Sat.Sep 04, 2021 - Fri.Sep 10, 2021

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Guest Post: Customer Experience: Expectation vs. Reality

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Tanya Ahmed, a Digital Marketer of Vantage Circle , a cloud-based employee engagement platform. She writes about what customers expect from companies in 2021 and what they actually get. Consumers today expect speedier access to services than ever before. They count on meaningful interactions with service professionals who make them feel valued.

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How to Measure Customer Service Quality: Methods & Tools

Help Scout

Just because a customer clicked a smiley face in your post-service feedback survey does not mean you gave them high-quality service. They might love the product, and your service is just okay enough not to make a difference. Or they might be very happy with an answer, not knowing you’ve given them incomplete or out-of-date information.

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Structuring your Customer Success team

inSided

We’re back! It’s time for another post in our series, This is Digital Customer Success , where we set out to get clarity on all things Digital CS. In our last post, we talked about the metrics that matter in your digital-led approach. This week, it’s time to talk more about the people behind those metrics – it’s time to talk about team structure. Because your digital-led team might just look a little different from your “traditional” team.

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Beyond Remote Support: 5 Ways Your Organization can use Visual Assistance

TechSee

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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2024 State of Customer Education Report

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.

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You’re Terminated: Three Reasons Customers Will Stop Doing Business with You

ShepHyken

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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The Secret to Top Quality Customer Service? Putting Consumers in the Driving Seat

CSM Magazine

Rob Nash, Founder and Managing Director of 4 Roads explains how providing a good CX experience is all about empowering customers with technologies that enable them to reach solutions quickly. A recent report on Customer experience (CX) shows as much as one-third of customers would consider switching companies after just one instance of bad customer service.

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The Importance of Data Quality for AI Success in Customer Service

Kustomer

If you have ever been drawn to the words “ artificial intelligence ” in a sales pitch or wondered if machine learning could improve your business, you might have also questioned if your use case is even a good fit for what a machine learning model can do. A good way to approach answering this question is to consider the data you need to provide this artificially intelligent system in order for it to produce the promised result.

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Must-Have Customer Experience Management Skills for CX Professionals

Lumoa

Customer Experience is evolving. The barrier to entry is lower than ever, and new competitors are entering the market every day. To keep pace and make sure your products deliver value, you need to be continually listening for customer input. Sharpening your customer experience skills will help you stay ahead of your competitors. The Next Generation of CEM Today, product and service changes are typically driven by interviewing key clients, running surveys, or hosting customer advisory meetings.

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Top 10 trends shaping the future of Customer Success in 2021

CustomerSuccessBox

Change is the only constant in life. The pandemic has taught us to expect the unexpected and adapt to survive. In fact, we were not given any warning or time to adapt. Million of companies around the world were forced to go into perpetual ”expect the unexpected” but have adapted to the unprecedented change and how beautifully they’ve done. COVID coerced many of us into a myopic mindset- questioning ourselves and feeling depressed about setbacks.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

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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CX leader spotlight: Michael Bair, SVP of Customer Experience at FIGS

delighted

We sat down with Michael Bair, SVP of Customer Experience at FIGS to learn how his career learnings helped him build a flourishing CX program at the leading direct-to-consumer healthcare apparel and lifestyle brand for healthcare professionals. Read the full FIGS case study here. Can you tell us how you got started in customer experience? I was lucky enough to take a non-traditional path.

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Customer Experience ROI: A Framework for Measuring CX Success

Alida

Honoring the principle “customers as assets” connects volume and value to customer experience ROI and growth.

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Is It Time to Redefine Your Post Pandemic Professional Target?

One Millimeter Mindset

Do you have the same post pandemic professional target you aimed at about 18 months ago? Our professional environments have shifted. Many professionals I speak to feel somewhat out of sync professionally: trying to fit back into environments that just do not fit them anymore. Are you an out of sync professional? Is what you are feeling necessarily a bad thing?

