November, 2023

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35 Indicators that a Company Isn’t Customer-Centric

CX Accelerator

By Jeremy Watkin and the CX Accelerator Community I’ve got a big trip coming up, and in preparation, I needed to check my flight itinerary so I could book a rental car and long-term airport parking. It’s at that point I realized that I never received an email from the airline after booking my flight. Nearing full-on panic, I was relieved to see that they had charged my credit card.

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25 examples of responsible AI: How to leverage AI while minimizing risk

Callminer

Despite increased investments in AI, concerns about AI risks are also prominent. Read this blog to learn about examples of responsible AI, showcasing how to use the technology while minimizing risk.

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Embracing the future of CX: Unleashing the power of converged VOIP, contact centers, and video conferencing software

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Jeni Rogers, Managing Editor, Wheelhouse.com. As CX continues to evolve into a modern business initiative and area of keen focus […] The post Embracing the future of CX: Unleashing the power of converged VOIP, contact centers, and video conferencing software first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Sentiment arc: a better alternative to customer surveys

Inside Customer Service

A customer calls your company for service. After the call, they get an email asking them to complete a survey. The survey is intended to evaluate overall customer service and the individual rep's performance. A host of problems hurt that mission. Response rates are too low Survey scores are notoriously inflated Reps get blamed for factors outside of their control A new metric called the sentiment arc can solve those problems and eliminate annoying surveys.

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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

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.

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24 CX ROI Metrics for Your Chief Customer Officer Prosperity Playbook

Customer Think

Customers’ prosperity is your path to prosperity. For your solutions serving their needs, their funding serves the needs of employees, partners, and investors. Inversely, customers’ hardships (lack of prosperity) are extra costs for you, either to resolve their issues or to expand sales with new customers.

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Strategic Design: The Key to Building a Successful Business & Captivating Customers with Prof. Jan-Erik Baars

ECXO

Executive Session formato convencional The European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) is delighted to announce that Prof. Jan-Erik Baars will be our guest for the Executive live LinkedIn Session on November 29th Time: 1 pm CET / 12 pm (noon) GMT. We will be discussing ‘Strategic Design: The Key to Building a Successful Business & Captivating Customers ,’ a crucial element for corporate success.

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How real-time agent guidance enhances customer experience

Callminer

Read this blog to learn how real-time guidance allows customer service agents to optimize the time they spend with customers by receiving in-the-moment suggestions to improve an interaction.

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Consistency is often overlooked but is the secret ingredient to making customers happy

Adrian Swinscoe

I’d like to tell you a couple of stories about some things that happened to me while travelling to speak at an event in Munich recently […] The post Consistency is often overlooked but is the secret ingredient to making customers happy first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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How to create better business outcomes through CX design

eglobalis

How to create better business outcomes through CX design , customer experience design The post How to create better business outcomes through CX design appeared first on Eglobalis.

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The Real Value of Journey Mapping

Customer Think

Customer journey maps are a key component of customer experience strategy and planning. But what are they? What information do they provide? And, how should they be used? Depending on who you ask, a customer journey map is a process or a visual tool.

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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

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NOW is the time for a CX Revolution! Part Four.

Bill Quiseng

Many CX professionals have advocated CX as strategies such as AI, online, self-service, telephone, and face-to-face customer support, customer journey mapping, the Peak End Rule, NPS, CSAT, CES, or other CX metrics, and many innovative technologies to improvetheir customers’ experiences. And they’ve done it so often for so long that “CX” has been the traditional term of many business professionals to explain customer experience management.

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Supercharge customer success with Totango email and calendar integrations

Totango

Every customer interaction matters in today’s digital age. These touchpoints serve as critical indicators of overall customer health, enabling leaders to proactively detect risk, prevent churn, and identify opportunities for expansion and revenue growth. But, oftentimes, managing and documenting these customer interactions—especially cross-functionally among global and remote teams—can be challenging and time-consuming.

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How emotion analytics can benefit your business

Callminer

Emotion analytics is just one tool that businesses can use to better understand their customers’ needs. Read this blog to learn the business benefits of detecting customer emotions, FAQs, and more.

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How the world is reacting to AI use in customer service

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post from Janine Hunt, Client Partnership Director at customer service outsourcer Kura. Data shows that 35% of businesses have adopted using AI […] The post How the world is reacting to AI use in customer service first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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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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Proving the ROI of Customer Experience Initiatives

Doing CX Right

Gregorio Uglioni and Stacy Sherman, customer experience leaders, reveal tactics to get leadership buy-in, break silos, prove ROI & drive human connections through meaningful customer experience initiatives. The post Proving the ROI of Customer Experience Initiatives appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Enhancing Citizen Engagement: AI in Government Communication

Comm100

Despite its ubiquity, AI has been underutilized in government affairs. While many lawmakers have weighed the antitrust implications of AI, not many in the public sector have sought out ways in which the technology can improve governance. This could be blamed on the median age of lawmakers (58 for the House of Representatives, 65 for the Senate) or a culture of technophobia.

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This is our time for a CX Revolution! Part Three.

