Thu.Apr 14, 2022

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6 Personalized Customer Service Examples

Kustomer

The perspective of the modern consumer has shifted. Expectations have become more complex and today’s customers expect to receive more than traditional customer service protocols. They now expect a streamlined customer service experience. In fact, Kustomer research revealed 93% of consumers expect customer service to be more convenient. In reaction to effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies have made adjustments to cater to these new expectations all while experiencing labor shortages that r

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What is Call Center Speed to Answer? And Other Key Metrics.

Call Experts

Calculating Average Speed to Answer (ASA) involves identifying the best way to measure the speed of answering incoming calls. The goal of ASA is to answer calls quickly and efficiently while meeting customer expectations. Speed is key to success in many areas of business. Unfortunately, it is often more complicated than measuring how long it takes for customers to wait for someone to pick up the phone.

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How Customer Empowerment Can Grow Your Brand Organically

Kustomer

Today’s savvy customer has more options than ever when it comes to the tools and resources available to make purchase decisions. With little research, the modern consumer can find the exact information to answer their questions about products and services, as well as the brands that supply them. The resources your customer is after are out there, whether your brand dispenses it or not.

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Customer Satisfaction is at 17 year low. These stats tell you why…

Beyond Philosophy

I read a fascinating report the other day from Zendesk called The Customer Experience (CX) Trends Report 2022. I saw a dichotomy between what people are saying and what they are doing regarding Customer Experiences (CX). Organizations seem to be paying lip service to CX, but that’s all, I think some of these numbers prove it. . So, I reached out to Zendesk to get their take on the report and invite them onto our podcast.

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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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5 Ways Chief Customer Officers Can Drive Net Revenue Retention

Gainsight

This post was originally published in Ecommerce Times. Though the pandemic isn’t exactly in the rearview mirror yet, we are beginning to understand the effect it’s had on B2B firms across the country — and around the world. One of the biggest paradigm shifts is an increased appreciation for the customer base. We can’t take our customers for granted — ever.

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Social Listening Strategies to Enhance the Customer Experience

ReviewTrackers

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Integrate Zendesk Chat with Kommunicate

kommunicate

Last Updated on April 14, 2022 As the world of customer service and support evolves, businesses are increasingly adopting a hybrid approach to support delivery, involving both automated systems and human agents. Organizations of all sizes must strike a delicate balance between auto-response systems and live human agents in today’s fast-paced digital landscape.

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Questions (+ Answers) For Launching A CS Ops Team

Gainsight

Transforming your customer success strategies into revenue-driving operations takes more than additional customer success managers. Expanding the team is not always the right answer to address scale and impact. Often, it’s about leadership. Just as you wouldn’t expect to scale without a sales or marketing operations team, you can’t achieve the growth you dream of without a CS Operations team either.

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The best way to improve employee engagement

Brad Cleveland Blog

When you peel back the layers of any customer-centric organization, you’ll find a culture of honoring employees, encouraging their insight, and engaging them every step of the way. Customer experience is built on a foundation of employee engagement. I don’t know of any exception. What is employee engagement? We know it’s not the same as employee satisfaction.

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The 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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Your Guide to Online Qualitative Research

Alida

Have you ever wanted your relationships with customers to feel more like chatting with a friend? Are you looking for ways to get increasingly valuable data from user feedback? Are you feeling uninspired by techniques that, while effective, don’t allow you to dig deeper into customer emotion?

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The best way to improve employee engagement

Brad Cleveland Blog

When you peel back the layers of any customer-centric organization, you’ll find a culture of honoring employees, encouraging their insight, and engaging them every step of the way. Customer experience is built on a foundation of employee engagement. I don’t … Continue reading → The post The best way to improve employee engagement appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Ukrainian research contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Clarivate

At Clarivate , we are committed to supporting the researcher community in Ukraine, including displaced researchers, during and beyond ongoing attacks on the country from Russia. Our research shows that Ukraine has contributed more than 5,000 scientific publications towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals since 2017, including on peace and justice initiatives (SDG-16).

