Sat.Nov 26, 2022 - Fri.Dec 02, 2022

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Cleaning a Toilet vs. Calling Customer Support: 3 Factors Impacting the Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Shep Hyken, a well-known customer service consultant, recently shared that 42% of people would rather clean a toilet than call customer support. This statistic actually didn’t surprise me given how often support experiences leave much to be desired. . This got me thinking: Why is that the case when none of us would claim to enjoy cleaning a toilet!?

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Why You Should Brand Your 2023 CX Initiative

Seaton CX

What if your 2023 CX initiative came to life? The Fairy Godmother of Thanksgiving sang Bippity-boppity-boo at your annual planning meeting and your corporate initiative developed consciousness. It started thinking. It started talking. And it wrote you a cover letter. (This is a little weird, I know—but hear me out!). Your 2023 CX initiative would say this: COVER LETTER FROM A NON-BORING CX INITIATIVE.

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Amplify Customer Experience in Retail with Conversational AI

Lumoa

The Ecommerce industry has seen an impressive development in recent years. Not only are online retailers enjoying massive revenue from their customers (expected to be over $6 trillion in 2022 ), but the platforms themselves are also becoming increasingly sophisticated. Now, technologies such as AI and machine learning are driving highly personalized customer experiences.

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10 Ways to Create Empathy-Centric Customer Service

CSM Magazine

When most people think about customer service, the first thing that comes to mind is solving problems. While this is an important part of the job, it’s not the only aspect. Showing empathy for others is a key customer service skill that is often overlooked. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. It’s an important quality in customer service because it allows you to see things from the customer’s perspective and build a rapport with them.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto

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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Everything About the Prominent Customer Experience Challenges in B2B With Solutions

Zonka Feedback

Customer experience challenges in B2B businesses are roadblocks that hamper businesses from maximizing sales, profits, good customer experience , and ROI. However, there are solutions to tackle such challenges that will eventually improve the user experience of your product, website, or business.

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How a Better Brand Tracking Program Can Forge Deeper Connections with Customers

Strativity

This article was written by Bianca Reed, VP of Global Tracking. While visiting our oldest at college, we went to a DC restaurant with several TVs playing national news. The news anchors debated the pending recession, mid-term elections, and the real estate market. On the TV closest to our table, the news anchor announced that it felt like 2008 all over again and that corporations didn’t know how to react.

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Creating Inclusive Experiences for People With Different Abilities

Doing CX Right

Is your organization unintentionally creating barriers to inclusivity for those that are differently abled? Learn what you can do to create better experiences from CX Professionals and from a woman who's endured 80+ surgeries. The post Creating Inclusive Experiences for People With Different Abilities appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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What is Contact Center AI?

Advantage Communications

Contact center artificial intelligence (AI) is a type of software that enables customer service reps to automate tasks, including customer support. This can be used to create a self-service system where customers can find answers to their questions without needing to speak to a customer service representative, dramatically improving the customer experience and improving efficiencies for customer support teams.

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Your First Three Steps to Driving Impact

Heart of the Customer

As I speak in support of “Do B2B Better,” attendees love to hear how Dow, Hagerty, UKG, and other organizations take steps to driving impact, growing their CX programs as a result. And these programs deserve their accolades. They’ve done an amazing job of showing how customer experience creates outcomes where customers want to buy […]. The post Your First Three Steps to Driving Impact appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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4 HR Predictions for 2025: Supercharge Your Employee Experience with Internal Communications

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

The future of HR is here, and it's all about collaboration, innovation, and impact. Join us for a forward-thinking session where seasoned experts Miriam and Carolyn will share insights and practical strategies to help you stay ahead of evolving HR trends. Discover how to build strong partnerships with internal teams to craft a transparent, authentic, and connected workforce experience.

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Experience Improvement 101: What You Need to Know About InMoment’s Mission & What People Are Saying About It

InMoment XI

Just discovered InMoment? Curious to know a little more about us and our differentiated Experience Improvement (XI)? Well allow us to introduce ourselves! Own the Moments That Matter. At InMoment, we have this saying: “Own the Moments That Matter.” This is fundamental to our mission, because those moments—packed full of emotions , judgements, learnings, and more—shape the world we live in.

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Top 5 Higher Education Customer Service Trends for 2023

Comm100

Colleges and universities often find themselves pulled between tradition and innovation. Since the COVID-19 pandemic first forced an experiment in remote learning, student support has also been caught been traditional phone offerings and new digital channels. Now, as we look to the future of customer service in higher education, we see that institutions are expanding on the progress of remote learning tools with new channels for student services.

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Why is everyone talking about CLV again?

Alida

Focusing on Customer Lifetime Value can boost your long-term revenue and help you navigate a tricky economic environment, but as with every metric, context is key.

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Deep CX: My Discussion with Lucas Fuentes, Vice President of Training & Development at ONQ

BlueOcean

I’m so excited for you to listen to our latest episode of Deep CX: A Blue Ocean Podcast. I got to sit down with Lucas Fuentes, Vice President of Training & Development at ONQ, a global leader in outsourced revenue cycle management. With employees in Panama, Kenya, and India, ONQ handles complex business processes for healthcare billing and a lot more, which means the work Lucas and his team do to prepare employees for the frontlines is mission critical.

