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Guest Post: 5 Lessons Your Customer Service Team Can Learn From Disney

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Kritagya Pandey , a content writer at CallCenterHosting. She shares tips and tricks on how to create a Disney-like customer service experience. Delivering excellent customer service is an art. This era belongs to creating valuable and stellar experiences for the customers. And good customer service is defined as taking that extra step for the customers without being asked.

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5 Ways Customer Success Automation Can Maximize Your CS Team’s Time

Totango

The challenge of the digital marketplace is to make every customer feel like they are your only customer. Thankfully, the same advances that helped build that digital market also make it possible to provide every customer with personalized service. Having the ability to automate your CS teams’ work can make customer success scalable. For large high-touch accounts to tech-touch accounts, and everything in between, automation — used the right way — can add value for customers, while freeing up tim

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4 Tips to Encourage your Remote Customer Service Employees

Provide Support

The post 4 Tips to Encourage your Remote Customer Service Employees appeared first on Provide Support Blog.

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Is Your Diversity and Inclusiveness Real, or Imagined?

eglobalis

Culture Experience Is Your Diversity and Inclusiveness Real, or Imagined? Customer Experience Human Experience. The post Is Your Diversity and Inclusiveness Real, or Imagined? appeared first on Eglobalis.

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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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Personas, Interviews, Data & More: How to Know Your Customer

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Does Your Organization Agree on Who Your Customer Is? My workshopping and consulting leads me to work with a wide range of clients with all sorts of goals. Often these goals are focused on updating and improving existing customer experience policies, but sometimes I get to work with clients on an enormous goal: Redesigning their customer experience from the ground up.

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How to Avoid Roadblocks to Great Customer Service

ShepHyken

What gets in the way of creating a great customer service experience for you and/or your organization? Is it a process that is clunky, inconvenient and difficult for the customer? Is it people who aren’t properly trained or don’t have the right people skills? It’s easy to ask yourself these questions and self-diagnose your organization, but have you ever asked your people?

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Simplify employee and customer experiences to adapt and grow On Tech Target

eglobalis

Simplify employee experience and customer experiences to adapt and grow On Tech Target. The post Simplify employee and customer experiences to adapt and grow On Tech Target appeared first on Eglobalis.

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60 Customer Care RFP Questions for the Contact Center of 2020

BlueOcean

2020 has marked the workplace like no other year in recent history. For months, we’ve been settling into new patterns of working and communicating, and we’re finally beginning to see a return to some semblance of “normal.” Our favorite coffee shops are open and for many, the commute to work once again involves more than a walk down the hall … and yes, that RFP is back on your plate.

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Interview With CX Ambassador Nicole Sult

GetFeedback

Interview with Nicole Sult, senior director of customer experience at Lippert Components—the world’s leading supplier of high-quality RV products—about her career in the customer experience space.

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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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How to Use Customer Experience Marketing To Attract and Keep Customers

ReviewTrackers

What is Customer Experience Marketing? Customer experience marketing is the strategy of focusing marketing efforts on the customer and improving how the customer experiences your product or services. . The idea is simple: if people love your product, they’ll become your biggest promoters. If you delight your customers, they’ll recommend your product to their friends, family, and colleagues. .

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Amazing Business Radio: Andy MacMillan

ShepHyken

Closing the Empathy Gap in CX. How to Balance Technology with the Human-to-Human Customer Connection. Shep Hyken interviews Andy MacMillan , CEO of UserTesting. They discuss strategies for building a customer-centric culture by balancing empathy and human connection with digitization and technology. Top Takeaways: Many companies will do “functional testing” to make sure their products work, but leave out “user testing” to ensure that their customers are having a good experience with their produc

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Pandemic Stories fuel Your Professional Trajectory

One Millimeter Mindset

By now you probably have pandemic stories to tell. Most likely due to the ubiquitous impact of the current health scenario on how we work (and where, when, why, if). How has the pandemic fueled not only your own professional delivery of client-focused solutions? But also your teams’ and your organizations’, as you better serve each other and your clients?

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Why now is a great time to optimise your customer service – Part 3: Putting the right resources in place

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 Author: Anne-Merete Jensen - Senior Business Consultant Why now is a great time to optimise your customer service – Part 3: Putting the right resources in place. Published on: August 05, 2020. Author: Anne-Merete Jensen - Senior Business Consultant It’s essential that businesses are ready for changing customer needs as we inch our way out of pandemic lockdowns and move closer to Peak.

