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Customer retention analytics: 5 strategies to reduce churn with data

Thematic

Think customer loyalty programs are all about getting generic discounts, points and rewards? Think again. That was the old school way of doing things. Today, it’s more about offering customers something as personalized as possible, so that they feel truly special. So, let’s look at ways to reduce churn with customer retention analytics and why it’s important in the first place.

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[Infographic] 4 Key Priorities for Customer-centric Retailers in 2019

Alida

View Infographic. The retail industry is only set to become more competitive. Yet, most companies are still failing to meet customer expectations and become more customer-centric. According to Accenture , this is because there is a growing disconnect between what customers need and what retailers are providing. Customers today want more than a transactional service; they expect a meaningful interaction with a brand.

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Unite the Silos and Create an Internal Shared Vision When Implementing a CX Transformation

Customer Bliss

I came across a Forbes article that explored how CX is being looked at in the telecoms industry, and it stated that, “more and more, telcos are concerning themselves not just with whether things work from a technical standpoint (“Does my cell phone have a signal?”), but with the emotions of the customer (“Am I having fun watching this video – or feeling impatient and frustrated?

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Best Customer Experience Books of 2018 and What to Look Out for in 2019

eglobalis

Best Customer Experience Books of 2018 and What to Look Out for in 2019. The post Best Customer Experience Books of 2018 and What to Look Out for in 2019 appeared first on Eglobalis.

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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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CX Myth #5: Wow Customers During Every Interaction

Experience Matters

Many common beliefs about customer experience are misguided, based on oversimplifications or a lack of consideration for real-world constraints. In this series of posts, we debunk these myths. CX Myth #5: Wow Customers During Every Interaction What’s Wrong: While it may be appealing to think about creating an amazing experience every time you touch a customer, it’s just not appropriate or practical.

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Why Customer Success is not Customer Experience

CloudCherry

Who owns the customer experience in your organization? When it comes to putting customer experience management into action, it’s critical to know who owns the moving pieces. Who’s accountable for ensuring that every single customer encounters a well-designed and well-executed experience – regardless of where they are in their journey? Without true accountability, pieces are bound to slip through the cracks.

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Retail Auto: Carmaker Mega-Bonus Incentive Programs Prompt Dealership Behavioral Changes

InMoment XI

There’s a “cultural,” or if you will, “behavioral” change going on at car dealerships being driven by a source that might surprise many. New, factory bonus incentive programs, such as GM’s EBE, ESE and PASE and Nissan’s Customer Experience Elements, are creating pressure on car dealers to bring “customer experience” to the same level of. View Article.

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17 Ways to Tell if Customer Service is Your Purpose in Life

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Our “purpose” is the thing, item, or person we keep coming back to even after we’ve lost our way. Through good times and bad, we find ourselves surrounded by thoughts of what makes us feel good, feel important, and feel fulfilled. So, how can you find your purpose in life? Well, is your purpose: What you love to do.

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How Your Business Can Quickly Adopt a Customer First Strategy

C3Centricity

Every few days there seems to be another customer service disaster that fills the newspapers and goes viral on social media. These usually happen when an organisation does not adopt a customer first strategy. Almost every single organisation, big or small, recognises the importance of their customers. They talk about customer centricity but very few actually go beyond voicing their opinions.

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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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3 Credit Unions with an NPS higher than Apple

CloudCherry

Credit Unions are generally well-liked by their members – but did you know that some credit unions have stronger member loyalty than Apple?! Apple is well known for having some of the most loyal fans. People stream their annual product announcements during their breaks at work and line up for days to purchase the latest iPhone. This loyalty translates to an insanely high Net Promoter Score (NPS).

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3 Actions to Unite Internal and Customer-Facing Departments + Downloadable Audit

Customer Bliss

In my new Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. I recorded this video just after I finished giving a keynote presentation for an internal service department of an organization.

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The Proper Way to Ask for Customer Feedback

Kayako

When collected and implemented properly, customer feedback can help improve your product and the services that support it. Learning of how customers perceive your business is critical to building a customer-centric culture that strives to provide the best possible experience for prospects and customers alike. In this article we are going to explore the best and most effective ways to approach customers for feedback.

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“Us vs. Them” Breaking Down the Walls

InMoment XI

We researchers have done things in the past we probably wouldn’t do again. In some cases we have unintentionally erected walls that have acted to isolate companies from their customers – making the Voice of the Customer more elusive than it should have been. We need to tear down the walls that have caused the. View Article.

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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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Why every CX team needs to plug into the power of integrations

CloudCherry

A CEM platform is nothing without a little help from its friends. And we at CloudCherry say this as a full-featured CEM platform ourselves. We’ve invested a ton of time and energy into building the easiest, quickest integrations with the tools our clients already rely on. And here’s why. Businesses collect and store a lot of customer data during normal operations, but it’s stored across multiple teams, systems, and servers.

