Qualtrics

APRIL 27, 2020

Customer Care Managers are used to dealing with regular surges in demand. Most customer care centers (also referred to as contact centers) have an established process, planned months in advance to ensure they cope adequately and maintain the customer experience. The stakes are high - one bad experience is enough for customers that loved the brand to shop elsewhere. 32% of all customers would stop doing business with a brand they loved after one bad experience. - Future of Customer Experience, Pw

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NetBase

APRIL 27, 2020

Social media has given birth to many things that can be considered useful in today’s business world, but perhaps the best invention is the meme. In present culture, the meme reflects current news, changing moods of the people, as well as trends. And companies paying attention to this have a real opportunity to connect with their audience more than ever.

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CX University

APRIL 27, 2020

Across almost every channel, be it a digital publication, fireside chat, webinar, podcast, or social media buzz, we hear about how to prepare for a return to normalcy (normal means conforming to something usual, expected, and typical). There is nothing typical about what has just happened to the world in the past month or two. Our economies have turned over on their heads.

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Lumoa

APRIL 27, 2020

Digital customer experience is the online experience and the journey your customers go through while interacting with your brand. As a result of increased usage of digital technology, customers’ expectations of digital services are higher than ever – making the digital customer experience more important than ever.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 27, 2020

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. Shake Shack to return $10 million government loan intended for small businesses by Allyson Chiu. (Washington Post) Shake Shack is returning all $10 million it received from a federal loan program intended to help small businesses amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic,

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Doing CX Right

APRIL 27, 2020

What does humanizing business mean? How do you actually do CX right during and post Covid19. I spoke about these topics at CCW Digital’s summer 2020 event. If you are unfamiliar with the conference, CCW brings thousands of customer contact, customer experience, technology, marketing, and operations professionals together for inspiring keynotes and interactive discussions. .

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COPC

APRIL 27, 2020

We’ve all had to adjust to a new reality in recent weeks — a reality that affects our economy and businesses on a daily basis. Companies have responded by changing themselves, and quickly. From retooling and reorganizing to relocating entire workforces, the companies that have been able to react the quickest will be those in the best position to prosper — regardless of what the future holds.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 27, 2020

“Talkdesk’s commitment to innovation and development philosophy stood out to us, making it clear that Talkdesk was the right partner to advance and future-proof our customer service operations,” said Jared Arnold, chief information officer, Advisors Excel. Advisors Excel is a US-based organization focused on building best-of-breed financial practices to bring unparalleled service to independent financial professionals while supporting every aspect of their business.

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Gainsight

APRIL 27, 2020

From the beginning, we’ve said that Customer Success is not just a department – it’s a company-wide priority. Over the years, we’ve discussed how CS needs to be intimately-connected to Sales , Product , Marketing , and other functions. We even wrote about how CEOs need to take more ownership of Customer Success. But one voice hasn’t been prominent enough in the Customer Success dialogue – Finance.

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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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Ian Williams

APRIL 27, 2020

Second tune from Project Lockdown called Lockdown, fifth iteration including drums, three guitars and bass, featuring Ian from Jericho, James Dodkins, the CX Rockstar, Freddie Pugh and William Carson from Ascensos playing both acoustic guitar and bass! The post Second tune from Project Lockdown called Lockdown, fifth iteration including drums, three guitars and bass appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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C Space

APRIL 27, 2020

The Brand Move Roundup – April 27, 2020. We’re tracking the notable brand moves & highlighting the companies who are tackling this challenge successfully. Tweet. We started this series of brand updates on March 12, but the reaction has been so positive, and the crisis so fast-moving, that we’re going to move to a continuously updated rolling news format from now until it’s all over (hopefully soon).

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Forrester's Customer Insights

APRIL 27, 2020

Small businesses globally are experiencing a serious credit crunch from COVID-19 lockdowns. Many small and medium-sized businesses sit on little if any cash reserves and some have already lost most of their revenue; but they still have to pay their bills, maintain their supply chain, compensate their employees, and repay their debts. Millions of businesses […].

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PeopleMetrics

APRIL 27, 2020

In March of 2020, PeopleMetrics conducted an independent study to find out h. ow employees across the US perceive their employer's response to COVID-19. We found that 55% of American workers are unhappy with their employer's response to COVID-19 , but that perceptions varied depending on employees' working environment, generation, industry and more.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

APRIL 27, 2020

COVID-19 Is Proving That Consumer Voices Can Influence Business Decisions Last week, major corporations learned firsthand the power of values-based consumers. Many received harsh backlash after applying for and receiving funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), intended to help small businesses keep their workforces employed amid the COVID-19 crisis.

