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JANUARY 6, 2022

Though customer experience (CX) programs are always changing and evolving, one element that many brands constantly consider is whether to add a CX incentives program to those initiatives. . On its face, such a program may seem quite straightforward—directly reward experience outcomes or add incentives to existing programs, and you’re good to go. However, there are actually quite a few factors that organizations need to look at while weighing an incentives program, not the least of which is ensur

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Bill Quiseng

JANUARY 3, 2022

Is customer service the frontline? Really? Are we called to duty on the frontline battling customers? Doctors and nurses don’t serve their ailing patients. They care. So shouldn’t customer service be customer care? Or even better …. We are the Customer CARE team. We CARE for each member of our team: We COMMUNICATE with each other. We listen to our team’s questions, concerns, and complaints with empathy and compassion.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 5, 2022

I love to receive great examples of outstanding customer service. I’m always on the lookout for great stories, whether I personally experience them, or they are sent in by our followers. What I share with you today is a great example of personalized and proactive communication. While I provide the lessons, the example comes from one of our subscribers, Dawn Mushill, who shared a letter that BarkBox wrote to one of its customers.

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Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 3, 2022

We all speak about expectations, customer expectations. They can be reasonable or extreme, and sometimes achievable or bizarre. But usually, they are appropriate. As a customer, I expect a basic minimum such as: The product or service should work as expected. The product or service should be reasonably priced and in line with similar products. The product or service should be safe to use.

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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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InMoment XI

JANUARY 4, 2022

We’ve all been there. You’re shopping for something online and you start to compare options on different websites. You’re excited to explore a particular item, but as soon as you click into the brand’s website, a little window pops up asking you what you think of the website experience. “What experience?” you think. “I barely just entered the page!”.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2022

Intelligent Virtual Assistant. The Opportunities and Fears Surrounding Intelligent Virtual Assistant. Shep Hyken interviews Genefa Murphy, the Chief Marketing Officer for Five9. They discuss how to use AI and automation to increase efficiency, capacity, and effectiveness within your contact center and ultimately deliver a better customer experience.

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Kustomer

JANUARY 7, 2022

While the holiday won’t be as fraught as the 2020 season, there will still be a fair share of challenges and obstacles to hurdle. That said, proactive steps in solidifying your brand’s customer experience (CX) strategy and protocols will help keep the cheer levels high, jeer levels low and set a wonderful brand precedent for 2022. While many seasonal shopping, dining and socializing norms have resumed, the challenges presented by the pandemic continue to create significant disruptions.

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The DiJulius Group

JANUARY 3, 2022

The 3 Worst Customer Service Stories Last Year Hotel kicks out grandma & granddaughter at night, after they left a bad review The Baymont Inn & Suites called the police to remove a 63-year-old grandmother and her 6-year-old granddaughter after they responded to an email asking how their room was. CEO of Better.com fires 900. Read Full Article.

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Russel Lolacher

JANUARY 5, 2022

Whether you’re trying to start a successful social media presence for your public service organization or grow an existing one to better serve the public and your organization, there are a few key ingredients you’ll need to be impactful. And if you don’t have them, you’re going to suck or stall. And certainly not meet the growing expectations the public has for digital engagement.

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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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BirdEye

JANUARY 5, 2022

David Bowie once belted out the lyrics, “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, Turn and face the strange.” This popular and iconic song has withstood the test of time. Why? Because the lyrics are true. Changes are a part of life, and Google, the most prevalent search engine is not immune to changes. Google just rolled out its Google product reviews 2.0 update on December 1st, the last time product reviews were revamped was in April 2021.

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Kustomer

JANUARY 7, 2022

Customer service can be a challenge in any type of business, but the last two years have created unprecedented obstacles and shifting circumstances across industries around the world. In order to deal with the highest stakes we’ve seen in a lifetime, businesses have been innovating the ways in which they engage with and sell to consumers. While popular before the pandemic, subscription-based businesses in particular have been enjoying accelerated growth within this transformed shopping culture.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 5, 2022

It’s not uncommon to find it difficult to grasp the concept of Customer Experience vs. Customer Success. The two are seemingly cut from the same cloth. For some, the Customer Experience definition is not that different from the one for Customer Success. So, are Customer Experience and Customer Success really the same? If not, what are the differences that set them apart?

