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Learning about customer service should not be seen as an event, but rather as a process.

Bill Quiseng

A wife walks into the living room where her husband is reading. She leans over and whispers “I love you.” Nothing. She repeats louder, “I love you.” Complete silence. She stares at him and asks, “I say I love you a LOT to you. You NEVER say I love you back. Why is that?” Her husband turns to her and declares, “Look, I told you I loved you when we got married.

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Sometimes Customers Are Just Having a Bad Day

ShepHyken

You’ve probably experienced this. No matter how hard you try to please some customers, they aren’t happy. It’s frustrating, but at the same time, it’s reality. And speaking of reality, no matter how good you are at creating an amazing customer experience, the customer’s perception counts. Their perception is their reality. I once went to an amazing restaurant – at least, I was told it was amazing.

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Defining the Stages of the Customer Journey Map: Awareness

Education Services Group

A customer journey map is one of the first things you think of when you’re trying to improve the customer experience. It’s a roadmap of every interaction you have with your customer from the first moment they learn about your business to the moment they decide to renew (or not renew). It’s an important tool for operationalizing your Customer Success practice and helps to demonstrate where there are gaps in engagement or opportunities to deepen your relationship with your customers.

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Introducing Claude: The New AI Assistant for Contact Centers

CSM Magazine

Claude is the latest addition to the Contact Center team, and he’s already making waves. As an AI assistant, Claude is designed to streamline the customer service experience, making it faster and more efficient for both customers and agents. Claude’s integration with the Zoom platform allows contact center agents to seamlessly transition from AI-assisted interactions to live video calls.

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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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How Aegon Is Reaping the Benefits of Customer Centricity

InMoment XI

At Forrester CX EMEA, we heard from InMoment client Aegon, a Dutch public company for life insurance, pensions, and asset management. The key message throughout the conference was to be bold and ensure that organisations are aligned, focused, and ready for the future. Aegon are certainly delivering on this agenda and are continuing to succeed by connecting people and processes across the entire organisation to achieve shared goals and focus on growth.

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Growth via Massive Customer Experience Savings

ClearAction

Growth via Massive Customer Experience Savings Lynn Hunsaker Customer experience savings are NOT about automation or slashing value to customers! That’s a recipe toward many unexpected costs. Whenever you think about savings, think about value expansion. Your enterprise goals are to continually increase value to investors, so by definition, you must continually increase value to customers.

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Improve Contact Center AHT and FCR with Automated Visual Flows

TechSee

2023 has been the year of efficiency. Across sectors and around the world, enterprise leaders have been carefully managing expenses and streamlining processes. The service industry is no exception. However, improving contact center efficiency cannot come at the cost of delivering a great customer, agent, or technician experience. Automation is the answer to service industry staffing shortages and efficiency requirements.

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The Key to a Great Customer Experience Design

InMoment XI

Customers are the lifeblood of any business, and providing them with a great experience can lead to increased loyalty, higher satisfaction, and improved brand reputation. It’s simple: every company needs customers, but what happens when there are so many brands to choose from? How can brands stand out? The customer experience (CX) is crucial for any business that wants to succeed in today’s highly competitive market.

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How to build a successful referral partner program

BirdEye

A successful business primarily depends on developing strong relationships with clients, vendors, and referral partners. 82% of small business owners say referrals are their primary source of new business. So, it’s clear that referrals are crucial for any company to increase its sales. But how do you go from generating some business through referrals to creating a separate referral partner program?

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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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Bilingual Answering Services: Meeting The Needs Of Diverse Customers

Magellan Solutions

Are you ready to make your brand more appealing to diverse customers ? Businesses deal with different types of customers every day, including those with foreign languages, such as Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, etc. If you want your business to be more competitive, consider hiring one of the best bilingual answering services. What Are Bilingual Answering Services?

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How combining this behavioral checklist to your journey maps will dramatically improve them

Beyond Philosophy

Journey Mapping is an excellent tool in experience design efforts. However, I often complain that they do not include the emotional journey, which is essential to designing an experience that engages emotionally with customers in a way that promotes customer loyalty. So, today, we will look at how you can incorporate the concepts we often talk about in this newsletter into your Journey Mapping efforts.

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Customize invoice QuickBooks Online: How to personalize your invoices

Method:CRM

Everyone knows that sending invoices is crucial to getting paid for your products or services. So there’s nothing more frustrating than doing everything right in the invoicing process but still having to wait forever for payments. But here’s what many businesses don’t realize. When you send a generic invoice with nothing on it but the total amount due, you miss out on your full revenue potential.

