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Three Steps to Align Your CX Program Goals with Business Initiatives

InMoment XI

Has your customer experience (CX) program matured or just begun? Or is it somewhere in the middle? No matter where you’re at, CX program goals need consistent tweaking to be aligned to greater business initiatives. And with the proper alignment, your company can drive better decisions that will positively impact your customers, employees, and bottom line.

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When Your Customer Experience Hits a “Bump in the Road”

ShepHyken

One of our faithful subscribers sent in a question. While he’s in the hospitality industry, this could apply to any type of business. There have most likely been times that many of us have fallen short in taking care of our customers. It could be an isolated incident, which is easy to fix. But what happens when it becomes a trend? With that in mind, here’s his question, followed by my answer and comments.

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5 Benefits From Outsourcing Customer Service

Call Experts

Outsourcing customer service is one cost-effective way to improve the service quality that your company offers, particularly if you are just starting or your business is creating too much pressure on your existing customer service team. As more companies are using internet presence to handle support , the world of outsourced customer service is becoming more popular.

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Creating Customer Personas: Solutions to 4 Common Challenges

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Creating customer personas is an important part of any customer journey mapping exercise or really any customer experience management program. But what are they, really? How are they created? And how can you overcome the obstacles that tend to keep organizations from creating truly great, useful personas? That’s what we’ll tackle today. What is a Customer Persona?

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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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How Mulesoft Uses Empathy-Based UX Research to Inform User-Centered Product Design

Alida

User experience research is the most data-driven way to forecast needed product updates and plan upcoming features and the future of your product. It can help to eliminate internal bias and confirm or reject assumptions that influence product development. At Mulesoft , the UX Research team knew that direct interaction with users was critical to de-risk product decisions and provide input to successfully roadmap development.

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4 Reads That Will Help You Prove CX ROI

InMoment XI

At the end of the day, investing in customer experience (CX) is about more than just the score. Sure, it’s great to see a boost in CX metrics like NPS , CSAT , and CES , but what really drives impact? Creating tangible value for your business—and that means proving that sometimes elusive CX ROI. Historically, CX practitioners have struggled to assign a dollar amount to the value of their programs.

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New Partnership: Lumoa in joint partnership with Forsta

Lumoa

Forsta Partners with Lumoa to Deliver Powerful, AI-Driven Analytics To CX, EX and Market Research Professional Partnership will streamline open-ended feedback using artificial intelligence to drive better-informed decisions NEW YORK and LONDON and OSLO, Norway, 1st of November, 2021 – Forsta , the leading Customer Experience and Research Technology company created earlier this year by the merger of Confirmit, FocusVision and Dapresy, is announcing its partnership with Lumoa , an AI-po

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Get It Fixed, Then Clam Up!

Steve DiGioia

In the service industry, problems happen every day. An employee makes a mistake, and the customer is, at best, disappointed. Or angry, at worst. It’s inevitable. It happens. It’s part of any operation that has many “moving” parts. “Service recovery”, a company’s resolution of a problem from a dissatisfied customer, comes next. Your job is to get it fixed, then clam up.

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Technology, listening to customers drives MoneySolver call center and organization

NICE inContact

MoneySolver is a fintech company. You’ve probably heard the term fintech—it’s everywhere now and is likely a growing part of your daily life, even if you don’t realize it. Not that many years ago, financial services and technology began finding ways to be more efficient—and profitable—by joining forces, and now fintech has become essentially its own sector.

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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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Guest Post: Are Customer Surveys the Best Way to Receive Feedback About Your Brand?

ShepHyken

Jacob Borgeson is the Product Marketing Director at Khoros where he helps brands understand how communities can help their businesses. He shares the challenges and limitations of using surveys to gather feedback about customer experience. Surveys will always be a critical component of a brand’s customer engagement strategy. Not only are they essential for businesses to improve, but they provide an outlet for customers to share meaningful brand feedback. .

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Integrating call recording into Microsoft Teams

Eptica

Date: Friday, November 5, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Integrating call recording into Microsoft Teams. Published on: November 05, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager As contact centres increasingly switch to Microsoft Teams, they need to deliver key functionality, such as call recording via the platform.

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Q&A with Aruba: How We Scaled Our Customer Engagement Strategy

Totango

What do you do when you realize that 95 percent of your customer base is tech-touch and you don’t have the manpower to properly engage with and measure this group? Well, if you’re Aruba, you go digital. In a recent webinar titled “How Aruba Scaled their Customer Engagement Strategy”, Aruba’s Director of Customer Success Operations Matt Harmon and Head of Digital Engagement Strategy Teresa Chu, discussed how Aruba leveraged Totango and a digital-first customer success approach to drive customer e

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Customer experience matters!

NICE inContact

In today's experience economy, businesses can't leave CX to chance. Companies need to align every aspect of the business on the customer experience. For contact centers, this includes getting agents on board by explaining why customer experience matters and providing the technology agents need to be successful. But you can do even more to meet your CX goals by focusing on every aspect of the agent employment life cycle, beginning with the hiring process.

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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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Are we challenging CX?

Zeisler Consulting

One of the roles we, as CX professionals, play, is that of change agents. I realize that’s a term people toss out there when they want to seem important or progressive in business, but when you think about it, one of the core jobs we have is to challenge people to take a different perspective; that of the Customer. In fact, a Process Engineer who used to work for me would say all the time that we need to ‘take off our corporate hat and put on our Customer hat.