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delighted

JANUARY 4, 2022

Gone are the days of mere customer transactions. Now, every interaction with a customer is a two-way conversation; one where customers expect to be asked for their opinions – and listened to – in order for you to keep their business. Companies need to open up a dialogue to better understand their customers and that dialogue starts with asking for customer feedback.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JANUARY 5, 2022

Each New Year brings with it a plethora of blog posts and articles. These pieces encourage you to set bold goals, crush quotas, and move forward with resilience and vigor!! Realistically, you just may not have the mental (and physical) energy to fulfill everything you are told to do in those articles. Equally realistically, consider how your professional priorities changed over the past 12 months due to pandemic experiences.

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Comm100

JANUARY 5, 2022

It’s unarguable that live chat can help improve communication between government and citizens. The real-time and accessible nature of live chat caters perfectly to today’s consumer expectations, while providing government agencies with an efficient and cost-effective channel. However, the effectiveness of this channel can vary widely depending on the live chat software.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 7, 2022

Josh Liebman is the Guest Experience Evangelist for ROLLER Software , a company that works with leisure and entertainment businesses to help them deliver better guest experiences. He shares the four reasons why businesses should not shy away from customer complaints. Complaint resolution and service recovery must be a critical aspect of your customer experience strategy.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 1, 2022

Our listeners have problems and they let us know about it. For our I’m in a Pickle feature on the podcast, Tina in New Zealand wrote to us because the engineering firm she works with thinks customer relationships are a waste of time. She wants to know how to convince the engineers that customer relationships are what get the customer strategy gears turning toward long-term success.

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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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Playvox

JANUARY 5, 2022

Employees today have more choices and flexibility about where and when they do their jobs. While working from anywhere has its advantages, it also means leaders have the extra challenge of managing contact center agents in multiple locations. Working differently means that leaders must also think expansively about the agent experience and how to keep teams engaged.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. In this article, we cover how profit centers and cost centers differ, as well as how Customer Success teams can position themselves to be viewed as a profitable function by: Emphasizing their value with the right metrics.

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Optimove

JANUARY 6, 2022

Some questions are as old as time. Take the whole chicken and egg thing. In comparison, Acquisition VS Retention is a much newer concept. Still, it’s such a critical business question that we’ve been writing about it for years. And, if you’re reading this right now, it’s safe to assume you care about it a little more than you do about poultry reproduction mysteries, with all due respect to any oviparous roaming the face of the earth.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 4, 2022

How do you build a long-term relationship with customers? Tina works for an engineering company in Australia and recently joined the New Zealand office. Tina’s key focus is on Customer Experience and development, and she wants her team to change their transactional approach to customer strategy. So, today, we will talk about convincing people that having a relationship with customers is a good idea.

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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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Advantage Communications

JANUARY 6, 2022

Emergencies happen. Sometimes they are technological failures, like your website going down, an app crashing or a hacker attack. Other times a natural disaster disrupts supply chains or damages your equipment.

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Totango

JANUARY 6, 2022

If you’ve been following along in our series about burnout and mental health in customer success, then you already know how to spot signs of burnout on your CS team and ways to help fight burnout as a CS leader. But even when we do everything right and create a culture of positivity and open communication within our organizations, occasional stress is inevitable – especially in a high-pressure industry like customer success.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 5, 2022

As we move into 2022, contact centers are facing unique challenges that include both tactical and strategic decision making. The tactical decisions pertain to specific needs or technology applications, such as how many agents to hire or what use cases your chatbots will be built around. Contact center leaders must also be thinking about strategic decisions, such as how the contact center is going to evolve or what CX will need to look like in 2022.

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Knowmax

JANUARY 2, 2022

The post 5 ways to make call flow script better appeared first on Knowmax.

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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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