BlueOcean

MAY 29, 2019

Picture this: You’re in the RFP process for a new contact center partner. You have a short list of participants. You give them a couple of weeks to return their answers, and then you spend a few more weeks poring through those answers with your team to eliminate the deal-breakers and discern the winner. Finally, you’re down to two choices – both options have versatile capabilities and impressive metrics.

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CX Accelerator

MAY 28, 2019

There is no place in the world I’d rather work than in Customer Service. That being said.it’s very, well, hard. There are days when it seems like every problem across the business rolls directly downhill to us. On a good day, we are working to resolve customer inquiries as quickly and effectively as we can. On a bad day, we are just trying to survive!

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2019

I enjoy fishing. When I need a new lure, I go to Discount Tackle on First Street in Bradenton, Florida. When I go in, we have a chat and a laugh. However, my great experience is not why I return and drive past six or seven other bait and tackle shops to get to it. Economists say the reason I go back to Discount Tackle is that I remember it was a great experience.

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Customer Bliss

MAY 31, 2019

“Start by being humble and you will inspire your team to be humble,” says Denis Drossart , global vice president of Culture & Experience at Selina , about leadership behaviors enforced within this lifestyle, travel and hospitality brand. Selina is a startup platform that connects people to local places and activities for purpose-filled experiences.

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ShepHyken

MAY 28, 2019

Creating a Friction-Aware Culture. Changing Friction to Deliver a Better Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Roger Dooley. They discuss his new book, Friction: The Untapped Force That Can Be Your Most Powerful Advantage , and how it applies to the customer experience. The Interview with Roger Dooley: Friction is “any unnecessary expenditure of effort to accomplish a task.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2019

Uncertainty influences a lot of our customer behavior. We buy products to reduce the risk in our lives, like insurance. Insurance buys us peace of mind if something bad happens to us or our property. We also buy lottery tickets because, well, someone has to win, right? The fact is we are not fantastic and predicting the likelihood of unlikely events in our lives.

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Customer Bliss

MAY 28, 2019

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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ShepHyken

MAY 31, 2019

This week we feature an article by Abdul Babar who explains why your customer experience strategy must be a priority for any customer-facing organization. If we were to inquire as to the last time you had an exceptional experience as a customer it wouldn’t likely take you long to describe the lasting impression made upon you by a brand and how pleased you were with the outcome.

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TechSee

MAY 28, 2019

Call deflection is the process of routing a customer enquiry to an alternative service channel. The goal is both to ensure customers receive the answers they are seeking in the most efficient manner and to reduce the number of inbound calls routed to human agents. For that reason, successful call deflection strategies allow enquiries to be deflected to self-service channels such as FAQs, live chat, community forums, knowledge center databases and virtual agents.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2019

Why Are We Scared of New Technology? We have some exciting new technology for CX. Facial recognition technology and facial expression analysis yield some new and exciting data about how customers feel during a Customer Experience. The only problem is that many people find it creepy. This episode of The Intuitive Customer asks the question Why Are We Scared of New Technology?

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Oracle

MAY 29, 2019

Consider this customer experience scenario: It all started when I called for a take-out dinner order, and the hostess told me she was too busy to ask the kitchen if there was an ingredient I was allergic to in the meal I wanted to order. I should’ve stopped the transaction there, but because I was in a rush, I ordered meals for my family, figuring I’d grab myself a bowl of cereal at home, and went to pick up their food.

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ShepHyken

MAY 27, 2019

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. Amazon Bringing One-Day Shipping To Prime Shows The Real Battle For Customers by Daniel Newman. (Forbes) With a $800-million-dollar investment in technology, fulfillment and logistics, Amazon one-day shipping is now standard for Prime members, the race for customer lo

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Avaya

MAY 28, 2019

Brands are built on experiences, and great experiences lead to great outcomes. But what does a great customer experience actually look like? Answering this question is key for businesses to competitively differentiate, transform customer relationships, and accelerate revenue generation. A glance at the current business landscape will have you believe that certain verticals are dying (ex: retail, driven by the rapid expansion of Amazon).

