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Stuck in an Outdated CX Framework? Here’s Why You’re Missing Out on Real Results

eglobalis

Originally posted at [link] Introduction In the realm of business-to-business (B2B) interactions, customer experience (CX) is often approached through standardized frameworks and prescriptive methodologies, frequently rooted in models from major industry analysts like Gartner, Forrester, and others. While these established tools offer foundational guidance and structure, they may fall short in capturing the unique essence, “personality,” and competitive edge of individual companies.

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The third wave of customer support – Interview with Natasha Ratanshi-Stein of Surfboard

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Natasha Ratanshi-Stein, CEO & Founder of Surfboard, an award-winning workforce management (WFM) software provider. Natasha joins me today to talk about the […] The post The third wave of customer support – Interview with Natasha Ratanshi-Stein of Surfboard first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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7 skills for CX teams: Mastering the balance of empathy, technology and data

CX Network

From problem solving to technical proficiency, CX teams must be multi-skilled.

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Preparing for Peak Season: A Strategic Approach to Customer Service Excellence

Execs In The Know

As we gear up for another exciting holiday season at Michael Kors, I wanted to share our comprehensive strategy for delivering exceptional customer service during our busiest time of the year. Peak season brings both opportunities and challenges, and I’m proud to outline how we’re positioning ourselves for success. Strengthening Our Workforce One of our primary focuses this year has been ensuring we have the right people in the right places.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Brian Solis: The Visionary Who Will Mindshift Your Perspective on Innovation, CX and Leadership

eglobalis

Brian Solis’s journey is one of consistent foresight and evolution, making him one of the most impactful voices in the fields of digital transformation, customer experience, and innovation. Over the years, he has established himself as a pioneer, helping leaders, teams, and organizations navigate a rapidly changing world with actionable insights and a profound understanding of technology’s potential.

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The Ticket: How to practice Amazon’s “Big Bet Leadership”

Intercom

In this episode of The Ticket, John Rossman joins us to discuss the concept of “Big Bet Leadership” Rossman, an early Amazon executive who played a key role in launching the Amazon marketplace business in 2002, talks about his theory with Bobby Stapleton, Our Senior Director of Human Support. “Big Bet Leadership” involves emphasizing the importance of making bold, high-stakes decisions in business.

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How to know which metrics fit your contact center

CX Network

Whether its finance, healthcare or retail, different industries measure success in different ways.

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Achieving Excellence: Best Practices for Contact Center Performance and Quality Assurance

Hodusoft

Achieving Excellence: Best Practices for Contact Center Performance and Quality Assurance Whether you are an entrepreneur or a professional in the contact center industry or any other sector, you know that implementing best practices can enhance performance by leaps and bounds and drive success. That’s why it’s not surprising that well-known American businessman Millard S.

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The True Cost of Meetings in Customer Success Management

SixteenVentures

Meetings are the most expensive activity in Customer Success Management, yet we often overlook their true cost. If we fully understood the financial and strategic impact of meetings, we would likely conduct far fewer unproductive ones. There are three key types of costs associated with meetings: Direct Cost, Opportunity Cost, and Prioritization Cost.

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Service Recovery Reimagined: Leveraging DataScribe for Unmatched Customer Retention

Execs In The Know

While First Call Resolution (FCR) is often the goal in the contact center environment, certain situations require additional follow-up. That’s where effective service recovery steps in, turning unresolved issues into trust-building opportunities. By addressing these situations proactively, organizations can transform negative experiences into positive ones, strengthening customer relationships in the process.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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How a customer loyalty partnership with Mcdonald’s MONOPOLY resulted in a surge.

CX Network

How customer loyalty rewards foster deeper customer connections

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GenAI is Transforming Conversation Analytics and Making it Better

DMG Consulting

GenAI is Transforming Conversation Analytics and Making it Better November 2024 As consumers, we’re bombarded with marketing declaring that products are “new and improved,” which is frequently reinforced with updated packaging and a different name. However, we often discover the product hasn’t really changed much – if at all. Is that the case with conversation analytics?

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Meetings as a Customer Success Metric: The Misguided Path

SixteenVentures

Meetings as a Value Metric:Too often, we mistakenly equate the number of meetings with the value we’re providing to the customer. The assumption is that more meetings equal more engagement, and thus more value. However, this approach is fundamentally flawed. Value isn’t derived from the frequency of meetings; it’s derived from the outcomes those meetings […] The post Meetings as a Customer Success Metric: The Misguided Path appeared first on Customer-centric Growth by Lincoln Murphy.

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[Experience Action Podcast] CX Pulse Check – November 2024

Experience Investigators

Tune in to this CX Pulse Check as we uncover the vital role of communication in driving customer experience transformation. Tamsen Webster, founder of the Message Design Institute, sits down with Jeannie Walters to reveal how communication missteps often hinder change, drawing insights from Tamsyn’s latest book. Through examples across industries, they highlight proactive messaging strategies that build trust, even amid challenges like credit card fraud, and explore how acknowledging customers’

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Navigating the balancing act between tech and talent in the contact center

CX Network

Catch up with all the action from All Access: Contact Centre Trends and Technology for APAC 2024

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Top 20+ SaaS Affiliate Programs to Supercharge Your Earnings in 2025

Zonka Feedback

Explore the best SaaS affiliate programs with high commissions and recurring revenue. Promote trusted software solutions and start earning today!

