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[Experience Action Podcast] Gaining Frontline Buy-In

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Unlock the secret to ensuring your customer-facing employees are as invested in your customer experience vision as you are! As your trusted guide, Jeannie Walters is delving into the critical strategies you need to align your frontline team with the customer experience goals that your C-suite has already embraced. We’ll dissect the challenges, pinpoint the missteps, and celebrate the successes that come from elevating your brand ambassadors—those who have the power to make or break your cu

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Learning What Frustrates Your Customers from Unexpected Sources/ Making Your Entry-Level Positions More Attractive / How to Woo Job Candidates / Non-competes Banned / Is Starbucks in Serious Trouble?

The DiJulius Group

How to Woo Job Candidates Recently, I interviewed author Scott Greenberg on the Customer Service Revolution podcast episode 147. Scott shared a great example of how to woo potential job candidates during an interview process. One business owner reserves a parking spot right up front that says, “Welcome, Sherri.” Then, when the candidate walks inside, Read Full Article The post Learning What Frustrates Your Customers from Unexpected Sources/ Making Your Entry-Level Positions More Attractive / How

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Sales Negotiation Skills That Deliver Success

Integrity Solutions

For many in sales, negotiation is one of the most challenging aspects of the job. More often than not, these salespeople approach negotiation as a win-or-lose endurance game, a contentious battle that pits two opposing sides against each other. “Winning” means convincing the customer to accept your point of view—even if the outcome isn’t necessarily in the customer’s best interest.

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Customer Service Training: A Quick Guide for Mastering Service Excellence

CSM Magazine

Customer service often becomes the battleground where loyalty is won, and brands are differentiated. The saying “the customer is always right” has evolved into recognizing customer service as a crucial aspect of every business. Effective customer service training is a strategic imperative for businesses aiming to foster satisfaction, loyalty, and competitive advantage.

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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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30 Best Interview Feedback Examples (with Benefits and Best Practices)

SurveySparrow

You have conducted the interview, gotten a good sense of their skills, and jotted down your comments. But now what? How do you let the candidate know? The answers are right here. There is no need to go anywhere else! In this article, we will look at the best interview feedback examples. Before that, we have a few things to clear. Hey, feel free to jump ahead to the examples right away. 30 Best Interview Feedback Examples For the rest of us… Off we go!

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Encouraging Empathy in Customer Service Teams

Help Scout

Empathy is a core component of every good customer experience. Learn why it’s important and ways to infuse empathy into your customer service interactions.

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7 Must-Have Features for Next-Level Database Monitoring

SurveySensum

Is your database the powerhouse of your business operations? It ought to be. With data at its core, a robust monitoring system is not just beneficial—it’s imperative. As systems grow in complexity, so does the need for features that not only track performance but also enhance reliability and inform strategic decisions. Database monitoring must go beyond basic functionalities.

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What a string of semaglutide biosimilars could mean for Mainland China

Clarivate

GLP-1 (Glucagon like peptide 1) receptor agonists, a commonly prescribed drug class in the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D), successfully mimic a natural gut hormone, increasing production of insulin in the human body. While initially developed to help regulate blood sugar levels, they have also been found to promote appetite suppression, leading to weight loss in patients.

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Healthcare Reputation Management: The Complete Guide

InMoment XI

In the healthcare industry, your reputation is built on trust and credibility. And, in a time where opinions are formed in an instant and shared in a second, online reputation management has never been more important for healthcare organizations. What is Healthcare Reputation Management? Healthcare reputation management refers to the strategic process of monitoring, influencing, and maintaining the perceptions and opinions about a healthcare provider or organization within its target audience.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

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? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Small Print or Bigger Person

Zeisler Consulting

Your mom may have told you to always read the fine print. Or maybe it was a college professor or something along those lines. If you’ve ever interacted with an attorney of course you’re familiar with the admonition. By and large that’s always a great idea, even when working with a trusted and Customer-centric brand. After all, it’s important for both parties to understand what’s expected of the other, and it’s not necessarily a sign of mistrust to get certain things down on paper, just to be

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How to Create a Fail-Safe IT Project Outsourcing Strategy

Helpware

Are you tired of juggling the demands of different IT projects and constantly trying to do more with less? You are not the only one. A Clutch study found that over 37% of small businesses currently outsource at least one business process, with IT services making the top of the list. This number grows even larger when we look at enterprises, about 90% of Fortune 500 companies outsourcing at least some portion of their IT needs.

