Sat.Mar 04, 2023 - Fri.Mar 10, 2023

article thumbnail

The Power of Customer Empathy in Supercharging Your Customer Experience

Lumoa

In the world of customer experience, “customer empathy” is not just a buzzword, it’s a game-changer. Put simply, it means genuinely caring about the experience your customers have with your brand. And when you master this skill, you can create an emotional bond that sets you apart from the competition. Let me give you a real-life scenario of how it works in general.

article thumbnail

CX is the Emotion Business: Why Emotional Intelligence is Crucial for Customer Experience Leaders

Seaton CX

Leading CX requires leading people—even those who don’t report to you. Especially those who don’t report to you. And while we humans have spent the last few millennia trying to convince each other we’re a rational, logical, structured, analytical, consistent, data-driven, strategic-planning, business-case-writing, common-sense kind of folk, we don’t act that way.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

5 Tips for Customer Retention

Joe Rawlinson

All too many companies spend much of their energy and budgets on customer acquisition without investing sufficiently in customer retention. Of course, where subscription services are concerned, there’s a greater realization that keeping the customers one has is much cheaper, and theoretically, much easier, than trying to get new customers. But whatever your line of business, the basic principle applies.

article thumbnail

The ultimate guide to creating great customer experiences

Method:CRM

Creating great customer experiences is essential for any business. It makes the difference between your customers staying with you or taking their business elsewhere. In this ultimate guide, you’ll look at how to measure customer experience, and 7 customer experience improvement strategies you can use to create an exceptional customer journey.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

What Telcos Can Learn About CX From Other Industries (And The Other Way Around)

Lumoa

In today’s competitive telecommunications industry, customer experience (CX) has become a crucial factor in retaining customers and driving business growth. With an increasing number of options for consumers, telcos must prioritize CX to stay ahead of their competitors. Delivering top-notch CX increases customer loyalty and enhances brand reputation, which can boost revenue.

Industry 195

More Trending

article thumbnail

How to Conduct Customer Experience Analysis: A 5-Step Guide

SurveySparrow

If you’re a marketer looking to understand how your customers interact and experience your product or service, conducting a customer experience analysis is the key. When performed with great care and attention to detail, this type of analysis can help provide vital insights into what works for customers, and which areas need improvement. This blog post will guide you through five essential steps that you should take when analyzing the customer experience – so read on if you want to learn more!

article thumbnail

The Benefits of a Career in Customer Service

CSM Magazine

There are over 500,000 customer service professionals currently employed in the UK, and these roles are so popular for good reason. Being a customer service professional equips you with useful life skills that can benefit not just your professional career, but your personal development, too. With that in mind, let’s dive into some of the most common benefits associated with a career in the customer service sector.

article thumbnail

How to Prevent Churn with Community Engagement

Gainsight

Customer churn. It’s on everybody’s mind right now. But are you leveraging your customer community as one of your top tools to recognize and mitigate churn risk? Community allows your customers to engage with your product and brand on their own terms. It’s a space for customers to share best practices, trade product knowledge, and get the answers they need—all of which help people get the most out of your product and gain value from it.

article thumbnail

Tips for Writing Effective Customer Success Follow-Up Emails

ClientSuccess

Research Vectors by Vecteezy Personalize your email One of the most important things you can do is ensure your email is personalized. Not just their name – show an understanding and compassion for their specific issue or request. This will make the customer feel valued and show that you take their concerns seriously. Use Templates As an Aid, Not a Crutch Using templates or predefined prompts to write emails is a great time-saving tool.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Higher Ed Pre-Enrolment Survey – Live Chat Emerges as Students Top Choice

Comm100

Recruitment is arguably the number one challenge for higher education right now. College undergraduate enrolment in 2022 was down by 9.4% compared to 2020. So what can schools do to attract more students and boost their enrolment figures against this incredibly difficult backdrop? It all begins with understanding what students want during the pre-enrolment process – and Comm100’s latest survey reveals all.

Survey 237
article thumbnail

23 Inspiring Women to Watch in 2023

TechSee

As part of our Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day initiatives, we asked our own TechSee Super Women to highlight some of the amazing leaders in the technology, service, and support industries who inspire them, have helped grow their careers, or simply deserve to be celebrated for being awesome. 1. Elizabeth Parks, President, and CMO, Parks Associates – We never miss a new post or research from Elizabeth and her team.

article thumbnail

Creating an Action Plan For Your Customer Feedback Strategy

Lumoa

Customer feedback is a direct line to how your consumer base feels about your business and its products. It’s invaluable information that enables you to address problems, make changes where necessary, and give your customers more of what they love. How customers react to your products and services is vital data, but it’s only accessible if you put together a sound customer feedback strategy to obtain it.

Feedback 195
article thumbnail

XI Café Podcast, Episode 5: How New Zealand Automobile Association Uses Voice of the Customer to Optimize Engagement, Retention and Satisfaction?

InMoment XI

Welcome back to the XI Café Podcast! In order to continue Experience Improvement, the XI Café Podcast was created so that CX program owners around the world could join the conversation and learn from global businesses and industry experts about the latest experience improvement innovations in technology and research services, industry and market expertise, and customer (CX) and employee (EX) engagement best practices.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Real-time fraud detection using AWS serverless and machine learning services

AWS Machine Learning

Online fraud has a widespread impact on businesses and requires an effective end-to-end strategy to detect and prevent new account fraud and account takeovers, and stop suspicious payment transactions. Detecting fraud closer to the time of fraud occurrence is key to the success of a fraud detection and prevention system. The system should be able to detect fraud as effectively as possible also alert the end-user as quickly as possible.

