Sat.Jan 20, 2018 - Fri.Jan 26, 2018

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Everything You Need to Know about Text Analytics

Lumoa

If you work in a big company with large number of customers (or users), you most probably receive a lot of feedback: people write about their experiences, complain about the things that do not work and tell about the things they love. Most companies collect feedback in some specific format, such as Net Promoter Score. Some companies use other metrics , such as Customer Effort Score or Customer Satisfaction.

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Data-Driven Decision Making: A March Madness Case Study

Centriam Customer Experience Lab

Data-driven decision making. We all aspire to it. Whether it’s in Customer Experience management, targeted marketing, deciding which candidates to hire, choosing a new car, or picking the teams in your March Madness office pool.

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Why predictive analytics is integral to the future of CX

CloudCherry

Customers today expect brands to be one step ahead of them. That implies that they are looking for experiences that are accompanied by the ‘ wow ’ factor. To deliver on these expectations, however, the pre-requisite is that organizations need to be proactive. More than having the ability to understand what customers need today, brands have to predict what customers want tomorrow.

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing eCommerce

QuestionPro Audience

The future is here, and the future is artificial intelligence. A technology that once sounded futuristic is now here, and smart businesses have realized it’s not an optional tool in this tech-crazed climate, and begun implementing AI in order to create the easiest possible user experience. Analysts predict that by 2020, 85% of a consumer’s relationship with a business will be managed without interacting with a human.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto

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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Customer Service Trends 2018: Creating Effortless Customer-Centric Experiences

Kayako

At Kayako, we do our best to understand not just our customers’ needs, but their customers’ needs, as well. Armed with that empathy and over ten years in the business, there’s been one consistent signal that stands out from the noise in this year’s customer service trends: customers want effortless experiences. Customers hate putting in effort to get problems resolved.

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4 Ways to Improve Customer Experience in 2018 – guest post from CCW NOLA

ijgolding

In our modern business landscape, especially with the ever-growing presence of social media in our daily lives, providing consistent positive customer experiences has become critical to maintaining a favourable brand reputation. We’ve all seen social media posts from unhappy customers go viral- these posts can have a detrimental effect on your brands reputation and your audiences desire to do business with your company.

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Mobile Panels Online: Market Research in the Mobile World

QuestionPro Audience

The times they are a-changin’. Little known fact: Bob Dylan was singing about market research. Market research is changing, and smart businesses are seizing the opportunity to use smartphones to gather data in a timely, efficient way. There are two options when conducting market research in the mobile world: in-app surveys and mobile-optimized surveys that are housed on a webpage and accessed from a smartphone.

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B2C Influence on B2B Customer Expectations

InMoment XI

There are obvious differences in the way B2C and B2B companies engage, interact with, and serve their respective customer bases. Traditionally, this was appropriately based on significant differences in expectations from those customer groups. However, recent research is indicating that this expectation gap is evaporating at an alarming rate. This should not come as a.

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2018: New Ways Cloud Will Enhance Customer Care

NICE inContact

So many companies are enjoying the benefits of having moved their contact centers to the cloud over the past few years. Often companies started with a small deployment in one department and gradually grew that implementation to encompass all the contact center applications in the business. Others started with inbound voice and over time have added omnichannel routing or workforce optimization.

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4 HR Predictions for 2025: Supercharge Your Employee Experience with Internal Communications

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

The future of HR is here, and it's all about collaboration, innovation, and impact. Join us for a forward-thinking session where seasoned experts Miriam and Carolyn will share insights and practical strategies to help you stay ahead of evolving HR trends. Discover how to build strong partnerships with internal teams to craft a transparent, authentic, and connected workforce experience.

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Whats the Key to a Strong CX Foundation? Be Obsessed with Your Customers

Customer Bliss

Is your company customer obsessed? If not, it should be! Tamar Cohen , Head of US Customer Experience for Zoetis , a leader in animal health services, shares how she led the leadership team in building the company’s CX platform and organization from the grounds up. Tamar and I chat about how she’s been able to d efine Zoetis as a truly c ustomer obsessed company , where every decision is led by how it will benefit the customer base.

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CX Institute Fills Customer-Centric Transformation Gap

Experience Matters

For years, Temkin Group has worked with organizations that are looking to become more customer-centric, providing guidance to the executives and teams who are responsible for driving this change. But over the last couple of years, we’ve noticed a shift in our work. It’s no longer just about providing our clients with the skills and knowledge they need to be masterful CX professionals.

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Most CX Elite of Them all?

InMoment XI

Do you, your team, or company exemplify exceptional customer experience? If so, the nomination period for the second annual CX Elite Awards from MaritzCX are now open. Celebrating Exceptional CX Efforts The CX Elite Awards celebrate the achievements and exceptional impact practitioners and companies are making in their customer experience efforts. Each award recognizes and.

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Is Survey Fatigue Killing Your Response Rates?

GetFeedback

Are you guilty of over-surveying? You might be driving people away. Survey fatigue is a real problem for companies. Here are 4 simple ways to avoid it.

