Sat.Oct 27, 2018 - Fri.Nov 02, 2018

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3 Ways Churn Is Killing Your Growth

Gainsight

It’s a dark, stormy night. You’re sitting at your computer. The lights flicker as you click open your reports and there you see it; the silent killer. Churn. Churn is what folks in the subscription economy community call the percentage of customers that leave after subscribing to your product. Churn is one of the most important metrics in a recurring revenue business.

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3 Business Reasons to Care About CX

Oracle

My daughter, Claudia, and I have a tradition when we eat ice cream at home: it’s always topped with chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and sprinkles. One day not long ago, Claudia asked me if I’d make her a bowl of ice cream. I was in the middle of something but said yes anyway—and made it in a rush. When I handed Claudia the ice cream, her enthusiastic thank-you and broad smile quickly dissolved into disappointment. “What happened to the whipped cream and sprinkles?

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Common Traps of Top-performing Customer Experience Programs

Escalent

You’ve achieved your customer experience (CX) goals! Congratulations! … Now what?

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Hire People with the Ability to Care: A #MakeMomProud Case Study

Customer Bliss

In my new 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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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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Customer Experience Challenges According to 15 CX Experts

Lumoa

We gathered 15 Customer Experience experts to talk about the latest trends of customer experience in the near future and avoid common challenges. Some hints: big data, omnichannel communications, personalisation, AI and customer-obsessed culture. Make the future of customer experience present in your company already now.

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Introducing GetFeedback for Salesforce Chat

GetFeedback

A Seamless Way to Get Immediate Post-Chat Feedback. Today, we’re excited to launch GetFeedback for Salesforce Chat. With this feature, companies can seamlessly integrate elegant surveys at the end of their live chat conversations, helping them collect real-time, contextual customer feedback. Modern customers not only want real-time support, they also want to give real-time feedback.

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4 AI Trends that will Transform the Telecom Industry in 2019

TechSee

“Alexa, launch Netflix!”. No longer limited to providing basic phone and Internet service, the telecom industry is at the epicenter of technological growth, led by its mobile and broadband services in the Internet of Things (IoT) era. This growth is expected to continue, with Technavio predicting that the global telecom IoT market will post an impressive CAGR of more than 42% by 2020.

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Why Customer Success is not Customer Experience

CloudCherry

Who owns the customer experience in your organization? When it comes to putting customer experience management into action, it’s critical to know who owns the moving pieces. Who’s accountable for ensuring that every single customer encounters a well-designed and well-executed experience – regardless of where they are in their journey? Without true accountability, pieces are bound to slip through the cracks.

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Implement These 5 Tactics to Improve Employee Experience

Customer Bliss

As a business leader, do you think about how your approach to hiring impacts your organization and customer experience? In my most recent Daily Dose vlog , I talk about how the employee experience affects your customers. I always say, what’s on the inside, shows up on the outside. How do you hold yourself accountable when managing culture and employee experience?

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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The Top 5 Infographics of October

QuestionPro Audience

October was a great month for data and research. We scoured the internet to create our top 5 infographics list for the month of October. They vary from climate change to food trends for 2019. Enjoy! 1 — TOP CULINARY AND COCKTAIL TRENDS FOR 2019. Foodies, take notice! 2019 is the year for African, Israeli and Japanese infusion. Vegan and raw foods will take precedence over the pork belly trend of 2018.

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AskNicely Net Promoter Score Software New Feature Roundup – Q4 2018

AskNicely

Each quarter, our New Feature Roundup will spotlight the most recent and requested improvements to our Net Promoter Score software, so you can discover easier ways to manage feedback data and truly hear the voice of your customer and quickly take the right action. New streamlined design coming soon — Preview now. The AskNicely design and development team continually strive to improve our customer experience.

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Is Voice-Driven Data Capture Part of Your CX Strategy?

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) research has been seeing dramatic evolution in the last decade which has, in turn, changed CX strategy. In recent years customer satisfaction research has been turned upside down by the rapid evolution of the digital customer experience. The historical norm of siloed customer satisfaction survey projects reported on a monthly or quarterly.

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Customer Experience Challenges According to 15 CX Experts

Lumoa

Customer experience has been a buzzword for several years and is only heating up. Many companies experience numerous challenges in the ares of customer experience transformation. We talked with the leading customer experience experts to find out what CX professionals should pay attention in the coming years. “CX transformation is no longer a nice-to-have, it's a necessity” – states Forrester , one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Halloween By The Numbers

QuestionPro Audience

Happy Halloween! Halloween is known as the spookiest time of year, when children, adults and pets alike can dress up and get treats from their neighbors. We broke down the most popular treats, who will be dressing up, and other fun facts about Halloween.

