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Empathy is the most important driver for business. Here’s why.

Hello Customer

How can empathy make a difference as we are all adapting to a changing world? Last week we hosted a strategic session with some of our customers, together with Steven Van Belleghem. During this session, they had the chance to put some of the biggest challenges they’re facing on the virtual meeting room table. In this blog post, we gladly share some of the insights with you.

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How to keep your customers top-of-mind during a crisis

iPerceptions

A crisis can have reverberating effects on the day-to-day of customers and brands alike.

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Writing a CRM Plan: Useful Tips for Students

CSM Magazine

Customer Relationship Management (or CRM) is a phrase used about how your organization engages customers. It is often assumed that CRM implies a system used in capturing information relating to customers. However, it is important to reiterate that this is only a small part of the bigger picture. Effective CRM involves the use of tech to college data needed to offer improved services and support to customers.

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The Emotional Trigger That Influences Your Customers’ Minds

Beyond Philosophy

We have a mirror that has been resting against the wall in our garage for the last five years. I want to give it away, but my wife Lorraine keeps saying, “No, we’ll sell that. It’s a nice mirror.”. It is a lovely mirror. But we aren’t going to get that much for it. Still, there it sits. Lorraine is demonstrating how the Endowment Effect works.

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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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Why Offering Virtual Learning is Crucial, But Not Enough

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer Experience is Multifaceted. Customer experience is the culmination of so many things. It’s about the end-to-end journey your customers has with your brand, built on every interaction and emotion along the way. It’s about employee experience, ensuring your employees feel connected to the mission and empowered to deliver the best possible experience.

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B2B Customer Surveys 101

Lumoa

B2B companies often struggle with common hurdles when it comes to surveying customers. Conducting B2B customer surveys should be an illuminating process, but instead, they become a nightmare that makes you want to tear your hair out. It’s kind of like making New Year’s resolutions… you know you should stick to them, but somehow you always stray from the righteous path.

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3 Strategies to Help Customer Success Teams in Uncertain Times

ChurnZero

This is a guest blog post by Anita Toth,Chief Churn Crusher. Customer Success teams are under enormous pressure right now trying to cope with all the fast changes brought on by the pandemic. Not only at work but in their personal lives. And they are also trying their best to serve customers who are experiencing upheaval too. Your team and your customers are feeling immense mental and emotional pressures, which means new ways of thinking and operating are needed to cope with those pressures.

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Remote Agent Online Customer Service Skills Boot Camp

Myra Golden

It’s not unlike having your firstborn away at college. Your child is in the dorm and on her own. For eighteen years, you’ve prepared her for adulthood. But you worry. Is she making friends? Will she be safe at parties and with alcohol? Can she juggle classwork with fun? Is she eating healthy? Your employees are on their own at home. If a remote employee’s next phone call is from an angry, irate customer, can they handle it?

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15 Customer Service Psychology Tips to Provide Better Support

ProProfs Chat

We’ve seen popular brands create some of the most memorable and successful customer service stories. And we’ve all tried to follow their footsteps. But rather than following them, why not see what really worked for them? Believe it or not, but customer service psychology is one of the driving factors for their success. Well, just in case you are thinking about how we actually work upon our customer service psychology, then it is important to monitor whether you’ve managed to achieve your goal of

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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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5 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Customers During a Time of Social Distancing

Oracle

In a recent survey by Edelman , customers in a dozen countries stated how they view and what they expect from their favorite brands during this time of social distancing, sheltering-in-place, and business shutdowns. The respondents view companies as critical partners to governments, non-profit relief organizations, etc. because they feel the companies have the resources/relationships to help mobilize action. 86% view their favorite brands as an essential safety net, ready to step up to assist an

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What’s Ailing Your Journey?

Heart of the Customer

During these challenging times, I’ve been posting weekly videos on LinkedIn, sharing best practices on how customer experience (CX) pros can ensure their companies come out of this pandemic in a position of strength. We’ve also created a LinkedIn group, Managing the Coronavirus Experience (the Other CX), for you all to share your own tips. […].

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Keeping a Personal Touch When Using Automated Email Responses

Ecrion

It’s true that automating any business-related task can save time and money. You and your employees take advantage of automating business operations on many levels. This is even true when it comes to communication with your consumers. For instance, you might have a reason to set up automated email responses. These can be useful for a variety of operational tasks.

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100 Customer Satisfaction Questions to Measure Customer Happiness

ProProfs Chat

You are reading this blog because you think feedback is important, don’t you? Indeed, after knowing that about 91% of customers don’t complain after a bad customer experience but simply move on to your competitor’s product or service, you can become eager to know what’s on their mind. So you may know that unsatisfactory customer experiences are behind customer churn, but does getting your customers to answer lengthy feedback forms do any magic?

