Russel Lolacher

MARCH 29, 2021

The thing about expectations is they never go down. SMS self service is no different. Customers are getting exceedingly comfortable navigating digital engagement with brands. And the expectations they have around what service will look like in that landscape continues to rise, whether your organization is ready or not. It’s often said that customers aren’t comparing you to your direct competition, they are comparing you to their last great customer experience.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 30, 2021

Note from Jeannie: Back in 2012, I recorded a talk for TEDx around what I then referred to as “micro-interactions.” In the nine years since, I’ve placed these at the core of the mission of Experience Investigators, and coined the term micromoments to better describe them. I’ve adapted the talk for you into the article that follows.

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Comm100

MARCH 30, 2021

Very few people have avoided the consequences of Covid-19 in their workplace. The pandemic has driven more people than ever to work from home, while forcing millions more into unemployment. Companies across industries slashed their budgets to accommodate the economic downturn, all while scrambling to meet new health guidelines and escalating customer demands.

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GetFeedback

MARCH 31, 2021

How CXM helps increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, and brand advocacy while cutting costs.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 31, 2021

What do mattress sales, wildlife populations, and peak customer service times all have in common? These seemingly random data points have all been impacted by COVID-19. Mattress sales have skyrocketed thanks to people spending more time at home—and discovering new sleep challenges as a result of the pandemic. Listen to the audio or read the article.

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ReviewTrackers

MARCH 31, 2021

Improving customer retention can prevent billions of dollars of lost revenue in the insurance industry. Research from CallMiner revealed that avoidable churn costs businesses $136 billion in the U.S. alone. What’s worse than losing billions in revenue is the amount that insurers have to pay to acquire new customers. According to Hubspot, the insurance industry is tied for the third-highest customer acquisition cost at $303.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 31, 2021

It’s been years since I’ve written about Get to Know Your Customer Day. Recently, however, I’ve been asked what it’s all about, so I thought it was time to bring it up again. This time I want to share a few tips on what to do for these special days that are observed throughout the year. Get to Know Your Customer Day happens four times a year, on the third Thursday of each quarter, so they are held in January, April, July, and October.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 2, 2021

Businesses often underestimate the importance of the areas of sound and smell in their Customer Experience. However, these two areas are crucial to get right—or you risk ending your Customer Experience on a sour note. This underexploited area is why I was so keen to get Simon Faure-Field , CEO of Equal Strategy , an experience design consultancy, on a recent podcast.

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TechSee

MARCH 30, 2021

Your business needs to generate more revenue. You turn to the sales team. Or do you? New thinking is pointing to another area of focus for boosting sales: Customer Service. Contact center agents and field service technicians are probably the best placed salespeople within the organization. Through regular contact with customers, they are positioned to build the kind of valuable relationships that can more easily drive revenue through upsells, like extended warranties, service contracts, or repla

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Kustomer

MARCH 30, 2021

Are you someone who likes to get the most out of their CRM? Are you someone who likes to learn new things? Well, we have great news for you! Based on customer feedback, we have created a team dedicated to learning and training to help our customers get the most value out of Kustomer and deliver best-in-class customer experiences. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of our brand new learning management system, Kustomer University.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 2, 2021

This week we feature an article by Hannah McCabe , Director of Demand at Stella Connect by Medallia. She shares common misconceptions about customer service and offers ways to fight them in order to provide great customer experiences. Delivering excellent customer service means understanding the ins and outs of your customer personas, your competitive landscape, your business, and – of course – your own organization and industry.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 27, 2021

What do the song “Fine Line” by Hootie and the Blowfish and the scent of air conditioning have in common? They are two things my family associates with taking holidays in the US. Once they hear the song or walk into an air-conditioned building, they are transported to our family trips in the US when they were young. However, these examples also represent critical areas for your Customer Experience design.

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Alida

MARCH 29, 2021

A video survey is a qualitative research survey with one or more embedded video questions.

