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IS YOUR PROCESS SOMEONE’S PAIN?

Futurelab

#NoBullshitCX #20yearsFuturelab “Ask your customers.” Customer innovation geeks (me included) like to tell “rags to riches” stories about how companies reinvented themselves based on a brilliant insight or a truly creative approach. But I would still argue that the biggest customer impact can be made by changing something mundane and familiar, often barely visible on the outside.

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Could introducing Mental Health Days help your business support employee wellbeing?

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by David Banaghan who is the Interim CEO at Occupop. When it comes to a productive business, happy and healthy […] The post Could introducing Mental Health Days help your business support employee wellbeing? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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How to measure customer service skills

Inside Customer Service

The feedback session was going poorly. A quality assurance analyst was reviewing a contact center agent's calls. The agent was upset about her quality score. The agent bristled at receiving zero points for friendliness. The analyst pointed out that the agent sounded disinterested. Irritated at times. There was no warmth in her approach. "Well, that's friendly for me," was the retort.

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CallMiner named a Leader in Real-Time Revenue Execution Platforms

Callminer

Forrester Research has named CallMiner a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Real-Time Revenue Execution Platforms, Q2 2024 report.

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The Pragmatic Path to Composability: Creating Efficient Commerce Systems

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker

Brands used to look for a commerce platform that could do everything. But over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, so they added, and added, and added— and now it's essential that these vendors work well together. That’s composable, and it’s important to get it right. Customers and your board expect you to be in new channels and to adapt quickly to market change.

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The Upcoming Impact of AI on Enterprise Technology Design: Enhancing CX and Business Outcomes

eglobalis

The Upcoming Impact of AI on Enterprise Technology Design: Enhancing Customer Experience and Business Outcomes The post The Upcoming Impact of AI on Enterprise Technology Design: Enhancing CX and Business Outcomes appeared first on Eglobalis.

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What Global Brands Get Wrong About the Customer Experience

Customer Think

There’s a universal truth the world over — bad experiences turn customers away. But the rate of churn after a disappointing encounter isn’t equal across the globe. Customers in some regions are less forgiving after a poor interaction.

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QUI QUOTE: Your brand is not a result of your marketing actions. Your brand is the result of customers’ perceptions of your customer service actions. 

Bill Quiseng

Your brand is not a result of your marketing actions. Your brand is the result of customers’ perceptions of your customer service actions. On social media, customers are talking about you whether you like it or not know it or not. World-class or no class. And if they’re not talking world-class or no class, they’re simply not talking about it all. So, when it comes to your customers and customer service, don’t be just good.

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30 Health Survey Questions for Health Assessment & Patient Feedback

Zonka Feedback

Ensuring a great patient care is essential for the success of any healthcare business. Healthcare surveys emerge as a potent tool in this pursuit. They not only assess patient health but also gather crucial feedback on their healthcare experiences. This feedback, in turn, enables you to personalize care plans, enhance patient outcomes, and forge stronger patient relationships.

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How Memories Build Lasting Customer Relationships

Beyond Philosophy

A Master Class Part 2: Unlocking the Psychology of Customer Experience In this episode, we continue exploring the psychology behind Customer Experience, focusing on the role of memory. Customer loyalty hinges on how memories are formed and retained. Therefore, understanding memory formation is crucial for designing impactful experiences. Memory formation begins with encoding, where new information is processed and stored in the mind.

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CX Design: What Can Companies Do to Compete with Tech Giants? – Part II

Customer Think

CX Design: What Can Companies Do to Compete with Tech Giants? – Part II Medium and small players entering markets dominated by giants like SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce face some substantial challenges, with significantly fewer resources at their disposal. However, they also have unique opportunities to differentiate themselves and capture market share.

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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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Twenty Ways to Delight Your Customers: Transforming Satisfaction into Loyalty

C3Centricity

Today, most markets are saturated, and companies are fighting for the same customers. This is why organisations should no longer aim for customer satisfaction but rather delight. But how can you delight your customers so they remain loyal? With fewer and fewer differences between the products and services offered, many companies have realised that they can – and should – differentiate by improving their customer experience.

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QUI TAKEAWAY: When all alternatives don’t work, don’t fire the customer. Simply ask the customer to resign.

Bill Quiseng

The customer is not always right. But the customer is ALWAYS YOUR customer. Listen intently, respond empathetically, apologize, and do whatever it takes to resolve the problem, even if it means having to go with your customer to your competitor. Contrary to popular customer service mantras, when all alternatives don’t work, DON’T fire the customer.

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5 trends shaping the future of customer experience

CX Network

Jeannie Walters explains five challenges that plague CX leaders and explains what you can do to overcome them

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The Science Behind Customer Decision-Making

Beyond Philosophy

A Master Class: Unlocking The Psychology of Customer Experience 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: This issue is the first in an eight-part series to explore customer behavior and the psychology driving it. Each part will explore the various psychological aspects of Customer Experiences to clarify what they are and provide practical advice about using them.

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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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CPG Study: Complaint Handling is More Challenging. Yet 40%+ Delight is Attainable

Customer Think

A new CCMC study of 8,500 respondents has found difficult-to-handle Covid/Supply Chain/Inflation issues have come to the fore along with more intense emotions and social media use. And, surprisingly, much higher levels of delight with some responses, especially digital.

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10 Topics in our A.I. Series

DMG Consulting

This is the first in a series of videos that will explore how AI in enhancing things in contact centers across the globe. The post 10 Topics in our A.I. Series appeared first on DMG Consulting.