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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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Empathic Design – As Close to the Holy Grail as You Can Get

Michelli Experience

Do you have a “go to” song you sing when you are at a karaoke bar? How about a signature dish you like to prepare the first time a new visitor comes over for dinner? Customer Experience Design Strategies. For me, my “go to” strategies for product development or experience innovation involve components from my “empathic design” toolkit. For fellow empathic designers, you know that there are a lot of tools available which help business owners and leaders “step into the shoes” of their “user” or “c

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Report: Channel Preferences Benchmark, 2018

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group data snapshot, Channel Preferences Benchmark, 2018. Here’s the executive summary: In Q3 2017, we surveyed 10,000 U.S. consumers about their channel preferences when performing 12 different activities – such as selecting a life insurance policy or applying for a new credit card – and compared their responses to the results of a similar study we conducted in Q3 2016.

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Most CX Elite of Them all?

InMoment XI

Do you, your team, or company exemplify exceptional customer experience? If so, the nomination period for the second annual CX Elite Awards from MaritzCX are now open. Celebrating Exceptional CX Efforts The CX Elite Awards celebrate the achievements and exceptional impact practitioners and companies are making in their customer experience efforts. Each award recognizes and.

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Put People Before Profits

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay Does your company put profits before people? I bring this up because I've seen a particular phenomenon many times: executives decide to put their employee experience and customer experience improvement efforts on pause because sales figures are down. Clearly the blame is that the people focus has derailed them from business development and closing deals; there can be no other reason for this (she said with all the sarcasm in the world).

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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Empathetic Design – As Close to the Holy Grail as You Can Get

Michelli Experience

Do you have a “go to” song you sing when you are at a karaoke bar? How about a signature dish you like to prepare the first time a new visitor comes over for dinner? Customer Experience Design Strategies. For me, my “go to” strategies for product development or experience innovation involve components from my “empathetic design” toolkit. For fellow empathetic designers, you know that there are a lot of tools available which help business owners and leaders “step into the shoes” of their “user” o

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Remove the Weak Links in Your Customer Experience: Part 1

Customers That Stick

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B2C Influence on B2B Customer Expectations

InMoment XI

There are obvious differences in the way B2C and B2B companies engage, interact with, and serve their respective customer bases. Traditionally, this was appropriately based on significant differences in expectations from those customer groups. However, recent research is indicating that this expectation gap is evaporating at an alarming rate. This should not come as a.

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Customer Service Lessons from The Best 22 Toons of The Shepard Letter

Customer Guru

Happy customers play a major role in bringing repeat business and business through word-of-mouth and referrals. When a customer service agent resolves a customer’s grievance with immense care and attention, the customer will talk about it to his friends and family. For this, your customer service skills must be par excellence. On the other hand, if your customer service team is indifferent to the customers’ issues, they will fail to impress the customers.

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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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Your Live Chat Should Create Customer Convenience Not Dissatisfaction

Customer Bliss

“More and more customers are willing to use live chat when contacting brands, but their general satisfaction rate has gone down slightly.” This is a finding from the recently released LiveChat Customer Service Report 2018 , comparing results from 2017 to 2016. The report pulled in data from 21,000 companies, nearly 334 million chats and 17 million inquiry tickets.

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{Infographic} Empathetic Design

Michelli Experience

__. Joseph A. Michelli, Ph.D. is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli. The post {Infographic} Empathetic Design appeared first on Joseph Michelli.

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4 Tech Trends Driving CRM Software in 2018

Oracle

Customer Relationship Management, or CRM software, has come a long way since its beginnings in the 70s and 80s. It continues to evolve to incorporate new technology, features, and innovations to help organizations build and nurture personalized customer relationships. Here are four tech trends that are driving innovation in CRM in 2018, and helping organizations reach and engage their target audiences across channels. 1.

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How to Draft Effective Customer Satisfaction Survey Questions for Hotels & Tourism

Comm100

Hotels and tourism simply wouldn’t exist without the positive perceptions of the people who use them. Because of this, it’s vital that establishments can create effective customer satisfaction surveys to identify which areas of their service can be continuously improved, helping to attract more customers now and in the future. But creating an effective feedback survey isn’t easy, especially for busy hoteliers.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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The Power of the Last and Lasting Impression

ShepHyken

People say all the time that the first impression is important. No doubt it is. Just as important, if not even more so, is the last impression, as it leaves a lasting impression. If you’ve been following my work, this concept may be familiar to you. Recently, I tweeted about lasting impressions (follow me on Twitter @Hyken if you aren’t already doing so).

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Why Must Leaders and Their Companies Now Give More Attention (and Resources) to EX?

Beyond Philosophy

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. By EX, of course, we mean employee experience. Customer experience optimization has, for some time, been the stated goal of many enterprises around the world. Where the role of employees in meeting that goal is concerned, however, there has been a tacit belief that the equation “happy employees = happy customers” works.

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Customer Experience Tips to Conquer 2018

Oracle

Customers are the most important part of small- or medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Today, it’s no longer enough to simply provide them with a great product or service. “Satisfied” won’t cut it; they want to be delighted. They expect an unrivaled customer experience (CX), tailored to their exact wants/needs, throughout the entire buyer journey.

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