Mon.Feb 07, 2022

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Don’t serve to satisfy customers. Serve to WOW them.

Bill Quiseng

Don’t serve to satisfy customers. Serve to WOW them. The customer does not “journey” sequentially over time, from start to finish. They journey emotionally with “ow” and “WOW moments” The more ow or WOW, the more emotional the moment, the more memorable the experience. The more ow, the more disgustingly memorable the experience, the more disloyal the customer.

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Why so many contact centres are turning to Microsoft Teams (Video)

Eptica

Date: Monday, February 7, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Why so many contact centres are turning to Microsoft Teams (Video). Published on: February 07, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager With its combination of superior collaboration tools, workplace chat, video meetings, shared file storage, and application integration designed to deliver a powerful collaboration environment, a growing number of contact centres are implementing Microsoft Teams.

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Is It Really That Important That I’m Wearing a Name Tag?

Steve DiGioia

There’s always that one employee who refuses to follow directions. It seems that no matter how many times you talk to him, he continues to “forget” to do what he’s told or at worst, intentionally refuses to do it. So, what do you do with an employee like this? Sure, we can give him a kick in the rear and show him the door, but you never want to lose an otherwise half-decent employee if you can help it.

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Cautionary tale—BNPL disrupts with faster, smarter, more personalized payment solutions

Maru Group

By Mallory Salerno, Vice-President, Business Development, Maru/Matchbox | February 7, 2022. The seamless experience of BNPL solutions has contributed to their exploding popularity. The global market continues to put extreme pressure on financial institutions to develop faster, smarter, more personalized payment solutions. However, traditional financial institutions and lenders continue to fall short by failing to provide a frictionless customer experience.

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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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Problem Solved: Software-Only MFA for Call Center PCI Compliance

CSM Magazine

In 2020 there were an estimated 2.83 million people working in call centers across the United States according to Statista.com. These facilities are the backbone of numerous industries’ customer service operations which rely upon these call centers and call center agents to ensure their customers are receiving the best experience possible. In an industry that employs millions and is also responsible for handling sensitive information for millions, security and efficiency are extremely impo

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What is a Customer Success Management Software?

CustomerSuccessBox

Regardless of whether it is a product or a service, it ultimately depends on what the customer’s needs are. If the businesses focus on giving an excellent customer experience , it surely leads to the profits they desire. When you know this fact, providing an amazing experience becomes your top priority. And it calls for customer success software which is a higher version of customer relationship management software – CRM, that is curated to gauge specific goals of driving success, an

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Are You Testing With Your Heart?

Cyara

Show Customers You're Really Listening. Nobody wants to be the one who’s blindsided when a relationship doesn’t work out. “I thought it was going so w ell!” you say. “We talk all the time. You never complain. You say yes to every thing, so I thought it was smooth sailing!”. Not so, says your soon-to-be-ex partner. “You don’t listen to me. You never ask what I want to do or what I like.

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How AI Can Improve The Customer Experience

Topdown

Business and technology found a partnership unlike any other a long, long time ago in a world not so far away. Today, that intersection has evolved into a sprawling jungle of technological advancements made year after year. There have been some major milestones made in the way of propelling business, and society, forward with technology. In our modern world, nearly everyone holds a smartphone, and over the last year specifically, the digital age was drastically accelerated.

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Top 3 Loyalty Programme Trends for 2022

LoyaltyPlus

Globally, 75% of consumers surveyed admitted to favouring brands that offer rewards. And with the same research highlighting that 65% of a company’s business come from existing customers, the need to embrace loyalty as an enabler for growth cannot be ignored. The pandemic has forced organisations to rethink their relationships with customers with traditional tactics no longer sufficient.

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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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Brands Of The Year: Tesla, YETI, Target, And Fintechs

Forrester's Customer Insights

Brands Thrive In The Pandemic’s Aftershock In 2020, companies braced for upheaval, navigating a century-defining pandemic through a fog of uncertainty. What followed in 2021 was a series of aftershocks: a tumultuous year of vaccines and variants, hope, and despair that shredded any semblance of normalcy. In an incredibly challenging year, these brands exemplified the […].

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Customer Centricity Must Become a Top C-Suite Priority

Alida

By Nicolas Darveau-Garneau, Chief Growth and Strategy Officer at Coveo, former Chief Evangelist at Google, and Alida board member.