Bill Quiseng

Three weeks ago, I introduced the Rule of Three QUI TAKEAWAYS which will be revolutionary now, but once discussed many times over, will be viewed as traditional by many business professionals. In the last two weeks, I explained the first and second QUI TAKEAWAYS: CX versus CXM, and customer service versus customer CARE. In the next week, join me as we revolutionize the CX experience.

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Trends shaping The Forrester Wave™: Customer Success Platforms report

Totango

After several years of relentless pursuit of new business, 2023 made it clear to many companies that growth at all costs is not a sustainable strategy. With acquisition costs proving too high in today’s constrained environment, many businesses are finally putting greater focus on nurturing existing customer relationships to ensure retention and expansion.

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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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24 tips for selecting the best text analytics software

Callminer

Read this blog for expert quotes and tips to help you find the best text analytics software and tools, and maximize their value at your organization.

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Your customer doesn’t want to know about your technology – Interview with Micah Solomon

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Micah Solomon, a renowned expert on customer service, hospitality, and customer experience. Micah joins me today to talk about his new book: […] The post Your customer doesn’t want to know about your technology – Interview with Micah Solomon first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Why engaging HR, Finance, Legal, and IT to embrace the customer is vital!

Beyond Philosophy

One of my clients has done an excellent job in the last couple of years improving their customer experience. However, much of it was the easy stuff and hasn’t had the breakthrough effect they hoped to get. I wasn’t surprised by this problem, and I will explain why in this issue. It is critical to mention that my client has done an excellent job prioritizing.

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What is the Role of AI in Customer Feedback Analysis?

Lumoa

In many companies, even though customer experience is regularly measured, data transformation becomes challenging for many reasons. For instance, it is expensive, resource-intensive, and requires expertise. But it is no longer a challenge, thanks to modern technologies like martech tools and back-office solution software and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in customer feedback analysis.

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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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With appreciation and gratitude at Thanksgiving.

Bill Quiseng

Print Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Today, for those of us in or from the United States, we celebrate Thanksgiving. So I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation and gratitude for the many who helped me as I recover. Some of you may know that I suffered a stroke in April 2021. When I retired, I was planning to be a customer CARE speaker and then everything went south.

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Customer Success Hot Takes! — Setting your customer success team up to drive next-level results

Totango

As a leader in customer success, who’s your friend in the C-suite? Is the customer journey mapping exercise a worthwhile effort? Who owns the customer community for your organization? How’s that for a few spicy thought starters? Does the answer to any of those questions put you on the edge of your seat? We hope so! At Totango Live! 2023, Chris Dishman , Totango’s SVP of Global Customer Success, hosted the lively Hot Takes!

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Why NPS doesn’t work any more, and what’s the alternative?

eglobalis

Why NPS doesn't work any more, and what's the alternative ? The post Why NPS doesn’t work any more, and what’s the alternative? appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Embracing the future of CX: Unleashing the power of converged VOIP, contact centers, and video conferencing software

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Jeni Rogers, Managing Editor, Wheelhouse.com. As CX continues to evolve into a modern business initiative and area of keen focus […] The post Embracing the future of CX: Unleashing the power of converged VOIP, contact centers, and video conferencing software first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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The Hidden Costs of Poor Customer Onboarding

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.

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Active Listening for Contact Center Agents: 5 Examples

Fonolo

Active listening is an essential skill for contact center agents for one very good reason: customers want to be heard. Come to think of it, everybody wants to be heard! Of course, customers want a lot of other things , too. They want answers to questions, speedy service, the opportunity to solve their own problems quickly using self-service, and the option to talk to an agent when the going gets tough. ( Call-backs are great for bridging the gap between self-service and live calls, by the way

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How to Avoid your CX Initiatives from Being Another flavor of the Month

The DiJulius Group

You’ve spent months executing a new initiative to help streamline things for your team. Manuals have been created, processes have been approved, the collateral has been ordered, and the team may be weary – however, leadership is SO EXCITED for the culmination of this investment. The day arrives, the notice goes out to the team, Read Full Article The post How to Avoid your CX Initiatives from Being Another flavor of the Month appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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This is our time for a CX Revolution!

Bill Quiseng

Many CX professionals have advocated CX as strategies that explain customer journey mapping, the Peak End Rule, or innovative speed technologies among others. And they’ve done it so often for so long that “CX” has been the traditional term for many business leaders. But no more.This is our time for a CX Revolution! To paraphrase John DiJulius’ battle cry, it’s time for a CX Revolution!

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The next generation: Leveraging customer success to drive value

Totango

“Customer success is driving value to customers. Digital customer success is driving value more efficiently using a software or service that allows companies to grow and deliver value without using excessive resources” – Chris Dishman, SVP Customer Success, Totango. In a recent episode of The Digital Customer Success Podcast , Totango’s SVP of Customer Success, Chris Dishman had an insightful conversation with host Alex Turkovic about digital customer success (CS) hot topics, including health sc

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The Future of Customer Loyalty: Rewards, Retention, Appreciation, and More

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.