CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Building a business from the ground and taking it to the top is not a small thing. However, making sure that it stays on the top is an even harder job. It doesn’t matter if you are running a small or big business; when it comes to online presence, customer service is the heart and soul of your business. It doesn’t matter if you have built the most fantastic product or if you have launched the best service in town, if you don’t know how to sell it to your customers or how to keep them happy, you

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Ecrion

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Customer engagement is something that’s often overlooked, but a crucial variable that impacts the success of any business. However, do you know what customer engagement is? If not, you may be at a disadvantage. Put simply, customer engagement has a direct impact on customer satisfaction. It is a part of the customer experience your customers have. If you increase engagement, you can deliver a better customer experience, which will result in more satisfied customers.

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SMG CX

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Today’s customers are more often using feedback methods like images, speech, and video to provide very candid, human experiences with the brands they encounter. Brands that are able to connect with these consumers and “bring the real voice of the customer front and center” will come out ahead.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Experience Economy , written by B. Joseph Pine II and and James H. Gilmore, was originally published in 1999. It painted a picture of how experience could be a driver in business in a way that nobody was talking about 22 years ago. Today, it’s widely considered part of “CX Canon,” named one of the best 100 business books of all time by Porchlight (formerly 800-CEO-Read), and an updated version was released in late 2019 including a new preface by the authors. “We are n

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Learn how to use the Customer Effort Score metric, boost loyalty, and prove the ROI of your efforts.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Be the Disney of Your Industry. Lessons from Disney to Improve Your Customer and Employee Experiences. Shep Hyken interviews Teri Yanovitch. They discuss her experience as a Disney employee, their hiring process, and the customer service takeaways that can be applied to any organization in any industry. Top Takeaways: It’s neither luck nor magic that creates success (though those can certainly help)—it’s hard work.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A successful organization operates in much the same way as a prestigious orchestra. Both are made up of individuals with a specialization—say, playing the clarinet or managing a Customer Success team. While individual success is important in both cases, you also need overall harmony. Just as the individual musicians and sections of an orchestra must work well together to make good music, the employees and departments of an organization must work well together to do good business.

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Oracle

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Customer experience starts long before the sale, with immersive, engaging content marketing that hardly feels like “marketing.” Companies that take the time to craft quality content that puts the customer first, regardless if they’re still a prospect, is key to truly resonating with an ideal audience. The most compelling CX content marketing creates a feeling of connection between brand and audience, incorporating an air of exclusivity that makes customers feel like they’

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Bizagi

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Intelligent Process Automation is one aspect of a broader shift in technology, that of Automation as a whole. From driverless cars to autonomous drones, automation is helping make seemingly space-age technologies available today by creating and leveraging new forms of intelligence. Whether it’s customer communications in the form of desktop assistants, or automated tasks across an enterprise, automation is transforming the way we live and work.

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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

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Experience Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In September 2007 I published my initial manifesto: Great Customer Experience Is Free. I still fully believe in the elements of that post. After 12 years, however, it’s time for an update. So I’m introducing a new manifesto: Experience Matters. It seems appropriate for my new manifesto to take on the name of this blog, which I started in June 2007.

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One Millimeter Mindset

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Today we’re talking about the importance of having storytelling patience when conducting customer discovery interviews. Customer discovery is a methodology used for building startups, new corporate ventures / intrapreneurial activities, design and engineering projects, and sales. Actually, in my storytelling for STEM professionals and left-brain thinkers playbook, you and I are never quite finished with customer discovery.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Becoming customer-centric is key for organizations to survive. Companies must focus on the customer at every interaction, including sales, marketing, support and others. The customer is the essential part of driving engagement and success within an organization, just as much as infrastructure, security or tools, as it is the number one factor when creating loyalty and retention within the brand.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Nordic region’s largest insurance company, If, has adopted innovative artificial intelligence in combination with its existing solution from the contact center supplier Puzzel. The new agreement covers If’s contact centers in four countries. Puzzel, a leading provider of cloud-based contact center solutions , offers, among other things, artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver complete and cost-effective solutions.

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Strikedeck

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Arjun Pillai, talks about the importance of developing and shaping customer’s experience.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Remote work is a growing trend in the workplace today. More companies are allowing employees to work from home, or hiring workers from all around the world to work on the same team via the internet.

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InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

One of the most prized possessions that I received after my grandma’s passing several years ago was her recipe box. It’s a handcrafted wood box with over 500 recipes, mostly written in her handwriting. The recipes include all sorts of things…ranging from a recipe for play doh that she used to make for my cousins. View Article.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak is taking a toll on the global luxury industry that is heavily dependent on the spending of Chinese shoppers at home and abroad. In spite of difficulties, leading luxury brands responded quickly to the crisis and took positive initiatives in brand communication, customer engagement and digital marketing. Best Practice 1: Increase Brand […].

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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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Happy or Not

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Profitable customers are the lifeblood of any business, and to increase their spending, you need to provide exceptional service and incentives to secure their loyalty. You can give […]. The post Customer Lifetime Value appeared first on HappyOrNot.

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MyCustomer

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Customer experience (CX) has become a significant buzz word of the last couple of years, with most sectors prioritising CX more than ever.T 27th Feb 2020. By ChrisProctor01 CEO.

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Qualtrics

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The concept of employee experience (EX) has evolved from a focus on “satisfaction” to a holistic view across the collection of interactions and experiences that an employee has with an organization and their impact on an employee’s daily life. This broad view of EX also considers how the cumulative effect of an employee’s experiences shapes their engagement at work.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The adoption of cloud vs. on-premise software to manage the contact center is a door-opener for businesses. It grants them the keys they need to transition from on-site to fully virtual operations. And a virtual contact center, in which agents work remotely rather than in a brick-and-mortar facility, has many benefits for both the organization and its agents.

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Uplight

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

“Innovation is simple. It’s about collecting dots, and connecting the dots.” Bill Stainton opened AESP’s 30th Annual Conference by explaining how innovative thought is not a lighting bolt of wisdom that strikes a select few leaders, but rather something we can all achieve. By seeking out diverse experiences and ideas, he says, we collect a Read More.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

5 Signs You May Need to Revamp Your Onboarding Process. Customer retention and churn prevention starts at the beginning of a customer’s journey with your company in onboarding. This crucial first interaction time between you customer, your product and your team establish the groundwork that can jumpstart success or accelerate failure. . Before we jump into the five signs that you might need to revamp your onboarding process, let’s first take a look at what your onboarding should look like.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Automated dialing in its various forms is a tremendous productivity tool for companies making outbound calls. Of the various dialing modes , predictive is the most aggressive and offers the most productivity. The impact of predictive dialers can be staggering. In a B2C scenario, with relatively short talk times, agents can go from an average of four contacts an hour manually dialing to 16 or more using a predictive dialer.

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Uplight

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This article as originally published on the SEPA blog. It is unsurprising to utility professionals that the uptake of distributed energy resources (DERs) – such as smart thermostats, electric vehicles, solar PV, and batteries – is continuing to surge. Over the next five years, Navigant estimates utilities in North America will spend around $1B on residential DER Read More.

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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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