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Apr 14 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Atlanta, GA, US Organization: TechBridge, Inc. As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will deliver transformational leadership across all TechBridge products, platforms, and services to ensure that current operational technology and processes serve the customer’s best interests. Communicate and drive the technology vision for the customer experience and instill confidence in customer-facing processes, for both customers and internal teams.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Which Back Office Functions Should You Outsource?

Helpware

Many companies benefit from outsourcing back-office functions — an approach that allows them to focus on core functions and attain efficiencies. According to a recent survey report , companies choose to outsource mainly to improve efficiency (24%) and receive support from a specialized professional (18%).

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VoC within the contact centre

MyCustomer

VOften, your contact centre is your most prominent point of contact for your customers. It is the area of your business that handles. 14th Apr 2022. By Smoke CI.

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Enhancing Review Management with ReviewTrackers and Pissed Consumer

ReviewTrackers

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NFTs Beyond the Hype: How to Put Non-Fungible Tokens to Work for Your Brand

Merkle

Non-fungible token (NFT) is the undeniable techie buzz phrase of 2022. You can’t open a news source or your favorite social media platform without seeing someone waxing poetic about NFTs. They have clearly captured the attention of the crypto savvy, but what might NFTs mean for a brand and a brand’s loyal customers? How can brands get in on this $40+ billion dollar industry ?

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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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That Time When Building a Customer Model Taught Us the Difference Between “Active” and “Active” Customers (not a typo)

Optimove

There are many ways to be smart about your Retention Marketing. You can use control groups to see what really works. You can measure the effectiveness of your campaigns by monetary uplift –and say goodbye to vanity metrics. You can A/B/n test – but instead of the traditional “winner takes all” method, you can go with different winners in different customer segments (of the same campaign, yes).

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Community & Measuring SaaS Goals

Vanilla Forums

If you’ve spent any time in a SaaS company - geez, it’s almost been 10 years for me - you learn quickly there are three main goals at the top of mind for the executive team:

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Five Notable Fintech Attributes And Companies

Forrester's Customer Insights

[This post was coauthored by Christy Lano.] Forrester’s latest report on the state of fintech shows that funding for fintech companies not only rebounded (from a decidedly down year in 2021) but has skyrocketed to new, historic heights. To dive deeper into this research, we’re looking at specific fintech companies and — more importantly — […].

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Workforce Planning: How it Establishes Gold Standard Service

Playvox

Service standards help to establish positive and effective interactions between a customer and a business. For example, in a restaurant, customers expect a level of promptness, friendliness, service-mindedness, and food-oriented knowledge. Service quality is as important to a business as the taste of the food coming from the kitchen. No matter what kind of restaurant it is, excellent customer service is crucial to keeping it prosperous.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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The Revenue Process Alignment Series, Part 1: The End Of MQLs

Forrester's Customer Insights

For more than 20 years, the MQL (marketing qualified lead) has been the focus of most B2B revenue processes. But it fails in providing actionable insight and drives misalignment across various functions in the process. In part 1 of a four-part blog series, we explore why the MQL era is antiquated and needs to end immediately.

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Omnichannel is over- It’s Optichannel’s time to shine

Interactions

Omnichannel customer engagement seemed like the promiseland. Customers were given the ability to engage on any of the multiple channels a brand deployed and jump between those channels with ease. What’s a better experience than that? Giving control and options to customers seemed like a logical way to improve the customer experience. . With several years of omnichannel experience under our belts, we know that reality didn’t play out well for brands.

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The Revenue Process Alignment Series, Part 2: More Reasons To End Your Addiction To MQLs

Forrester's Customer Insights

In part 1 of this blog series, we looked at reasons why organizations need to end their focus on individual MQLs (marketing qualified leads) as the focus of their revenue process. In part 2, we look at more reasons why the transformation away from MQLs is necessary.

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Top 10 AIOps Platforms in 2022?

SmartKarrot

When talking about IT, terms like tools and processes are quite common. Another important term is “platform.” However, unlike a tool which is a piece of software, a platform is a comprehensive suite of tools. These tools are compatible and interact with each other. Some of the tools in a platform act like services, while others act like interfaces. An AIOps platform consists of a set of AI processes.

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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.