVID World

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

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Getting Inside the Customer’s Mind

Beyond Philosophy

Customer Experience , like everything else in the world, is changing. What customers want and what they do is changing, too. As we prepare for the next generation and level of putting the customer at the center of everything we do for a Post Pandemic world, we should remember that the critical part to achieving what we want (aka, customer-driven growth) is getting inside the customer’s mind.

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CX Champions: How CX Leaders Who Raise Their Game Are Driving Business Success

CXS

All companies are under pressure to deliver a brag-worthy customer experience (CX), but it can be difficult to know where to make investments that are likely to pay off. To guide the way, Zendesk partnered with ESG Research to build … The post CX Champions: How CX Leaders Who Raise Their Game Are Driving Business Success appeared first on CX 2020.

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The Emotional Toll of 2020: People Are ‘Over’ This Year

Brandwatch CX

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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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Easier Healthcare Review Management with ReviewTrackers and CareDash

ReviewTrackers

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Amazing Business Radio: Jason Dorsey

ShepHyken

Understanding Gen Z as Customers and Employees. The Next Generation of Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Jason Dorsey, leading generational researcher, speaker and author. They discuss his latest book, Zconomy , and talk about what Gen Z wants as customers from their favorite brands. Top Takeaways: To understand Generation Z as consumers is to understand the future of your (and every) business.

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Remote Working 2.0: Optimising Contact Centres

Eptica

Date: Friday, October 16, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Remote Working 2.0: Optimising Contact Centres. Published on: October 16, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Lockdowns caused by the pandemic led to contact centres switching to remote working for their agents, often overnight. But as businesses look forward the solutions they quickly put in place to enable remote working may no longer meet their ongoing needs.

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The Excuse Meter: Yikes! Stop Before You Reach the Top | #PeopleSkills

Kate Nasser

Stop before you get to the top of the excuse meter to preserve trust & professional relationships! Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author of Leading Morale. The post The Excuse Meter: Yikes! Stop Before You Reach the Top | #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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How to Design for the Margins

dscout People Nerds

Designers need to be mindful that they’re designing with their users and not just for them. Dr. Christina Harrington believes community-based participatory design can get us there. .

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9 Proven Tips to Create an Anonymous Survey

ProProfs Chat

Stella is a market researcher at a large corporation and her main priority is providing insightful data for the entire company to use. The UX team uses it for their personas, the marketing team uses it for the adwords campaigns, etc…. She’s been collecting customer feedback via surveys for years but feels frustrated that results seem to be diminishing.

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BIG RYG: Key Takeaways

Education Services Group

We were thrilled to sponsor the first annual BIG RYG Customer Success Conference, and have our own Vice President of Customer Success & Operations, Megan Macaluso , included in the list of impressive speakers! (If you missed her session on Operationalizing Iteration & Continuous Improvement for CS, you can watch it On-Demand here.). The day was full of so many thought-provoking presentations and aha moments, it’s impossible to pick just one key takeaway.