Mon.Nov 13, 2023

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Top Customer Care Trends to Consider as You Plan for the New Year

BlueOcean

Keep your finger on the pulse of the industry. From AI and VoC to EX and TX, here are some resources to inspire for the new year. As customer care teams start planning for 2024, we’ve seen how easy it can be to get stuck in a rut. The quickest way to get re-inspired is by getting a finger on the pulse of current news and customer service trends in the industry.

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How Generative AI is Disrupting the Call Center World

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: The future of customer service is being transformed by AI-powered technologies that can automate and enhance customer interactions. Technologies, such as ChatGPT and generative AI, are revolutionizing how businesses interact with their customers. AI is redefining customer support. While there will still be a need for human agents in certain high-touch situations, the majority of customer interactions will be handled by AI-powered systems.

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How a Better Brand Experience Turns Consumers into Loyal Customers

Second to None

Your brand experience is a multi-layered avenue that draws a connection between you and consumers — positively or negatively. It’s your personality, values, and attitude that fuels your brand’s perception out in the world. You can, and should, use the brand experience as a frontline tool to turning consumers into customers — and loyal ones. But how can you do that?

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of November 13, 2023

ShepHyken

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. The Pinnacle of CX: Community in Three Layers by Nate Brown (LinkedIn) You’ve likely already seen the new U.S. Surgeon General report.

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2024 State of Customer Education Report

Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.

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¿Cómo acceder al servicio de soporte de SAP Ariba? No es necesario iniciar sesión

SAP Customer Experience

Si tiene una cuenta de proveedor de SAP Ariba y desea ponerse en contacto con nuestro equipo de soporte técnico, entonces este blog es para usted. Para comunicarse con el equipo de servicio de soporte de SAP Ariba, lo que puede hacer es seguir estos pasos: Acceda a este link.

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Introducing Customer Communities: Engage and Retain Customers to Build the Future of Your Business

Gainsight

In the dynamic landscape where the rules of business are continually evolving, the concept of community has undergone a transformation. Once seen as a support mechanism primarily for B2C enterprises, it’s now recognized as a pivotal strategy for fostering lasting success in B2B businesses and beyond. This redefinition has come with a fresh understanding—community isn’t just about metrics or member counts; it’s about driving tangible business value and enhancing the customer exp

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How to Treat Your Customers Right: 4 Pro Tips

CSM Magazine

In the bustling world of business, treating your customers with the utmost care is a cornerstone of success. Happy customers not only stick around but become brand advocates, spreading the word like wildfire. So, how do you ensure you’re treating your customers right? Here are four pro tips to guide you on this journey. Seamless Customer Support: Building Trust Through Accessibility When issues arise, and they inevitably will, the quality of your customer support can make or break the rela

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Seven Deadly Sins of Key Account Management and How to Avoid Them

Kapta Customer Success

In today’s marketplace, customer retention is dependent on customer outcomes. In fact, the best predictor of customer retention is measurable customer results. Forrester also found that B2B organizations that consistently prioritize customer outcomes are three times more likely to experience at least 10% growth in revenue, profits, and customer retention.

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Customer-driven innovation to scale-up your business

ThriveableBiz

Customer-driven innovation to scale -up your business To scale-up your business you have to be focused on what the customer wants and needs. We often get tangled with our personal dreams, and forget the most important people, our customers. Being the Best is a dangerous myth, and one of the great furphies of small business marketing. Positioning as the Best in your category, falsely assuming that customers are totally rational.

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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.

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Generative AI Is Here: Experience the Future of Customer Success With Horizon AI at Gainsight.

Gainsight

Gainsight has always been a leader in the industry, from being the first to establish Customer Success itself, to evolving with changing customer needs, to riding the new wave of artificial intelligence in SaaS. And, while we’ve been leading in AI since first announcing Horizon AI in 2021, we’ve been hard at work making AI more meaningful and using the latest Generative AI technologies to add more value to our customers’ day-to-day needs.

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3 Key Rules for Building Trust with Customers When Gathering Insights

ThriveableBiz

Building Trust with Customers when Gathering Insights - It comes down to relationships in marketing. And for your insights program to be an effective marketing touchpoint, customers must feel respected and safe, as in any relationship. Billy Joel called it “A Matter of Trust”. Where people feel they can share their feelings and opinions with you, without opening the floodgates to sophisticated, social media retargeting or just plain, old-school, hard-sell spam.

