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What happens when you give data back to people? – Interview with Jamie Smith of Customer Futures

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Jamie Smith, who is the Founder and CEO of Customer Futures Ltd, an advisory firm helping businesses seize the opportunity around disruptive […] The post What happens when you give data back to people? – Interview with Jamie Smith of Customer Futures first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Why customer service trainers should avoid learning styles

Inside Customer Service

I bet I can diagnose your learning style with three questions. Where do you sit when you attend an in-person meeting? What do your eyes do when you're explaining something? How do you take notes in a training class? It was a fun trick I discovered as a new trainer. I usually got it right to the mild amusement of my learners. Years later, I was chastened to learn my hocus-pocus wasn't real.

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INSIGHTS EVERYWHERE

Futurelab

#NoBullshitCX #20yearsFuturelab “Question (almost) everything.” Are you innovating “a faster horse”?A few years ago, I worked with the world leader in logistics supplies. They wanted to refresh their innovation process. Until then they typically interviewed all their customers once a year with a 200-question-long survey and held co-creation sessions with some of them.

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Zendesk + Ultimate: Setting a new standard of service with AI agents

Zendesk

Zendesk announced today that it will acquire Ultimate, an industry-leading provider of service automation, to deliver the most complete AI offering for customer experience (CX) in the market. The latest CX Trends data shows that unprecedented demand for AI is driving up the speed and frequency of customer engagement. In this new era of AI-powered CX, AI agents can push beyond traditional bot capabilities to help brands transform service into a competitive advantage.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, 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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Master the Art of Staying Cool: 5 Rules to Handle Customer Crises

Beyond Philosophy

You will have a customer crisis. We apologize for being so direct, but the fact is customer crises are inevitable. When it does happen, will you be able to navigate it to an acceptable outcome? Do you have a comprehensive approach? We doubt it. Few organizations do. Most think a customer crisis isn’t going to happen to them or that they will be able to manage it when it does with their business-as-usual approach.

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The 7 Sins of Customer Experience

ECXO

The 7 Sins of Customer Experience If you fancy watching a quick video summary of this article, click the link below and enjoy: The 7 Sins of CX Are you ready to discover some awesome strategies that can help you take your customers’ experience to the next level? In the dynamic and ever-evolving world of customer experience, there are countless possibilities and challenges that businesses need to tackle.

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The CMO’s 5-Step Guide to Boosting High-Quality Traffic and Customer Engagement

C3Centricity

What is the cornerstone of sustainable growth and competitive advantage today? The answer is that a business can benefit from technology in this digital age to attract high-quality traffic and engage customers effectively. This guide is for all executives who recognize the critical role that strategic, data-driven customer engagement plays in their company’s success.

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The top 50 customer experience influencers to follow in 2024

CX Network

CX Network's top 50 people making an impact on customer experience

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Breaking the Paradox of False Consensus: A Journey to Better Decision-Making

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: Have you ever heard of the Abilene Paradox? This happens when everybody agrees to do something that nobody wants to do. Today, we will discuss how to avoid this situation in your organization.

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How to Increase the Influence of B2B Marketing: The Content Value Equation

Customer Think

Value. It’s become a buzzword of little…value. What does it mean to B2B buyers? Often, companies think of value in relation to their business — more so than for their customers. They think it lives within the features of their products. As marketers, we’re told our content and buyer experiences must deliver value.

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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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Is Outbound Dead?

DMG Consulting

Is Outbound Dead? Donna is tackling the topic of outbound’s place in the contact center and how it’s very much alive. The post Is Outbound Dead? appeared first on DMG Consulting.

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Pods in Customer Success vs. Sales: A Side-by-Side Comparison

SixteenVentures

Pods, a collaborative team structure, have been around for several years but have become increasingly popular in both Customer Success (CS) and Sales, especially as the former has become even more efficiency-focused in the past year. While Pods share some similarities between Sales and Customer Success, their core objectives and functionalities differ based on the […] The post Pods in Customer Success vs.

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Can You See the Forest for the Trees?

The Squawk Point

A Broken System Waldsterben is a nasty word. It is a German noun that means “death of the forest.” Trees have been dying across swathes of Germany and central Europe since the 1970s. Leaves and needles fall, and the bark drops off, leaving great tracts of tall, dead stumps. It is a dismal sight and has been cited as a reason why Germany is one of the most environmentally conscious countries in the world.

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Zendesk WFM: Introducing customizable business hours in Forecast

Zendesk

Ask and you shall receive in the form of forecast flexibility! You can now show staffing forecasts based on operational hours right inside Zendesk WFM. When working to support customers we’re usually looking at two request scenarios – live channels such as chat and voice in which we are helping our customers in real-time, and non-live channels such as emails and web forms in which we set expectations with our customers that we will get back to them within a specified amount of time (

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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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Improving Customer Loyalty Through Data Minimization

Customer Think

Despite living in an era data is heralded as the new currency, a counterintuitive movement is gaining momentum among forward-thinking marketers and CX professionals: data minimization.

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Mastering Voice of Customer Analytics for Strategic Advantage

Zonka Feedback

Understanding customer needs and preferences has always been at the core of successful businesses. Voice of Customers plays a crucial role in collecting customer feedback, understanding their needs, and expectations, and working in the direction of fulfilling them.

