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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

How to provide the best customer service and support during this unprecedented holiday season. Guides

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Access to information is key to the success of any customer service team, whatever channel you use. But for this success to happen, this information can’t be siloed. For your company to thrive, your departments and the teams that comprise them must be on the same page at all times. For customer service, that means collecting, centralizing, and sorting important information into a well-crafted internal knowledge base.

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Omnichannel Document Metrics Article 52

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The last time you looked up product reviews, which ones did you notice first, 5-star, or 1-star? Also, how many 5-star reviews does it take to offset a 1-star review? Probably more than one. Today, I’m talking about why that is, and it comes down to two words that describe our instinctive behavior: Negativity Bias. We discussed Negativity Bias on a recent podcast.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

What is Employee Journey Mapping? If you’re familiar with customer journey mapping, then you may know more about employee journey mapping (EJM) than your realize. Employee journey mapping uses the same concepts and best practices of customer journey mapping to help you: Understand your employee experience better. Provide the resources, tools and support employees need.

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Customer Journey Mapping Net Promoter Score Customer Journey Leadership 143

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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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Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In CX, we all focus on making the experience easier on our customers. (We even made it the title of our book.) But building loyalty isn’t as simple as removing friction. Don’t get me wrong. It’s definitely worthwhile to simplify your customer experience. Friction is a key driver behind loyalty destruction, and your organization will […].

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Definition Loyalty Books Customer Experience 172

TechSee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Field service delivery is undergoing a transformation. This paradigm shift has effectively taken the “field” out of field services, with the industry focused on servicing customers in the most efficient way possible. What does this mean for the future of field service? The result of this shift is an explosion of remote service delivery. Gone is the traditional model of technicians dispatched to a customer’s location, toolbox in hand.

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Contact Center Innovation Social Media 2019 109

Customer Enthusiast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Between March and September of this year, sales at restaurants and bars plunged 27%, compared to the same period in 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And by April, according to the National Restaurant Association, more than 8 million restaurant employees had been laid off or furloughed. Experts anticipate that between 30% to 50% […]. The post Support local restaurants during Covid-19 appeared first on Steven Curtin.

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Kustomer

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Customer experience (CX) is a determining factor in whether customers are loyal to a brand or not. Over 80% of companies who prioritize customer experience report an increase in revenue. So, how can businesses ensure their CX is up to scratch? Brands must stay on top of CX trends. 2020 brought huge changes to the business world and impacted customer service and operations across the board.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

This is a crazy idea, but hear me out. When I was a kid, we had home-cooked meals almost every night. I thought my mom was the greatest cook in the world. She could make the best chicken. As a matter of fact, she made chicken almost every night. It turns out she could follow a recipe and had bought a book that had 365 chicken recipes—one for each day of the year.

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Customer Service Training Social Media Customer Service Representative Books 148

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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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Wootric

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Welcome to the “Age of the Customer.” Are you ready? Increased competition in nearly every market is leading businesses of all types to search for ways to attract and retain their ideal customers. Through technology, customers have unprecedented access to information about products and services. With a few clicks, they can compare your company with your competitor’s offering, and learn how others perceive you.

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NPS Net Promoter Score Metrics Effort Score 122

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Just like the chicken or egg conundrum the same could apply to COVID-19 and poor customer service. As many organisations hide behind the pandemic for failing service standards, Abbie Heslop, Commercial AI Analyst, EBI.AI shows how to buck the trend using Artificial Intelligence (AI). COVID-19 has thrown the spotlight on the age-old mystery of the chicken and the egg.

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Poor Customer Service Customer Service Insurance Automotive 105

CX Workout - Ideas Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Three Root Causes and Their Solutions. At Decooda, we believe that underperforming CX programs have three distinct root causes: 1) Lack of Strategic and Structural Alignment. 2) Misunderstanding the True Voice of Customers and Employees. 3) Little connection between the Employee Experience and Customer Experience. For example, why do businesses still support siloes between Customer Experience (CX), Data, Digital, Employee Experience (EX), Enterprise Technology, Human Resources, and Marketing?

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Net Promoter Score Employee Experience Customer Satisfaction Metrics 98

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

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. If Customer Service Reps Were Honest [Spooky Edition]: The Scary Reality Your Customer Service Agents Face Every Day Plus How You Can Help by Veronica Krieg.