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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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ProProfs Chat

MAY 30, 2019

Customer success is not just an alternative buzzword for customer service. Rather it indicates that your business is fulfilling the key objective of delivering excellent customer support. Your brand should be able to engage your customers and help them throughout their journey of buying a product or service. Your customers should not feel the need to move away to your competitor because they found your customer care operators to be inefficient or your support mechanism to be weak.

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Heart of the Customer

MAY 31, 2019

I was recently in a call, and an executive new to her company’s journey mapping initiative asked, “Exactly what does this $150k I’m spending on a journey map buy us?” Luckily, our client had a ready answer, but that’s not always the case. CCW put together this nice overview of the ways journey mapping helps […]. The post What Does Journey Mapping Do for You?

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ShepHyken

MAY 29, 2019

The sun always rises tomorrow! The other day my friend and one of our avid Shepard Letter readers, Doug Schukar, shared this quote he heard over and over from his father growing up. I knew Doug’s father, the late and great Buzzie Schukar, a larger-than-life man who loved life and always had good advice. “The sun always rises tomorrow” is exactly the kind of advice Buzzie would espouse to his son – and his friends.

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Strativity

MAY 29, 2019

Strativity was among the select companies qualified by Forrester Research to participate in its latest Forrester Wave evaluation, The Forrester Wave : CX Consulting Practices: Experience Strategy And Business Transformation, Q2 2019. In the evaluation, Strativity was cited as a Strong Performer among the “nine providers that matter most” in the CX consulting market.

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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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Magellan Solutions

MAY 28, 2019

“Outsourcing is inevitable, and I do not think it’s necessarily treating people like things.”. This quote came from the American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker Stephen Covey. Business process outsourcing, or simply called as BPO, is a term deemed outlandish, absurd, and even crazy a decade or two ago. Nobody back then will believe that BPOs can generally help businesses grow and become successful.

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Kustomer

MAY 30, 2019

A note from our CEO Brad Birnbaum. Read the full series D press release here. Zappos and other companies with a similar “do anything for the customer” mindset have changed what’s expected from customer service – forever. Now, whether a year old or fifty years old, companies across industries and around the world are trying to provide the rich customer experiences necessary to compete.

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Totango

MAY 29, 2019

When consumers decide which brand of product to purchase, they pick the one they have the strongest relationship with. As such, it’s critical that customer success teams emphasize the use of regular customer engagements to keep the customer relationship strong. Setting the right customer engagement objectives and taking the necessary action to meet these goals will help your enterprise become more customer-centered, prevent churn , and boost retention rates.

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Hello Customer

MAY 28, 2019

The world constantly changes, as the saying goes ‘change is the only constant’. What does this mean for businesses? It means constantly evolving, and keeping an eye on the future, especially on consumer trends. You have to be one step ahead at all times. This can be a difficult task, since the critical driver of change is your relationship with your customers.

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Talkdesk

MAY 28, 2019

Improving the Call Center Outsourcing Customer Experience Looking back a decade or so ago, I was a customer service manager at a small SaaS (software as a service) company feeling my way through the contact center. For various reasons we signed on with an outsourcer to help grow our team and that’s where some significant growth for both me individually and the company I worked for began to take place.

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UJET

MAY 29, 2019

When was the last time you were happy with customer service? You visit the company website and search the “Contact Us” page which offers little to no actual helpful information. You find a phone number and call, only to sit through countless automated options attempting to identify your problem.

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Eptica

MAY 29, 2019

Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Marketing Manager 5 key findings around customer trust in retail. Published on: May 29, 2019. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Marketing Manager Across every sector, trust is increasingly central to the customer experience and hence business success. Consumers want to buy from brands that they feel understand their needs, respect their time and deliver on their promises.

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Ecrion

MAY 29, 2019

In the realm of insurance, satisfaction equals sales. Take the automobile sector, for example. Research shows that U.S. auto insurers that provide a best-in-class customer experience generate two to four times 1 the new business growth of their counterparts. They also enjoy 30% more profitability. The impetus behind this growth? The same research shows that satisfied insurance customers are 80% more likely to renew their policies than ones who are put out with their carriers.

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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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