Wed.Sep 22, 2021

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4 IVR Testing Strategies to Differentiate Your Customer Experience

Cyara

Everyone loves a good IVR. Customers can save time by self-serving, companies can route the right calls to the right extension while minimizing call volume, and even getting honest service feedback is easier when it’s all automated.

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The Culture Challenge

ShepHyken

Culture is one of the most important parts of customer service and customer experience. I’ve written numerous articles about this and have included a chapter on this topic in my latest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , which by the way, is finally out. (Shameless plug: Get it today!) . It’s always been my philosophy that customer service is not a department.

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6 Ways Lead Generation Services Helps You Get a Better Return on Investment

Magellan Solutions

Wondering how Lead Generation Services can help your company’s bottomline? We got some answers! Do you find it difficult to meet your development targets? Have you fallen into the referral trap, where the majority of your development is based on referrals? . If that’s the case, you’re not alone. It’s not a good idea to rely solely on referrals for new business.

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[Podcast] Leadership Tips for Building a User Community

Lithium

In this episode, Cyber Security Evangelist at Check Point , Dameon Welch-Abernathy (aka ) talks about launching, growing, and leading user communities. A community, whether in-person or virtual, isn’t just a set-it-and-forget-it type of project. It takes a lot of involvement from all types of users and leaders to create a space that invites participation.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Are You A Go-To Complex Problem Solver or A Problem Manager?

One Millimeter Mindset

Do you perceive yourself as a problem solver, manager, or a spectator? Think about it. First, a colleague identifies a current or potential problem. Next, are you their top-of-mind, go-to resource to find a solution? Or are you the last person clients and colleagues consider for complex problem solving? Alternatively, are you a sought-after, stellar manager of complex problems?

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Crisis communication from a customer-centric perspective

Beyond the Arc

When crisis hits your company, how will you protect your customer relationships and brand reputation? The way you approach crisis communication can make all the difference.It's essential to be prepared with crisis management communications that effectively support your customers. But all too often, companies focus on the wrong things.Maybe you consider, “What do we want [.].

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27 KPIs to measure chatbot effectiveness

SurveySparrow

If you’ve noticed that chatbots are becoming common and popular, it’s not just you. The chatbot industry is booming. Not only are fewer customer service interactions handled by humans, experts predict that the chatbot market will grow to be worth more than $1.3 billion by 2024. Chatbots are one of the most cost-effective ways to deliver customer service quickly and impactfully. .

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7 common customer service failures you can avoid with the right cloud ACD

NICE inContact

In these days of striving for excellent CX, it's important to use every tool available. The best cloud ACDs can help contact centers improve experiences and avoid service failures through sophisticated routing, smart self-service, and providing agents and supervisors with enhanced capabilities. Additionally, modern ACDs provide contact center leaders with real-time information for better decision-making and empower them to make quick, effective configuration changes.

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Building Customer Relationships With Dan Gingiss and Jason Valdina

Conversocial

A few weeks ago I appeared on CX legend and friend of Conversocial Dan Gingiss' podcast 'The Experience Maker'. We focused on the needs and expectations of a modern consumer and how to best use messaging channels to meet and exceed those expectations.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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How to Avoid the Customer Experience Gap

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

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The Supportive: A Series for Service Professionals

Help Scout

This post is part of The Supportive , Mathew Patterson’s column for customer service professionals. Your work matters. You matter. Delivering high-quality online customer service day after day is skilled, challenging work. Sometimes people think of support as an “entry level” role, something to be moved through or skipped over, but you know how wrong they are.

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Revolutionizing Retail at Riachuelo with SAP S/4HANA

SAP Customer Experience

Digital transformation project drives customer experience and growth. View >> Part 1 | Part 2 Riachuelo is the flagship retailer in the Guararapes Group. It started as a fabric store in 1947 and evolved into a major department store by 1979.