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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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Stability AI builds foundation models on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

We’re thrilled to announce that Stability AI has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to power its state-of-the-art AI models for image, language, audio, video, and 3D content generation. Stability AI is a community-driven, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) company developing breakthrough technologies. With Amazon SageMaker , Stability AI will build AI models on compute clusters with thousands of GPU or AWS Trainium chips, reducing training time and cost by 58%.

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Higher education must improve agent experience to ever deliver excellent student experience

Comm100

Investment into higher education customer experience (CX) is growing – and growing rapidly. The question is, are these resources being optimally allocated? For many universities and colleges, the answer is unfortunately no. Although plenty of organizations are seeing a return on their investment and profit from CX, some continue to struggle to bring in the wide range of rewards from this game plan.

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Don’t Forget What Got You to the Dance?

ShepHyken

A restaurant took its most popular item off the menu. It had been on there a long time, and the owner decided it was time to make a change, even though it was his guests’ favorite dish. . A company changed its invoicing terms. It wanted to tighten its terms to get paid sooner, with larger penalties for late payment. . A retail store changed its return policy.

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Cyber Monday Sale: Save on CX Training & Coaching Through December 9

Kerry Bodine

It ’s Cyber Monday, and that means savings! Keep reading for four customer experience training and coaching offers to accelerate your CX and EX initiatives — and drive value for your organization — over the upcoming year. Now through Friday, December 9, 2022: Save $1000 on lifetime access to our Journey Mapping Master Class & Toolkit , the industry’s only solution to combine the expert instruction and ready-to-use tools you need to create effective journey maps.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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The three topics that shaped the CX world in 2022

MyCustomer

Engagement 3 topics that shaped the CX world in 2022.

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Illustrative notebooks in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is the Machine Learning (ML) hub of SageMaker providing pre-trained, publicly available models for a wide range of problem types to help you get started with machine learning. JumpStart also offers example notebooks that use Amazon SageMaker features like spot instance training and experiments over a large variety of model types and use cases.

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No Phones Allowed: Brand Building Through Tech-Free Experiences

Blake Morgan

In a world where technology seems to be the driving force behind every customer experience, a growing branch of the experience economy is doing something radical: banning cell phones. The businesses of building memorable events is booming, and unique selfie opportunities are often part of the package. Technology-free experiences buck the trend that brands don’t seem to exist if they aren’t constantly shared on social media—which could be a risky move, but customers feel they have experienced som

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Cyber Monday Sale: 4 Offers To Make The Most Of 2023

Kerry Bodine

It ’s Cyber Monday, and that means savings! Keep reading for four training and coaching offers to bolster your customer experience efforts over the upcoming year. Now through Friday, December 9, 2022: Save $1000 on lifetime access to our Journey Mapping Master Class & Toolkit , the industry’s only solution to combine the expert instruction and ready-to-use tools you need to create effective journey maps.

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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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What Is Content Marketing in SaaS?

DemandJump

Absolutely essential. With a content-driven SaaS marketing strategy, you can start building relationships with more highly-qualified leads than with paid advertising alone. How? By creating contact points that your audience searches out on their own, rather than bombarding them with ads that may drive them away instead.

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World Cup 2022: Stats, Players, Highlights, and More

Brandwatch CX

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The why, when, and how of customer (re-)segmentation with ChurnZero CCO Alli Tiscornia

ChurnZero

Does your Customer Success team have the right structure, workload, and engagement model to hit its goals? If (nearly) missed targets are becoming the norm, it might be time for you to dust off and revamp your customer segmentation strategy. Re-segmenting your customer base is a natural evolution of your company, product, and team’s growth. All CS leaders eventually undertake this exercise to scale engagement and improve the customer experience.

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How to get verified on Instagram with the blue check mark

BirdEye

Instagram can be a powerful marketing tool for businesses. With over 200 million business accounts, the platform has also become incredibly competitive. Businesses are constantly looking for ways to outshine their competitors , and getting verified on Instagram can definitely help. However, getting verified on Instagram can take time and effort. When you look at the variety of accounts with a coveted blue check mark, you might wonder how they did it.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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What Does SaaS Mean in Marketing?

DemandJump

SaaS is an acronym that stands for Software as a Service. As it applies to marketing, SaaS is just a term to describe the kind of product or service that's being marketed—in this case, a software solution. We can further break this down into two categories: business to consumer (B2C) and business to business (B2B) SaaS marketing.

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Retail Marketing Trends from Cyber Week 2022

Merkle

Black Friday is already the most popular holiday shopping day, and this year, it set a record for online sales. Axios reported that $9 billion dollars were spent online on Black Friday, which is up 2.3% over 2021, as brands are pushing out overstocked inventory at steep discounts and every customer is looking for gifts. On the heels of the holiday, Merkle’s client delivery teams shared the top trends they noticed around Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year.

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What Did We Learn to Improve CX? – The Daniel Group 2022 Client Conference

Daniel Group

What Did We Learn to Improve CX? – The Daniel Group 2022 Client Conference. Our annual conference theme, Dollars & Sense, suggests the two primary foci of our conference: 1.) how does better CX improve business outcomes and 2.) how to use CX metrics most effectively. First, we want to share some of what we learned to improve CX. Then, over the coming months, we will present more in-depth discussions of the significant conference components to help you improve your CX program.