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How to bring employees together for the holidays – Even if they’re far apart

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Cindy Mielke, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Tango. Maintaining a sense of unity and company culture in remote and hybrid […] The post How to bring employees together for the holidays – Even if they’re far apart first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Customer service is a performance art. Are you Oscar-worthy?

Bill Quiseng

QUI QUESTION: Customer service is a performance art. Are you Oscar-worthy? Movie actors like Sandra Bullock, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Dwayne Johnson, and Keanu Reeves act to be happy, sad, scared, scary, or angry. Yet, we, as the audience, believe they are genuinely real. The actors may “act their part”, but they are so good that we, as the audience, believe they are real.

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Welcome New Members

ECXO

Welcome to the European Customer Experience Organization! We’re thrilled to have you join our open-access CX Business Network. To get started and make the most of your membership, please follow the instructions in the link below: Before you dive in, we have some important instructions to help you get started and make your life easier. Please take the time to read until the end; we apologize that it is a bit longer.

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CX Network’s 20 leaders to watch in 2024

CX Network

Profiling 20 leading CX professionals from around the world who have brought an innovative and visionary approach to their role

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto

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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How to bring employees together for the holidays – Even if they’re far apart

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Cindy Mielke, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Tango. Maintaining a sense of unity and company culture in remote and hybrid […] The post How to bring employees together for the holidays – Even if they’re far apart first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Podcasting Power: Elevating Brands & Speakers

Doing CX Right

Why does podcasting matter? Award-winning podcaster, Stacy Sherman, highlights its role to amplify speakers, boost brands, and enrich customer engagement. The post Podcasting Power: Elevating Brands & Speakers appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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What is customer relationship management (CRM)?

CX Network

We explain the strategies, processes and tech associated with customer relationship management

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Unifying the customer experience: How Schneider Electric creates a shared vision for success

Totango

Brent Cogswell, Head of Customer Success at Schneider Electric, shares the organization’s principles and milestones for building a customer success strategy that unites the company and their customers around a shared mission. “It became our mission to get rid of the spreadsheets and bring all the data and telemetry into one tool, so customer success could control outcomes for our customers and positively affect recurring revenue and growth.

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The Game-Changer: Why Omnichannel Comms is Critical for Gaming

Comm100

In the fast-paced, high-stakes world of the gaming industry, the phrase “adapt or perish” couldn’t be more relevant. As player preferences evolve and competition intensifies, gaming companies must leverage every technological advantage at their disposal. One area where the industry has witnessed a dramatic transformation is in player support and communication.

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[Experience Action Podcast] CX Pulse Check 2

Experience Investigators

Are you ready for another CX Pulse Check? Join Jeannie and Paige, as they talk about what’s happening right now in Customer Experience (CX). What if you could tap into the secrets of how top retailers are adapting to the transforming world of customer behavior? Imagine the insights you could gain if you knew how these businesses are enticing customers with exciting new offerings like curbside delivery, sample boxes, and impulse purchases.

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4 HR Predictions for 2025: Supercharge Your Employee Experience with Internal Communications

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

The future of HR is here, and it's all about collaboration, innovation, and impact. Join us for a forward-thinking session where seasoned experts Miriam and Carolyn will share insights and practical strategies to help you stay ahead of evolving HR trends. Discover how to build strong partnerships with internal teams to craft a transparent, authentic, and connected workforce experience.

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Over 300,000 reasons to celebrate!

The Customer Service Blog

It's time to celebrate! This month, The Customer Service Blog hit the amazing milestone of 300,000 readers! Official figures confirm that on 25th October 2023 we had 302,340 readers. This includes around 55,000 people in the UK and around 86,000 people in the USA. So far in 2023 we have acquired just over 50,000 new readers across Europe and in places further afield such as Hong Kong (where we now have around 29,000 readers) and Germany (where we have around 20,000 readers).

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Uncover the Secret to Driving Brand Value With This Powerful Framework!

Beyond Philosophy

A listener, Irene Beard, is starting her own company. She’s always believed in a strong brand, but how can she plan what people take away from her brand? Since we discussed this on a recent podcast, and I thought many of you might have the same problem, I thought I would also share our insight on this topic here. Before we get into that, I thought I would mention that Beard contacted us as part of our “I’m in a pickle!

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The Secret to AI is the Key to Better Sales Calls

Customer Think

In early 2023, sales professionals worldwide logged into ChatGPT for the first time with the expectation that they’d never have to write sales messaging themselves again.

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Benefits of cloud migration

Qmatic

In recent years, many organizations have worked on their digital transformation and migration to the cloud. If there was hesitation before, the global pandemic pushed many organizations to accelerate their cloud adoption. With the rapid changes in customer expectations and technology, using cloud solutions looks like the obvious choice. Aside from that, there are other benefits of moving to the cloud.

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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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Customer Expectations: The Complete Guide

Fonolo

Companies place a great deal of importance on meeting customer expectations. According to Forrester, nearly 95% of leaders say that providing a good customer experience is a top strategic priority, and 75% want to use customer experience as a competitive advantage. But it’s a big, crowded marketplace out there, full of consumers who want different things at different times on different channels.

