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How to Close Customer Feedback with NPS

Zonka Feedback

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Guest Post: What Will Customer Experience Post COVID-19 Look Like in Grocery Retail?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Corina Mihalache, Business Development Executive at Tokinomo. She writes about changes in the customer experience for grocery shoppers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As cliché as it may sound, for an understanding of the future, we must always look into the past. Especially since the first half of this year has been crucial in determining the shift in consumer behavior, needs and expectations.

Retail 145
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Build Your Brand Through Trust, Ethics & Sustainability

Helen Dewdney

Brands 93
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How to Combat Shopping Cart Abandonment

GetFeedback

The common reasons online shoppers abandon their carts and how to overcome them.

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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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The 7 Keys to Word-of-Mouth Marketing

C3Centricity

Ever wonder how to get more people talking about your business? It’s simple. Offer them incredible products and services that solve their problems and fulfil their needs and desires. Then when you have converted them into customers, continue to keep them satisfied and give them something to talk about by surprising them too. Sounds easy, doesn’t it?

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5 Rules for Driving Down Costs in a Customer-Focused Way

Beyond Philosophy

You might have noticed that the global pandemic isn’t doing much for your bottom line. You might also be wondering how you can reduce costs to save your assets—even when the economy is robust and healthy. Today, we offer you the five rules of reducing costs to help you make it through what we will likely call the COVID-19 Recession. We discussed these five rules on a recent podcast.

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How to use the Customer Effort Score (CES) metric

GetFeedback

Simplifying CX YouTube series video on how to use the CES metric.

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6 Simple Tips For Customer Service Emails With A Personal Touch

Win the Customer

Customer service is one of the most important things to get right as a business – these moments of interaction with customers and clients leave a long lasting impression in individual hearts and minds. The sum total of these impressions is incredibly important to how your brand is perceived, and as people become more outspoken than ever on digital platforms, that counts.

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Customer Disservice

ShepHyken

One of our loyal subscribers, Warren Danziger, shared a story about how a delivery was made to his home and placed between the screen door and the front door. The delivery person never knocked or rang the doorbell to inform him his delivery was there. He was waiting for the package, which contained medicine that was temperature-sensitive. Sitting outside in the heat, baking between the two doors, was not customer service… it was customer disservice.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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With CXone Technology, ECSI ‘Acts Like the Big Guys’

NICE inContact

The story of student loan servicer ECSI is a story of partnership and the sense of a higher mission, one of providing support to colleges and universities and of helping young people and their families navigate financial issues they may be encountering for the first time. It’s a story of building relationships and providing services in meaningful ways to constituents who need them.

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Demystifying Customer Journey Mapping: Highlights From CX Leader Roundtable

GetFeedback

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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

We believe that every outsourcer should earn your business by delivering value day in and day out whether your relationship with them is in its first year or its 20 th year. After all, continual improvement and striving to evolve are the hallmarks of long-term success. Great companies are regularly assessing the ongoing value of their partnerships – but how do you measure the true value your contact center outsourcer is delivering?

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How to Make Your Customers Feel Important – Tip #19

Steve DiGioia

Every server in the restaurant industry has their own style, their own manner, and their own way of interacting with their customers. Their goal is to make their customers feel important and serve them well. Some service styles are formal and professional, some are relaxed and carefree, and some are “by-the-book” without showing much emotion and simply going through the steps of service.

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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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I’m Gen-X and I Don’t Want to Talk to You Either: Customer Service Secrets You Need to Know

NICE inContact

Businesses are sitting on a gold mine of information, go talk to your Gen X-ers. Listen to what they have to say about the experience you should be delivering, and how you can deliver it. Then empower them to make it happen! Learn about all the considerations and how to keep not just your contact center, but your customer service experience, ahead of the game.

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What Is Customer Experience?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

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A Practical Resource Guide for Achieving Digital Accessibility Compliance

CXS

The comprehensive accessibility service platform, eSSENTIAL Accessibility, shares with us their practical guide on how to bring your digital properties into compliance with the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). What is WCAG? The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provides technical specifications … The post A Practical Resource Guide for Achieving Digital Accessibility Compliance appeared first on CX 2020.

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Bias Is a Four-Letter Word

Alida

"Members of an insight community are biased. Survey results aren’t really representative. ”. We hear this a lot. This statement often stems from the belief that by maintaining anonymity and surveying a general population sample, researchers will find the unbiased truth. (Spoiler: there's no such thing!). However, times have changed and perceptions toward research sample should evolve as well.

