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Digital Transformation in Customer Service – Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore it (Part 1 of 3)

Comm100

Digital transformation is by no means a recent trend. However, the past couple of years has seen its importance within customer service skyrocket as companies adopted new technologies to stay connected during the pandemic. With the benefits made clear for all to see, and customer expectations risen, customer service operations can no longer afford to ignore digital transformation.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 9-13-2021

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. What Is Customer Loyalty and Retention (And 3 Tips for Improvement) by Scott Clark. (CMSWire) Although the terms “customer loyalty” and “customer retention” are often used interchangeably, they actually refer to two different things.

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5 Things to Consider When Evaluating Your CS Tech Stack

Education Services Group

It’s never too early to start building your CS tech stack. The earlier you start, the faster you’ll be able to create an effective, scalable, long-term Customer Success strategy. Getting an early start on building your CS tech stack also allows you to experiment with an array of different tools so that you can make better decisions on the ones that will scale best with your business.

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The Helpdesk KPIs You Need to Maximise Your Customer Support

CSM Magazine

Managing a successful customer support helpdesk isn’t an easy task. But when helpdesk managers set the right Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for their agents, they can transform results for their customer support service. Since customers and clients have high expectations for fast and effective service provision, it’s something every helpdesk manager should be considering.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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The Role of Virtual Receptionist Service in Helping to Grow Your Business

Magellan Solutions

Why do businesses even need Virtual Receptionist Service ? A Virtual Receptionist, in its most basic form, is the person who answers your phone calls. . It may appear at first glance that a Virtual Receptionist’s responsibilities are restricted to answering phones. In reality, effective communication is a quality that is frequently disregarded in the workplace.

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5 Best Practices for Building Customer Relationships With Messaging Channels

Conversocial

I regularly research and write articles that eulogise about the importance of building customer relationships. If you follow the Conversocial blog there are recurring regular themes: it’s easier and more cost-effective to retain customers than acquire new ones, existing customers are more likely to buy from a brand again and messaging channels are the most effective way to keep these retained and loyal customers engaged.

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How to kickstart your career in customer experience management

MyCustomer

Engagement How to kickstart your career in CX management.

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Sustainability, Customer Loyalty and why Eco-Systems matter

SAP Customer Experience

“Sustainability” – a word rather undefined with so many facets and scopes, and yet everybody has a connection to it. Some connect climate change to it with melting ice poles and greenhouse gases being emitted obviously uncontrolled to our atmosphere. We all know the pictures of suffering and dead animals.

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Words Matter: Inclusive Experiences Start With Inclusive Language

Forrester's Customer Insights

Are you creating inclusive experiences for your customers? Many companies aren’t. For example, here’s a sampling of what we heard when we evaluated typical approaches to collecting personal information from consumers: “There is no open box to identify yourself. Ticking ‘other’ is alienating, therefore, if I didn’t identify as male or female, I wouldn’t feel […].

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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Differences Between Key Account Management & Customer Success

Kapta Customer Success

The terms key account management and customer success are often used interchangeably within organizations. However, while the two strategies share a few common goals, they are completely different in their implementation.

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Sep 13 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Customer Success Director Location: Franklin, TN Organization: Maetz Consulting, LLC As a Customer Success Director, you will spearhead the end-to-end effort to help build a new and thriving Customer Success team from the ground up, one person at a time. Design and implement best practices for building long-term strategic relationships with the customers, partners, and vendors.

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Supporting Customers Through Their EV Journey

Uplight

More customers are adopting electric vehicles (EVs) with 18.7 million of EVs predicted to be on the road by 2030, according to EEI. Once a customer purchases an EV, they are reliant on the grid to charge their car and may be surprised that their utility bill has increased. However, this doesn’t have to be Read More. The post Supporting Customers Through Their EV Journey appeared first on Uplight.

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Customer Success Platform vs. Account Management Software

Kapta Customer Success

The terms key account management and customer success are often used interchangeably within organizations. However, while the two strategies share a few common goals, they are completely different in their implementation.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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Podcast: The ultimate renewal playbook – Managing multiple stakeholders

inSided

In Episode 15 of The inSide Scoop on Customer Success, we tackle a very important topic: The ultimate renewal playbook – Managing multiple stakeholders. Listen in as our VP of Customer Success and podcast hostess with the mostess, Anika Zubair, talks to Puneet Kataria, founder of CustomerSuccessBox.

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CS 2021: Making Customer Success Less “Squishy” [CS BOD Slide Pack Template]

Gainsight

When I reflect on what excites me the most about the evolution of customer success over the past year or so, it’s most certainly the increased appreciation around customer success being existential for organizations. There is widespread acceptance that infusing customer-centricity throughout your organization and having Net Revenue Retention as a north star metric for your business, will reap great benefits (both financially and culturally).

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What Is Buyer Intent Data and How to Use It to Boost Sales

SmartKarrot

A recent report by Think with Google confirms that 89% of the people rely on research before making a particular purchase, thus, making them a potential buyer. That is when the concept of buyer intent data comes into picture. By mapping your prospect’s behaviors and knowing their desires, buyer intent data can help understand your customers better and bring you better insights into their searches.

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For B2B Marketers, This Is The Next Best Thing To Time Travel

Forrester's Customer Insights

It's impossible to know what the future holds for marketing campaigns in development. But you can audit your progress and course-correct when needed.

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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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Customer Success: Budget Planning Playbook

ClientSuccess

Modern CSMs wear many hats. From project manager to company voice box to issue mitigator, CSMs are veritable jacks of all trades. For some (but not all) SaaS organizations, CSMs are also responsible for leading and managing upsell conversations with customers. While some organizations turn to sales roles to facilitate these conversations, more and more CSMs are tasked with leading budget planning, expansion, and upsells thanks to their familiarity and comfort level with customers.

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Introducing The Forrester Now Tech: Cybersecurity Consulting In APAC – A Push Towards New Pricing And Delivery Models

Forrester's Customer Insights

I am thrilled to announce the release of our latest Now Tech: Cybersecurity Consulting Services In Asia Pacific, Q3 2021. This report (available to Forrester clients) showcases Forrester’s overview of 24 cybersecurity consulting providers in Asia Pacific. Our clients leverage these insights to understand the diverse set of vendors by size, capability, geography and vertical […].

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4 steps to manage the new federal vaccination requirements

Qualtrics

With the new executive order requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to ensure their workers are either vaccinated or tested once a week, how can you stay compliant with the employee vaccination mandate? Find out how to develop a robust COVID-19 employee vaccination and testing policy and enable your people to quickly and easily confirm their vaccination status.

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A Crack In The Garden Wall

Forrester's Customer Insights

On Friday, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers released her ruling in the suit and countersuit by Epic and Apple. Neither party could claim complete victory. Epic was judged to have breached their contract with Apple (which they admitted) and now owes Apple more than $3.6 million. Apple escaped on almost all counts. The court […].

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Customer Experience Myths Guidebook

A CX myth is something widely believed or implemented that is based on “how we’ve always done it” thinking, rather than delivering truly innovative customer experiences. What CX myths are holding organizations back from top-level customer experience performance? What can companies do to find solid ground and move forward successfully? In this guidebook, we answer those questions and more as we explore three key myths and two strategies that you can use to replace them.

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Security Leaders: It’s Time To Facilitate Employee Productivity, Not Hinder It

Forrester's Customer Insights

As if 2020 didn’t bring enough challenges to security leaders, it’s about to get more challenging. Let’s face it: the workforce will change dramatically over the next ten years. By 2030, security leaders will have to grapple with a workplace in which three generations hold a significant proportion of the working population, but one in […].

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