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Best Practices and Strategies to Master Call Center Management

InMoment XI

In the fast-paced world of customer service, call center management plays a pivotal role in ensuring efficient operations, customer satisfaction, and improving the customer experience. Understanding the ins and outs of call center management is crucial for both seasoned professionals and newcomers to the field. That’s why we decided to lay out the core aspects of call center management, including how call centers work, the benefits of effective management, best practices, and the organizational

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[Experience Action Podcast] A Scary CX Story

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Get set for a chilling tale that will make your hair stand on end. Imagine a billing issue so terrifyingly complex it spanned three generations! Yes, you heard it right. That’s the horror our host, Jeannie Walters, unravels on this Halloween special episode of Experience Action. She not only narrates the spine-chilling saga but also provides insightful solutions.

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It’s Not Really Free Delivery!

ShepHyken

My friend Norman Beck sends me interesting articles and newsworthy information regularly. This one is worth talking about here. A grocery store chain had a sign in front of its entrance that read: Free Delivery – $99 a Year! I had to smile – even laugh out loud – thinking of how many people would roll their eyes when they read that sign. It’s not free if you have to pay $99 for it!

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How to create and use a Google Business Profile login

BirdEye

If you want more people to choose you over your competitors, your online presence is the key. Even brands that primarily conduct business in person need to be digitally visible and available. According to our research: 78% of consumers are highly or somewhat unlikely to select a local business with a poor reputation. 68% of the time, consumers research a local business before making a purchase.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Treat Your Customers with 5 Holiday Marketing Tricks!

Blueshift

Have you stocked up your candies yet? With the air turning crisp and the smell of pumpkin spice filling the cafes, let’s get on our cozy vests this fall and brew up some frighteningly good marketing ideas that will be a treat for your customers! According to NRF, Halloween spending is forecasted to reach a staggering 122 billion this year. While it’s a common notion that this spooky holiday primarily caters to kids, it’s intriguing to note that adults are equally enthusiastic, as evi

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How to Increase Player Engagement – 4 Loyalty Strategies

Comm100

While every gambling platform faces distinct and different challenges, there’s one challenge that every site faces – how to increase player engagement. While attracting new players is essential, encouraging them to stay engaged and spending is the real game-changer. We’ve delved deep into the industry’s dynamics to provide four strategies that not only captivate players, but ensure they’re engaged, satisfied, and returning for more. 1.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Voice Quality Testing

Cyara

We’ve all experienced an interaction with a business's interactive voice response (IVR) system where poor voice quality makes it almost impossible to complete an automated task or get “self-help” when you need it. Listening to broken prompts, hearing jitter or noise on the line, along with any other audio quality issue makes it hard to understand the navigation options.

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Hopes and Dreams of a CSM

Education Services Group

Written by Colby Bock There are many posts and articles published by leaders in Customer Success that articulate an attempt to guide current and aspiring Customer Success Managers on their role. Of course, this is natural and something we should expect from leaders. I mean, why call yourself one if you aren’t actually, you know, leading? But how often do leaders turn around and pause to ask the CSMs reporting to them for their thoughts about how leaders could better enable their success?

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Signs Your Business’s Phone System Is in Need of an Upgrade

CSM Magazine

In today’s digital age, the role of traditional phone systems might seem to be diminishing, but they remain an integral part of business operations. Effective communication with customers, partners, and within teams hinges on a reliable phone system. However, like all technologies, phone systems can become outdated, affecting productivity and customer experience.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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Exploring China’s research landscape and its future direction

Clarivate

Our latest Global Research Report from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) charts China’s research trajectory and its path of growth, quality and international collaboration. Over the last 40 years China’s research economy has experienced remarkable transformation and growth. China has emerged as a leading science and technology power on the global stage, rivaling western nations including the U.S.

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Betting on Satisfaction: The Role of Customer Service in Casinos

CSM Magazine

In the bustling world of casinos, it’s easy to think that the primary focus is on games and entertainment. Slot machines clinking, roulette wheels spinning, and cards being dealt are usually the first images that come to mind. However, if you are truly looking for the best online casino in Canada a crucial component often gets overlooked: customer service.

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Product Testing: Insights, Strategies and Best Practices

SurveySparrow

Have you ever wondered how a product went from a mere idea to a tangible item in your hand? The secret behind this transformation lies in a pivotal step: product testing. It’s more than just a routine. It ensures that what you buy is not just a product but a promise of quality and satisfaction. So, what is product testing, and why is it so pivotal?

