Sat.Nov 06, 2021 - Fri.Nov 12, 2021

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Top 4 Steps to Integrate Chatbots into Customer Service

Comm100

Customer service isn’t easy, but new technologies are making it easier. With artificial intelligence like chatbots, brands can serve more customers faster than ever before – all the while keeping a high level of service quality. Not only are chatbots convenient, but they’re also quickly becoming necessary thanks to their ability to provide customers with 24/7 service.

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CX in 2021 & Beyond: Delivering Next-Gen Customer Experiences at Scale

Uniphore

Vijai Shankar, Vice President, Uniphore, What are the key transformative initiatives that will shape tomorrow’s customer experiences? Research shows that enterprises are betting on automation and AI to lead the way. And those that have already implemented these key innovations are seeing big returns on their investments. From intelligent self-service to real-time agent assistance, many of the solutions available today are delivering next-gen results at scale—and the future looks even brighter.

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What Is the First Step in a Customer Experience Transformation Roadmap?

InMoment XI

Whether your program is just getting started or has stagnated over the years, this post is for you! Every brand—across industries and around the globe—has a unique opportunity to overhaul outdated ways of managing customer experiences, and move toward actually improving experiences for customers and employees. Achieving this is no small task, and often requires customer experience transformation.

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Data Without Context Is Just Noise: Uncover the Why Behind The What

Alida

Businesses today have become extremely proficient at collecting and gathering data. Afterall, it informs just about every business decision—from identifying gaps in the early stages of the buyer journey to uncovering the biggest pain points for high churn-risk customers. Whether through direct efforts, or as a byproduct of their ever-growing tech stack, there’s a wealth of operational and transactional data pouring into your business every second.

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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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Introduction to Customer Experience Design

Lumoa

The relationship between businesses and their customers is changing. As companies increasingly pivot towards providing online interactions, it’s essential for your business to keep the customer experience in mind. To do that, you’ll need to come up with a strategy for how you integrate multiple technologies to attract, retain, and delight your customers at every stage of your sales pipeline.

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What Is the First Step in a Customer Experience Transformation Roadmap?

InMoment XI

Whether your program is just getting started or has stagnated over the years, this post is for you! Every brand—across industries and around the globe—has a unique opportunity to overhaul outdated ways of managing customer experiences, and move toward actually improving experiences for customers and employees. Achieving this is no small task, and often requires customer experience transformation.

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Q&A WITH J.CREW: Using Voice Of Customer To Improve Experiences

Alida

We sat down for a virtual fireside chat with Jenny Yi, Sr. Community Insights Manager at J.Crew Group, Inc. to learn their secret to long-standing success in the retail space. In such a highly competitive industry, retailers can’t afford to miss the mark, but J.Crew has uncovered the key to navigate the retail landscape—by putting customers first. They’ve built a Voice of Customer program, powered by Alida’s TXM platform, that enables the organization to invest confidently into new product lines

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Take off the blinders! Your customers have already engaged with your business before engaging your contact center

NICE inContact

I bought a new "assemble-it-yourself" desk and chair last month to better accommodate my work-from-home lifestyle.

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CX Leader Roundtable wrap-up

GetFeedback

During the latest CX Leader Roundtable, we explored the connection between employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX).

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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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Three Elements That Make Traditional Market Research Inadequate for Experience Improvement

InMoment XI

What do you think of when you hear the term “market research”? For many brands, it brings to mind putting together scorecards, reporting numbers, and a heavy emphasis on looking to the past. Those things are certainly important, but they’re insufficient for creating true Experience Improvement (XI) and getting your organization to the top of your market.

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Consumer Habits: How Petro-Convenience Stores Can Prepare for 2022

IntouchInsight

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic petro and convenience stores have demonstrated just how nimble they can be by rolling out new operational initiatives and last mile services. While lockdowns and travel restrictions meant we didn’t have to fill up our gas tanks as frequently, some changes in consumer priorities played directly to the strengths of convenience stores.

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“Satisfaction Guaranteed” Does Not Lead to Customers Guaranteed

Bill Quiseng

When you are working in customer service, you have been happy that your customers leave satisfied. You have sold them a product or service that meets their wants or needs. Or you solved their problem for them. You were happy because, in the end, they were satisfied. But their satisfaction does not guarantee their return. The good news is that your satisfied customers didn’t complain.

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U-Analyze

Uniphore

For years, contact centers have relied on post-call surveys and audits to measure customer experience, satisfaction, and agent performance—with limited results. Today, customers are having more conversations with businesses than ever. Each conversation contains a wealth of data—from emotional nuances to signals of intent—that businesses can leverage to optimize CX and drive revenue growth.