Ecommerce 144
article thumbnail

Mapping the path to future changes in the Journal Citation Reports

Clarivate

In July 2022, I shared our plans to extend the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) to all journals in the Web of Science Core Collection from June 2023. This means that this year, journals from the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the multidisciplinary Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) will receive a JIF for the first time.

Report 140
article thumbnail

How to get Insights from Customer Conversations & Analytics

Lumoa

Every company wants to know what its customers think of its product- but few think of simply asking them directly. Conversations with customers are the ideal way to get valuable insight and feedback into an organization’s performance. It allows companies to pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses and work on these issues quickly and flexibly. Garen Di Bernardo, Product Marketing Manager for Lumoa- a feedback analytics platform- provided some valuable tips on how to read customer conversa

Analytics 195
article thumbnail

Using Customer Feedback to Drive Company Growth with Michelle MacCarthy

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Human-centric CX design is all about communicating with customers, and this goes beyond a one-off survey. It is about regularly speaking with customers directly to deeply understand the customer. It is uncovering where they’re benefiting from your product and identifying barriers or pain points that they are experiencing. Bringing engaged customers who are utilizing your products and services into the design process can help shape great outcomes for your company.

Feedback 131
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Use Snowflake as a data source to train ML models with Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service. With SageMaker, data scientists and developers can quickly and easily build and train ML models, and then directly deploy them into a production-ready hosted environment. Sagemaker provides an integrated Jupyter authoring notebook instance for easy access to your data sources for exploration and analysis, so you don’t have to manage servers.

Training 133
article thumbnail

Stop Building CX Departments and Build Influence Instead

Horizon CX

by HorizonCX Advisory Board member Jerry Seufert and HorizonCX Founder and Principal Karl Sharicz Over the years in many quarters, it has become an article of faith that to do ‘good CX’ a CX leader needs to build a permanent autonomous CX department complete with headcount, structure, budget, and an ongoing, unending mission statement all its own. Many articles, blogs, consulting hours, and attention have been invested with this in mind.

NPS 130
article thumbnail

How to get Insights from Customer Conversations

Lumoa

Every company wants to know what its customers think of its product- but few think of simply asking them directly. Conversations with customers are the ideal way to get valuable insight and feedback into an organization’s performance. It allows companies to pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses and work on these issues quickly and flexibly. Garen Di Bernardo, Product Marketing Manager for Lumoa- a feedback analytics platform- provided some valuable tips on how to read customer conversa

How To 195
article thumbnail

Warner Bros. Discovery leverages research communities to identify trends and make business decisions

Alida

WBD uses panels to narrow down trends with highest potential to identify key opportunities for growth

Trends 130
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Guest Post: Top Tips for Companies Providing Remote Customer Service

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Kathleen White, a business manager who helps organizations improve career opportunities and employee engagement. She writes about how companies can adopt a remote workforce and enhance customer service delivery. There’s no doubt that there are challenges to providing remote customer services, but with careful planning, they’re easy to overcome.

Tips 121
article thumbnail

Architect personalized generative AI SaaS applications on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

The AI landscape is being reshaped by the rise of generative models capable of synthesizing high-quality data, such as text, images, music, and videos. The course toward democratization of AI helped to further popularize generative AI following the open-source releases for such foundation model families as BERT, T5, GPT, CLIP and, most recently, Stable Diffusion.

Training 109
article thumbnail

The Great Resignation Actually Started Over a Decade Ago

The DiJulius Group

The Great Resignation, also called “The Big Quit”, refers to the higher-than-usual number of employees who voluntarily quit their companies during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 – 2022). However, data shows that the mass exodus known as the Great Resignation actually started over a decade ago. Research reveals that the rise in quit rates started in. Read Full Article The post The Great Resignation Actually Started Over a Decade Ago appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

Groups 105
article thumbnail

AI and the Human Element: How to Strike a Balance in the Workplace

Doing CX Right

Brian Solis, Author, and VP of Global Innovation at Salesforce joins Stacy Sherman's DoingCXRight podcast about creating superior customer experiences by balancing AI, emerging tech & human interactions. The post AI and the Human Element: How to Strike a Balance in the Workplace appeared first on Doing CX Right.

How To 104
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Complaints and Problems Are Opportunities to Show How Good You Are

ShepHyken

I love hearing about complaints and problems that are solved to the point that the customer wants to tell the world about the experience. That’s exactly what happened to Bill Paretti, one of our faithful Shepard Letter subscribers. He was so excited about what happened that he shared it with me, hoping I would share it with you. Here’s the short version of the story, followed by my commentary and the lesson we can take away from his experience.

article thumbnail

Training large language models on Amazon SageMaker: Best practices

AWS Machine Learning

Language models are statistical methods predicting the succession of tokens in sequences, using natural text. Large language models (LLMs) are neural network-based language models with hundreds of millions ( BERT ) to over a trillion parameters ( MiCS ), and whose size makes single-GPU training impractical. LLMs’ generative abilities make them popular for text synthesis, summarization, machine translation, and more.

Training 107
article thumbnail

Pooled Customer Success Management: The Water’s Fine

Gainsight

Customer success (CS) is on the verge of a digital revolution, and one-to-many tactics that increase Customer Success Manager (CSM) efficiency are making a real splash. For nearly a decade, CS has been built through one-to-one relationships between CSMs and their customers. There’s just one problem: This approach now needs to scale. To build a durable business in this market, organizations simply can’t increase CSM headcount to keep pace with business growth.