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What is Employee Experience? Definition & Best Practices

Callminer

Most business invest time, effort and scrutiny on the customer experience. However, its internal equivalent – the employee experience – receives far less attention than it deserves in many organizations. Although employees are not typically direct consumers of their company’s products and services, they affect its bottom line as creators of its offerings and market value.

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Ship outcomes, not just features, with the Product Impact Framework

Intercom, Inc.

Our industry is in the midst of a big philosophical debate about the fundamental way of thinking about how we build our products, with the focus shifting from the outputs of what we build to the business outcomes generated by those outputs. We’ve been thinking deeply about how to make this change in our own organization, with Des and Paul leading our discussions about it.

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The Year of the Vision Board

CX Accelerator

How A Simple Vision Board Changed My Year & A How-To Guide For Building Your 2020 Board. By Becky Roemen. If you haven’t ugly cried in a Target parking lot have you even Adulted? We’ve all had those times in our lives where we think ‘this is it, the world just might crumble around me, there is no feasible way I can do it all’. For me, this time in my life was mid-August 2018.

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Incentives and your Customer Experience

Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor. “Make your employees happy and they will make your customers happy.” This simple maxim has been echoed by business leaders from Richard Branson to Herb Kelleher, and it is true. The challenge lies in how you make you employees or in the case of a contact center, your agents happy. It is your agents that interact with your customers, they are the ones who deliver service and have the greatest impact on your Customer Experience.

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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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What is Employee Experience? Definition & Best Practices

Callminer

There is no single perfect approach to improving the employee experience. Here are some best practices for creating an ideal experience within your company.

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How Vidyard uncovered a multimillion-dollar growth lever by moving downmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Most SaaS companies start with a free software offering – providing a preview of their product’s capabilities before encouraging their users to grow into pro or enterprise solutions. Vidyard did the opposite. Instead of capturing small businesses and then trying to upgrade them to paid plans, the video hosting and analysis startup attracted larger companies, then worked backwards.

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Business Value and ROI of Customer Experience: The Step-by-step Guide

Lumoa

Understand how changes in customer experience drive changes in customer behaviour and how that translates to financial measures – to revenue and profits.

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Sentiment Analysis Tools Buying Guide

Callminer

Understanding customer sentiment through interaction analytics is integral to establishing a sustainable growth trajectory. Learn to simplify the process.

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4 Things Your Support Team Should Do In Chat

Myra Golden Media

I’ve designed start-up chat support for banks, libraries, consulting companies, medical practices, and contact centers. When I set up a chat platform for my clients, I have two goals. First, I want to deliver a fast and complete support experience. Meaning, I want to answer the customer’s questions and solve any issues. And second, I want zero customer frustration.

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Critical: The Strength Of Customer’s Emotion

Beyond Philosophy

Why the Strength of Customer’s Emotion is Critical. Customers’ emotions are a critical part of Customer Experience. Our research shows that over 50 percent of a Customer Experience is about customer emotions. Furthermore, we know that emotion drives customer behavior. Having awareness of what emotions your experience evokes when and why is critical to your Customer Experience Outcome.

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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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Prediction: The 3 Biggest Customer Experience Game Changers of the Next Decade

Customers That Stick

Last week we took a look at the three biggest customer experience game changers of the past decade, the 2010s; now, we’re going to look into our crystal ball and I’m going to try to predict what the three biggest customer experience game changers of the next decade, the 2020s, will be. But first, what do we mean by a game changer? It’s simply something that materially redefines how we look at or execute around customer experience.

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Examples of Customer Engagement Strategies & Tips from the Pros

Callminer

Here are 25 valuable strategies and expert tips for improving customer engagement - the totality of interactions between your company and its clientele.

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Managers Are Usually to Blame for Escalations

Myra Golden Media

Customers are shrewd and impatient. They’re not going to mess around with a customer service employee who feigns (or lacks) authority to resolve issues. Customers will put their “get me a manager” card on the table in a hair’s breadth. And managers get frustrated with this, but it’s your fault, managers. You teach customers to escalate by holding all the power in your headsets. .

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Gift Giving To Gain More Business – Does It Work?

Beyond Philosophy

Does Giving Gifts Mean More Business? It is the season of giving. No doubt, many of you sent out your gifts to your clients, suppliers, and other business associates already. But will your gifts result in more business? They might, and they might not. Like most things about interpersonal relationships, it depends on a lot of different variables. Researchers study gift giving and have for many years.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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25 Staff Appreciation and Recognition Ideas That Won't Break the Bank

PeopleMetrics

Employee experience is vital to a healthy and growing company. A poor employee experience leads to disgruntled or apathetic employees who suck the energy out a business. On the other hand, an exceptional employee experience leads to employees who pass on their enthusiasm to customers. In fact, customers are more likely to have a positive customer experience if they are served by passionate employees.

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5 Tips for Post-Holiday Customer Support

UJET

The holidays are a busy time. With an influx of travel plans, gift buying, and end-of-the-year promotions, brands find themselves faced with the task of maintaining inventory, getting orders out the door, and ensure that their customers are left satisfied. This can create stress for everyone and all the requirements that come with serving consumers.

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How to Master Rapport with the Best Tips From My LinkedIn Learning Course

Myra Golden Media

Date of birth? Last name? Zip code? Have you ever had a conversation with a customer service person, and it went something like that? A lot of people ask questions this way. The problem with talking in little bytes is, it sounds robotic. And it’s hard to create rapport with customers if you sound mechanical. Think about the difference in placing a fast-food order where the person says, “Pull forward.” versus, “My pleasure.