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QSR Guest Experiences: Insight Into Tech’s Impact [Latest Data]

IntouchInsight

When it comes to quick-serve restaurants (QSR), one thing is clear: customers crave speed, convenience, and good food. But with an overwhelming amount of information available to help restaurant operators please guests, how to know what really works?

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Is There a Difference Between Workplace Harassment and Bullying?

CSM Magazine

Your work environment should be a professional place where you feel safe and enabled to perform to the best of your potential. When you experience any form of harassment or bullying in the workplace, it creates hostility. Both offences should be taken seriously. But is there a difference? In this article, we aim to help you identify and understand the difference between harassment and bullying in the workplace.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

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? With customer experience automation, organizations can leverage AI and automation to make it faster and cheaper to provide a superior customer experience acro

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Why Knowledge Isn’t Just Power, It’s a Trap: The KM Antipattern Dilemma

Forrester's Customer Insights

Have you ever been part of a team where everyone seemed to guard their knowledge from other teams, like treasure, fearing that sharing might diminish their worth? Or perhaps you’ve witnessed an environment where the pursuit of individual success overshadows common goals?

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Betting spiked 540% during Caitlin Clark’s March Madness games

Optimove

Caitlin Clark mania swept the U.S. during March Madness and Optimove has the betting numbers to back it up, Analysis of betting activity by Optimove’s analytical and research arm, Optimove Insights, found that wagering increased 540% on average on games featuring the Iowa Hawkeyes standout. The post Betting spiked 540% during Caitlin Clark’s March Madness games appeared first on Optimove.

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Focus on Customer Value to Deliver B2B Customer Growth

Forrester's Customer Insights

Last week I presented at my 10th, and final, Forrester B2B Summit North America. I say final not because the event is ending, but because I’m retiring from Forrester in June of this year.

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New Enhancements to Avaya Experience Platform Elevate CX

CSM Magazine

Avaya has unveiled a series of important enhancements to the Avaya Experience Platform (AXP), that further Avaya’s leadership in Enterprise CX as well as its commitment to delivering Innovation without Disruption. Avaya’s robust and comprehensive CX platform, trusted by large Enterprises globally, empowers customers to maintain their core capabilities while evolving through flexible innovation paths, including on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, or hybrid deployment models.

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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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Crashing Through The Walls Of Your Enterprise, Modern Cars Are Leaving Security Gaps

Forrester's Customer Insights

As Forrester has reported, IoT devices are more exposed to cyberattacks, requiring security leaders to address the security vulnerabilities in this wide array of devices deployed across their organization. One area that many security professionals continue to overlook is the simple car, which to be honest is no longer so simple.

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Commbox Launches Connect Partner Programme Offering Market-Leading Automation and AI Capabilities

CSM Magazine

CommBox, the leader in AI and automated customer communications, is today launching its new partner programme, CommBox Connect. This programme opens CommBox’s market-leading technology to the broader customer service ecosystem, offering new revenue streams, faster time-to-value, and a more diversified client portfolio. This extension of CommBox’s AI and automation capabilities equips partners with an all-in-one solution to automate and digitise customer communications, an increasing

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How Quickly Should A Sales Rep Be Onboarded?

Forrester's Customer Insights

In many professions, education for a new employee’s role incorporates learning with doing. Educators must undergo a full semester of student teaching; surgeons develop by “watching, teaching, doing”; and aspiring electricians must deliver hundreds of hours as apprentices prior to licensure. Even most MLB stars spend years toiling in the minor leagues perfecting their skills.

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Votre entreprise peut-elle devenir une organisation high-performance IT ?

Forrester's Customer Insights

Pour commencer votre parcours vers le high-performance IT, vous devez évaluer les besoins de votre entreprise, vos styles technologiques actuels et l'état de préparation de votre organisation à l'exécution. Commencez par découvrir les quatre étapes clés de l'évaluation de votre état de préparation à l'informatique de haute performance dans cet article.

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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.