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5 Reasons You Need to Take Long-Term Social Customer Care Seriously

Russel Lolacher

74% of Millennials (18-34) and 58% of GenX (35-54) have a better opinion of organizations that provide social media customer care – Microsoft . Social customer care (using social media platforms as customer service experience tools) can be amazingly effective way to build relationships with the your customers and bring significant benefits to your organization.

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4 Ways the Experts Master Journey Mapping

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer journey mapping can be a powerful tool to help you truly understand your customers, innovate around new ways to serve them, and identify gaps in their journey. But, that’s only if the map is used as a tool and not an artifact. Many CX teams spend months on a journey map only to have a beautiful poster on the wall that only tells part of the story.

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Customer Feedback is a Gift Your Business Can’t Live Without

Steve DiGioia

If you’re having a bad experience in a restaurant and decide to never return, do you tell the manager? Or do you just leave and commit to never going back? If your clothes are seldom ready when promised by your dry cleaner, do you tell him why you’ve decided to go elsewhere? Or do you just find another cleaner? If the company you purchased a product from makes it difficult to return it without you jumping through hoops, do you make a complaint or vow to never buy from them again?

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The 5 Phases of Customer Feedback Failure

Genroe

Every day in companies around the world people sit down in meetings and decide today’s the day that they’re going to get serious about collecting customer feedback. Lots of earnest discussion follows, agreements are reached, actions allocated and heads nod in full agreement. Everyone leaves full of enthusiasm. Flash forward 18 months (sometimes less, sometimes more) and many of the […].

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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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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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5 Steps Toward a Successful Self-Service Strategy

TechSee

Self-service is finally coming of age, with leading enterprises embracing the paradigm of customers helping themselves. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2020, 10% of initial B2C interactions will be virtual, up from less than 1% in 2019. But it turns out that not all self-service options are created equal. Walmart axed its Mobile Express Scan & Go self-checkout experience due to negative feedback from customers.

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Five Tips for Building a Customer Success Team

Totango

In the customer-centered economy, your customer success (CS) team is invaluable. The team’s goal is to retain your hard-won customers and help them grow by deepening the customer relationship and ensuring they are realizing value with your product every step of the way. This leads to greater customer success, which reduces churn and increases renewals. .

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5 Factors to Consider When Choosing Your Customer Success Management (CSM) Technology

ClientSuccess

Regardless of your industry, the rate of technology adoption and competition is increasing substantially year over year, which can make it difficult to keep your customer retention rates high. Yet, reducing churn while keeping customer health scores high is critical for long-term company growth. . While you can’t control your company’s pricing or product features which are often cited as two of the top reasons accounts churn to a competitor, you do have the ultimate control of the experience you

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How to Communicate with Customers for Stellar CX

Topdown

There has been a continued focus on customer experience in the business world, and for good reason. Customer experience isn’t just a persistent buzzword, it has a real impact on your business. Like many concepts, customer experience (CX) is multifaceted.

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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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Innovative Lessons from the Miracle Mets of 1969

InMoment XI

How the Worst Team in Baseball History Innovated to Win the World Series 50 Years Ago Innovation Requires a Continuous Team Effort To innovate successfully, you can’t just rally the troops or hastily assemble a task force when upper management suddenly identifies a need. Innovation works best when a team is in place that is. View Article.

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The Greatest Avenger of the CX Universe

CX Accelerator

Whether you know it or not, a battle rages in the universe between companies with incredible customer experiences and everyone else. Furthermore, so many companies are paying lip service to great customer experience but not walking the walk. You are looking to hire one Avenger from the Marvel Cinematic Universe who will build the best CX program in all of the universe.

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How to Define Customer Satisfaction and Measure it

GetFeedback

Defining customer satisfaction is not easy. On the surface, you think you know what it means to have a satisfied customer. However, if you dig a little deeper, it would be difficult to say, emphatically, what makes them satisfied. . Think about gyms. They may assume that if someone doesn’t cancel their membership that they’re satisfied, but we know that’s not the case.

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Things You Never Think About When Implementing a CX Program

CloudCherry

Considering Implementing a CX Program? Good decision! While you’re at it, it might be a good idea to consider the things that are often overlooked when it comes to this noble endeavor. And, on this week’s ‘ Sweets of CX ,’ we’ve got the one and only Nate Brown – Head of CX for UL EHS , Co-Founder of CX Accelerator , CloudCherry’s first ever CX Champion, and our honored guest- to lend his expertise.

