CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The holiday season can be stressful – for customers and businesses alike. Here are three ways to better engage with customers during the holidays, brought to you by Zenarate. 1. Empathy First. Customer empathy starts by seeing things through the eyes of others. Through understanding and conveying a sense of shared experiences – “I know how frustrating that can be” – a bond is forged, and hostilities are lowered.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be a defining trend for contact centers in 2023, and IT leaders must be prepared to think broadly about the possibilities. When it comes to AI and customer service, automation usually comes to mind. While that’s an important driver, it’s not the only use case. Chatbots are the most common way to automate self-service, but to get fuller value, a wider spectrum needs to be considered.

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The DiJulius Group

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Now is the best time to create your Customer Experience theme for the new year, one that you can rally your entire organization around. Here are some excellent and actionable insights to kick off brainstorming for making 2023 your best year ever: 1. The Great Retention Great companies help people live amazing lives. Great. Read Full Article. The post 11 Potential Customer Experience Themes to Make 2023 Your Best Year Ever appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Totango

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As subscription models and recurring revenue become the norm for both SMBs and enterprise solutions, customer success is becoming an essential part of businesses across the globe. It’s clear to corporate leaders that strong onboarding and ongoing engagement help convert tentative new relationships into happy customers and established revenue streams; and risk management protects hard-earned customer trust and shines a light on opportunities for expansion.

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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.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Customer experience (CX) is the convergence of three elements – human, process, and increasingly, technology. With 100% of customers clamoring for self-service options — be it for setting up demos or answering product questions — it’s no wonder that ‘improving customer experience’ has catapulted to the top three automation goals of marketers everywhere.

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Helpware

DECEMBER 15, 2022

According to a PWC report , around 73% of consumers consider customer experience an essential factor in their buying decisions. Moreover, 65% of consumers find a positive experience with a brand to be more influential than great marketing.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As CX tops the business agenda, there’s never been a better time to master the art of listening. Jade Turley at Calabrio shows us how with a simple step-by-step guide. Delivering the right customer experience (CX) is typically a top priority for businesses for good reason. According to international outsourcers CGS, 80% of consumers feel more emotionally connected to a brand when customer service solves their problem and 30% of consumers are willing to pay more for excellent service, a 6% increa

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Welcome 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.

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Lumoa

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Voice of Customer (VoC) is not a new concept. It’s a strategy that many companies have used for years to understand and prioritize customer needs. However, how VoC data is collected, analyzed, and acted upon has changed. Companies are finding that innovative technologies can make collecting voice of customer analytics more effortless than ever—and these technologies have opened up exciting new possibilities for improving customer experiences.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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IntouchInsight

DECEMBER 16, 2022

2022 at Intouch was all about data. How to do more with your data, dig deeper into your data, and perform better data analysis - and it’s never been easier to do it!

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We often hear from our readers how helpful our published content is when they are in the decision-making process for partnering with a new contact center outsourcer. We were excited to see that the readers and award committee of the 2022 Customer Contact Central MVP Awards agreed! Our article, How to Launch a Successful Outsourced Contact Center Implementation, won second place in their quest to spotlight the highest-value content from industry thought leaders.

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Digital experience trends are the new road maps of modern day business. Are you still using a paper map to direct you when you’re driving to work? Of course not, you’re using your smartphone that tells you where you are, when to turn, and if there is an accident up ahead. Think of digital experience trends being the new maps application in your business.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Today’s field service leaders face a growing number of challenges, many of them not dissimilar to those faced by their predecessors. However, the simultaneous arrival of economic, operational, and technical challenges is straining many field service organizations. In this post we will examine the trends shaping these challenges, and why leaders are increasingly adopting new strategic approaches to overcome these challenges.

