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What is CSAT? Definition, How to Measure CSAT & Tips

Callminer

In this post, we discuss customer empathy and why it’s crucial for a positive customer experience, as well as tips for how you can start building and deepening customer empathy in every interaction.

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How to Prioritize Customer Experience Initiatives

Lumoa

We share best practices on how to prioritize customer experience initiatives. Due to limitations in resources, organizations have to prioritize which initiatives to spend their money on. You have to consider which initiatives have the most potential to impact customer effort for your priority customers.

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How do you say no to customers?

Intercom

Building a successful product means saying no. But exactly how do you say it? When you’re on the front lines talking to customers, delivering that news successfully is imperative. As a member of our Customer Support team, I’ve experienced firsthand just how tricky rejecting a customer’s request can be. The information you’re about to share is not what they want to hear and if it’s communicated poorly, can quickly turn an otherwise happy user into an angry customer.

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How GetAccept uses all of Intercom to grow its revenue by 450%

Intercom, Inc.

Gone are the days of sales deals being closed with a handshake in a face-to-face meeting. Nowadays, digital solutions like CRMs have made it easier for sales teams to manage their pipelines online but that doesn’t always result in the best experience for the end buyer. . This rapid shift to the world of online sales has created an engagement gap between sales reps and buyers for many companies, resulting in an estimated 60 percent of all contracts being lost to indecision or simply going una

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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The Likability Factor

The DiJulius Group

1. Customer Service Feature Story Meet The Most Liked Person I Have Ever Met Some people are “connectors” by nature. I have long marveled at how easily my brother-in-law Eddie Cheyfitz connects with total strangers and builds amazing relationships. He is one of the most liked people I have ever met. He and my sister. Read Full Article. The post The Likability Factor appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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10 Best Customer Service Stories of 2019

Shaun Belding

If you are looking to improve your customer service for 2020, you needn’t look any further than these 10 fantastic customer service stories from 2019 for inspiration. This year’s picks are a great illustration of the absolute core of customer service – genuinely caring about the people you serve.

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Finish by Jon Acuff (a One Win Book Review)

Customers That Stick

In this One Win Book Review, we take a look at Finish by Jon Acuff. Check out the video below to hear Adam’s one win that you can take away from Finish to improve your organization’s customer experience and customer service. [link]. About Finish. FROM THE PUBLISHER: From New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff, a book for those who want relief from always starting and never being done.

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Exploring Customer Journey Mapping – An Interview with Jim Tincher

Heart of the Customer

Today’s blog post features an interview of Jim Tincher completed by SurveySparrow, the maker of widely celebrated online survey software. They asked such great questions around Heart of the Customer’s origins, Jim’s involvement in the CXPA, and how to best use customer surveys, we felt like it had to be shared! SurveySparrow: Hello there, Jim, and […].

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Benefits of Including Exams in Your Online Training Course

ProProfs

Online training has completely revolutionized how people learn in all types of industries. For example, 77 percent of companies in the United States utilized online training for their employees in 2017. It has allowed new employees faster training. The Brandon Hall Group’s HCM Outlook Survey discovered that the time it takes to teach new employees through online training decreased by 40-60 percent over live training, which gives them more time to do their primary tasks.

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What is Customer Retention Management and Why Does it Matter?

Totango

As the economy grows increasingly customer-centric, customer retention becomes more vital to the success of enterprises. Repeat customers provide greater value at a lower cost than those who buy something once and leave. This means that good customer retention management is necessary for maximizing financial growth, minimizing wasted resources, and optimizing the customer experience.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Grow Through Improving Customer’s Lives: 7 Actions of the Most Admired Companies

Customer Bliss

The most admired companies remove practices that might curb the extension of care, or limit employees to act in good conscience. They work to remove boundaries and pressures that prohibit customer-driven decision making. And they challenge themselves to walk away from practices that aren’t congruent with their values. They honor the human at the end of their decisions, establish a balanced relationship with customers and partners, and put employees in a position to act at work, like they’d act a

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Can I Get a Customer Service Job Without a Degree?

Customers That Stick

Can you get a customer service job without a degree? There are absolutely a wide variety of customer service jobs that do not require a college degree. Many customer service jobs are designed for entry-level employees and a degree is not a prerequisite. . A college degree shows up in customer service jobs in a few ways. First, when applying for the job, you may be competing with people who do have a degree, and even though one is not required, those who have a degree may have an advantage, assum

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Live Chat Software 2020 Overview: Strong and Weak Sides

Provide Support

In 2020 year businesses will try to do their best to provide excellent customer service and satisfy their customers. However, to offer smooth customer experience you need not only to answer questions and provide correct answers, but also offer your customers convenient for them communication channels. Modern customers cannot imagine a website without a click-to-chat button.

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What is Customer Retention Management and Why Does it Matter?

Totango

As the economy grows increasingly customer-centric, customer retention becomes more vital to the success of enterprises. Repeat customers provide greater value at a lower cost than those who buy something once and leave. This means that good customer retention management is necessary for maximizing financial growth, minimizing wasted resources, and optimizing the customer experience.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Fonolo Saves Consumers 28 Million Minutes of Hold Time

Fonolo

Many will look at 2019 as a mixed year, one of both wins and losses, and lots of little changes – almost all of them for the better. But all those little changes add up to something bigger, and it’s easy to forget how far you can leap in a year. We did the math this month, and the results are in: We saved North American consumers from more than 53 years of hold time in 2019.

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Who is the Customer?

