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3 Customer Experience Ideas for 2022

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

It’s time to wrap up another year. 2021 was another strange, unpredictable, not-quite-back-to-normal trip. When it came to customer experience, leaders dealt with all sorts of changes and challenges. The introduction of vaccines led to some employees coming back to the office. And some swearing they’ll never return. Customers were able to pick out their produce again at the grocery store.

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3 Tips for Shaping Brand Experiences With New and Loyal Customers

Alida

What happens when a beloved business rebrands? Or when new product formats emerge that risk alienating some audiences while impressing others?

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Expert perspective: How to level up your voice of customer program

NICE inContact

Imagine having a gold mine in your yard and never venturing out to dig up some nuggets.

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InMoment’s Modern Market Research and Data Analytics Approach Ranks in Top 50

InMoment XI

In the latest 2021 Insights Association Top 50 Market Research and Data Analytics report, InMoment ranks in the top 20 established industry reports and market research or market experience (MX) brands, alongside other powerhouse brands such as JD Power, Gartner Research, and Forrester Research Services. About InMoment’s Market Research and Data Analytics Approach.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Uniphore Collaborates with Cisco to Enable Better Customer Experiences

Uniphore

Uniphore joins Cisco SolutionsPlus Partner Program PALO ALTO, December 14, 2021 – Uniphore, the leader in Conversational Automation, announced today that it has joined Cisco SolutionsPlus, an industry-leading partner program that helps enterprise buyers design and implement complete end-to-end customer solutions. Through Cisco’s SolutionsPlus Program, Cisco’s customers and channel partners can purchase Uniphore’s conversational automation products to enable more efficient, frictionless and secur

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Let Them Go, Really…Just Let Them Go! – Tip #36

Steve DiGioia

Being in the hospitality industry for 20+ years, and providing customer service for many more, I have learned that you win some and lose some. No customer interaction will be perfect for your business. A customer’s taste, perception, culture, expectations, etc. all boil down to “their” opinion of your product or service. What you offer is not what YOU think it is but what the CUSTOMER thinks it is.

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Employee Advocates: Their Role as Committed Company Assets, Active Communicators, and Key Contributors to Stakeholder Value

InMoment XI

T his article was originally published on CustomerThink. Whenever the subject of employee satisfaction and engagement arises, it is often difficult to differentiate between them. Just as customer satisfaction doesn’t equate to loyalty behavior, if you believe that “a satisfied employee IS an engaged employee”, it’s likely that you can’t articulate a distinction.

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The New Retail Customer Experience: How Humans + Machines Optimize the Conversation and Outcomes

Uniphore

Today’s retail customers have higher expectations than ever—particularly when it comes to digital customer experience. Shaped by the global pandemic, which forced billions to adopt new shopping behaviors, customers are notably less patient, more demanding and more proficient online. They also have more options at their fingertips. To remain competitive in this increasingly digital landscape, retailers must create an inviting and intuitive customer experience that works seamlessly from end to end

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Karen Hertzberg: Improving Customer Retention Through Great Customer Service

Bill Quiseng

Customer loyalty is not by offering discounts, upgrades, or subscriptions to repeat customers. Real customer loyalty is built on service so great that customers return again and again, raving to others along the way. This week guest blogger Karen Hertzberg offers three QUI strategies to improve your service to keep customers coming back. You can read more about Karen at the end of her post.

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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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How to Improve Government-to-Citizen Engagement in 2022

Comm100

Nearly everyone has come into contact with their government, whether to renew a driver’s license or apply for a police check. Unfortunately, these interactions have become synonymous with poor, and even terrible, customer experience (CX). . These government-to-citizen (G2C) relations have been strained even further by the pandemic, yet it’s not all doom and gloom. 2022 promises new opportunities for governments to engage the public and reclaim much of the trust that has been lost.

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2022 Trends: Imagine the Future of Call Centers

TechSee

In the last few years, the customer service industry has been upended by a combination of new pandemic-driven ways of working, the growing trend of digital transformation, and the continuously rising bar for positive customer service experiences. There are many new ideas, initiatives, and technologies flooding the market that aim to help the industry address its myriad challenges.

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How Can Payers Improve Member Experience and Efficiency at the Same Time?

Uniphore

The adoption of digital healthcare skyrocketed during the pandemic, exposing both persistent issues for payers as well as opportunities. The more healthcare consumers become comfortable with digital channels, the higher their expectations are for the same level of convenience, selection, and service they receive in other areas of their lives. This means that the more than 900 payers 1 in the current U.S. healthcare market must continue to transform how they interact with consumers if they want t

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Don’t Cut What Is Obvious to the Customer??

ShepHyken

Last week I covered the concept of skimpflation. In case you missed it, the short definition is that skimpflation is the result of a labor shortage, some say due to The Great Resignation , and higher business costs that come from inflation and supply and demand issues. This translates to the customer experiencing a lower level of service, and in some cases, quality.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Secrets Revealed: How to Be Distinctive from Your Competition and Win!

Beyond Philosophy

Fernando has a problem that he wants our help solving. In his industry of branding and packaging fast-moving consumer goods, his clients often tell him to do whatever the competition is doing. However, Fernando knows that while imitation is the highest form of flattery, it’s a less than ideal customer strategy when you want to win customers from the competition.

