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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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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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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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The top three things that will win over business leaders for contact center technology investments

NICE inContact

Other contact centers are upgrading their technology to keep up with customer and competitive demands. To get a more macro view of technology investments, download the complimentary ContactBabel report, State of Contact Center Transformation in the New Digital World. Get started on your digital transformation today!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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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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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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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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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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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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How to Get a 360 View of Your Customers with Jarvis Harris

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Phil Irvine. In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by two other CX In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Jarvis Harris from Visier. Jarvis shares his secrets to creating the perfect experience for his customers through mapping personas and using the right technology to supplement his team’s effo

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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?

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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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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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5 Free Customer Success Tools

ChurnZero

When you’re just getting started, or you’re still building your Customer Success team, sometimes you can use all the help you can get. It can be difficult in these situations for Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to find the time or the resources to dig for those crucial customer insights. Customer Success tools that help you stay up-to-date on recent company news, build connections with your customers, flesh out your ideal customer persona, and gather and organize customer feedback can make all

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3 Common Challenges Community Builders Face and How to Overcome Them

Vanilla Forums

Jono Bacon joined us at Super Forum 2021 and presented a survival guide for community managers who are facing common challenges. At one point or another, we'll all face stress, crisis management, and conflict resolution, and the best way to handle them is to be prepared.

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Why car review sites matter for car buyers

BirdEye

You might forget what you had for breakfast or where you put your keys, but your first car is something you will likely never forget. The experience of buying a car, including the new car smell, is one that is ingrained in your mind forever, but the process has evolved. With a couple of clicks of a mouse, you can purchase groceries, flowers, clothing, and yes even a new car.