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Q&A with Wondrium: The 3 pillars of CX success

Alida

We recently sat down with Susan White Frazier, Director of Market Research at Wondrium (formerly known as The Great Courses Plus), a subscription video streaming service with thousands of courses, documentaries, and nonfiction series, to learn how they are monitoring and encouraging positive customer experience within the entire Wondrium ecosystem. Susan and her colleagues have already embraced several key strategies to deliver extraordinary advancements in brand innovation; helping to keep long

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10 Smart Ways to Cater to Your Local Customers

Steve DiGioia

You may work for a giant worldwide conglomerate that maintains a core set of values, standards, and practices, but can each of these standards be maintained in every venue? Well, if you’re the Ritz Carlton or McDonald’s , you can. (NOTE: McDonald’s has regional variations in their menu to accommodate local tastes). But what if you work at a location that is having difficulty maintaining the corporate standards because your venue doesn’t conform to the design that the standards

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Guest blog: The Future of Customer Service: Changes & Challenges in 2022

Comm100

In the past few years, massive social changes have upset the business community. These changes have occurred across industries and have accelerated the adoption of new technologies. Further social upheavals amongst workers and customer expectations have also occurred. Ultimately, customer service and contact centers have not been immune to these changes.

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Six Reasons to Attend XI Forum Sydney 2022

InMoment XI

We are just one week away from the XI Forum Sydney on June 1st! The InMoment Team is so excited for this year’s event, which will be in-person for the first time since the pandemic hit—and we know that this is an incredible opportunity for anyone, whether you’re just starting out on your CX journey or you’re ready to shake things up. We’ve designed this all-in-one-day conference to make sure each delegate leaves with the best, most actionable information to inspire their experience program.

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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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68 Customer Support Email Address Name Ideas

CX Accelerator

Written by Jenny Dempsey, 5.25.2022 You don’t actually want to contact customer support. If you have to, this means you have a problem or an unanswered question. You can’t find the answer in the knowledge base on the company website, instruction book or the FAQs. When you do reach out, you want to know that you’re in good hands and that an answer or resolution to your issue is waiting at the end of that interaction.

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How Higher Education Suffers Without Digital Student Engagement

Comm100

Today’s Gen Z students have grown up during a time of incredible innovation in CX. Whether it’s shopping, transportation, or food, these students have learned to expect service when, where, and how they want it. As Gen Z now navigates higher education, they’re placing these heightened expectations onto colleges and universities. While this may seem like an unfair comparison, the reality is that Gen Z expects outstanding support from every brand they interact with.

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The Employee Experience Maturity Path: How Does EX Improvement Impact Customer Behavior?

InMoment XI

This article was originally posted on CustomerThink.com. Sacagawea, a knowledgeable young Shoshone woman, successfully guided Lewis & Clark through the Louisiana Purchase territory, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa, whose backyard was the Himalayas, successfully guided Edmund Hillary on the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.

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The Future of Contact Centers is Enriching Human Interactions. Are You Prepared?

Beyond Philosophy

The contact center at many organizations doesn’t get the strategic consideration it deserves. My former contact center team at British Telecom seemed to be viewed primarily as a cost center, a necessary expense. As a result, their team was always pressured to streamline staffing, coached to be as efficient as possible with multiple priorities, and designed to generate the least amount of cost.

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Why You Aren’t Receiving Qualitative NPS Feedback (And How To Fix It)

Retently

While many people think of Net Promoter Score® surveys as revolving around a simple 0 to 10 rating scale, the reality is that there are two sides to NPS® — the quantitative (the rating) and the qualitative side (the feedback). Just like few things are more frustrating for the average person than sending an email without getting a response, few things are as discouraging for a customer satisfaction expert as sending an NPS survey and receiving a score without any qualitative feedback.

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

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, 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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Guest Post: How to Boost Customer Support Employee Productivity for Better CX

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Sowmya Juttukonda, content developer & digital media specialist at Knowmax , a knowledge management system to enhance customer service. She shares how organizations can create an environment that motivates employees to become more productive and improve customer experience. Talk of productivity, and we all have got something to share.

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Customer Experience Strategy: Do You Conquer or Collaborate? | #Leadership #CX

Kate Nasser

Customer Experience Strategy Leaders: Your words need to say collaborate with customers not conquer them. Examples fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX Leadership Teamwork Collaboration. The post Customer Experience Strategy: Do You Conquer or Collaborate? | #Leadership #CX appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Product-led Growth: What It Is and Why You Need It

Totango

Product-led growth (PLG) has emerged as one of the best strategies for selling SaaS software. It lets your product do the talking, departing from a sales-led growth strategy that depends on a conventional sales pitch. SaaS businesses adopt product-led marketing to lower customer acquisition costs while improving customer retention and accelerating revenue growth.

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Literature review: your definitive guide

Clarivate

This is our ultimate guide on how to write a narrative literature review. It forms part of our Research Smarter series. . How do you write a narrative literature review? Researchers worldwide are increasingly reliant on literature reviews. That’s because review articles provide you with a broad picture of the field, and help to synthesize published research that’s expanding at a rapid pace.

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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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When it comes to CX, Conversational AI is the only game in town

Interactions

Brands shouldn’t gamble when it comes to customer experience. Just one bad experience can affect customer loyalty and your bottom line. In fact, 1 in 3 customers will leave a brand they love after just one bad experience, while 92% would completely abandon a company after two or three negative interactions. So when it comes to technology that automates CX, you should place your bets on Conversational AI for the win.

