Fri.Dec 20, 2019

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Why The Intensity of Customer Emotions is Crucial to Your Customer Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

Customer emotions have a strong influence on your Customer Experience outcome. From our research in our global Customer Experience consultancy, we know that over 50 percent of experience is about how a customer feels. . Organizations don’t consider customer emotions enough. Moreover, they also fail to recognize the intensity of that emotion. Understanding the significance and managing the power of customers’ emotions is essential to your Customer Experience outcome.

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Kustomer’s 2019 Year in Review

Kustomer

The final days of 2019 are drawing to a close, and that means it’s time for Kustomer’s year-end wrap up. It has been an exciting year, with much growth and development not only for Kustomer, but for the customer service space as a whole. Here are some of the most memorable highlights: Top Customer Service Trends of 2019. The throughline of all developments in customer service this past year have stemmed from one fact: customer expectations are growing and brands are struggling to keep up.

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What is Important in 2020?

Beyond Philosophy

What is Important in 2020? Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees Coach once said, “Predictions are hard, especially about the future.” Predictions can be difficult; it is true. However, they can also be helpful, especially if you are trying to plan for a new year. I have been in the Customer Experience industry since before there was such a thing.

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What is Live Chat Software?

ProProfs Chat

79% of businesses prefer to use live chat at their website instead of email (61%), phone (44%), and social media (48%) platforms to communicate with customers for instant support. Amazing isn’t it! . Businesses are using live chat increasingly because live chat instills confidence in the customers. When customers know that their concerns are being handled by expert humans, they get that assurance that they are trusting the right people with their money. .

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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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Guest Blog: Why Customer Experience Is Essential to Your Bottom Line

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Sabio who explains why developing a customer experience strategy is essential for your business to improve its bottom line. Developing a customer experience (CX) strategy for your business has never been more important. Every business can benefit. Whether you oversee a large contact center or teams in various locations, creating a CX strategy that works will improve your bottom line.

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20 Customer Success Predictions for 2020

ChurnZero

20 Customer Success Predictions for 2020 . The year was 1909. Nikola Tesla predicts the development of Wi-Fi in a New York Times article. Fast forward to 2020 and Wi-Fi has become the lifeline to our (digital) existence—with almost half of the 7.7 billion people in the world connected to the internet and more than 3.499 billion active social media users. .

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How to Use the UMPS Method for Positive Customer Interactions

CSM Magazine

Do you have a natural gift to start a conversation? Many of us in the customer service world are quite adept at it. But how good are you at ending conversations? . In customer service and hospitality, we devote time to make an excellent first impression. We make eye contact, smile, or lean in if we’re next to the person. Then, we move on to the heart of the conversation.

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How to Properly Use Automated Phone Technology in Customer Support

Team Support

Automated phone technology, such as interactive voice response (IVR) menus, can save businesses time and money on customer support. These solutions route callers to the right people without the help of a human operator. Larger businesses should consider IVR menus to streamline the customer support experience. They should not replace account managers and instead are optimized for streamlining after hours and emergency support communication.

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Holiday Shopping 2019: What to Expect from Gen Z to the Silent Generation

Oracle

To provide the best holiday shopping experience, smart sales, marketing, and CX teams pay attention to what drives their shoppers, specifically understanding what motivates consumers of various ages to purchase. Here’s the 2019 research that predicts everything from where each generation plans on shopping to what they expect to buy. Mobile shopping takeover.

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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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What’s on the AI Horizon: Roadmap to AI in the Contact Center

NICE inContact

How will Artificial Intelligence (AI) affect your contact center? Whether you’re looking to impact operational costs, keep up with the competition, improve efficiencies, reduce the volume of agent interaction or improve the overall customer experience, AI is going to make a measurable impact.

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Tips for Sprucing Up Your Customer Surveys

InMoment XI

Experts Share Best Practices for Survey Design It can be tough to set up a survey. After all, there are many factors that prevent or encourage customers to share their experiences. Our experts at MaritzCX have pinpointed the tips and best practices that will effectively guide you to be successful when building and administering surveys. View Article.

