Team Support
APRIL 20, 2021
What brings meaning into your professional life —. The sense of self-fulfillment? Nice compensation? Friendly colleagues? Hold on a second. I realize this question is a bit heavy. We associate our professional lives with many things, and what makes us happy and motivated about work might be different for everyone. But there’s one thing that motivates most of us: meaning.
GetFeedback
APRIL 22, 2021
A detailed explanation of the different between customer experience and user experience.
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Bold360
APRIL 20, 2021
Providing an optimized customer experience (CX) requires understanding what customers need – what they’re looking for and how they’re looking for it – and then quickly responding to those needs. Well, 2020 was a crash course in recalibrating CX to respond to rapidly evolving customer needs. What did Bold360 customers learn? That data is gold. Miri Duenias, Customer Relationship Manager at Bold360, offers insights from the frontlines.
Customer Bliss
APRIL 23, 2021
Global Gurus’ list for World’s Top 30 Customer Service Professionals for 2021 came out recently, and I wanted to use it as an opportunity to highlight some of my friends and colleagues who are not only on the list, but who have shared their wisdom on my podcast. (And, of course, I appreciate Global Gurus for including me on the list once again!
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Bill Quiseng
APRIL 18, 2021
Social media is bad for customer service. Whether ranting or raving, customers are telling stories online about businesses whether those businesses are listening or not. With customers using platforms like Twitter and Facebook to complain loudly and sometimes virally to the world, companies have had to add resources to respond accordingly. But I am not against monitoring social media or using it as a responsive customer service channel.
CXDNA Update brings together the best content for customer experience professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
TechSee
APRIL 21, 2021
Call centers are busier than ever. According to a 2021 survey, 65% of U.S. consumers have required assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. These growing call volumes – coupled with the continuous need for cost optimizations – have driven the demand and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in call centers. AI is moving forward rapidly, with contact center AI software continuously evolving and dramatically improving, and ultimately delivering more value. .
ShepHyken
APRIL 21, 2021
Let me put it to you in the simplest terms possible. When your customer calls, emails or texts you, you must respond. That is unless you don’t care if they ever do business with you again. One of our subscribers to The Shepard Letter , Andy Saks, owner of Spark Presentations and professional corporate presenter , sent in a story worth sharing. (By the way, if you’ve got an amazing – or horrific – customer service story, send it over.
ReviewTrackers
APRIL 20, 2021
Customer Acquisition: Banking Strategies. The ways that customers shop for banks and financial services providers have changed. So, therefore, have the methods and strategies for customer acquisition in banking. What does it take to acquire and keep new banking customers? How can companies achieve a better understanding of consumers’ new path to purchase?
Daniel Group
APRIL 23, 2021
Welcome to Success Strategies. Want your Customer Feedback scores to go up by 6 points? We’ve learned through our extensive research that this is just what happens when “Communication” is mentioned as something that went well! On the flipside, if “Communication” is mentioned that something that needs improve, your score may take a 40 point dip.
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Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper
Alida
APRIL 23, 2021
How do you stand on the right side of the line between the helpful and the creepy with artificial intelligence (AI)? It’s a question rarely asked about AI in customer experience.
ShepHyken
APRIL 23, 2021
This week we feature an article by Devin Pickell, a Growth Marketer at Nextiva. He shares customer service best practices that successful brands use to help their customers on social media. Businesses have been using social media for years now to publish content, engage with their audiences, advertise their products, and stand up for social causes. .
The DiJulius Group
APRIL 21, 2021
The key to building long-term customer loyalty is not through chasing price or luring new customers with discounts, rather it is time to focus on building a positive experience so engaging, so memorable, that your existing clients can’t stop talking about you to others. Is it Possible to Make Price Irrelevant? When I say you. Read Full Article.
Oracle
APRIL 19, 2021
Customer experience (CX) is taking a new shape as interactions between businesses and customers have largely migrated to the internet as a response to COVID-19. This shift is causing customers to prioritize positive, seamless, and often contactless experiences over other attributes such as brand, price, and product quality. According to Forbes Insights , 74% of shoppers say that CX is the key factor when deciding whether or not to buy from a company.
