Fri.Nov 20, 2020

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Guest Post: A Guide to Training Employees to Deliver Outstanding eCommerce Customer Service

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Pawel Lawrowski, Head of Growth at Tidio. He shares six tips and strategies to share with your team for improving the eCommerce customer experience. Poor customer service costs businesses over $75 billion a year in lost profits. It can turn into hundreds of negative reviews and bad word of mouth, which spreads quicker than a wildfire.

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Your Ultimate Guide to Employee Engagement Surveys

ProProfs Chat

Did you know that engaged employees are 44% more productive as compared to just satisfied workers! Engaged employees are your best assets to grow your business. Their efforts are aligned to the business goals. They act as role models to other employees by setting a standard benchmark. But, how to measure employee engagement to ensure maximum productivity?

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5 Digital Technologies Transforming Contact Center Customer Service

Oracle

Thanks to advanced digital technologies, companies now find themselves in a position to truly transform the contact center customer service experience. From a host of stunning new capabilities driven by AI to a migration to cloud-based services, and from an overhaul in both internal and customer-facing communication to message error removal technology, it’s an exciting, unprecedented period for contact centers.

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The 3 Reasons Customers Pushback or Ask for a Supervisor, and What to Do About It

Myra Golden

If a customer gives you pushback, argues, or asks for a supervisor, one of the three things is going on: The customer doesn’t trust you The customer fears something The customer sees you as a threat to getting what they want. Watch my video to get two powerful techniques you can use to preempt an escalation when you get pushback. Was this helpful?

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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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An Open Letter to My Friends in IT

Heart of the Customer

Dear IT colleagues, This is our time to shine. As the world changes rapidly, your company is looking to you to deliver the digital transformations necessary to support a new reality for your customers. Those digital adoption goals set for 2025? They’ve been moved up to 2021. With urgency. This year has shown us that […]. The post An Open Letter to My Friends in IT appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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5 call center KPIs you need to track right now

Talkdesk

Measure twice, cut once. Any carpenter will tell you that. The same goes for contact center KPIs. Having the right metrics to measure and the tools to track them is the best way to make meaningful changes to your contact center’s performance. Those changes will lead to a solid plan to improve customer experience (CX) and earn trust. Below are some of the KPIs to focus on and what they mean. 1.

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Birdeye ranks on Deloitte’s list of 500 fastest-growing companies

BirdEye

We’re happy to announce that Birdeye has ranked on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 , a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing companies in North America from 2016-2019. During this time period, Birdeye grew a stunning 329%. This is a testament to the growing desire for improved customer experience by businesses in all verticals. . “We’re honored to be recognized by Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America,” said Naveen Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Birdeye.

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Contact Centre Trends 2021: Fonolo Report

Peter Lavers

The Coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we engage with customers, colleagues and suppliers – forever! Many companies were already on journeys of digital transformation, which have been accelerated beyond belief in 2020. This has particularly affected contact centres, and our founding director Peter Lavers was recently asked to contribute to Fonolo’s 2021 Contact Centre Trends Report.

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Advantages Of Adding Chatbot For Website

SurveySparrow

When you’re trying to run a business successfully, you have to automate your work process to increase profits. In the business world, your customers always want fast responses to their queries. They want to interact with your brand without filling a long-form. They want assistance and support from your brand. And, you can’t provide excellent customer support without the help of automation.

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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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Top Customer Success Conferences in 2021

ClientSuccess

Mark Your Calendars Now! . Think back to the last time you or your team attended a conference or expo in person. If you’re like most of the world, it was probably back before March of 2020 when everything changed. With most of the conferences in 2020 either cancelled or converted into virtual events, many industry leaders are looking forward to getting back to normal in 2021.

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Trust In The Age Of The Customer

Forrester's Customer Insights

One of the best parts of being a Forrester analyst is having the time, space, and data to wrestle with abstract, complex concepts that inevitably influence business today and in the near future. For the past several months, I’ve been chipping away at a topic that is on the minds of leaders in just about […].

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Process Automation: The Key to Business Continuity for Financial Service Providers ?

Bizagi

The economy has entered a recession. But unlike the last major economic downturn, the cause did not originate with the financial services industry itself due to poor regulation and debt defaults. The pandemic caused by Coronavirus has had a global impact, changing the way most organizations do business, sending shockwaves through the economy. As a result, all banks and financial service providers are faced with the challenge of how to continue their business activities.