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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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The Best Marketing Certification Courses for Marketing Professionals

ReviewTrackers

There’s a growing amount of training courses and certifications for the modern-day marketer. Not only do they help give professionals the career boost (and credibility) they’re looking for; these courses and certifications can also bring real benefits to organizations across a wide range of industries, especially at a time when the whole marketing discipline is in the middle of an evolutionary change.

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5 Positive review examples: It’s all in the response

BirdEye

When it comes to online reviews, a high star rating isn’t enough to set your business apart from the competition. Without written reviews, a star rating (no matter how high) falls flat. The average consumer spends 13 minutes and 45 seconds reading through reviews and review responses before making a decision. The right review response from your business can make a 5-star review even more powerful and minimize the damage of a negative one.

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How focusing on costs alone can jeopardize the customer experience

Talkdesk

It’s no secret that organizations must rely on great customer experience (CX) as a competitive advantage to take their businesses to the next level. Adapting to rapidly-evolving customer demands creates sustainable customer loyalty — the recipe for long-lasting business success. With the arrival of the coronavirus (COVID-19), business priorities have shifted to focus solely on the safety of employees and customers, deploying a work-from-home (WFH) and social distancing model on a global sc

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Customer-led Journeys Just Became a Reality

Optimove

Earlier today, we announced the general availability of Optimove’s Self-Optimizing Journeys —a promise that began over a year ago, and today is finally a reality. Self-Optimizing Journeys are the first-ever AI-powered solution that autonomously determines the next-best-communication for each individual customer, at any given time, based on what will create the greatest impact on their customer lifetime value.

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of August 3, 2020

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. Personalization and Customer Experience Strategies for Success by Larisa Bedgood. (Business2Community) Personalized customer experiences are now at the center of all marketing initiatives.

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5 Rules for using Behavioral Science in Journey Mapping

Beyond Philosophy

The 5 Rules for Behavioral Journey Mapping. A lot of Behavioral Economics 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. What Are The Five Rules? We were training customers with journey mapping recently when it became apparent that people didn’t understand what journey mapping could do for them.

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Is Pandemic Professional Overwhelm The Elephant in the Room?

One Millimeter Mindset

More frequently, I hear about pandemic professional overwhelm. Because my colleagues and clients acknowledge how overwhelm and exhaustion are taking a toll on how they show up for work. How about you? At this point in our epic journey together, ponder how pandemic professional overwhelm becomes an elephant in our virtual meeting rooms. And in physical workplaces.

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Why Digital Infrastructure is at the Heart of Successful Customer Service

Advantage Communications

When you think of superior customer experiences and world-class customer service, the first thing that comes to mind for most is consumer-facing technologies. While you’re not wrong to think that, the real heart of successful customer service is the backend digital infrastructure behind it.

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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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Part 2: Taking “On-hold” Out of B2B Customer Support

Team Support

In Part 1 of this blog series we started exploring tools that can help your B2B customers solve issues on their own and ways to help them feel more comfortable doing so. Now in Part 2 of this series, we’ll explore one way that customers can speed up the time to ticket resolution with live chat. Let’s Chat! It’s no secret that more B2B customers are using live chat than ever before.

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Getting Started with Cyara: A Story About Moving from Manual to Automated Testing in the Contact Center

Cyara

As an Engineering Manager with responsibilities of development, testing, and execution of contact center applications, I can tell you that my organization has long been seeking ways to add efficiency, enhance performance, and reduce effort. Essentially, we have been exploring processes and products to help us become more agile, synchronized, and efficient in how we go about delivering high quality customer experience.

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How to Identify White Space & What To Do With It

NetBase

Sometimes the next big thing for a brand is found in the places where there is a small amount of buzz, but not enough to make it immediately identifiable. Having the right social analytics can show you how to spot white space and what to do with it! Sometimes all you need are the right questions. And with proper social listening you can discover a whole new world of opportunity.

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The Power of Disruption: Uber's COVID-19 Story

Chadwick Martin Bailey

I couldn’t have imagined that four years after I blogged about Uber’s evolving brand promise , we’d be debating the safety of a trip to the grocery store. The disruption wrought by COVID-19 has only accelerated that by advancing technology, socio-economic change, and evolving consumer needs. So how will Uber and other disruptive tech-driven brands face the challenge of how it best fits in consumers lives today ?

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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.