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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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A Discussion with UJET’s Chief Business Officer Vasili Triant

UJET

We’re thrilled to welcome Vasili Triant to UJET as our Chief Business Officer. Vasili joins UJET with more than two decades of experience in the contact center, unified communications (UC), telecom, and SaaS industries. Vasili has held key leadership positions at companies such as Serenova, Shoretel, and Cisco, where as General Manager and Vice President of Cisco’s global contact center business he was responsible for transitioning Cisco’s business into the cloud.

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CXNext Podcast Episode 52: Break Through the Noise with Simple Storytelling

Bold360

Subscribe via iTunes , Spotify and more. Imagine what it’s like to be a customer right now. The world is confusing. You’re scared. And a lot of people are handing down directives and mandates for you to follow. That’s why it’s critical to think about how you can add value to your customer. Then tell them a simple, elegant story.

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The 4 biggest challenges insights & analytics professionals are facing right now (with solutions)

Thematic

Some companies are seeing massive growth as a result of COVID-19. This brings its own set of challenges and opportunities for customer insights & analytics leaders. One way we’ve responded at Thematic has been to start hosting virtual roundtable discussions for customer insights and analytics professionals to connect and share how everyone is managing.

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Call Control Strategies for Remote Customer Service Employees

Myra Golden

I read that the average customer service call lasts 2 minutes longer than it needs to. Often, we don’t know how to get an angry customer to back down, or we struggle to move a customer from venting to a solution. Or we don’t want to be rude when trying to wrap things up with a friendly, talkative customer. The problem with longer calls is the impact it has on customers who are on hold waiting for help.

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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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A Discussion with UJET’s Chief Business Officer Vasili Triant

UJET

We’re thrilled to welcome Vasili Triant to UJET as our Chief Business Officer. Vasili joins UJET with more than two decades of experience in the contact center, unified communications (UC), telecom, and SaaS industries. Vasili has held key leadership positions at companies such as Serenova, Shoretel, and Cisco, where as General Manager and Vice President of Cisco’s global contact center business he was responsible for transitioning Cisco’s business into the cloud.

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Growth Through Customer Experience Action

ClearAction

Growth Through Customer Experience Action Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience annuities are a compelling source of growth that is commonly overlooked. As a gift that keeps on giving, customer experience annuities free-up resources that were previously dedicated forever to the equivalent of “Band-Aids®”, and re-allocate those resources to higher-value opportunities.

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Zoom, Bentley Systems and Totango: Top Takeaways from Customer Success Summit

Totango

This week Totango hosted our virtual Customer Success Summit: CXO Connect for executives and leaders of Customer Success. We were fortunate to have David McKenney, SVP Digital Advancement at Bentley Systems, and Marco Innocenti, Head of Customer Success Operations at Zoom, join Guy Nirpaz, Founder and CEO of Totango to share how they’ve adapted their customer success capabilities to face these challenging times and better serve customers.

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Hero Q&A with a banking CMO: Learning through adaptation

Hero Digital

At a time when COVID-19 is having profound implications on all aspects of daily life for people around the world, banks and credit unions, as front-line keepers of financial systems for consumers and small businesses, have a crucial role in ensuring the continued functioning of society. These financial services companies have had to continually adapt and provide real-time solutions for customers through the changing nature of the crisis.

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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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WFH edition: Etiquette is the ticket to great customer experience

Talkdesk

As a contact center agent, you can be the first and only contact point for customers seeking help, which is why maintaining a high level of etiquette is imperative. Today’s global public health crisis has created great levels of angst for customers. Many are dealing with issues that significantly affect their lives, such as canceled flights, shifts in medical coverage and a shortage of daily necessities.

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How to improve survey response rates

Customercount

President Bob Kobek looks at the reasons why you might be getting low response rates to your surveys and suggests some small changes that can have a big impact. The post How to improve survey response rates appeared first on CustomerCount.

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There’s an Emoji Revolution Taking Place

Ann Michaels and Associates

The Emoji revolution is taking over as a very creative form of expression. Did you ever think we would reach a point in society where a smiley face would change the way we communicate with one another? There are thousands of emojis being used every day and new ones being created. You can uncover a wealth of information by taking a closer look at the emotion behind an emoji used, whether online from a customer or through a text message.

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Building Strong Relationships with B2B Customers who Prefer Live Chat – Part 1

Team Support

It’s no secret that more B2B (business-to-business) customers are using live chat than ever before. A simple way to get a response from a business without having to call (and often face hold times) or email, chat is a real-time form of communication many businesses leverage daily. But what happens when most, if not all, of your conversations with a customer happen over chat?

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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.