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What is customer journey analytics?

Callminer

Customer interactions don’t exist in a vacuum, and neither should your data. Find out how customer journey analytics break down data silos to provide better insight throughout the customer journey.

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Contact centre operations: Keep it simple – keep it human

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post from Ross Daniels, Chief Marketing Officer at Calabrio. Running a contact centre today is a tricky business but it doesn’t have […]. The post Contact centre operations: Keep it simple – keep it human first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Transform the way you share your work: Tricks from Hollywood’s publicity playbook

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we believe in the power of sharing cross-functionally. Seeking feedback at various stages of a project helps avoid bottlenecks and silos, and ultimately drives business impact. Diving into a new project is an exciting challenge, but it takes time to develop context, address stakeholder needs, and meaningfully understand the problem. Without even realizing it, we begin to work with blinders on.

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Focus On the Experience, and the Numbers Will Come – Always

Futurelab

I originally wrote today’s post for StellaConnect. It appeared on their site on July 13, 2021. You’ve probably all heard – or read about – the Bain statistic from 2005 that goes like this: 80% of executives believe that they are delivering a superior customer experience, while only 8% of customers agree. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience customer-centric growth metrics Facebook Like.

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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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Top 3 departments that will be transformed by customer insights in 2022

Callminer

Think customer feedback is just for the contact center? Think again. Customer insights can be leveraged across sales, CX and product teams. Read this blog to learn how.

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Leadership, employee experience and the Zoom ceiling – Interview with Dr Elora Voyles of TINYpulse

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Dr. Elora Voyles, an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist and People Scientist with TINYpulse, a provider of employee engagement and feedback software. Dr Elora joins […]. The post Leadership, employee experience and the Zoom ceiling – Interview with Dr Elora Voyles of TINYpulse first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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UX Metrics: Who, What, When, Where, and Why?

Futurelab

I originally wrote today’s post for GetFeedback. It A modified version of it appeared on their site in late 2020. User experience and customer experience are cut from the same stone but have clear differences, not the least of which: who and what UX focuses on and how its measured. In this guide, we’ll outline various ways that UX can be measured – both attitudinally and behaviorally – and explain how to take action to improve the metrics.

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Announcing Intercom’s new program for venture-backed startups

Intercom, Inc.

We are delighted to share that we are officially launching our new program for fast-growing, venture-backed startups. We’re working with venture capital, accelerator, incubator, and technology partners to help founders bring the best communication experience to their customers. The program is best suited to high-growth Seed and Series A startups, and has already partnered with Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, OnDeck, Kaszek, Dogpatch, USV, Uncork, Kima & Atlantic B

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Blockchain in Modern Business Adopting Real Cases by 2022

Customer Think

Blockchain technology has been around since the early days of Bitcoin, which debuted in 2009 as the world’s first decentralized Cryptocurrency. Yet, it is more than just digital currency. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that can revolutionize modern business. But how fast will blockchain technology make its mark on the business world? According to […].

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5 Things Great CEOs Understand About Customer Experience

Experience Investigators

Your CEO understands how important customer experience is to the success of your organization. They invest in resources to provide great experiences because they understand the immense return they get on those investments, right? . If this describes your organization, I hope you know how fortunate you are. I talk to customer experience leaders every week who share how they might have heard talk about how important customer experience is for their organization, but they rarely see the action to b

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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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AI and the Contact Center: Working Together in Harmony

Futurelab

I originally wrote today’s post for NICE inContact. It appeared on their site on July 1, 2021. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) artificial intelligence automation contact center customer experience customer service employee experience Facebook Like. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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A Restaurant that Offers Car Washes on the Menu

Shep Hyken

I recently wrote an article about the little surprises that companies – and people – sometimes give us when we do business with them. We received some great feedback, and it got me thinking of other ways to surprise our customers. That’s what this follow-up is about. I’m often surprised at how companies find ways to improve a customer experience with something that has nothing to do with what they sell.

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How to Make Your Sales Smarter Through Sales Process Mapping

Customer Think

Every business needs a plan, and it’s no different when it comes to sales. While gut feelings and intuition might be a method to attract leads and close deals, what happens when they fail? To eliminate the need for guesswork and luck, a solid sales process needs to be established, ensuring consistency and a positive […].

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How to Deal with Difficult Customers

Help Scout

Every support person needs to know how to deal with difficult customers. Read about different types of difficult customers and the best ways to help them.

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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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Using User Research to Design Better Products and Services

Futurelab

I originally wrote today’s post for GetFeedback. It appeared on their site in late 2020. User experience (UX) is part of the bigger customer experience (CX) ecosystem. User experience focuses on user interactions with a product, whereas customer experience focuses on the customer (and the overall relationship), who might or might not be the end user.

