Mon.Feb 08, 2021

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With CX, Standing Still Means Falling Behind

Cyara

Customer experience is a moving target. What a customer expects from your business is not only based on their past experiences with you, but also on experiences they’ve had with other businesses in general. As a society, the bar is raised on CX as soon as another organization succeeds in delivering a consistently exceptional, replicable experience. While we might silently cringe when the customer in line ahead of you asks to speak to a manager, we all know we’re empowered to do the same: to dema

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Totango Honored with G2 2021 Best Software Company Award

Totango

Totango, Inc., the largest and fastest-growing customer success platform, today announced that G2 has recognized the company as one of the Top 50 Best Software Companies for 2021. G2, the largest software marketplace and review platform, annually names its list of best software companies based on authentic, timely reviews from real users. “We are honored to be named to G2’s prestigious Top 50 Software list for 2021,” said Guy Nirpaz, CEO and Founder of Totango.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 8, 2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Make Every Day Valentine’s Day by Showing Love and Empathy to Customers by Janelle Estes. (CMSWire) Valentine’s Day is approaching.

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Experience TV Episode 7: Jay Baer’s Tips for Growth in 2021

Oracle

Welcome to Experience TV, a LIVE show on social channels about the economic revolution we’re living through, the Experience Economy, where brands compete on the quality of their customer experiences. Here on SmarterCX, you’ll find the replay of each episode and all resources mentioned within. Follow me, Katie Martell, on Twitter , LinkedIn , or the show’s Facebook page to catch future episodes.

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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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Digital Coupons Deliver the Immediacy Companies Need for Effective Problem Resolution

CSM Magazine

Even the best, most highly regarded brands in the world experience service delays or snafus. . When they do, they need to react promptly and appropriately to address the issue, assuage the unhappy customer and boost the odds that the customer will remain a client for the long term. Coupons are commonly used by all types of companies to appease customers when regular communications fail.

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A Digital-First Contact Center Strategy Can Deliver Customers for Life. Is It Time to Start Your Digital Revolution?

NICE inContact

Digital has far-reaching implications not just for how organizations provide service today, but also for how much more change is coming in the very near future. Those who “win” customer service will need to completely reimagine it—and digital will be central to that.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Net Promoter Score

SurveySparrow

There’s no doubt that Net Promoter Score is definitely one of the most popular metrics out there. NPS score works both as loyalty metrics and as a way to improve loyalty over time. You can measure your employee and customer feedback about your brand with the help of it. . But, if you say NPS score is a perfect metric to track customer advocacy, you are unrealistic. .

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Telehealth in Healthcare BPO

Magellan Solutions

Companies are now getting Telehealth services from their Healthcare BPO partner. But why? Telehealth gains its popularity overnight as soon as the pandemic hits the globe. With many restrictions put up by the government, staying at home becomes mandatory. It also forces businesses to limit their operations for the safety of everyone. These include healthcare providers like hospitals and clinics.

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Here’s What You Need to Know About the Relationship Between Sales and Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Since time immemorial, sales and customer service have had a fraught relationship at best, and an outright adversarial relationship in the worst of times. Both are major budgetary expenses. Customer service has often drawn the short straw because it is seen as a budgetary drain while sales brings in the money. If one has to suffer, it is usually customer service.

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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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Why Hire an Order Taking Call Center?

Magellan Solutions

What is even an order taking call center? And why do people keep on saying they need it? A missed call is a missed opportunity. Do you agree? Delays in processing orders is a huge turn off for customers. Everyone wants to feel valued. We don’t want to waste our time waiting for the next person to attend to our simple request. We want it to be fast yet efficient and concise.

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Free Webinar: Kickstarting Your Customer-Centric Culture

CSM Magazine

Reuters Events are excited to announce their next free customer service & experience webinar: ‘Kickstarting Your Customer-Centric Culture.’. It is becoming clearer that top-class customer experience cannot be achieved without nurturing great employee experience. An organization’s CX goals can become a reality when everyone across the enterprise has adopted a unified, customer-centric mindset.

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Taking Customer Experience to the Next Level with Advanced Call Center Technologies

NICE inContact

Do you ever feel like your competitors have outdistanced you when it comes to using innovative technology to create exceptional customer experiences? Are there signs that your customers are lukewarm about your organization's customer support options? Maybe your agents complain about the outdated technology they use every day while assisting customers?

