Mon.Jan 27, 2020

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How to Determine Cultural Alignment in Your Outsourced Contact Center

BlueOcean

We talk a lot about the need to align your corporate culture with your outsourcer’s, but we know it’s a lot easier to say than it is to do – after all, it’s not a particularly quantifiable element. And it’s not totally subjective, either. In the same way that there are specific personality types – and recommended “matches” between those types (New biz idea … Tinder for Outsourcing.

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Live Chat Software 2020 Overview: Strong and Weak Sides

Provide Support

In 2020 year businesses will try to do their best to provide excellent customer service and satisfy their customers. However, to offer smooth customer experience you need not only to answer questions and provide correct answers, but also offer your customers convenient for them communication channels. Modern customers cannot imagine a website without a click-to-chat button.

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A little “extra” can leave a BIG impression

Customer Enthusiast

Providing pleasant surprises presents a treasure trove of possibilities for companies and their employees to attract the attention of customers, pique their interest and curiosity, and stand out in a noisy and crowded marketplace. Surprise is an emotion, the function of which is to increase alertness and narrow focus. By challenging customers’ assumptions and expectations, […].

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Comparing Movie Audiences to Create Impactful Promotions

NetBase

With more than three billion active social media users worldwide spending hours each day reading, posting and sharing online, capturing specific insight around those behaviors is both exciting (for its potential) and a bit intimidating (because it’s easy to get wrong). Enter next generation AI-powered social analytics! And one of its many use cases involves comparing movie audiences to create impactful promotions.

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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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Thanking Community Managers Everywhere

Lithium

This is a note from Khoros CEO, Jack Blaha, to celebrate Community Manager Appreciation Day on Monday, January 27. This professional holiday takes place the fourth Monday in January as a way to recognize and thank the efforts of Community Managers around the world using social media and other tools to improve customer experiences. ————————. Today is a special day here at Khoros where we take the opportunity to celebrate key team members around the world on Community Manager Appreciation Day.

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How to Future-Proof Your Contact Center: Part 1 – The Right Technology

Oracle

In a recent webinar series, Daniel Foppen of Oracle’s CX Service Strategy along with 4 leading service professionals from BISSELL, Pier 1 Imports, Smiths Medical, and Elsevier discuss advanced contact center functionality and how they have future-proofed their respective contact centers. In part 1 of this conversation, the group covers the challenges of looking for a new solution and how to deliver service experiences consistently, and manageably, on a global scale.

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The Top 5 Strategic Contact Center Trends That Will Impact Customer Service in 2020

Advantage Communications

No matter what market your company operates in, there’s an incredibly high chance that it's saturated with competition. In fact, it's likely that your customer service is the key aspect of how your organization differentiates itself from competitors. So, with 2020 here and a new decade full of challenges, goals and achievements, how do you plan to improve your customer service strategy and stand out from the other companies operating in your sector?

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Webinar: Maximize Your Customer Journey Mapping Program

InMoment XI

Are You Curious About Which Experiences Matter Most to Your Customers? Learn to identify customer expectations, pain points, and more by listening to our MarizCX Webinar on Wednesday, January 29th. Join experts Jennifer Passini and Frank Leinweber as they explain how to enhance the value of your customer journey mapping program. You will Learn: An. View Article.

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Guest Post: Responding to Change and Driving The Insight Industry Forward

Confirmit

I was delighted to be invited by Confirmit to a dinner held at the superb Kerridge’s Bar & Grill, together with a number of insight agency leaders. The aim of the evening, apart from having an extremely enjoyable time, was to discuss the future of the customer insight industry. Specifically, Confirmit - as insight industry thought leaders – set up the event to ensure it stays in touch with the latest trends and developments.

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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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ID R&D’s Newest IDVoice Release Offers Flexible Deployment and High Accuracy

CSM Magazine

IDVoice v2.11 offers higher accuracy and speed, smaller footprint, and optimization capabilities to facilitate biometric authentication on a broad range of devices and channels. ID R&D, the award-winning biometric solutions provider offering AI-based voice, behavioral, and anti-spoofing user authentication capabilities, today announced the newest release of its voice biometric solution, IDVoiceTM version 2.11.

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Transforming Communications into Experiences

Topdown

From time to time, we are honored to have an industry luminary contribute a post to the Topdown blog. Today, we are thrilled to have Kaspar Roos, head of Aspire CCS, share some insights from a recent industry survey his team conducted on the transformation of customer communications management into customer experience management.

