Sat.Jan 19, 2019 - Fri.Jan 25, 2019

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How Customer Success Teams Should Navigate the Complexities of Customer Handoffs

ClientSuccess

When it comes to dealing directly with customers, is there anything more anxiety-inducing for customer success teams than the dreaded handoff? Probably not, but it really doesn’t have to be this way. Typically, customer handoffs are such a complex part of the customer journey because they set the tone for how a relationship is actually going to work.

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Ten Reasons Why You Should NOT Conduct Market Research

C3Centricity

If you commission or conduct market research, then this post is a must-read. It shares ten important reasons I have learned over the years for NOT doing research, but which are unfortunately still prevalent today. Which, if any, are you guilty of? Leave your comments below – I dare you! #1. WHEN THE ISSUE / OPPORTUNITY IS NOT CLEAR AND THE OBJECTIVES ARE NOT WELL DEFINED.

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Enable Graceful Departures for Your Customers

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. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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How to Create Customer Surveys for Content Marketing

GetFeedback

A successful content marketing strategy relies on good customer feedback. Without knowing what your customers want, it’s impossible to develop valuable content that generates brand loyalty and business leads. The better your content, the bigger impact you’ll have on the bottom line. . In fact, 2018 study by Clutch revealed that 73% of consumers made a purchase based on marketing content they’ve viewed.

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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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6 Winning Lessons From The New England Patriots (For All Organizations)

Experience Matters

The New England Patriots just won the AFC Championship, earning a trip to their third straight Superbowl. As a Patriots fan, I’m thrilled. I know that many people don’t like the team, but there’s no denying that the Patriots have built a dynasty and are one of the most dominant teams in recent history (across any sport). How do the Patriots keep achieving success?

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Is Your Customer Service Team Still Wearing Blinders?

Steve DiGioia

Blinders. They’re used on racehorses to keep their focus on running straight ahead and to not be distracted by the horses on either side. For most horses, blinders are a good and productive means to an end. But for some of us humans working in the customer service industry, we’ve decided to wear blinders too. We focus on our job with little interaction with our fellow co-workers.

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5 Support Tools to Improve Customer Experience

GetFeedback

Today’s customers have high expectations for support. They want answers to their questions—and they want them quickly. In order to.

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Backend Pain – We All Have It, So Let’s Fix It

InMoment XI

Understanding the Importance of a Structured Data Management System Data management is complex, messy, and outright confusing, which is why most enterprise CX teams choose to lower it on their list of priorities. This mentality and lack of understanding has led to a serious industry problem—hundreds of millions of records from various data sources with.

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Get the Right People on Your Customer Experience Team

Kristina Evey

Successful teams are made up of the right people. This is true in sports and it is true in Customer … Read More Get the Right People on Your Customer Experience Team. The post Get the Right People on Your Customer Experience Team appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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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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What is Call Queuing and Why Does It Matter?

NICE inContact

Let’s face it, no one enjoys waiting in line. Whether we’re getting a coffee, a car wash, or checking into a hotel, we all just want fast and easy service, so we can get on with our day. . This same rule applies when people call into your contact center. . And if you think that more people are contacting you via your digital channels instead of calling you, think again.

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How to Create Customer Surveys for Content Marketing

GetFeedback

A successful content marketing strategy relies on good customer feedback. Use this guide to develop a customer survey that'll help drive your content.

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Setting Attainable CX Goals: Part 2 of 3

InMoment XI

This is the second part of a three-part blog series. In this blog series, I’m focusing on the three questions I’ve been asked the most over my 20 years in various research consulting roles at MaritzCX. Last month I answered the question: “How do I increase response rates? Should I shorten my survey?” You can. View Article.

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HOW TO PRACTICALLY CONNECT EX AND CX

CX Accelerator

Originally posted on ICMI.com November 5th, 2018 People love to talk about Employee Experience (EX), especially in the context of Customer Experience (CX). Sadly, it's often just talk. Establishing a meaningful connection between your employee experience and the Customer Experience is very difficult. Does this make it any less important? Not at all.

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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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The Basics of Establishing and Operationalizing Your CX Foundation

Customer Bliss

In today’s episode, I explore the basics of establishing a core CX foundation for your organization with Darin Byrne, Vice President of Client Experience and Delivery at Wolters Kluwer , a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services for clinicians, nurses, accountants, lawyers, tax specialists, and finance, audit, compliance, and regulatory sectors.

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5 Support Tools to Improve Customer Experience

GetFeedback

Today’s customers have high expectations for support. They want answers to their questions—and they want them quickly. In order to.