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The New CX: Your Guide to AI Agents

The guide for revolutionizing the customer experience and operational efficiency This eBook serves as your comprehensive guide to: AI Agents for your Business: Discover how AI Agents can handle high-volume, low-complexity tasks, reducing the workload on human agents while providing 24/7 multilingual support. Enhanced Customer Interaction: Learn how the combination of Conversational AI and Generative AI enables AI Agents to offer natural, contextually relevant interactions to improve customer exp

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5 Proactive Activities Leaders Can Do to Position Their Inbound Call Center for Ongoing Success

NICE inContact

Call center leaders can't hide behind bluster. The performance data doesn't let them. Everything about an inbound call center - from expenditures to service levels to customer satisfaction - can be measured and those results reflect directly on the leaders. It's pretty clear when a customer service manager is or isn't producing results. Just look at the KPIs.

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The Power of Rudiments (Within CX)

Horizon CX

Mastering the rudiments or basics of just about any pursuit can be critical to overall success. That certainly, and especially, includes being skilled and competent at the management of Customer Experience (CX). Could the difference between a customer experience professional and a customer experience novice simply be that the expert is much better and more effective at the rudiments—the basic tasks that are fundamental to that skill?

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Digital Transformation and Digital Accessibility

CXS

In an article written by eSSENTIAL Accessibility, a sponsor of the Customer Experience Strategies Summit, describes the importance of accessibility during a brand digital transformation. While many brands are focused on transforming processes and strategies into a digital-focused world, certain … The post Digital Transformation and Digital Accessibility appeared first on CX 2020.

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Are You Meeting or Exceeding Your Customers’ Thresholds for Service Delivery?

Wired and Dangerous

We are seeing a lot of threshold alarms these days. Highway freeways tell us “minimum speed 40 mph.” It is a way of keeping horse-drawn buggies off the road. Minimum orders signal that only volume purchases are allowed. Even Disney has threshold alarms that say a child must be “this tall” to get on a particular attraction. As her two older sisters zipped past the “this tall” sign, it promoted my youngest granddaughter to say, “Tell them that scary things don’t scare me!”.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Amazing Business Radio: Steven Van Belleghem

ShepHyken

A Customer Experience They Can’t Refuse. Changing the World One Customer Experience at a Time. Shep Hyken interviews Steven Van Belleghem , an expert in customer experience in a digital world. They discuss his latest book, The Offer You Can’t Refuse , and the four factors that go into amazing customer service. Top Takeaways: The year 2020 has thrown us into the future technologically.

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ReviewTrackers Becomes a Google My Business Featured Partner

ReviewTrackers

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Retail Reality: Now More Than Ever, Your Online Store Must Be Accessible

CXS

With mandatory closure caused by the pandemic, online sales rise making the online customer experience important for many brands. It’s “make-or-break” for businesses when creating a great user experience, and that’s why implementing tools that help improve accessibility is strongly … The post Retail Reality: Now More Than Ever, Your Online Store Must Be Accessible appeared first on CX 2020.

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Banking: 5 keys to supercharging your digital strategy

Talkdesk

Almost 17,500 US bank branches closed from the beginning of 2014 to the middle of June 2020. Branch closure is a reality that has intensified with COVID-19, social distancing protocols and the recent urban exodus. Combined, these are causing serious challenges across three fronts: Financial exclusion of the most vulnerable. Financial services are essential to leading a normal life and being an active citizen and participant in society.

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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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Why Colleagues & Clients do not Trust Shifting Story Narratives

One Millimeter Mindset

When you use shifting story narratives to persuade, justify or invite people to join your story, the effect is just the opposite. Instead of saying yes, they can become skeptical: of you, your solution and even your organization. Why? Because people do not intellectually or emotionally co-invest in stories that shape-shift. And considering that, overall, trust is at a premium these days, what stories are you telling?

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Customer Success vs. Customer Support: What Are the Differences?

Totango

Customer success vs. customer support: although these two terms appear similar, they actually refer to two different, yet complementary, functions within a company. Fulfilling a proactive role, customer success focuses on problem prevention and creates value by enabling clients to achieve business goals. Customer support is reactive and acts as a resource for clients to use when they encounter specific technical issues and need help. .

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How to Scale Your Business and Customer Service Program for Maximum Efficiency

CXS

We all know that a well-oiled customer service machine is a business imperative, but how do you know if yours is designed for maximum efficiency? While your customer service agents represent the single biggest cost in your contact center, there … The post How to Scale Your Business and Customer Service Program for Maximum Efficiency appeared first on CX 2020.