Wed.Sep 16, 2020

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How Much Does It Cost to Give Great Customer Service?

ShepHyken

I recently wrote an article in Forbes about how to get customers to pay more. The focus, of course, was on customer service and experience. Research has irrefutably proven that customers will pay more for a better experience. Research also has irrefutably proven that customers will leave you for your competition if you don’t give them the service they expect.

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3 ways virtual agents can boost call center efficiency

Talkdesk

Self-service is a hot topic in the call center industry. From knowledge bases to virtual agents, the potential disruption that a solid set of self-service applications can bring to contact center efficiency and customer experience is unquestionable and justifies all the buzz. With artificial intelligence (AI), especially speech technologies, becoming more mature and commoditized, the scope and possibilities for self-service and conversational tools like virtual agents expand like never before.

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Using Humor to Create the Unexpected Customer Experience

Daniel Group

In your personal buying, do you often experience humor in your interaction with providers? There are many reasons we do not experience humor. Humor in Customer Experience can be the bridge to making an emotional connection to your customers. It may seem like it might get in the way of providing efficient and effective Customer Experience. Sgt. Joe Friday.

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Two key themes that are driving UK customer experience post-pandemic

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Two key themes that are driving UK customer experience post-pandemic. Published on: September 16, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager 2020 has been a turbulent year for everyone – but what has been the impact on customer experience in general, and contact centres in particular?

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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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How to Make an Inspiring New Employee Orientation Class

The DiJulius Group

1. Feature Article How to Make an Inspiring New Employee Orientation Class By John DiJulius, Chief Revolution Officer Early on in my career I had the pleasure of attending the Disney University in Orlando, Florida, where I took Disney’s Approach to People Management course. Where better to learn how to create a world-class culture. Read Full Article.

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Empathy Will Get Those Angry Customers to Back Down In the COVID-19 Era

Myra Golden

COVID-19 makes customers more demanding. And the pandemic impacts customer service representatives, too! Empathy can help you regain control of interactions and get angry customers to calm down and listen to you. But what level of empathy is appropriate for customer service? Watch this video to learn “customer service empathy” and get great phrases you can personalize and use.

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For the best customer experience, answer this key question…WIIFM?

Innovative CX

When it comes to executing effective customer experience strategies, we spend a good deal of time gathering, analyzing, and executing on the voice of the customer. We want to ensure we understand customer expectations. We desire to build our products or deliver our services in alignment with those expectations. Recently, there has been a renewed emphasis on ensuring we also focus on the voice of the employee in helping us create better customer experiences.

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Three Consumer Changes Will Define The Future Of How We Buy

Forrester's Customer Insights

By April of this year, an astounding 62% of US online adults had performed some kind of online transaction for the first time as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic — many began ordering products online for delivery, others experimented with digital payments or started banking online, and some opted to receive medical advice […].

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Why is a CX success statement so important - and how do you draft one?

MyCustomer

Engagement Why is a CX success statement so important?

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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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Updates to Atlas Aug-Sep 2020

Lithium

NEW. Events Beta. We have added Events Beta to the Khoros Event’s Group Hub. Head over to the Events area for a list of the Khoros Engage breakout sessions and keynote speakers. Make sure to RSVP and engage with your peers in any comments section! Please note that Events are still beta, more information to come. Community Strategy Discussion Forum. The new Community Strategy Discussion forum is now open.

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Finovate Fall Digital: Join us for conversations about Future Tech

Beyond the Arc

This year Finovate Fall has gone completely digital. But you can still expect to see the latest in cutting edge fintech, hear expert advice from industry leaders, and join over 1,600 global attendees. Finovate Fall Digital is already underway, but it’s not too late to join us. Beyond the Arc CEO Steven Ramirez is [.]. The post Finovate Fall Digital: Join us for conversations about Future Tech appeared first on Beyond the Arc.

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Streaming Apps: Stop Warring, Start Wooing

Forrester's Customer Insights

Many pundits and news outlets have declared the onset of “streaming wars”, as all the major traditional media companies have launched robust streaming products this year. The success of these battles is tracked in subscriber counts, new content launches, and the content brands that each platform boasts. Valid enough. But Forrester believes there is another […].

