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What Are Customer Touchpoints?

GetFeedback

Identify customer touchpoints, map out a complete customer journey, and optimize the customer experience. Guides

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Do Your Digital Transformation Efforts Meet Your Customers’ Needs?

Hello Customer

Digital transformation accelerated in many companies over the past year. Physical customer interactions have been reduced to almost 0. Companies increasingly have to service their customers via digital channels. As a service company, this can be challenging. How do you know if you still reach your customers?

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The Four Levels of Customer Satisfaction

SmartKarrot

The success of your company is directly proportional to how thoroughly your customers are satisfied with you. The satisfaction score of a customer is a critical determinant that portrays how far-fetched their loyalty will go on. While it is said that sales is the engine that is the driver of your business, customer satisfaction is the one that acts as fuel.

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McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case and the Customer Experience

Steve DiGioia

We all know that the coffee McDonald’s sells is too hot to drink when served. If you put it to your lips, you’ll most likely receive a burn that will be far worse than anything most people have ever encountered. So why do they make their coffee so hot? And how does this affect the customer experience? By now you must have heard about the famous “McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case”.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Customers say the darndest things

GetFeedback

Customer service speaker, author, and coach Dan Gingiss reads real customer feedback live and gives you advice on what to do about it.

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Small Business Guide to Live Chat in 2021

Comm100

There are many digital customer service tools for small businesses to choose from, but there’s only one that stands out with real-time, accessible, and cost-effective support – and that’s live chat. Live chat has quickly become the most popular digital customer service channel for small businesses and large – and it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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The Power List of the Top 200 Thought Leaders to follow in 2021

Storyminers

If you are curious and fascinated to know what the future of work has in store, if the year 2020 has got you wondering about the nuances and the dynamism of the modern workplace experience, then you can find all the answers that you seek in the leadersHum leadership series. As a growing community of professionals spread across the globe, our 200 most influential thought leaders have redefined the world of work and have brought us an abundance of rich perspectives.

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Love Your Employees As Much As You Love Your Customers

Kerry Bodine

While my co-author Harley and I were prepping Outside In for publication back in the spring of 2012, I learned about the strange practice of soliciting “blurbs,” those pithy words of praise on a book’s back cover that tout the messages inside. There’s even a verb associated with this process — as in, “Would you consider blurbing our book?”. One of the people we reached out to with this request was a well-known author who I kind of idolized at the time.

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Strategies to Hire and Work from Anywhere

NICE inContact

Aside from the negative outcomes of the past year, there's one shining example of a positive consequence - the seismic shift towards a work from home model in the general workforce and more specifically among contact center agents and staff.

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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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Here’s 2 Sure-Fire Tactics That Have Never Let Me Down – Tip #25

Steve DiGioia

Most people have a few go-to strategies that they follow during times of need. They’re comforted knowing they have a tried-and-true method that works for them and have tactics that have never let them down. I’m no different. Experience has shown us the way and we are better off because of it. So, what tactics work for you? Oh, you don’t want to give up your secrets.

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How A Great Story Helps You Sell More

Storyminers

?. The post How A Great Story Helps You Sell More appeared first on StoryMiners.

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Five steps to building a robust CX tech stack

GetFeedback

Simplifying CX YouTube series episode on building a robust CX technology stack.

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Small Improvements in Customer Service Create Big Wins

ShepHyken

Little successes added together make for large success down the road. Small successes add up. To put it in baseball terms, you don’t need to hit a home run every time it’s your turn at bat. So, here’s the question to consider: What small change will enhance the experience for the customer, even if it is just by 1%? My friend and client, Jason Bradshaw of Volkswagen in Australia, was tasked with improving the customer experience for the VW dealerships.

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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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Mitchell: Excellence in the B2B Customer Experience

NICE inContact

As anyone knows who’s ever filed an insurance claim or been hurt in an accident or at work, it can be a long and frustrating process, with a lot steps and back-and-forth. Or it used to be. In recent years, though, technology has made a huge difference, streamlining the whole process. That’s where Mitchell comes in: We bring together a wide variety of experts, technology solutions, networks, and partners to boost better claims outcome and restore lives.

