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What Brands Should Do to Design More Inclusive Experiences

InMoment XI

The road to more inclusive experiences is rarely straightforward, which is why it’s imperative for organizations to consider as many voices as possible along their inclusion journey. Whether it’s how quickly news travels via social media or how to have conversations with marginalised communities, the sheer myriad of variables for brands to consider can seem overwhelming.

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Top 4 Customer Experience Trends for Financial Services to Expect in 2022

Comm100

In 2021, evolving customer experience trends shook up the financial services industry. Customers demanded digital services to meet their needs, and as organizations rose to the demand, these high customer expectations led to innovative new services. As we look ahead, 2022 promises, even more changes for the financial services industry. To help cut through the noise, we’ve looked at emerging data and expert opinions to predict the CX trends that we expect to see in 2022 for financial services. 1.

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It’s a mad, mad world out there. Can contact centers provide some calm—and even a little happiness?

NICE inContact

We all get mad. Boy, do we get mad. We all have our triggers. Someone cuts us off in traffic. We’re given the wrong order.

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How to Build a Customer Experience Persona

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Developing CX Personas: The Step Before Journey Mapping. In my work consulting, training, and running workshops , one consistent theme I find is teams are super eager to begin the Customer Journey Mapping process. I get it. Customer Journey Mapping can reveal — and help solve — a lot of problems in the customer journey. But in order to do so, those journey maps must be built on a foundation of a true picture of your customer.

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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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Business Value and ROI of Customer Experience: The Step-by-step Guide

Lumoa

Is it possible to determine the ROI of customer experience, if so, how do you do that? In this article, we explain the relationship between revenue growth and customer experience. In addition, we share tools that will help you calculate the ROI of your own customer experience projects. Most business leaders believe that customer experience will be the key driver of their company’s competitiveness going forward.

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Delivering great CX this holiday season despite supply chain challenges.

NICE inContact

The holiday shopping season can make or break a retailer's entire year. Contact centers are used to the holiday spike in transaction volume, but this year may be even more challenging for retail businesses and contact center agents to navigate.

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The Top 3 Customer Service Trends to Expect in 2022

Comm100

The customer service landscape is forever changing as technologies and consumer expectations develop, but 2021 has seen a shift of proportions that we have arguably never experienced. Organizations relying on call center support were forced to transition to digital channels during lockdowns. Query volumes spiked as customers (and companies) faced unprecedented problems, placing huge stress on customer service agents.

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Choose to Chat: How to Improve Healthcare Through Conversations with Patients

Customer Bliss

Who among us hasn’t wondered at some point if that slew of tests ordered for ourselves or our loved ones was necessary? Or worried about the effect of repeated scans or the cost? Or if we really need that medication? More important, in the increasing complexity of healthcare, who doesn’t yearn for more conversation about why tests are ordered, and their impact in the near and short term?

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Guest Post: 4 Ways to Transform Customer Experience While Growing Rapidly

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Dan Martin, Chief Executive Officer of Xpress Global Systems , an organization focused on innovation, efficiency, and scalability of shipping and distribution of flooring products. He shares the four key areas that lead to elevated customer experiences while growing rapidly. In April 2021, I had the honor of becoming the chief executive officer of Xpress Global Systems (XGS), a trucking company that specializes in transporting flooring products across all 50

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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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The customer experience that keeps on giving

NICE inContact

It’s the small details and the experience of being cared for that ultimately drives a customer to stay with your company for life. So, give your customers something to be thankful for this year, and you’ll find they will pay you back tenfold.

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Top Live Chat Best Practices for 2022

Comm100

If you’re reading this, you likely have either just implemented live chat on your website or are thinking about it. If you’re the latter, let us help you make your decision – 75% of people prefer live chat over any other channel and it leads to a 40% increase in conversion rate. Convinced now? Whatever your industry, live chat is an incredibly effective channel – when used correctly.

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Lots of Exciting News!

PeopleMetrics

This has been a big week at PeopleMetrics. In case you did not hear, I launched my second book called Pharma Customer Experience ( CLICK TO VIEW ON AMAZON ) on Tuesday (11/30). I wrote this book because pharma and biotech companies have an amazing opportunity to improve the customer experience (patients, HCPs, caregivers) and emotionally connect with these customers.

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The Three N’s of Employee Fulfillment

ShepHyken

In the best of times, it’s important to keep your best employees. In tough times, it’s even more important. Customers are beginning to feel the results of The Great Resignation , which quite honestly, is not so great. It has resulted in longer lines, longer hold times, and slower service – basically a lower level of customer service. . So, how can you keep good employees, and keep them not only engaged with their jobs but also engaged with their customers?

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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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Adversity brings out true character

Zeisler Consulting

There’s a saying that you can really tell a lot about people’s character by seeing how they handle adversity. Sure, when things are going well, everybody’s got a great disposition, the idea goes. But it’s when we’re tested that our true selves show through. I was thinking of that recently when we had an Internet outage here at home. Now, anybody who expects perfect 100% around-the-clock unfailing coverage of services such as Internet is being unreasonable.

