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The Complete Guide to Detractors – How to Turn Them into Promoters

Retently

Detractors are kind of a “taboo” topic in the business world – nobody really likes talking or thinking about upset customers. But those customers are actually vital for business development and this quote should sum up just how important they really are: “The brand is no longer what we tell the customer it is – it is what the customers tell each other it is.”- Scott Cook.

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Putting the ‘Q’ in CX – People are the measure of everything

ijgolding

Quality is the key pillar of excellence – one of the vital components enabling success in Customer Experience. Often, when we think about Quality, we instantly dive into something objective. Perhaps a physical product; objectives that are easy to measure; that we can standardize; and so on. . This is validated by all standard business definitions of Quality: ‘ Quality is the extent to which a product or service meets a customer’s expectation.

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Thinking Inside the Box: The 4 Fundamental Use Cases in CX

InMoment XI

The Beginning of Customer Relationship Management It was the 80’s. Hair was big, rock was loud, and something funky and new was being born. It was called Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and it was freakin rad. Rather than waiting for customers to come you, you could get them to come to you. Moreover, with these. View Article.

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How Learning Well Can Improve the Experience for Customers

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

The goal of learning in any workplace is to be, well, better. Better at serving customers. Better at increasing efficiency. Better at employee development. Better at staying ahead of the competition. All of that is achievable with the options in learning today, but how often are we really taking advantage of it? The learning paths for everyone should include an overall outcome from the start.

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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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8 B2B Customer Support Breakthroughs to Prepare for In the Next Decade

Team Support

As we look forward into the next decade, let's first reflect back to the previous one and the impact it had on customer support. The 2010's was a decade driven by the emergence and evolution of mobile technology, making it easier to communicate than ever before. It also launched "big data" into the mainstream, and support teams had more information about their customers than ever before.

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Why Your Contact Center Knowledge Base Needs to be Visual

TechSee

Agent: Hello, thank you for calling Longbow Telecom. How may I help you today? Customer: I think I need to reset my router but I can’t work out how. Agent: One moment please, while I access that information. Agent: Thank you for holding. I’m pulling it up for you right now. Agent: Thanks for your patience. I’m just locating the right section. Agent: Apologies for the delay, please continue to hold while I escalate this query to Tier 2 support.

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Can you justify investing in all these digital channels your customers use?

NICE inContact

You need to invest in digital channels in order to keep pace with the way your customers are communicating today. But, how do you justify the investment other than to say that you know that is what your customers prefer? How do you tie it to financial gains or operational improvements to get a proven ROI?

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The 3 Biggest Customer Experience Game Changers of the Last Decade

Customers That Stick

It is an amazing time to be a customer experience expert and a fascinating time to look back at the immense changes to both the idea and practice of customer experience that the last decade has brought. Personally, as a third generation entrepreneur, this was the decade where I made my transition to taking the principles I’d learned through my years of entrepreneurship and codifying them into ideas and theories to teach others how to improve the customer experience and customer service in their

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How to Drive Customer Advocacy

Totango

Your business is successful because you deliver value to customers. Their growth supports your growth, and advocating for them with help you both be successful. Customer advocacy is the art of learning what customers need and working to help them gain the value that is in their best interest. This could mean introducing them to the features that will help them achieve their business goals, offering expansion opportunities, and more.

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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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7 Questions That Reveal Whether Your Company is Committed to CX

Beyond Philosophy

When I started Beyond Philosophy back in 2002, I could ascertain whether a company was customer-focused or not right away. I wondered how I did that. When I thought about it, there were some common telltale cultural signs organizations share that indicate where their focus lies. This answer became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience , which explores how the culture of a company reflects how customer-centric the organization is.

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Contact Center 101: What is Workforce Optimization?

NICE inContact

Optimization is one of those buzzy words that gets thrown around a lot in the contact center industry. According to the all-knowing Merriam-Webster, optimization is the “act, process, or methodology of making something as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible.” So to state the obvious – workforce optimization from a software perspective are those solutions that directly improve and upscale the productivity, efficiency and quality output of your agents.

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Guest Blog: How to Provide Fast and Personal Customer Support in a World that Cannot Wait

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Valeriya Yordanova who writes about how customer support agents can deliver the fast and personal customer support that today’s customers demand. Unfamiliar with the concept of waiting, customers want their problems solved now with minimum effort from their side. They don’t want to be put on hold, transferred to another support agent or requested to explain their issue over and over again.

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The Best Way to Create a Customer Journey Map

Lumoa

The customer journey map is a visual representation of the customer journey. Customer journey mapping is a way to overview the customer journey that helps you to manage the customer experience.

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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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5 Principles Behind Great Customer Engagement

Lithium

Psychological principles are giving brands important behavioural insight which, when used correctly, can help drive great customer engagement. At a time when customers are demanding more from the brands they engage with, and the sheer amount of content on social and digital channels is increasing, brands need to find ways to cut through this noise to deliver the experience their customers are asking for.

