Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today’s guest post is from my good friend, Chip R. Bell , the best selling author of the 9 1/2 Principles of Innovative Service and many other customer service books. Chip has just released his latest book, Inside Your Customer’s Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions. Chip is also a customer service keynote speaker who educates organizations on how to create a customer-centric culture.

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Customers That Stick

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Note: This blog post contains information related to and provide by a client of CTS Service Solutions. With our webinar upcoming this week, Hassle-Free CX: Define, Design, and Deliver, I enjoyed getting to talk to Dawn Varghese of Agara Labs about the role conversational AI is playing in today’s customer support environment and what the near-term future looks like.

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Strikedeck

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Brett Andersen talks about the dynamic role of CS and the importance of having clear cut strategies to structure growth, manage customer expectations and opportunities throughout the organization.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

When our waiter flagged us down by the door, I assumed we had left something behind or forgotten to sign the credit card slip or something. My husband and I were walking out of a restaurant with our two boys, who were 9 and 12 at the time, while on vacation in Florida several years ago. I was so surprised when our server made such an effort to stop us to say that he appreciated how polite our boys were. “Please’s and thank you’s aren’t very common anyway, but especially

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GetFeedback

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

After implementing GetFeedback, Lippert improved its customer experiences within a matter of weeks of receiving customer insights. It also built a community of brand advocates that provided feedback and shared new product and service ideas.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

If you have been following my work, you may remember something I refer to as The Loyalty Question. It goes like this: What am I doing right now to make sure the customer comes back the next time they need whatever it is we sell? Most people think customer loyalty is about a lifetime. That’s a pretty big goal—making a customer stay for a lifetime. But if you break it down into smaller parts—as in the next time —it becomes much easier.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

What happens when you get three Customer Experience Pioneers together to discuss the past, present, and future of Customer Experience? This episode of The Intuitive Customer, for starters. Recorded in celebration of the recent CX day, Colin joins fellow experience experts and champions Lewis Carbone and Joe Pine to talk all things Customer Experience.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This is a guest post by Donna Fluss, the president of DMG Consulting LLC. It took a pandemic, but most companies have finally been convinced that they need to undergo a digital transformation to position themselves for success in the economy of the future, also known as the “new normal.” The only problem is that no one knows what the new normal will be, only that it is likely to be different from what the world looked like at the end of calendar year 2019.

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ProProfs Chat

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Did you know that engaged employees are 44% more productive as compared to just satisfied workers! Engaged employees are your best assets to grow your business. Their efforts are aligned to the business goals. They act as role models to other employees by setting a standard benchmark. But, how to measure employee engagement to ensure maximum productivity?

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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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BirdEye

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Providing great customer experiences is critical in today’s world. However, it requires real effort on the part of managers and team members. Typically, it’s the result of months or even years of experimentation, testing, and listening closely to the voice of the customer. Turning away from the voice of the customer has real consequences. Customer expectations are changing rapidly. 66% of consumers say they’re likely to switch brands if they feel they’re being treated as a number rather than an

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Writing is seen as such a Herculean task that it is often outsourced and that can be a great idea. If you look at the writing involved in a task and you realise that it is something that you cannot handle, it’s easy to get an essay writing service to deal with it for you. Nonetheless, academic writing is a very useful skill that you must acquire as a manager.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It’s as old as communication technology itself. The importance of following remote support best practices is undeniable – certainly anyone who has seen the movie Apollo 13 will recall that it saved the lives of the failed mission’s astronauts 50 years ago. In the decades since, with the ever-more-rapid pace of life, there is an increasing demand for companies that really know how to provide successful remote support and can provide faster response to customer support issues.

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Are you in charge of finding new ways to generate leads for your business? Have you ever considered contact centers and call centers? You have come to the right place. Success with lead generation strategies makes a significant difference in your business’s bottom line. But, the practice doesn’t end with the lead generation. Once you receive the lead, you have to nurture their experience to convert them into customers!

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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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Kate Nasser

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When you want to stop listening, wait & listen for the next listening epiphany. Power of listening from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author of Leading Morale. The post Listening Epiphany: Discover Your Future | #PeopleSkills #LeadMorale #CustServ appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Call centers are often high-stress environments, especially when customer demands relate to urgent issues such as health or financial well-being. Automating processes and tasks is a key step to reducing stress and boosting productivity. For contact centers, the competitive advantage lies with being customer-centric and providing the best customer experience (CX) possible.

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Hero Digital

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Healthcare feels like it’s been on the verge of transformation for years, if not decades. Unlike retail, tech, or even financial services, things move slowly in a complex, high-stakes industry whose only product is our health and wellbeing. In a matter of months, COVID-19 changed all of that. The pandemic broke down longstanding barriers and accelerated digital health at a pace few could have imagined.

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Cyara

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

There is nothing as scary as testing against a production system. The number of possible “what if” scenarios include everything from system crashes and software failures, to faulty reporting and annoyed agents. Yet, running test calls through production is the only way to monitor all aspects of the customer experience. So is there a way to safely validate the production system without the risk of causing a career-ending situation?

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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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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

As the pandemic continues and businesses continue shifting focus to accommodate necessary changes, we’ve seen brand new drivers of customer experience (CX) success arise. These drivers will continue into the new year has contact centers strive to meet new customer demands – by upgrading technology while knowing how to deploy the new capabilities. The below three drivers of CX success will help to keep customer loyalty strong as we move into 2021. 1.

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The DiJulius Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

4 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1) Feature Story How to Reduce the #1 Cause of Anxiety For most people uncertainty triggers high extremes of anxiety. As human beings, we like predictability in our lives. That is why we check the five-day forecast, so we know how to dress. That is why. Read Full Article. The post Spectating is the New Cancer appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The API integration linking your contact center and your customer relationship management (CRM) tool shouldn’t be holding you back. But for many businesses, it is. API integrations are lines of code that connect two or more applications, like your CRM and your contact center. The problem is that many API integrations facilitate the bare minimum when it comes to data sharing and functional app connectivity.

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Oracle

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Thanks to advanced digital technologies, companies now find themselves in a position to truly transform the contact center customer service experience. From a host of stunning new capabilities driven by AI to a migration to cloud-based services, and from an overhaul in both internal and customer-facing communication to message error removal technology, it’s an exciting, unprecedented period for contact centers.

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One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

How can you purposefully navigate your team through end of 2020 into first quarter 2021? And purposefully leverage your team’s story? Because 2020 continuously presents you with a never-ending set of choices. Obstacles to overcome. And hard calls and major decisions for all team members to make. Working together, whether virtually, hybridized or physically together, is overwhelming and exhausting.

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Zeisler Consulting

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

We’re now up to the last of the Five Principles of CX (you can find an introduction to this series here , and parts one , two , three , and four at these links), Every Customer Elite. This may sound like the usual boilerplate feel-goodery that comes with CX leaders and writers all the time: Put the Customers first! Make every Customer experience perfect!

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UJET

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The API integration linking your contact center and your customer relationship management (CRM) tool shouldn’t be holding you back. But for many businesses, it is. API integrations are lines of code that connect two or more applications, like your CRM and your contact center. The problem is that many API integrations facilitate the bare minimum when it comes to data sharing and functional app connectivity.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Customer loyalty and retention are at the top of the list when it comes to contact center goals. But driving loyalty and retention takes more than just measuring the customer satisfaction score (CSAT) or the net promotor score (NPS) and calling it a day. There are a lot of other indicators that impact customer loyalty and overlooking them can lead to missing the mark on customer experience.

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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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