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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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Three Elements That Make Traditional Market Research Inadequate for Experience Improvement

InMoment XI

What do you think of when you hear the term “market research”? For many brands, it brings to mind putting together scorecards, reporting numbers, and a heavy emphasis on looking to the past. Those things are certainly important, but they’re insufficient for creating true Experience Improvement (XI) and getting your organization to the top of your market.

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CX Tech Top-ups for November- New Dashboard, Integrations, and More!

IntouchInsight

This month we have rolled out several new product features in the Intouch Platform and IntouchCheck™ that we are so excited for you to begin using.

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The 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve the Way You Deal with Customer Complaints

Beyond Philosophy

Lately, my Customer Experiences have been lousy. At the beginning of the pandemic, I was more understanding when Customer Experiences weren’t great. However, 18 months later, my patience has run out, and organizations should have sorted things out by now. So, since the state of things is such a mess at the moment, we did a podcast on the 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve the Way You Deal with Customer Complaints, and I thought I would share them here as well. .

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Building the CX Tech Stack of the Future

Uniphore

Ravi Saraogi, Co-founder and President APAC, Uniphore and Loan Kiss, Sitdown Events. As enterprises plan for the post-pandemic future, new goals—and new ways to achieve them—shape the customer service landscape. Tasked with driving operational efficiency, productivity and growth, business leaders are turning to technology to bridge the gap between rising customer demands and limited human resources.

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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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A Fast Answer or the Right Answer

ShepHyken

Recently I was talking to a customer support rep. She was amazing. She was personable, genuinely cared, and I felt that she understood my problem. That said, we were struggling to get the problem resolved. She said, “I know you want to get this resolved right away. I can give you a fast answer or I can give you the right answer.”. Next, she explained why.

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Top Tips to Craft the Best Mystery Shopping Program

IntouchInsight

Mystery shopping works. But, to reap the rewards, you need the right program, the right questions, and the right partner.

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Preparing for future customer service challenges

Eptica

Date: Friday, November 12, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Preparing for future customer service challenges. Published on: November 12, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager The past eighteen months have created enormous challenges for organisations in general, and customer service in particular. In our latest guest post, Jo Causon, CEO of The Institute of Customer Service, explains how customer service teams have gone above and beyond to deliver an

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U-Analyze

Uniphore

For years, contact centers have relied on post-call surveys and audits to measure customer experience, satisfaction, and agent performance—with limited results. Today, customers are having more conversations with businesses than ever. Each conversation contains a wealth of data—from emotional nuances to signals of intent—that businesses can leverage to optimize CX and drive revenue growth.

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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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What Are Keywords? Definition and How to Use for SEO

DemandJump

Keywords are individual words or phrases that help represent the content of a website. They are beneficial to both users and web page owners because they help organize a lot of information into manageable, searchable words and phrases that allow us to connect.

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VoC begets VoC

Zeisler Consulting

I’m always championing active use of your Voice of the Customer (VoC) insights. After all, I say, if you’re just collecting your Customers’ insights but not doing anything with them, that’s a huge waste of resources. Normally when I talk about that, I’m referring to the importance of having a robust and enterprise-wide Process Engineering (PE) function within your company: A group of process experts whose job it is to take those insights and put them to use improving and updating your procedu

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Guest Post: Exceptional Customer Service Doesn’t Start Where You Think

ShepHyken

Christan Hiscock is the CEO and co-founder of Kardia Financial Group , an organization that believes that the financial services industry should not be solely focused on dollars, but on helping people truly get to the heart of their financial goals. He shares the foundational guide for everything a company does, the reason why the company was started and its values.

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Banking on Great Conversations

Uniphore

For the finance industry, the global pandemic was a watershed moment. Customers unable to access their branch locations increasingly took to digital channels for their customer service needs. Faced with record-high contact center traffic, many organizations accelerated their digital transformations—and uncovered a wealth of untapped CX value. Today, conversational AI is helping businesses capitalize on every customer interaction across every channel.

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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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The New Normal: Today’s Brand Must Elevate Customer Experience to Compete

Totango

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced brands to elevate customer experience to stay competitive. As more consumers turned to e-commerce, more companies had to step up their digital game, in turn forcing SaaS providers to deliver so brands could satisfy their buyers. This accelerated a digital-first customer success transformation that was already in motion before the pandemic.

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5 Differences Between Omnichannel vs. Multichannel in Ecommerce

Blueshift

Though similar in perceived meaning, omnichannel vs. multichannel in ecommerce are two very different marketing avenues a brand can use to reach its target audience. Today, we’ll be discussing the five main differences between omnichannel marketing vs. multichannel marketing. The post 5 Differences Between Omnichannel vs. Multichannel in Ecommerce appeared first on Blueshift.

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The 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve The Way you Deal with Customer Complaints

Beyond Philosophy

The 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve The Way you Deal with Customer Complaints. A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. Does your organization like to pretend that complaints never happen?