Thu.Aug 13, 2020

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10 Ways to Provide Outstanding Customer Service

CSM Magazine

With customers better informed and more aware than ever, businesses need to pay special attention to the service they provide. Outstanding customer service is the key to ensuring your company leads the way. Here are ten ways to help you provide outstanding customer service. Be polite, helpful, and knowledgeable. One of the golden rules in the world of customer service is always to be courteous and helpful.

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How to Make Your Experience Easy and Gain Growth

Beyond Philosophy

Do you know what annoys me? When I go into an organization, and they say their goal is to delight customers at every moment of contact. Honestly, it sounds exhausting, for both the team and your customers. After all, how much joy do you need to buy paper towels? Another area exists to channel all that enthusiasm instead. There is a significant connection between successful Customer Experiences and the amount of effort they require from customers.

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The Future of AI Management

SaleMove

At this point, everyone has heard of Artificial Intelligence and it continues to grow in popularity across businesses, functionality and industries. By utilizing AI, businesses are able to significantly improve their online services as well as customer and agent experiences. Companies looking to improve customer service tend to use bots in one of two ways: first, are virtual assistants which offer automated, intelligent self-service to customers.

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How to Send Automated Emails: A Comprehensive Guide

SurveySparrow

We already know emails are cheap, essential, and useful communication tool in our everyday life. 3.9 billion , which was the approximate number of email-users globally in 2019, and it will grow to 4.48 billion users around 2024. But, you might be wondering if email automation is a good option to upskill your marketing game or not. Then let me break this to you for every $1 spent email will give you a $44 ROI.

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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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Effective Customer Service Can be the Key to Small Business Growth

NICE inContact

It won't help your small business if you're pulling in new customers through the front door while losing the same number of existing customers out the back door. That's not growth, it's just replacement. To experience sustainable growth, shut that back door by taking care of your customer base with effective service.

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“We Will Always Think What Purpose Is Behind Our Marketing”

Optimove

If there’s one thing that gets our team fired up, it’s interviewing top-notch CRM experts from leading companies. This time around, Oliver Stewart, Senior Account Executive at Optimove, had an engaging chat with Flora McKenzie, CRM Manager at Farmdrop, who started working at the company in January this year, right before the coronavirus outbreak changes practically everything.

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The Hospitality Industry in a Time of Social Distancing: Threat and Opportunity

Maru Group

The hospitality industry faces an unprecedented test with the spread of COVID-19. Hospitality is inherently social. And the necessity for social distancing changes everything. Maru/Matchbox recently facilitated a conversation with a group of hospitality professionals, to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and to better understand the revolution currently underway.

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The Future of AI Management

SaleMove

At this point, everyone has heard of Artificial Intelligence and it continues to grow in popularity across businesses and industries. By utilizing AI, companies are able to significantly enhance their online service offerings as well as improve customer and agent experiences. Companies looking to improve their customer experience tend to use chatbots in one of […].

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Live Agents and Virtual Agents: The Spectrum of Care

Interactions

Imagine yourself on a busy day trying to cancel an appointment and you keep getting put on hold waiting for a live agent. You know your task can be completed through self-service–it’s just a simple cancellation. After 30 minutes of waiting you finally get put through to an agent, who is able to quickly cancel your appointment. You are frustrated because you had to spend 30 minutes on a task that could have taken two due to the wait time.

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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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How to Maximise Efficiency With a Small CX Team

inmoment

Limited resourcing continues to be a challenge for customer experience (CX) teams across Australia and New Zealand. Whilst customer experience teams are becoming smaller, the remit of these teams are becoming broader and more complex. Most CX professionals in this region are expected to do more with less. Our experts have weighed in on the best ways to foster efficiency within your organisation and free up your time so that you can be left to focus on creating positive change and lasting impacts

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Kustomer & UJET Partner to Deliver Modern and Scalable Customer Service

Kustomer

At Kustomer, we are constantly looking to establish partnerships that make our customers’ jobs easier, powering seamless and exceptional customer experiences. Our strategic partnership with UJET does just that. In our rapidly shifting world, many businesses need to meet new customer demands. This demands a digital transformation strategy that powers efficient customer service and delivers on the modern customers’ needs.

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All You Need To Know About Outsourcing Phone Answering

Magellan Solutions

Phone answering is one of the main channels that businesses use to provide customer service. Here, customer service representatives are put in charge of incoming calls, and resolve any concern or queries from the callers in real time. While some business owners choose to set up their own in-house call center, a lot of other businesses choose to outsource call answering to a third-party service provider.