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Smart CRM Basics: eCommerce Marketing

Optimove

Sometimes, when our daily work drags us through the mud of day-to-day details and tasks, we lose sight of how all the dots connect. So today, on our Smart CRM Basics series, we want to take you through a 4-minute drill and just see for a moment how all the moving parts of eCommerce marketing at scale are making sense together. It could be a useful exercise for experienced and novice CRMers alike.

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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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Chat Support Services: A Useful Customer Service Technique

Magellan Solutions

Chat Support Services is a staple to deliver a great customer service . Importance of Contact Customer Support. Customer support is a vital part of any business. A good contact customer service team helps business in brand building. . As well as to establish a good connection with customers. Even after a service is rendered. A product is delivered. Customers expect any brand or business to build a connection with.

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Hosted vs. Self-Hosted Live Chat – Which Do You Need?

Comm100

Offering live chat on your website is a no-brainer if you want to provide accessible and fast support to your customers. It’s fast become the most popular digital channel for customers and agents alike whose experiences are both improved by it. But before you jump into choosing your live chat software , you need to decide if you want hosted or self-hosted live chat.

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Smart CRM Basics: eCommerce Marketing

Optimove

Sometimes, when our daily work drags us through the mud of day-to-day details and tasks, we lose sight of how all the dots connect. So today, on our Smart CRM Basics series, we want to take you through a 4-minute drill and just see for a moment how all the moving parts of eCommerce marketing at scale are making sense together. It could be a useful exercise for experienced and novice CRMers alike.

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What Is Business Process Outsourcing?

Helpware

Contracting commercial activity to a third-party company that has relevant expertise is termed business process outsourcing. The most common functions for outsourcing are customer service, accounting, payroll, human resources’ management. As a rule, BPO performs complementary, rather than core functions, with either tech or non-tech services. From newly established businesses to large-scale enterprises, companies of any scale contract out processes.

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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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Why is Delivering Great Customer Service Important If You Want to Become a Therapist?

CSM Magazine

Many people around the world want to become a therapist , especially after the year we’ve had. This isn’t just an incredibly rewarding career, but it is also one of the few sectors that have thrived during the pandemic due to rising mental health issues and are providing greater job security than ever before, something many of us seek. Becoming a therapist is a huge commitment, it takes years of training and a substantial cost to become fully qualified.

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Level Up Your CX Prioritization By Thinking In Multiple Dimensions

Forrester's Customer Insights

In my last blog post about customer experience (CX) prioritization, I talked about the importance of balancing customer impact with business impact when making decisions about which projects to pursue. Beginning CX prioritization uses a simple but effective four-box model. As CX prioritization moves up the maturity curve, it gets more complex by adding more […].

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It Starts With Staff: 5 Tips for Expanding Your Business’ Team

CSM Magazine

For your company to succeed you need to ensure that you build a team that is robust, capable and focused on the goals of your organisation. Hiring the right individuals to work in your company will help to strengthen your business and allow you to move toward your targets with more confidence. As the old saying goes ‘a team is only as strong as its weakest link’.

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Improve your company’s customer success team with these surveys

GetFeedback

How to conduct customer success surveys to improve retention and satisfaction.

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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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Personalized healthcare for all

PK

For many, getting the COVID vaccine seems like an inevitability. But how will you find out when it’s available? If you’re like me, you have no idea when you’ll be […]. The post Personalized healthcare for all appeared first on PK.

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3 Critical Questions to Include in Your Customer Success Software RFP (Request for Proposal)

ClientSuccess

As a successful, scaling customer success department, your team needs the right tools and resources to be successful. Over the past few years, customer success teams have migrated off sales-focused CRM and project management platforms to solutions that are custom built from the ground-up for customer success teams to better manage customer accounts.

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Feb 08 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: New York, United States Organization: Okapi AI As a Director of Customer Success, you will own the overall relationship with the customers. Develops deep relationships with a wide range of partners at the customers (from executives to project managers), learn what their most important strategic priorities are, and ensures we deliver these outcomes.

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Fun with Filling Audience Panels

SurveyGizmo

Filling audience panel quotas isn’t always easy. Sometimes the audience a customer wants is pretty hard to find, other times they want people who don’t take surveys. In those cases, the Alchemer Panel Services team helps researchers understand the tradeoffs in finding their ideal audience. Here are some helpful tips to make it easier to complete your research and set expectations with your clients.

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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,