Mon.Jun 15, 2020

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Preparing Your Customer Experience Strategies for the New Normal

Innovative CX

Thank you TechTarget for publishing my Innovative CX Solutions article on "Preparing your customer experience strategies for the new normal". Also looking forward to learning from the many contributors that are a part of this community.

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Customer Oriented Growth Strategies: 11 Hacks to do it Right

ProProfs Chat

With more than 60% of consumers finding customers experience an important factor (irrespective of price), it becomes all the more crucial for your business to look into substantial customer-oriented marketing strategies. That means you need to make customer needs and happiness your top priority. It can become a painstaking process for managers and even for business owners like you.

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Ecommerce Chatbots: Improve Sales And Retention

kommunicate

If you’ve always had some interest in the technology world, and you’ve been around long enough. You’ll remember how odd and gimmicky chatbots used to be. Chatbots were often presented eye-catching as contenders with the potential to beat the Turing test. Even though they were essentially limited to: Asking vague questions Giving vague answers And [.].

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Deep Leadership: Act Boldly to Protect Customers, Employees and Partners

eglobalis

Customer Experience Leadership Act boldly to protect customers and employees customer driven customer obsessed. The post Deep Leadership: Act Boldly to Protect Customers, Employees and Partners appeared first on Eglobalis.

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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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Engage your contact center agents: Coaching as the road to success

Talkdesk

In our previous post , we covered several strategies to improve your contact center’s onboarding processes and set your agents up for success. Our conclusion? A successful onboarding program that combines new learning formats, personalized assessments and automated tools can be a great way to reduce employee turnover and boost productivity. Now, let’s dive into the next step on your path toward turning every agent into a top performer: coaching and development!

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Why Humans Need Chatbots – and Chatbots Need Humans

Comm100

Chatbots have come a long way in the past few years. The improvements in technology have enabled developers to expand on bot capabilities far beyond just functioning as a FAQ. Today, the automation of chatbots can process orders, perform financial transactions, make bookings, and much more. (Check out other intelligent functions here.). However, as intelligent as bots can be, no chatbot can handle and resolve all your customer queries.

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Improving NPS for a Better Customer Experience

Ann Michaels and Associates

Quality Assurance in the contact center is being used to improve NPS (Net Promoter Score) and overall customer experience. “How likely is it that you would recommend our company to a friend or colleague? Could you please rate your recommendation on a scale of 0-10?”. These are two questions that can induce anxiety into any business. But the questions are real and have been so since 2003 when Frederick Reicheld of Bain & Company wrote about what he coined the Net Promoter Score (NPS) in an ar

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Why Agents Need Chatbots – and Chatbots Need Agents

Comm100

Chatbots have come a long way in the past few years. The improvements in technology have enabled developers to expand on bot capabilities far beyond just functioning as a FAQ. Today, the automation of chatbots can process orders, perform financial transactions, make bookings, and much more. (Check out other intelligent functions here.). However, as intelligent as bots can be, no chatbot can handle and resolve all your customer queries.

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Customer Service on the Utility Sector Frontline During COVID-19

CSM Magazine

Dan Rhodes, Head of Customer Service at Morrison Utility Services reports on the impact of the pandemic and outlines the organisation’s ‘Every Customer Counts’ program. From the obvious health risk itself, through to the lockdown and social distancing measures that are now part of our strange new world, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been all too evident.

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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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Questions You Should and Shouldn’t Bring to a Customer Service Agent

Kustomer

Customer service agents provide immense value to any business. Not only are they highly knowledgeable resources that consumers can rely on to solve their issues, they also play a role in influencing purchasing decisions and building community. The digital age, however, has made it easier for companies to rely less on human agents to answer easy questions and instead utilize artificial intelligence to get the job done, and many significant companies like LinkedIn, Starbucks and eBay are on board.

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How Poor Online Reputation Can Affect Customer Experience?

Feedbackly

An online presence can be both a curse and a blessing to business. That’s the hard and bleak truth. If you pay enough attention, Source.

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How Real-World Product Testing Combats Bias in Tech

Centercode

In early June of 2020, tech giant IBM announced they will stop offering facial recognition software until further anti-bias testing has been conducted. “IBM firmly opposes and will not condone the uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, [or] violations of basic human rights and freedoms,” wrote IBM chief executive Arvid Krishna in a letter to Congress.

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What all Good CCM Vendors Know

Topdown

At the moment of first contact between a customer and company, the two parties begin an interaction that hopefully becomes a mutually beneficial relationship. For the company that can begin by understanding and responding immediately, the customer likewise reacts favorably to their newfound brand, your establishment.

