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The Myth of the Silver Bullet: Unraveling Quick Fixes in Business

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: “Colin, could you tell me the one thing that we need to do to improve our Customer Experience ?” This question is one that many of my clients want to ask me. They don’t say that in so many words, but effectively, that’s what they were asking me to do.

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QuickBooks or a CRM? Why SMBs need to consider both

Customer Think

Integrating a customer relationship management (CRM) system with QuickBooks, an accounting solution, can greatly benefit small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The integration can provide a centralized platform to manage customer relationships and sales processes, track expenses and generate financial reports.

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The QUI Rule a.k.a. The GREAT Rule: Serve to WOW customers. Serve to CARE.

Bill Quiseng

You’ve heard of The Golden Rule: Treat people as you want to be treated. Dr. Tony Alessandra has shared with everyone about The Platinum Rule: Treat people as they want to be treated. Today I offer The QUI Rule also known as the GREAT Rule: Treat customers a little better than they want to be treated. You are happy because customers leave satisfied with your product or service.

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The New Strategic Growth Blueprint for Successfully Reimagining Market Research

C3Centricity

It is a well-known fact that when budgets get tight, marketing is usually one of the first departments to suffer cuts, and market research in particular! Why is this? I believe it is because their ROI is longer-term and often difficult to prove. They therefore make the perfect target for sweeping reductions. What they all need is a strategic growth blueprint.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, 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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Ghosting: Why Does This Happen?

Beyond Philosophy

Colin has been ghosted. He was surprised, considering he is married and has been for decades. However, his ghosting experience didn’t come from a romantic partner but a professional one. Since ghosting appears to be spreading into many interactions, we thought we should discuss it here. Ghosting, where someone suddenly stops communicating, has become more common, thanks to technology making it easier to cut off contact.

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How Continuous Improvement and Customer Feedback Drive Business Success

Customer Think

In my last article (Harnessing the Power of Customer Feedback to Win Hearts and Cultivate Loyalty) I spoke about the importance of actioning customer feedback. I want to continue this topic now by focusing on using the information for continuous improvement of the brands and services you offer.

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[Experience Action Podcast] CX Pulse Check – March 2024

Experience Investigators

Unlock the future of customer experience as I, Jeannie Walters, team up with Greg Kihlström from the Agile brand to dissect the fascinating blend of strategy and technology that’s shaping how we interact with businesses today. Prepare to have your perspective radically shifted as we examine a bank’s strategy to merge in-person banking with digital tool education.

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Mastering the Maze of CX Metrics & Money with Lynn Hunsaker

ECXO

The European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) is launching a series of short practical sessions, each up to 20 minutes, to clarify how to achieve CX ROI and growth effectively. The first part will delve into: Mastering the Maze of CX Metrics & Money with Lynn Hunsaker, the CCO of ClearAction Continuum , facilitated by Ricardo Saltz Gulko.

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GenAI Language Models: Scope and Typical Use Cases

Customer Think

After writing a good number of times about how to responsibly use AI, especially generative AI and how to find the first use cases and right models to work with, it is now time to have a deeper look into making sense of the whole AI story again.

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Zonka Feedback is now ISO 27001:2022 Certified

Zonka Feedback

We are thrilled to announce that Zonka Feedback has been awarded the ISO 27001:2022 certification, a prestigious global standard for information security management. This achievement is a testament to our unwavering commitment to ensuring the security and privacy of our customers' data.

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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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DMG Consulting Releases 2024 Workforce Management for the Enterprise in the Digital Era Report

DMG Consulting

MEDIA ALERT DMG Consulting Releases 2024 Workforce Management for the Enterprise in the Digital Era Report Contact center digitalization AI, the cloud, and adoption outside of contact centers drives reinvention and growth of the WFM market Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office, and real-time analytics market research and consulting services What: Releases 2024 Workforce Management for the Enterprise in the Digital Era Report When: Today, 15 March 2024 Where:

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Help Scout’s Shopify Integration: More Functionality At Your Fingertips

Help Scout

From accessing order details to processing refunds and cancellations all in one place — learn how to spend less time switching systems and more time taking care of customers with Help Scout's Shopify integration.

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Leveraging a Design, Build, Deliver Approach to Achieve CX Excellence

Customer Think

Customer experience (CX) is one of the most critical success factors for consumer-facing businesses. Unfortunately, many organizations’ CX offerings fall short of their customers’ growing expectations, leaving them frustrated, dissatisfied and looking to other brands for better options.

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Customer Experience Role Making An Impact? These 3 Signs Say Yes

Doing CX Right

Read Stacy Sherman's article to uncover 3 signs your customer experience role enriches lives, exceeds expectations & drives performance. The post Customer Experience Role Making An Impact? These 3 Signs Say Yes appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Maximizing ROI and Cultivating Customer Service Excellence

TeamSupport

If you’re in the customer support world, then you know that achieving excellence in the space requires more than addressing customers’ immediate needs. You must first redefine what customer service means entirely. It's here that TeamSupport Software shines, revolutionizing customer support management. Moreover, it supports your business in maximizing Return on Investment (ROI) and transforming overall business results.

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Difference Between Transactional NPS and Relationship NPS

Zonka Feedback

The easiest way to define customer experience is the way your customers view the nature of their relationship with your company. Providing your customers with delightful experiences is the cornerstone of building strong, lasting customer relationships.

