CSM Magazine
JUNE 30, 2021
The fundamental goal of client satisfaction is at the heart of customer service. In the past, it meant giving out smiles or taking the occasional phone call from a dissatisfied customer. Now, there’s a lot more to it than that. The most significant shift in customer service is the sheer number of avenues through which customers can contact your organization.
Totango
JUNE 28, 2021
A f reemium strategy forms a foundation for SaaS marketing, but it’s often used without being understood. Here’s a closer look at the basics. We’ll define what a freemium strategy is. We’ll contrast it with the similar-sounding but distinct concept of a free trial strategy. And we’ll consider the role automation plays in deploying and optimizing freemium strategy.
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C3Centricity
JUNE 28, 2021
Web design is a variable that changes as fast, if not faster than we can get our latest creation published! In just the past twelve months, digital adoption has expanded five to ten times faster than was expected, thanks to the pandemic and lockdowns. This, together with the increased economic uncertainty and loss of predictability, has driven customers online in ever greater numbers.
TechSee
JUNE 30, 2021
Technician dispatches, known colloquially as “truck rolls,” are considered a necessary evil for many service organizations. If a customer has a need for service, the organization must dispatch a technician to deal with the issue, whether they like it or not. And they don’t like it. Why? Because companies that rely heavily on a technician workforce consider 25% of truck rolls (TSIA) as non-value-added activities and a tremendous waste of resources.
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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.
ShepHyken
JUNE 28, 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. America’s Best Customer Service Companies by Newsweek. (Newsweek) Newsweek has again partnered with respected global data research firm Statista to identify the stores that consistently provide the Best Customer Service 2021.
CXDNA Update brings together the best content for customer experience professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GetFeedback
JUNE 27, 2021
Retail customer experience is critical for your business. Learn how customer expectations are changing and how to measure and improve their experiences.
Help Scout
JUNE 30, 2021
It’s still yesterday for you. Statistically speaking, you (like most of my Help Scout colleagues) are probably somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Meanwhile, I cling to the bottom of the planet in Australia, probably in your tomorrow. That separation is about more than weather and the relative deadliness of the local wildlife. Remote vs. really remote.
ShepHyken
JULY 2, 2021
This week we feature an article by Devin Pickell, Growth Marketer at Nextiva. He writes about the do’s and don’ts of social media customer service. We already know more brands are using social media as a customer service channel for answering FAQs, customer complaints, and general support questions. . While social media is a great channel for facilitating customer inquiries, there is a right and a wrong way to use the channel.
Michel Falcon Experience
JUNE 30, 2021
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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.
GetFeedback
JUNE 27, 2021
How to use a customer experience maturity model to assess the current state of CX in your business, diagnose areas that need improvement, and guide your experience strategy.
CSM Magazine
JUNE 30, 2021
AI chatbot handles peaks and supports business growth. Founded in 2001, in the West Midlands, UK, as a manufacturer of leisure machines for the hospitality industry, Intouch Games launched its first mobile casino games in 2006. The company has won several awards for its mobile gaming applications and in-browser casino and bingo games, which are all developed in-house.
ShepHyken
JUNE 30, 2021
Not long ago I covered six ways to handle angry customers. Often an angry customer and a difficult customer are the same. But that’s not always true. Sometimes difficult customers aren’t angry. They are just tough and demanding. That said, the techniques I cover in both of these posts can work, with a little tweak or variation depending on the situation.
Inbenta
JUNE 30, 2021
Contents: Introduction. Chatbot examples in the travel & leisure industry. 1. Gol Airlines. 2. TravelClub. 3. Stubhub. Chatbot examples in the utility industry. 4. Naturgy. 5. Butagaz. Chatbot examples in the retail industry. 6. Benefit Cosmetics. 7. Eroski Supermarkets. Chatbot examples in the manufacturing industry. 8. Schlage. Chatbot examples in the healthcare industry. 9.