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Customer Validation Conference Brings Together Customer Testing Pros

Centercode

Last week, we opened the doors to the 2018 Customer Validation Conference, the first event of its kind within the customer testing (Alpha, Beta, and Field Testing) industry.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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Predictions 2024: With The Right Preparation, Your Organization Can Win Trust While Others Lose It

Forrester's Customer Insights

A focus on fundamentals such as empathy and accountability will equip companies to earn and keep trust in 2024. Read our predictions.

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Complete Guide on How to Conduct an Effective Customer and Segmentation Analysis

Brandwatch CX

The purpose of undertaking customer analysis as part of a business plan is to examine the consumers most likely to purchase your product or service in-depth. Brands can establish different groups of customers and the needs of those customers. By understanding what motivates them to make a purchase, brands can build their business around providing solutions to those needs.

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“Only an 8? Not a 10 today?” Gamed HealthCare Surveys

InteractionMetrics

What’s going on with Providence’s healthcare surveys? Does Providence’s CEO Rod Hochman want to execute a strategy based on gamed survey data? Seems unlikely. Or is Providence Health & Services unaware that it collects deeply flawed survey data? Seems more likely. At Interaction Metrics, our mission is to collect science-based facts, so I can’t understand why any organization would seek to game its surveys.

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Complete Guide on how to conduct an effective customer and segmentation analysis

Brandwatch CX

The purpose of undertaking customer analysis as part of a business plan is to examine the consumers most likely to purchase your product or service in-depth. Brands can establish different groups of customers and the needs of those customers. By understanding what motivates them to make a purchase, brands can build their business around providing solutions to those needs.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Getting Your Tester Community to Care About Confidentiality

Centercode

When you’re preparing to release a new product, confidentiality is central to keeping its details under wraps. This is especially true during Customer Validation testing, when you’re placing a real product in the hands of real customers – often before you want the world to know about it.

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Pharma-biotech dealmaking incentives shift amid a continued drought in financing

Clarivate

What do the years 2001, 2007, 2014, and 2022 have in common? These years witnessed significant troughs in pharma financing, a drop in the capital markets, and an IPO window that remained firmly shut. In short, the biotech bubble had burst. Cream will always rise to the top and there will always be a buyer for quality assets, whether therapeutics, platforms, or technology.

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Kicking Off the First Customer Validation Certification Course

Centercode

Along with the first Customer Validation Conference, February marked another first for the CV industry – the kickoff of the Customer Validation Certification course offering. This certification is designed specifically for professionals who are tasked with running and optimizing Alpha, Beta, and Field Tests.

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How C+R Research Leverages AI Coder to Improve Their Coding Services

Ascribe

Ascribe helped C+R Research leverage AI Coder to Improve their Coding Services. Read more… The post How C+R Research Leverages AI Coder to Improve Their Coding Services appeared first on Ascribe.

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Customer Experience Myths Guidebook

A CX myth is something widely believed or implemented that is based on “how we’ve always done it” thinking, rather than delivering truly innovative customer experiences. What CX myths are holding organizations back from top-level customer experience performance? What can companies do to find solid ground and move forward successfully? In this guidebook, we answer those questions and more as we explore three key myths and two strategies that you can use to replace them.

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CV Conference: The Gathering for Customer Testing Professionals

Centercode

Currently, over 95% of companies are running Alpha, Beta, or Field Tests, but there are still very few avenues for Customer Validation professionals to grow their skills and exchange insights with their peers in test management.

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Startup Product Development: The Main Stages

CSM Magazine

Development is often a complex and multi-layered process, as many steps must be completed to successfully launch a new product. In the case of startups, the development process becomes an even greater challenge since, unlike more traditional companies, startups have less time. This means that the entire project must be carefully planned and understandable to all teams involved to ensure the project gets off the ground.

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Lottery Operators: Firing Lottery Marketing Messages that Hit the Mark

Optimove

Part 1 of this series set the stage for lotteries to get ready and be set to fire effective marketing messages. In firing messages that hit the mark, this post, Part 2, covers the following: Promotional strategies that drive action Personalization strategies that connect Must-Have Campaigns/Workflows to ensure you don’t miss the mark In Part 1, to improve lifetime player (customer) value, we emphasized that before a lottery executes lottery marketing ideas, two critical aspects of marketing m

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How to choose the best reputation management company

BirdEye

Choosing the best reputation management company for your business can boost your online reputation, amplify positive feedback, and effectively handle any negative remarks. In a recent Birdeye study , 78% of respondents agreed they would avoid businesses with a poor online reputation. Customers today heavily depend on online review sites, public forums, and social media channels when choosing businesses.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,