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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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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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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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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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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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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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 improve the customer experience: Small business edition

Method:CRM

Great customer experience is key to fostering customer loyalty. If customers have a pleasant experience with your company, they’ll be more likely to come back for more business and recommend your goods or services to others. But how do you plan for and execute effective customer experience improvement? Read on to find everything you need to know on how to improve customer experience.

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The employee engagement KPIs you should be tracking in 2022 (and why)

Perceptive

Workplaces and employees have undergone radical change in the last few years—from the pandemic to new ways of working, adapting to new digital transformation technologies and navigating the Big Quit. As a result, employee engagement has shot up the list of priorities for businesses—particularly when it comes to retaining staff.