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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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Asking Scary Questions to Improve Your CX Program

InMoment XI

Today’s consumers are not afraid to switch things up, if a company’s service fails to live up to their expectations. With so many choices across the marketplace, customers will go wherever they feel their needs are best met. So how can we, as businesses and CX practitioners alike, attract and retain customers for life? A. View Article.

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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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Three Characteristics of XM Leaders

Experience Matters

Earlier today, I led an roundtable discussion at SAP Select in Berlin entitled “Become a XM Transformation Leader.” This is a critical theme for many executives. If you want the benefits of Experience Management (XM), then you will need to lead a transformational journey across your organization. If you’ve been reading my work, then you realize that XM is not about the delivery of a single great experience, but it’s a discipline that’s embedded across an organizatio

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What I’ve Learned as a Female Leader in SaaS

Alida

Kelly Hall, Vision Critical Chief Customer Officer, was recently named one of the Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS of 2019 by The Software Report. Here, Kelly shares some wisdom gleaned over her 17-year career in tech. She offers her perspective on the upsides and downsides of being an executive, the traits required to be a successful leader, and what she wishes she would have known when starting her career.

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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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How to Define Customer Satisfaction and Measure it

GetFeedback

In this article, we talk about just that: how you can define customer satisfaction and the methods to measure it.

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The Greatest Avenger of the CX Universe

CX Accelerator

Whether you know it or not, a battle rages in the universe between companies with incredible customer experiences and everyone else. Furthermore, so many companies are paying lip service to great customer experience but not walking the walk. You are looking to hire one Avenger from the Marvel Cinematic Universe who will build the best CX program in all of the universe.

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Managing Real-time Changes to Customer and Operational Needs

NICE inContact

Access our webinar: Delivering True Operational Agility in Times of Crisis. In crisis and in calm, 211 LA County helps over 1.4 million people every year, and its 60 Community Resource Advisors respond to more than 500,000 contacts annually. It also provides support to other 211 operations across the country in times of disaster. In the webinar, Delivering True Operational Agility in Times of Crisi s , 211 LA County COO Amy Latzer describes how critical agility and scalability are to the organiz

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How VMware Partners with Customers to Design Products

Alida

With an open dialogue with customers, companies can accelerate and de-risk product innovation by gathering insights at every step of the product development cycle. With the Inner Circle, an online community of VMware customers and partners that facilitates rapid-cycle research, VMware product teams can improve product innovation while building customer satisfaction and loyalty along the way.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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The Cost of In-House vs Outsourced Contact Centers: An Infographic

BlueOcean

Maybe you’re a math person and love nothing more than a hefty Excel document to dig into for a few hours. Or maybe math isn’t your strong suit and you’re just looking for hard numbers to tell you what you need to know. Either way, we’ve put together this handy infographic to help you compare the cost of in-house vs outsourced contact centers. And hey, we’re also standing by to help you out with a cost analysis and custom quote for your outsourced contact center.

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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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Performance Management and the Power of Positive Psychology in the Contact Center

NICE inContact

For contact center agents, it sometimes feels like either the workday drags on or it flies by with a flash. But maybe there is a happy medium for your agents – like when you are playing your favorite game or sport and completely lose track of time. Some people refer to that phenomenon as “being in the zone.” In positive psychology it is known as “flow.

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5 Key Takeaways from Forrester CX SF 2019

Alida

We all want to improve our customer experience. We’ve created customer journey maps and tried to focus on improving the whole experience and the Forrester CX Index is telling us that across the board in all industries, the customer experience is not improving. What are we missing?

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Do You Actively Communicate with Customers During Times of Disruption?

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. When customers need you, are you there?

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The Greatest Avenger of the CX Universe

CX Accelerator

Whether you know it or not, a battle rages in the universe between companies with incredible customer experiences and everyone else. Furthermore, so many companies are paying lip service to great customer experience but not walking the walk. You are looking to hire one Avenger from the Marvel Cinematic Universe who will build the best CX program in all of the universe.

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CXone Contact Center Solutions Help Radisson Hotel Group Support Guest Experiences

NICE inContact

Radisson Hotel Group had emerged as a leading global hospitality company and one of the world’s largest hotel groups. But like many companies that transition their operation from call center to contact center as they grow, Radisson realized there was a definite disconnect: it was using an out-of-date, on-premises Avaya system to manage its global network of contact centers and BPOs.