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Critical touchpoints that make or break the customer experience

MyCustomer

Download this Ebook. Lead goal. 423. TM Form. Not a TM Form. Internal or External. External. Disable T&Cs requirement. Email intro text. Thank you for downloading our resource.

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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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The Best Practices to Attract and Retain Legal Clients

Magellan Solutions

Law firms are also businesses. They need to attract and retain clients. But just like in any other business, these tasks are often challenging. Strengthening your legal marketing strategy is an option. But this would need a lot of effort. And it can also affect your focus on core activities. So, how do you remedy this? How can you attract and retain clients without sacrificing your operations?

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Crictical touchpoints that make or break the customer experience

MyCustomer

Download this Ebook. Lead goal. 423. TM Form. Not a TM Form. Internal or External. External. Disable T&Cs requirement. Email intro text. Thank you for downloading our resource.

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Improving Quality and Performance in Customer Experience

Brad Cleveland Blog

Today’s generation of quality, performance, and customer experience initiatives is building on a rich history. Naturally, new ideas and methods will follow. But some core themes have emerged from these management advances—principles that are guiding current developments. They include: Quality must be based on customer needs and expectations Quality and accessibility work together The process is where the leverage is … The post Improving Quality and Performance in Customer Experience first

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How retail brands are adapting the Black Friday shopping experience for 2020

Qualtrics

Brands will have to adapt to a very different Black Friday this year, with safety a key priority. Find out the steps businesses are taking to navigate one of the busiest seasons of the year. If you think of ‘Black Friday’, you think of crowds of customers snapping up products at amazing discounts before Christmas. This year is different. In fact, for some brands, ‘Black Friday’ has already begun.

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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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Improving Quality and Performance in Customer Experience

Brad Cleveland Blog

Today’s generation of quality, performance, and customer experience initiatives is building on a rich history. Naturally, new ideas and methods will follow. But some core themes have emerged from these management advances—principles that are guiding current developments. They include: Quality … Continue reading → The post Improving Quality and Performance in Customer Experience appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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How a leading UK bank is connecting its customer and employee experience

Qualtrics

You won’t find many organizations that deny the importance of their employees to delivering fantastic customer experience. Employees are one of the core components of your brand; the creators of your product; the people working directly with your customers. However, paying lip service to the importance of employees and truly understanding how they impact on your customer experience are two separate things.

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A Guide For Finserv Leaders On Building Their Financial Well-Being Program

Forrester's Customer Insights

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns have severely impacted the finances of millions of customers globally. The pandemic has also changed how customers bank, get insurance, and manage their finances. In addition to these COVID-19 changes, governments, regulators, and shareholders are now demanding higher standards and mandating financial services firms to better serve and […].

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Building resilience in healthcare workers

Qualtrics

Healthcare professionals are under pressure like never before. What can leaders and their teams do to strengthen their personal and professional resilience, during and beyond the coronavirus pandemic? The challenge for healthcare workers. The coronavirus pandemic has made huge demands on employees in all sectors, as the global event and its ramifications change and disrupt every aspect of life.

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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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Get Ready For The Subscription Business

Forrester's Customer Insights

Subscriptions link the value propositions of customer usage to outcomes. To achieve this business model, traditional product companies need to reinvent innovation cycles, product development approaches, sales and marketing tactics, and customer support functions. There are many obstacles to this transformation — but it’s doable. Three main observations when defining your strategy for driving subscription […].

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Kudos to You — and to the People We Depend on Everyday

BlueOcean

As we find ourselves entering the strangest holiday season we’ve ever experienced, we want to be sure that while we can’t celebrate together this year, that we still give thanks to our exceptional people and clients. It is our pleasure to share just a small sample of the amazing words of gratitude and recognition from our clients’ customers for our agents.

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Sampling error – Definition, types, control, and reducing errors

QuestionPro Audience

What is a sampling error? A sampling error occurs when the sample used in the study is not representative of the whole population. Sampling errors often occur, and thus, researchers always calculate a margin of error during final results as a statistical practice. The margin of error is the amount of error allowed for a miscalculation to represent the difference between the sample and the actual population.

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Blueshift Certified as ‘RealCDP’ in CDP Institute’s Inaugural Audit

Blueshift

2020 has been a year of incredible growth and adoption for Customer Data Platforms, with players large and small unveiling their own iteration of a Customer Data Platform. The CDP industry added 22 vendors and is estimated to reach $1.3 billion in revenue in 2020 alone — but this growth has also led to mixed […]. The post Blueshift Certified as ‘RealCDP’ in CDP Institute’s Inaugural Audit appeared first on Blueshift.

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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.