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Pathmonk podcast: Leveraging data to serve website customers

Happy or Not

Like any business, you’re sure to come by unsatisfied customers. But without a way to capture if they are happy or not, how do you know? Where do you start, and what does the data mean? What you do with data can make a significant impact on your customer retention and growth. . Our CEO Miika Mäkitalo had the pleasure to join the Pathmonk podcast where he not only discussed our 4 Smileys and the benefits that customer feedback insights provide businesses, but also shared his perspective and adv

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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8 Essential Capabilities You Need for Interaction Analytics

Uniphore

Interaction analytics takes unstructured data from customer interactions across multiple channels and harnesses it to let you understand the true voice of the customer. AI-powered interaction analytics gives you real-time insights to guide your agents and optimize the conversation as well as post-interaction analytics to inform customer experience decisions and strategies, automate and improve compliance and quality control, and improve agent performance.

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Developing a human-centric approach to loyalty

PK

I recently joined my colleague, PK Associate Design Director Hannah Sherwood, on Cheetah Digital’s Uncaged Wisdom podcast to discuss PK’s human-centric approach to loyalty. In the podcast, we chatted with […]. The post Developing a human-centric approach to loyalty appeared first on PK.

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The Value of Employee Retention and How An App Can Improve It

CXApp

It’s time we address the elephant in the room. You may be wondering, how can employers bridge the gap between off-site and on-site workers in a hybrid environment? Well it’s much simpler than you may believe it to be: an employee app.

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How To Bring Customers Back (Podcast Summary)

Doing CX Right

How do you get customers back to buy again? Read Shep Hyken's actionable tips revleaded on DoingCXRight®? Podcast. The post How To Bring Customers Back (Podcast Summary) appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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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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Lessons Large Enterprises Can Learn from Small Business’s Customer Journeys

Gold Research

Understanding a Customer's Journey is pivotal for a business, irrespective of its size, in order to draw insights into customers' experiences along with the perceptions they draw when interacting with the company.

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057: I’ll Be Back – How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again

The DiJulius Group

Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius of The DiJulius Group talks with Shep Hyken, customer service expert, about his new book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again. You will learn: How to design and create an experience that gets customers to return again and again. The difference between repeat. Read Full Article. The post 057: I’ll Be Back – How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Is Research Necessary to Understand "Customer Behavior"?

Gold Research

Every business is in the business of serving its customers. And in a world full of choices, understanding customer behavior gets more and more important every day. Doing so enables an enterprise to outline how customers think and act and motivate them to prefer choices that benefit it’s brand. It is vital to boosting an organization’s competitiveness and ability to retain and engage more customers through customized products and solutions.

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7 Omnichannel best practices for enterprises in 2021

Knowmax

7 Omnichannel best practices for enterprises in 2021.

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Customer Experience Myths Guidebook

A CX myth is something widely believed or implemented that is based on “how we’ve always done it” thinking, rather than delivering truly innovative customer experiences. What CX myths are holding organizations back from top-level customer experience performance? What can companies do to find solid ground and move forward successfully? In this guidebook, we answer those questions and more as we explore three key myths and two strategies that you can use to replace them.

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How Customer Journey Mapping leads to Great Customer Experience in Retail

Gold Research

The retail sector, spurred by the advent of online shopping, has transformed itself across a variety of industries. While marketers have more opportunities to expand and sell globally, shoppers have nearly unlimited options to choose from. This has created an intensified competitive landscape for sellers and makes it even more challenging to stand out in the market and attract and hold the customer's attention.

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Market Remains Hot As We Kick Off Our Next DAM Wave

Forrester's Customer Insights

You should give a DAM about the DAM market and your DAM needs. More than 60% of the users we surveyed already give a DAM. Because of this heat in the market, strong growth and most importantly customer need, we’re kicking off our next Digital Asset Management Wave evaluation in October. The volume of engagement […].

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When Customer support is the problem

Zeisler Consulting

Nothing is 100%. Things fail, products break, even very important services go dark from time to time. A Customer who expects and demands perfection is certain to be disappointed pretty often, and in fact is being somewhat unreasonable, if you ask me. With this understood and its obvious importance, then, why is Customer Support so often the place where CX takes the hardest hit?

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Forrester renforce ses équipes en France

Forrester's Customer Insights

Forrester est l’un des cabinets d’études et de conseil les plus influents au monde. Nous vous accompagnons et aidons à mettre le client au cœur de votre leadership, de votre stratégie et de vos opérations. Créé il y a plus de 35 ans aux Etats-Unis à Boston, Forrester est présent dans de nombreux pays en […].

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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,