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What Is Customer Communications Management?

Topdown

If customer communication management , or CCM, is the buzzword you’ve been hearing around the office, there’s a reason for all the hype. CCM software is something that businesses of all sizes would do well to adopt.

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How to Prove the ROI of Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)

GetFeedback

What if the return on your investment is even beyond what you were hoping? Focusing on your customers will result in increased loyalty, more positive word-of-mouth referrals, and higher spend from your best customers. And understanding, leveraging and acting on CSAT scores can absolutely help you get there. First things first. It costs five times more to sell to a new customer than to sell to a happy one.

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CX Storytime Tale of Have Wine, Might Travel

Russel Lolacher

Even when travelling to the most beautiful, exotic destinations, an airline can make, or break your experience. As the first and last chapter in your book of adventure, they have the power to change the narrative. Stay tuned for a story of changed plans, Airline impacts and new opportunities. This is the Customer Experience Storytime tale of…. Have Wine, Might Travel.

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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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You Shouldn’t Have Told Me That

ShepHyken

The other day I went out to breakfast with some friends. There were eight of us, so we needed two tables pushed together. The restaurant was crowded. The hostess pointed to a table and said when that party got up, we could have their table and the table next to them, which was empty. It looked like they were almost finished with their breakfast, but we had no idea how long that might be.

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Developing Unique Growth Mindset that Fuels Growth, Success, and Innovation

Strikedeck

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Brett Andersen, Director of Client Success at Degreed, shares the dynamic role of CS and provides clear-cut strategies to structure grow and manage expectations and opportunities across the entire organization.

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The Top 10 Sparq Enhancements of 2019

Alida

Over the past 15+ years of working for software companies of all sizes and serving many different markets, I’ve noticed a few constants. A basic observation that really shouldn’t be rocket science is that if you aren’t in business to make your customers’ lives easier, then you should probably find another business that isn’t dependent on customers. Oh wait, aren’t all businesses dependent on customers?

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Employee Engagement: Understanding the Impact of Generational Differences within the Workforce

InMoment XI

No Longer Your Dad’s Work Environment Today’s workforce is more diverse than ever. Multiple generations often work together side-by-side. This blog provides insight into the generational differences in workplace values, differences in their engagement levels, and some of the practices that companies are using to improve engagement. MaritzCX leverages decades of research experience to help organizations.

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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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How to Prove the ROI of Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)

GetFeedback

Here is how to optimize your CSAT score to gain the most value. .

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Improving Agent Experience (AX) and Engagement One Step at a Time

NICE inContact

Agents are the most critical resource in a contact center and yet the hardest to retain as evident with high attrition rates. As per the NICE inContact ICMI survey 25% of agents left the company in the past 12 months; 20% of agents left the contact center but stayed within the company; and 18% of agents changed positions in the contact center. Investing in AX has risen as one of the top priorities contact center leaders are undertaking to engage, motivate and most importantly retain agents.

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PCI Compliance in an Outsourced Customer Care Program: What Do You Need to Know?

BlueOcean

There’s no doubt that today’s businesses – from SMB to global mega-brands – take data security and data protection very, very seriously. With the ever-increasing rigor around PCI DSS compliance, not to mention the proliferation of legislated protections like GDRP, the landscape is changing quickly and for the better. As a result, for most companies, any relationship with an outsourced customer care partner is going to have to come with stringent PCI DSS standards well-established, as well as rob

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How To Influence Your Customers Perception of Price

Beyond Philosophy

Psychology has a lot of influence on customer behavior. When it comes to making decisions, we like to find ways to make them more manageable. Anchoring and Adjustment is a mental short cut or heuristic. We use to help evaluate numbers. Anchoring and Adjustment help us generate numbers. It works like this: First, there is a base number established either by the individual or an outside influence.

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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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Fast Signup vs. Considered Signup – A SaaS Growth Experiment

InnerTrends

Should you encourage people to sign up right away, or is a considered signup better? How do you know which is more suitable for your business? First though, let’s look at what we mean when we discuss these two methods of bringing new people into your business. The Fast Signup. The fast signup presents your visitor with the option to sign up for your product or service as soon as they land on your website.

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Digital Room Takes Control of its Contact Centers on Unified CXone Platform

NICE inContact

E-commerce printing company Digital Room had been using different vendors for voice, email and chat. From downtime to sub-optimal scheduling to the lack of a unified picture of performance, the fragmented system presented a growing array of issues that eventually caused the company to re-think its options.

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Amazing Business Radio: Robert Glazer

ShepHyken

Elevate the Employee (and Customer) Experience. Making a Lasting Impact on the People That Power Your Business. Shep Hyken interviews Robert Glazer. They discuss his practice of employee “wish-granting,” common service mistakes businesses make and his book, Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others. Top Takeaways: Find ways to do something meaningful for your employees around the holidays—or any time of year.