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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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Beyond data alone: Why humans are the true catalysts for ROI in digital transformation

West Monroe

In today's ever-evolving business landscape, organizations face the constant challenge of driving successful change while optimizing their return on investment (ROI): 61% of the C-suite executives we surveyed in our digital Signature Research said digital transformation was a top priority for them—and 38% others said it was an ongoing effort. Beneath the surface of data-driven strategies and fast-paced innovations, however, lies a critical yet often overlooked factor: the people within the

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The Real Value of VoC Programs

Cyara

As a Contact Center manager, you likely already have an established method of trying to understand how you are being perceived by your customers. Whether you have had a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program for quite some time, or you are just starting out, chances are that you are capturing customer feedback across all of your contact center channels, summarizing it and then presenting the data on a dashboard, which is reported to your leadership on a regular basis.

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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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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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5 Business Benefits of Outsourcing Inbound Call Center Services

Magellan Solutions

64% of business leaders affirm that customer satisfaction benefits business growth. Hence, there is a race to improve operations and customer service nowadays. Businesses are looking into efficient solutions that reduce costs and improve customer service while allowing companies to be flexible. Not surprisingly, outsourcing is the foremost solution everyone is investing in.

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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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When You Say ‘I Need to Speak to Someone’: Navigating Call Routing

Call Experts

In an increasingly digital world, where communication often occurs through screens and keyboards, there are moments when we find ourselves saying, I need to speak to someone!” Whether seeking assistance with a complex issue, making a critical inquiry, or simply wanting to connect with another human being, the phrase “I need to speak to someone” holds a special significance.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Enhanced Cloud Contract Card in Finance and Legal Dashboard in SAP for Me!

SAP Customer Experience

You spoke – we listened! In our continued commitment to improving our customer’s experience in SAP for Me, SAP is pleased to share enhancements that we have made to the functionality of the Cloud Contract Card in the Finance and Legal Dashboard of SAP for Me. To add clarity on.

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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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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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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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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.