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Feb 07 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Senior Customer Success Manager Location: New York, NY, US (Hybrid) Organization: Recapped As a Senior Customer Success Manager, you will be collaborating with Sales to successfully onboard new customers. Support and enable existing users by answering questions, demoing the product, and being an available resource. Personally tailor workflows and templates for customers to leverage Recapped in new and exciting ways.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 2-7-2022

ShepHyken

Each week I read many 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. 9 Ways to Build Customer Loyalty by Ken Peterson. (CMSWire) This got me thinking about all the companies I’ve worked with and used over the years and what they actually did to earn my loyalty.

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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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How to Execute a Churn Analysis for Account Managers

Kapta Customer Success

For a business to be successful, you must be willing to make continuous updates and improvements where necessary. More importantly, you should always be focused on your customers and how you can improve their experience with your brand and products or services. This starts with tracking your churn rate versus customer retention and running churn analysis to discover what's causing customers to go to the competition — and change it.

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Level Up Your CS Operations Using SmartKarrot

SmartKarrot

The one thing that managers love to do is strategize. But, for that, you need to have precise execution. There is always a talk about sales and marketing when products are flying off the shelves, subscriptions are increasing gradually, and revenues are jumping. However, without operations, nothing can run smoothly. This thing also applies to customer success.

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4 Key Steps to Launching a Mystery Shopping Program

IntouchInsight

Over decades of managing mystery shopping programs we've seen time and time again that the overall success of a program hinges on the initial design. We've worked with brands across countless industries and, while specifics vary, the initial steps to launching a mystery shopping program are the same.

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How Packhelp Mastered Customer Feedback to Become a Custom Packaging Leader

Survicate

The post How Packhelp Mastered Customer Feedback to Become a Custom Packaging Leader appeared first on Survicate.

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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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How Utilities Can Ensure New Rate Success

Uplight

Time-of-use (TOU) can be a powerful tool to incentivize load-shift from peak to off-peak time periods, reduce cross-subsidies, and empower customers to better manage their energy bills. However, transitioning customers to a new Time-of-Use rate, whether it be opt-in or opt-out, is a hurdle all on its own. Once a customer enrolls in a TOU Read More. The post How Utilities Can Ensure New Rate Success appeared first on Uplight.

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How to build a data-driven Customer Success team

inSided

Welcome to another week of Burn the Churn ! This week, it's time to do some core work. And what sits at the core of any solid customer health model? Data. So let's make sure your CS team has the goods to be truly data-driven. Let's go! ?? (Not signed up for the challenge yet? Join here.) Data and technology are at the heart of Customer Success. It’s what allows you to quantify and measure what’s otherwise just gut instinct and guessing.

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Top Referral Offers to Convert Prospects to Customers

Perkville

We researched the referral offers for hundreds of businesses using Perkville to identify what types of offers are most common and which offers convert the best.

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Observability – Is it IT Voyeurism?

Forrester's Customer Insights

As I worked to develop guidance around AIOps, I soon found that other commonly used terms were equally confusing to people in our industry. How is it that an industry with so many highly educated professionals can have so many problems with words? The latest IT linguistics conundrum is “observability.” While developing my AIOps reference […].

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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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The Hidden Marketing Tool for Your Rewards Program

Perkville

Learn how your employees can help market your rewards program to customers. Just a few simple tips you can use tomorrow!

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How has the in-store experience changed in a post-pandemic world?

delighted

This post is a contribution by Ganesh Mukundan , Content Marketer at Hiver. Does the future look bleak for brick and mortar stores? 2020 sure made it seem that way. The COVID-19 outbreak showed no mercy. Along with alarming health concerns worldwide, it had most retail businesses running for cover, with some of them having to bear the brunt of overnight closures.

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Savvy Cybersecurity Programs Focus On Competence, Integrity, And Empathy

Forrester's Customer Insights

As of July 31, 2021, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center saw a 62% increase in reported ransomware incidents compared with the same time frame in 2020. Intrusions in environments spanned various types of infrastructure, with 35% exploiting software vulnerabilities and 32% using supply chains and third parties to obtain unauthorized access, per Forrester data. […].

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How to Make a Personality Quiz: A Quick Guide

SurveySparrow

Wondering how to make a personality quiz? Personality quizzes are an effective, non-invasive way to turn your website visitors into leads and sales. You can create your own personality quiz from scratch or use a template. Most quiz makers give you the ability to make personality quizzes. But in this article, we’ll see how you can use SurveySparrow to create an interactive personality quiz that gets you the highest completion rates, in only 3 simple steps.

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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.