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Best HIPAA compliant scheduling software in 2023

BirdEye

According to research, approximately $150 billion in revenue is lost each year in the healthcare industry due to no-show appointments. To combat that, many medical practices are shifting to online scheduling software to help streamline their appointment process. However, regulators require that all medical software be HIPAA compliant in order to protect patient information.

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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 5 Most-Used Automated Customer Service Examples

Comm100

Wherever you look, automation is popping up across customer service teams as organizations look to improve efficiency, reduce support costs, and scale their business. While we read about the many benefits of automation in customer service, it can be difficult to know how exactly to introduce this into your own organization. This blog will help you on your way, providing the top automated customer service examples that can be used across industries.

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How Clarivate uses Artificial Intelligence you can trust to transform your world

Clarivate

From self-driving cars to ChatGPT and Amazon Bedrock, the world is quickly waking up to the enormous potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to change our world. Much discussion has focused on whether this will ultimately be for better or worse; but as with any seismic shift in technology, the answer will depend on how we choose to engage with and deploy the new tools.

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Tips to use the SAP Emarsys Connector in CDP

SAP Customer Experience

While using SAP Customer Data Platform (CDP) as the contacts source of ongoing data to SAP Emarsys for the first time and not being familiar with Emarsys, it may be helpful to know some important information beforehand so you can create the connector properly and troubleshoot any issue easily. CDP.

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7 referral program ideas that work

BirdEye

If you’re looking to implement a referral program for your business, you need some creative inspiration and brilliant customer referral program ideas. You also need to know what goes into an effective referral program as well as how to ensure it gets out to the right people. In this article, we look at everything you need to know about referral programs.

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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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Guest Post: How Next-Generation Loyalty Programs Elevate Customer Experiences

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Zsuzsa Kecsmar, CMO and Head of Partnerships of Antavo , a software company that manages brand loyalty and retention programs. She writes about next-generation loyalty programs and how they can enhance customer experience. In an ever-evolving marketplace, traditional loyalty programs are facing increasing challenges in capturing and retaining customer attention.

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The Sales Pro’s Guide to Sales Prospecting

Integrity Solutions

Sales prospecting is vital to the success of any sales organization. Simply learning how to find, approach and engage new customers is at the heart of being able to meet and exceed your sales goals. Why Is Sales Prospecting More Important Than Ever? Selling has become increasingly competitive. Only 60% of sales teams and reps hit their annual quotas in recent years, and 69% of sales professionals agree their job is harder now than it was in 2021.

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Your Opportunity to Influence SAP – Customer Engagement Initiative Projects for Localization with SAP Globalization Services

SAP Customer Experience

SAP Globalization Services provides a holistic localization experience across SAP’s solution portfolio, to enable enterprises to succeed locally and globally. With the second cycle of the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative in 2023, customers and partners are welcome to register until June 16 for the SAP Globalization Services projects and exchange.

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Reduce no-shows and increase revenue with a scheduling app

BirdEye

Scheduling appointments can be tedious and time-consuming if you do it manually. Moreover, if you forget your scheduled meetings, you could lose clients or miss out on a great opportunity to generate new business. That’s why you need an easy-to-use scheduling app to stay on top of your schedules. While there are many appointment schedulers in the market, most might not suit your business needs.

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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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Contact Center Team Leaders: The Key To Engaged and Motived Employees

COPC

Most contact centers recognize the importance of team leaders. However, the team leader role is also one of the most overlooked from a skills development perspective. This article uses insights from the following research to reveal the quantifiable impact of contact center team leaders on employee satisfaction, retention and performance. COPC Inc. US Employee Engagement Research Report COPC Inc.

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Open-ended questions: Definition, examples, and tips

delighted

Asking open-ended questions in your survey uncovers in-depth insights from respondents in their own words. While close-ended questions also provide valuable information, asking both question types in your survey gives you the data and context to make larger business decisions, act on immediate solutions, and plan long-term goals. In this post, we’ll explain what open-ended questions are, the difference between closed and open-ended questions (including when to use both), and examples of open-end

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Certification Live Session: SAP Solution Architect for Customer Experience certification preparation

SAP Customer Experience

Hi SAP Community! Fernando is back with some CX product learning news! By the end of last year, we updated the SAP Certified Application Associate – Solution Architect for Customer Experience certification with new and updated contents. This certification is unique within SAP Customer Experience portfolio cause it’s a cross.

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Top referral program template strategies, plus examples

BirdEye

Your happy customers and loyal fans are a great source of new leads. Offering them perks for sending their friends over is an effective technique to boost sales. Consider using a customer referral program template to boost your company’s word-of-mouth advertising and make the most of every positive customer experience. In this blog, we’ll explore referral template strategies and share examples.

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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.