Customers That Stick

Who is the customer? This seems like a question with an obvious answer. However, it is not as simple as it seems. Of course, the customer is somebody who purchases a good or a service from you, but a customer can be more than just that. I view a customer as someone we owe a duty or obligation to in an organizational context. You can have external customers, those we normally think of as customers, but you can also have internal customers who are people in your organization or subcontractors even

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Confirmit CX Expert Series: Ryan Denny - Bupa Global

Confirmit

The sheer scale and diversity of unstructured data sources is daunting. But those sources house valuable insights that can make an enormous difference in a competitive market. Ignoring them is not an option. They are critical to determine customer intent, keep abreast of vital market trends, or get early warning of product or service issues. In this video, Ryan Denny of Bupa Global talks about the impact of text analytics on Bupa’s customer experience program.

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Customer Success vs Account Management: Understanding What Each Team Does

Totango

Customer success and account management share common goals: Building customer loyalty and driving growth. Still, considering customer success vs account management reveals some insight into the contributions of both roles. One way of looking at it is that Account Managers operate reactively often within a sales environment and with a focus on renewal and expansion, while Customer Success Managers (CSMs) pay close attention to customer behavior and health.

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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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PhaseWare is celebrating 15 years of business.

The PhaseWare Files

Take a trip down memory lane! Here are some of … PhaseWare is celebrating 15 years of business.

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4 Ways to Prepare Your Customer Service Teams for AI Disruption

Customers That Stick

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence is already starting to impact customer service. This impact is certainly to grow immensely in size in the coming years. Employees in many customer service roles are beginning to wonder whether they will lose their job to a robot, whether or not their role will be replaced. There is a great deal of fear and uncertainty out there and it is incumbent on customer experience leaders to help guide their teams and try to allay these fears as much as pos

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Webinar: The CX Skills Revolution: Are you Ready?

Confirmit

Register to the webinar for your region. Australia: 11th February @ 11am AEDT. Europe: 11th February @ 11am GMT. North America: 11th February @ 11am EST. CX teams are having a tough time. Our latest state of the nation survey suggests that CX programmes are still struggling to make an impact on the business. This can’t go on. It’s time for a CX revolution.

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Customer Success vs Account Management: Understanding What Each Team Does

Totango

Customer success and account management share common goals: Building customer loyalty and driving growth. Still, considering customer success vs account management reveals some insight into the contributions of both roles. One way of looking at it is that Account Managers operate reactively often within a sales environment and with a focus on renewal and expansion, while Customer Success Managers (CSMs) pay close attention to customer behavior and health.

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Case Study: Key Insights on Wait Times and Customer Service

Faster response times mean happier customers Are your customers on hold too long? Nearly half of consumers find hold times unacceptable, and a quarter will leave your brand because of it. Our latest report reveals how companies are affected by wait times and the impact on customer satisfaction. Read the report to get insights into the impact of long hold times and areas for opportunities.

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Give Them Something Extra

Dealing With Humans

What little thing stands out about businesses you like to patronize? Do they make you feel special? Do they go out of their way for you? People remember the craziest, most trivial stuff when it is associated with them feeling special. It stays with them longer than a simple, even very successful transaction. How do you make your customer feel this way?

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PhaseWare is celebrating 15 years of business.

The PhaseWare Files

Take a trip down memory lane! Here are some of the highlight years of PhaseWare's 15 year journey thus far. Enjoy and thank you to our customers for letting us serve you ??.

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Webinar: How MR can deliver business impact

Confirmit

Register to the webinar for your region. Australia: 13th February @ 11am AEDT. Europe: 13th February @ 11am GMT. North America: 13th February @ 11am EST. It’s high time researchers and insights professionals shattered the old, tired perceptions that we’re data wranglers. We need to be a catalyst for growth both in our own business and for the clients that depend on us.

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How to Create Service Standards that Really Work

Uplifting Service

Setting service standards is an approach commonly used to create consistent levels of service performance and enhance customer experience. Yet this practice is often disappointing, and at times even counter-productive. Why? Performance and process standards can be useful for compliance and short-term training, but they do not generate the understanding or appetite for long-term improvements in customer experience.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Empathy Party: an opportunity to get to know the new Neosperience

Neosperience

During this year Neosperience has seen many revolutions. . We are now listed on AIM Italia , we have welcomed new realities, even if very different from us, and we have decided to offer the world a unique idea. Last Thursday we took the opportunity to build a bridge, through the company party , to become more open internally and externally. Although there are many reasons that are good for celebrating , we have decided to dedicate the evening to the new members of our big family.

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My interview with Tony’s Chocolonely’s Chief Evangelist Ynzo Van Zanten, “Our USP is that we are NOT striving to be unique”

Steven Van Belleghem

A unique origin story. Tony’s Chocolonely has a very unique origin story: Dutch journalist, Teun van de Keuken, was truly shocked when he read a book about child slavery on cocoa farms in West Africa, so he investigated the matter with his Dutch television program ‘Keuringsdienst van Waarde’ Teun rang every single chocolate maker in the world, but nobody would talk to him.

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Guest Post: Responding to Change and Driving The Insight Industry Forward

Confirmit

I was delighted to be invited by Confirmit to a dinner held at the superb Kerridge’s Bar & Grill, together with a number of insight agency leaders. The aim of the evening, apart from having an extremely enjoyable time, was to discuss the future of the customer insight industry. Specifically, Confirmit - as insight industry thought leaders – set up the event to ensure it stays in touch with the latest trends and developments.

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The global state of experience management

Qualtrics

Over the last year with Qualtrics, I’ve had the opportunity to meet with leaders around the world. As a matter of fact, I just returned home from sessions in Berlin, Munich, and Paris. Everywhere I go, I find passionate XM professionals who are looking to help their organizations tap into the power of Experience Management. XM is clearly a global movement.

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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.