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Bizagi

APRIL 27, 2020

So, you want to deploy Robotic Process Automation in your business? Great! It can boost efficiency, help to ensure compliance, and free up employee’s time to focus on value-add tasks. But beware, the failure rate of RPA implementation and adoption is 30-50%, according to EY. They fail because the RPA implementation process is complex. If you’re going to introduce robots into your business to automate processes, there are a few things that you need to consider….

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 27, 2020

A collection of some of the best newsletters to stay updated on the latest in the customer success space. All interested teams can sign-up to these and receive updates to their mailbox. #1 SixteenVentures. by Lincoln Murphy. Lincoln Murphy is a leading customer success consultant, keynote speaker, and author. One of the most followed newsletters in the Customer Success space, it does a great job of offering you the latest customer-centric growth tips. #2 Keep THE CUSTOMER. by Diana De Jesus.

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ProProfs Chat

APRIL 27, 2020

“When you help others feel important, you help yourself feel important too.” – David J. Schwartz, Author, and Motivational Speaker. That’s exactly what Lego did for a seven-year old Luka Apps who was devastated after losing his favorite toy – Ninjago. The boy wrote a heartfelt letter to the company saying: Well, the company was thrilled to hear from their fan and wanted to make sure that they replied to his mail in the most unique way possible.

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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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DemandJump

APRIL 27, 2020

With talks of a recession looming on the horizon, businesses everywhere should be planning ahead. For many, this may mean reallocating money—or slashing budgets. That means different departments will be competing for less and doing whatever they can to make the most impact for the good of the business. So, how do you measure the worth of your marketing strategy?

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kommunicate

APRIL 27, 2020

The chatbot to human hand-off plays an important role in customer support. It is useful when your chatbot is unable to understand the visitor query and fails to answer them. Let say you visit a specific website that is empowered by chatbots. Assume that you ask a specific question to a chatbot but it fails [.]. The post Dialogflow Chatbot to Human Handoff appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 27, 2020

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: San Francisco, CA Organization: Aria Systems Aria Systems is looking for someone who will be able to engage with Aria’s Enterprise customers to drive opportunities, renewals and overall customer satisfaction. This role will be reporting to VP, Customer care. Maximize customer retention, renewal rates and expansion in existing customers.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

APRIL 27, 2020

Our team of security and risk analysts spent the past few months brainstorming and curating tactical and strategic advice designed to improve your security programs for 2020 and beyond. and then along came the COVID-19 global pandemic. In the midst of this, firms are undergoing a shuffle of priorities to accommodate a […].

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Gainsight

APRIL 27, 2020

via GIPHY. As I’ve written about , progress normally comes at us gradually, but COVID-19 has changed that and rapidly accelerated our progress toward the future. Virtual work, on-demand delivery, and telemedicine were all catapulted forward due to this terrible tragedy. And I discussed in the previous post, it’s likely we’re going back to the old world for some of these areas.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

APRIL 27, 2020

Netflix’s blockbuster Q1 results grabbed the headlines last week. But this is just one event in a quarter that I believe marks a watershed in the evolution of streaming video. Let’s look at four significant announcements and then put it all together into the story of the quarter: Netflix topped its global net new subscriber […].

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Steve DiGioia

APRIL 27, 2020

…why some plans fail and 4 methods for continuous improvement. You’ll Never Improve if You’re Married to Your Ideas. Throughout my hospitality career, I’ve heard countless managers say, “ That’ll be ok, it will work ” or “ Let’s do it this way, try it. What do you have to lose? ”. Or my favorite one… “ I know what I’m talking about, trust me ”. But when I question their plan or point out ways the plan may not work out as intended, I’m asked why I’m being so “negative”.

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Optimove

APRIL 27, 2020

One of the primary goals of retention marketing is to increase brand loyalty and maximize customer lifetime value (CLTV). This especially gains importance during stressful times like now as the world adapts to COVID-19 and its aftermath. There is a growing expectation that brands need to convey relevant, timely, yet – not creepy communications as customers exposure to additional touchpoints, and marketers’ arsenal of channels grows.

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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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