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5 Essential Features for Customer Service Success

Kayako

ECommerce is growing like wildfire, offering exciting business insights via analytics and data. Sometimes it is easy to forget that there are people on the other end of the transaction. No matter how much information companies provide before the sale, most customers will still need help. 83% of consumers expressed a need for some help on their online shopping journey.

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5 Steps to Building an Effective Customer Survey in 2022

Alida

Only one in 26 customers are likely to complain about the product or service issues they are facing on their own. The rest will gradually become unhappy and leave your company without you ever getting a chance to learn what went wrong or how you could address the issue.

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3 Challenges Utilities Brands Face When Aligning Strategy, Ops, and Services to CX Needs

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) leaders from utilities brands are facing unprecedented challenges in 2022. Increased government regulation and new market entrants with unique service-based offerings are creating a disruptive wave of change that traditional utilities need to respond to. But here at InMoment, we don’t like to merely dwell on obstacles and complexities.

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4 Ideas to Increase Credit Union Membership

Comm100

As financial institutions emerge from the disruption of the pandemic, credit unions find themselves in an interesting position. By all available metrics, this is a period of unprecedented growth for credit unions around the world. The World Council of Credit Unions recently reported a 29% global growth in CU membership year-over year. With such growth, partly driven by raised bank fees, comes great opportunity to expand membership.

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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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Average Survey Response Rate You Should Aim For

Lumoa

Setting survey response rate benchmarks can help you assess the performance and overall growth of your customer experience management (CEM) system. While benchmarking is a common process in many companies, the exact steps and data collected need to be adjusted to each organization’s requirements. If this process isn’t tailored to your company, you’ll set inaccurate survey response rate benchmarks and compromise all future evaluations.

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Understanding “The Great Resignation” and Brands’ Own Role in Creating It

InMoment XI

The news media has been rife this last year or so with stories of The Great Resignation—an unprecedented tidal wave of job market churn that has seen millions upon millions of employees quit their jobs. As with most topics related to employment and the economy, the finger-pointing over who and/or what’s behind this phenomenon has been incessant… and loud.

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4 Foundational Steps to Improving Service Delivery in Government

Comm100

Improving service delivery in government comes with unique challenges. Governments must be accountable to citizens in a way that the private sector is never constrained by. While a private sector business can identify its target audience and deliver an experience to cater for this specific subset, governments must ensure they don’t prioritize any demographic over the other.

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The State of B2C Complex Customer Care

BlueOcean

When it comes to complex B2C customer care, the customer is anything but a faceless number in a sea of consumers. These are real people with real lives that inform their expectations and define their needs with every shift and change of the world around them. B2C brands had their worlds turned upside down by the pandemic, but what does complex customer care look like now things are leveling out?

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CX Tech Top-ups: Making analyzing data as simple as possible

IntouchInsight

Here at Intouch Insight we are committed to creating the best software features to help our customers reach business intelligence excellence. This month we released several new features to the Intouch Platform that are aimed to help make analyzing data as seamless as possible.

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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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InMoment Stands with Ukraine

InMoment XI

For what feels like much longer than a few weeks, the InMoment team has watched along with everyone else the horrific events unfolding in Ukraine. The sudden, unprovoked invasion has exacted an unimaginable toll of pain and suffering, and our hearts go out to the Ukrainian people as they contend with the largest military conflict in Europe since World War II.

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Customers Give Feedback Every Day. Most Brands Just Aren’t Listening.

Heart of the Customer

After decades of steady improvement, coinciding with the emergence of customer experience (CX) as a discipline, the America Customer Satisfaction Index now reports that customer satisfaction has been on the decline since 2019, erasing years of gains. This despite organizations focusing on and investing more in CX than ever before. SuperOffice’s survey of 1,920 business […].

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Attract the Right Candidates by Building and Defining a Strong Company Culture: a Netflix Case Study

Customer Bliss

Treating customers with dignity and respect starts with treating employees the same way. Employees need to feel it, experience it, and receive it themselves. The beloved companies care for their employees, because they know this internal culture builds trust and inspires great work. Furthermore, in the wake of the “Great Resignation,” companies in every industry are feeling upheaval.

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How Convenience Stores Can Capitalize on Mystery Shopping

IntouchInsight

It's a great time to be in the convenience industry. The changes in consumer habits that we’ve tracked over the past two years show people are making more local purchases, shifting the times they visit stores to avoid crowds, and wanting to complete their purchase quickly - all of which feed directly into the original model of convenience stores.