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Kill Customer Service Costs For Good

Forrester's Customer Insights

Are you leading or managing customer service? Then you, like many of your colleagues, might be looking for ways to reduce its costs. Our data shows that with digital transformation, the volume of calls in call centers goes up. Adding more and more agents to handle volume is not sustainable, so companies explore options such […].

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CX job vacancy of the week: HSBC

MyCustomer

Looking for your next step in the world of customer experience? Every week, MyCustomer scours the internet to find the latest CX job.C 27th Jan 2020. By Neil Davey Managing editor.

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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 Run a Successful VoC Program With Salesforce

GetFeedback

5 steps to running a successful Voice of the Customer (VoC) program using GetFeedback's CX solution that integrates effortlessly with Salesforce.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester's Customer Insights

CVS Is Taking Its HealthHUB Digital Retail Innovation To Market Across 1,500 Of Its Pharmacies CVS’s HealthHUB, debuting at three store locations in Houston, Texas, transforms over 20 percent of a brick-and-mortar CVS into dedicated health services, offering patients access to new durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies, digital tools, on-demand health kiosks, and new […].

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How to Run a Successful VoC Program With Salesforce

GetFeedback

In today’s competitive marketplace, it’s more important than ever that companies deliver amazing customer service. Focusing on customer experience just might be the single most critical investment a company can make. But as CX guru Shep Hyken notes, while 80% of CEOs think their companies deliver a great customer experience, only 8% of their customers agree.

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European Retail CX Scores Are Gradually Improving

Forrester's Customer Insights

The launch of Forrester’s CX Index reports for UK and French retailers is a great way for me to dive into the topic of customer experience in a broader way than I have in the past, with a particular focus on the dynamics of the European market. Those of you who’ve followed me over the […].

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 27, 2020

ShepHyken

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. Leveraging Trends to Drive Business Success through Customer Experience by Joseph Michelli. (The Michelli Experience) I see my job as curating much of that research and sharing it with you in this context and also helping my clients leverage that knowledge through too

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Why SMS should be part of your feedback strategy

Customercount

Utilizing SMS texting for survey delivery is an easy and quick way to obtain feedback information so it should be part of your customer feedback strategy. Continue reading → The post Why SMS should be part of your feedback strategy appeared first on CustomerCount.

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This Is Why You Should Use a Chatbot For Your Business.

kommunicate

Chatbots interact through instant messaging, artificially replicating the patterns of human interaction. Machine learning allows computers to learn data by themselves without any programming. Using natural language processing you can use chatbots to execute an effortless customer base. Since you are reading this blog you already know all the reasons why a messenger bot is [.].

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B2C CDPs Need To Survive Before They Can Thrive

Forrester's Customer Insights

B2C customer data platforms (CDPs): all the hype, none of the follow through. That summarizes the analysis of the CDP space in our inaugural report on the category in 2018. We continue to field client inquiries about the CDP market — but the tone from marketers has grown increasingly skeptical, and vendors are asking less […].

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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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5 Tips for Writing Satisfying Customer Service Responses

CSM Magazine

There is a saying that gives an advantage to the customer in every case: ‘’the customer is always right’’. Everyone who has worked with customers knows that this can’t be further from the truth. At times, handling difficult customers is almost impossible. In those cases, you have to cut the cords and very often, defend yourself. But, whenever you can avoid negative user experience, it is your professional duty to do your best.

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Introducing Forrester’s Adobe Services Coverage

Forrester's Customer Insights

“Well, it’s about time.” That’s what I hear every time I mention that we are going to cover the Adobe services market. When my Singapore-based colleague Xiaofeng Wang first suggested this, it hit me like a bolt of lightning. We’ve been doing Salesforce, SAP, and Oracle services Waves for years. Why not also evaluate the […].

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Customer Journey Automation

Ecrion

written by. Craig T. Watkins. Ecrion Chief Revenue Officer. I recently wrote about Customer Experience Automation (CXA), and how Ecrion defines that term. One of the primary points in that post was that Ecrion specifically focuses on automating the Customer Experience—whenever possible. Automation is, in fact, the key to how we differentiate ourselves from other providers in the vastly crowded and confusing world of customer experience providers.

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4 Lessons from Scaling a Customer Support Team

Solvvy

When I began working as Director of Support for Handshake, a career community that connects students and employers, I thought my role would focus largely on hiring, managing a team, and improving workflow—but I’ve come to find out that modeling data and automating processes is just as important. And with everything we do, we need to leave room to improvise.

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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.