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What Coke’s Bottle Cap Innovation Reveals About What People Want

Gainsight

Nothing is more difficult than figuring out what people want. Not just with the big, life-changing technologies people want. If you’ve ever been stuck in the endless loop of “What do you want for dinner?” “I don’t care, you choose,” you know that every decision that gets made is a tiny miracle. . Inevitably, decisions create outbursts. Product managers know this all too well.

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Contact Center Wrap-Up—Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Quadient

Contact Center Wrap-Up—Where the Rubber Meets the Road. Marissa Feigen. Mon, 05/23/2022 - 12:58. Customer experience (CX) is the new marketing battleground. Customers who perceive their interactions with your company as highly positive purchase more of your products and/or services, purchase more frequently, are more loyal, and are more likely to share their positive views with personal contacts and online communities. .

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20 Stats About the Benefits of Online Community Forums

Vanilla Forums

Those in the community space (such as ourselves) will defend the value of community forums until the very end. We’ve written an endless amount of blogs and eBooks on the benefits of community, and indeed, our colleagues in the community space have agreed with our assertions every step of the way. But as logical and obvious as the benefits of community may seem, we’re aware that there could be a disconnect between community in theory and community in practice; that is, what leading community expe

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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Discovering customer experience in the banking industry

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post from Satish Krishnamurthy, Global Practice Head – BFSI at Tech Mahindra. Imagine the seamlessness of ordering on Amazon or hailing a […]. The post Discovering customer experience in the banking industry first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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The Advantages of Call Screening for Your Business

Call Experts

Have you ever wondered how call screening can increase your efficiency? You might have heard of caller-ID , but what is call screening exactly? Call screening can be an effective tool for large and small businesses. . It has become much more accessible in recent years as technology has grown, and it can be beneficial for any business with a lot of phone calls coming in.

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How to Use Customer Effort Score (CES)?

Zonka Feedback

Customer Service is one of the most important aspects of the overall Customer Experience. Customer service experiences influence the direct growth of brands. Therefore, it is critical to discover factors that are important for your customers to perceive service experiences as good. According to Dimensional Research, customer service ranked number one among customers when asked about factors that influence their level of trust and loyalty to a company.

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Amplifying our strategic commitments to sustainability worldwide

Clarivate

Tiffani Shaw, Chief of Staff at Clarivate, discusses how we are amplifying our strategic commitments to driving sustainability worldwide and shares highlights from our 2021 Clarivate sustainability report. About this time last year, we published our first annual sustainability report for Clarivate. Since then, we have been moving full speed ahead – remaining focused on ways we can take action faster with greater purpose, making sustainability part of our global culture and improving our measurem

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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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Peloton’s financial troubles are a wake-up call for all companies to be vs. do digital

West Monroe

Peloton was born in the digital era and hit mainstream this decade with the right product at the right time. But nothing stays gold forever. With an unexpected drop in demand and ballooning costs, Peloton is now rushing to evolve in a turnaround effort. The road ahead will not be easy. Peloton’s 2021 shareholder return of -76 percent was the lowest of NASDAQ’s 300 Index.

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WHAT IS CUSTOMER JOURNEY MANAGEMENT, AND IS IT IMPORTANT?

inQuba

Demystifying the Next Evolution of Customer Experience. Customer Journey Management is the process of discovering and optimizing your customers’ journeys as they interact with your brand, to improve customer experience and achieve positive business outcomes. It’s an ongoing practice rather than a discreet project and offers a proven solution to customer experience and profitability for the customer-centric business.

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Explore 10 Ways Hotels should use Online Survey Tool

Zonka Feedback

When it comes to running a hotel business, it becomes vital to see if you were able to satisfy your guests or not because hotel guests usually share their experiences with their friends and known ones. So, businesses that fall under the hospitality sector including restaurant and hotel chains should use online survey tool because, only with the help of Guest Feedback, you get to know how your guests feel about you and your hotel or restaurant.

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WhatsApp Cloud API : Everything you need to know about it

kommunicate

Last Updated on May 22, 2022 “ The best business experiences meet people where they are.” Mark Zuckerberg, Conversations Keynote speech, 2022 Mark Zuckerberg was not making a statement into thin air when he said these words during Meta’s first-ever Conversation’s event. Meta just announced that the WhatsApp Cloud API and businesses across the world [.].

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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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Customer Experience Channels of the Future: 77 Percent of Consumers Under 25 Years Old Say Chatbots Are Helpful

Kustomer

You read that statistic correctly: 77% of consumers under 25 say that chatbots are helpful, according to Kustomer’s own survey data. What does this mean for the future of customer experience channels? It means that customers today have more support platforms to choose from than ever before and companies have to evolve in coordination with their customers’ expectations. 79% of customer experience (CX) professionals think the role of customer service to fuel business growth will become more

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Why You Need More than CRM Features for Customer Success

Totango

Customer relationship management software is great for sales, but it isn’t a substitute for a customer success platform. In this blog, we’ll talk about why CRM features alone aren’t sufficient for an effective CS strategy. First, we’ll take a look at what a CRM is and what benefits its functionality delivers. Then, we’ll distinguish what CRM software does from what a CS platform does, highlighting why a CRM tool alone isn’t enough to perform CS functions and how you can benefit from coupling you

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Your First 100 Days as an Account Management Leader Part 3: Why Are Customer Touch Points Important?

Kapta Customer Success

When customers have any type of negative experience, it can have disastrous consequences for your business — both for keeping the account and when it comes to long-term revenue implications. The risks of falling out from that single negative touchpoint are high, but the reach extends to all prospective customers and leads.