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JANUARY 18, 2023
Many brands lost ground over the past year when it came to customer experience (CX) efforts and results. As economic and costs pressures grew, companies across various industries struggled to deliver the type of quick, easy interactions customer expect. Coming off a challenging year, there are major headwinds to contend with as 2023 begins, according to a new Forrester report, “Predictions 2023: Customer Experience.”.
Shaun Belding
JANUARY 17, 2023
The 2022 list of best customer service stories was a tough one. Not only were there a lot of stories to choose from, but a great many of them were stories of great kindness. Shaun Belding | www.beldingtraining.com. Shaun Belding: Author, Entrepreneur, Speaker - Keynote speaker and customer service blog.
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Adrian Swinscoe
JANUARY 20, 2023
For the last four years, in and around December, I have compiled a set of customer experience-related predictions for the coming year. For each article, I […] The post 7 Customer experience related predictions for 2023 first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Inside Customer Service
JANUARY 19, 2023
Being friendly is a basic expectation in customer service. That's easy on some days. You're in a good mood. You enjoy helping people and things are going well. The products or services you support work well and customers are generally happy. Friendliness is more difficult on other days. You just don't feel friendly, warm, or upbeat. Customers are grumpy.
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
Callminer
JANUARY 18, 2023
As patients become more engaged in their healthcare, healthcare providers and organizations, like hospitals, need to care more about patient retention and patient experience. Read more in this blog.
Fonolo
JANUARY 19, 2023
If call center retention keeps you up at night, you’re not alone. In the era of the “great resignation” and in an industry with record staff turnover, employee retention is on every manager’s mind. The numbers are sobering. According to the 2021 ICMI report, a contact center’s average employee turnover rate was 58% per year. This figure is about 10 percent higher than the US average employee attrition rate of 47.2%.
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Steven Van Belleghem
JANUARY 17, 2023
Shep Hyken’s Customer Service Blog. Shep Hyken is a customer service and experience expert, the Chief Amazement Officer of Shepard Presentations, Forbes contributor and a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. On his blog, he writes excellent pieces about customer service, customer loyalty, internal service, customer relations and customer experience.
Callminer
JANUARY 16, 2023
Read this blog to understand why it’s important to measure customer attrition and take action to reduce and prevent customer churn.
Fonolo
JANUARY 17, 2023
If there’s one thing managers need to understand about digital transformation, it’s how artificial intelligence is changing CX in the contact center. The cost savings AI offers makes the move to more automation inevitable. Gartner reports that AI chatbots alone can save the contact center industry up to $80 billion in annual labor costs by 2026. By 2031, the savings could grow to $240 billion.
Customer Think
JANUARY 20, 2023
Let’s start 2023 with a retail homework assignment. List the top three reasons your customers are loyal to you. Convenience doesn’t count. I’ll wait. Here’s the point: Retailers and brands tend to confuse customer habits with customer loyalty.
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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.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 18, 2023
It can be quite a challenge to find and address the points of friction that are chasing your customers away. In our latest webinar , we’ve shared a three-pronged approach to help you drive retention and reduce churn. It’s probably fair to say we’re all a bit obsessed with growth. We create our business strategies around driving growth, and look to growth as the key indicator of the health and viability of our companies.
Doing CX Right
JANUARY 14, 2023
Rising to the top is not easy, yet achievable, as Jennifer Coolidge's "White Lotus" actress reveals. Apply my five tips on your journey to success, as everything is possible with the right mindset and supporters. The post Journey to Success: Lessons From Jennifer Coolidge’s Golden Globe Acceptance Speech appeared first on Doing CX Right.
CX Network
JANUARY 17, 2023
Uncover the biggest CX trends that will shape the progression of artificial intelligence in the customer service space.
Customer Think
JANUARY 20, 2023
Consumer relationships drive modern business. Spending the extra effort to develop relationships with your clients can lead to long-term success. Your customer relationship makes consumers feel secure with their buying decision. You build trust and enable two-way communication. This leads to referrals and repeat purchases, further strengthening your business model.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 17, 2023
Designing a product is a balancing act. . At Intercom, we balance strong opinions about the future of customer support with our goal of meeting a huge variety of customer needs. Some customers want a simple, out-of-the-box solution, but others need customizability – that’s where flexibility comes in. . “Opinionated by default and flexible under the hood means our solutions are easy to use out of the box, but can be customized to suit specific needs”.
