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4 Ways Omnichannel Contact Center Solutions can Improve the Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Omnichannel contact center solutions should be more than just a few buzzwords that are thrown around in your boardrooms. They should be strategies that deliver the seamless, convenient, and efficient interactions with brands that customers expect. By integrating multiple communication channels into a unified system, businesses can significantly enhance the customer experience We have outlined four benefits that omnichannel contact center solutions will have on your business.

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Price Is Only Relevant in the Absence of Value

ShepHyken

The title of this article may sound like a lesson in sales, but it’s much bigger than that. It’s about the entire customer experience. If a promise to provide value in the CX is built into a company’s mission and values statements, it potentially becomes part of the culture. Imagine if your organization were bold enough to state that the value it delivers to customers would make price irrelevant.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Acting on Negative Feedback

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Ever feel like your customer feedback is being dismissed or ignored? Can negative comments be transformed into something that propels growth and change? In our latest episode, we tackle these questions and more. Discover how creating an effective action plan, gaining support from leaders and teams, and utilizing technology can transform negative feedback into actionable tasks.

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8 ways to improve customer experience in insurance industry

BirdEye

Customer experience is much more than just a buzzword, especially in the insurance industry. Clients are more likely to recommend a company that can guide them in choosing the right insurance product for them and their families. And that is why it is time to understand the factors contributing to customer experience in the insurance industry. This blog post explores the importance and methods of delivering an exceptional customer experience to your clients.

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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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The Ultimate Blueprint for Mastering Customer Service Metrics

InMoment XI

In today’s competitive business landscape, understanding customer service metrics is paramount. These metrics not only gauge the effectiveness of your customer service initiatives but also shape your overall business strategy and customer experience. This article delves deep into the world of customer service metrics, offering insights and actionable takeaways.

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What is Conversational AI and How is It Changing Customer Support?

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Conversational AI technology, powered by artificial intelligence, has revolutionized customer support by providing efficient and personalized assistance to customers. This technology can understand customers’ queries, provide relevant answers, and guide them toward a resolution. Combining AI and human agents can create a seamless and effective customer experience.

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5 Strategies to Elevate Your Retail Reputation Management

BirdEye

Your business’s online reputation could be the difference between online marketing success and defeat, as a single negative review could damage your reputation beyond repair. This may sound like a strong statement; however, the truth remains that 72% of customers won’t take action and purchase until they read reviews first. Unlike some industries where reputation revolves around corporate practices or policies, in retail reputation management, the quality, availability, and customer exper

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Announcing the E-Commerce Starter Pack: Achieve Faster ROI in 30 Days

Blueshift

Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with customers from various retail and e-commerce companies. One shared objective has consistently emerged: the pursuit of rapid growth and scalability in today’s ever-evolving marketing landscape. Unfortunately, many companies often find themselves entangled in the complexities of data integration and extended set-up processes.

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Designing Immersive Customer Experiences Based on Leading Brand Case Studies

Doing CX Right

Joe Wheeler joins Stacy Sherman to discuss how you can design immersive customer experiences in a digital-first world. You'll learn actionable strategies based on case studies of leading brands. The post Designing Immersive Customer Experiences Based on Leading Brand Case Studies appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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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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The Hidden Obstacles to Effective Planning. It’s Not What You Think!

Beyond Philosophy

If you have too much to do because you’ve agreed to do too many things, then you could suffer from a cognitive bias identified and explained by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky called the Planning Fallacy. Today, we look at why this happens and what you can do about it in the future. The Planning Fallacy is rooted in optimism and affected by how we think about the future.

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Grow sales by delighting customers

BirdEye

Customer experience can be vital in helping businesses grow and scale faster. Investing in processes and tools that contribute to customer delight significantly impacts the bottom line. This blog details the panel discussion on Grow sales by delighting customers with George Grigoryan – Marketing Director, SEV, and Vandana Agarwal, VP of Pre and Post-Sales, Birdeye and Justin Meredith.

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Safeguarding Email Deliverability: Uncovering Potential Roadblocks

Blueshift

We are back with a new blog in our Deliverability Doctors blog series – and this time we are talking about protecting your email deliverability, as well as the potential roadblocks you could encounter! Like every other challenge, sometimes email deliverability problems don’t emerge suddenly. If you didn’t notice the slight changes in the behavior of your email metrics, you are mistaken.

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Guest Post: 10 SMS Automation Best Practices for Exceptional Customer Satisfaction

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Philip Portman, Founder/CEO of Textdrip , a texting platform for insurance, mortgage, real estate, and solar sales. He shares how SMS automation can be leveraged to enhance customer experiences by providing personalized and timely interactions. In an era where customers value personalized and timely interactions, SMS automation has emerged as a powerful tool to create exceptional customer experiences.

