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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As COVID-19 pushed companies and their customers online, digital transformation has taken over the customer service space like never before. In the first part of our series on Digital Transformation in Customer Service , we looked at why businesses can’t afford to ignore digital transformation. That included getting to the bottom of what digital transformation really is, and how it has transformed customer service for both the customer and the business. .

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BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Call volume forecasts are inarguably an essential tool in the successful delivery of customer care excellence. Your program’s forecast is the map that tells you where to go based on where you’ve been. Without it, you’re lost at sea. With it, you’re one significant step closer to delivering an exceptional customer experience. But customer care volume forecasting typically relies heavily on historic trends.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When most service organizations consider implementing Visual Assistance, they mainly focus on how to use the technology to support remote teams in the field or contact center. However, Visual Assistance can deliver value to many other use cases, all of which can help your organization save time and money and improve both the employee and customer experience.

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

There’s a problem with how many businesses view customer experience (CX) data: human beings cannot (and should not) be distilled down to numbers. For many years, experience programs have hailed numbers as a sort of holy grail, but the reality is that numbers are no substitute for genuine human connection. None of this is to say that metrics aren’t important, but companies should remember that they can only reveal so much about why customers may be experiencing an issue or even why they remain lo

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This article is sponsored by PayPal. ne·glect /n???lekt/. verb: fail to care for properly. noun: the state or fact of being uncared for. from Oxford Languages. Neglect can feel like a harsh word. It’s easy to think that if we’re neglectful toward our customers, it must be through some negative action. But the most common type of customer neglect we see is simply the lack of attention paid to putting the customer first.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

One of the favorite chapters I wrote in my recent book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , was about why customers would terminate their relationship with you. Yes, the word terminate ties into the movie Terminator , which somehow became a theme in the background of the book. So, why would a customer terminate his or her relationship with you?

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BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Customer experience is pretty much the hottest topic in the contact center and customer care space these days. We’ve been focused on designing and delivering best-in-class experiences for decades, but customer experience is an expansive, evolving topic, and staying current on trends and the latest thinking in customer experience is always a challenge.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The cable industry is at a crossroads. No longer are consumers watching news, entertainment, and sports over a limited number of channels at specifically scheduled times of the day. The Internet, mobile technologies, and streaming channels have given consumers an unlimited source of viewing options over any device of their choice and are leading the industry as whole into a cable digital transformation. .

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Every company executive will agree that having loyal customers is a key to business success. But what are executives really doing to encourage customer loyalty? Most businesses will point to their customer care training or customer relationship management (CRM) system and count on these tools to build loyalty. Some will point to their monthly newsletter or discount program to demonstrate their efforts.

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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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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

With access to fewer resources and generally leaner teams, small businesses need to be more creative and tactful in their approach to customer service. That’s not to say they can’t provide a top-notch experience — they absolutely can. They just need to be a little more focused with their efforts. In this guide, we cover some common topics surrounding small business customer service and provide some insights gained from our years of working in support — as well as insights from small business lea

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Alida

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As a result of data overload, dashboards have long been a commonly used data visualization tool for business intelligence and data teams. However, we've identified a number of trends that are leading to insights professionals and researchers turning towards this visual and interactive method of displaying data and telling stories. So why is this happening?

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Think about this … what if you were to charge a customer just to talk to you about what you would sell them? Or, if you own a retail store, a fee to enter the store. What would you have to do for your customers to be willing to pay for the privilege of buying your products or services? I’m not suggesting that you should. This is just to get you thinking about how good you really are.

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Thematic

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

NPS, CSAT, CES.it doesn’t matter how many letters you throw out there or how many customer experience (CX) scores you get. If you don’t know what’s driving your CX metrics, it’s hard to replicate success, let alone find ways to improve. Through comments in customer feedback surveys, social media conversations, call center dialogue, etc., your customers are often telling you how they feel about specific features, customer service quality, user experience, and more.

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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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MyCustomer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Engagement How do you find the right CX KPI for your company?

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What do you want a customer experience (CX) survey invitation to do? Besides literally inviting someone, you want your invitation to tell the recipient that they’re valued and will also receive something of value if they accept it. Obviously, not every invitation accomplishes that. Email survey invitations especially have a hard time convincing the customer to even open the invitation.

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ReviewTrackers

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Cultivating a high level of customer satisfaction is a priority for all restaurant brands because foodservice is one of the most competitive industries. The 2018 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) reported that American now spends more than half of their food budget on dining out, which puts the annual sales projection for the restaurant industry at nearly $800 billion.

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Michel Falcon Experience

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

To listen to this episode on an Apple device, click here. To listen on Spotify, click here. To listen to this episode on another platform,… The post #10: Lessons on Building a Team: Be Surgical in a Sea of Spray and Pray appeared first on.

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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. What Is Customer Loyalty and Retention (And 3 Tips for Improvement) by Scott Clark. (CMSWire) Although the terms “customer loyalty” and “customer retention” are often used interchangeably, they actually refer to two different things.

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Thematic

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

When we conduct research, need to explain changes in metrics or understand people's opinions, we always turn to qualitative data. Qualitative data is typically generated through: Interview transcripts Surveys with open-ended questions Contact center transcripts Texts and documents Audio and video recordings Observational notes Compared to quantitative data, which captures structured information, qualitative data is unstructured and has more depth.

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Since there are multiple, distinct steps in the customer journey , some companies choose to separate these steps and have them managed by separate roles: The sales team handles pre-sales. A customer onboarding specialist manages onboarding. A customer success specialist owns lifecycle management. If your company is splitting responsibilities in a similar way, this post will teach you how to write a customer onboarding specialist job description that attracts the most qualified candidates and get

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Every business can agree that a sterling brand reputation does wonders for both the customer base and the bottom line—but how can companies build a better rep by leveraging customer experience (CX) tools? Additionally, why are CX programs (especially those that drive Experience Improvement (XI)) ideal for building a reputation that your existing customers will love and that new customers will find enticing?

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Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Download agenda, themes, certificates and more here! Are you still trying to figure out how to celebrate Customer Service Week? After the year and a half your team has pulled your company through, don’t let National Customer Service Week pass without an epic celebration of your front line! Here are three steps to easy National Customer Service Week planning!

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We all want customers that return and buy more for us. Returning customers often buy more than new customers and require fewer resources to attract. So, how do you get customers to come back? . I went outside my own resources to get you an answer to that question. On a recent podcast, we hosted speaker and author Shep Hyken, one of the most influential voices in Customer Experience today.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Here is an interesting idea. Most businesses are competitive. They want to be better than their competition. Sometimes they try to out-service their competition. Sometimes they lower their prices to beat their competition. The point is that they are only looking at the competition. What if they looked beyond the competition? What if they looked at the world?

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Thematic

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could automatically analyze your support conversations to gain deep, actionable insights? Thematic has just rolled out two new integrations with Zendesk and Intercom. With just one click, you can now send your customer conversations to Thematic for automated tagging and analysis. Read on to learn how to use our powerful analytics for deeper customer insights.

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One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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