ShepHyken

MAY 27, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post Shaista Haque writes about a very timely topic, the digital customer experience. Digital experiences are starting to mirror in-person experiences and you better be monitoring your digital customers now! – Shep Hyken. Which scenario looks better to you?

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Customer Experience Banking Analytics Technology 200

CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the Customer Success space, which means there’s now even more content out there on the web for you to research, consume and rely on. Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. As well as their actionable customer success platform they provide a widely respected blog.

SaaS 64

SaaS Customer centricity B2B Best practices 64

ShepHyken

JUNE 30, 2017

This week we feature an article by Shaista Haque who writes about the top technology trends of 2017 that she believes will disrupt customer experience benchmarks. What comes to your mind when I talk about businesses revolutionizing their technology experience? Shep Hyken.

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Government Technology Benchmark call center software 220

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Actionability is also, as we believe, one of the essential aspects of customer experience management.

Customer Experience 178

Customer Experience B2C Journey mapping B2B 178

Totango

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Delivering a satisfying B2B customer experience is key to staying competitive in today’s SaaS market. Here, we’ll outline a strategic roadmap to developing a winning B2B customer experience strategy. First, we’ll take a look at what B2B customer experience is and why it’s an important priority.

B2B 107

B2B Customer Experience B2C SaaS 107

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

B2B Customer Journey Touchpoints: A Guide for CS Teams. B2B customer journey touchpoints mark the roadmap toward successful outcomes for clients and CS teams. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy.

B2B 115

B2B Journey mapping SaaS Engineering 115

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 26, 2021

Customer emotions are essential in Customer Experience. Being deliberate about which emotions your experience evokes is critical, too. Today, we will take a deeper dive into making your customers feel “Cared for” with the 5 Rules for Making Customers Feeling Cared For and Valued.

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Journey mapping B2B Customer emotions Personalization 300

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 21, 2022

Pickle #1: How can you increase survey response rates to create a more robust voice of customer data? We’re implementing a Voice of the Customer (VOC) program on a customer platform in a large business-to-business (B2B) organization. In other words, you need to encourage customers to respond.

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B2B Surveys Metrics Consulting 221

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 25, 2019

Your customers are irrational, too. They are irrational in business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions and they are irrational in business-to-business (B2B) interactions also. They are irrational in business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions and they are irrational in business-to-business (B2B) interactions also. However, we weren’t.

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B2B CRM B2C Education 332

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I complain a lot about companies that get Customer Experience wrong. Today, I am going to take another angle and explore how one company has taken on the Customer Experience journey and gets it right. RICOH Canada has done some incredible work in improving Customer Experience. The RICOH Canada Backstory.

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Customer Experience Employee engagement Journey mapping Customer centricity 316

Totango

AUGUST 9, 2022

B2B customer segmentation gives you the power to customize your service and even personalize it for individual clients. This yields superior customer satisfaction, translating into higher revenue for your business. This article will give you six best practices for optimizing your B2B customer segmentation.

Best practices 99

Best practices B2B Journey mapping Upselling 99

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Based on broad WOM program experience with b2b and b2c clients around the world, I’ve developed four general ‘rules’ for accomplishing this: 1. Be authentic, transparent, and honest. Be both strategic and tactical. Seek to leverage and influence, not control.

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B2C B2B Wireless Customer centricity 341

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Many b2b and b2c companies offer antiseptic, commoditized, vanilla experiences for customers. Most brands and corporations get by on transactional approaches to customer relationships. These might include customer service speed, occasional price promotions, merchandising gimmicks, new product offerings, and the like.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity B2C Airlines 391

Peter Lavers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

As 2017 draws to its close I’ve been taking a look at my blog, twitter and Linkedin activity over the year, and I’d like to share with you my three top choices in four different categories: Most blog engagement. This blog “ Talking Omnichannel But Organised Multi-Channel? Best independent blog content.

B2C 138

B2C B2B Customer centricity Analytics 138

ShepHyken

MAY 4, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Experience is the way! Epikonic) What is the experience gap? The Ultimate Customer Experience by Josh Linkner. 7 Guidelines Starting Customer Experience by Christine Crandell.

Customer Service 238

Customer Service B2C B2B Contact Center 238

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 21, 2015

I have written before of the link between a company’s employee experience and the Customer Experience they deliver on a company’s behalf. The paternity policy at Virgin reflects two critical elements for the link between Employee Experience and Customer Experience.

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Customer Experience B2C Banking B2B 400

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 18, 2015

No, he suggests that you get more happiness from experiences. Gilovich said this of the phenomenon: Our experiences are a bigger part of ourselves than our material goods,” says Gilovich. In contrast, your experiences really are part of you. We are the sum total of our experiences. But science might prove that it doesn’t.

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B2C B2B Employee engagement Customer Experience 399

ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Understand that not all your buyers journey end up converting into customers. It’s wrong to assume that every prospective buyer is going to convert into a customer immediately. While some customers purchase instantly, a majority of them take their own sweet time during their own customer purchase journey.

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Journey mapping Education B2B Sales 148

ProProfs Blog

JANUARY 30, 2020

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates. Elaborating on this maxim, I would also like to add that unhappy customers can ruin the brand value in minutes. It takes less than a minute for an angry customer to post their bitter experiences online. Customer expectations.

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B2B Banking Personalization Employee engagement 204

LiveChat

JANUARY 3, 2019

It was a good year for the LiveChat blog. Our blog was visited every month by over 100k visitors , who spend 8 minutes on each page on average. Let me proudly present a list of 12 killer posts we’ve published this year on LiveChat Blog. How we reached 100,000 unique views a month on LiveChat blog. It was just great.