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Phone for the Holidays: Fonolo’s Customer Service Picks for 2020

Fonolo

A thoughtful human being on the other end of the line when you call for help. An expertly-tied velvet bow adorning the top of a gift you purchased. A hand-written note with charming keepsake tucked into a box containing your online purchase. Empathy. Courtesy. Generosity. Humanity. Artfulness. Whatever the customer service flourish we encounter on our journeys as consumers, we know when it works.

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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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Making the Most of the Customer Lifecycle Management Process

Totango

A strong customer relationship can last for years. How do you begin to manage all the potential outcomes, needs, and variables that determine the path ahead? Break it down into small steps. The customer lifecycle management process segments the customer journey into stages, including onboarding, adoption, escalation, and renewal. This modular approach lets you focus on goals-based, results-driven KPIs that guide the customer and help them reap benefits from the use of your product.

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Introducing The Journey Mapping Master Toolkit

Kerry Bodine

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of our Journey Mapping Master Toolkit — the industry’s only solution to combine the expert guidance and ready-to-use tools that you need to create effective maps. . I’ve downloaded nearly every detail that’s in my head related to how to run a journey mapping project, including the exact tools and templates that Bodine & Co. uses on our own consulting engagements.

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If You Work with Customers, You Need to Be Friendly (Or at least act friendly)

Myra Golden Media

I rarely trek grocery store aisles these days. I order online and either have my food delivered, or I get my bags brought right out to my car. At the grocery store yesterday, I rolled my window down as the employee approached, dragging the cart behind her. I smiled, and when she got to my window, I practically sang, “How are you?”. And you know what the employee said to that?

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Who are YOU #OnHoldWith? The Top 10 Worst Companies to Call in 2019

Fonolo

HOLD IT: If you’ve ever sent a tweet complaining about being on hold, then chances are you’ve been featured on the Fonolo-powered website: onholdwith.com. It collects and curates the millions of Twitter complaints about being put on hold, and it has just released its annual list of hold-time offenders. The site, launched by Fonolo a few years back, this year collected over a whopping hundreds of thousands of posts mentioning the phrase “on hold with” from Twitter.

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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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How to Optimize Customer Retention for B2B Enterprises

Totango

As part of a successful B2B enterprise, you understand the importance of your customers. New customer acquisition is at the heart of most traditional business models. In the customer-centered economy, however, retained customers are as good as gold. . You may have heard that it’s five times more expensive to acquire a new customer than it is to retain a current one.

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Introducing The Journey Mapping Master Toolkit

Kerry Bodine

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of our Journey Mapping Master Toolkit — the industry’s only solution to combine the expert guidance and ready-to-use tools that you need to create effective maps. . I’ve downloaded nearly every detail that’s in my head related to how to run a journey mapping project, including the exact tools and templates that Bodine & Co. uses on our own consulting engagements.

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7 Things You Have to Get Right with Your Telephone Customer Experience

Myra Golden Media

This is the 7-point call strategy I use when my work is to improve the telephone customer experience in a call center. The lead-in , step 1, gets calls started on a positive note. Steps 2-6 are how to handle the body of the call in a friendly and warm way. The final step, end with a fond farewell , ensures you end calls positively. 1. Open with a lead-in.

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Can I use workforce management for managing a back-office team?

DMG Consulting

Question: I’ve used workforce management (WFM) in a contact center, but now I’m managing a back-office team. Can I use WFM here too? Answer: WFM solutions can help back-office (and branch) organizations optimize employee utilization, however these environments require applications that are purpose-built to address their unique needs. First of all, back-office WFM suites need a real-time work allocation and management module that is able to queue, distribute and manage work activities.

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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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7 Reasons Why Your Customer Service Is Not As Good As You Want It To Be

The DiJulius Group

1. Lack of Executive Sponsorship – Just because you say you’re committed to your company’s customer service; your actions don’t lie. Annual customer service training is like deodorant, it wears off and the odor comes back. It is a proven fact that any big initiative, project, or revolution has to have the support of the. Read Full Article. The post 7 Reasons Why Your Customer Service Is Not As Good As You Want It To Be appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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The Perfect Job Description for a VP of Customer Experience (CX) 

ClientSuccess

In the modern SaaS landscape, the two paths of Customer Success and Customer Experience (CX) – although closely related – have slowly but surely diverged. While customer success programs tend to focus more and more on the business aspects of customers (onboarding, training, ongoing success, upsells, cross-sells, etc.), customer experience has become a small yet crucial part of a customer’s overall success. .

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Acquia Buys AgilOne CDP

Customer Experience Matrix

Acquia , which is moving past its roots in Web content management to become a multi-channel “digital experience platform” (DXP), took a big step in that direction today with a deal to buy the AgilOne Customer Data Platform. The deal follows Acquia’s May 2019 purchase of open source marketing automation platform Mautic and September 2019 purchase of site building tool Cohesion.

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Empathy Is Great For Cx But It Doesn’t Solve Customer Service Problems Alone

CSAT.AI

Let’s get clear on empathy, what it means and how it fits into creating great customer experience and your company culture. Yes, empathy is great for CX, but it doesn’t solve your customer’s problems alone. It smooths solutions, but it is not a solution in itself. What Empathy Is. OK, empathy is more about understanding another person’s experience by putting yourself in their metaphorical shoes.

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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.