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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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When Does an NPS Response Expire and can be Dismissed?

Retently

One of the biggest benefits of Net Promoter Score® is that it gives you timely, relevant customer feedback when you need it most. With this feedback, you can make changes and improvements to your product or service. Do it right, and there’s a chance you’ll win back an uncertain customer or earn the long-term respect and loyalty of a valuable client.

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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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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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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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Putting People First: the path to Customer Centricity, essay

Customer Think

A few years ago, Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America, was interviewed as he discussed their new Customer Focus initiative: prioritizing Customer Centricity over revenue by putting their customers first. He said something like, ‘The money will come. Let’s take care of the customer!

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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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What is customer relationship management (CRM)?

CX Network

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

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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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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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A Great Way to Get Your Employees to Connect with Customers

The DiJulius Group

The FORD Monthly Allowance Benson Kearley IFG (BKIFG), headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is not your typical insurance agency, because Stephen Kearley is not your typical company president. BKIFG is obsessed with providing a world-class experience to both customers and employees, and it is paying huge dividends with exponential growth. BKIFG created an amazing incentive to.

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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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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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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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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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Response Time: Vol. 16

Intercom

You satisfy your customers, but can you satisfy our curiosity? With Rahel Kunkel, Operations Lead at Ostrom. Please tell us a little bit about your company and what you do there. Ostrom is driving the green energy transition in Germany by making renewable energy accessible and inclusive. We created a seamless, multilingual energy management platform to help consumers effortlessly switch, track, and reduce their electricity consumption.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.