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Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

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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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you operate in a country with multiple official languages or across multiple regions, your audio files can contain different languages. Participants may be speaking entirely different languages or may switch between languages. Consider a customer service call to report a problem in an area with a substantial multi-lingual population. Although the conversation could begin in one language, it’s feasible that the customer might change to another language to describe the problem, depending on com

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We have another great episode of Deep CX: A Blue Ocean Podcast for you this month! We were lucky to sit down with Tony Won, a leading specialist in player support and our very first guest in the gaming industry. Tony has built up quite the gaming résumé over the years, working with industry giants like Riot Games and Epic Games—he even worked on the smash hit cross-platform game Fortnite!

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2022

My name is Ton Luijten, Customer Success Director + Data Science Lead in APAC—and in this post I’ll help you unlock a new take on ROI —through failure demand. When we manage client programs at InMoment, return on investment (ROI) is always top of mind. We strongly believe this should be a top priority for any team trying to improve customer or employee experiences to show that they are positively contributing to the financial outcomes of their business.

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dscout People Nerds

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It’s easy to bring up biases and assumptions to government work. But understanding the nature of its bureaucracy is key to success.

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Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Amazon Lookout for Vision provides a machine learning (ML)-based anomaly detection service to identify normal images (i.e., images of objects without defects) vs anomalous images (i.e., images of objects with defects), types of anomalies (e.g., missing piece), and the location of these anomalies. Therefore, Lookout for Vision is popular among customers that look for automated solutions for industrial quality inspection (e.g., detecting abnormal products).

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The winners of 2022’s ChurnHero Awards, recognizing and celebrating ChurnZero customers who champion Customer Success with remarkable results, have been announced! For the third year running, we asked CS teams who’ve challenged the status quo with innovative, meaningful, and customer-centric approaches to enter the ChurnHero Awards and tell us all about it.

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Adrian Swinscoe

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is a guest post by Tom Gibby, the Co-Founder and CMO of The Bot Platform. The first step in asking is always the hardest. You […]. The post 9 ways to help get your budget approved first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Brandwatch CX

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Enterprises need to translate business-critical content such as marketing materials, instruction manuals, and product catalogs across multiple languages to communicate with a global audience of customers, partners, and stakeholders. Identifying the source language in each document before calling a translate job creates complexities and adds another step to your workflow.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As a CSM, do you have to chase customers into doing the bare minimum required to see product gains, whether it’s responding to an email, showing up to a meeting, or finishing a task? Your first instinct might be to blame sales for a bad-fit customer…but the account matches your ideal customer profile (ICP) to a T. It’s not down to a lack of structure either, since you have defined processes and roles for every journey stage.

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BirdEye

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Over 90% of marketers use social media as part of their marketing strategy because they know it’s a powerful tool. However, coming up with social media post ideas can be challenging and time-consuming. To help you get started, here are 20 simple social media post ideas you can use today. Table of contents 1. Share your company’s content 2. Highlight relevant industry news 3.

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Zonka Feedback

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Customer feedback helps companies and brands to identify areas that require modification to enhance customer satisfaction. How do you generate customer feedback ? Companies use different methodologies to get customer feedback after purchasing some of their products. But, surveys are the best when you want to get reliable information from customers.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Proper estimation of predictive uncertainty is fundamental in applications that involve critical decisions. Uncertainty can be used to assess the reliability of model predictions, trigger human intervention, or decide whether a model can be safely deployed in the wild. We introduce Fortuna , an open-source library for uncertainty quantification. Fortuna provides calibration methods, such as conformal prediction, that can be applied to any trained neural network to obtain calibrated uncertainty e

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West Monroe

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Today’s utilities are evolving. While foundational aspects—affordability, resiliency, and reliability—are still top of mind, energy industry trends show that utilities are quickly becoming digital, service-based enterprises tasked with leading the charge toward decarbonization while enabling customers to reach their own sustainability goals.

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BirdEye

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It’s no secret that customer reviews have become an essential part of running a successful business. In particular, there is great importance to Google reviews because they can have a direct impact on local businesses success. Most people search for products and services on Google, and these reviews provide important information about the value of your products and services.

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