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Why AI and Human-Centred Design Should Be the Priorities for Restarting CX Programs

MyCustomer

Engagement What should be the priorities for restarting CX

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3 Ways Restaurants Can Deliver Superior Service + Continue To Evolve the Customer Experience

SMG CX

As we enter into a new phase of the pandemic—one of colder temperatures, a potential third wave, and the added threat of cold + flu season—businesses relying on outside service will once again have to adjust operational procedures. Industry Trends Data Science Brand Research

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Why Should Your Surveys Be Mobile Compatible?

SurveySparrow

The usage of mobile phones is at an all-time high. Everyone owns a smartphone, and we accomplish our daily tasks using this handheld device. As a result, mobile devices are increasingly driving internet traffic. Many companies have realized this and are optimizing their websites to be mobile compatible. Now the question arises, shouldn’t we do the same for surveys as well?

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Interview with CX Ambassador Matthew Phillip

GetFeedback

Interview with Matthew Phillip, Marketing Automation Manager at Mylo, a Lockton company, the insurtech leader revolutionizing insurance shopping, about his career in the customer experience space.

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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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How to optimize customer service costs with visual assistance

TechSee

The discussion around how to reduce customer service costs is not a new one. For decades, service organizations have been proposing innovative ways to cut operational costs in customer service: Let employees bring their own coffee? ??. Eliminate evening and weekend hours? Limit call times to 3 minutes each? Slash the number of technicians per shift?

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Customer Experience Lessons from 2020: Experts Chime In

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

We’re headed into the final weeks of one of the strangest years: A global pandemic shifted how we worked, socialized, interacted and communicated. Our needs changed to reflect these new realities. Parents juggled working from home with supporting their children’s education. Families dealt with loss and illness. And leaders had to navigate all these changes as they happened, in very real-time ways.

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How to measure the 5 dimensions of service quality

GetFeedback

Using the five dimensions of service quality and knowing how to measure them accurately can help you find actionable ways to improve your customer experience and delight your customers.

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The 5 Rules for Designing a Great Digital Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Digital experiences are a crucial part of your Customer Experience , especially during the pandemic. Some organizations are excelling, while others could use some work. No matter where you fall on that spectrum, we have some essential considerations for designing your digital experience in the form of 5 rules. On a recent podcast about these 5 rules, I shared a recent digital experience that was definitely on the “could use some work” side of the spectrum.

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Retaining Clients leverages an Innovative Customer Retention Strategy

One Millimeter Mindset

Are you creating an innovative customer retention strategy for what is new and next? (And nowhere near to whatever has been normal.). Consider that retaining yesterday’s clients just may not be the primary focus of this strategy, either. Because the clients who helped you get to where you were yesterday may not have the capacity for innovative transitions.

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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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Delivering impactful results from your Voice of the Customer programme

Eptica

Date: Friday, November 13, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Delivering impactful results from your Voice of the Customer programme. Published on: November 13, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Understanding changing customer needs is vital if companies are to increase engagement, satisfaction and long-term revenues.

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How to manage customer service during COVID-19 holiday season

GetFeedback

Simplifying CX YouTube series episode on how to manage customer service during COVID-19 holiday season.

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The Mike Moment

ShepHyken

We’ve all heard the old adage: “It’s better to give than to receive.” That’s what customer service people do. They give and give and give. They help solve problems and resolve complaints. What they get in return—hopefully—is a nice thank you, which, when you think about it, is fairly insignificant , though appreciated, for the work they do. Yes, they are paid for the job they do, but the people who are amazing at this role aren’t doing it just for the money.

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Customer Transformation: Loyalty & Sentiment Are Your Challenges Ahead

eglobalis

Customer Transformation: Loyalty & Sentiment Are Your Challenges Ahead , People-centric enterprises will certainly have an advantage – not just today, but also down the road – when it comes to the memories they instilled in employees and customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Customer Transformation: Loyalty & Sentiment Are Your Challenges Ahead appeared first on Eglobalis.

