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What Can the Mandalorian Teach You About Your Customer Service?

Steve DiGioia

The Mandalorian. The blockbuster hit on the Disney Channel. A keen and faithful observer can see many takeaways that relate to the way we offer service. I’ve already written about Bigfoot Customer Service and Landscaper Customer Service. Those two articles highlight the unique aspects of service the two groups offer and how they hurt or help our service efforts.

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What Is a Living Journey Map?

Heart of the Customer

Once you find out what a living journey map can do, you won’t have any trouble understanding why it’s so important to the success of your CX initiatives. So what can it do? Unlike a static journey map, a living journey map doesn’t remain fixed in particular point in time. It changes and evolves as […]. The post What Is a Living Journey Map? appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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How to Streamline Your Buyer Journey to Build Loyal Customers

CSM Magazine

Building a loyal customer base is essential to growing and maintaining a successful business. Loyal customers will always choose your brand over any others. They will do this based on their experience of your products, customer service and the unique qualities that set your business apart. The Buyer Journey. The route a prospective buyer takes from addressing a problem to finding the solution is known as the buyer journey.

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What is a Voice of the Customer survey?

GetFeedback

The ultimate guide for using VoC surveys to improve the customer experience.

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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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The ER Strategy 2.0: Small Improvements Add Up

ShepHyken

Not long ago I wrote about how small improvements can make a big difference. Even just a 1% improvement can make an impact. And, if you focus on 1% (or more) again and again, over time you will make big improvements that will have a positive impact on your customers, employees, internal processes, and your bottom line. You’ll find ways to save money, make money, develop better ways of doing business and much more.

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5 Rules For Changing Your Customer Habits

Beyond Philosophy

A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. Customers buy habitually, and that’s great when their habit is to buy from you. The problem is sometimes they aren’t buying habitually from you, but instead from your competition.

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7 signs you are stuck in customer experience survival mode

Talkdesk

Find your way back to best practices. Over the past year, most customer-obsessed organizations were forced to accelerate their digital transformation efforts to meet the demands of the global pandemic. For some, that meant face-to-face interactions had to be replaced by completely new digital engagements. And for those already participating in the digital economy, they had to rapidly implement work-from-home (WFH) infrastructure to manage the deluge of incoming requests when agents could no long

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How AR Enables the 4 Key Field Service Trends of 2021

TechSee

In the last few years, companies have been investing in their field service function as a way to differentiate and personalize their services and improve overall operational efficiency. COVID-19 has resulted in a further increase in demand for service, with ServicePower reporting that 2020 field service trends resulted in field service organizations increasing investment in service workers by 72% to meet the rising demand.

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Guest Post: Improving Employee Experience for Your Customer Service Team

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Emily Lavin, Content & Social Executive at Oak Engage. She shares a 3-step guide on how to improve the employee experience while maximizing customer engagement. Where would a business be without a customer service team? There’s no denying that without an effective customer service team , a business would fall apart.

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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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14 ways to provide great customer service

GetFeedback

Follow these steps to provide an excellent customer service experience.

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The 5 Rules for Changing Your Customer Habits

Beyond Philosophy

I’ve changed many habits during the pandemic, from how I have business meetings to how I grocery shop. I am not the only one; people have changed so many routines. Today, we will talk about what we can learn from the pandemic and discuss the five rules for changing your customer habits. We discussed habits on a recent podcast. Many years ago, I read The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, and I have been fascinated by habits ever since.

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Using Integrations In Customer Experience

Lumoa

Customer experience integrations help you to automate your customer experience. The logic of this type of integration is the same as any other type of integration you can do with other tools. For example, you probably have integrated your CRM with your helpdesk already to get a better view of your customers so you can be even more efficient when solving their issues.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 15, 2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of 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 do’s and don’ts for creating a customer service knowledge base by TechGenyz. (TechGenyz) In this post, we will be exploring the benefits of a customer service knowledge base and what you should and should not when building a customer knowledge base for

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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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14 ways to provide great customer service

GetFeedback

Follow these steps to provide an excellent customer service experience.