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Generative AI Will Displace 100,000 Agents in 2025, Forrester Predicts

Smart Customer Service

Forrester predicts greater use of AI by contact center outsourcers, disrupting the agent landscape in the coming year.

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Automated email surveys

RateMyService

Our robust and secure integrations allow you to seamlessly automate your voice of the customer (VoC) program using emails. Sending survey emails to your customers is easy and consists of 2 steps: Connect to your outbound email server Set up distribution lists and email profiles Step 1: Connect to your outbound email server 1. Navigate to ‘Manage integrations’ and click on ‘Email’: 2.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Unlocking Insights: How to Analyze Customer Feedback Effectively

Help Scout

Making decisions based on user feedback leads to better products and a stronger business. Here’s how you can conduct effective customer feedback analysis today.

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Top 12 Customer Survey Companies To Power Up Your Feedback Strategy in 2025

Zonka Feedback

Customers are constantly sharing their experiences—some directly, others through subtle cues—creating an invaluable stream of data. Yet, transforming this flood of feedback into actionable insights is no small feat. This is where survey companies excel, moving far beyond basic questionnaires to capture and decode customer sentiment at scale.

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KM, AI Need to Work Together for Optimum Success, eGain Speakers Contend

Smart Customer Service

Speakers at eGain's Solv 24 conference urge companies to blend artificial intelligence, knowledge management, and human insight for better customer experiences.

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Confirmit vs Qualtrics: Which One Wins in Survey and Feedback Management?

SurveySensum

When it comes to feedback management software, Confirmit (now known as Forsta) and Qualtrics stand as two giants pitted against each other. Each of these tools offers a wide range of tools and features for managing and analyzing customer feedback and making things easier for businesses. However, like any other great tool, these two also come with their limitations.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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178: The Man in the Red Bandana

The DiJulius Group

The Man in the Red Bandana John DiJulius, Chief Revolution Officer, interviews Matthew J. Weiss, a lawyer, entrepreneur, filmmaker, public speaker, and author. In 2006, Weiss heard a story about an incredible hero who would transform his life. This led him on a six-year journey to make his award-winning film Man in Red Bandana. Read Full Article The post 178: The Man in the Red Bandana appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Product News – October 2024

Lumoa

content Lumoa Product News for October 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! Introducing Netigate EX! We spoke recently about how Netigate CX can help you capture the entire feedback lifecycle, and now we can do the same for your Employee Experience data: Automated Survey creation and distribution Report and analysis on Employee

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How AI Is Transforming Self-Service

DMG Consulting

How AI Is Transforming Self-Service View this article on the publisher’s website Omnichannel self-service solutions are a requirement for organizations that want to deliver a consistently outstanding and cost-effective customer experience (CX). Conversational artificial intelligence (CAI)—intelligent virtual agents (IVAs), voicebots, chatbots, or just plain bots—can automate many tasks and inquiries that were previously handled by live agents, which reduces operating expenses.

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Qualaroo Competitors For Enhanced Feedback Collection & Analysis

SurveySensum

While Qualaroo has many great abilities and features, it also comes with shortcomings like a lack of industry-specific survey templates, limited reporting capabilities, limited features in the free version to explore, etc. Curious about more? Let’s deep dive into its limitations and explore some Qualaroo competitors. Why Look for Qualaroo Competitors?

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.

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PepsiCo walks back Shrinkflation / Do your employees hate Mondays and only live for the Weekend?

The DiJulius Group

PepsiCo walks back Shrinkflation / Medtronic now offers up-front college tuition for employees / Starbucks Employee Breaks Down after 8-hour shift / Chick-fil-A Launches Streaming App / Do your employees hate Mondays and only live for the Weekend? Medtronic now offers up-front college tuition assistance for employees College has long been seen as a.

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Making the Move to SugarCRM: Key Migration Questions Answered

SugarCRM

Considering migrating to SugarCRM? This blog post answers the main questions businesses have about migrating to SugarCRM, including services, process steps, timelines, and data security. Unlike other migration processes, SugarCRM ensures a seamless transition where your data is always live and accessible, supported by comprehensive guidance every step of the way.

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Understanding Non Response Bias: Cause, Impact & How To Prevent It

SurveySensum

You put in a lot of effort in creating an engaging survey. All with the right questions, launch it at the right time, through the right channels. Yet the response rate you get is lower than anticipated. Why is that? The reason is non-response bias. It occurs when respondents are unwilling or unable to respond to your surveys, creating a gap between anticipated responses and reality.

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Ethnicity Survey Questions: How to Ask with Sensitivity & Accuracy

SurveySensum

Imagine asking race or ethnicity survey questions that made your respondents misunderstood, misinterpreted, or uncomfortable! Or worse, poorly designed questions fueling biases and stereotypes towards your business. But you need this information, right? So, how do you ask about ethnicity in a respectful and inclusive manner to gather valuable customer data while ensuring customers feel safe and understood?

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.