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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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ChatGPT Customer Service – Should My Team Be Using it?

Comm100

The sudden birth of ChatGPT into the mass market has created as many questions as it provides answers. Hailing from OpenAI’s cutting-edge technology, ChatGPT has rapidly risen to fame, offering an interactive experience that feels remarkably human. Its sophisticated ability to understand and generate human-like text has unlocked opportunities across sectors, one of the most intriguing being customer service.

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Free Webinar: Personalized Customer Experience – What, Why, How to measure

Feedbackly

Join us on November 1st to hear about how to maximize the outcome of customer experience personalization. Date: November 1st, 2023 Time: 2 PM EET (UTC +2) / 12 PM GMT (UTC +0) Tiempo de duración: 60 min >> Save your free seat here Everybody is saying that personalized customer experience (CX) is important and we need to do it, but only a few actually know if they are doing it right.

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Improve the agent experience with the right technology

Eptica

Date: Friday, October 13, 2023 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Improve the agent experience with the right technology Published on: October 13, 2023 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Not only is improving the agent experience in the contact centre good for agents, it’s also good for business. Our latest blog covers the role of technology in making the agent experience better.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of October 9, 2023

ShepHyken

Each week, I read many 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. 5 Elements to Maintaining Consumer Trust in Today’s Experience Economy by Barbara Holzapfel (Fast Company) Earning customer trust does not require a complex strategy, but it needs a thorough understanding of the customer and a strong desire to deliver truly differentiated a

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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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Eye on Innovation Series | Episode 2: Human-Centric Research

2020 Research

[link] In Episode 2 of Sago’s Eye on Innovation Series , Ash Wade, EVP of Revenue Operations at Sago, interviews Raj Manocha, Chief Client Officer at Sago, on the topic of improving the human experience in research. Listen to Raj’s thoughts on the role of AI in research and the importance of balancing technology with human expertise and oversight. Also, learn about the potential of synthetic modeling to engage with underrepresented or hard-to-reach groups and how integrating AI into the research

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Turn Negative Customer Reviews into Positive with These 7 Steps

BirdEye

Online reviews heavily influence a consumer’s decision to buy from your business. Positive reviews are great for sales. And they bolster your online reputation management efforts. By generating personalized responses and continuously monitoring feedback, businesses can mitigate the damage caused by negative customer reviews and use them as catalysts for improvement.

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Custom Payment Solutions: Your Competitive Edge in a Digital World

CSM Magazine

These days, with life moving so fast and new technology coming out all the time, how we pay for things keeps changing. Companies are always trying to use the latest digital tools to get ahead. So creating customized payment solutions tailored to their needs is becoming the key advantage for businesses wanting to stand out from the crowd. In this article, we’ll look at how these specialized payment systems are transforming the payment processing world.

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Why we all don’t plan effectively. It’s not what you think it is!

Beyond Philosophy

For many of us, planning can be an area of opportunity. We underestimate how much time something will take and how much time we will have available for something, particularly regarding project completion. However, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky explained why we do this, and we will tell you what we can do about it. Kahneman and Tversky call this phenomenon the Planning Fallacy.

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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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Insurance Digital Self-Service Still Requires Human Support 

SaleMove

Insurance companies have been playing catch up when it comes to the digital experience they provide to their policyholders and agents. The precedent set by other industries has elevated customer expectations, leaving insurers racing to digitally transform. The digital self-service capabilities available to policyholders and agents today vary greatly by carrier, but generally speaking, insurers […] The post Insurance Digital Self-Service Still Requires Human Support appeared first on Glia

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Stop Doing these 10 things to improve your customer experience!

Innovative CX

Journey Mapping Surveying customers (VOC) Creating ROI’s Hiring CX “program” managers Engaging CX consultants Buying technology Attending CX conferences Listening to CX webinars and podcasts Reading the latest “how to do CX” book. Tracking NPS scores No, the headline of this article isn’t a misprint. Yes, these 10 things are commonly considered the key elements of any customer experience improvement initiative.

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How to find survey respondents and get the most out of your surveys 

BirdEye

The people who take part in your surveys are just as crucial as the accuracy of the survey results. Unfortunately, finding the right survey respondents can be challenging for many business owners. If you’re on the hunt for customer opinions, you need to target the correct audience — one that will be fair but honest. And knowing where and how to find that audience is key.

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Why AHTs Still Matter and 5 Ways to Improve Them

CSM Magazine

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. It’s important to strike the balance between speed and personalised service delivery. The experience a company provides is as important as its products or services, as confirmed in a study by Salesforce of nearly 17,000 consumers worldwide.

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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.