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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Alida
APRIL 20, 2021
New competitors popping up, alongside industry titans expanding into new markets, make the competition for share of wallet more crowded than ever. But with customers at their spending limit, companies looking to grow without overburdening customers are faced with a tough question—how do I stand out?
Kustomer
APRIL 22, 2021
Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by guests Kyle Coleman from Clari and Vikas Bhambri from Kustomer to understand how to make purchasing software seamless for potential buyers. They discuss the importance of empathy and understanding the different types of customers for a SAAS company.
ShepHyken
APRIL 20, 2021
The New Way to Take Care of a Customer: Autonomous Customer Service. How Autonomous Customer Service impacts the Customer Journey. Shep Hyken interviews Jeff Nicholson, Global Head CRM Product Marketing of Pegasystems. They discuss how autonomous customer service impacts the company, its employees, and their customers. Top Takeaways: 56% of consumers go to a company’s website before they call customer service.
ChurnZero
APRIL 23, 2021
If you are a high-touch Customer Success Manager (CSM) and simply cannot imagine a world where you actually enjoy using Customer Success software, I’m here to help. Allow me to convince you that high-touch Customer Success paired with automation is actually a match made in heaven. And follow along as I do so through a fun analogy of online dating. CSMs know all too well the painstaking and cringe-worthy challenges that come with a bad-fit customer: awkward and one-sided conversations, forced smi
Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group
As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX
Comm100
APRIL 22, 2021
By 2022, CNBC predicts that 75-90% of customer queries will be handled by a chatbot. From Starbucks to Duolingo and in almost every industry in between, top brands are turning to chatbots to improve their customer service and support operations. While some brands were initially hesitant to get onboard, thanks to tech advancements, these chatbot fears are being put to bed.
Hero Digital
APRIL 20, 2021
Hero Digital, a leading digital customer experience (CX) company, and FullContact, the industry leader in consumer Identity Resolution as a service, today announced their partnership to provide clients with new capabilities to recognize and enrich anonymous website and mobile app visitors. Leading brands have embraced the end of the 3rd party cookie and the necessity to align to a more modern and responsible approach to identification and personalization.
Inbenta
APRIL 22, 2021
In a world driven by the culture of immediacy and self-service, the provision of fast, high-quality responses to every request from customers and interested parties, all while reducing direct service contact, has become critical. To do so, chatbots are your best friend – but, not all chatbots are built the same. Here are some factors to consider when selecting your chatbot.
CSM Magazine
APRIL 22, 2021
2020 was a year that saw plenty of new technologies and customer journeys entering the mainstream as businesses got creative in order to continue catering to customers that couldn’t interact with them in a traditional, face-to-face manner. Despite businesses beginning to open their doors again, this trend has continued with consumers flocking to contactless and omnichannel options like click and collect or curbside pickup.
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SurveySparrow
APRIL 18, 2021
Imagine this. . Anytime you visit your favorite cafè, you choose to have the same coffee order. The barista soon realizes that you are a regular customer and notes down your usual purchase. So the next time you visit them, they have your order ready to go. Wouldn’t you agree that this small gesture would make your customer experience more enjoyable?
Education Services Group
APRIL 21, 2021
Stop! If you’re wondering what the ESG Customer Success Maturity Model is and why we built it, go back and read the first installment of this three-part series. If you’ve already devoured that and are ready for more, read on! Here in part two, I’ll talk about the second phase of Customer Success maturity – Operationalize. This phase of growth is all about erecting a structure on top of your CS foundation.
Kustomer
APRIL 23, 2021
We’re back again with some fresh CX stories from the frontlines. In case you missed it, check out our previous issue on the blog, recounting real life anecdotes on how businesses have solved their customer service challenges with the help of Kustomer. In this month’s edition, we discuss how a financial services company is improving agent efficiency, the power of data for a marketplace, and why intelligent routing is helping a subscription service deliver first-class service to VIPs.
Beyond Philosophy
APRIL 21, 2021
How to Build UNBREAKABLE Relationships With Your Customers. Brands have a problem sometimes. They get stuck and lose momentum and the ability to respond to changes in the market. Over time that can result in a loss of relevancy to their customers and an inability to keep their customers. Moreover, they lose out on forming solid relationships with customers that allow brands to enjoy the benefits of customer-driven growth.
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Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.
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