Kerry Bodine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

As I looked at Comparably’s recent ranking of the 100 companies with the happiest employees in 2021, something struck me: In one way or another, many of top-scoring companies have a strong focus on customer experience. Top ten winners in the large company category include: Peloton and Zoom , two companies known for their customer obsession (which, as a customer, I can personally attest to myself); Marketing software companies Adobe and Hubspot (which have both positioned themselves at providing

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Bill Quiseng

OCTOBER 10, 2021

As a customer service professional, you have been told by your supervisor to interact with all customers as if they are the customer persona. Of course, it is easier to have one of your customer personas. A persona is the general image of customer personalities. A persona is many customers wrapped all in one. But a customer is just one individual. Unlike a customer persona, each customer is different from the other.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Where is Customer Success Headed in 2022? “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” said Mike. “Gradually, then suddenly.”. You may be familiar with this passage from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, which in just three words sums up an intense effect we all feel at times. The sensation of change happening slowly, then all at once. At least, that’s how it seems when small actions compound over time and culminate in a sudden shift.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 11, 2021

People are power when it comes to business. And taking the time to understand employee thoughts, feelings, and feedback can be a game changer. After all, your employees are the ones keeping the wheel running. And if they don’t feel supported in their goals, employees are three times more likely to be job hunting. A successful employee experience (EX) program, then, must be at the top of your priority chain—and a successful EX program is one that allows employees to remain anonymous.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Okay, maybe it’s not the secret, but what I’m about to share with you is one of the secrets. Actually, three secrets. . In the real estate world, the three keys to success are location, location, location. In this article, we can say that three secrets to creating and sustaining customer loyalty are communication, communication, communication. The way you communicate, what you communicate, and how often you communicate can create the experience that gives a customer the confidence to contin

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BirdEye

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Attracting new customers is the obvious surface-level goal for any business. But, the reality is true growth is sustained by a focus on customer retention. Increasing customer retention by a mere 5% boosts profits by a whopping 25% to 95% ! So how do you go about increasing retention? By giving your customers what they want, and they want two-way texting. .

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There are a lot of elements to building a successful customer experience (CX) or employee experience (EX) program, but one of the most fundamental is employee and customer journey mapping. Journey mapping allows organizations to better understand the interactions and relationships that various audiences share with you, which allows you to create Experience Improvement (XI).

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Hello Customer

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Many CEOs find that the reality of their company’s Voice of the Customer program fails to deliver on their vision of CX success. In fact, 80% of them say it serves as a basic system of customer data collection and analysis, rather than an actual agent of change. The reason for this is that many companies, whether or not they like to admit it, are still pretty conservative and stick to traditional business-driving metrics and compartmentalized reporting.

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Kustomer

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Danilo Pozo from Cisco to learn about lifecycle management and being the customer’s number one supporter. Listen to the full podcast below to learn more about Danilo and his work creating a more economic workforce in developing communities.

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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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BirdEye

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Your business’s reputation is a valuable asset. Online reputation management can help you leverage it to its fullest potential. In this guide, we’ll go over how you can use online reputation management to rank higher on search, get chosen by more customers, and be the best business in your area. Table of contents Chapter 1: A beginner’s guide to online reputation management Frequently asked questions (FAQs) A brief history of business reputation management Why you need an online reputation

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Winter always brings challenges to certain sectors. In healthcare, there’s an increase in seasonal colds and flus putting pressure on existing services; in retail, there’s meeting the demand of the Christmas season. This winter promises to be like no other. It’s become a cliché to point out how impossible it is to predict what the coming months will bring, but few will dare to suggest the coming months will be straightforward in the face of potential supply chain disruptions.

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SurveySparrow

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Who wouldn’t love rewards? As the world of businesses has wholly transformed into digital, it’s never been so critical to startle the most valuable ones with rewards and recognition at every stage of their experience journey. From conducting customer rewards programs to surprising customers with gift coupons and rewarding the best employees on recognizing their efforts, creating a delightful experience for employees and customers has become increasingly crucial for businesses to sust

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Zonka Feedback

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Customer Experience is a determining factor to the sustained growth of any business. A remarkable customer experience encourages brand advocacy, promotes customer loyalty, retains customers, improves customer acquisition rate, and reduces churn.

