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5 Stakeholder Engagement Best Practices to Improve Customer Communication

Totango

Your communication with your customer is the force multiplier that can unlock the full potential of your product. The advice, lessons, and encouragement you provide can guide your customer to achieve maximum return on their investment and drive growth that benefits both of you. Engaging your stakeholders , whether they are high or low influence, can not only drive growth but also turn stakeholders into enthusiastic champions of your product.

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5 Proven Ways to Find Your Target Survey Respondents

ProProfs Chat

There lies an evident gap between junk data and quality feedback. In most cases, the right survey participants can bring the difference between a successful survey and a not-so-successful one. Now, modern entrepreneurs love to hunt for customer opinion. Great. But do customers really like to offer feedback? The truth is that most customers love sharing their input and naturally connect with a brand that values their opinions.

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Is the Future of Retail, Physical or Virtual?

C3Centricity

Denyse Drummond-Dunn · Is the future of retail in the stars? “Never miss an episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.”. Will the future of retail be without physical outlets? I remember having a very interesting discussion with a new client a couple of years ago on exactly this topic. Like many CPG companies, they were considering online retailing.

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Is Your Professional Services in Alignment with Your Experience Management? Part I

eglobalis

Professional Services in Alignment with Your Experience Management , customer success. The post Is Your Professional Services in Alignment with Your Experience Management? Part I appeared first on Eglobalis.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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This Is Why You Can’t Fill That Position

Steve DiGioia

You have a “hard to fill” open position at your job. Even after interviewing candidate after candidate, the spot has been vacant for over 6 months and you wonder if they’ll ever find someone. To make matters worse, you’ve listened to your HR recruiting manager complain for weeks about “not finding enough qualified applicants” But in reality, this is why you can’t fill that position.

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The Importance of Customer Service to the Customer Journey

Lumoa

There’s no denying that customer journey and customer experience are hugely important to the success or failure of a business. You want to keep your customers happy. This has been true since human beings began trading currency for services. And while the means by which we market and serve our customers has undergone a number of changes in the past, the concept of the customer journey has remained important.

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How to optimize customer retention

GetFeedback

This guide covers everything you need to know about effectively retaining customers and minimizing churn.

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What Do They Think of Me? – Tip #16

Steve DiGioia

Our actions, mannerisms, speech, style of dress, and a host of other characteristics are being judged by those around you – all the time. And, regardless of what message we think we give, its others who make assumptions which we’re judged against. Whether they’re correct or not, an impression is made based on the unconscious signals we send. So, what do they think of me, or you?

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How Much Does It Cost to Give Great Customer Service?

ShepHyken

I recently wrote an article in Forbes about how to get customers to pay more. The focus, of course, was on customer service and experience. Research has irrefutably proven that customers will pay more for a better experience. Research also has irrefutably proven that customers will leave you for your competition if you don’t give them the service they expect.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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Aesthetics: Why This is A Vital Part of Your Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Do you still have the box your phone came in? Chances are if you own an iPhone, you probably do. It turns out, we like the look of Apple products’ boxes so much, many of us can’t bear to throw them out. It turns out that the use of color and package design, among other aesthetic elements, affects customer behavior more than you might think. .

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3 Employee Experience Touchpoints That Impact Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Employee Experience is Critical, and Smart Organizations are Taking Notice. Employee experience has been called “the new customer experience” and “the answer to customer experience” in more than one article. There is no doubt the experience employees have, how engaged they are, and how well prepared they are has a direct impact on customer experience.

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7 Tips On Call Center Customer Experience Improvement

Win the Customer

Like any other industry, there’s always room for improvement in call center customer experiences. Call centers must deliver the best customer experience from jump, or else risk dealing with an unsatisfied customer, and getting negative press. Whether you rely on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software to use helpful customer information to get ahead of your competitors, it’s still important to make improvements to continue getting this helpful information.

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Enabling an Agile Workforce for Organizational Success

NICE inContact

The coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly put a strain on the workforce, and many organizations are reviewing their current strategies to ensure business continuity as the crisis continues. To successfully navigate the pandemic and achieve positive business outcomes, companies need to take strategic and meaningful steps towards building a more flexible working environment that enables agile and remote working practices.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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Amazing Business Radio: Geoff Webb

ShepHyken

Understanding Customers’ Values in a Digital Age. How AI and Human Partnership Can Create a Better Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Geoff Webb , the Vice President of Products at PROS. They discuss how automation can eliminate friction and create a better buying and selling experience for customers in a new digital age. Top Takeaways: There must be a balance between artificial intelligence (AI) and human connection.