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4 Diverse AI Chatbot Examples for Great Customer Service

Help Scout

In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of AI chatbots and look at some examples that prioritize creating a smooth experience for customers.

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Insights vs Facts: What’s the Difference for Business Marketing?

ThriveableBiz

Insights vs Facts: What's the Difference for Business Marketing? In popular usage Insights is often a substitute term for Marketing Research. We all do it! It can be seen as more contemporary, tied with the actual outcomes you receive from the research process. Fair enough. It’s also a friendlier word to engage non-researchers in the value of the results.

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Unlock the Future of Learning Growth and Retention at Cognition24!

The annual Cognition virtual conference is back on October 16, and this year it’s FREE! You’ll enjoy: Inspiring Keynotes from top learning industry leaders, providing fresh perspectives to help you outperform the competition. Hands-on, Skill-Building Sessions to elevate your growth, retention, and product adoption strategies. Exclusive First Look at the latest innovations from Thought Industries, empowering you with tools to grow faster.

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235% Energy Growth Spurs Nasuni + Cegal Partnership

Nasuni

Neil McCrindle discusses Nasuni’s latest hybrid cloud storage momentum in the energy sector through a strategic partnership with Cegal.

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To Build A GenAI-Powered Business App, You Need More Than An LLM

Forrester's Customer Insights

If you believe the headlines, large language models (LLMs) will magically reinvent how generative AI (genAI)-powered business applications get built: “Just jam your knowledge into a fine-tuned, vector-embedding, prompt-engineered large language model from one of the big players.” Things just aren’t that easy.

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Help Scout Has a New Look

Help Scout

Things may look a little different, but we’re still the same: Unveiling and taking a behind-the-scenes look at Help Scout’s new brand identity.

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Generative AI Will Displace Frontline B2B Marketing Jobs, And You’re Not Ready

Forrester's Customer Insights

Generative AI, as it stands today, is a minimally viable solution for frontline marketers. But that’s going to change. Generative AI will revolutionize frontline B2B marketing, offering both opportunities and threats to the status quo. Forrester forecasts that automation and AI overall will replace 4.9% of US jobs by 2030.

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.

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Bring Instagram conversations into Help Scout

Help Scout

Connect your company’s Instagram account to Help Scout to better manage customer conversations across multiple channels.

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Shift From Manual To Automated Account Planning To Deliver Results

Forrester's Customer Insights

I’ve been involved with account planning programs for over 30 years — first as a sales rep, then as a sales manager, then as a sales operations leader, and, finally, as an analyst and advisor. And in all that time, resistance by sellers to the process of creating and leveraging account plans remains high. Why?

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3 Ways QualBoard Reduces Stress for Moderators

2020 Research

Learn how our new Observer self-authentication feature works, tips for how you can prepare before research day, and ways our QualSupport team can step in and take some of the weight off of your shoulders whenever you need some additional hands on deck.

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Marketing for SMEs with Judy Celmins – Real Solutions Business Podcast

ThriveableBiz

Judy had a conversation with Brad McDonald from Godfreys Law and host of the Real Solutions Business Podcast, where she talked on Marketing for SMEs. You can listen to the episode using the link below. Hungry for more? Marketing = Customers + Heart is your road map to building your growth strategy.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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How to Craft Task Scenarios Like a Pro

Centercode

One of the biggest challenges of managing feedback is organizing it. This isn’t news to most test managers. When the bulk of prioritization happens on the back-end of a test, it can create a massive time sink. That’s why using task scenarios to organize feedback on the front-end of the test comes in handy.

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How clinical outcome assessments can help us understand the patient experience

Clarivate

Clinical outcome assessments can take years to generate but may pay big dividends in patient-focused drug development, centering the patient experience and potentially bolstering a product’s case with regulators and payers. The global Clarivate clinical outcome assessment team is comprised of health psychologists and outcomes researchers who have extensive methodological and commercial experience.

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235% Energy Growth Spurs Nasuni + Cegal Partnership

Nasuni

Neil McCrindle discusses Nasuni’s latest hybrid cloud storage momentum in the energy sector through a strategic partnership with Cegal.

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