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The 12 Best Customer Service Software Tools for 2022

Kustomer

A new era in customer service has arrived. The transformed landscape requires engagement like never previously seen, and customer service software is here to help. Spanning multiple channels, across both brick-and-click locations, customers want immediate answers to product questions, swift resolution to their problems, and personalized brand interactions.

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Your First 100 Days as an Account Management Leader: Everything You Need to Know

Kapta Customer Success

As an account management leader, there are a wide variety of responsibilities to manage. Between improving client relationships, growing your business revenue, and prioritizing consumer retention, there is so much more to becoming a successful account manager, or key account manager.

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87% of Consumers Want to Be Contacted in Their Preferred Channel. Enter: Hybrid Customer Experience.

Kustomer

In a post-pandemic world, consumers have undergone an inadvertent shift in mindset and expectations surrounding customer experience (CX). The pandemic created a new normal born out of necessity — a normal in which human interaction came to a screeching halt and alternative methods for communication and, more specifically, customer service, became a requirement.

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Four Ways to Build Personalization in Your Commerce Program

Merkle

While companies continue to win with customer experience, not every platform or piece of technology is created equal when it comes to meeting consumers in the context of their commerce journey. Even the best technology for your company won’t get you there right out of the box. Critical roadblocks to success include a siloed approach to commerce environments and capabilities, as well as complacency toward customer experience management (CXM) best practices.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Instagram DMs: A Channel Customers Love

Lithium

Trust us. You don't want to overlook Instagram. If your brand is wondering whether they should turn on Instagram DMs via Khoros , first ask yourself, "Are your customers using Instagram?". "Many of our clients are on Instagram and we needed to find a more efficient way to respond to the hundreds of inquiries we receive daily. The Messenger API for Instagram has enabled our team to easily resolve queries received via Instagram messaging, comments and story mentions within the platform, providing

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Why Primark’s decision to go digital could damage customer experiences - and how it can be avoided

MyCustomer

Engagement How Primark's digital shift could harm its CX.

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Continuous Speech Recognition Testing

Cyara

This article was originally published on Botium’s blog on February 23, 2022, prior to Cyara’s acquisition of Botium. Learn more about Cyara + Botium. From traditional IVR systems, still very common in customer service, to voice assistants on Alexa or Google Assistant — voice technology is nowadays part of everyday life, and it will continue to gain importance in the future.

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Understand your Decision Making Unit to align process and experience objectives

SAP Customer Experience

Congratulations! You’ve volunteered (or you’ve been volunteered) to lead a journey to process analytics initiative in your company, bringing the worlds of process and experience together. Long are the days in which your company has solely relied on information from operational systems to make decisions.

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How CX leaders can fight the workplace friction impeding their progress

MyCustomer

Engagement How CX leaders can fight workplace friction.

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The 2023 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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How to Run a Successful Salesforce CX Program

Zonka Feedback

Customer Experience is the sum total of all the interactions and incidents that customers go through while dealing with a business. It is the perception that gets built in their minds about you and your company based on all interactions and events in their customer journey.

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TikTok Analytics: The Next Frontier In Digital Engagement

Lithium

Take a deep dive into reading between the lines of your TikTok analytics and why they’re unlike any other. TikTok, TikTok, TikTok, kids these days say it’s all the rage. While it's easy to fall victim to juvenoia or the misunderstanding of youth culture, TikTok has the data to back up its popularity with all ages. This social channel has exploded in use since 2020, with over 1 billion current users and growth unmatched by any other social media today.

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Transferable Skills You Need

CSM Magazine

Jobs that complement each other are a crucial part of developing a career. It can help to learn skills and knowledge that you can transfer into different industries. In this article, we will explore some of the most common transferable skills and discuss how they can help you in your career. What are transferable skills? Simply put, transferable skills are skills that can be applied in a number of different settings.

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A Tale of Two Teams: Publishing Natively or In-app

Lithium

Publishing already has enough challenges; switching from native to in-app doesn't have to be one of them. When anyone goes to publish a post on any form of social media, there are numerous things to consider: Am I using the proper lighting? Is this joke going to hit the right audience? Is even the right place to post this type of content? When it comes to brands posting content on their various platforms, they have answered all those questions and still have to answer more.

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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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Can Digital Technology Really Deliver More Human Empathy? Dr. Natalie Petouhoff in Conversation with Andrew Keen

Natalie Petouhof

Original Article published on Lit Hub. Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Dr. Natalie Petouhoff, author of Empathy in Action: How to Deliver Great Customer Experiences at Scale.