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CX expert Jay Baer on creating experiences that get your customers talking

Intercom

Sometime in the 1980s, businesses started outsourcing their call centers to specialized companies in lower-cost locations to reduce operational costs. And further along the line, customer support started being treated as a cost center – a necessary, but non-profitable part of a business. Today, more and more businesses are realizing the true bottom-line impact of creating great customer experiences.

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How to Plan And Successfully Launch Your Own Customer Success Program

Customer Think

SaaS organizations are increasingly growing wise to the importance of customer success (CS) programs. Not to be confused with customer experience or customer service, customer success is how businesses conceive of the long-term success of their clients, achieved through direct collaboration with themselves as software providers. This article outlines how to plan and launch your […].

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Why You Can’t Trust Your Customer Satisfaction Scores /Is a 4-day Workweek the Future?

The DiJulius Group

As customer experience has now become your brand’s best marketing, it is critical to see specifically how well your company, individual locations, and your customer-facing employees are doing, as well as holding them accountable for the experience they are delivering. Companies with the highest NPS (Net Promoter Score) in their industry have consistently outperformed the.

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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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UX Metrics: Who, What, When, Where, and Why?

Futurelab

I originally wrote today’s post for GetFeedback. It A modified version of it appeared on their site in late 2020. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) metrics user experience user research Facebook Like. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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The Critical Steps to Ensure Your Program Is Not Seen As Something Soft and Fluffy

Beyond Philosophy

One of our listeners in Finland is in a pickle. Anna wants to operationalize journey mapping to make their Customer Experience more customer centric. Perhaps more importantly, she wants these improvements to prove practical and effective rather than viewed as a “soft and fluffy” exercise that is not practical for the organization to continue to support.

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How to Harness Hyperpersonalization in Your Email Marketing Strategy

Customer Think

You receive countless emails with some basic level of personalization like including your first name. It’s no surprise why; 80% of customers are more likely to make a purchase when brands offer personalized experiences. You might notice other emails aimed at your age bracket, gender, location, or industry. But what if emails were personalized to […].

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Is Customer Feedback Overrated?

Steven Van Belleghem

Don’t take feedback literally. Feedback is not something that you need to take literally. The real challenge with customer feedback is to understand what people really want. To grasp what brings value to them. Customer feedback is not about micro-managing all the small details that they offer you. Yes, there may be some good suggestions in there. And, yes, in that case, it’s really smart to see how you could turn these into adaptations, new functionalities or even new products and services

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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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Customer Experience Teams & Sales Associates: Remove Their Obstacles! #CX

Kate Nasser

Remove these obstacles of customer experience teams & sales associates & increase sales & loyalty. by Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post Customer Experience Teams & Sales Associates: Remove Their Obstacles! #CX appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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The Art of Crap-Detection

Conversation Agent

Neil Postman delivered his speech, “B t and the Art of Crap-Detection” at the National Convention for the Teachers of English [NCTE], November 28, 1969, in Washington, D.C. [This below is the full transcript with no additions or comments on my part. After having read Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology and other books by Postman and listened to surviving interviews, I wanted to have a reference to point to for his thinking.

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6 fintech and technology trends that will redefine CX in 2022

Customer Think

As we look out over the horizon of 2022, one thing is clear — we can only move forward. We won’t just dust off old habits, even for workers who finally return to the office. As individuals, our mindset, our needs and our priorities have shifted. And companies in technology, financial services, logistics, and other […].

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Nitty-Gritty CX Truths

Heart of the Customer

You probably don’t need me to tell you this, but those in customer experience can have a rough go of it. You’re typically a small group – that is, when it’s not just you by your lonesome! – and you’re tasked with influencing the entire organization. That results in a different type of role, and […]. The post Nitty-Gritty CX Truths appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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4 Keys to Customer Success Team Enablement

Totango

Qlik’s Vice President of Customer Success Operations and Chief of Staff Chris Wood and his team were on the hunt for a customer success tool that could help them do three things: Streamline processes. Scale customers quickly and efficiently. Enable teams to work cross-functionally. They found that Totango could do all of these things and do them well.

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Does Primark need to sell online to survive?

MyCustomer Experience

DPrimark needs to adapt and start selling online if they want to survive in the digital-first era we’re in today. Ecommerce has long been. 3rd Feb 2022. By Charlie Casey CEO.

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How Trust is the Basis for Value from Customer and Employee Experience

Customer Think

Trust is the basis of any valuable relationship with friends and family, employees and employers, customers and suppliers, and among partners. You entrust these parties to enrich your life, business, and growth. They entrust you to do the same. Trust is reciprocal. In particular, businesses rely on (a) customers to fund salaries, budgets, and dividends; […].

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What is UX Design?

Logicalware

UX Design is all about understanding your users’ needs and creating products that are intuitive and accessible. In this blog, Puzzel UX Designer Marc Fenton explains the design process and what Puzzel’s UX team has been up to lately. I first heard the term ‘UX Design’ back in 2012 when a good friend mentioned I should consider making the leap into this field from Graphic Design.

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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