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Distinguishing Your Brand In A Hyper-Competitive Marketplace

Doing CX Right

Scott McKain, Hall of Fame Speaker & "Iconic " author, reveals how to create distinction to attract & retain customers and employees too. The post Distinguishing Your Brand In A Hyper-Competitive Marketplace appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Customer Contact Week 2022

Uniphore

Where. The Star Gold Coast. When. Feb 24th & 25th 2022. Who. Ravi Saraogi Co-founder and President APAC. Join Uniphore at the Customer Contact Week event on the Gold Coast this February! Where? The 2022 CCW will be hosted at The Star located at 1 Casino Dr. Broadbeach QLD 4218 Australia. Booking information and discounts can be viewed on the CCW website.

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The Best Customer & Employee Experience Content of 2021

The DiJulius Group

The results are in! The DiJulius Group’s top customer service blogs, podcasts, and videos from 2020 are listed below. I recommend sharing this with your entire team. Our Top Blogs from 2021 Stop Calling it a Labor Shortage—It is a Turnover Crisis How to Train your Employees to Deal with Irrational Customer Rage The Great. Read Full Article. The post The Best Customer & Employee Experience Content of 2021 appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Don’t call us

Zeisler Consulting

I received another one just this morning, and you may have also. It’s an email from a company that just loves its Customers, but implores them to not write back. So emphatic are they about how important their Customers are to them that they explicitly go out of their way to forestall communications. Of course, I’m talking about the un-monitored email box.

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Secrets Revealed: How to Be Distinctive from Your Competition and Win!

Beyond Philosophy

There is a saying that says, “Imitation is the highest form of flattery,” and it is. However, it is also a losing strategy when you are working at winning over customers from the competition. Finding a way to stand out is the secret to long-term customer strategy success. . Fernando deals with this problem in his business branding and packaging for fast-moving consumer goods and consumer packaged goods (CPG).

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Innovating to improve research integrity

Clarivate

How we’re expanding support for dealing with editorial expressions of concern and retractions. Research integrity is a key part of our mission at Clarivate to be a trusted, indispensable partner to innovators everywhere. Our research data, insights and analysis are used by the world’s top research institutions, by multiple governments and by national research agencies for global research assessment, which gives us a responsibility to monitor and act where we can to ensure the integrity of our da

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The Psychology of the Word “Because” to Get Customers to Accept Your Word As Final

Myra Golden

For help de-escalating with customers, check out my De-escalation Academy. Research at Harvard showed us the power of the word “Because.” The experiment had people ask to cut in a line of people waiting to use a copy machine. Researchers had the people use three different, specifically worded requests to cut in line: “Excuse me; I have five pages.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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ChurnZero Establishes New European Headquarters to Support Global Growth

ChurnZero

Customer Success software provider, ChurnZero, announces plans to open a new office in the Netherlands to support global expansion efforts in 2022. ChurnZero, a leading Customer Success platform, today announced that it is establishing and investing in a new office in Amsterdam to help accelerate its global growth. The new office will support existing international clients, while also serving as a primary office for business development throughout Europe.

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Getting personalisation right will require marketers to do different things

Adrian Swinscoe

The lovely folk at Braze, a comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love., invited me along […]. The post Getting personalisation right will require marketers to do different things first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Women fighting COVID-19 with science: Spotlight on Alex Li

Clarivate

Throughout 2021, we brought you stories of women scientific researchers at Clarivate delivering invaluable contributions to innovation and customer success. Over the past two years, these women have done essential work in addressing COVID-19 and in helping to create a more equitable STEM field post-pandemic. Learn more. These colleagues have earned recognition and awards for excellence in their achievements in many different and specialist fields of scientific research.

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CX Stories From the Frontlines: Streamlining the Agent Experience

Kustomer

We’re back again with some fresh CX stories from the frontlines. In case you missed it, check out our previous issue on the blog , recounting real life anecdotes on how businesses have solved their customer service challenges with the help of Kustomer. In this month’s edition, we discuss streamlining agent experiences by displaying relevant information, reducing manual email triage efforts and identifying appropriate contact times for customers in different timezones.

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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The 3 Myths of Community KPIs

Vanilla Forums

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) , are always a hot topic in community circles. Community leaders want to know what, how, when, and why others are measuring anything. And frequently, it’s to learn ways others communicate value to their stakeholders. We also need to know (but often skip over) which metrics our colleagues care about and whether the data points required to calculate those metrics are even ethical for us to track.

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32 Best NPS® Tools for 2022

Zonka Feedback

NPS Survey Tools enable you to create, distribute, manage quickly and analyze NPS Surveys. These tools are seamlessly integrated with your business tools and give you responses and reports in real-time.

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How Voice of Customer Software Improves Account Management Efficiency

Kapta Customer Success

Even when you have a team of all-star key account managers, you need replicable business processes that everyone on the team can understand and follow. This consistency doesn't just help your account managers have a framework for doing their job well. It also ensures that all of your clients have a similarly enjoyable experience that is geared toward their success.