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Emotional Quality Of Experiences: The 2022 CX Index Bright Spot

Forrester's Customer Insights

The pandemic thrust consumers and technology into the forefront, exposing a long-standing tension between the two. Consumer behaviors and ambitions caused enterprises and brands to innovate in new ways to sustain engagement with their customers, helping them cope through disruption while delivering positive experiences that ease their daily lives. Recently, Forrester released its US Customer […].

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Marketers Are Prioritizing Analytics and Creative More This Year – Here’s Why

Merkle

Merkle’s recently released Q3 2022 Performance Media Report surveyed marketers to understand trends across the industry. It uncovered several key trends that spanned media channels, as well as the latest on privacy and inflation. One of the report’s findings highlighted the importance of areas outside of traditional media channels to today’s marketing organizations.

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Picking An Agency To Maximize The Value Of Your First-Party Data

Forrester's Customer Insights

For B2C marketers, first-party data is a lot like “Zoolander’s” Hansel: “so hot right now.” Facing massive headwinds amid data deprecation, marketers want to capture zero- and first-party data from customers and build direct relationships. In Forrester’s Q1 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 2022, a whopping 76% of B2C marketing respondents said that they are […].

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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.

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Case study: How Copper increased retention with community

inSided

When Ken Aponte first joined CRM software company Copper back in December 2020 as their VP of Customer Success, he noticed one thing: retention wasn’t where it needed to be. One year following the launch of the Copper Community , their community sees steady, linear growth, with retention following the same trend.

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4 DOs and 3 DON’Ts for Chatbot Testing Strategies

Cyara

This article was originally published on Botium’s blog on February 9, 2021, prior to Cyara’s acquisition of Botium. Learn more about Cyara + Botium. A quick summary of 7 important DOs and DON’Ts when designing a chatbot testing strategy. We are continuously seeing teams ignoring those actually rather simple rules.

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Episode #23 – Solving Employee Retention With An On Fire Culture

Russel Lolacher

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with multi-time best selling author, researcher and international Hall of Fame speaker Eric Chester on the ingredients to an on fire workplace culture that solves the employee retention problem. A few reasons he is awesome – He is an international keynote speaker (a 2004 inductee into the International Professional Speakers Hall of Fame), best-selling author multiple times over with his most recent book Fully Staffed: The Definitive Gu

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Detecting Dead Ends in the Chatbot Conversation Flow

Cyara

This article was originally published on Botium’s blog on April 15, 2021, prior to Cyara’s acquisition of Botium. Learn more about Cyara + Botium. Rule-based chatbots are a good starting point to gain experience in designing chatbots. These decision-tree-based bots are following a set of rules and use a planned, guided dialog. Behind the apparent simplicity, there are plenty of operational-level difficulties for conversation designers in the maintenance.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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It's Time To Update Your Thoughts on A.I.

Lithium

Humans built Artificial Intelligence to reduce mental work. Khoros built A.I. to reduce customer and agent mental stress. Walking through the halls of history, humans' ideas of what the future might look like is often laughable at best. Most examples show the brightest mind of our past missed the mark by a mile. Once in a blue moon, history's forward-thinking minds make shockingly accurate predictions about how the future will look.

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What Makes a Great Chatbot?

Cyara

This article was originally published on Botium’s blog on April 21, 2022, prior to Cyara’s acquisition of Botium. Learn more about Cyara + Botium. "What makes a great chatbot?". The ultimate question that moves the chatbot industry, without having a clear answer. This question is so difficult to answer because there are so many variables to consider when working on chatbot development and conversational design.

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Community Summer Camp: Join our educational series on community-led growth

inSided

If you’re anything like us, you still have fond memories of being a youngster and going to Summer Camp. Sit 'rou nd the fire, crafting bracelets, raising the flag and making new friends! While we’re all undeniably older now, there’s no reason we shouldn’t still be able to have a good mature “camp” experience. That’s why we're putting on a multi-week Summer Camp-themed educational series on everything community and community-led growth.

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Chatbot Testing: The Ultimate Business Benefit

Cyara

This article was originally published on Botium’s blog on March 24, 2022, prior to Cyara’s acquisition of Botium. Learn more about Cyara + Botium. Like most people in other technical fields, we can also get easily carried away with what we are currently building, cherishing the tiniest details we carefully thought out and already focusing on future improvements.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the