Mon.Oct 18, 2021

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Your Customers Don’t Feel Heard

Alida

The pandemic has sparked immense change in consumer behaviour trends and so it should come as no surprise that consumer needs and desires have also shifted. But have brands adapted alongside their customer base? According to over 5,000 global consumers, clearly not enough.

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How Device Intelligence Can Fuel Customer-Centric Decisions

Guavus

When I think about how mobile devices have evolved over the last few decades, it is difficult to remember a time before connected devices were everywhere. Without giving away my age, I can say that I vaguely remember when my flip phone was used simply for phone calls and the occasional text message (if I had the patience to repeatedly press the same key to get to the letter of the alphabet I needed).

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 10-18-2021

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. Why A Sparkler Beats A Candle Every Time by Dan Gingiss. (Dan Gingiss) Find a “candle” in your customer experience and see if you can upgrade it to the way-cooler “sparkler.

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Automation and Relationships: Choosing the Best KAM Software

Kapta Customer Success

Your key account management teams need to be talking to client contacts, managing the customer experience, and growing their book of business. The only way to meet your forecasted goals and retain strong business relationships is by giving your team the flexibility and resources they need to move forward.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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5 Ways Streamlining Business Operations Can Improve Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Just like anything in life, successfully running a business is all about simplifying processes and eliminating complicated steps. Indeed, it’s true that working smart, not hard spells success to many companies across all industries. Working smart is better known in business jargon as streamlining. Today, there are countless processes involved in running a business, and they all go way beyond just upgrading production sequences.

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All You Need to Know about the Corporate Group (CCC) function

SAP Customer Experience

Hi Everyone, If you are wondering what exactly is a CCC account with SAP, this blog post will explain everything you need to know about the Corporate Group Function topic and provide information on the benefits of being part of a CCC account as well as the steps on how.

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inQuba Announced Microsoft ISV Partner of the Year for its Financial Services Industry Solutions

inQuba

Leading Customer Journey Management and Customer Experience (CX) software company, inQuba, has been announced as Microsoft’s ISV Partner of the Year, Industry Solution, Financial Services Industry. Announced on 28 September, the Awards are held annually and honour South African technology companies which have excelled in delivering Microsoft solutions over Microsoft’s financial year 2021 (1 July 2020 through 30 June 2021).

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Tips on Improving Your Company’s Customer Service

CSM Magazine

A company’s customer service is at the core of its success. You may have the best products in the world, but if your customers are not happy with the service they are getting from you, they will look elsewhere. There are several components to establishing a good customer service record that will keep people coming back. Good Experiences. People often think about good customer service in terms of making sure the company is good at solving problems when they arise, but great customer service

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How can organisations set realistic customer service expectations without harming their brand?

MyCustomer

Loyalty How to set realistic customer service expectations.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

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

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Rhett Parsons Joins the AnswerNet BPO Team

CSM Magazine

AnswerNet , a full-service provider of inbound, outbound, automated, and global BPO contact center services, is pleased to announce that Rhett Parsons has been named the company’s new Senior Business Development Executive for the BPO division. Mr. Parsons brings more than 30 years’ experience in both business development and customer service programs for enterprise-level clients.

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CX Leader of the Year 2021 finalists revealed!

MyCustomer

Engagement CX Leader of the Year 2021 finalists revealed!

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Is the NBA Customer Service An Example To Follow?

CSM Magazine

The National Basketball Association is the biggest basketball league in the world sweeping most of the world’s basketball followers. The league was launched back in 1946 with a different name “The Basketball Association of America“ and it stayed that way for three years after transforming to the National Basketball Association. The BAA had a rough start, with only 11 teams and 4 of them decided to drop out after the first year.

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Hybrid Work Model: Everything You Need to Know in 2021

SurveySparrow

Working on your return-to-office approach? Starting to consider a hybrid work model? As we’re beginning to return to office spaces, a hybrid work environment may be the best way to do so. We’ve experienced a drastic departure from the traditional work model due to the COVID pandemic. Gone are the days when employees reported to their designated space five days a week.

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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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Which Internet Service Provider Has the Best Support?