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Building a referral program in Salesforce

AskNicely

One of the best ways to engage with your happiest customers is to invite them to refer a friend or colleague (especially if they’ve just filled in a Net Promoter Score survey saying they’d happily do exactly that!). And, of course, you also want to take the chance to make your happy customer a little bit happier still, so offering some sort of reward for a referral is often a good idea.

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How to Handle Live Chat Customer Service During the Holiday Rush

GetFeedback

Handle the downpour of live chat requests during the holiday season like a pro with these proven-to-work live chat customer service strategies.

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“Us vs. Them” Breaking Down the Walls

InMoment XI

We researchers have done things in the past we probably wouldn’t do again. In some cases we have unintentionally erected walls that have acted to isolate companies from their customers – making the Voice of the Customer more elusive than it should have been. We need to tear down the walls that have caused the. View Article.

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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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How CloudCherry help Credit Unions deliver amazing Member Experiences

CloudCherry

Investment in Member Experience Management has been gaining momentum over the last few years in the finance industry. Credit union executives are seeking feedback and learning to listen to the voice of their members and their needs. They obviously want to provide supreme and excellent service on a daily basis. But even though the desire to improve MX is there, building an MX program from scratch is hard.

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Ask Abby Nicely: How Often Should I Be Surveying My Clients?

AskNicely

Dear Abby, How often should I be sending out surveys? Does survey frequency make a difference? Survey Frequency Depends on Your Customer Journey. I often get asked, what is the best cadence to survey customers? The quick answer to survey frequency is: it depends , but we generally recommend you touch every customer at the moments of truth in their customer journey.

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8 Key Stats to Prove Customer Experience Delivers ROI

Beyond Philosophy

James Carville, political commentator and media personality coined the phrase, “The economy, Stupid,” for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. Carville was talking to the team at the time to help them focus on the key messages for Clinton’s campaign. The slogan resurfaced in the 2008 campaign as “It’s the economy, stupid.”. I decided that for people working in Customer Experience, we needed a way to stay on message, too.

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MaritzCX: Leader in Customer Experience Technology

InMoment XI

For the third year in a row, MaritzCX received the highest rank for a Customer Experience (CX) technology and research firm from the American Marketing Association (AMA) in its annual Top 50 Report of U.S. Market Research and Analytics Companies. In addition, the company was recently named a 2018 Top Workplace by the Salt Lake Tribune. “We feel. View Article.

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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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Takeaways from CEM Asia 2018: Quantifying the Impact of CX

CloudCherry

On September 27th, I had the great pleasure of moderating a panel at CEM Asia attempting to answer the question: How do business leaders quantify the ROI of CX? The discussion was so valuable to those in attendance, I wanted to take the time to crystallize some of our thoughts to share them further so more of the CloudCherry audience could benefit from their insights.

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Overwhelmed by needing to modernize your contact center? Start here.

NICE inContact

At some point, every contact center faces the stark reality of needing to modernize. You may still be spending hours creating reports on spreadsheets. You’ve got teams of agents but only rudimentary quality monitoring. Maybe you’re offering limited channel choices, even voice only. If your organization is like most, you’ve been wrestling with these issues for years.

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How Can I Get New Clients? What are the Secrets to Growth?

C3Centricity

This shorter than usual post was inspired by a great question on Quora about how to get new clients. Although my original answer was for a web design company, most of my ideas are relevant whatever industry or profession you are in. Here is my answer. If you’re struggling to grow, I can tell you, you’re not alone! I know that this won’t make you feel much better, but business, especially entrepreneurship and freelancing, is for those that are strong of mind and spirit.

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What Causes Friction

ShepHyken

In the past few months leading up to my new book, The Convenience Revolution , I’ve focused on ways to be more convenient for your customers. I’ve shared six Convenience Principles and numerous examples and case studies. The goal is to eliminate friction. What I haven’t done is talked to you about what causes friction. Here’s a question: What is it that you don’t like about some of the companies and organizations you do business with?

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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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Are You Making Intuitive Or Rational Decisions?

Beyond Philosophy

There are two key ways people make decisions: intuitvely or rationally. We discuss why this is important to designing your customer experience and how this can have a key effect on customer loyalty. We reveal how you can benchmark your organization’s performance against other companies to determine how you are doing in the new world of behavioural economics and customer experience.

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Contact Center SLA: What it is, How it’s Calculated, and Why You Care

NICE inContact

SLA stands for, of course, Service Level Agreement. You could say at its most generic, an SLA is almost like a promise that a service provider makes to a customer about the quality of service they will provide. Contact center SLAs can be external, for example in a contract with a customer for an Outsourcer (aka BPO), or internal, to measure, document and communicate your contact center’s performance for stakeholders within your organization, or to compare with other contact centers.

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Vodafone – Global Innovator Chooses AR Remote Assistance

TechSee

As a leading provider of intelligent visual engagement, TechSee is at the forefront of the digital CX transformation. Our goal is to partner with innovative Tier-1 companies, by providing them with digital solutions that enable them to exceed their customers’ expectations. Vodafone Group plc is a multinational telecommunications conglomerate committed to customer service excellence.