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Happiness in Customer Experience: A Competitive Advantage

Lumoa

Success in customer experience (CX) can be represented by numbers. A high Net Promoter Score (NPS), a large number of new customers in a month, or fewer unsatisfactory customer service request conclusions, are just some of the metrics we use to measure an effective customer experience. But in this pursuit of numbers, we mustn’t lose sight of what truly drives customer experience: Happiness.

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Optimize the Experience with Negative Personas

Customer Think

Customer understanding is a critical piece of designing and delivering a great customer experience. Employee understanding is just as important to designing and delivering a great employee experience. That understanding work includes three important tools: (1) feedback and data, (2) personas, and (3) journey maps.

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Unleash the power of this framework to drive brand success!

Beyond Philosophy

Poor Irene Beard. She is in a pickle, and she needs our help. A strong believer in brand, Beard is starting a new company and asked us for help getting people to take away what she wants them to about her company’s brand. Beard’s question brings up some interesting concepts regarding brands, their origins, their evolution, and their existence for organizations today.

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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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CX job of the week: Nourish Care

MyCustomer Experience

Looking for your next step in the world of customer experience? Every week, MyCustomer scours the internet to find the latest CX job.

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Transforming customer service: The impact of AI

Zendesk

Artificial intelligence is transforming customer service by taking on simple, repetitive tasks and freeing up human agents for higher value work. Generative AI promises to push this transformation even further, with early iterations offering huge opportunities for customer-facing enterprises. But these technologies also carry risks. To explore how advances in technology will and already are changing the way that customers interact with businesses, Economist Impact convened a roundtable discussio

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The Power of Revenue Operations and Intelligence

Customer Think

Companies don’t hire sales reps because they have core competencies of administrative work and manually updating prospect lists. So why, when sales is under tremendous pressure to win new business, fend off competitors and grow existing customer revenue, do some companies burden their teams with time-killers like outdated tools and legacy processes?

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Build a Social Proof Machine: Consistently Generate Real Advocates at Scale

SixteenVentures

As a Head of Customer Success, you’ve heard the benefits of advocacy. You get that it’s somehow the golden ticket—a game-changer that’s supposed to turn the business flywheel faster than ever. But somehow, the magic hasn’t happened for you. Your advocacy program is more of a flicker than a flame, and you’re wondering if the […] The post Build a Social Proof Machine: Consistently Generate Real Advocates at Scale appeared first on Customer-centric Growth by Linc

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

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.

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Data Collection Forms: Examples, Types, Tools & More for Strategic Decision Making

Zonka Feedback

Data collection is the most important aspect of running a successful business in current times. Accurate data can offer valuable insights, facilitate informed decision-making, and enable ongoing progress monitoring.

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5 facts to help you stay cybersecurity savvy

Zendesk

Cybersecurity is constantly in a state of flux. Threat intelligence analysts discover new ways to improve threat detection, and within months bad actors use the very same technology to circumvent monitoring and defense capabilities. However, each security incident is an opportunity to not only learn more about the changing threat landscape, but also to better understand potential vulnerabilities and how to strategically level up your defenses.

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Why Automation is an Essential Customer Experience Tool

Customer Think

In today’s tech-centric environment, automation is no longer standing on the sidelines, hoping to be a part of the conversation. Instead, automation is the subject and main character of every conversation in business and marketing.

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Voice of the Customer tips from a global business

CX Network

How one of the world’s biggest dairy exporters built a successful Voice of the Customer program

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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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9 Best Nicereply Alternatives & Competitors

Zonka Feedback

Nicereply is a well-known customer experience platform that is mainly designed to collect customer feedback in an effortless way. The platform enables businesses to improve support teams' performances and help them fix the issues.

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Revolutionizing sales with data: Atrium’s success with co-founder Pete Kazanjy

Zendesk

Atrium offers an AI sales management solution that helps sales organizations become more data-driven and efficient. It does so by continuously monitoring sales teams’ performance and alerting sales leaders and managers about any issues, so they can be addressed early. Pete Kazanjy, co-founder of Atrium, shares his tips on how to build a successful business and discusses how he formed a 35,000-member sales community by creating top-tier content.

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6 Reasons Shoppers Abandon Their Cart (+ How to Stop it from Happening)

Customer Think

Are you wondering why people add your products to their cart and then leave without checking out? If so, you are far from alone! Cart abandonment is a major issue that business leaders and marketers across all industries have to deal with regularly.

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How to Turn Negative Reviews into Positive Reviews: 13 Strategies

SurveySensum

In today’s digital landscape, where your online reputation has the power to determine your B2B business’s fate, customer feedback stands as the cornerstone of your success. And when we say customer feedback, we mean every facet of it – not just the good but also the criticisms. So, if you find yourself nervously nibbling your nails when faced with negative feedback, don’t, because those negative reviews aren’t the enemies they may seem.

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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