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It’s the Journey That Matters: Improving Customer Experience and Loyalty

Storyminers

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12 Quick and Easy Engagement Automations for Customer Success

ChurnZero

Whether it’s scheduling meeting requests , sending follow-up emails, or identifying opportune outreach moments , automati on gives you a sixth sense and an extra hand (or 2 0) to drive more effective engagements a cross all your accounts. By programming repetitive tasks and trigger-based communications – b uilt on behavior, lifecycle, or product usage – you never miss an opportunity to capitalize on your customers’ most pressing pain points, needs, and wants.

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Resolving Customer Service Complaints – How to Reduce Repetition & Agent Handoffs

Comm100

Delivering the perfect customer experience on every occasion across all your touchpoints is no easy feat. With increasing customer expectations and the rise of new support channels, customer service complaints are inevitable – but this doesn’t mean they’re irreparable. There are many common grievances that your agents will hear directly from the customer: “I’m sick of being put on hold”, “Why is my delivery late?

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How to Deliver a Seamless Customer Experience in the New Normal

GetFeedback

How to rethink your omnichannel CX strategy for 2020 and onward as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

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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Why a CX Mission Matters — And How to Create One

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

How Do Great Brands Deliver a Consistent Customer Experience? Some brands deliver consistently delightful experiences for customers like magic. Other brands seem to base the experience on which employee answers the call. How can some brands get it so right, so consistently? And others get it so wrong because there is no consistency? The answer is a Customer Experience Mission.

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5 Ways to Keep Contact Center Agents Engaged

Upstream Works

Contact center success is heavily dependent on the agents working the frontlines to service customers every single day. So, it’s important those agents feel engaged at work and are happy in their roles, with the companies they work for and the opportunities those companies make available to them. Contact center agent happiness and engagement go hand-in-hand with customer happiness and satisfaction.

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Does It Matter How You Refer to Your Customers?

ShepHyken

What do you call your customers? Do you call them “customers”? Maybe you call them clients, members, guests, patients, residents… the list can go on and on. Some people say that the term “client” implies a long-term relationship. Isn’t that what you want with all of your customers—a long-term relationship in which the customer continues to pay for what you sell?

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3 challenges in improving patient experience and satisfaction

Alida

Health care is no longer different than many consumer-driven industries in that it’s not immune to disruption. In health care, delivering a patient experience that meets—even exceeds—expectations is just as critical as a good customer experience in retail.

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Enlist a Volunteer CX Army

Heart of the Customer

One thing about being in CX – you’re unlikely to have a huge staff. Typically, that’s deliberate. CX doesn’t – and can’t! – own the entire experience. That’s what all those other departments do. Your role is to influence them, and align the entire organization on CX objectives. We’re not yet ready to share the […]. The post Enlist a Volunteer CX Army appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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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Are Your Project Teams Professionally Inclusive or Exclusive?

One Millimeter Mindset

When’s the last time you considered whether your project teams are professionally inclusive or exclusive? Probably something you assume you are doing, but may not be doing at all. Of course you look for representative expertise in a variety of professional functions you deem important to the project. However, is there an intentional, or unintentional, professional homogeneity and familiarity created in the team selection process?

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5 New Rules Guaranteed to Build Trust

Beyond Philosophy

5 New Rules Guaranteed to Build Trust. 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. When you choose to do business with a company, which do you prefer, Company A, that you trust, or Company B, that you don’t?

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3 challenges in improving patient experience and satisfaction

Alida

Health care is no longer different than many consumer-driven industries in that it’s not immune to disruption. In health care, delivering a patient experience that meets—even exceeds—expectations is just as critical as a good customer experience in retail.

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How to reframe the banking experience: Defining the new norm for banking contact centers

Talkdesk

Many financial institutions have been around for over 100 years and have survived depressions, recessions and two world wars. At some point, we feel they can survive any emergency. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to rethink how financial institutions will endure this sudden change and what the new normal will be. Accelerating the seamless digital journey.

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of August 31, 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. How to Prevent Customer Churn with Retention Marketing by Lauren Pope. (Learning Hub) Attracting new customers is cool and all, but do you know how to keep them around?

