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25 tips for selecting the best customer experience solution

Callminer

Improving CX is a top priority, so it’s not a surprise that there are a plethora of solutions available. Read this blog to learn why CX is important and what to look for when selecting a CX solution.

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CUSTOMER LIFETIME VALUE

Futurelab

#NoBullshitCX #20yearsFuturelab “Unhappy customers cost you more than you think.” A customer is worth more than you think. In my previous column, I mentioned the surprisingly high lifetime value of individual customers–once you really get an understanding of the whole picture. The first time I realized was in the early 2000s, when we designed customer experience strategy for a Japanese luxury car brand.

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The CX value model and linking experience to business outcomes – Interview with Michael Hinshaw of McorpCX

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Michael Hinshaw, the founder and president of customer experience consultancy McorpCX. Michael joins me today to talk about the CX value model […] The post The CX value model and linking experience to business outcomes – Interview with Michael Hinshaw of McorpCX first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Uncovering the Psychological Tactics That Drive Customer Purchases

ECXO

Uncovering the Psychological Tactics That Drive Customer Purchases If you prefer to watch a summary of this article, check out the video: Uncovering the Psychological Tactics That Drive Customer Purchases I see and hear many CX professionals with great intentions when it comes to improving touchpoints in the customer journey and the customers’ lives with their brands.

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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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How to Measure the Hidden Impact on ROI of Evoking Customer Emotions

Beyond Philosophy

A hidden impact exists regarding your experience management return on investment (ROI). It is often overlooked because it lurks between a specific moment in a customer process and the behavior resulting from it. However, uncovering and understanding this hidden impact is critical for comprehending its implications on the bottom line. Emily Davidson wanted to know how to determine the value of her Customer Experience initiatives, a challenge many in the field face.

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The Anatomy of an Effective Contact Center One-on-One Conversation

Customer Service Life

Image by Mikko Koivuneva from Pixabay Whether it’s called a one-on-one meeting, or a coaching conversation, or a performance check-in, this regular conversation between a supervisor and an employee is essential to an effective and high-performing contact center. In a recent article on Why Contact Center Quality Assurance Matters I stated my case for a robust and consistent quality assurance program.

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Product News – February 2024

Lumoa

Lumoa Product News for February 2024 Hey everyone! Lovely seeing you again, back with more exciting Lumoa updates! We have had a doozy of a month, with lots of features that we think will make Lumoa better for you. Let’s get started! Getting Started with Ask Lumoa Ask Lumoa is our new way to get a deeper understanding of your customer voice.

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Amplitude’s Jenna Elliott on navigating the future of customer success

Intercom

It’s the world’s worst kept secret right now that the realm of customer experience is being completely transformed by AI – spanning customer support, success, and beyond. In customer-centric companies everywhere, strategies are being recalibrated, tactics switched up, and old playbooks thrown out the window. But what changes are being made? This week on The Ticket podcast, our VP of Customer Support Declan Ivory chats with Jenna Elliott , VP of Global Customer Success at digital analytics platfo

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MSP Game Changers: Mastering the Soft Factors that Matter

Helpt

We’re going to start this blog post with a heavy dose of nerdy: place yourself back to when you played your last Japanese roleplaying game or Dungeons and Dragons. Your meticulously crafted character, equipped with powerful spells and enchanted weapons, ventured forth alongside a trusted party. But we nerds know that even the most optimized character sheet can't guarantee success.

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Industry Report: State of the Contact Center 2024

Fonolo

With the labor shortage, a workforce in transition, and the dynamic (but disruptive) impact of AI, managing a contact center in 2024 can be a real workout. Why not take a break from the heavy lifting for a moment, and check out Fonolo’s annual State of the Contact Center report? This e-book is one of our most anticipated documents of the year, featuring insights from industry experts about the topics that matter most in today’s contact center.

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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 Power of Atomic Change to Unlock Quantum Growth in Any Business

C3Centricity

Organizations must be agile and adaptable to thrive in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. This is why atomic change is more effective than quantum disruption. The traditional approach to turbulent times has always been a monumental, top-down transformation. But this is no longer the only path to success and is certainly not the most effective.

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Mastering ‘Mental Accounting’: The Key to Persuasive Buying Decisions

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: I am excited. My wife and I are going on a cruise to India. It’s a big splurge for us, and we look forward to it. I mention it here, not to rub it in your face (much), but because in the booking of this cruise, I saw an excellent example of how my wife and I leverage mental accounting regarding our splurges.

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Free Customer Service Training for your Employees / AA Cut 600+ customer facing employees To Improve Customer Service / Your Company’s Biggest Expense / United Airlines Enforcing Flight Attendants Engagement

The DiJulius Group

Your Company’s Biggest Expense is Unhappy Customers What is a better investment—advertising or customer service training? One study showed that organizations worldwide spend $500 billion per year on advertising compared to only $9 billion on customer service training. That’s a pretty big disparity. If companies focused on making their customers happy, their customer retention would.

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The Top 10 Remote Customer Service Job Websites That Hire

cxservice360

With the extensive availability of internet services globally and significant growth in affordable personal computers and laptops, many companies are hiring remote customer service professionals The post The Top 10 Remote Customer Service Job Websites That Hire appeared first on CXService360.