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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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How to Reduce the #1 Cause of Anxiety

The DiJulius Group

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 How to Reduce the #1 Cause of Anxiety appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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The journey to great begins with gratitude

Talkdesk

November marked the beginning of the fourth quarter in Talkdesk’s fiscal year. I usually transition to a new quarter focused on what we must accomplish and the action plans to make it all happen. However, as I look toward the end of what has undoubtedly been one of the hardest years of our lives, it’s gratitude that now consumes my thoughts. . In 2021, Talkdesk will celebrate its 10-year anniversary.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of November 9, 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. The experience equation: Happy employees and customers accelerate growth by Vala Afshar. (ZDNet) Research shows the relationship between employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) and its impact on accelerated growth.

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ACI Leverages Live Call Coaching Tech for Improved Customer Experiences

Advantage Communications

Developing high-quality customer service and world-class customer experiences is key to retaining customers and creating a highly loyal customer base, yet the vast majority of organizations are struggling to do this successfully.

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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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7 Benefits of Using an Electronic Document Distribution System

Ecrion

1. Save Money | 2. Lower Delivery Costs | 3. Improve Information Access | 4. Improve Work Environment |. 5. Maintain Compliance | 6. Go Green | 7. Document Security. If you run a business, you may feel sometimes like you’re snowed under in paperwork. Trying to shuffle forms back and forth between departments can get confusing and chaotic. And security management becomes a nightmare.

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Cyara Partners with Splunk to Help Resolve CX Issues Up to 10x Faster

Cyara

Organizations are constantly looking to improve their customer experience (CX). While the contact center has always played a key role in this, since we’ve been in this global pandemic, the contact center has become the place where consumers interact with organizations. And contact centers depend on complex technology to deliver that great CX. Technology which, from time to time, fails – resulting in issues such as outages, poor voice quality, prompting errors, dropped calls and delays.

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Guest Post: Ditching NPS for Real Feedback–Which is Better For Your Customer Experience?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Su Kaygun Sayran , a content writer for JotForm. He writes about what specifically makes feedback effective in helping you improve your customer service. Feedback, the one thing that businesses know that they need but dread to receive it at the same time. But at the end of the day, it’s the feedback that makes or breaks a company.

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Why a Customer Success Plan Is the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Customer Relationship

Totango

A key component of creating customer success is working with your customer to identify and organize mutual goals into a standardized customer success plan. Outcome success plans focus on capturing mutual objectives, documenting the steps toward achieving them, and sharing information between both clients and your own internal teams—driving interconnectivity and displaying progress through one easily accessed live portal.

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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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Cloud adoption as a strategic decision in digital transformation

Talkdesk

Organizations worldwide are now waking up to the advantages of moving to the cloud as a strategic decision, not only to keep businesses up and running, but also to boost performance, cut costs and enhance customer experience (CX). For years, contact centers have run on-premises infrastructure, battling the difficulties of scaling operations or updating systems and tools whenever customer demands shift.

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An introduction to the Principles of Good CX

Zeisler Consulting

I wouldn’t be a self-serving, self-promoting consultant if I didn’t have a few frameworks to show you, so at the risk of shaming myself and losing my membership card, here’s another one. Over the course of five articles, I’ll get into each of them, but here I’ll lay out what I term the Principles of Good CX. We’ll start with Getting It Right, or GIR.

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5 Skills Needed to Excel In Healthcare Sales Today

Integrity Solutions

The important skills that contribute to sales success are constant, regardless of disruptive external events, but they’ll need to be sharpened and tailored to the changing healthcare environment. Healthcare sales has gone through a number of rocky transitions and disruptions over the past decade. But 2020 has been at a whole other level. As we make our way to the end of this incredibly tumultuous and challenging year, sales teams in pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical device and diagnostic compani

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When Your Priorities are not the same as Your Clients’ Priorities

One Millimeter Mindset

What do you do when you discover your business priorities are not the same as your clients’ priorities? How you answer reflects the relevance of customer experience, success and client retention on your own business viability. This pandemic exerts a profound impact on our businesses, including your clients’ Yet, some of my small business clients remain reluctant to better understand who their clients really are.

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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.