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Constant Evolution: 11 AI Trends For 2020

Ecrion

1. Automation | 2. AI to Aid Workers | 3. Cybersecurity | 4. Personalization | 5. Automated AI Development |. 6. Driverless Cars | 7. Facial Recognition | 8. AR Apps | 9. Logistics | 10. Peer-to-Peer Networks | 11. AI-Designed Content. Over the past decade, artificial intelligence has become more and more integrated into various industries. Although there are still individuals who fear that AI will replace their roles, the latest AI trends for 2020 signal a bright future for this industry. 82

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What Is an Email Management Software & Why You Need One?

ProProfs Chat

Did you know that around 306.4 Billion emails are sent and received worldwide every single day? By the time you finish reading this blog, around a billion emails would have been shared. . Let that sink in… . It’s without a doubt that within the last couple of decades, the ‘digital inbox’ has opened doors to improved communication. . However, there is more to sharing emails than simply hitting the send button.

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How to motivate your WFH contact center staff – tactics for remote employee engagement

TechSee

COVID-19 has forced many companies to transition their contact centers to enable remote work at scale. Equipping staff with the necessary home office equipment and facilitating network access is only the beginning. When employees find themselves away from their regular office setting, they may feel disconcerted and demotivated. Harvard Business Review reports that being forced to work from home reduces employee motivation by 17 points.

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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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How are Companies Adapting Customer Support Due to COVID-19?

ViiBE Blog

With social distancing as the new normal, words like “travel” and “contact” are considered taboo. Customers and companies alike have adapted in unique ways to handle the challenges of the pandemic. The key differentiator is visible in companies that embraced adaptation. They have experienced higher levels of success despite the challenges presented during the crisis.

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The Essential Guide to Digital Customer Engagement

Ecrion

How to Boost Digital Customer Engagement | Measuring Digital Customer Engagement. It’s 2020 and we are living in the digital age. Is your company up to speed? 70% of businesses have a digital transformation plan in place. If you’re not one of them, you’re behind the times. Customer engagement has always been a key element of any business marketing strategy.

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How To Create A Product Roadmap: An Essential Guide To Successful Product Planning

SurveySparrow

We had recently hosted an Ask Me Anything event about creating product roadmaps which made us delve deeper into its importance. We found that you can utilize your roadmap to up your product strategy game, improve decision-making, and steer your business on the path to success! Product roadmaps are an essential aspect of product planning & strategizing.

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Yelp Fact Sheet: Stats Your Business Needs to Know

ReviewTrackers

Facts and Figures About Yelp. Yelp is one of today’s most popular online review sites, with the unique power to influence purchase decisions and consumer behavior. Founded in 2004, it has also become one of the top digital platforms for businesses looking to improve their online reputation, enhance their search engine visibility, engage with potential and existing customers, and drive more people to their business locations.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

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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Work Smarter by RePurposing your Digital Content

Russel Lolacher

With the demand to produce so much content, think about repurposing the hard work you’ve already done to better reach your customers. 10x is a common term that seems to have a few different definitions. Rand Fishkin from Moz coined the term “10x content” in relation to “content that is 10 times better than the best result that can currently be found in the search results for a given keyword phrase or topic.

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Collaborative Learning Is A Major Benefit Of Virtual Training

Integrity Solutions

With people working remotely and dealing with professional and personal stresses alike, leaders are recognizing the value of collaborative learning. Investing in the workforce and keeping people engaged and growing is an effective way to walk the talk of those repeated value statement phrases about people being a company’s most important asset. by Steve Schmidt.

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15 Customer Self-Service and Experience Stats To Know (2020)

Vanilla Forums

To remain a top choice for your customers, you need to be informed. You need to know what your customers want (and don't want!) and use this information to ensure that you're creating the best customer experience possible. To help you understand the needs and attitudes of your customers, we've conducted some research on the importance of customer self-service support , and have explored the role that it plays in shaping buying decisions.

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Turning a crisis into an opportunity: greener and more sustainable contact centres

Eptica

Date: Thursday, September 3, 2020 Author: Jeremy Payne, Group VP of Marketing & Alliances of Enghouse Interactive Turning a crisis into an opportunity: greener and more sustainable contact centres. Published on: September 03, 2020. Author: Jeremy Payne, Group VP of Marketing & Alliances of Enghouse Interactive COVID-19 has led to millions of people rapidly switching to home working, including those who traditionally commuted to contact centres.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

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