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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of August 22, 2016

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Customer Retention: 50 Tools to Build the Perfect Customer Experience by Ty Magnin. Appcues) We’re here to break down 50 of the best customer retention tools around and tell you what makes them special, so that you can choose the best ones for your business. Keep this article nearby and refer to it often.

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Guide to Keeping Your Customers: 24 Customer Retention Strategies

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Customer retention is the act of keeping customers engaged, creating customer advocates, and reducing churn before it happens. Imagine you never acquired another customer. Your sales team went home, and all you had left was your current group of customers. That’s where customer retention comes in.

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100+ Customer Experience Stats to Prepare for 2023

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of CMOs agree or strongly agree that amazing customer experiences provide a powerful competitive advantage. Martech Alliance, 2021) Nearly half (48%) of survey respondents said the customer experience they deliver falls below or significantly below their customers’ expectations. (Acquia, 2019) 78.5%

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Amazing Business Radio: Adam Dorrell

ShepHyken

How can you make money by understanding the numbers behind this survey? How can you sell the C-Suite on the benefits of investing in Customer Retention? First Up: Shep Hyken’s opening comments focus on the Net Promoter Score®, which is the result of a survey question that asks a customer “How likely would you be to recommend us?”

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The Best Customer Success Resources of 2016

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Editor’s note: This is a living document, and our goal is to update it regularly with the best resources around customer success. The Best Customer Success Resources of 2016. Surely, you are staying up to date on the latest customer success trends – did someone say “customer marketing”?

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Why You Should Stop Surveying Your Customers

Toister Performance Solutions

The customer service survey falls into that category for many companies. Customers don't like it and it delivers absolutely no value. Smart customer service leaders should either fix their broken surveys or stop doing them altogether. Does your survey generate any meaningful insights? It gets worse.

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Five Characteristics of a Powerful Customer Survey

Toister Performance Solutions

Customer are constantly getting pummeled with survey requests. A 2016 study from Interaction Metrics found that more than 80 percent of America's top retailers offered a customer survey on purchase receipts. The study also found that most surveys were total garbage. They recognize customers get too many.

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