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Chatbots B2B SaaS B2C 59

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 3 Ways To ‘Innovate’ The Customer Experience by Sanjay Monga. And today, in the experience economy, there is ample evidence to suggest a strong connection exists between necessity, innovation, and experience.

Customer Service 207

Customer Service B2C Government Call Center 207

Totango

MAY 17, 2022

Wondering what is the best CRM for B2B sales? We’ll walk you through what customer relationship management B2B software is, what its benefits are, and a list of the top CRM companies, including the outstanding features and best uses for each. Use this guide to help you find the best B2B CRM for your business.

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B2B Sales CRM Enterprise 79

TeamSupport

MARCH 3, 2021

In Part 1 of this blog series we introduced the new imperative for customer support and customer success—achieving success for your customers… and for your bottom line. The second way is to use B2B customer support tools to proactively strengthen your customer relationships and reduce churn.

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B2B Upselling Customer retention Customer Support 98

Totango

MARCH 4, 2022

B2B customer service is often confused with B2B customer success, but they are not the same. Despite their differences, however, they do share an intimate relationship – you need strong customer service to achieve customer success. What is B2B Customer Service? App integrations.

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B2B Customer Service Interactive Voice Response B2C 91

Totango

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a leader in customer success, who’s your friend in the C-suite? Is the customer journey mapping exercise a worthwhile effort? Who owns the customer community for your organization? 2023, Chris Dishman , Totango’s SVP of Global Customer Success, hosted the lively Hot Takes! We hope so! At Totango Live!

Journey mapping 97

Journey mapping Construction B2B Education 97

Kapta Customer Success

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Customer Success is one of the biggest buzzwords floating around the B2B SaaS space today. Ensuring that your customers achieve their desired outcome using your product is at the core of Customer Success. Yet, it’s easily one of the most important elements to the growth of your company. CX Journey. forEntrepreneurs.

Accountability 45

Accountability Management SaaS Chief Customer Officer 45

Peter Lavers

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

WCL Customer Management’s founder and MD Peter Lavers has again been named as one of the world’s top customer service influencers. He has been featured on Fit Small Business’s Top Customer Service Influencers of 2018 list. . He doesn’t just write and blog, though!

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Customer Service Automotive B2C CRM 100

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The plethora of solutions or blogs may not be useful when it comes to gaining insight and knowledge. Here are the best insightful SaaS blogs that can help you make better decisions, solve complex issues, or understand new techniques to gain an advantage in the competitive SaaS world. The 20 Best SaaS Blogs You Must Follow.

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SaaS B2B Metrics Sales 23

REVE Chat Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

B2B lead generation strategies hold paramount importance for the success of every business. So for every B2B business, defining their lead generation strategy and making sure that the business has continuous flow of qualified leads should remain the top priority. So, how to tie the B2B lead generation strategies and best practices?

B2B 71

B2B Best practices CRM Sales 71

bold360 Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Over the past twenty years, the internet has completely transformed the way consumers shop, but until recently, the business-to-business buying experience was still fairly old-school. Today’s B2B buyers shop for business solutions just like they shop for personal products. So, what’s a B2B company to do?

B2B 82

B2B Personalization Chatbots B2C 82

Peter Lavers

JULY 14, 2017

I had the pleasure this week of being invited to Wimbledon by IBM to see for myself how their systems, artificial intelligence, and cognitive tools (Watson) underpin the customer experience. Surely the “customer experience” is all about the physical experience that the lucky few enjoy in a little piece of London SW19 once a year?

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Customer Experience Management B2B Analytics 164

Totango

MAY 5, 2020

These businesses will be well-situated to speak to, lead, and ultimately retain customers through customer retention strategies in B2B like the following: Re-evaluate Current Digital Engagement Strategy Make Use of Key Engagement Metrics Personalize Communication Foster Lasting Relationships.

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Customer retention B2B Enterprise Metrics 62

ChurnZero

MAY 4, 2023

There’s a closely held growth secret among large B2B professional services firms, like consultants, accountants and law firms, that Customer Success Managers (CSMs) might appreciate: The more relationships a client has across a firm, the lower that client’s flight risk.

SaaS 98

SaaS Best practices Gamification Feedback 98

GetFeedback

JANUARY 6, 2020

After Voice of the Customer (VoC) , nothing is more closely associated with Customer Experience Management (CXM) than a customer journey map (CJM). . customer feedback data), involving customers, and defining customer outcomes. . What is the difference between B2B and B2C? Not so fast. .

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Journey mapping B2C B2B Surveys 78

Anexa BPO

MAY 16, 2022

The reports are in, and B2B trends for 2022 are all about a laser-like focus on the customer and improving CX. Furthermore, these B2B companies must prioritize supporting a digitally-framed CX that will allow them to meet demand, minimize disruption and create opportunities for growth. But let’s focus on B2B.

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B2B B2C Business Process Outsourcing outsourcing 52

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are an overwhelming amount of metrics that you can measure to track customer success. So, to break through the fray and give you a place to start, Client Success has created THE list of the most valuable customer success metrics. If your company is B2B, this could be interpreted as average revenue per logo.

Metrics 75

Metrics Upselling B2B SaaS 75

ProProfs Blog

AUGUST 14, 2020

Imagine being in your customers’ shoes. That my friend is a tale of bad customer experience. As a business owner, understand that customers don’t just wish to buy a product and leave. As a business owner, understand that customers don’t just wish to buy a product and leave. They want a good experience too. “

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Analytics B2B Education Feedback 174