Sat.Jul 28, 2018 - Fri.Aug 03, 2018

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Technology Changed the Purchase Journey, Now Research Has to Change Too

Escalent

Do you know where your customers are coming from, how they decide which providers they choose and why? Technology has drastically changed the purchase journey for most businesses on multiple levels.

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How to Avoid Hidden Disasters in Customer Experience Design

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Ever have a sneaking suspicion something just isn’t right, but you don’t know how to fix it? Is that happening with your organization’s customer experience design for service delivery? Lately, I’m seeing a lot of good intentions gone awry with customer experience. And a lot of leaders and followers defending the INTENTIONS of the design, instead of dealing with the reality of the situation.

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10 Ways to Make Sure Your Customer’s Experience and Your Brand Are Aligned

Storyminers

This is a guest post by Lexie Lue of Design Roast. When customers think about your brand, they should think about their overall experience with your company as a whole. Strong branding likely brings a logo or tagline to mind, but it also plays into emotions and memories of past experiences with your business. If your brand image and the actual experience the customer has aren’t aligned, then customers may walk away with a negative impression of you.

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The Power of a Smile

InMoment XI

You often hear of the positive power of a smile. A recent business trip brought this to light to me, as well as the negative power that is portrayed when it is missing. My colleague and I were on our way to see a client and we decided to stop and get a coffee. The first. View Article.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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The 7 Deadly Survey Questions

GetFeedback

Have you ever sent a survey and realized, after the fact, that your questions were confusing or misleading? It happens to everyone at some point. And while bad survey questions aren’t the end of the world, they can easily muddy your data and derail your business decisions. Let’s take a look at the most common pitfalls and how you can avoid them.

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Representative Sample: Definition, importance, & how to obtain a representative sample with examples

QuestionPro Audience

What is a representative sample? Representative sample definition: A representative sample is defined as a small quantity or a subset of something larger. It represents the same properties and proportions like that of a larger population. For example, consider a brand that is about to launch a new product in a US city. It will be practically impossible to send a survey to collect insights into the product’s features from every person in the city.

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Score Differences Between Studies

InMoment XI

MaritzCX clients often ask us “why are our scores on the same question different between these two studies?” We commonly find that mode effects explain the differences, however there are other aspects of research that may be at play, two of which we discuss below: Relationship vs. Transactional Relationship studies are conducted periodically to explore.

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How to Choose the Best Survey Touchpoint for a Banking CX Program

Centriam Customer Experience Lab

As you begin building a customer experience (CX) program, a common first step is gathering feedback from your customers. We’ve found that surveying customers about their interactions across major touchpoint is an easy place to start. We recently published a three step guide to starting a CX program based on this method. Download our Community Banking CX Blueprint here to get a jumpstart on your CX planning.

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Are Point-of-Sale Surveys Pointless?

GetFeedback

The point of sale is an incredibly important time for retailers to engage their customers. However, most are stuck using outdated feedback methods (think receipt questionnaires and kiosk surveys) designed to collect mass feedback rather than reveal key customer experience issues. Generic and impersonal, these point-of-sale surveys do a poor job of uncovering meaningful insights.

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The Pragmatic Path to Composability: Creating Efficient Commerce Systems

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker

Brands used to look for a commerce platform that could do everything. But over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, so they added, and added, and added— and now it's essential that these vendors work well together. That’s composable, and it’s important to get it right. Customers and your board expect you to be in new channels and to adapt quickly to market change.

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Car-Shopping in 2018: Consumer Insight

QuestionPro Audience

Buying a car used to be a rite of passage in an American’s life, but after seven straight years of growth in new vehicle sales, 2017 reported a decline of 1.8% , with 17.2 million cars and trucks sold. Even worse news for manufacturers, it’s predicted 2018’s number will drop to 16.8 million vehicles sold. It used to be that consumers were stuck with whatever price the car dealership offered them, give or take a little wiggle room.

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Promoting Mental and Physical Well-Being in Service Roles

CX Accelerator

Working in customer service or customer experience can take a massive toll on your physical and mental well-being. When combining the stress that comes with never-ending customer requests, pressure from all types of internal stakeholders, and the sometimes crippling weight of life outside of work, the result may be too much to bear. How can we create an environment that gives life instead of sucking it out of us?

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How NOT to survive in a disrupted world – the case study of UK retailer, FatFace

ijgolding

The word ‘disruption’ is one of the most commonly used with reference to business and commerce around the world today. It des not matter which industry your organisation is a part of, every traditional business is being challenged in ways they could never have imagined when they were founded – whether it be as long as one hundred years ago, or as recently as ten years ago.

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3 Ways To Drive Adoption Right Now

Amity

It’s no secret that successful adoption plays a huge role in customer retention rates. As a CSM, improving product adoption should be a top priority for you in order to ensure your customers’ long-term success. Here are 3 proven methods you can use right now to encourage customers, both new and old, to use your product more effectively. Let's get started!

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Judgmental Sampling: Definition, Examples and Advantages

QuestionPro Audience

Judgmental Sampling Definition. Judgmental sampling, also called purposive sampling or authoritative sampling, is a non-probability sampling technique in which the sample members are chosen only on the basis of the researcher’s knowledge and judgment. As the researcher’s knowledge is instrumental in creating a sample in this sampling technique, there are chances that the results obtained will be highly accurate with a minimum margin of error.

