ECXO
MARCH 6, 2025
How to Lead a B2B CX Transformation ProgramAnd Avoid Costly Mistakes Introduction: The Importance of CX Transformation in B2B Todays business customers expect seamless, responsive, and value-rich interactions at every stage of the partnership. Meeting these elevated expectations is not just about customer satisfactionit directly impacts the bottom line.
Calabrio
MARCH 5, 2025
Analytics Customer Experience (CX) Analytics: A Complete Guide for 2025 Share Today, the experiences businesses offer their customers before, during, and after purchase are every bit as important as the products and services they sell. Some might even say that CX is more important. And when research has found 86% of customers will pay a premium for better experiences, at least 1 in 3 will walk away from a brand they love after a single bad experience, and 70% think companies need to improve expe
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Doing CX Right
MARCH 5, 2025
Access transformational research and discover how to leverage it to boost ROI and gain executive buy-in for your customer experience (CX) strategy. The post Why CX Is A Smart Investment: New Research Proves Its ROI Value appeared first on Doing CX Right.
ECXO
MARCH 3, 2025
posts header on Linkedin and ECXO One Journey to Rule Them All: What Frodo Can Teach Us About Customer Experience Since I was a teenager, Ive been a huge fan of epic fantasy. Give me dragons, quests, wizards, and a battle for the fate of the world, and Im hooked. Naturally, The Lord of the Rings sits at the top of my fantasy favorites list. So, when it came time to continue my series on What CX lessons we can learn from movies, there was no way I could leave Frodo and his epic journey out of it.
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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.
The DiJulius Group
MARCH 6, 2025
Podcast Summary: In this episode of the Customer Service Revolution podcast, John DiJulius discusses the critical aspects of customer experience and employee engagement. He emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive employee mindset, the challenges faced by the younger workforce, and the significance of service aptitude in delivering exceptional customer service.
Customer Experience Update brings together the best content for Customer Experience and Customer Management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
BlueOcean
MARCH 3, 2025
If your company is preparing for the fiscal year, you likely have a stream of questions flowing through your mind: Are your goals for the fiscal year lining up with long-term priorities? Will your target budget support those goals? Will your customer experience be strengthened or hit a slump because of the programs in that budget? Not to add another thing to your plate (sorry), but theres another question to ask that can impact all those answers: Is this the year customer care outsourcing takes
ECXO
MARCH 6, 2025
Celebrating International Womens Day! Article originally posted on the European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO.org) : [link] Today, we honor the strength, resilience, and achievements of women who lead, inspire, and stand for truth. These remarkable women have not only excelled in their fields but have also shown unwavering courage in the face of adversity, ensuring that the voices of minorities and those facing discrimination are heard.
Calabrio
MARCH 5, 2025
Analytics Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 Share Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 What area do you see as the biggest opportunity for growth in your contact center? A McKinsey survey revealed customer care leaders top growth priorities included customer experience improvement, technology implementation, and identifying revenue growth opportunities.
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 6, 2025
Agents are revolutionizing the landscape of generative AI , serving as the bridge between large language models (LLMs) and real-world applications. These intelligent, autonomous systems are poised to become the cornerstone of AI adoption across industries, heralding a new era of human-AI collaboration and problem-solving. By using the power of LLMs and combining them with specialized tools and APIs, agents can tackle complex, multistep tasks that were previously beyond the reach of traditional A
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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.
ShepHyken
MARCH 4, 2025
How would you like to know what made a customer angry or sad, leading them to leave a negative review? You might say, Ill just ask them, and thats a great answer. Direct feedback is a gift. But maybe theres another way. I had a sit-down with Michael Podolsky, the CEO of PissedConsumer.com , a sounding board for consumers to leave comments and reviews when they cant get the customer service they want or deserve.
BirdEye
MARCH 6, 2025
Increase online presence. That was Black Bear Diner s goal as a multi-location restaurant aiming to stand out among hungry diners. They followed the rulebooklaunched a website, created social media accounts, and ran paid ads. But the real challenge was turning scattered efforts into a unified, results-driven strategy. And rightly so, Black Bear Diner turned digital clicks into foot traffic.
Calabrio
MARCH 4, 2025
Workforce Management 2025 Guide to the Omnichannel Contact Center: How to Drive Success with the Right Software, Strategy, and Solutions Share Calling, email, texting, instant messaging, social mediathe communication channels available to us today can seem almost endless. This proliferation has fundamentally reshaped how we interact, not just in our personal lives, but also in the world of business and service.
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 4, 2025
Building cloud infrastructure based on proven best practices promotes security, reliability and cost efficiency. To achieve these goals, the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides comprehensive guidance for building and improving cloud architectures. As systems scale, conducting thorough AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFRs) becomes even more crucial, offering deeper insights and strategic value to help organizations optimize their growing cloud environments.
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.
ShepHyken
MARCH 3, 2025
This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more: How do you get zero customer complaints? What benefits do businesses gain by proactively eliminating customer complaints? What is the cost of customer dissatisfaction? Why is it important for company executives to engage directly with the customers?
