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5 ways to improve customer satisfaction scores using customer empathy

NICE inContact

Simply put, applying customer empathy means understanding and integrating your customer’s expectations. And lucky for you, we’ve outlined what that looks like with help from three industry experts in the eBook, “Cultivating a future-proof customer journey strategy.” Get your copy now.

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Work-Life Balance for the At-Home Agent: 7 Ways to Encourage Healthier Habits in a Post-Pandemic Workplace

Playvox

Like most of you, I’ll never forget where I was the night the world shut down. I was performing at a jazz club and one of my students, Tommy, came to my show. It was my first semester teaching music as an adjunct professor at Purdue University Fort Wayne, and I was thrilled to be making my debut musical appearance three months after the birth of my son.

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Why is information overload killing CX?

Knowmax

Why is information overload killing CX?

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Three reasons CX initiatives are failing and how to overcome them

Lithium

It’s a stark fact: CX initiatives are failing. Resting on the shoulders of CX leaders is the responsibility to unify customer data, initiate cross-departmental action to improve the end-to-end customer journey, and prove the value of CX program outcomes in dollars and cents. But the typical organizational framework makes achieving these goals a momentous task and ultimately what is responsible for a disproportionately low CX success rate.

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Exploring CX Strategy and Technology Adoption: A Decision-Makers Chart

A high-quality customer experience creates loyal customers for years to come and makes for an easy win against businesses that are competing on other factors like price and quality. We partnered with ContactBabel to uncover the biggest hurdles businesses face when trying to improve CX and offer practical suggestions to overcome them.

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Multimodal User Experience Design Best Practices

Uniphore

Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant—virtual assistants have transformed how we interact with technology and what we expect from it. Today’s most popular assistants offer a multimodal experience — the ability to interact on multiple channels — and are a major leap from the voice-only assistants that dominated the market just a few years ago. Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline.

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QuestionPro Audience’ quick sample. Insights for $1 only!

QuestionPro Audience

Pay only $1 per response with Quick Sample. Have research budgets ever stalled your study before? Gathering audiences online can get expensive and time-consuming, leaving researchers to compromise on the sample size they initially set. Moreover, are you running a simple gen pop study that does not require you to pay exorbitant fees for respondents? Welcome to QuestionPro’s Quick Sample, where you can access the general population from the US at just a dollar an interview.

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The Difference Between Repeat Customers and Loyal Customers

ShepHyken

“We love our customers, and they obviously love us. They keep coming back, again and again!” . Who doesn’t want to be able to say that? And, if that is the case with your organization, let me ask you this question: Do you know why they are coming back? . Not to be a “downer,” but we shouldn’t confuse a repeat customer with a loyal customer. They are not the same. .

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What is Knowledge Management? And how does it drive CX results?

NICE inContact

A comprehensive guide that explores knowledge management, the role of knowledge management tools, and strategies for future-proof KM. New innovations in knowledge management, like CXone Expert, are helping businesses to boost CX results and drive key contact center metrics.

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What Is Total Experience Management & Why Does Your Business Need It?

Alida

CX is your competitive weapon, but your competitors know this too. The experiences you deliver will have the biggest impact on attracting and retaining customers—more than price or product. Brands can’t afford to deliver sub-par experiences, but brand trust is at an all-time low, with NPS scores at one third of what they were just five years ago.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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5 Ways Anyone Can (and Should) Grow Their Careers #SteerYourCareer

Michel Falcon Experience

To listen to this episode on an Apple device, click here. To listen on Spotify, click here. To listen to this episode on another platform, click here. My… The post 5 Ways Anyone Can (and Should) Grow Their Careers #SteerYourCareer appeared first on.

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CX Tech Top-ups: Three feature updates!

IntouchInsight

As summer is winding down and we start to look ahead to the fall, our teams have been working to release continuous enhancements that will make it easier to get more from the tools you use everyday! This month, we have launched several new features across LiaCX® and IntouchSurvey™.

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5 Evolving Contact Center Technologies and Where the Next Year Will Take Them

BlueOcean

For all the grief, losses, and setbacks the pandemic unleashed, there is a general consensus that it also sparked a revolution on the technical front. The adoption rate of new and evolving technologies accelerated at unseen speeds—resulting in 10 years’ worth of change within a mere 10 months. Contact center technologies are certainly in the mix of acceleration.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 8-9-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read many 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. Eight Ways Companies Can Turn A Negative Customer Experience Into A Positive One by Young Entrepreneur Council. (Forbes) To demonstrate how to turn unsatisfactory experiences into satisfactory ones, eight members of Young Entrepreneur Council shared their top-recommended way

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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The Best Thing You Can Collect

The DiJulius Group

I have never been a collector of objects. I’m not too nostalgic about things, at least not anything physical. However, I realize that I have collected something very special and priceless my entire life. People compliment me on my collection all the time. I constantly stress to my three sons and all my employees that. Read Full Article. The post The Best Thing You Can Collect appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Verint is Expanding its Cloud Platform Capabilities to Help Brands Accelerate Digital-First Customer Engagement

Conversocial

Conversocial Acquisition Will Enhance Verint Customer Engagement Platform with Additional Social and Messaging Channels and Further Expand its Conversational AI Capabilities.

