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CX Trends & Insights
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Patients use your voice: Using the HCAHPS surveys to make yourself heard.
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It’s no secret that the cost of healthcare in South Africa is bordering on excessive in South Africa, and when you or a loved one are critically ill...
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Building Safer Communities: Taking on Anti-Social Behaviour
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Safety and harmony are vital for building a community and as housing managers, you are not just overseeing properties; you're nurturing these...
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Keeping Communication Flowing for Housing Officers and Tenants Like a Wizard
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Imagine how different Harry Potter’s journey would’ve been if as early as book one he’d asked Professor Dumbledore about the time turner? Nip back in...
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Enhance Customer Experience by 10X-ing Your Feedback Metrics
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Are you fully harnessing the power of your feedback metrics? Each month, you encounter similar figures, but deciphering their true meaning can be...
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Is Your Customer Experience Programme Stuck in the Dark Ages?
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Digital transformation isn’t a buzzword anymore it’s an imperative. Ask yourself: Is your Customer Experience (CX) program keeping pace? As a CX...
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Keep Your CX Plan on Point by Refreshing Your Brand Promises
A brand promise is so much more than just business goals or a list of value propositions, it’s a fundamental declaration of what customers can...
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Best Online Customer Experience (CX) Courses For 2024!
As we embrace the fresh start of 2024, post-Festive Holidays, it's the perfect opportunity to rejuvenate our skill set. Remember our popular list of...
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Why NPS Matters
In today's fiercely competitive business landscape, understanding and improving the customer experience is paramount.
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2022 - 2023 Global NPS Benchmarks Revealed: Where do you stand?
Our 2022-2023 Global NPS Benchmark study is now available for download. In this edition, we've thoroughly examined the NPS benchmark (the likelihood...
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Beyond Jargon: How to explain the important CX Metrics to your boss.
What does CX and EE have to do with ROI when it comes down to your NPS and CSAT scores? …. If you’ve followed that sentence, well done, but I’ve a...
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Survey Scale Matters
I had a teacher who was obsessed with comparing apples to apples. “You can’t compare oranges to apples”, “let's compare apples with apples”, “You...
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Smoke CI’s Eyerys Receives Two High Performer Badges G2 Fall 2023.
We are so proud to have received two High Performer Badges in G2’s Fall 2023 performance index, for the sixth time running.
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Email Embedded Vs. Link Distributed Surveys.
For as long as there are devices and preferences between them, the argument for embedding the first survey question in an email versus including a...
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Keeping Ahead of The Pack: The Power of Voice of Customer
In an age where the world shrinks daily, driven by technology, remote work, and seamless communication, businesses are leaping into global markets....
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Voice to Text Feedback | Transforming Contact Centers with AI-Powered Sentiment Analysis
Barbara Blackburn was a clerical worker and typing virtuoso, who still holds the record for typing after her death in 2008 with 212 words per minute...
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Enhancing Customer Intelligence: Connecting with Your Customers via WhatsApp Surveys
In the ever-evolving world of technology, new and exciting avenues emerge for businesses to gather valuable insights through the Voice of the...
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Exploring the Impact of Employee Engagement on Business Success
Recently LinkedIn has witnessed a surge in discussions surrounding Employment Engagement, Employee Experience, Employee Satisfaction, and the concept...
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Benchmarking Banks - what is a good NPS score?
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Everyone loves a benchmark, so we scoured the internet (and chatted to some AI) to find NPS scores for banks across the world to use as yardsticks...
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Important of Customer Experience in Financial Services
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In today's digital world, providing an exceptional customer experience is a key differentiator for companies in the financial services industry,...