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The Top 3 Customer Service Trends to Expect in 2022

Comm100

The customer service landscape is forever changing as technologies and consumer expectations develop, but 2021 has seen a shift of proportions that we have arguably never experienced. Organizations relying on call center support were forced to transition to digital channels during lockdowns. Query volumes spiked as customers (and companies) faced unprecedented problems, placing huge stress on customer service agents.

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10 Content Optimization Tools To Improve Your SEO

DemandJump

As semantic search becomes increasingly prominent for search engines, your content not only needs to include relevant keywords, but it must address your target topic in-depth—explaining intent, behavior, and context.

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How to Bring Agile Innovation to Customer Success

Totango

When you bring agile innovation to customer success , you empower your CS strategy with the latest technology. This gains you the ability to implement CS at scale, giving you a winning edge over competitors who are still a generation or two behind in their deployment of CS automation. In this blog, we’ll look deeper at what an agile customer success strategy means and why you can benefit from using one.

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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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Why Nostalgia is Not Just a Thing of the Past But the Present

Beyond Philosophy

People look back on their childhood and talk about how terrible it was. However, they often do it with a fondness that belies their words. Looking back at the earlier period, they feel good about it, no matter how terrible it was in their description. Customers do this, too. So, the question I pose today is, what part of your customers’ past would they want to relive?

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Leading through crisis: What 2020 taught us about leadership

West Monroe

In a decade, or perhaps just a few years, those of us who made it through the pandemic and are still around will remember the leaders who stepped up, who got it right, and why.

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Different Poll Types for your Next Meeting

Zonka Feedback

Are you thinking of using Live Polls for your upcoming meetings? Good idea! If you are working remotely, which most companies have been for a couple of years, virtual meetings and web conferences must be a part of your life.

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What Makes a Successful Customer Health Journey?

Totango

Customer health is a critical component of your overall customer success program. More than just customer satisfaction, customer health software helps measure the value customers are or are not receiving from your solution, allowing you to make necessary adjustments to your overall journey. In this article, we’ll explore why customer health scores are so important, the different ways you can evaluate customer health, and how Totango can help you to build a successful customer health journey. .

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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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12 Key Takeaways from ChurnZero’s BIG RYG Customer Success Conference

ChurnZero

12 Key Takeaways from ChurnZero’s BIG RYG Virtual Customer Success Conference. It’s a wrap on ChurnZero’s 2021 BIG RYG Virtual – our online Customer Success conference. From sessions on building variable compensation plans and Customer Success tech stacks to fostering customer advocacy and community, BIG RYG explored how today’s Customer Success leaders are tackling major industry challenges and advancing their Customer Success game.

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Meet your 2021 Influitive BAMMIE Finalists

Influitive

The Influitive Best Advocate Marketing Awards (BAMMIES) bestow the highest honor for trailblazing companies that are leveraging the collective power and influence of their customers to achieve their business goals, and this was yet another year packed with incredible submissions. Our finalists have demonstrated creative excellence, innovation and record-smashing results, all while remaining employee and […].

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5 Ways to Use iPad Survey App at Trade Shows & Events

Zonka Feedback

Over a decade, my family has participated in Jewelry Trade Shows & Events. We make many efforts to turn our exhibition interaction into an on-site sales platform. Before conceptualizing any exhibition, we always keep one thing in mind: ROI. Yes! You’ve invested in our show, and that’s why we have always committed to making our exhibition more interactive and worth attending.

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A Quick Comparison of Virtual Receptionists at Call Experts and Call Ruby

Call Experts

If you want the best virtual receptionists and live answering service to manage your customer support, Call Experts and Call Ruby are here for you. But if you’re curious about how our two companies compare, read on. Our friends at Call Ruby run a great company, and we think they’ve got a lot to offer. They’re both live chat and live answering services we could learn from — but their pricing and packages are different than what we do.

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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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Mobile Growth Slows, Longer Shopping Dates: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Wrap-Up

ModSquad

The 2021 holiday season is here, but many shoppers are still skittish about crowded in-store shopping. Some expected online shopping to dominate this Black Friday. Others believed people would hit the malls to select gifts in person, given news of supply chain issues. Here’s how it played out and what we observed. Forget the headlines, ecommerce is still growing.

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The great resignation and integrating wellness at work

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Asha Tarry, a business consultant, psychotherapist, and life coach, who discusses the “Great Resignation” of 2021, especially among Black and […]. The post The great resignation and integrating wellness at work first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Patient Satisfaction Survey Examples

Zonka Feedback

According to a Stanford University study, positive interactions of patients with their healthcare providers can increase the efficacy of treatments. 84% of people say that wait time at a facility can have a huge impact on their experience. Similarly, transparency of cost and payment matters to 65% of patients.