Sat.Jul 09, 2022 - Fri.Jul 15, 2022

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5 Ways to Leverage Net Promoter Score to Boost Customer Retention

InMoment XI

You don’t just want to appeal to new customers—you also want to keep your current ones coming back again and again. Not only do returning customers require less introduction to your products and services, but they also tend to spend more than first-time customers, too. One user engagement strategy you can use to boost your customer retention is to make use of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) system.

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How to Accelerate Your CX Project's Time to Value

Alida

You’re living the dream. You’re a high-flying CX manager, in charge of deploying a CX program in multiple countries, in multiple languages, and for several lines of business. Your vendor is first in its class and has produced an impeccable project plan. You’re working hand-in-hand with the vendor’s Professional Services team, blasting through critical paths and hitting every milestone.

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4 Fool-Proof Ways to Retain Customers and Build Loyalty

ClientSuccess

If one were to take an informal poll of CSMs asking what their number one goal with customers is, a majority would probably answer something along the lines of “keep my customers happy.” After all, what do happy customers mean? They mean long-term customers, and retention is at the root of any successful customer success strategy. . Looking at what customer retention requires at its very foundation, the answer could be summed up in one word: LOYALTY. .

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Virtual Mystery Shopping Do’s and Don’ts in 2022

IntouchInsight

Keeping experiences consistent, both in-person and online has never been more important. Over the past year, we’ve seen a significant acceleration in the adoption of e-commerce and other methods for interacting virtually with businesses. Now is the time for your virtual mystery shopping programs to shine! Mystery shoppers have never been better-equipped to stress test and measure digital properties from the safety of their homes, as well as the quality of virtual services rendered.

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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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How a Global Grocer Turns CX Feedback Into Realized Customer Spend Targets

InMoment XI

The Context. A global grocery retailer was facing the uncertainties of COVID-19 and through their struggle, they found a perspective that helped them focus on forwarding progression throughout the pandemic. The grocery chain is known for its simple and continuous efforts to always improve, and that consistent effort through the decades has helped to expand its market position.

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Participant Recruitment: What it is & Who to do it

QuestionPro Audience

Why is Participant Recruitment important in data collection and insight interpretation? Have you ever wondered where the planning of market research begins? What is the first step in this process? What aspect should you consider to guarantee a successful research project? Well, If you want your research to be of value, continue reading. . Participant Recruitment is not only an essential step in a research project but also a particularly complex process that needs to be planned, executed, and mon

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Drop the Cute Puppy and Let Your Stars Shine

Steve DiGioia

Every business has its underachievers. But today’s post is not about them. It’s about those precious, and few, overachievers. You know, that one or maybe two, star employees who always seem to find a way to prove their value and serve your customers better than anyone could have expected. A Star Employee Stands Out. The customers know them and want to be served by them.

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The Best Way to Identify (and Share) the Moments that Matter with Frontline Employees

InMoment XI

Metrics, metrics, metrics. It’s common for frontline employees like contact center agents to be inundated with them—schedule adherence, efficiency, handle time, and hopefully, amid all of that and more, customer experience (CX) metrics. Ostensibly, the goal with this information is to give contact center agents the guidance needed to create Experience Improvement (XI) for customers, but do they have the time and wherewithal to actually sort through comments and data?

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Customer Listening Posts: Ask These Questions to Boost Your VoC Program

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What does building a Voice of The Customer (VoC) program from the ground up look like? Typically, it’ll start with a general plan on how an organization is going to gather customer feedback — a plan that typically includes Customer Listening Posts. What are Customer Listening Posts? Customer Listening Posts are specific tools, locations and mechanisms to gather customer feedback along specific touchpoints on the customer journey.

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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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How Sentiment Analysis Can Help Save Customer Satisfaction

Omnicus

Using customer satisfaction surveys is often a good indicator of how satisfied your customers are, but they are just an indicator. The measurements say very little because very few respond to such surveys. According to CustomerSure, only 15 percent of surveys are answered by customers. With such a small data set, you probably do not have a good representation of all customers' actual impressions of your company.

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How to Be Funny and Use Humor in Business to Your Advantage

Beyond Philosophy

When I was ten, the teacher wrote on my school report, “Colin is the clown of the class.” To this day, I am still proud of that report card. Humor matters and can provide business benefits. Today we will talk about how to be funny and use humor to your advantage. When we make people laugh, it’s disarming. People are often more willing to listen after someone makes them laugh, making way for us to be more persuasive.

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Survey Design 101

InMoment XI

When gathering accurate and useful data, how the data is collected is just as important as the results it yields. Reliable insights are discovered when the questions are fair, unbiased, and relevant to the participants. This is why the design of the survey can ultimately determine the survey’s success. What Is Survey Design? Survey design is the detailed process of creating surveys that optimize the potential results that can be collected from a well-made questionnaire.

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How SaaS Companies Can Project Their MRR Using NPS (6 Actionable Tips)

Retently

Monthly recurring revenue, or MRR, is the lifeblood of any SaaS business. If your company is charging the clients on a monthly basis, signing up new customers and keeping them onboard has an incredible impact on your revenue, growth rate and profits. The only problem is that calculating MRR accurately can be notoriously challenging. As customers join and cancel, projecting the monthly recurring revenue for two, three or six months into the future can be a serious issue, even for the most data-fo

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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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Guest Post: How to Create Massive Customer Surplus through Memorable Onboarding & Obsessive Service

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Michael Becker, founder of Abundance Accelerators , a growth agency for coaches. He shares how organizations can gain loyal customers by providing an experience that exceeds expectations. The stakes have effectively been raised, and they’ll continue to go up for product brands, service providers, and client-based companies alike. .

