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Customer Experience Is Like Maintenance on Your Car

ShepHyken

In the customer service world, we could consider this to be ongoing training that keeps your employees sharp with the latest tools and technology to help provide the best possible support and experience. Shep Hyken is a customer service/CX expert, award-winning keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author.

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Guest Post: 5 Tools to Uplift Your Store’s Customer Experience

ShepHyken

To increase your store’s sales, the customer experience of the store must be top-notch. What’s customer experience? It’s the experience that your customer would go through right from when they enter your online store to purchasing a product. It’s not easy to uplift your store’s customer experience.

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Improving Customer Experience from the Backroom to the Frontlines

ShepHyken

What is the key to successfully transforming work culture to better serve customers? Why must employees in all roles understand how their actions impact the customer experience, regardless of direct customer contact? Break down silos and encourage collaboration to deliver amazing customer experiences.

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What’s a marketer’s most powerful tool? Surprisingly, it’s regret!

Beyond Philosophy

This regret got me thinking about all the ways it affects an experience. Moreover, it made it clear that even though it seems counterintuitive, given the example of my regretting a purchase, regret is a powerful tool in your marketing toolbox. Regret isn’t an emotion only for disappointed new customers.

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The 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index

Verint is named an Exemplary Leader in the 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index by Ventana Research. In the complex ecosystem of CX tools developed for disparate use cases, metrics, and processes, Verint ranked as Exemplary through thorough analysis of product and customer experience in the Index.

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How ‘Regret’ is The Most Powerful Tool in a Marketers Armory

Beyond Philosophy

However, you might be surprised to learn that in addition to being a powerful emotion, it can also be a powerful tool. Also, these comparisons might differ depending upon the customer segment to which the individual belongs. One might not think it has a place in a marketer’s messaging toolbox. We can regret a purchase we made.

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Unleashing the Power of AI vs. Human Touch: Which Delivers a Superior Customer Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

Unleashing the Power of AI vs. Human Touch: Which Delivers a Superior Customer Experience ? So, we have a proposition for you: If you have something you want to say about experiences or technology, statistics, or reports, feel free to share them via video. I often say, “None of us are as clever as all of us.”

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The Truth About Customer Journey Mapping

Speaker: Dave Seaton, CEO of Seaton CX

Is Customer Journey Mapping a tired fad from 2013? Or a critical tool for sparking customer-centric change? When crafted with precision and insight, journey maps emerge as powerful catalysts, transforming customer experiences and steering businesses towards profitable growth.

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How Mature Are Your Digital Experiences? A Step-by-Step Guide to Improved CX

Getting your customer experience (CX) right drives business success. Not only does a better CX improve customer satisfaction, increase retention, and create more engagement, it also drives key business results, including lower operational costs and higher profits.

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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Crafting Digital Communication Experiences Your Customers Will Love

Speaker: Hillary Curran, Head of Customer Experience, Guru

So much of today’s customer experience happens online. The digital communication experiences you provide your customers can have a make-or-break impact on their opinions of your product and services, as well as your brand. So, what things must you consider when crafting an ideal digital communication experience?

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How Empathy, Creativity and Compassion Drive Results

Speaker: Rhonda Basler, Director of Customer Engagement, Hallmark Business Connections

You don’t need the latest, greatest CRM technology or data visualization tools. Using your innate empathy and applying that to your marketing and customer experience through emotional intelligence CAN be the game changer you’re looking for.

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Using Customer Reviews, Advocacy, and Referrals in Your Journey Map

Speaker: Jeremy Boudinet, Marketing Manager, Nextiva

Making a customer want to advocate for your brand takes passion, personalization, and gratitude: all things that can be gracefully elicited throughout the customer journey map. The best customer experiences go beyond the sale. In this webinar, you will learn: The importance of customer appreciation.

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Study: The Health of the Contact Center

What does it take to engage agents in this customer-centric era? Download our study of 1,000 contact center agents in the US and UK to find out what major challenges are facing contact center agents today – and what your company can do about it.

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Executive Report: The Customer Data Too Often Overlooked by the C-Suite

A recent Calabrio research study of more than 1,000 C-Suite executives has revealed leaders are missing a key data stream – voice of the customer data. Download the report to learn how executives can find and use VoC data to make more informed business decisions.