Mon.Dec 11, 2023

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[LinkedIn Learning] Customer Experience (CX) Trends

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

If you’re looking to stay up to date with customer experience (CX) trends, CX expert Jeannie Walters has you covered. Join Jeannie in this short, approachable course on the biggest, most important new trends in the ever-evolving field of CX. Keep your CX knowledge current and relevant by exploring topics like customer journey mapping, employee experience, cutting-edge CX tools, and how to skillfully—and ethically—use AI in CX projects.

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What Is Cold Calling (and How to Address Your Sales Team’s Aversion To It)?

Integrity Solutions

What is cold calling and what does it look like in the current sales world? Your mindset may actually be the key to success. If you want to hear salespeople groan, mention cold calling. It’s true that cold calling can be hard, grinding-it-out work, and the rewards aren’t instant. But sales prospecting is the bread-and-butter, core activity that leads to sales growth and success — and cold calling is one of the most effective prospecting strategies available.

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Tips on Creating a Customer-Centric Culture

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: The key to transforming companies into customer-centric organizations lies in adopting a customer experience mindset. When leaders prioritize the customer experience, it influences the entire company culture. Empowering employees to take positive actions that benefit customers can significantly impact team morale and reinforce the company’s customer-centric goals.

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Unveiling Customer Experience Key Indicators for Senior Service Managers

Win the Customer

In the evolving landscape of business, customer experience (CX) has emerged as the linchpin for success. For senior service managers, the ability to understand, measure, and enhance customer engagement is pivotal. The digital era has redefined the dynamics of customer interactions, necessitating a recalibration of strategies to ensure sustainable and successful engagements.

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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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AI Innovations That Support (Not Replace) Humans in Customer Experience – Live From Reuters Event

Doing CX Right

Learn exactly how smart companies effectively leverage AI innovations while maintaining exceptional human-centric service with Keynote Speaker, Stacy Sherman, and CXQA, Rob Connelly. The post AI Innovations That Support (Not Replace) Humans in Customer Experience – Live From Reuters Event appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Staying Competitive: Tools Every Mortgage Broker Needs in Their Arsenal

CSM Magazine

In the changing world of mortgage brokering, maintaining an edge is crucial for long-term success. To navigate the market and outshine competitors, smart brokers equip themselves with a variety of tools to serve clients and manage their businesses efficiently and effectively. In this article, we’ll explore some tools that every mortgage broker should have in their toolkit. 1.

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Alida Ignites an Experience Revolution with AWS Bedrock

Alida

Alida was recently represented at one of the tech industry's largest conferences, Amazon re: Invent, with Daniel Charles, the SVP of Product and Go-To-Market, sharing insights into Alida’s exciting integration of AWS Bedrock.

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Retain Your Best Agents: Effective Strategies to Maximize Agent Retention in the Contact Center

CSM Magazine

The average attrition rate for call center agents in the U.S. and U.K. is between 30% and 45% annually, according to a NICE WEM Global Survey. This is significantly higher than other industries. This high turnover rate not only leads to increased costs in recruitment and training, but also has a negative impact on overall customer satisfaction and brand reputation.

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Retail Purchasing Habits and Dollar Store Trends

IntouchInsight

As we all get ready to jump into a new year, we have one last Flash Points consumer data round-up for 2023.

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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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Prepare now for the changes coming to small business lending

West Monroe

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final ruling amending Regulation B (Reg B) to implement changes to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) through section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act. Under this ruling, covered financial institutions (FIs) will be required to collect and report on significant amounts of new data from small business applicants seeking credit.

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From Home Office to Industry Leader: Magellan Solutions’ Evolution and Leadership Journey

Magellan Solutions

The History of Magellan Solutions Discover Magellan Solutions’ history through a journey through its past. Our CEO, Frederick Chua, shares a significant chapter in Magellan’s founding. Now, picture this: it’s 2001, and Frederick works in a call center called Etelecare. In the early 2000s, call centers were booming, and Etelecare was creating waves in the BPO industry.

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Mastering Customer Onboarding: Navigating Common Pitfalls & Solutions

SmartKarrot

In the dynamic landscape of technology and innovation, the success of any product or service hinges on the seamless onboarding of customers. As a seasoned professional in the realm of customer success , I’ve witnessed and overcome various challenges associated with customer onboarding. In this article, we will delve into the intricacies of navigating common pitfalls and proposing effective solutions to master the art of customer onboarding.

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Saying Goodbye To MQLs: How Does Marketing’s Life Change When Saying Goodbye To MQLs?

Forrester's Customer Insights

There are five key ways that marketing’s role changes when making the shift to buying groups and opportunities. Find out what they are in this week’s Saying Goodbye to MQLs blog.

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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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Prepare now for the changes coming to small business lending

West Monroe

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final ruling amending Regulation B (Reg B) to implement changes to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) through section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act. Under this ruling, covered financial institutions (FIs) will be required to collect and report on significant amounts of new data from small business applicants seeking credit.

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Embracing Life-Centric Experiences in the Fast-Moving Media & Entertainment Landscape

Braze

Media and entertainment brands have been growing at an astonishing rate over the past five years—but what happens when the boom times end?

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Loyalty partnerships: optimized models for partner contracting

Currency Alliance

As everyone knows in the loyalty industry, entering into new commercial agreements with partners can be a very time-consuming effort. First, there are the commercial discussions. Then there is the legal contracting – which involves all key stakeholders in creating a typical 30-40 page contract. Then there is the technical integration effort, and finally the collaborative marketing planning to promote the new partnership.

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Generative AI Promises Conversational CX For Customers And CX Pros

Forrester's Customer Insights

The Potential Of Generative AI For Customer Journey Mapping, Analytics, And Orchestration Generative AI’s transformative impact on journey mapping, journey analytics, and journey orchestration has only just begun. It promises to connect humans to complex journey data in more natural ways and generate hyperpersonalized recommendations for people and systems working with customers.

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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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Choosing the Right Chatbot Development Services: Why Vietnamese Partners Stand Out

CSM Magazine

In today’s digital landscape, chatbots have become an invaluable customer engagement and support tool for many businesses. According to Statista, the chatbot market is forecast to reach around 1.25 billion U.S. dollars in 2025, a 657% increase from 2016 levels. This rapid growth underscores the potential of conversational AI to transform customer experiences.

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What Google’s New Spam Protection Means For Sales And Marketing

Forrester's Customer Insights

Learn more about the impending changes to Gmail and Yahoo spam rules, along with what you can do about it.

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What is Omnichannel Analytics? [Everything you need to know]

SurveySensum

Mira is a crazy shopper and a pro at getting amazing deals. Whenever I want to buy something beyond my budget, I run to Mira. So, one day I observed the master at work. I saw that she explored at least 5 different shopping websites to shop for a pair of black heels. Finally, through a social media referral, she snagged the heels at a WHOPPING 25% DISCOUNT compared to the price listed on the brand’s website.

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This is Digital, Episode 31: AI for Executives: Practical Uses for You and Your Company

West Monroe

Listen to "AI for Executives: Practical Uses for You and Your Company" on Spreaker. About the episode Can generative AI fix your data problems? Is prompt engineering a role or a skill? How is ChatGPT really useful for leaders? Host Rissa Reddan welcomes leaders from West Monroe’s AI Lab–and the hosts of West Monroe’s podcast miniseries "This Is AI"–to answer your burning questions about gen AI heading into 2024.

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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.