Customer Think
APRIL 7, 2023
The tide appears to be turning. In recent times, CMOs focused on innovation and growth, yet now economic uncertainty and the financial climate are making marketers take a long hard look at themselves. And when they do that, they focus on two things: the customer and revenue. As marketers, we exist for our customers.
Adrian Swinscoe
APRIL 28, 2023
This is a guest post by Michelle Huff, Chief Marketing Officer at UserTesting. With many physical bank branches closing, customers are forced to migrate to digital […] The post Why customer empathy is key to ensuring the older generation have a seamless digital banking experience first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
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Inside Customer Service
APRIL 13, 2023
Why are customers loyal to certain companies? People buy from Amazon because is it consistently solves one problem quickly and conveniently: "I need to buy __." You can fill in the blank with nearly every product imaginable. Whatever it is, Amazon has made it as easy as possible to get it fast. Starbucks has legions of loyal customers because it offers the most convenient way to get a caffeinated coffee drink.
C3Centricity
APRIL 18, 2023
As a leader, you know that customer centricity is critical to the success of your business. However, it is not enough to pay lip service to this concept; you must make it an integral part of your company’s culture and business strategy. In this post, we will explore what customer centricity means, why it is essential, and how you, as a leader, can successfully lead a customer-first strategy adoption in your organization.
Speaker: Joe Cicman - Principal Analyst at Forrester, and Jason Cottrell - CEO & Founder at Orium
Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. The pace of tech shifts will intensify, businesses are set to defund legacy solutions, and attractive opportunities will surface as social and retail media players join forces. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.
Customer Think
APRIL 11, 2023
It’s springtime, in the Northern hemisphere, and tech stacks are blooming. Zylo, a SaaS management platform that manages over 30 million SaaS licenses for its customers — more $30 billion in SaaS spend under management — just released their 2023.
Callminer
APRIL 27, 2023
NLP, ML and AI are everywhere in everyday life, and most people have encountered these technologies in action without even being aware of it. This blog shares 25 examples of NLP and ML.
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Adrian Swinscoe
APRIL 18, 2023
This is a guest post from Jill Goodwin, a Content Master & Writer of Amazing Ideas. Invoices may seem like purely procedural documents. But what […] The post Are invoices the key to improving the quality of your customer service experience? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Inside Customer Service
APRIL 27, 2023
Do your customer service goals inspire the team? If not, the FIT model might be the cure. It helps you write goals that give your team clarity, inspire teamwork, and encourage the right behaviors. The FIT goal model also makes costly incentives, prizes, and leaderboards completely unnecessary. In fact, the model works by getting rid of all that nonsense.
Steven Van Belleghem
APRIL 25, 2023
The new standards I for instance thought that Spotify’s demo of its artificial intelligent DJ looked pretty impressive. An AI DJ selects the music it thinks you might like, and then combines it with spoken commentary around the tracks or artists, delivered in a realistic-sounding, AI-generated voice. In other words, it allows you to have your very own personal radio DJ.
Customer Think
APRIL 16, 2023
While people are hesitant to accept the likely reality that we are heading into a recession, we’re seeing higher interest rates, less venture capital funding, and widespread layoffs in the tech industry. Despite the uncertainty, there’s some good news: even if we are facing a recession, these moments are temporary.
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
The DiJulius Group
APRIL 3, 2023
At most companies, policies and processes are put in place to deal with employees who exhibit sloppy, unprofessional, or irresponsible behavior. But if you avoid or move these people out, you don’t need so many rules. If you build an organization made up of high performers, you can eliminate most controls. The denser the talent, Read Full Article The post Want Your Leaders To Be More Successful?
eglobalis
APRIL 18, 2023
Why Your Customer and Design Chiefs (CCO-CDO) Need to Collaborate to Make a Success of Your CX Peel back the layers of many successful customer experience strategies and you'll find that accountability sits with the Chief Customer Officer (when they have one). It also sits with the Chief Design Officer (or equivalent). Collaboration between the [.] The post Why Your Customer and Design Chiefs (CCO-CDO) Need to Collaborate to Make a Success of Your CX appeared first on Eglobalis.
Adrian Swinscoe
APRIL 9, 2023
Braze, the customer engagement software platform provider, recently released their third annual Global Customer Engagement Review. The research, by surveying 1,500 marketing executives across 14 markets, […] The post Too much data, too few skills. To achieve personalization, there is another way first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
ECXO
APRIL 2, 2023
Improving Customer Experience though Continuous Loop Improving Customer Experience though Continuous Loop Although the concepts of Continual Service Improvement and Closing The Loop have different roots they share the fundamental focus on gathering input and feedback for insights on how to improve the way organizations create and deliver products and services to customers.
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?
Totango
APRIL 18, 2023
Welcome to the era of “do more with less.” That phrase has become the earworm of 2023, stuck in our head no matter how many other tunes we try to sing. In this uncertain time, many business leaders are seeing budget cuts, longer sales cycles, and forecasts being continually reexamined … but there is good news. This is the moment for CS to shine. As businesses are laser-focused on retaining and growing current clients, they’re turning to their customer success (CS) teams and leaders to make it h
Customer Think
APRIL 7, 2023
Creating mobile-friendly websites is more important today than it has ever been. If you’ve been putting off optimizing your company websites for mobile users, here are some of the reasons why you should make that a priority today. 1.
