Sat.Feb 10, 2018 - Fri.Feb 16, 2018

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Customer Feedback Is Never Just a Score.

Lumoa

There's a company X that collects customer feedback. Company X prefers the Net Promoter Score® ( what is NPS? ), yet it could be any other metric. They ask the very familiar NPS question: " How likely is it that you would recommend [brand] to a friend or colleague? (on a scale from 0 to 10) " after each customer purchase or interaction. But guess what?

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5 Ways to Keep Survey Respondents Engaged

QuestionPro Audience

Surveys are powerful tools that businesses rely on to learn the motivations of consumers and gain insight into their feelings towards brands. However, if the participants are responding arbitrarily, the survey instrument may need some attention in order to get the actionable data necessary to make accurate decisions. It is important to keep survey respondents engaged in order to ensure a positive experience for both parties involved.

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The Future of VoC: Insight & Action, Not Feedback

Experience Matters

The vendor market for Voice of the Customer (VoC) products and services has been heating up, with numerous acquisitions and mergers. All of this is happening as companies are trying to figure out how to run successful VoC programs. It appears that we on the verge of the next stage in evolution for VoC. So I decided to step back and look at the overall market.

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5 Things That Can Sabotage Your VOC Program

CloudCherry

Companies with the best-in-class Voice of Customer (VoC) programs achieve 10 times higher YOY increase in revenue compared to other firms. Furthermore, they retain 55% more customers, experience an average drop of 23% in YOY customer service expenses, and boast employee engagement rates that are 292% higher. So, if your Voice of Customer isn’t delivering noteworthy results, then it’s time to take a hard look at what’s going wrong.

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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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Take These 3 Actions to Prevent Customer Experience Implosion

Customer Bliss

Customer Experience implementation within an organization is a major undertaking. It often involves multiple departments, and of course, the organization’s leaders and C-Suite. I always stress to my clients that CX work has to be done in bite-sized pieces, because it’s an initiative that becomes a part of the company’s long term strategy; therefore, you can’t try to tackle it all at once.

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Building a Customer Loyalty Program That Drives Brand Love

Kayako

When was the last time you shopped for something that’s an everyday staple? Chances are, you found way more options than you needed and ended up choosing one at random. In today’s maturing marketplace, you aren’t the only one. In 2018, the vast majority of products on the market are pretty similar. They’re good quality and generally last a good while.

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Powering Sentiment Analysis with Machine and Deep Learning

CloudCherry

“ When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion ” – Dale Carnegie. Emotion plays a critical role in our daily lives. Be it in shaping our relationships or day-to-day brand choices, we look for a connect at some level. And companies that tap into this emotion and get it right are usually the ones customers flock to.

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Why Learning CX Will Make You Happy and Successful

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Research on everyone from millennials to senior citizens shows how learning is tied to happiness. So those who prioritize picking up new skills (shout out to those learning CX right now!) or just enjoy learning in general, tend to be happier, more satisfied people. Those who continue to focus on their own education also understand the world is changing at an incredibly rapid pace.

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Market Research: Why Every Small Business Needs It

QuestionPro Audience

Attention, small businesses! According to the U.S. Small Business Administration , there are currently 28.8 million small businesses in the United States. These businesses have played a major role in economic growth because they create so many jobs (1.4 million in 2014!), but getting the business off the ground is a struggle. About two-thirds of small businesses survive 2 years, half will survive 5 years, and one-third will make it to 10 years.

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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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Why Digital Businesses Need Digital CX

InMoment XI

Digital Transformation is such a buzz word today, the message comes through loud and clear from seemingly every keynote, panel discussion, article, or study related to how businesses can remain competitive and relevant as the world becomes increasingly digital. It reminds me of the scare of the Year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K problem, the. View Article.

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We’re a Leader on G2Crowd (thanks to you)

AskNicely

We don’t like to do it too often, but once in a while, we need to take a step back and acknowledge our wins. And none of these victories — large or small — are even remotely possible without our thousands of wonderful customers that inspire us to make gathering and acting on real-time feedback easy, intuitive and responsive. We are in the real-time NPS-powered customer feedback business after all.

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Creating a Support-Driven Culture

GetFeedback

We asked Help Scout's Mat Patterson what a "support-driven" company looks like. Read the full Q&A for his thoughts on culture, leadership & authenticity.

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4 Tech Trends Taking Over the Pet Industry

QuestionPro Audience

The way Americans view their pets has changed dramatically in the past two decades. Pets are now looked at as an integral part of our families, and are cared for as such. Currently, 68% of U.S. households own a pet, which equates to about 84.6 million homes. The American Pet Products Association (APPA) reports Americans spent $17 billion on their pets in 1994.

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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 Digital Businesses Need Digital CX

InMoment XI

Digital Transformation is such a buzz word today, the message comes through loud and clear from seemingly every keynote, panel discussion, article, or study related to how businesses can remain competitive and relevant as the world becomes increasingly digital. It reminds me of the scare of the Year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K problem, the. View Article.

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Portland’s Top-Rated Lyft Driver’s Best Pick-Up Line

AskNicely

So, a few months ago I had a bad day. I entered what was the busiest season of my 30s, and Portland entered the beginnings of its crazy-making stretch of rainy-grey-sky-bummer weather. So, on my way home I stopped by my local watering hole for a quick drink and a hamburger to lift my spirits. The drink was OK. The hamburger was amazing. The sour mood remained the same.