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Setting Attainable CX Goals: Part 2 of 3

InMoment XI

This is the second part of a three-part blog series. In this blog series, I’m focusing on the three questions I’ve been asked the most over my 20 years in various research consulting roles at MaritzCX. Last month I answered the question: “How do I increase response rates? Should I shorten my survey?” You can. View Article.

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Florida’s City Furniture Gains Reliable Data and Performance Visibility

NICE inContact

Meaningful data and reporting are critical elements for any contact center. Without an accurate read on performance and the quality of the service being provided to customers, managers can’t know where—or how—to improve. That’s the situation City Furniture, a leading home furnishings and accents retailer in Florida, found itself in with an on-premise Cisco system that consistently provided inaccurate information.

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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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IntouchCheck: New Year, New Features

IntouchInsight

Learn more about some of the exciting new IntouchCheck features that have just been released.

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Watch Jeanne Bliss’s Webinar: How to Provide Customer Service That Would “Make Mom Proud”

Kayako

Customer experience expert Jeanne Bliss joined us for a webinar where she spoke with us about her new book ‘Would You Do That to Your Mother’, and how businesses can provide customer service that would quite literally “make mom proud!”. Bliss urges companies to make business personal to earn ardent fans and admirers, by focusing on one deceptively simple question: “Would you do that to your mother?

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Convergence and What It Means to CX

InMoment XI

I wish we had a crystal ball but we don’t. Despite that, we made a prediction back in the fall that the worlds of CX and CRM would continue coming together since it results in many benefits both for customers and organizations. Then, low and behold, in November SAP announced they were acquiring Qualtrics for. View Article.

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Performance Management – You Know You Need It, and Here’s Why

NICE inContact

If there is one single area you want to focus on in 2019 for contact center improvement, consider Performance Management. The contact center industry has always experienced higher attrition rates than many other industries, and with current workplace turnover at an all-time high, this has not changed. Overall turnover statistics in the call center industry as a whole vary greatly, but on average, turnover is between 30 and 45 percent.

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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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Step up Customer Assistance with Live Video Support

TechSee

Innovative ways to provide customers with immediate assistance, guidance and support lies at the heart of every customer-centric organization. Live video support – where service is provided over a live video connection – has proven to be an effective method of driving high customer satisfaction ratings and building customer loyalty through personalized service.

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Tough Customers

Vonage

Colin Greenwood and Richard Ogley are here to help. Specifically, they’re here to help you; the customer. As Senior Experience Director at Wolff Olins and Senior Manager of Service Design at Whitbread, respectively, Greenwood and Ogley spend their days head-scratching, chin-stroking and, ultimately, problem-solving to ensure your journey through the end-to-end consumer experience is memorable for all the right reasons.

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2 Key Differences in B2B Journey Maps

Kerry Bodine

In our journey mapping bootcamps , we’re often asked whether there’s anything that organizations need to think about or do differently when creating business-to-business (B2B) journey maps. While the overall process for creating these maps is the same, there are two key differences. Difference #1: B2B personas align with job functions. Every journey map needs to clearly define whose story is being told.

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Appriss Tackles the World’s Toughest Problems Upgrading to Cloud Contact Center Technology

NICE inContact

Founded in 1994, Appriss is a data analytics company built on a core belief: Technology can and should be doing good for society. Leaders in key industries across the globe use the company’s data and platforms to solve some of today’s most complex challenges, from fraud to the opioid epidemic to safety for violent crime victims. The contact center plays a critical role in supporting these efforts: approximately 55 Appriss agents handle more than 30,000 calls monthly, working 24 hours a day, seve

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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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Episode 35 – Tips to Successfully Onboard Your Customers

Kristina Evey

Shownotes : Plan Your Customer Onboarding – Leave Nothing to Chance The way you onboard your new customers sets the … Read More Episode 35 – Tips to Successfully Onboard Your Customers. The post Episode 35 – Tips to Successfully Onboard Your Customers appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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4 Vital Concepts of Behavioral Economics Every CX Manager Should Know

Beyond Philosophy

Your customers are people and people’s behavior is complicated, especially as customers. Many psychological theories exist to help explain why people do what they do, and when those theories apply to how people behave as customers, they are called Behavioral Economics. I have been studying Behavioral Economics for a few years now and applying those principles to Customer Experience.

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Your Personal Promise to Your Customers

ShepHyken

Not long ago I wrote about Dr. Neil Baum’s Win-Wynn story. A few people went to his website and read his promise to his patients that he appropriately calls “My Personal Promise to You.” The feedback and comments about this promise were excellent, so I thought it was worth sharing with everyone. By the way, at the end of this article, I’ve shared a very important call-to-action for you.