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Driving Software Adoption through Customer Success: 6 Ways to Improve Customer Engagement

Totango

Driving software adoption through customer success in the 2020s is a precision business. In the same way that access to large quantities of accurate data enabled drug companies to produce a vaccine record time, making people resistant to the effects of COVID, data has enabled customer success teams to delight customers and pandemic proof their organizations.

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Guest Post: How Can PR Crisis Management Shape Customer Experiences?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by David Tattersall, Head of Client Relations at Handpicked Accountants , an online network housing the best-performing accountants across the UK. He writes about how successful, global brands use social media to deliver outstanding customer service experiences. In the digital era where customer experience is defined by a customer’s first impression of a website, interaction with a chatbot, or response to a social media remarketing advert, the opportunity stands t

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Unlock the Future of Learning Growth and Retention at Cognition24!

The annual Cognition virtual conference is back on October 16, and this year it’s FREE! You’ll enjoy: Inspiring Keynotes from top learning industry leaders, providing fresh perspectives to help you outperform the competition. Hands-on, Skill-Building Sessions to elevate your growth, retention, and product adoption strategies. Exclusive First Look at the latest innovations from Thought Industries, empowering you with tools to grow faster.

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Storytelling Pokes Holes in Organizational Value Silos

One Millimeter Mindset

Organizational value silos are found in all sizes and shapes of companies. Initially, silos are created and nurtured by business and hiring models which categorize people into functional roles based on how they solve problems. Then, these silos are perpetuated by problem-solving tools, mindset, and terminology “owned” by the professional disciplines inhabiting these silos.

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Sales Team Coaching With Emotional And Social Intelligence

Integrity Solutions

Great sales team coaching takes specific knowledge and functional expertise to build a successful team. On their own, these aren’t enough to bring out the best in their sales teams and help them achieve their full performance potential. By adding Emotional and Social Intelligence to the coaching model, sales team coaches can discover amazing success.

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7 Digital Customer Experience Best Practices for Higher Satisfaction

Totango

The quality of your customers’ experience impacts satisfaction and retention. Here are 7 digital customer experience best practices. We’ll cover strategies for enhancing experience throughout your customer’s lifecycle, with an eye toward increasing retention. We’ll include tips for leveraging technology to optimize the digital customer experience. 1.

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Time running out to enter CX Leader of the Year 2021!

MyCustomer

Loyalty Time running out to enter CX Leader of the Year!

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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How To Write Content For a Website: 4 Simple Steps From The Pros

DemandJump

Do you dread the slow “blink.blink.blink…” in a word processor as it just waits for you to start writing? Writing content can be an excruciating and difficult process for many people, especially if writing isn’t your main expertise.

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B2B Customer Feedback Surveys – Practical Tips to Improve Your Program Now

Daniel Group

B2B Customer Feedback Surveys – Practical Tips to Improve Your Program Now. Excellent B2B Customer Feedback surveys must start with thinking about what you really want to find out from your customers; i.e., begin with the end in mind. Ultimately, a successful survey allows the customer to tell you how they really feel and think about you. It’s so much more than numbers and scales.

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[Q&A] Ready to Scale: The Tech Stack That Drives Your Digital Customer Success Program

ChurnZero

Your digital-led Customer Success program will only be as good as the technology behind it. But how do you go about building your Customer Success tech stack the right way? InSided VP of Customer Success Anika Zubair joined us to talk about the product categories and solutions that leading Customer Success professionals are embracing as they build out their digital-led programs.

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How Success Teams Can Use Voice of Customer to Improve Customer Retention

Zonka Feedback

For every business, customer loyalty is a hard-earned wealth. Loyal customers would not only choose your brand over others every time, but they would also spread good word-of-mouth for your business and become your brand advocates. They would speak excitingly about your brand and attract more customers for your business. That’s the best kind of marketing if you ask me.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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The Ultimate Website Content Template: One-Click Briefs For Any Topic

DemandJump

Writing content for a website is different from any other type of content writing. On average, visitors to a webpage only have time to read 20% of its content ! That means the exact phrasing and wording you are sweating over may not even be appreciated by the majority of your audiences.

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Optimove Recognized as a Leader in Cross-Channel Campaign Management by Forrester

Optimove

We are deeply proud to announce that Optimove has been recognized as a Leader in “The Forrester Wave : Cross-Channel Campaign Management (Independent Platforms), Q3 2021” (CCCM). This is our second straight appearance in this report, after being named a “Strong Performer” back in Q4 2019. Yes, the previous report was published in a pre-Coronavirus world, and yes, a lot has changed since.

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Sh!t CSMs Say

Vanilla Forums

The CSM. A position that does so much for an organization but one that fails, time and again, to be described, understood, or appreciated. ?? Preach!! I hear you say, preach!! ??. Being a CSM is something that only other CSMs can truly understand, and Jeff Breunsbach , Director of Customer Experience at Higher Logic, recently put out a call on Linkedin to find out how many other success professionals know the struggles and wow, did people deliver!