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PPT Solutions Recognized for Third Consecutive Year as One of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Inc. Magazine

ppt solutions

Appearance on the Inc. 5000 list follows a three-year revenue growth of 271 percent TULSA, OKLAHOMA, August 13, 2020 – PPT Solutions, a premier provider of client-centric, performance-based Customer Experience and Business Optimization Solutions, announced today it has been named one of the fastest-growing private. The post PPT Solutions Recognized for Third Consecutive Year as One of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Inc.

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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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All You Need To Know About Outsourcing Phone Answering

Magellan Solutions

Phone answering is one of the main channels that businesses use to provide customer service. Here, customer service representatives are put in charge of incoming calls, and resolve any concern or queries from the callers in real time. While some business owners choose to set up their own in-house call center, a lot of other businesses choose to outsource call answering to a third-party service provider.

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Using Strategy to Guide Decisions and Direction

Brad Cleveland Blog

Organizations that consistently use their strategies to help guide decisions tend to go from strength to strength. They make better decisions and then have a better read on how well those decisions ultimately support their vision. How can you best use your strategy to guide decisions and direction? I have found four best practices that can help.

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Most parents will send kids back to school — with hesitation, Qualtrics study finds

Qualtrics

Parents are faced with a tough decision: Send their kids to school during an ongoing pandemic or keep them home and continue the often difficult process of remote learning. According to the latest Qualtrics research, parents are saying ‘go,’ reluctantly. Will parents send their children back to school? A recent Qualtrics study of more than 1,000 parents with children in preschool through high school found that the majority of parents (53%) who can send their children to school in-person are unco

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How to Use Google to Verify My Business

ReviewTrackers

The question of “How do I verify my business on Google?” is an important one. Without online verification, a business doesn’t show up on Google’s many services including search results and Maps. Millions of people use Search and Maps on a daily basis, and not showing up in those areas means missing out on a massive opportunity for more customers.

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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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What Do You Do With Deadwood Employees? – Tip #11

Steve DiGioia

Great employees are the heart and soul of any business, especially a successful one. Their efforts cannot be understated enough. But there are always one or two poor performers or “deadwood employees” – those who contribute little to the company’s success and at times undermine it. And they hang on year after year. They never seem to get fired and amass a laundry list of disciplinary actions with little substantive repercussions.

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Using Strategy to Guide Decisions and Direction

Brad Cleveland Blog

Organizations that consistently use their strategies to help guide decisions tend to go from strength to strength. They make better decisions and then have a better read on how well those decisions ultimately support their vision. How can you best use your strategy to guide decisions and direction? I have found four best practices that can help.

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El Paso Electric Launches Marketplace with Demand Reponse Pre-Enrollment

Uplight

El Paso Electric launched its first-ever rebate program with Uplight, the only Marketplace enabling utilities to drive value beyond smart thermostats with the ability to bundle demand response enrollments and cross-sell additional programs. The EPE Marketplace offers Texas customers a wide variety of energy-savings products including smart thermostats, smart home offerings, lighting, and advanced power Read More.

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Customer Trust: The Foundation of Sustainable Business Growth

SmartKarrot

Building trust is not a quick task. It takes effort, it takes time, and it also takes a few tricks up your sleeve to earn customer trust. In the customer success industry, building trust is extremely important. The trust between a customer and a company is just as significant as it is for any other relationship. When you genuinely connect with your clients, you can create multi-dimensional brand loyalty.

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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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How the Global Pandemic is Affecting Customer Service Organizations With Andrea Paul and Vikas Bhambri

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of Customer Service Secrets , Gabe is joined by two members of the Kustomer team, Andrea Paul, Director of Research, and Vikas Bhambri, SVP of Sales and Customer Experience, to discuss how the pandemic is fast-tracking the digital transformations and how it has changed the way customers interact with businesses, forever.

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The six CX rules the best banks follow - and that all brands could benefit from

MyCustomer

22nd Sep 2020 No matter who you are or what your financial needs are - consumers and businesses alike - you need an institution to help you manage your.The 6 CX rules the best banks follow. By Michael Hinshaw Managing Director.

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How We Can Tell Better Stories

dscout People Nerds

Telling a good story is more than a beginning, middle, and end. Meg Ferrill of The Moth and Nimbly breaks down the fundamentals of storytelling. .

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4 Ways to Deliver Change Management for Process Automation

Bizagi

74% of companies say they will use process automation to some extent over the next three years, according to KPMG. However, some organizations are put off beginning their automation projects, and consequently delaying their digital transformation. One of the biggest barriers for organizations considering using process automation technologies centers around alignment, with 19% saying that change management is their top concern because they worry about job loss. 20% also stated that they lack clea

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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