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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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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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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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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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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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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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B2B Customer Experience Best Practices

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

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The New Brandwatch Help Center

Brandwatch CX

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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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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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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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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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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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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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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.

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CRM Hack: Testing and Evaluating CRM Strategy and Contribution

Optimove

A challenge many companies face is understanding the CRM contribution in their marketing efforts. In other words, figuring out just how much their CRM is really worth. As a CRM marketer, you want to make sure that you have effective communications with your customers that are both smart and thoughtful. That you’re sending them the right message at the right time.

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