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Banking: The 5 keys to supercharge your digital strategy. Part I

Talkdesk

Almost 17,500 US bank branches closed from the beginning of 2014 to the middle of June 2020. Branch closure is a reality that has intensified with COVID-19, social distancing protocols and the recent urban exodus. Combined, these are causing serious challenges across three fronts: Financial exclusion of the most vulnerable. Financial services are essential to leading a normal life and being an active citizen and participant in society.

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How Well Do You Know What You Really Want?

Beyond Philosophy

When we try to forecast our preferences going forward, we often get it wrong. It’s a bias we all share called Naïve Diversification Bias. It happens a lot when we are making decisions now about some form of future consumption, and it can lead to feelings of dissatisfaction with our purchases. Naïve Diversification bias happens a lot at the supermarket.

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Insurance Digital Transformation: 7 Reasons It Fails

Ecrion

In the United States alone, the insurance industry writes more than $1 trillion in a single calendar year. This industry is booming because it’s a universal need. If you provide insurance to customers, you need to stay ahead of the curve with the way that technology is evolving. Going digital to the fullest extent should be your course of action.

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How to Choose a Customer Engagement Model

Totango

Dynamic customer engagement is key to building strong relationships with your customers. Customer engagement connects your customers with your company, through both personal and digital communications. By maximizing this communication , you can strengthen your customer relationship and increase customer loyalty. Executing the right type of customer engagement for the right type of customer means you can demonstrate value quickly and promote lasting growth that benefits both your customer and you

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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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The value of certifications

Zeisler Consulting

I once had a mentor whose cubicle walls were covered in certificates and evidence of completion of training and qualification. People considered him a bit of an egotist and obsessed with certifications. Credentialism is a thing, after all. But I asked him once about all his accreditations. He said, “Some people say, ‘Sure, well you’re just good at taking tests,’ and I say, ‘Yea, I am, I guess.

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Investing in CX: A CFOs Guide to Automation

Interactions

The ROI of CX . Many companies claim to be customer-centric. But, to be truly obsessed with your customers, companies must take the leap and tie financial performance to CX. This type of mindset encompasses everything from how a company allocates resources, the strategic initiatives they take on, and the technology that they evaluate and deploy. . Customer-driven innovation is the most important type of innovation for a company, and it can also be the most lucrative.

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Dialogflow CX vs ES: A Complete Overview

kommunicate

Google Dialogflow recently introduced Dialogflow CX (Customer Experience) – a powerful tool for creating advanced virtual agents. The older version of Dialogflow has been renamed to Dialogflow ES (Essentials). Dialogflow is now a common term to describe both the Dialogflow ES and CX. In this article, we can see the enhancements and limitations of Dialogflow [.].

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The Difference of CX for SMEs vs Enterprises

Feedbackly

Any business can be prepared to invest in Customer Experience (CX) in the motive of enjoying its benefits and supporting the growth of the. Source.

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How to Translate a Journey Map into a CX Survey Strategy

Wootric

Creating a customer journey map is the first step toward designing a superior Customer Experience (CX) that drives end-user growth. Rather than rushing in and narrowly focusing on a single touchpoint to measure success, a customer journey map helps you evaluate the journey as a whole—providing a bird’s-eye view of everything. . Once you’ve mapped out the customer journey, however, you may be wondering… what’s next?

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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 automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Ford CFO Joins ASAPP to Help Scale Artificial Intelligence Efforts in CX Industry Disruption

CSM Magazine

Ford Motor Company CFO Tim Stone announced today that he will join ASAPP Inc., the research-driven artificial intelligence company advancing the future of productivity and efficiency in customer experience (CX). Tim will join ASAPP in mid-October to be its Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience scaling and operating a business from his 20 years at Amazon and also at Ford.

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Fan-to-Fan Customer Support with Douglas Kramon

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Douglas Kramon , Senior Director of Fan Support & Customer Care Operations at ESPN, to discuss how customer care drives customer experience. ESPN is a world renowned sports network with an unmatched customer care system. Learn how Douglas has become so successful in customer relations by listening to the podcast below.

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Scale up Your Customer Service Call Center for the Holiday Season

Advantage Communications

Whether you are the owner of a large retail outlet or you own an ecommerce startup, the holiday shopping season isn’t easy. Ramping up your customer service , however, can dramatically improve the experience your customers have with your business, and today more than ever retailers are looking for ways to drive profits.

