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How to Enhance Your Customer’s Memory of Their Experience

Beyond Philosophy

I’m obsessed with memory. I love the subject and discussing the behavioral sciences that explain it. Today, we decided to address memory and how crucial it is to enhance your customers’ recollections of their experience with you. We discussed this concept on a recent podcast with guest Zoey Chen, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Miami School of Business.

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Bring Online & Offline Together to Increase Choice in the Shopper Journey

iPerceptions

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Putting a monetary value on CX

XMplify

I have spent much of the last 6 months thinking about how to calculate the value of CX in financial terms - the core of any winning business case. In this article I will share some of what I considered.

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How to Bridge the CX Gap Across the Organization

GetFeedback

A Frost & Sullivan executive summary on how to bridge the CX gap that is prevalent across so many organizations today.

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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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Hello to “Hands-Off”: Visual Strategies for Contactless Service

TechSee

Does this sound familiar? A customer calls the contact center with an urgent issue. His new coffee machine isn’t working properly, his smart sprinkler system isn’t configured correctly, or his internet connection is inexplicably down. A tier one agent gathers the requisite information: model number and nature of the problem. Basic troubleshooting scripts are followed: power off, reboot, check error messages.

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4 Strategies to Keep Customers Engaged and Coming Back

ShepHyken

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5 Common Sales Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Integrity Solutions

No matter how rapidly and dramatically external events may change, the top sales challenges seem to stay the same, year after year. Why aren’t salespeople and sales organizations able to make much headway in overcoming these common struggles? It’s not for lack of activity. Training is regularly implemented, new sales techniques are tried out, and the latest and greatest technology is implemented as the surefire antidote to a complex, competitive marketplace.

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CX Q&A: Answers to Your Top Customer Experience Questions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer Experience Questions require a CX Community. In March of 2020, as Covid-19 first began disrupting the way we live and work, my team and I decided to put together a live webinar, called What Can CX Leaders Expect? to discuss how we could all prepare ourselves and to answer your customer experience questions. It consisted of a short presentation from me, followed by an ‘Ask Me Anything’ Q&A in which I took questions from the audience.

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Promotions – Tip #7

Steve DiGioia

Not the kind that gets you the corner office, a big expense account, or stock options; I’m talking about the kind you use to advertise and spread the word about your business. How dedicated are you to promoting your business to the throngs of potential customers not yet aware of your product or service? It’s a never-ending process. Promoting your business, and the print, internet and radio advertising used, will build a foundation for your future success. “Advertising is the ar

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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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[Webinar Recap] Instant Answer Sneak Peek and Block Flow

QuestionPro Audience

We hope you were able to join our monthly webinar where we introduce different concepts and sneak peeks into our new features but if not, we are here for you! Continue reading for the webinar overview and some of the questions that came across from attendees on the topic of Survey Block Flow, Concept Testing, Monadic & Sequential Monadic Testing, and Instant Answer!

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COVID-19’s Impact on Contact Centers has Leaders Rethinking Strategy, Technology and Business Continuity Plans

NICE inContact

The rise of COVID-19 has prompted many contact centers to embrace remote working amid stay-at-home orders and concern for employees’ health and safety. Indeed, the pandemic is, among many things, a massive experiment in telecommuting as the outbreak accelerates a trend towards a remote workforce, possibly for the long term. But that isn’t the only thing that’s on the mind of contact center leaders.

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The 5 Rules for Making and Managing Customer Memories

Beyond Philosophy

The 5 Rules for Making and Managing Customer Memories. A lot of Behavioral Economics can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. What Are The Five Rules? I love the subject of customer memories. From how they form to how they change to how they drive your customer loyalty, customer memories are a crucial aspect of your Customer Experience.

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Retail Digital Experience Can Still Satisfy Europeans during COVID-19

eglobalis

Retail Digital and Physical Experience Can Still Satisfy Europeans during COVID-19. The post Retail Digital Experience Can Still Satisfy Europeans during COVID-19 appeared first on Eglobalis.

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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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Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020

SurveySensum

The Super-Heroes of Customer Experience are here! Customer Experience – The new focus of 2020! Customer Experience has become a top priority for businesses in 2020. It is now considered to be the key brand differentiator and a critical factor for your brand’s success and revenue growth. While many brands are struggling to deliver the relevant and delightful experiences to the customers, certain Customer Experience Leaders have broken the code and delivered what is considered to the best!

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3 of the biggest contact center challenges, and how voice authentication solves them

NICE inContact

AI-based voice authentication is not just powerful identity and verification contact center software. It’s a giant leap forward in enhancing our privacy and data protection, with built-in safeguards for more secure business transactions in real-time. Voice authentication automatically verifies customers and fraud is reduced in a more streamlined and reliable way, eliminating typical time-consuming KBA interrogation for faster service and a better experience.