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147: Stop the Shift Show

The DiJulius Group

Unleash the full potential of your customer service team and lead your business to new heights with Scott Greenberg, the acclaimed author, and former Edible Arrangements franchisee, as he shares his playbook for excellence in leadership. On this episode of The Customer Service Revolution, prepare to change your understanding of team dynamics and customer experience.

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Cameras, Pictures or Memories?

The Squawk Point

What Does Your Customer Need? “Your customer doesn’t want a drill. He wants a hole.” You have no doubt heard that one before. Working through customer requirements is difficult , particularly when customers don’t know what they want. Do Customers Want Cameras? I found a story in an old 1990s textbook ( The Leader’s Handbook ). It goes like this: Konica Cameras had a problem: they wanted to develop a breakthrough camera that would grab the market, but the feedback they were getting from customers

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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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5 ways WFM for agents is great – explained by a former agent

Zendesk

Everyone has needs – our customers, our company, and the agents too. I was an agent (I’m now a Customer Success Manager) so I get this side of the barricade better than most. WFM gives us agents the ability to bring needs together to improve customer experience, get the resources we need to do our job well, and the best work-life balance possible.

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Subtle Strength: Language Techniques that Win Customers (Without Overt Persuasion)

Customer Think

Telling your prospects to buy from you is like trying to take a cat for a walk. They’ll stay rooted in position and won’t budge and the more you try to push them towards you, the more intractable your prospects will be.

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Don’t Settle for Less: Join our Webinar and Boost Your Revenue Game with Omnichannel CX Suite Magic!

Hodusoft

Don't Settle for Less: Join our Webinar and Boost Your Revenue Game with Omnichannel CX Suite Magic! In today’s competitive business landscape, customer experience (CX) is no longer a “nice to have” – it’s a must-have. As per a report , brands that offer excellent customer service make 5.7 times more revenue as compared to their competitors who are at the bottom of the customer experience rankings.

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9 Best Market Research Tools & Software in 2024

SurveySensum

Picture this : Company A and Company B both launched a similar type of product which makes them competitors. They both launched their products around the same time but only Company B received more downloads and positive feedback. Why is that? This is because before launching Company B decided to market research into its target audience, created customer personas, and launched their product only after understanding their audience and market dynamics.

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When Customers Win, You Win: How to Deliver Value That Transforms Your Customer Experience

Speaker: Donna Weber - Customer Onboarding Expert

Customer onboarding is so much more than going live with your product and driving adoption. The truth is, onboarding is the most important part of the customer journey. When you set positive first impressions, establish trusting relationships, and quickly deliver meaningful outcomes, you create customers for life. Invest an hour with Donna Weber to learn why your customer onboarding is critical to your success.

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Chatbot Pros & Cons in Customer Service & Support

Comm100

Chatbots have become a ubiquitous part of customer service and support. As businesses strive to meet the ever-increasing expectations of their customers, the adoption of chatbots has emerged as an essential move to enhance service delivery and operational efficiency. This blog takes a closer look at how chatbots are transforming the customer service landscape, outlining the key chatbot pros for businesses and for customers.

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Monthly view and 1-minute increments in schedule in Zendesk WFM

Zendesk

It’s simple: when you need them, you really need them. That’s why we are excited about these new options that will make your life scheduling more adaptable. You can now change your scheduled working time down to the minute and see schedules by the month. Now that’s what we’re talking about. What’s in it for you 1-minute increments for your schedules: From time to time, we found that teams needed more options when scheduling.

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[Book Review] Why Marketers Should Think Like World-Class Poker Players

Customer Think

Source: Penguin Random House The idea that marketers need to think like world-class poker players may seem a little odd, but that’s the primary lesson I take from Annie Duke’s book, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts (Portfolio/Penguin, 2018).

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How Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Benefiting Customer and Employee Satisfaction

The DiJulius Group

AI and the Customer Experience, Part 1 AI and Machine Learning (ML) are not only here, but if it’s not already a major part of your business strategy moving forward, you may be in danger of becoming the next Kodak. According to an article in Craving Tech, organizations that have integrated this new technology into. Read Full Article The post How Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Benefiting Customer and Employee Satisfaction appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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The Heartbeat of Connection: Lessons from a Simple Hello

Doing CX Right

Learn the transformative power of connection through a story of unexpected friendship, enduring legacy, and the magic behind a simple hello. The post The Heartbeat of Connection: Lessons from a Simple Hello appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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45 Best Customer Satisfaction Survey Questions To Ask Your Customers

SurveySensum

Did you know that 90% of customers say that their buying decisions are influenced by online reviews? 90%, that’s almost all your customers. So, ask yourself this question – are you paying enough attention to them? Keeping them satisfied and engaged? If not, then you are missing out on A LOT! After working in the CX industry for over 10 years, this much is clear to me – customer satisfaction is THE MOST important pillarstone of your business.

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Shaping the future of service operations with Zendesk’s Workforce engagement management solutions

Zendesk

Delivering superior service experiences requires organizations to improve their internal service operations first. With the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, these organizations have the opportunity to make their service processes more efficient, which allows service agents to deliver both speedy and quality service interactions with their customers.

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Profiling the Key Roles in your Ideal Customers

Customer Think

In the previous article in this series on Outcome-Centric Selling® I addressed the importance of identifying and targeting the common characteristics of our ideal customers – and now I want to turn our attention to identifying and targeting the key roles within those most valuable potential customers.

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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