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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Myra Golden
JUNE 29, 2021
Mark your Calendars for October 4 – 8, 2021, because we’re celebrating National Customer Service Week! This year’s theme is, Celebrating the Heart of Service. And I’m facilitating five online video sessions!!! After the year we’ve had, I’m so ready to celebrate with you, to celebrate with you! Head over to [link] to sign up.
Kustomer
JULY 1, 2021
Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Tom Rieger from NSI , to learn about customer retention through enhancing wait times. While this is a hot topic in the industry, companies seem to be missing the mark. Tom teaches us everything we need to know in the podcast below. Listen along to learn more. .
ShepHyken
JUNE 29, 2021
The Customer Obsessed Organization. How to Lead with the Customer First. Shep Hyken interviews Shirley Macbeth, Chief Marketing Officer at Forrester , responsible for elevating the company’s thought leadership profile and generating demand for its portfolio of research, consulting, and events. They discuss how customer-obsessed organizations must put their customers at the center of their leadership, strategy, and operations.
ChurnZero
JULY 2, 2021
Choosing between Net Revenue Retention (NRR) and Gross Revenue Retention (GRR) as your north-star growth metric isn’t an either-or question. SaaS companies must be cognizant of and weigh the implications brought about by a sole focus on these metrics when assessing the performance of and building strategies for Customer Success. In this article, you’ll learn: Differences between Net Revenue Retention, Gross Revenue Retention, and Customer Retention with definitions and examples.
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.
Russel Lolacher
JUNE 29, 2021
World Social Media Day is here again, providing a great opportunity to inform and educate your own public sector organization about what its social media efforts do to benefit them and their audience: the public. First, a Social Media Day definition from NationalDay.com : “World Social Media Day was launched by Mashable on June 30, 2010. It was born as a way to recognize social media’s impact on global communication and to bring the world together to celebrate it.
Alida
JUNE 28, 2021
In an increasingly competitive market, homing in on the employee experience (EX) can differentiate your brand and result in a better end result for your customers.
Doing CX Right
JUNE 26, 2021
How do you keep employees engaged to deliver great customer experiences? Learn & practice what best in class brands like Trader Joe's does. The post How Trader Joe’s Does Experience Right – An Insider Perspective appeared first on Doing CX Right.
Zeisler Consulting
JUNE 30, 2021
Okay, so this is going to be controversial. Scandalous, even. But I’m going to come right out and say it: Please stop with the KPIs. Just quit it already. Whether you’re using NPS, C-SAT, CES…whatever it is, you’re only hurting your own CX efforts. And I’ll tell you why: Because you’re not getting anything out of it. Not out of your top-line metrics, at least.
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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.
Pink Guava
JUNE 29, 2021
Relook at Customer Experience with New Lens Customer Experience origin dates back to at least a couple of decades. The term itself has evolved over the period of time starting with primarily in-store, face to face interactions to building service delivery capabilities with access to phones and service agent 24x7. Over a period of time as Internet services picked up it flared the e-commerce industry allowing customers to choose from multiple providers and order from comfort of home.
Uniphore
JULY 1, 2021
Atlanta, GA – July 1, 2021 – Jacada, a leading provider of AI and RPA powered virtual assistants , recently released key insights on why contact center employees are stressed and how their stress negatively affects the customer experience. We wanted to get an unfiltered, insider look into how contact center employees view their roles, what their pain points are, and what solutions they feel could help them consistently deliver great customer experiences.
Help Scout
JULY 1, 2021
Every industry has its nuances. Perhaps there’s specific terminology to learn or a heavier focus on one type of metric over another. Often, customer service skills are transferable; however, in some cases there are significant differences that make things a bit more complicated. Take healthcare, for example: Outside of differing cultural norms, there are also laws pertaining to things like storing information or interacting with customers.
Eptica
JULY 2, 2021
Date: Thursday, July 1, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How customer service needs to embrace change in housing associations. Published on: July 01, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager From the rise of multichannel to the evolving regulatory landscape and the shift towards hybrid working triggered by the pandemic, customer service in housing associations is continually changing.
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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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