PeopleMetrics
MARCH 4, 2025
If you are a CX or market research professional, your VoC programs successand likely your jobdepends on the health of your transactional surveys. So, you have mapped your touchpoints, conducted a relationship survey, piloted your transactional survey, and trained your key users. Now, the next big question is: are your surveys working? Even if youve got beautifully crafted questions, a low response rate or a confusing survey can derail everything.
Calabrio
MARCH 7, 2025
Workforce Engagement How to Combat Call Center Agent Attrition Share You know the signs: increased average handle time (AHT), increased irritation, productivity decline. Even in a remote/hybrid workforce, contact center leaders (if theyre paying attention) can see when their employees are slipping. Next stepattrition. In a tight labor market, both your business and its customers cannot afford to lose agents.
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 6, 2025
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a game-changer, revolutionizing how Foundation Models (FMs) interact with organization-specific data. As businesses increasingly rely on AI-powered solutions, the need for accurate, context-aware, and tailored responses has never been more critical.
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.
Thematic
MARCH 2, 2025
Imagine losing 73% of your customers simply because they had a bad experience with your brand. That’s the reality today—over half of consumers will switch to a competitor after just one negative interaction. This staggering statistic highlights why businesses must prioritize customer insights and invest in analysis tools to understand their audience better.
The DiJulius Group
MARCH 4, 2025
Your CX (Customer Experience) is always on stage. Today, too many companies think they are in a race to evolve their customer experience from costly human interactions to technology like self-check-in/out, apps, kiosks, social media, and online support. While these represent a necessary evolution for most business models, we must not send the message to.
Calabrio
MARCH 5, 2025
Analytics First Response Time (FRT): How to Measure and Improve Share What is first response time (FRT)? First Response Time (FRT) , also sometimes known as first reply time , is a critical customer service metric that measures the average time it takes for a contact center team to provide an initial response to a customer’s inquiry, whether it’s through email, chat, social media, or any other communication channel.
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 4, 2025
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers a fully managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) feature that connects large language models (LLMs) to internal data sources. Its a cost-effective approach to improving LLM output so it remains relevant, accurate, and useful in various contexts. It also provides developers with greater control over the LLMs outputs, including the ability to include citations and manage sensitive information.
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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.
IntouchInsight
MARCH 4, 2025
Once upon a time, pizza ruled delivery. Back in the 1950s, a small family shop in Los Angeles started offering free delivery, setting the stage for what would become a game-changer in food service. By the early 90s, Pizza Hut made history by selling the first-ever product over the internet: pepperoni and mushroom pizza.
Thematic
MARCH 2, 2025
Customer feedback is everywhere—reviews, surveys, social media—but making sense of it all? That’s the challenge. Without the right tools, these themes and insights often get buried, leaving opportunities untapped. That’s where Thematic text analytics comes in. Thematic goes beyond just analyzing text—it ensures that research and insights teams can refine AI-generated themes, validate key findings, and take action on feedback that matters.
Calabrio
MARCH 5, 2025
Analytics What is First Call Resolution? How to Improve (+Examples) Share What is first call resolution? First call resolution (FCR) defined First call resolution (FCR) , or first contact resolution, is a customer service KPI that measures the percentage of customer issues resolved during the customer’s initial contact. In essence, it tracks how often a customer’s problem is solved without the need for follow-up calls, emails, chats, or other interactions.
Blake Morgan
MARCH 4, 2025
For many CX leaders, AI sounds promising, but proving its ROI is the real challenge. How do you measure its impact beyond automationensuring it reduces costs, enhances efficiency, and improves customer satisfaction? Thats exactly the challenge Michelle Lewis-Miller , Vice President, Head of Strategy & Transformation at SAP Concur, set out to solve.
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Faster response times mean happier customers Are your customers on hold too long? Nearly half of consumers find hold times unacceptable, and a quarter will leave your brand because of it. Our latest report reveals how companies are affected by wait times and the impact on customer satisfaction. Read the report to get insights into the impact of long hold times and areas for opportunities.
IntouchInsight
MARCH 1, 2025
The restaurant industry is evolving at an unprecedented pace. Brands are introducing customer-facing technology, new menu items, limited-time offers, subscription and membership programs, back-of-the-house innovations, and many other initiatives to enhance customer experience, streamline operations, and meet evolving consumer expectations.
CSM Magazine
MARCH 4, 2025
Product returns are a fact of life for most businesses. Whether its a sizing issue, a defective item, or simply a change of heart, customers value the opportunity to return productsand they expect the process to be hassle-free. For warehouses, product returns often become a complex puzzle, involving logistics, inventory management, and customer satisfaction.
Calabrio
MARCH 5, 2025
Workforce Management 9 Top Voice of the Customer Best Practices for 2025 Share Top 9 Voice of the Customer Best Practices for 2025 What is the Voice of the Customer (VoC)? On its face, Voice of the Customer (VoC) refers to just what it sounds like: what your customers have to say. However, VoC is also a set of established approaches, tools, and strategies used to capture and analyze customer datain other words, for making use of what your customer have to say to foster brand loyalty and enhance
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