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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? 🤔 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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Team Support

MARCH 31, 2021

Self-service is still good customer service. Offering an option for customers to help themselves can give your customer support reps more time to focus on improving the big-picture aspects of your service strategy. And the right customer support software makes it easy to give customers what they want when they need it. According to recent industry research from Coleman Parkes, 91 percent of respondents said they would use a knowledge base if it were available to them, and 75 percent said online

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ShepHyken

MARCH 30, 2021

The Most Powerful Marketing Tool is a Happy Customer. How to create a 5-Star Experience for Your Customers Every Time. Shep Hyken interviews Adele Gutman Milne , Culture and Guest Experience Expert. They discuss tips on how to achieve 5-Star ratings from the hospitality perspective. Top Takeaways: While it is an age-old adage that word of mouth is the most powerful advertising, many companies have not yet embraced this wonderful opportunity.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2021

ChurnZero has been recognized as a leader among Customer Success Software. ChurnZero, a real-time Customer Success platform, today announced that TrustRadius has recognized them with a 2021 Top Rated Award. With a trScore of 8.2 out of 10 and over 107 verified reviews, ChurnZero is recognized by the TrustRadius community as a valuable player in the Customer Success software category.

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The DiJulius Group

MARCH 31, 2021

5 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1. Customer Service Feature Story 6 Steps in Launching a Successful Customer Service Initiative that Lasts Every company is guilty of having a bunch of great ideas and incredible initiatives born in a meeting room only to eventually fizzle out and die, leaving the management team. Read Full Article. The post 6 Steps in Launching a Successful Customer Service Initiative that Lasts appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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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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Talkdesk

MARCH 30, 2021

Retail customers and CX professionals talked, we listened; here’s what they said. The line has officially blurred between digital and in-store experiences for consumers. With that comes big pressure on retailers to deliver a better customer experience (CX), with more than half (58%) of retail customers telling us that their expectations for interactions with their preferred brands and retailers are higher than a year ago. .

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ShepHyken

MARCH 29, 2021

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 Disney Knocks it Out of The Park With an Excellent Customer Experience (And How You Can Too) by Ellen Christenberry.

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Totango

MARCH 30, 2021

If you were presented with the opportunity to double or triple the size of your business virtually overnight, what would you say? For most people, the answer would be a swift “yes, please!” But what about all of the growing pains that come along with that expansion? For one thing, how would you scale your customer success operations quickly enough to meet the demand that this type of growth requires?

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One Millimeter Mindset

APRIL 1, 2021

March got us stuck between “here and there.” If you feel as though you were living in a cave and now emerge into the post-pandemic sunlight, you are not alone. Time to stop holding yourself back. Instead, choose to move one millimeter forward beyond where you are today! Finally, give yourself permission to get out of your own way. Because that professional choice is way overdue.

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BirdEye

MARCH 31, 2021

March might be over, but we’re excited to announce that Birdeye is marching forward with a grand total of 172 awards from G2’s Spring Report. Birdeye has been named an overall leader in categories as diverse as SMS Marketing, Experience Management, and Online Reputation Management for 12 consecutive quarters. There’s no other company on the market that offers businesses everything they need to handle their Experience Marketing needs in one, easy-to-use platform. .

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Heart of the Customer

APRIL 1, 2021

Imagine if your HR partners told you they were going to use one metric to measure all of your employees, and that should be how you determine each one’s overall effectiveness. You’d push back immediately. You’d say that your software developers should have different measurements than your salespeople, who should have different measurements than your […].

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 2, 2021

Guest blog post by Jay Ripton. The business environment is still just as competitive as it was before the pandemic. However, there is less tolerance for ineffectiveness and incompetency in customer interactions and engagement as expectations change radically. You can’t expect buyers to stick around for a brand that doesn’t deliver a seamless and consistent customer experience.

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One Millimeter Mindset

MARCH 30, 2021

Are you a strong advocate for your own professional cause? Or do you place your professional fate in the hands of others to recognize your significance? In working with professionals like you and speaking to audiences, I hear much concern expressed about how pandemic isolation plays out in post-pandemic career trajectories. As you and I enter the “vaccination” phase of the post-pandemic era, news sources herald that at least 1 in 4 professionals are seeking new roles, with different employers.

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