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How to Make Data-Driven Employee Training Decisions

LiveChat

Employee training can bring you countless benefits, some obvious and some welcome, yet surprising, side-effects. However, not all employee training programs bring the desired results. You could be using the best knowledge management software and still not get what you expected from it. The best way to improve your training program is by adopting a data-driven approach.

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The Culture Of An Organization Defines Its Destiny

Forrester's Customer Insights

Corporate culture matters because it provides the framework for what and why employees and managers prioritize business objectives and how they go about executing them. Transformation depends on this adaptive workforce that drives and defines the organization.

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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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How to Make Data-Driven Employee Training Decisions

LiveChat

Employee training can bring you countless benefits, some obvious and some welcome, yet surprising, side-effects. However, not all employee training programs bring the desired results. You could be using the best knowledge management software and still not get what you expected from it. The best way to improve your training program is by adopting a data-driven approach.

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AI Is A New Kind Of Creative Partner

Forrester's Customer Insights

Brands and agencies have always placed creativity at the heart of advertising. But as digital channels proliferate, the cost, complexity, and demand for media’s measurability have driven the emphasis to marketing technology. For those reasons, CMOs are starting to apply artificial intelligence to digital media buying, campaign automation, or marketing mix optimization.

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CGI Influencers Connecting Authentically with Consumers

NetBase

Influencer marketing is all about authenticity. And these days, brands are connecting with consumers thanks to unlikely influencer collaborations. Take CGI influencers, for example. These computer generated image (CGI) influencers are connecting authentically with audiences in ways that other influencers have to envy. And in ways they should also potentially emulate, if they hope to compete with these powerful digital personas!

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Nike Is Setting The Standard For Omnichannel Loyalty In Every Industry

Forrester's Customer Insights

As 2019 winds down, I’m getting more questions about what’s going to be new and next in loyalty in the coming year. Most marketers understand that earning loyalty is bigger than rewards programs and incentives, that it’s important to treat different customers differently. And they agree that a loyalty program should deliver the best content, […].

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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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The AI + CRM Integrated Contact Center: Driving Next-Gen Inside Sales Growth

NICE inContact

Inside sales teams investing in AI + CRM integrated cloud contact center technology are particularly poised to achieve the biggest ROI. Actually, they already ARE achieving big ROI!

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You Probably Won’t Recognize the Next Great B2B Marketplace

Forrester's Customer Insights

I hear this a lot lately: “My boss told me we need to get on marketplaces. What are the best practices?” After a few minutes unpacking the situation we get to the part about the day-in-the-life of the customer. That’s when I generally hear crickets. When marketplaces come up with vendors I hear […].

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What is Relationship Marketing – The Ultimate Guide

SurveySparrow

This was a couple of years back. I am looking for some pizza-making videos and I stumble upon this Domino’s Ad titled ‘pizza turnaround’. Quite intrigued, I start to watch the ad video. So, here’s a vague picture of how it went. The ‘Domino’s Effect’ on Customer Relationship. The camera zooms in on strongly resentful reviews one after the other. I precisely remember reading this one phrase – ‘the pizza was cardboard’.

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Unwrapped: Christmas Shopping Habits 2019

Brandwatch CX

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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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2019 Saw Industrial IoT Software Platforms Get Richer

Forrester's Customer Insights

My colleague Michele Pelino and I published “The Forrester Wave™: Industrial IoT Software Platforms, Q4 2019” recently, and we’ll be discussing the findings in more detail in a webinar on 30 January. It’s a complex space, where traditional industrial conglomerates, established enterprise software giants, networking and telecom providers, hyperscale cloud providers, global systems integrators, professional […].

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Social Data Quiz of the Year 2019

Brandwatch CX

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Employee Safety Is For Sale

Forrester's Customer Insights

In our “Predictions 2020: Cybersecurity” report, we projected that the anti-surveillance economy would grow by 15%. At the time, we didn’t know a story about location data would publish a few weeks after our prediction, but we knew that the conditions existed for something like this to occur. Surveillance is now an enterprise risk. Specifically, […].

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