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How to Eliminate Guesswork and Accelerate Triage With Kustomer’s Agent Suggestions

Kustomer

Great customer experiences depend on great agent experiences. Giving agents the right tools and knowledge is critical to empowering agents and facilitating customer-centric, empathetic support. And as studies have shown, good customer experiences have a direct impact on topline revenue, driving retention, loyalty, and word-of-mouth marketing. However, according to Forrester, agents on average spend 35% of their time searching for information, and another 15% performing repetitive, manual tasks.

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How to be a Zero Risk Company

The DiJulius Group

5 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1) Customer Service Feature Story It is easy to have excellent customer service when everything is humming along. Which typically happens during your slowest times. Perfect world circumstances are rare and the exception. You can count on human error, call-offs, customers being late, technology breakdowns, Read Full Article.

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Glia and Infosys Partner to Enhance Digital Customer Service for Businesses Worldwide

SaleMove

Today we have the honor of recognizing Glia’s partnership with Infosys, a global leader of next-generation digital solutions, advisory, and consulting services, to extend Digital Customer Service to Infosys’ business clients across the globe. Together, we are poised to optimize call center operations and improve the customer experience for businesses seeking to realize the benefits of a digital-first approach. .

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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Is This One of the Most Important Jobs in Business Today?

Beyond Philosophy

Behavioral Science is a growing field in business. It applies to everything and everything we do. We hosted two interesting guests on a recent podcast that might have one of the most important new business jobs today. Today, we will take a closer look at what they do and what they wish everyone understood about behavioral economics in business today.

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Your CX program guide to survey sample size, margin of error, confidence intervals, and more

delighted

When you start setting up a customer experience program, one of the first things you’ll consider is how many customer surveys to send out. This handy guide by Sean Mancillas, the head of our Customer Concierge Team, navigates you through statistics concepts like survey sample size and margin of error, equipping you to ballpark the survey and response volumes you’ll need for a best practice CX program.

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Amazing Business Radio: Christy Augustine

ShepHyken

Creating Customer Loyalty in a Digital World. How the Pandemic Transformed the E-Commerce Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Christy Augustine, Chief Operating Officer of Bloomreach. They discuss the digital commerce trends companies have been forced to adapt due to the pandemic and how those companies can succeed moving forward. Top Takeaways: Personalization has been and continues to be the big buzz word in the world of customer experience.

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What Self-Service Rate Can You Expect from Artificial Intelligence?

Inbenta

Even though there is no “real” benchmark for automated self-service solutions, we’re going to try to give you some indications of the kind of results you can realistically expect from such solutions. But first, what is customer self-service? Customer self-service is a solution or a set of solutions that enables web users to access information or even perform some simple tasks autonomously, without requiring the assistance of a customer service representative.

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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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7 Ways to Provide Perfect Customer Service in the Home Improvement Industry

CSM Magazine

‘The customer is always right’ is a phrase that is constantly being preached by business experts. If you are an entrepreneur, or you run company, you surely have heard this phrase one time or the other. How true it is! After all, it’s the customer who is spending money with you, so it’s the customer who must be treated right. This is particularly true in the highly competitive home improvement industry.

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5 revolutionary trends in patient experience for healthcare contact centers

Talkdesk

Healthcare providers are at a pivotal moment to reimagine the patient experience. We talked to almost 700 patients and more than 170 patient experience (PX) professionals to understand the changing dynamics of PX in healthcare. We heard the same thing over and over: patients expect more out of their experience with healthcare providers and the stakes are rising to meet that expectation.

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Create More Value by Speaking Less Professional Jargon

One Millimeter Mindset

At the beginning of each day, ask yourself these two questions to create more value for colleagues and clients. First, how do you create value during each meeting and customer touchpoint: written, verbally, visually, and experientially? Second, how dependent are you on professional jargon to communicate your professional value to others? If you target creating more value across the organization, then “unlearn” professional communication habits.

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5 digital transformation tips for restaurants

BirdEye

“With so many alternatives for all businesses, you stand out with your emotional connections and experience. You need to elevate your game to ensure that each guest is not only satisfied, but is a raving fan and telling others about your business.” – Jim Mizes, Former CEO, Blaze Pizza. COVID-19 has permanently changed customer behavior. Being stuck at home months at home has made customers more comfortable with online orders and contactless technology.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

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