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The 20 Most Viewed YouTube Videos

Brandwatch CX

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Online Reputation Management Trends for 2021

ReviewTrackers

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 18, 2021

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. 21 Tips for 2021 Customer Experience Excellence by Lynn Hunsaker. (ClearAction) Here are 21 tips for achieving 2021 customer experience excellence in these areas and beyond.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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Keep Your 2021 Sales Pipeline Full Using the Selling Lessons of 2020

Integrity Solutions

By Will Milano. This past year laid bare some critical underlying selling skills and cracks in their sales pipeline that sales leaders were able to ignore or avoid while focusing on more immediate concerns. There’s no putting it off anymore. The good news is, we just went through a crash course in transformation — and there’s plenty to learn from it.

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How to Write and Present a Winning UXR Case Study (With a Free Outline Template)

dscout People Nerds

Learn how to tell your project’s story—all while showing off your own skills. .

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The new rules of engagement (according to customers)

C Space

The new rules of engagement (according to customers). How did 2020 change the rules of engagement between customers and brands? For nearly a decade, we’ve tracked the connection between companies and customers. What we saw in 2020 was a complex and rapidly changing picture – fluid emotional shifts, driven by economic, political, cultural and environmental uncertainty.

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The Truth About Moments of Truth

Heart of the Customer

After reviewing The Journey Mapping Playbook earlier this month, it struck me that one of the biggest misses in the book (outside of the flawed methodology) was its failure to touch on Moments of Truth. Those are the key interactions that have a disproportionate impact on a customer’s overall perception of the journey. Don’t make […]. The post The Truth About Moments of Truth appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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10 Leadership Lessons From Growing Up With A Wallstreet Mom

Doing CX Right

Are there people in your family that were business transformational leaders? Read Stacy Sherman's story and leadership lessons to inspire your success. The post 10 Leadership Lessons From Growing Up With A Wallstreet Mom appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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5 Fintech Tools Reshaping the Consumer Financial CX

Oracle

A new generation of CX technology is reshaping the way consumers deal with money. The days of having to deal with banks or credit card companies in-person are over. Digital apps let consumers automate bill negotiations, manage debt, monitor their credit, and much more. If you’re looking for a preview of trends and innovations in the consumer fintech space, and how they’re changing the consumer financial CX, here are five trends worth watching.

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If we can see it, we can fix it: How vision is expanding the roles of customer service staff

TechSee

There’s a new trend in customer service: the borders between technicians and agents are becoming blurred, with each one taking on aspects of the others’ traditional roles. Technicians normally found in the field are now stationed in a back office or working from home, guiding customers remotely as a traditional agent. Likewise, agents are now empowered to go above and beyond their standard scripts, using their newfound technical knowledge and skills to assist their customers.

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How to Use Psychological Priming to Get Customers to Accept Your Word As Final

Myra Golden

Some of you know my undergrad degree is in Psychology. I taught college psych several years before jumping into the customer service space. I apply psychological principles to all my work in de-escalation and call control. In last week’s super-fantastic 4-day De-escalation Academy , I taught my students how to use psychology to get angry customers to back down and accept their word as final.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Why Employees Want to Leave and How to Stop It

The DiJulius Group

4 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1) Customer Service Feature Story Why Employees Want to Leave and How to Stop It Every year, improving employee morale, turnover, and employee experience is a major objective for many organization’s leadership teams. Building a world-class experience encompasses both customer and employee. How can. Read Full Article.

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How to get your new boss to buy into your CX vision

MyCustomer

Engagement How to get your new boss to buy into CX.

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The TechSee Delivery Team – Driving change through exceptional delivery

TechSee

How cool would it be if you could just dial up a “smart” instant assistant to help you set up your latest “smart” doodad. It could save you the frustration of staring at your unboxed new toy and wondering what to do next. Yeah – well, been there, done that. And that’s just one of our goals at TechSee (hopefully also stopping you from tearing your hair out). .