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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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Eptica

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Date: Friday, October 15, 2021 Author: Trevor Davies, Head of Products, Enghouse Interactive Migrating call accounting to the cloud? Here’s what to consider. Published on: October 15, 2021. Author: Trevor Davies, Head of Products, Enghouse Interactive Many businesses are migrating to cloud-based unified communications solutions (such as Microsoft Teams) and want their related software, such as call accounting, to also be available in the cloud.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In January 2018, I joined Insite Energy to help lead a strategic customer service transformation. In this article, I will share some of the important lessons I have learned that will help maintain long-term excellence. At Insite Energy we provide heat metering, billing and payment services to landlords operating heat networks, providing a help-desk for residents of around 27,000 UK properties.

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One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Consistently choosing the right solution to better serve colleagues and clients is no easy task. First, the right solution is not necessarily the easiest or most popular. Next, you or your team can become comfortable choosing professionally comfortable solutions. Over time, your arsenal of comfortable solutions makes you myopic to selecting the best solutions for solving current problems.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 11, 2021

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. 4 Ways to Level Up Your Customer Service in 2021 by Reuben Yonatan. (Fast Company) Providing exceptional customer service is a tried and tested way for brands to stand out and succeed.

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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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Heart of the Customer

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This is the third in a three-part series that explores critical questions CX leaders should be asking – and able to answer. There is some overlap between issues and questions for B2C and B2B (covered previously) and B2B2C (covered here), but I’ve chosen to address each audience individually. B2B2C experiences, such as those offered by […]. The post 10 Questions for B2B2C CX Leaders appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Totango

OCTOBER 13, 2021

For effective customer success , respond to upset customer downgrades proactively. Just because a client downgrades, they don’t have to churn. In fact, you can use a downgrade as an opportunity to remind customers of the value of your product and the quality of your customer service, giving them a potential incentive to upgrade again. You can also use downgrades as data to gain insight into where customers are experiencing issues with your product, allowing you to make adjustments and improvem

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Zeisler Consulting

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As an Air Force Reservist, I’m always on the lookout for the ‘military discount’ to save a buck or two. Many brands offer a markdown of some sort: Flash your Common Access Card (CAC, the unnecessary obviously-has-to-be-an-acronym term we use to mean, “Military ID”) at checkout, and a lot of places knock 5, 10, or even 15 percent off the total for your purchases.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Beyond Happiness. How Authentic Leaders Lead with Happiness and Humanity. Shep Hyken interviews Jenn Lim, CEO of Delivering Happiness and the author of Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact. They discuss how leaders can adapt to the new workplace by being authentic and aligned with their purpose.

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Customer Enthusiast

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Back in 2013 I published my first book, Delight Your Customers. The subtitle of that book is 7 Simple Ways to Raise Your Customer Service from Ordinary to Extraordinary. I specified to my publisher that the subtitle should read “7 Simple Ways…” rather than “The 7 Simple Ways…” It was clear to me at that … Continue reading "The Elusive 8th Simple Way to Raise Customer Service Quality".

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Cyara

OCTOBER 15, 2021

“Hey Honey… Do you think you could wait until the end of my workday to finish that episode of The Real Housewives of Toledo? I’ve got sales to close, and for the life of me I can’t hear my customers ‘cause you’re using up the bandwidth!”.

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Totango

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Knowing what is driving customer adoption provides the information you can use to boost retention. Let’s look at three of the biggest keys. Continuous Onboarding. One key to higher adoption is extending the onboarding process beyond the initial account set-up phase. Setting up a new customer’s account is rightly emphasized as a key part of the onboarding process and a foundation for further SaaS adoption.

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Help Scout

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This list of 11 standout ecommerce customer service platforms will help you find the perfect tool to improve your company's customer support.

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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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