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Introducing GetFeedback for Salesforce Chat

GetFeedback

Now companies can seamlessly integrate elegant surveys at the end of their live chat conversations and collect real-time, contextual customer feedback.

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Tricks to Treating Your Customers

InMoment XI

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. As a child, I always looked forward to dressing up, watching scary movies, and carving pumpkins. And of course, the best part of all was when I would go out trick-or-treating with my cousin and my little sister. The three of us always put up quite the display. View Article.

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Case Study: How Genesis Improves Member Experience with NPS

AskNicely

We’ve all had this experience. You head into your gym, ready to crush your workout, and the weight machine you need is broken… still. Then the locker room is out of towels… again. Or perhaps you can’t get your cardio in because, as usual, all the treadmills are taken and there’s a line of people waiting. You wonder if other clubs might offer a better experience.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Halloween By The Numbers

QuestionPro Audience

Happy Halloween! Halloween is the spookiest time of year, when children, adults and pets alike can dress up and get treats from their neighbors. We broke down the most popular treats, who will be dressing up, and other fun facts about Halloween. Select your respondents.

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The Value of Open Ended Feedback

Alida

If someone asks if you like vanilla, chocolate or strawberry ice cream best – and your answer is that you don’t like any of those because you’re lactose-intolerant – you can immediately see how limiting survey questions without opportunities for open-ended feedback are. Consider another circumstance. Customers you’ve had for a long time are giving you poor CSAT or NPS scores.

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Calabrio Builds on Promise of Easy, Personalized and Smart Solutions for Enterprises

Calabrio

Calabrio News Calabrio Builds on Promise of Easy, Personalized and Smart Solutions for Enterprises Share Complexity in the contact center impacts the bottom line. And customer service interactions are projected to increase not just in volume, but also in complexity over the next two years as the mediums for customer engagement are changing and expanding.

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Best Practices for Building a Modern Contact Center

NICE inContact

The world seems to be moving at breakneck speed. Case in point, I had an interesting conversation with a couple of millennials where I reflected on the tech I used in college (I am a “boomer”) – technologies like the first IBM PC, the DOS operating system, Lotus 123, “brick” cell phones, RPN calculators and the like. I was met with a mix of giggles, and gasps.

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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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Always Do Your Best

ShepHyken

Our mantra at Shepard Presentations is to Always Be Amazing. Those three words are very important. They are totally consistent with what we stand for, what I write about in my books and articles, and how we conduct ourselves at work every day. It’s simple…. We want to be amazing for our employees. We want to be amazing for our clients. And, we want to teach our clients to be amazing to their customers, clients, guests, members – and anyone else they do business with.

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Case Study: Machine Learning vs. Natural Language Processing

Inbenta

There are 2 kinds of Natural Language Processing… Today, industry-leading NLP is built on AI that detects patterns in data that can then be leveraged in understanding user inputs. This creates an approach that is flexible in adapting to the nuances and ambiguity of languages while boosting accuracy between results and user intents. However, there still exists implementations of an old-school approach to NLP that relies on machine learning algorithms and predetermined rules.

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Sorting through the RPA Hype - Treating the Symptom Not the Cause

Uniphore

While all three of these approaches have proved valuable in addressing business pain on the surface, these strategies have also failed to address the true root cause (business / IT wedge) and in many cases have only exasperated the problem by overlooking it altogether as vendors continue sell the business “ready to go” applications to help remove their dependence from IT.

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Amplify the Voice of the Customer and Multiply Revenue

NICE inContact

Customer Experience (CX) is the new battleground for companies to differentiate and win in the experience economy. Great experiences have a direct correlation to revenue. Satisfied customers buy more, are less likely to churn and bring in more referrals. Companies are starting to see tremendous value, investing in organization wide CX programs. While CX design, implementation and roll out still remain a big challenge, there is one simple thing that can drive success of these programs.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of October 29, 2018

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 4 Major Customer Service Faux Pas by Holger Reisinger . (Business 2 Community) When someone reaches out to your customer service team, more often than not, they’re experiencing some sort of issue.

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How Customers Make Rules for Themselves

Beyond Philosophy

Customers make rules for themselves that help them in their buying decisions. Some of these rules are common to many people. Some are specific to individual customers. Do you know what your customer’s rules are? How do you find out how to move your customer experience to the next level. Colin reveals how you can download his ebook ‘Unlocking the Hidden Customer Experience’ for free!

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Sorting through the RPA Hype – If RPA is not for business users, then who?

Uniphore

Before I profess my thoughts on this one, let’s first look to the experts in the field who are implementing RPA. The big consulting shops or boutique services companies who are also fighting for your business. Groups with hundreds of onshore and offshore employees dedicated to building RPA bots for their clients. Surely the truth of this business user RPA battle lies within their four walls.