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Leveling Up Live Visual Support on Desktop Requires Depth

TechSee

Our customers and employees live omnichannel lives. Our service needs to offer the best possible experience across every channel and interaction. A few weeks ago, we explored the growing demand for omnichannel service continuity. Today, we will dive deeper into one specific channel, the desktop or laptop user, and learn how you can best support these users with the latest TechSee Live capabilities: secure desktop sharing with two way video and remote desktop control.

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Close the Loop on Customer Feedback with Solvvy Surveys

Solvvy

Just because your brand finishes interacting with a customer, doesn’t mean their experience has ended. Understanding this distinction is the key to driving customer loyalty and recurring revenue. Ultimately, collecting customer feedback is the best way to truly gauge the customer experience. Of course, accurately measuring customer satisfaction is never straightforward and needs to be adapted depending on a company’s business needs.

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Showcase Your Reviews with Amplify by ReviewTrackers

ReviewTrackers

Amplify , the new review widget suite from ReviewTrackers, displays all or a curated set of customer reviews on your website to increase conversions and boost your site’s SEO performance. Displaying customer reviews and testimonials on a brand website is one of the easiest ways to leverage social proof. Prospects visiting your site are more likely convert when they read about the positive experience from other customers. .

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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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Give Them Help Before They Yelp?

ShepHyken

Online reviews can work in two ways. For a company that provides a great customer experience, reviews can add credibility and bring in more business. But for companies that don’t provide an acceptable experience, online reviews can become the bane of their existence. And the world gets to watch how they handle the problems. . But what if you don’t have the type of business that gets Yelp or Google reviews?

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How to avoid burnout at the workplace

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Eleonora Hristova, a copywriter that writes on behalf of Dune London. Burnout because of stress in the workplace is now […]. The post How to avoid burnout at the workplace first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Customer Feedback Strategy: A Step-By-Step Approach

Zonka Feedback

Once you are done investing all the time, money, and effort into developing a groundbreaking product, you need an excellent customer feedback strategy that will guide you on the way forward. The research conducted by American Express, customers are always willing to spend 17% more on businesses that offer exceptional customer service. The process of developing a new product is closely compared to chess.

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12 Must-Have Contact Center Security & Compliance Features

MiaRec

A few weeks ago, Jeetu Patel, Cisco EVP for Security and Collaboration, gave a very passionate keynote speech at Cisco Live 2022 about the importance that security measures will have in the coming months and years. The first trend he mentioned is that we are no longer operating within our own silo. We are part of an ecosystem in which customers, businesses, suppliers, and other partners must rely on each other and do everything in their power to keep each other safe.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Julius Robinson

ShepHyken

Building Confidence with Your Customers. Empowering Your Team to Deliver a Great Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Julius Robinson, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Marriott International. He shares what organizations can learn about customer service from the hospitality industry and how to equip employees to meet and exceed customer expectations.

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Is it Time for a Martech Upgrade? 3 Steps to Understand the Path Forward

Merkle

Navigating the current marketing technology (martech) landscape can be overwhelming and difficult. Sifting through all of the different vendors and capabilities available could leave your organization thinking it’s time for a technology upgrade. New technology and implementations are often expensive and take valuable time and resources, so before making the decision to upgrade, it is important to evaluate your organization’s current martech stack to ensure the most effective and financially wise

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How Disengaged Employees Kill Your Retail Business and 5 Tips To Prevent It

Zonka Feedback

Disengaged employees are bad for any business, especially retail, where customer service and customer experience are crucial for success. The biggest reason for this is that disengaged employees are typically unproductive employees.

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Restaurant Group Obsession to Build a CX Culture Pays Off During Unprecedented Times

The DiJulius Group

Edley’s Restaurant Group is a growing hospitality industry company whose CX obsession has paid off during the COVID-19 pandemic. Located in the metro-Nashville, Tennessee area with seven locations and 400 team members, Edley’s is anticipating 50% growth in the next 12 months including franchising. Rapid growth, indeed. Consumer food services in general and the restaurant.

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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 Service Automation 101

Solvvy

Your customers expect–and demand–prompt, personalized service. The Salesforce State of the Connected Consumer report states that 66% of customers expect businesses to understand their unique needs and expectations, and 68% expect companies to demonstrate empathy. Also, 62% of survey respondents say experience with one industry influences their expectations in others.

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How to Risk-Proof Your Business with Totango

Totango

Detecting and protecting at-risk customers is important even in the best of times, but it is especially critical during times of economic instability when your current customer base is your greatest (and perhaps only) source of dependable revenue growth. . When the stock market is down and interest rates are climbing, businesses are often faced with some tough decisions.

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How Exactly Will a CRM Power Omnichannel Customer Support In the Future?

Kustomer

The concept of omnichannel customer experience (CX) has been simplified over time. Many brands and customer support teams believe that omnichannel support is simply communicating with customers on every channel, but it’s much more than that. True omnichannel support ensures seamless transitions and consistent experiences from one channel to the next.