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How to Improve Your Customer Journey: 7 Useful Tips

Customer Think

A customer journey represents individuals’ interactions with brands or their preferred solutions. It encompasses different phases, from brand awareness to the conversion stage and beyond. A customer journey showcases the experiences a brand offers to its current and potential customers.

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Smarter ads, better results: The next era of digital advertising

NGDATA

Short-form videos are popular in digital marketing, while live streaming and authentic content showcase authority. Personalization and authenticity are key, and AI-enhanced videos are transforming content creation. Interactive video content deepens audience connections. Source The post Smarter ads, better results: The next era of digital advertising appeared first on NGDATA.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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TeamSupport's Role in Maximizing ROI and Cultivating Customer Service Excellence

TeamSupport

If you’re in the customer support world, then you know that achieving excellence in the space requires more than addressing customers’ immediate needs. You must first redefine what customer service means entirely. It's here that TeamSupport Software shines, revolutionizing customer support management. Moreover, it supports your business in maximizing Return on Investment (ROI) and transforming overall business results.

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The Ticket: Stacy Sherman on how to design customer experiences that drive loyalty

Intercom

With customer expectations at an all-time high , it’s no surprise that businesses are constantly on the lookout for new and effective ways to elevate the customer experience. In this day and age, customers have a world of options at their fingertips for almost every need, so the experience you create for them can be make or break. But designing and consistently iterating on a customer journey is no small feat.

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Are Customers Telling Brands About Their Experiences?

Customer Think

Earlier this week, Marketing Charts shared the results of a study conducted by Qualtrics XM Institute that looked at whether or not customers shared feedback about their experiences – and with whom or how they shared that feedback.

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Robinhood Unveils Credit Card in Further Push Beyond Trading

NGDATA

Robinhood is launching a credit card exclusively for members of its subscription-based Gold program. The Robinhood Gold Card will offer 3% cashback on all purchases and have no annual or foreign transaction fees. The company aims to expand its financial services offerings beyond retail-brokerage services. The Gold Card launch has boosted Robinhood's shares by 2.9%.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Strategies Every Student Should Know to Drive Productivity

SurveySensum

Ever find yourself wondering where the day went, your to-do list still staring back, largely unticked? It’s a common student plight. Transforming your work habits can feel like a daunting quest. But, with the pressures of academic life bearing down, adopting effective strategies for student productivity isn’t just desirable, it’s essential.

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AI in Customer Experience – should I stay, or should I go?

ECXO

1710668672319 AI in Customer Experience – should I stay, or should I go? Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it has emerged as one of the most significant technological innovations in recent years, revolutionizing various industries and opening up a world of new possibilities. It’s becoming quite exhausting to keep discussing the same topic but here I am also putting it on the table!

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The Future of SEO: Ethical Practices and AI Integration in 2024

Customer Think

Are you tired of using outdated SEO practices that fail to keep up? Each day, search engine algorithms become more advanced and sophisticated, leaving traditional SEO methods in the dust.

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Leveling up the bank marketing game

NGDATA

Financial institutions need to prioritize their marketing strategies to stay competitive in an increasingly digital world. This includes offering a great online experience, using hyper-local marketing, and using personalization and automation to ensure campaign relevance. DCO and social media SEO can also be effective tools. While AI can make financial marketers' jobs easier, it's still important for marketers to thoughtfully re-craft starter ideas generated by AI tools.

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7th Annual CX Report by The Northridge Group Uncovers Priority Training Focus

JUST RELEASED! New research reveals 92% of business leaders would like to provide additional training to their customer service representatives. Soft skills training stands out as a priority area of investment and/or improvement. Check out The Northridge Group’s latest CX research report —the 7th annual CX survey of 1,000 customers and 250 business executives—to see additional statistics as well as insights that businesses can use to benchmark their customer service and improve the overall exper

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30+ Exit Intent Popups Examples for Better Conversions in 2024

SurveySensum

So last week I was browsing the internet to buy a new pair of earrings for one of my closest friends. After browsing for a while I landed on a website with an amazing jewelry collection. But after a while, I realized that the prices were a little too high for me and decided to exit. As I was about to close the tab, a pop-up emerged on my screen notifying me that I could get 5% off on my first purchase.

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Why your predictive analytics and AI projects are failing – and how to transform.

CX Network

From defining goals to preparing data, there are many steps to a successful AI or LLM deployment.

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How to Make a Webinar Email Stand Out

Customer Think

If you haven’t noticed, Webinar emails have become extremely formulaic:* A couple of lines of copy stating the business problem to be addressed* 3-4 bullet points summarizing the agenda or main topics* a call to action, normally accompanied a desperate plea of “don’t miss this event” It might be another symptom of our AI-driven times, […]

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Blog Post: Power of Look-Alike Modeling

NGDATA

Marketers face a challenge in identifying and retaining customers, and look-alike modeling (LAM) using AI can help define and target audiences effectively. LAM analyzes metrics to predict receptive customers, but tailoring interactions for individualized journeys is crucial. Businesses can benefit from advanced insights using a sophisticated CDP with LAM capabilities, such as NGDATA’s Intelligent Engagement Platform.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the