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Collect Quick, Actionable Feedback with Like/Dislike Questions

GetFeedback

Empower your survey respondents to quickly tell you how they feel about a specific experience or piece of content with our new Like/Dislike question type.

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Why Smart Tech Companies are Focusing on Baby Boomers

QuestionPro Audience

There are currently about 75 million baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) in the U.S., and they are the fastest growing segment of technology consumers. Whereas millennials consume the trending technology and move on to the next, baby boomers are different. Once they find a brand that appeals to them, they are extremely brand loyal. Contrary to popular belief, they are not resistant to technology or social media (to the dismay of kids and grandchildren across the country), and according to

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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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“I’m a LOSER Baby, So Why Don’t You Show Me [the data]?”

InMoment XI

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… “There once was a man named Doug, Whose pants were far too snug. Before ‘twas too late, He had to shed some weight, So his wife, he could properly hug.” Ah…the joys of returning to work after the holidays. Like so many years before, I readied myself. View Article.

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Five Keys To Driving Voice of the Customer Success

CX Accelerator

We now live in the age of the customer, where customers expect consistent, high-value experiences. If customers don’t get immediate value, they will likely leave and go to a company who will deliver an experience that meets their expectations. To be able to know and understand what customers want, companies must listen to their customers. That’s why companies are implementing some type of voice of the customer (VoC) program.

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The State of Social Customer Support in 2018

BlueOcean

Remember when social media was the young upstart of the customer care channels and voice was still king? Way back in the good old days of the early 2010s… It seems like a lifetime ago that we were asking ourselves how to handle customers in such a public forum. And asking who really owned the channel anyway – was it marketing? Or was it customer service?

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Resourcing up the silos – Beth Richardson investigates the world of customer experience job vacancies!

ijgolding

The words customer-centric and silos do not sit happily in the same sentence. Silos harm culture and damage customer experiences. And they hold businesses back. In the last month alone, 1000s of words have been published on this very subject by the likes of LinkedIn, HBR and Forbes. But whilst all this earnest commentary is being read, liked and shared, over in the jobs section of LinkedIn we’re busy resourcing up the silos.

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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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“I’m a LOSER Baby, So Why Don’t You Show Me [the data]?”

InMoment XI

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… “There once was a man named Doug, Whose pants were far too snug. Before ‘twas too late, He had to shed some weight, So his wife, he could properly hug.” Ah…the joys of returning to work after the holidays. Like so many years before, I readied myself. View Article.

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How Leadership Impacts Customer Service and Experience at Samsung Electronics America

Customer Bliss

“Brands need to do things that build trust and reliance, just like you would in interpersonal relationships,” says Josh Ives , the VP of Customer Experience Management and Strategy at Samsung Electronics America. Josh has always been interested in the relationship between marketing and services. Josh’s passion for understanding what brands mean to people steered him into a career where he was able to impact how customer service and customer experience affects the relationship w

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Improve Customer Experience by Introducing Friction

ServiceDock

It sounds like a contradiction in terms, doesn’t it? How can you optimise a journey with friction when for many it is considered the nemesis of growth and success? It is annihilated at every opportunity in the digital world for fear the customer might abandon a purchase or fail to sign up for a newsletter. This is not necessarily the case in physical locations like stores, restaurants and service centres.

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Introducing the CCXP Exam Simulator

ijgolding

If you have ever met me, or indeed read anything I have written, it is extremely likely you will know that I am rather passionate about the Customer Experience (CX) Profession. In fact, anyone who comes in to contact with me via any means will almost certainly fail to avoid that fact! I make no apology for it – those of us who have chosen to dedicate our careers to enabling organisations to genuinely ‘operationalise’ CX, need and deserve to have their skills and capabilities re

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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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Contact Center Resolution Number 2 – Improve AHT and Agent Engagement with Screen Pops

NICE inContact

“Hello Lauren, thank you for contacting customer service, what can I help you with today?” Doesn’t that start your customer experience off right? In order to customize your communication, companies use agent screen pops to aid in the journey. Agents use screen pops in many different ways and across all channels. During an interaction, a screen pops up to the agent with relevant customer information, like their name, the selection they made in the IVR, their CRM profile, and maybe even some agent

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Report: Tech Vendors: Product and Relationship Satisfaction, 2018

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group data snapshot, Tech Vendors: Product and Relationship Satisfaction of IT Clients, 2018. During Q3 of 2017, we surveyed 800 IT decision-makers from companies with at least $250 million in annual revenues, asking them to rate both the products of and their relationships with 58 different tech vendors. Google, Oracle outsourcing, and Microsoft servers earned the top overall scores, while Autodesk, ADP outsourcing, and Fujitsu received the lowest overall scores.

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Stop Spinning Your CX Wheels

Horizon CX

For those of you that are experienced CX practitioners with 5+ years within the industry, you already know how challenging the job is. You’ve been battle tested, understand the constraints you must work within, and the amount of effort involved to enact any semblance of change within your organization. While this experience is critical to understanding the current landscape and what may or may not be possible within your organization, we often find ourselves siloed on our own little island wit

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