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3 Ways You May Be Disconnected From Your Employees

CXS

Capturing signals is crucial when trying to understand the employee experience. However, the analysis and ability to turn those insights into action to drive real impact in the workplace is when the magic happens. Introduction: “Employee expectations were rapidly changing … The post 3 Ways You May Be Disconnected From Your Employees appeared first on CX Canada 2024.

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Two key themes that are driving UK customer experience post-pandemic

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Two key themes that are driving UK customer experience post-pandemic. Published on: September 16, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager 2020 has been a turbulent year for everyone – but what has been the impact on customer experience in general, and contact centres in particular?

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How Contact Centres Have Evolved in 2020: Four CX Transformations You Can’t Miss

NICE inContact

2020 has transformed the way life looks both inside and outside the workplace, with a lasting impact that’s still affecting contact centres around the world. What does the global COVID-19 pandemic mean for contact centres? How are customers and agents evolving?

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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Guest Post: The Power of Visualizing and Sharing Customer Service Feedback Data

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Elliott Sprecher, a marketing communications manager at JotForm. He writes about visualizing customer feedback in order to motivate your business to succeed. There are thousands of articles about the importance of customer service to your business’s success. You can read just as many articles about the importance of customer feedback in operating your business successfully.

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How to Use Glassdoor for Employers to Claim Your Company Listing

ReviewTrackers

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Empowering remote support heroes with knowledge management

Talkdesk

This is a guest blog from Pratik Salia, product manager at Knowmax , a Talkdesk® AppConnect ™ partner. From finding the perfect working area to maintaining a daily, healthy routine, many of us have adjusted to working from home. We went from buying furniture and extra monitors to making sure that our work at home remains as productive as possible. Today, agents can no longer give a shout across the room to a subject matter expert (SME) and supervisors can’t just walk down the aisle to assi

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An Increasingly Digital-First World

NICE inContact

As with so many things, 2020 is different. For many, back to school means back to video conferencing, either full or part time. The same is true for parents. The end of vacation means back to the desk, in front of a camera most of the day. The paradigm extends to other parts of our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted telehealth forward by decades in a few months.

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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How to Give a Customer Bad News with Surprising Confidence (and without negative backlash)

Myra Golden

We have to give customers a lot of bad news these days. “No, we can’t cover your machine that is 12 years past warranty.” “We’ve temporarily closed a number of our call centers for the safety of our employees. As a result, we are no longer supporting customers over chat.” (True story). “I can’t let you board this bus without a mask.” “Due to our COVID-19 safety measures, we now have to push your service appointment out two weeks.”

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Aesthetics: Why this is a vital part of your experience today

Beyond Philosophy

I have the box my iPhone came in. So do many of you, I would guess. Many people keep their iPhone boxes. We keep them for various reasons, and most of them boil down to because we like how they look. It turns out, customers care a lot about how things look, and it influences their buying (and box-keeping) behavior. This episode of The Intuitive Customer explores the research of Claudia Townsend, associate professor of marketing at the University of Miami at the Miami Herbert Business School.

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3 ways virtual agents can boost call center efficiency

Talkdesk

Self-service is a hot topic in the call center industry. From knowledge bases to virtual agents, the potential disruption that a solid set of self-service applications can bring to contact center efficiency and customer experience is unquestionable and justifies all the buzz. With artificial intelligence (AI), especially speech technologies, becoming more mature and commoditized, the scope and possibilities for self-service and conversational tools like virtual agents expand like never before.

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How operations managers can roll out a personalized customer experience in 5 steps

BirdEye

Does your business prioritize the customer experience? If you answered yes, we have a surprise for you. Statistics show that while 80% of businesses believe they offer superior customer experiences, only 8% of customers believe they receive one. Personalized customer experiences are how businesses can bridge the gap. Welcome to the experience economy, where businesses can no longer rely solely on their product or service to differentiate themselves.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Establishing Your Voice on Cross Functional Teams

One Millimeter Mindset

How do you establish your voice when working with cross functional teams? For some of you, this idea is completely daunting. Why? Because cross functional teams have lots of “those” people on them. You know. Professionals from the “other side” of your organization: the people whose professional behavior intimidates you the most. First, because you do not understand the professional terminology which dominates the voice they collectively carry into cross functional conversations.

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How to Make an Inspiring New Employee Orientation Class

The DiJulius Group

1. Feature Article How to Make an Inspiring New Employee Orientation Class By John DiJulius, Chief Revolution Officer Early on in my career I had the pleasure of attending the Disney University in Orlando, Florida, where I took Disney’s Approach to People Management course. Where better to learn how to create a world-class culture. Read Full Article.

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How to uncover the hidden customer value that differentiates your brand

MyCustomer

Engagement How to uncover your brand's hidden customer value.

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