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6 Tips to Planning The Perfect NPS Program

AskNicely

Your boss and your boss’s boss just came from a seminar on Net Promoter Score (NPS) and want you to implement an NPS program this week. You want to show them that not only are you on top of their request, but you can give them the results they are looking for — customer retention and growth. It’s tempting to simply download your customer list and send out a single NPS survey, but a rock-solid NPS program is much more than a single survey.

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Are You Looking to Upset Your Customer?

Steve DiGioia

because one size doesn't fit all. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. I’m easy to please, at least I think so; and I’m not high-maintenance. I don’t have unreasonable requests, and I understand things don’t always go as planned. I’m flexible and adaptable. I wish more people were like that too (boy, I’ve dealt with some crazies over the years…).

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Promoting Mental and Physical Well-Being in Service Roles

CX Accelerator

Working in customer service or customer experience can take a massive toll on your physical and mental well-being. When combining the stress that comes with never-ending customer requests, pressure from all types of internal stakeholders, and the sometimes crippling weight of life outside of work, the result may be too much to bear. How can we create an environment that gives life instead of sucking it out of us?

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Quota Sampling: Definition, Steps, Examples and Advantages

QuestionPro Audience

Quota Sampling Definition. Quota Sampling is a non-probability sampling method in which researchers can form a sample involving individuals that represent a population and are chosen according to traits or qualities. Researchers can decide the trait as per which the sample subset selection will be conducted so that the sample can be effective in collecting data that can be generalized to the entire population.

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Are Point-of-Sale Surveys Pointless?

GetFeedback

Retailers need more personalized methods for engaging their buyers. See why traditional point-of-sale surveys don't work for modern retailers.

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Which Road is Your Customer Experience On?

Storyminers

This is a Guest Post by Ian Moyse , Sales Director Natterbox. Who would have thought that in 2018, with all the technological evolutions we have already lived through in the past 10-15 years, from Cloud Computing, Smartphones, Social Media, Drones, Big Data, Virtual Reality(VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet Of Things (IOT) that customer experience could still be slow, put work on the customers shoulders and often let customers down.

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Content Marketing Ideas For Incredible Customer Experiences

Kayako

Content Marketing Ideas for Incredible Customer Experiences. After years of building customer success teams and programs, it seemed natural to take on my next challenge – build a global customer advocacy strategy. After all, who better understands customers than someone who has been working with customers from the moment they are in their final stages of purchasing a product, to onboarding and through expansion and renewal opportunities.

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The Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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Consecutive Sampling- Definition, Example, & Advantages

QuestionPro Audience

Consecutive sampling: Definition. Consecutive sampling is defined as a non-probability sampling technique where samples are picked at the ease of a researcher more like convenience sampling , only with a slight variation. Here, the researcher selects a sample or group of people, conducts research over a period, collects results, and then moves on to another sample.

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Your Customer Experience MUST Include Empathy - Transforming the Customer Experience

Kristina Evey

Empathy… Empathy Improves the Customer Experience. We all know what it is and hopefully, many of us display it and receive it on a daily basis. Empathy builds human connections. It fosters an emotional rapport and bond. It makes you feel safe. Why is it that we seem to think that empathy plays no role in Business? I think that is so very wrong.

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How to Update Your Marketing with a Customer First Strategy

C3Centricity

“Never miss an episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.”. All marketers know their marketing 5Ps, but how do you update your marketing when you adopt a customer first strategy? Here are some tips and ideas for you to adopt – or adapt. People. This is the easiest of the marketing 5Ps for a customer centric organisation to adapt because a customer first strategy is all about your customers.

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Q&A From My Webinar on The Business Case for Service Design

Kerry Bodine

This morning I delivered a webinar called The Business Case for Service Design , part of Rosenfeld Media’s day-long virtual conference on The Business Case for Design. (Even though the live event has ended you can still sign up for the conference and watch the recordings.). I started out by sharing a Venn diagram with my thoughts on the relationship between User Experience, Customer Experience, and Service Design.

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The State of Customer Onboarding 2024

Building lasting customer relationships has always been top-of-mind for businesses. However, in the last decade, organizations have recognized that the customer journey beyond the initial sale is as critical as the sale itself. Customer onboarding, or the customer’s first impression of you, is critical to forging lasting relationships and long-term success.

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The Top 5 Infographics: July Edition

QuestionPro Audience

It’s that time again—when we scour the internet for the most interesting, colorful, well-designed infographics of the month, and this month’s group is no exception. From AI in healthcare, to investment tips for 20-year-olds, we cover it all. 1 — THE ART & SCIENCE OF DELEGATION IN A SMALL BUSINESS. Every small business owner should take a look at this infographic. 20% of small business fail in the first year, but this infographic tells you how to grow your company, and avoid burno

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4 Ways to Build Customer Loyalty for Convenience and Gas Retailers

IntouchInsight

Here are four ways to keep customers loyal at your convenience and gas chain.

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Which Road is Your Customer Experience On?

Storyminers

This is a Guest Post by Ian Moyse , Sales Director Natterbox. Who would have thought that in 2018, with all the technological evolutions we have already lived through in the past 10-15 years, from Cloud Computing, Smartphones, Social Media, Drones, Big Data, Virtual Reality(VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet Of Things (IOT) that customer experience could still be slow, put work on the customers shoulders and often let customers down.