Totango
JULY 13, 2021
Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. In the old days, growing your business was easy. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. But that was before the internet made it possible to deliver highly customized items.
Help Scout
JULY 15, 2021
When thinking about education, most of us tend to think only about teachers and other administrative staff — frontline workers, so to speak. It makes sense; frontline educators are incredibly important and often underappreciated. In reality, the education ecosystem is like an iceberg: What you see is just a small fraction of the whole. In order for frontline educators to do their jobs successfully, they need access to things like books, software, and various other supplies.
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Advantage Communications
JULY 13, 2021
New customer service strategies and innovative contact center technologies are changing the game when it comes to improving the customer experience (CX) and achieving new call center efficiencies.
Alida
JULY 14, 2021
How would you describe a digital insight community and its value to your organization? At Alida, we define a digital insight community as a customer engagement platform you can use to uncover agile, actionable insights from the right people at the right time—at scale. And how do we know? Well, we invented it.
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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.
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 13, 2021
Sometimes your Customer Experience requires you to outsource a portion of it to a third party. Maybe it’s an installer or a tow truck service, or even an entire call center, but whatever or whoever it is, this part of the experience is not under your control. Today, we will examine whether this is a good idea or not. We discussed this topic of outsourcing on a recent podcast , where my co-host shared a story about his friend who ordered a trampoline.
CXDNA Update brings together the best content for customer experience professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Totango
JULY 15, 2021
The role of a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) is a fairly new addition to the C-suite, but it has been on the rise over the past several years as companies are better understanding the importance of creating a customer-centric culture within their organizations. Customer success (CS) teams are designed to build, maintain and optimize lasting relationships with customers by helping them fulfill, and even exceed, their own business goals.
Alida
JULY 12, 2021
While you’ve been focusing on driving sales, rising above competitors, and keeping up with market volatility, you’ve missed something significant: A lot of unknown buyers—or potential buyers—have been coming and going on your digital properties.
Help Scout
JULY 13, 2021
Sometimes the customer service teams who are supposed to be solving problems somehow manage to make them so much worse instead. These are their stories — along with some tips to help you avoid ending up on this list next time we update it! 1. Running from responsibility The root of many terrible customer experiences is a company that is happy to collect money from a transaction but not to accept responsibility when things go wrong.
ShepHyken
JULY 12, 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. The Top Customer Service Trends: Digital Channels Overtake Service Options by Phillip Britt. (DestinationCRM) Even as interactions move to digital channels like chat, email, and social media, the companies providing the best customer service are ensuring that they don’t over
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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.
Michel Falcon Experience
JULY 16, 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, click here.… The post #07: How Companies Are Learning From Pro Sports to Lead Their Teams with Cody Royle appeared first on.
Optimove
JULY 12, 2021
Customers have an alternative to almost every brand, and competition is fierce for every industry and vertical out there. That’s why customer engagement must become an essential KPI for every business that cares about loyalty and lifetime value. The good news is that customer engagement is built or harmed with every brand interaction, both online and offline, and each interaction is an opportunity to provide customers with value, strength, and engagement by successfully addressing their needs an
Kustomer
JULY 15, 2021
Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Drew Chamberlain from JOANN to learn the secrets to keeping up with the modern customer. As times change, so should CX. Tune in to learn how you can adapt in these modern times. How CX has Changed Over the Years. In the old days of CX, the best an agent could do was to wait for a customer to call in and hope that they could answer their question with their limited tools.
ShepHyken
JULY 14, 2021
How do you say Yes to every customer request ? Is it possible? Is this customer service utopia? My friend Christine Trippi wrote a book titled Yes Is the Answer. And Cameron Mitchell, about whom I’ve written before, wrote a book with a similar title, Yes is the Answer. What is the Question ? Both of these authors have a hospitality background. Trippi is a world-class, award-winning hotel manager and Mitchell is a super-successful restauranteur.