Intercom
APRIL 24, 2023
You satisfy your customers, but can you satisfy our curiosity? With Mara Vicente, VP, Customer Solutions at Pipedrive. Please tell us a little bit about your company and what you do there. Founded in 2010, Pipedrive is a global, sales-first customer relationship management (CRM) software company that helps small businesses drive revenue and become profitable.
eglobalis
APRIL 24, 2023
$402bn is on the table for brands that simplify their CX and EX – Customer experience The post U$ 402bn is on the table for brands that simplify their CX and EX – here’s why appeared first on Eglobalis.
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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
Adrian Swinscoe
APRIL 24, 2023
Today’s interview is with Ray Biggs, Head of Customer Care at John Lewis & Waitrose. Ray joins me today to talk about their customer care programme, […] The post Well-being and the changing nature of management and leadership – Interview with Ray Biggs, Head of Customer Care at John Lewis & Waitrose first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Fonolo
APRIL 25, 2023
Using call-backs to eliminate hold time for your customers is an easy win! It improves your CSAT scores, supports your agents and helps smooth out call spikes in the contact center. What’s not to love? Call-backs are a simple, elegant answer to a great big CX problem. But did you know your call-backs can do more? Top 7 Problems Fonolo Call-Backs Can Solve If you work in a contact center, chances are you are familiar with the traditional way to use call-backs.
Bill Quiseng
APRIL 5, 2023
QUI QUOTE: As their leader, the value to your employees is in their personal interactions, not your business transactions. For their well-being, employees want emotional remuneration, not just financial ones. Don’t ask them, “What can you do for me and my business?” Instead, ask your employees these two questions: “What do you think? and “What can I do for you?
Customer Think
APRIL 11, 2023
Depending on the industry, “digital transformation” might signify many things. Delivering customer-facing mobile experiences may be a priority for certain businesses as they modernize their core systems to increase efficiency. A digital transformation journey, however, is a complex procedure with a beginning and an end.
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.
Beyond Philosophy
APRIL 1, 2023
This Podcast produced in partnership with Zuper™. You are probably underestimating the importance of a vital part of your Customer experience. Most organizations do. However, neglecting to address it can have negative impact on your customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, and customer advocacy. Dying to know what it could be? Well, the area that is often underestimated in importance is the impact of your field service engineers.
Zendesk
APRIL 26, 2023
Customer experiences aren’t meant to be one-size-fits-all. With AI, it’s now possible for businesses to personalize for a wider spectrum of human needs. According to our research, 66 percent of customers believe that AI will revolutionize how we communicate and interact with technology. Much of this is already happening —how customers search for products, book reservations, or even get tailored help center content are just a few examples of AI’s current impact.
Adrian Swinscoe
APRIL 14, 2023
Today’s interview is with Brian Tuite, the cofounder & CEO of Zenarate, a leader in developing top-performing customer-facing teams through AI Conversation Simulation. Brian joins me […] The post The connection between flight simulators, agent attrition and better outcomes – Interview with Brian Tuite of Zenerate first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Lumoa
APRIL 18, 2023
As the volume of data companies collect grows and as artificial intelligence (AI) gets better, analytics is set to become a key differentiator for customer experience management. Think about it. Your organization probably already collects data in many of these categories: Customer metadata (age, location, etc) Product and website usage patterns Survey data (Net Promoter Score, customer satisfaction, etc.
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Churn starts within the first 30 days of customers purchasing a product. A lot of it comes down to the first impression customers get through the onboarding process. A poor experience can result in losing current and future customers, and unnecessary overhead. It’s important to know what a poor onboarding experience looks like, the associated hidden costs, and how to build a top-tier onboarding experience for your customers so you can avoid losing hard-earned revenue.
Execs In The Know
APRIL 13, 2023
As eCommerce grows, so too does its vulnerability to friendly fraud. Underneath the glowing possibility of introducing your product or service to a much wider audience, there lies an underbelly – one populated by clever, tech-savvy fraudsters who use complex schemes and strategies to exploit businesses, often with massive consequences. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at what exactly friendly fraud is, how it happens, and why you should be especially aware of it as a CX leader i
Customer Think
APRIL 13, 2023
With the average B2B purchasing journey taking approximately 350 days, it’s no wonder it is synonymous with being both long and laborious. But it doesn’t need to be. And the complexities that may at first seem like bumps in the road, should instead be viewed as opportunities to create a better experience.
ECXO
APRIL 2, 2023
Improving Customer Experience though Continuous Loop Improving Customer Experience though Continuous Loop Although the concepts of Continual Service Improvement and Closing The Loop have different roots they share the fundamental focus on gathering input and feedback for insights on how to improve the way organizations create and deliver products and services to customers.
Zendesk
APRIL 18, 2023
Every business wants to understand what makes buyers come and what makes them go. Customer journey mapping is a simple yet powerful way to gain those insights. A customer journey map frames customer behavior as a story, providing a visual overview of the experiences consumers go through when interacting with a company. Much like the plot of a romance movie, a customer journey map starts with a consumer who has an unmet need, leading to a fateful encounter with a company that either turns into a
Speaker: Jennifer Hileman - Director, Retail Data & Technology at Orium, and Zach Ettelman - Solutions Partner Team in North America at Talon.One
Elevate your retail game by unleashing the power of customer loyalty! The holidays are the perfect time to redefine and reimagine your retail strategy, as modern customers are being re-engaged through creative retention tactics. Discover how the combination of loyalty management and MACH technology can revolutionize your retail strategy, ensuring sustained customer success through the holiday rush, into the new year, and beyond.
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