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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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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. Nothing can truly replace positive, meaningful exchanges between two people. But when the interactions between your customers and your agents are filled with repetitive questions, long holds, and awkward pauses, the human connection falls to the wayside.

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Virtual Agent Customer Service Contact Center Average Handle Time 82

Call Experts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The shopping season is about to arrive, and now is the time to be planning. According to Salesforce , “Cyber Week digital traffic is still expected to grow by 28 percent year-over-year (in 2020) — a trend accelerated by nearly ubiquitous access from mobile phones and the fact that fewer people will be rushing to stores on Black Friday.” . One of the best ways to profit off the holiday season is to offer sales and promotions during Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

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Contact Center Omnichannel 2020 Social Media 98

BirdEye

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Customer Experience (CX) Marketing and Customer Experience Management operate in silos: both organizationally and technologically. As a result, they utilize different sets of customer data, making it difficult to measure and communicate customer needs with the timeliness, authenticity, and care required to create raving fans. The danger is real. Gone are the days when businesses could rely solely on their products and services to differentiate themselves.

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Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score Touchpoint Multi-Channel 98

The DiJulius Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

How to Understand the Irreversible Impact of the Pandemic on Business 4 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1) Feature Story How to Understand the Irreversible Impact of the Pandemic on Business What a year 2020 has been! For the first time in my life, I understand the saying, “What doesn’t kill you, Read Full Article. The post How to Understand the Irreversible Impact of the Pandemic on Business appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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2020 Article Leadership Customer Service 96

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.

Customer Insights

Win the Customer

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In simple words, customers rarely remain loyal to brands that compromise on their experiences. Read on to learn more about what it takes to improve customer experience and loyalty. You must’ve come across these one-liners if you’re a business owner: the customer is always right, the customer is king, or, the customer knows. An in-depth look at the one-liners reveals that all power, as far as buying a product or subscribing to a product is concerned, rests with the customer.

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Loyalty Customer Experience Customer Service Representative Loyalty Programs 85

One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Are clients reaching out to you about making hard calls? Mine are. Because their businesses are in trouble. And future sustainability appears uncertain. Thus you serve them in ways which may make you both uncomfortable. Because making hard calls involves having “those” conversations, together. Conversations grounded in mutual trust and respect because of the relationship preceding their request for your input.

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Culture Leadership 2020 Innovation 84

UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. Nothing can truly replace positive, meaningful exchanges between two people. But when the interactions between your customers and your agents are filled with repetitive questions, long holds, and awkward pauses, the human connection falls to the wayside.

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Virtual Agent Customer Service Contact Center Average Handle Time 72

C3Centricity

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

One of the greatest changes that the current pandemic has prompted, is the increase in the use of technology. From smarter homes to an improved online experience, people have a lot to gain from the situation. This is why UX design is vital to satisfying our customers’ demands and needs. To be fair, the trends were already there, covid just speeded them up.

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Customer Satisfaction Marketing Communication Reference 71

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Date: Friday, October 30, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Four benefits to improving customer service by integrating your CRM and telephony system. Published on: October 30, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Customers today expect a high quality, integrated and personalised experience, whatever channel they use to make contact with you.

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Customer Service 2020 Customer Relationship Management Blog 117

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

This week we feature an article from Michael Magnus, a Strategic Communication lecturer and marketing consultant at Magnus Opus. He shares the process of conducting consumer research and how to implement your findings into the customer experience. Have you ever been inside a Whole Foods that sells Louis Vuitton bags? Most likely no. Whole Foods understands what drives their customers’ purchase behavior.

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Insights Customer Service Marketing 2008 107

ClearAction

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Intentional Customer Experience as North Star for 2021 Lynn Hunsaker. In a time when customer attitudes and behaviors are shifting and evolving rapidly, companies are finding customer intelligence uses — across all functions enterprise-wide — to be vital to survival. Along with widespread thirst for customer insights is the heightened realization that mis-alignment to customers is wasteful and precarious.

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DemandJump

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Digital marketing is a strategy where many roads all lead customers to the same destination. Whether it’s social media, email, or paid search ads, the goal of getting new business is the same. How can marketing teams understand whether social media, email, search engine optimization, or a combination of all these are driving customer conversions? The answer is through digital marketing attribution.

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Multi-Channel Marketing Social Media Touchpoint 110

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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.

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