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
JULY 15, 2021
Download the empathy statements PDF and practice your first five empathy responses to customers. Grab your empathy sheet!
Optimove
JULY 15, 2021
Different people react to different triggers. That’s why there is no one-size-fits-all tactic to get customers to engage in a certain way. And so, while encouraging customers to visit your site and make a purchase is typically the main objective of many marketing campaigns – sending a campaign with an assortment of products from your site may encourage some customers to click through to your site, but the majority of customers expect your emails to be more personalized than that.
ChurnZero
JULY 16, 2021
Today’s customers expect (and sometimes demand) a never-ending wheel of attraction, engagement, and retention after purchasing both the simplest and most complex of SaaS offerings. So, when the volume of customers creeps up, how do you incorporate automation to scale, without sacrificing that personalized white-glove experience you’ve worked so hard to develop?
ShepHyken
JULY 13, 2021
Authentic Customer Conversations. Collecting, Sharing, and Acting on Customer Knowledge. Shep Hyken interviews Jason Ten-Pow, CEO and President of ONR, the CX consulting firm he founded in 2009. They discuss how businesses can create long-term and sustainable revenue and profits by talking to their customers. Top Takeaways: When businesses take the mundane transactions to the experiential, customers come to see what they will do next.
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.
Upstream Works
JULY 16, 2021
It’s easy for contact centers to build a business case for adopting cloud technology – reasons ranging from meeting the needs of today’s customers to finding an economical path to modernizing the contact center. While these approaches will all help contact centers catch up to what customers expect in 2021, they don’t speak to what will be needed going forward to adapt to a constantly-changing environment, where customer needs and expectations do not stand still.
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 15, 2021
I am learning to play guitar. However, I am not playing guitar for people. So, except for my good lady wife, no one gets to hear my latest Pink Floyd cover. That’s because we do some things in private that we don’t want other people to see. . However, when it comes to privacy, we have very little of it these days. Someone is watching every move we make online, in our conversations near AI, and even from the patterns of our robot vacuums.
Feedbackly
JULY 16, 2021
In an era where customer experience is a key determinant in building a firm’s success and boosting growth, businesses are on the constant lookout.
ShepHyken
JULY 13, 2021
Authentic Customer Conversations. Collecting, Sharing, and Acting on Customer Knowledge. Shep Hyken interviews Jason Ten-Pow, CEO and President of ONR, the CX consulting firm he founded in 2009. They discuss how businesses can create long-term and sustainable revenue and profits by talking to their customers. Top Takeaways: When businesses take the mundane transactions to the experiential, customers come to see what they will do next.
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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.
Heart of the Customer
JULY 14, 2021
This post picks up where last week‘s left off… In giving bonuses based on overall survey results, companies are assuming that 1. teams actually know what to do in order to improve customer satisfaction and 2. they won’t do it unless incented to. Both points in that statement need to be analyzed. First, understanding how […]. The post Change Management, Not “Bribes,” Improves CX appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
Integrity Solutions
JULY 16, 2021
Effective team leadership requires a blend of people focus and goal focus. While it’s rare that someone will have a perfect balance of the two, getting a clear understanding of your natural leadership style will allow you to adjust when necessary to be more flexible to the needs of your team members. It’s an important first step in building and retaining a high-performing team.
kommunicate
JULY 16, 2021
Shopify is one of the most widely used e-commerce platforms that have helped many businesses globally to go online by building their marketplace. It’s used by more than 800,000 vendors worldwide. While the customer is the pivot around which the eCommerce business works, it is essential to have effective customer engagement to enhance their experience [.].
ShepHyken
JULY 13, 2021
Authentic Customer Conversations. Collecting, Sharing, and Acting on Customer Knowledge. Shep Hyken interviews Jason Ten-Pow, CEO and President of ONR, the CX consulting firm he founded in 2009. They discuss how businesses can create long-term and sustainable revenue and profits by talking to their customers. Top Takeaways: When businesses take the mundane transactions to the experiential, customers come to see what they will do next.
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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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