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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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Enhancing Customer Support with ChatGPT: A Game-Changer

Customer Think

Due to tech advancements, the consumer journey has changed a lot. The customers are already expecting too much because, through the internet, they want a personalised touch to their experience. 52% expect to use ChatGPT to answer customer questions, and 43% to outreach potential customers.

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The Evolution of Performance Management at Help Scout

Help Scout

VP of People Leah Knobler shares why we outgrew our old performance management system, how we revamped the process to embrace a more performance-driven culture at Help Scout, and what we've learned along the way.

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145: A Woman’s Rise to the Top Using Smarts, Heart, and Courage

The DiJulius Group

Imagine the shock when we discover that the quiet powerhouse of customer retention could eclipse the flash of traditional advertising in driving business success. This episode of The Customer Service Revolution peels back the layers of customer experience, highlighting how a 5% uptick in retention might skyrocket profits by an astounding 75%. We contrast the.

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American Universities Acceptance Rate – Ivy League & Below

Comm100

Navigating the landscape of American higher education can be both an exciting and daunting journey for prospective students. At the center of this journey lies a crucial metric that can determine a student’s trajectory – American universities’ acceptance rate. American universities’ acceptance rate is a key indicator of two important aspects – competition and reputation.

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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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The Right Customer Promises Drive Better Marketing Results

Customer Think

One of the more infamous quotes in marketing is usually attributed to John Wanamaker, who reportedly said, ” Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is, I don’t know which half.” Cracking the code on what drives marketing effectiveness can be incredibly difficult.

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Ensuring Customer Loyalty Amid Price Changes: Lessons from Wendy’s Public Backlash

Doing CX Right

Do You Want To Change Your Pricing Model Without Jeopardizing Customer Loyalty? Read and Apply Strategies Based On Case Study That Resulted In Consumer Backlash. The post Ensuring Customer Loyalty Amid Price Changes: Lessons from Wendy’s Public Backlash appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Unsupervised Sentiment Analysis: Extracting Insights From Unlabeled Data

Zonka Feedback

Sentiment analysis models that learn on labeled data are a common sight. The main challenge arises when you have unlabeled data at your disposal and you want to extract customer sentiments or emotions from it.

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Translating iconic experiences to a digital space—with Aesop’s Carine McGinnity

Zendesk

If you’ve ever walked into an Aesop store, it’s a full sensory experience. The smells, the sights, the samples—and the incredibly warm and knowledgeable staff. It’s hard to imagine such a rich experience ever existing online and yet, the team at Aesop is tackling just that. The work began in 2020, when much of the world retreated from physical spaces.

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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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Offshoring and AI: How Cost-Cutting Fixation Can Damage Revenue and Brand Reputation

Customer Think

Both strategies require careful implementation and constant supervision! By John Goodman and Peter North, Customer Care Measurement & Consulting CCMC’s latest National Rage study found that 43% of Americans admit to having yelled at a service person, and over half reported having rage. 9% are seeking “revenge” against a company.

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The importance of moving from on-premise to cloud-based tech?

Logicalware

With more than 40,000 calls per month, long hold times, overwhelmed contact centre agents, and frustrated customers, the reality for Ombudsman Services – the UK’s leading independent dispute resolution company – was challenging. With a growing number of businesses and consumers relying on its specialist services, it needed to find a new way of working to create a more agile and scalable contact centre.

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The AI Feedback Loop: From Insights to Action in Real-Time

Zonka Feedback

Customer feedback allows you to understand your audience, identify areas for improvement, and ultimately, build stronger relationships. But in today’s data-driven world, navigating the vast amount of customer feedback can be overwhelming.

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The AI-powered future of CX and EX is here—let us be your guide

Zendesk

AI is radically transforming the world of customer service, and at Zendesk Relate , you’ll gain insights and best practices to lead your organization through this next wave of transformation successfully and make your business ready for AI-first service. You’ll leave with the perspective, connections, and know-how to provide more meaningful experiences, deliver automated service through next-gen digital agents that customers love, and equip your agents and admins with the knowledge to harness cu

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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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The dark corners waiting to undermine your customer experience

Customer Think

In November of last year, I spoke at the CX NXT – Customer Experience Summit in Dubai on the topic of failure, fumbles and fiascos in customer experience.

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6 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid in Net Promoter Score Analysis

SurveySensum

A retail company, MagnetHome enthusiastically embraced the Net Promoter Score and started measuring customer loyalty. They gathered all the responses diligently but stumbled into the “Everyone’s-the-Same” trap – treating all scores equally. High scores delighted them, so in the excitement they missed the silent grumbles of unhappy customers.

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How to Create an Online Survey with Ease

Zonka Feedback

Online surveys are a great way to capture customer feedback emotions, perceptions, and opinions about your business, and utilize them to create better products and services and enhance customer satisfaction.

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Intelligent call routing: How it works and best practices

Zendesk

What is intelligent call routing? Intelligent call routing (ICR) is a refined telecommunications technology that efficiently directs incoming calls based on various factors, such as the caller’s needs and agent availability. ICR optimizes call handling and improves customer experiences by using data points and algorithms to connect callers with the most qualified agents.

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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