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Service Recovery: How to Take a Customer from Hell to Heaven in 60 Seconds or Less

Service Quality Institute

Everyone makes mistakes. When you screw up and say, “I am sorry. Our mistake.” it is good customer service but NOT Service Recovery. Most organizations never admit mistakes and less than 1% practice Service Recovery. Keeping customers is critical to your growth. Gaining a new customer is expensive. When you lose one it is super expensive.

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Ready to transform your career, customer support leaders?

Intercom

We’ve talked a lot about the positive changes AI is going to bring to customer experience and how support agents work, but what will it mean for support leaders? Until now, you’ve probably spent your days: Constantly putting out fires, moving from one problem to the next. Getting easily sucked into manual tasks, trying to figure out why the backlog is growing, who’s stuck and needs help, where you can reassign tickets and how many times customers have asked the same question.

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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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Learning What Frustrates Your Customers from Unexpected Sources/ Making Your Entry-Level Positions More Attractive / How to Woo Job Candidates / Non-competes Banned / Is Starbucks in Serious Trouble?

The DiJulius Group

How to Woo Job Candidates Recently, I interviewed author Scott Greenberg on the Customer Service Revolution podcast episode 147. Scott shared a great example of how to woo potential job candidates during an interview process. One business owner reserves a parking spot right up front that says, “Welcome, Sherri.” Then, when the candidate walks inside, Read Full Article The post Learning What Frustrates Your Customers from Unexpected Sources/ Making Your Entry-Level Positions More Attractive / How

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What Consumers are Saying About AI and Customer Service

Customer Think

These days, everybody in business is talking about AI. We’re inundated with research and data about the percentages of people who report this or that about it, especially as it has begun to be employed in customer service use cases.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Gaining Frontline Buy-In

Experience Investigators

Unlock the secret to ensuring your customer-facing employees are as invested in your customer experience vision as you are! As your trusted guide, Jeannie Walters is delving into the critical strategies you need to align your frontline team with the customer experience goals that your C-suite has already embraced. We’ll dissect the challenges, pinpoint the missteps, and celebrate the successes that come from elevating your brand ambassadors—those who have the power to make or break your cu

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7 Must-Have Features for Next-Level Database Monitoring

SurveySensum

Is your database the powerhouse of your business operations? It ought to be. With data at its core, a robust monitoring system is not just beneficial—it’s imperative. As systems grow in complexity, so does the need for features that not only track performance but also enhance reliability and inform strategic decisions. Database monitoring must go beyond basic functionalities.

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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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8 Keys to Better VoC Methodology

ClearAction

8 Keys to Better VoC Methodology Lynn Hunsaker VoC methodology is the starting point for buy-in and enthusiasm around customer insights. Do you want more executive support? Less pressure to show financial gains? Higher internal engagement in using customer insights for seamless journeys? In this Part 2 of 3 article series, we’re building on the 8 points explained in Better Measurement : 8 Voice of Customer Keys to CX ROI.

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Mastering the Fine Art of Delivering Candid Feedback for better CX and EX

ECXO

Mastering the Fine Art of Delivering Candid Feedback for better CX and EX We all know by now that Customer Experience has become a key differentiator for businesses of all sizes. Companies that prioritize customer experience are more likely to retain their customers and attract new ones. However, delivering candid feedback to customers can be challenging.

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Improve CX Root Cause Analysis with AI and LLM: Five Steps to Take

Customer Think

We are hearing a lot these days about “getting to the root of the problem” including fixing Boeing’s 737 jet problems and in the recent obituary for Ford Motor Company’s CEO in the 1980s, Donald E.

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Customer Service: An Investment in Loyalty – Insights from Stacy Sherman & Seth Godin

Doing CX Right

Is "Customer Service Free"? What does this mean and how can it transform your brand? Read Stacy Sherman and Seth Godin's conversation. The post Customer Service: An Investment in Loyalty – Insights from Stacy Sherman & Seth Godin appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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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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A Comprehensive Guide to Virtual Call Center and Contact Centers

Hodusoft

A Comprehensive Guide to Virtual Call Center and Contact Centers Even though virtual call centers and contact centers have been around for quite some time, they have gained widespread popularity in the last four to five years only. That’s because the COVID-19 pandemic made virtual call centers and contact centers a necessity rather than a convenience.

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Filling the Gaps for a Composable CDP

Customer Experience Matrix

Back in February, I mentioned that CDP Institute had published a Composable CDP Self-Assessment Tool that asks people what gaps they must fill to convert their current systems into the functional equivalent of a CDP. I recently checked how many responses we’ve received, and was disappointed that there were just fourteen. Obviously this isn’t enough to draw statistically meaningful conclusions, especially when you bear in mind that the audience of CDP Institute members can’t be considered represe

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5 Ways to Improve Patient Communication and Build Trust

SurveySensum

Quality healthcare depends on effective communication, as proven by staggering statistics. Over 70% of medical errors are caused by poor communication, costing billions annually. Studies show that patients who have a good relationship with their doctors are more likely to follow their treatment plans, improving health outcomes and satisfaction. The art of building patient trust is often lost in the noise of selling products and services.

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Can Big Brands Compete Overseas with International Marketplaces?

Customer Think

Gap recently made headlines with its sudden closure of the brand’s physical stores and ecommerce site in Spain, about three years after expanding into the market.

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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.