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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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Good Habits Are Just as Important as Talent and Skill

ShepHyken

I recently received a note from my friend and Shepard Letter subscriber, Michael Staenberg. He commented on the recent Never, Never, Never Be Late article and sent a list of what he referred to as Things that Require Zero Talent. At the top of the list was being on time. . I’ve seen lists like this before. They include being on time, having a good work ethic and a positive attitude, doing more than expected, and more. .

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Artificial Intelligence and the Customer Journey

Horizon CX

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a contemporary buzzword among industries, but in fact, the term has been around for many years, most commonly rising during the mid-fifties from within the sphere of science fiction—think robots! So, what exactly is AI and how are organizations applying it, and most importantly, how does it either enrich or diminish the Customer Experience?

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An Introductory Guide to Net Promoter Scoring

ReviewTrackers

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Remaining Competitive in Retail: How to Optimize Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

In retail, the customer is king. It is common knowledge that the retail industry thrives on positive customer interactions and feedback, so when reviewing the ways in which organizations can grow and remain competitive in their field, it is vital to craft plans that revolve around optimizing the customer experience. For retail business, the customer journey extends far beyond the initial sales engagement.

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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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Customer Advisory Boards (CABs): Frequently Asked Questions

PeopleMetrics

Customer advisory boards (CABs) can be a powerful tool in your organization's arsenal. They can help you better guide your customer experience strategy , prepare for product launches, learn more about your audience—essentially any goal or initiative that would benefit from direct customer insight. But what are customer advisory boards? How do they work?

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Why Changing Consumer Preferences Will Mean a New World of CX

Kustomer

The future. It can be a mysterious thing. If the past is any indication, our whole worlds can be turned upside down in the blink of an eye. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that change has been happening at hyperspeed over the past two years, and these developments have made it clear that preparing now for the future of CX is essential for business success.

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Why Social Listening is Important for Your Company

ReviewTrackers

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How KeyBank Made a Brilliant Comeback After Frustrating Customers

The DiJulius Group

Several months ago, KeyBank has been focusing on delivering an excellent customer experience, improving their customer satisfaction rate, and minimizing customer churn rates – made changes to the ATM software which allowed clients the freedom to choose their bill denominations. Historically, ATMs only provided twenty-dollar bills, regardless of the amount of the withdrawal.

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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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Let’s be GREAT out there!

Bill Quiseng

“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” Samuel Johnson. In the 1980s TV police drama series, Sgt. Phil Esterhaus, portrayed by Michael Conrad, cautioned his officers at the end of roll call with “Let’s be careful out there” When I was GM at The Henry Dearborn-Autograph Collection, Dearborn, MI, one of our senior sales managers ended their daily morning stand-up meeting with “Let’s be safe out there” But I told them

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We Ate the Dog Food!

TechSee

Well, not literally. It’s an expression used when employees, especially leadership, actually use their own products or services the same way a customer would. Here at TechSee we regularly eat dog food for quality assurance, but also because it’s fun and we really like using our products. We recently held our annual Sales Kick-Off all-hands meeting. Like so many companies today, we were unable to meet in person as we would have preferred, but we still managed to get a lot of work done and have a

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How to Turn a Negative Review into a Positive Review

ReviewTrackers

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On Learning Mindsets, Relationships & Ecosystems: A Conversational Essay

dscout People Nerds

Two research leaders invite us into their shared learning process to show how they leverage democratized research to expand the learning surface and nurture a culture of learning.

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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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Three Tips to Fire Up Your Customers to be Your Best Sales Force!

Daniel Group

Three Tips to Fire Up Your Customers to be Your Best Sales Force! At The Daniel Group, we are learning more and more about referral activity in the B2B world, and we now have three tips to help you increase your referral activity and fire up your customers to become your best sales force. My own Google research revealed that there are about 25 times more resources to “fire up your B2B sales force” (3.2 billion results) than there are for getting “getting referrals in B2B sales&

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How Do You Identify a Topic Cluster?

DemandJump

Out of the over 1.8 billion websites floating around cyberspace, a whopping 90% get zero traffic. With 88% of shoppers beginning their buying process online, being invisible on the internet lets your competitors get their business before you even have a chance.

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Introducing Customer Experience Canvas

Totango

Does this sound familiar to you? Your team sets out to map a new customer success workflow or process, but each person has a different way of doing it. You may prefer using sticky notes, while another team member likes slide decks and yet another prefers digital mapping tools. After you finally decide on which medium to use and manually map out your journey, then you each use a different tool to run campaigns and tasks. .