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CX Success Stories – Joy, Research Analyst

Daniel Group

Joy, Research Analyst, The Daniel Group. Joy, long-time Research Analyst at The Daniel Group, discusses the power of conversation and how The Daniel Group surveys invite engagement. Complete transcript. “Yes, Bob. Well, we certainly appreciate the feedback. Oh, you’re welcome. Have a great rest of your day.”. Hi, I’m Joy, a research analyst here at the Daniel Group.

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5 Tips for Leading an All-Star Customer Success Team

Totango

Building and leading a customer success team is no easy feat. From gaining the buy-in of other departments to training team members and earning customers’ trust, the role of a customer success leader can be as challenging as it is rewarding. Recently, Totango had the opportunity to speak with two rock star CS leaders to hear their stories and learn some of their tips and best practices.

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Remembering the extraordinary life of Dr. Henk F. Moed (1951-2021)

Clarivate

We at the Institute for Scientific Information are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Henk Moed, our friend and mentor. Henk Moed was instrumental in the development of the field of bibliometrics and scientometrics and worked closely with Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). His deep knowledge of and insights into bibliometrics and his sound understanding of the need for practical applications of research performance measurement was second to none.

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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 to Transform an Angry Customer into Brand Evangelist

The DiJulius Group

Are you feeling the pressure of high customer demands? Customer service is on the decline, and now is the time to stand out. To differentiate yourself from the competition, you must anticipate your service defects and put protocols in place to make it right. Are your team members trained and equipped to handle challenging customer. Read Full Article.

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How to Identify Your Customer Touchpoints for World-Class CX

Advantage Communications

Providing a world-class customer experience (CX) relies on your ability to not only seamlessly answer customer questions, but to answer those questions in a place that is highly visible to your customers.

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The Daniel Group Announces One Million B2B Customer Feedback Surveys

Daniel Group

November 5, 2021. The Daniel Group Announces One Million B2B Customer Feedback Surveys. The Daniel Group is pleased to announce that it has completed more than a million B2B Customer Feedback Surveys. The insights from this survey data will help The Daniel Group’s clients continue to measure, manage, and improve their customer experience. “What began as an idea with a single construction equipment dealer has grown into a service trusted by industrial equipment dealers and manufacture

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Net Promoter Score Question Best Practices: How to Ask Them and How to Follow Up

Totango

The Net Promoter Score question provides one of the most effective tools for predicting customer loyalty and brand advocacy. It reflects both how enthusiastic customers are about your brand and how likely they are to recommend you to others. However, the value of NPS surveys depends on how you go about conducting them as well as what you do with the data you collect.

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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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9 Ways a Collaborative Culture Benefits Your Contact Center

Playvox

Teamwork, sharing knowledge and best practices feed company culture. According to a white paper from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School , when collaboration permeates organizations, they experience huge bottom-line benefits, including engaged employees, attracting and retaining talent, increased velocity, and profitability. With widespread collaboration, employees are more likely engaged in their work, and embracing challenges that take them to the next level. .

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CX Prediction 2022.3 — From Data Collection to Data Action

SurveyGizmo

This is part 3 in a 5-part series. Please download our CX Predictions for 2022 ebook for our full report. CX Lags Behind. Many Customer Experience (CX) teams lack the data integration of their Sales and Marketing counterparts. Sales departments tend to operate using a customer relationship management (CRM) tool like Salesforce (SFDC) and, by 2022, have likely already integrated with other data sets like Jira or Salesloft.

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Spotlight on our Penang Center of Excellence, the “Silicon Island of the East”

Clarivate

In March 2020, a new Clarivate Center of Excellence (CoE) opened in Penang, Malaysia, to provide sales and support to global customers. It’s one of three Clarivate CoEs that deliver world-class services, with the other two based in Chandler, U.S., and in Belgrade, Serbia. Teams from Customer Care, Content Editing (Patent Translations & Enhancement), Inside Sales, IT, Finance and HR are located in the Penang CoE providing customers access to core Clarivate services.

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Net Promoter Score Question Best Practices: How to Ask Them and How to Follow Up

Totango

The Net Promoter Score question provides one of the most effective tools for predicting customer loyalty and brand advocacy. It reflects both how enthusiastic customers are about your brand and how likely they are to recommend you to others. However, the value of NPS surveys depends on how you go about conducting them as well as what you do with the data you collect.

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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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5 SmartHub CDP Features to Enhance Your eLearning Marketing Strategy

Blueshift

Back in May, we shared the four essential campaigns for eLearning marketing to acquire new students, boost enrollment and engagement, and help students continue to pursue their online education goals. The post 5 SmartHub CDP Features to Enhance Your eLearning Marketing Strategy appeared first on Blueshift.

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CX Prediction 2022.2 — Surveys Are Just the Start

SurveyGizmo

This is part 2 in a 5-part series. Please download our CX Predictions for 2022 ebook for our full report. Customer experience programs are far more than surveys. Surveys will always play a part in customer experience. Surveys allow researchers to benchmark performance, capture post-purchase feedback, and develop a data cache with periodic surveys. But surveys are no longer enough.

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Federated Search: All One Needs In A Search

Inbenta

Contents: – What is federated search? . -Types of federated, unified search. -Benefits of implementing federated search. The amount of content and data keeps growing, year after year, and the fragmentation of content has become a real issue. Companies have content everywhere, on numerous platforms. How do you ensure that people find the information they want when there are so many search options?