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Better than NPS? Brand Alignment Score

Zeisler Consulting

I’ve written previously about how silly things like Net Promotor Score’s ‘Likelihood to Recommend’ question can seem. I think, generally, that comes more from a place of complacency than downright lunacy. It’s more likely people are asking questions like that less because they’re off their rocker than simply because, well, that’s what everybody is asking.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

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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Identifying Opportunities for Growth with Justin Robbins

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by CX expert, Justin Robbins. Justin’s the Chief Evangelist at CX Effect and has many years of experience working with customers, starting at an early age. Listen to the full podcast below to learn more about recognizing opportunities internally for customer success long-term.

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3 Winning B2B Client Engagement Strategies

Totango

B2B client engagement strategies can help you retain more customers if you know which best practices to follow. B2B engagement differs from B2C engagement in several important ways which require certain adjustments. Leveraging technology can help you implement the best practices you need to efficiently engage and retain B2B clients. These include engaging your customers from a 360-degree perspective, using support tools to help your clients use your product and taking a digital-first, team-based

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055: The Weather Report Challenge

The DiJulius Group

Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius of the DiJulius Group discusses the best and easiest way to find out if your employees have extremely high service aptitude and if your company is obsessed with customer service. You will learn: If your employees are not providing the same level of customer experience every single time, then you’re. Read Full Article.

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Moving to the cloud – 5 tips for a winning strategy

Eptica

Date: Monday, September 6, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Moving to the cloud – 5 tips for a winning strategy. Published on: September 06, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager More and more contact centres are recognising the benefits of adopting cloud technologies or moving their entire infrastructure into the cloud.

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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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The Rise of Self-Service: How Changing Consumer Demands Require New Options

Kustomer

Consumer demands are at an all time high. According to Kustomer’s latest research, a whopping 90% of respondents think contacting customer service should be easier, and 85% of respondents think customer service should be faster. Quick service also continues to outrank all other customer service qualities in terms of importance, no matter the demographic.

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Knowledge management for the contact center: The secret behind successful digital CX transformation

eGain Blogs

The Forrester CX Index reports have been sounding like a broken record year after year. Not a single company offered “excellent customer service,” the index dropped, or it barely moved, or it only millimetered up (attempted humor that also reflects reality!). This is despite the fast and furious addition of digital capabilities such as new interaction channels and virtual assistance.

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Three Ways to Make Your Case

Heart of the Customer

“We’ve all seen those studies where it says a one-point increase of CSAT equals this revenue, but to a Commercial Officer, a CEO, or a CFO, this doesn’t sound real. So it doesn’t put CX in a credible position. We need to prove this based on our own data: ‘These are the scores for the […]. The post Three Ways to Make Your Case appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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How emotional intelligence can help you cope with Christmas

Eptica

Date: Friday, September 10, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How emotional intelligence can help you cope with Christmas. Published on: September 10, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager As we approach the peak Christmas season, agents need to be ready for the extra stress that higher demand, and potentially grumpier customers, bring.

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Unlock the Future of Learning Growth and Retention at Cognition24!

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.

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The Hidden Messages That Are Killing Your Culture Without You Knowing

Beyond Philosophy

If you are like most companies, you probably think that you put the customer at the center of everything you do. But do you? There are some critical things that the most customer centric companies do differently than the average company. It requires a mindset that understands the essential nature of it and then a consistent approach to applying it in all the areas of the company, from how you recruit talent and empower employees to how you prioritize customers in your team meetings.

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Reduce Churn: Craft Customer Success Compensation Plans That Attract Top Tier Talent

ChurnZero

There are several different models of compensation plans , but not all can be guaranteed to produce the same results for your organization. We’ve found that, when looking to build a strong team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs), an incentive compensation plan , otherwise called a variable compensation plan , produces the best results. Not only does it motivate employees, but it helps them learn how their work affects the company’s performance, understand how they impact profits, and usually in

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Top 10 Employee Experience Management Software of 2021

SurveySparrow

Want the business gods on your side? Then this guide is for you! Imagine this. . A customer contacts your support team to express his dissatisfaction with the brand whose experience was superb earlier. But, of course, as a leader, you’ll try to find reasons for the blow and work towards improving the customer’s experience, won’t you? What if the employee experience needs work in place of the customer?

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Feedbackly + Salesforce: Make Upsell and Close More Deals, Automatically

Feedbackly

In the customer experience niche, Salesforce has proven to be one of the very valuable tools. It helps companies manage their relationships with customers.

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

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.