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 14, 2023
In sales, it can be tough to know when a customer is no longer deciding but already decided—unless, of course, they tell you that out loud. So, it is incumbent upon you to read the signs that a customer has decided to buy. For example, I like to make drawings with pen and paper during my sales presentations with a contact. Then, I position the pen toward them during the discussion as an invitation for them to pick up and draw a little bit, too.
Lumoa
JANUARY 19, 2023
Understanding customers is a key step to success, and organizations do it best when they have a customer experience department in place. This department is tasked with analyzing customer feedback and data and disseminating its findings to improve the organization’s processes, products, and services. Furthermore, customers remember their good and bad experiences with brands.
Customer Think
JANUARY 20, 2023
By Francis Buttle[1], Julie Jones[2], Merlin Stone[3] Customer relationship management (CRM) has been around for over thirty years, but there’s still widespread misunderstanding about what it is.
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.
CSAT.AI
JANUARY 18, 2023
Eliminating any human customer service support, like Frontier Airlines has done, is a bold choice. Not all businesses have the same budgets, needs, brand or CX goals, it’s true. Digital customer service options are able to help manage the support challenges businesses are facing. The question is, should they be the only options customers have? This article looks at some of the challenges, how digital solutions can help and how the human touch still has a place in customer experience.
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 19, 2023
I love technology, but I can still be old-fashioned when working with clients. How? Meeting with clients, I like to put pen to paper and illustrate what I am saying with a handcrafted visual aid. My analog PowerPoint serves two purposes: These handmade creations will hang on a museum wall with a plaque because of the tremendous amount of raw talent exposed (ahem).
Heart of the Customer
JANUARY 18, 2023
I love the book Moneyball. I’m not particularly a baseball fan, but I love the lessons on how a counterintuitive approach can create disproportionate outcomes. I recently listened to the Freakonomics podcast “Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with Moneyball?” and it reminded me of the lessons that Moneyball offers for us in CX. If […]. The post CX Lessons From Moneyball appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
Customer Think
JANUARY 16, 2023
Email marketing is one of the most effective, low-cost marketing methods around. One study by Litmus found that every dollar spent on email generates $36 in return. Email marketing can scale up or down with little effort and doesn’t take much more than researching prospects to pull together an initial list. It’s also a simple […].
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
Lumoa
JANUARY 17, 2023
Lumoa’s biggest features for 2022 Another year down! Crazy how time flies. And Lumoa has been flying by as well, with over 1000+ tickets released this year aimed at improving how Lumoa works – based on your feedback! So let’s get started counting down our top features of the year, starting with… MASSIVE update to the Integrations hub – one click integrations with your favourite apps!
Shep Hyken
JANUARY 16, 2023
Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 10 Ways to Boost Customer Satisfaction by G. Tomas M. Hult and Forrest Morgeson. (Harvard Business Publishing) Customer satisfaction is at its lowest point in the past two decades.
Doing CX Right
JANUARY 19, 2023
As companies are downsizing, the gig economy offers value for companies and individuals Learn about workforce trends and how you can benefit. The post The Gig Economy: A Win-Win for Businesses and Distributed Workforce appeared first on Doing CX Right.
Customer Think
JANUARY 20, 2023
Marketing success in 2023 and beyond will depend on marketers' ability to leverage the capabilities of technology and data science and to effectively apply the principles of behavioral science that describe how people make decisions. These two disti.
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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.
ClientSuccess
JANUARY 16, 2023
Listening Vectors by Vecteezy. Providing exceptional customer success begins with listening to your customers. It’s essential to create an environment of trust and open communication, where customers feel heard, valued, and appreciated. As a customer service leader, it’s up to you to ensure that their valuable feedback is not only collected but acted upon.
Shep Hyken
JANUARY 18, 2023
Recently I wrote my annual Forbes article featuring customer service and CX predictions and trends for 2023. No. 4 on the list was Personalization Gets More Personal. The best marketers have realized that personalization is a way to get closer to the customer – or at least make it appear to be so. In our customer experience research (sponsored by Amazon), 74% of customers we surveyed said a personalized experience is important. .
Doing CX Right
JANUARY 15, 2023
Brian Elliott, SVP at Slack and Executive Leader of Future Forum, and Stacy Sherman talk about the future of work and tactics to stay ahead of the curve. Learn about scheduled flexibility & how to retain a customer-centric distributed team. The post The Future of Work and Scheduled Flexibility appeared first on Doing CX Right.
Customer Think
JANUARY 20, 2023
At the end of a year and the beginning of the following year all kinds of research organizations and pundits make their predictions. So could I but then, this year I choose to have a look at some predictions and comment on them. After all, there are pr.
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.
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