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AUGUST 29, 2021

As storefronts have evolved, so too has customer service. Now more than ever, customers are empowered to expect more from businesses and get more in return. Customers expect flexibility across channels and a consistent experience no matter how they reach out. In turn, businesses have adopted omnichannel customer service strategies for engagement. While omnichannel support improves the customer experience, as well as the agent experience, businesses have more to consider when allocating resources

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Zonka Feedback

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Ensuring a remarkable Customer Experience (CX) in a customer relationship delivers improved engagement, retention, satisfaction, and, ultimately, better financial growth. According to American Express, 70% of Americans are willing to spend an average of 13% more with businesses or brands that provide excellent customer experience. Similarly, Oracle found that 86% of customers are willing to pay more for a better customer experience.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 31, 2021

As a customer success leader, you’ve put a lot of hard work into building the perfect meetings with customers. You know to focus on the most relevant items at hand, come out with clear action items, and always have an agenda to keep things on track. . But did you know there is a difference between a meeting agenda and a meeting objective ? While an agenda is required to keep your team and your customer on track to make the most of your time together, both an agenda and an objective are needed t

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 31, 2021

What are the Best Customer Feedback Questions to Ask? I talk and write a lot about customer feedback. If you’ve read my article on Listening Assessments or downloaded our free Customer Interview Guide resource , you know I love customer feedback that tells a story and contextualizes our other data. When I talk with folks about customer feedback, one thing I often hear is “What questions should we be asking customers?

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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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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 30, 2021

A little while after Indra Nooyi was named the CEO of PepsiCo, she traveled home to India to visit her mother. The morning after she arrived, piles of visitors began pouring into her mothers’ home. They walked past Nooyi and straight to her mom where they congratulated her on her daughter’s accomplishment. They praised her for her ability to raise a daughter who would become CEO.

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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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Alida

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It shouldn’t be a surprise that customer experience (CX) is now a focus for many companies. According to Forrester, a small improvement in CX translates to millions of dollars in additional revenue per year. In many industries, CX is the competitive advantage that differentiates winners from losers.

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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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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This week we feature an article by Apira Giriharan, a Marketing Manager from Blackchair with extensive knowledge of all matters related to CX solutions. She writes about how contact center agents can maximize productivity and provide a better customer experience. Contact center agents are often hampered by a lack of data and resources, which undermines their productivity. .

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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? 🤔 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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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Tier 2 support team members are the folks responsible for handling technical escalations and more advanced inquiries that are beyond the skills or knowledge of your first level customer service representatives. When supporting a highly technical product, a tier 2 team may handle implementation and core product guidance. In contrast, the tier 2 team supporting a retail product may handle lower priority bugs, dispute resolutions, or triage, as their skills are less about product knowledge and more

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Alida

AUGUST 31, 2021

An increasing number of companies are transforming product development by embracing a design method that puts the customer first. Instead of relying on people’s gut instincts, this new design framework cultivates empathy for users, emphasizes iteration and prototyping, and promotes tests throughout the process.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In a hyper-connected world, social media can be a key component of your customer experience strategy. Here are ten things you can do to help provide great customer service on social media. 1. Align Your Brand Values. Visitors want to feel that they’re talking with someone real, even on social media. Your company’s tone should be reflected in your social media messages.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

I’ve written about this before. Our customers are smarter than ever when it comes to customer service and receiving a great customer experience. They no longer compare us only to our direct competitors, but instead, to the best service they have received from any company, large or small, global or local. These companies are setting the bar higher. They are forcing everyone in business to up their game, and that’s great for us as customers. .

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Help Scout

AUGUST 31, 2021

Customer support representative is one of the most common jobs on the market for individuals looking to work in technology, so the job description you write for your open role needs to be exceptional in order to attract applications from exceptional candidates. It’s important for your job description to clearly reflect your company’s needs and the requirements of the role.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 30, 2021

A couple of years ago, my wife, two daughters, and I took to the high seas aboard a Disney Cruise along with Elsa, Mickey, and all the other who’s-who of Disney favorite characters.

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Eptica

AUGUST 29, 2021

Date: Monday, August 30, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How to plan for customer service success at peak times. Published on: August 30, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Every sector faces peaks in demand, where delivering excellent customer service becomes even more business-critical. Being able to scale up (and down) resources to meet changing demand is therefore vital.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Focused on serving the needs of customers, helping them solve problems, teaching them how to use products, and answering their questions, customer service agents are central to business growth and effective operations. The most important factor to consider when communicating with customers is to deliver personalized and contextual interactions. Businesses need to be proactive rather than reactive and provide customers better options to connect and engage via customer service channels.

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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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Hallmark Business Connections

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

You can have the best products and plans in the world. But if your customers don’t feel a connection with your brand, they’ll leave. And they’ll leave even faster now that they’ve become more savvy online shoppers during the pandemic. Consumers have always appreciated service, sales, and marketing that makes them feel good. However, they’re growing increasingly discerning about where they put their money, right down to the health insurance they choose.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 30, 2021

When it comes to hiring salespeople, why has it become so hard to get people excited about a job in sales in the first place? If you’re hiring salespeople right now, you’re not alone. After a devastating year for layoffs and record-setting degrees of turnover on the horizon, open sales positions abound and salespeople are in hot demand. But there’s a reason so many of those roles remain unfilled.

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SurveySparrow

AUGUST 31, 2021

Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Naturally, you have to take certain measures to ensure they are happy and satisfied with your offering. But how do you get inside the mind of your customers? Through feedback, of course. There is no doubt that customer feedback is essential for growing a business. A well-structured survey, irrespective of the different types of surveys and their uses helps you identify consumer pain points, find scope for improvement, and discover the need for i

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Optimove

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

**. Gaming operators constantly look for ways to stand out and ensure that they’re ahead of the competition by finding ways to differentiate themselves. However, the foundations of successful gaming operators all boil down to the same components. Working with the leading gaming operators in the industry for over a decade, including Entain, Penn National, and Funstage, Optimove has identified three main strategic initiatives, pictured below, that all operators need to excel at to achieve su

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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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Magellan Solutions

AUGUST 31, 2021

Looking for a back office outsourcing company to assist you? Here’s how you can get one. For SMEs, a 24/7 and full back-office operations are no longer impossible in today’s digital environment all thanks to BPO companies in the Philippines. . If you are not yet subscribed to a BPO company, consider the pressure to provide faster service while meeting increased customer expectations and lowering costs has multiplied.

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Interactions

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Bank technology is shifting. Specifically, the automated customer service technology. Once only powered by human agents, the first automated technology that was introduced in the contact center acted mainly as a way to redirect calls to the right department. While this traditional automation technology may have helped internal organizational practices, it did little to boost customer satisfaction.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Focused on serving the needs of customers, helping them solve problems, teaching them how to use products, and answering their questions, customer service agents are central to business growth and effective operations. The most important factor to consider when communicating with customers is to deliver personalized and contextual interactions. Businesses need to be proactive rather than reactive and provide customers better options to connect and engage via customer service channels.

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Optimove

AUGUST 29, 2021

It may not come as a shock to you learning that our data shows a strong connection between the nature of the experience had with your brand early on – and the chances of them becoming a returning, more loyal customer. A great experience usually leads to a better retention rate. And a poor one, to lower such rates. Make sense, right? But what does come as a surprise to us here at Optimove time and again is how often marketing teams miss out on that insight and fail to act on what it tells them.

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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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