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Amazing Business Radio: Ramon Ray

ShepHyken

Tools of Amazing Customer Experience. How Big and Small Businesses Can Improve CX. Shep Hyken interviews Ramon Ray , founder of Smart Hustle Media. They discuss various strategies and tools that businesses large and small can use to create amazing customer service and experience. Top Takeaways: Big companies often have more resources and can implement disciplined strategies, whereas small companies are nimbler and are often able to react and make necessary changes more quickly.

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Does your customer experience pass the #MakeMomProud test? Part 1

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Author: Guest author: Jeanne Bliss Does your customer experience pass the #MakeMomProud test? Part 1. Published on: July 15, 2020. Author: Guest author: Jeanne Bliss The latest book from customer experience expert Jeanne Bliss is based on a simple idea. Titled Would You Do That To Your Mother? it highlights that you need to understand customers personally to elevate the ir experience.

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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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The Impact of Technology on the Customer Experience

ReviewTrackers

Technology has advanced tremendously since the first mobile phone was used in 1973. With the invention of the Internet, a new communication form emerged as the computer became a medium for exchanging information. Access to the Internet is possible on smartphones today, and smartphones are one of the causes of the explosion of online consumer culture in the Western world.

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A Digital-First Contact Center Strategy Can Deliver Customers for Life. Is It Time to Start Your Digital Revolution?

NICE inContact

Digital has far-reaching implications not just for how organizations provide service today, but also for how much more change is coming in the very near future. Those who “win” customer service will need to completely reimagine it—and digital will be central to that.

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What Powerless Feelings Do to Customers & Employees | #Leadership

Kate Nasser

To undo customer and employee anger & upset, find their powerless feelings & empower them. Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author of Leading Morale. The post What Powerless Feelings Do to Customers & Employees | #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Chase Business Results, Not Survey Scores

Heart of the Customer

We had a great discussion on LinkedIn a few weeks ago about the disconnect between customer experience and leadership. This post kicked things off: As I interview CX leaders and CEOs, it’s been fascinating (but not surprising) to hear the vast differences in focus. CX people focus on survey results; their thoughts are on how to improve the experience in order to improve […].

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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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Fixing What People Buy because Clients are not Sold What They Need?

One Millimeter Mindset

Today, let’s ideate together. Take a deep breath. Relax. Let’s innovate. What happens to your revenue stream when employees stop fixing what people buy? Because clients are not sold what they really need. When internal teams actively drive revenue? Instead of serving as order-takers buried in departments traditionally perceived as cost-centers.

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Work from Anywhere: Why the Future of Contact Centres is Cloud-Based

NICE inContact

As organisations transition to a post COVID-19 world, contact centre employees need to be able to work from anywhere for businesses to stay competitive. Explore why the future of contact centres is cloud-based, and how to enable your contact centre team to work from anywhere without compromising productivity or security, while delivering a consistent and outstanding customer experience.

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Have you completed an “attitude audit” from the customer’s perspective lately?

Wired and Dangerous

It all started with a creative conversation…those funny “what if” discussions that get sillier with late night exuberance and adult beverages. “What fruit would they be if all pharmacists were a fruit?” asked a deeply serious pharmacist. “If lawyers were farm animals, which one would they be?” teased a person, targeting his attorney friend. Chip popped the obvious question–if customer service was a mode of transportation, what would it be?

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The CX Reframe: Three predictions for CX after COVID

Talkdesk

Welcome to the final installment of Talkdesk’s CX Reframe: A 5-Point COVID Response Plan. In our first three pieces, we discussed the massive quantum shift brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and how CX leaders can adapt their contact center strategies to continue delivering excellent experiences while weathering the pandemic. In this piece we’ll discuss how CX leaders can Reform these strategies, and modify them to address a post-pandemic world.

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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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5 Customer Experience Trends That COVID-19 Is Only Accelerating

Oracle

The current pandemic is a clear example of a disruption that, in many cases, is accelerating trends that were already happening. Below is a look at a few of these trends, including contactless consumer experiences, the ability for employees to “Work From Anywhere”, virtual engagements, and the acceleration of messaging as a channel. We’ll likely see these trends continue to accelerate over time.

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Join Us for Interactions Live!

NICE inContact

A major virtual conference, open to contact center pros everywhere. Even six months ago, who could have predicted that across the planet, we’d be leaving in-person conferences behind—at least for now—and recreating them as virtual events? And who would have believed that in the process, we’d discover interesting new possibilities for sharing the latest in call center cloud software solutions and industry trends, not to mention in how we engage with each other?

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The Importance of SEO and Analytics

Fox Metrics

Almost every digital marketer is looking for a magic wand to get their page to the top of Google front page. Unfortunately, there’s no magic wand to reach search engines’ front page. The closest you can get to a wand is a tool called “analytics.” Analytics is considered the cornerstone of all search engine optimization efforts.