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7 Steps To Deploying AI-Powered Self-Service During the New Normal

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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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021: Boring Loses Business with Darren LaCroix

The DiJulius Group

Darren LaCroix went from being a struggling stand-up comedian to winning the title of The World Champion of Public Speaking in less than nine years. He may have been born without a funny bone in his body, but he possessed the desire to learn and the willingness to fail. This self-proclaimed student of comedy is. Read Full Article. The post 021: Boring Loses Business with Darren LaCroix appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Is Your Online Community Included in Your Knowledge Base?

Vanilla Forums

Recently I’ve become obsessed with knowledge bases. More specifically, I’ve been fascinated with how they get constructed, what knowledge gets included, how they are structured and where the source of the knowledge comes from.

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Q&A On Panels

SurveyGizmo

Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask! Q – What’s required to use Panels Services? A – A Full Access or Professional license is required as these levels have the features necessary to run a panel, such as disqualification logic, URL redirect, and quotas. Q – Where do we source our respondents from? A – We partner with two of the world’s leading panel companies, Lucid and Cint, to source our respondents.

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Part 3: The Strategic Role of B2B Customer Support

Team Support

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series based on the whitepaper co-produced by ServiceXRG and TeamSupport, we introduced the concept of how to position the investment in customer support as a strategic value aligned to current business practices and target outcomes, and about the evolving role of B2B customer support. We conclude this series with customer support versus customer success.

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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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Infographic: A brief history of DTC

PK

When “digital native” brands like Bonobos and Warby Parker arrived on the scene over a decade ago, they disrupted the traditional retail model. Today, over two-thirds of consumers expect direct […]. The post Infographic: A brief history of DTC appeared first on PK.

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The Importance of Customer Service to the Customer Journey

Lumoa

There’s no denying that customer journey and customer experience are hugely important to the success or failure of a business. You want to keep your customers happy. This has been true since human beings began trading currency for services. And while the means by which we market and serve our customers has undergone a number of changes in the past, the concept of the customer journey has remained important.

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NVIDIA Arms Itself To Terminate Intel’s Processor Dominance

Forrester's Customer Insights

NVIDIA just announced it plans to acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank Group for $40B. The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD). The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […].

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How to Use Glassdoor for Employers to Claim Your Company Listing

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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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Best Programming Languages for Web App Development

CSM Magazine

Businesses are no longer using the same traditional software to cater to their digital needs. Now that businesses are moving towards a more customer-oriented approach, it is important to make them a part of the process. That’s where web apps come in! A custom software development company fortyseven47.com has such a service. They allow the agile and tech-advanced solution to meet businesses’ growing needs in the complex digital arena.

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Ascribe Launches 24 Hour AI Classification Service

Ascribe

The post Ascribe Launches 24 Hour AI Classification Service appeared first on Ascribe.

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Listen Up: Podcasts Can Elevate Your Brand’s Marketing Strategy

Forrester's Customer Insights

I’ll admit it: I’m a podcast newb. I just got into them at the end of last year because of Wondery’s “Business Wars” which sucked me in on my daily commute. While I’ve been late to the game, my colleague Sarah Dawson – a podcast lover and aficionado – listens regularly and knew much more […].

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How to Look at NPS Data?

SurveySparrow

In this day and age of disruptive e-commerce models, it is always word-of-mouth marketing that majorly drives consumer engagement and sales. . One of the finest ways to understand the impact of consumer experience on brand growth is to analyze the Net Promoter Score (NPS). In layman terms, NPS is ‘the consumer’s likelihood to recommend and promote your brand to others based on their experience’.

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The Truth About Customer Journey Mapping

Speaker: Dave Seaton, CEO of Seaton CX

Is Customer Journey Mapping a tired fad from 2013? Or a critical tool for sparking customer-centric change? 💥 The answer lies not in the map itself, but in the mapping process. When crafted with precision and insight, journey maps emerge as powerful catalysts, transforming customer experiences and steering businesses towards profitable growth.