CSM Magazine

Internet service providers offer different levels of support and customer service. But which Internet service provider has the best support? According to an annual survey by HighSpeedInternet.com , the Internet service provider that has the most satisfied customer base and best support is EarthLink. Right behind it, AT&T and Verizon finished tied for second place.

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Born Digital, episode 1: Brand loyalty for the people

PK

An series hosted by Katie Martell on brand loyalty strategies, in partnership with Adobe. Brand loyalty is hurting. Due to the pandemic, shifts in how people buy and who they […]. The post Born Digital, episode 1: Brand loyalty for the people appeared first on PK.

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How European Auto And Home Insurers Can Differentiate On Customer Experience

Forrester's Customer Insights

Forrester surveyed customers of the 32 of the largest and most important auto and home insurance brands in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK about the quality of their experiences as a part of our European Auto And Home Insurers Customer Experience Index, 2021.

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Oct 18 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: VP Customer Success Location: Irvine, CA, US (Hybrid) Organization: IntelligenceBank As a VP of Customer Success, you will achieve business targets for upsell, product usage and engagement, retention ARR and churn prevention for the North American region. Ensure Customer Support KPIs are met, and the Support function of the business is structured for scalable growth.

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

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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How to Create Virtual Energy Thru Weekly Team Rallies

The DiJulius Group

In the new reality, most businesses are realizing they have to offer hybrid, flexible, work-from-home (WFH) models to their employees. Studies show that 60% of women and 52% of men say they would quit if they couldn’t work remotely at least part of the time. While 80% of women and 69% of men say remote. Read Full Article. The post How to Create Virtual Energy Thru Weekly Team Rallies appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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8 Effective Ways to Enhance Your Customer Perception

SmartKarrot

You might have created the best products according to the needs of your customers. But do your customers see it in the same way as you do? . Perhaps, the hardest thing for a brand is to control or even enhance the customer perception towards their products and services. . Fortunately, you can always carry out a comparative study to understand where your brand is lagging.

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Inside Uplight’s Organized Marginalized Genders Group

Uplight

Uplight’s Organized Marginalized Genders (OMG) Employee Resource Group (ERG) is a community for Uplight employees who identify as a marginalized gender. Formerly “Women of Uplight,” OMG actively works to ensure their group is inclusive and welcoming to all marginalized genders and offers support, builds community, and advocates for organizational transformation.

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Feedback Fatigue: Give your customers a break

mopinion

It’s safe to say that marketers want to know what customers think, meaning they want to gather as much data as possible for their marketing strategy. By asking for feedback, you gain insight into what your customers expect from you. Forrester predicted that companies are spending 20% more time and money on feedback to improve […]. The post Feedback Fatigue: Give your customers a break appeared first on Mopinion.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

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

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Empathy has been destroyed in a race for sales

MyCustomer

ECustomer-centricity is becoming less of a genuine focus as brands face increasing pressure to drive the next sale. So, how is this. 2nd Nov 2021. By David Blaseby Managing Partner.

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CISOs And The Next Era Of Security Visibility: Observability

Forrester's Customer Insights

For security leaders and practitioners, it seems like developers and IT teams get all the cool toys, and security pros get stuck with the hand-me-downs. Dev was first to cloud, IT followed, and security warily joined in. IT had patch management while security just scanned to see if the patches weren’t there; and security orchestration, […].

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Looking to build a subscription model? Do it with a digital mindset.

West Monroe

What do tacos , NFTs , and invoicing software have in common? You can—or soon will be able to—get them as a subscription. While those examples are new, subscriptions themselves are not. From newspapers and magazines to Amazon Prime and Peloton, they’ve been part of consumers’ lives for decades. In the B2B space, software-as-a-service (SaaS) became the go-to delivery model for many business applications—Salesforce, Office 365, Dropbox—following the proliferatio

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A Unified String Theory For Automation: Part 1, Transformation

Forrester's Customer Insights

In June this year, I coined the term “automation fabric” to describe emerging trends in the automation world. I wrote a report about it (see Automation Is The New Fabric For Digital Business). Since then, the trends that I pointed out have only been accelerating. In this two-part blog post, I wanted to outline my […].

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the