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In a Highly Digital World, Mail Still Matters

Hallmark Business Connections

Depending on your personal point of view and experience, you either love using mail to grow your business, or you believe that it is an antiquated, ineffective format. As someone who uses every channel available and, like many of you, invests heavily in digital technology and paid media advertising, I know that that there is still a time and place for sending a tangible mail piece.

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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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AmplifAI Joins Five9s New App Marketplace

Amplifai Coaching Category

AmplifAI is transforming Five9's Intelligent Contact Center data into automated, effective actions that make managers better leaders and agents higher performers - resulting in improved employee performance, employee engagement and overall customer experience.

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8 Positive Effects of Outsourcing Jobs to the Philippines 

Magellan Solutions

Dubbed as the new call center capital of the world , the Philippines has become a household name among countries like the US, UK, and Canada. This is due to its world-class customer service and other specialized professional services. Also, it’s known for its educated workforce, efficient labor practices, industry expertise, low labor cost, and strategic location.

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Coaching as Critical Reinforcement to Self-Directed Learning

Amplifai Coaching Category

The potential for modifying behavior and affecting performance and engagement through coaching is most significant and successful when it is relevant to, and therefore reinforces, formal and informal learning.

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Brand Move Roundup – October 1, 2020

C Space

The Brand Move Roundup – October 1, 2020. We’re tracking the notable brand moves & highlighting the companies who are tackling this challenge successfully. Tweet. In early March we began reporting daily on how brands were dealing with Covid-19. But it’s become clear that the current climate is one of near-perpetual disruption, so we decided to keep on telling the stories of inspiring brand leadership and strategy amid the latest crises in an anxious world.

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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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Trust-Destructors: Top 5 Ways to Ruin Engagement with Your Coaching Practices

Amplifai Coaching Category

ICMI Featured Contributor article. One of the greatest ways we build trust with employees is through review and discussion of their work performance. It's hard to be direct and courageous when it comes to discussing peoples' work behaviors though, and there are several ways we can fail at it miserably!

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US Federal CX Eked Out A New High But Still Trails The Private Sector

Forrester's Customer Insights

Our US Federal Customer Experience Index (CX Index™), 2020, is now live! The report is packed full of great details about the quality of the US federal CX, its impact on agencies’ mission performance, and how they can improve. In brief, our results show that: The average federal CX Index score rose slightly to a […].

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How Technology & Customer Experience Have Changed the Employee Learning Landscape

Amplifai Coaching Category

Contact centers have worked hard to keep up with the pace of change in infrastructure, platforms, processes, and consumer demands - and frontline service representatives have been working hard too, but it's a daunting endeavor for even the most motivated of people!

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Customer Advocacy: Harnessing Service and Operations

Brad Cleveland Blog

It’s a smart move and highly recommended for any organization to instill the principles of customer advocacy in the customer service and operations functions. Unfortunately not all do. In this video from the LinkedIn Learning course “Customer Advocacy,” we’ll look … Continue reading → The post Customer Advocacy: Harnessing Service and Operations appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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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.

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ICMI Features AmplifAI's: What Do Millennial's Want?

Amplifai Coaching Category

ICMI featured "What do Millennial's Want? Unlocking Explosive Millennial Engagement in Contact Centers" on October 10th, 2017.

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Customer Advocacy: Harnessing Service and Operations

Brad Cleveland Blog

It’s a smart move and highly recommended for any organization to instill the principles of customer advocacy in the customer service and operations functions. Unfortunately not all do. In this video from the LinkedIn Learning course “Customer Advocacy,” we’ll look at why this is so important and some examples of how to put customer advocacy to work.

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Digital Customer Experience: Big Results on a Small Business Budget

NICE inContact

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Do You Do a Good Job? – Tip #18

Steve DiGioia

Businesses all over this country are littered with the remnants of employees who do a good job. But what about those employees who go above and beyond? There is nothing that impresses a boss more than an employee who takes the initiative. The initiative to do more than he or she is asked for. Example: The initiative to plan ahead, look at the “big picture”, and take the steps needed to make the department or business more efficient, and improve on the existing way things are done.

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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,