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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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5 Customer Experience Trends That Won’t Change (And Will Likely Accelerate…)

McorpCX

In a post-COVID world, the future is full of obvious challenges and less obvious opportunities. In this fast-changing environment, most business executives recognize the need to better connect with, serve and support their customers while streamlining operations and managing risk.

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MarTech Interview with TeamSupport CEO Robert C. Johnson

Team Support

As published in MarTechSeries.com , June 15, 2020. Please tell us about your role and the team/technology at TeamSupport. In 2008, when working for a former company where they could not find a true B2B (business-to-business) customer support solution, my colleague and TeamSupport Co-founder, Eric Harrington , and I set out to build one. We determined the market desperately needed a software solution for customer support at B2B companies so companies could stop having to piece together disparate

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Our Newly Redesigned Services: Why the Change?

Education Services Group

If everything is working, why would you change it? If you are succeeding, why not just keep going as-is? In any line of work, the best in the business are constantly pushing themselves to get better, to evolve and adapt faster, both as a competitive advantage and as a way to anticipate the needs of their marketplace. Examples abound, from athletes coming back for the new season with new skills, to Apple launching products we don’t even know we need that turn into multi-billion dollar revenue sou

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester's Customer Insights

A Flash-Point Week For Facial Recognition Last week, IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft came out and made some big announcements on how they intend to halt or ban the use of facial recognition technology for law enforcement. At a time when privacy and civil rights dominate the zeitgeist, these values-based decisions will force much-needed dialogue on the ethics of facial recognition […].

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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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Five XM Practices For Accelerating Your Digital Transformation

Experience Matters

Note from Bruce Temkin: This post is one of many written by thought leaders besides me. I’m excited to introduce you all to Juliana Smith Holterhaus, a leader in digital experience for Qualtrics. As companies across industries face unique challenges from the pandemic, there’s a common theme in their response: embrace digital. In this rapidly changing environment, just about every organization and industry has needed to ramp up its digital capabilities.

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The Pandemic Accelerates Retailers’ Need For Digital Operations

Forrester's Customer Insights

The pandemic’s impact on retail is a story of two halves. Many firms have felt the pain of store closures and need to adapt their operations to online-only sales and social-distanced operations across warehouses. This, alongside consumer spending focusing on essential spending, means that retailers and brands are split into two groups: Essential categories in […].

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Time to Give up a CRM and adopt a Customer Success Solution for Successful Client Management

SmartKarrot

If you’re a SaaS provider or user, you’d know that your business is only as good as the tools you sell or use. The software marketplace is always in flux, with newer customer success solution just a click away. This means customers no longer have to be bound to one organisation, and even if they have a long-term contract, they don’t necessarily have to use your products or recommend them.

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CX North America Event Offers Values Track And A Time To Consider Business Strategy In A Values-Driven World

Forrester's Customer Insights

Just In Time: CX NA’s Values Track Gives Us Exactly What We Need Right Now Forrester’s CX North America event includes a aalues content track. We didn’t know what the world would be like when we planned this track. But we’ve known for years that the intersection of values and business is growing in importance […].

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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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What are the Customer Success lifestyle & lifecycle stages?

SmartKarrot

When your customers are on the verge to begin a courteous relationship with your company, you are both embarking on a journey, one in which you deliver the promises you once made to them. In a way, you are already a part of their customer success lifestyle stage. Let us begin by having a clear idea about what is customer lifecycle. The customer lifecycle refers to the process that starts with people learning about a product, engaging along with it, and finally purchasing it from the company.

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Until the racism is over: A framework for empathy

PK

Nobody knew that 2020 would be the year the word “unprecedented” would become exhausted from overuse. But as I write this, sixty million Americans are living under curfew due to […]. The post Until the racism is over: A framework for empathy appeared first on PK.

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5 Steps to Radically Improve Customer Experience!

SmartKarrot

Till a while ago, nobody thought much of customer experience improvement – let alone SaaS companies, who prided themselves in creating some of the best products but left it to the customer to figure out how good it really was. But not any longer. Now, customer experience and service are everything; it has even taken the entire SaaS ecosystem from a market led one to a product led growth path.

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The Power of the Brand: The Peloton COVID-19 Story

Chadwick Martin Bailey

“You have a Peloton? Are you crazy?” I’ve heard this multiple times from people who are shocked that I was willing to pay “that much” for an exercise bike. Yes I did, and frankly, my fiancée and I love it (#NotAnAd). I still remember the first Peloton commercial I saw. It featured a fit younger female biking in the middle of her living room in what appeared to be a penthouse in New York City.

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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.