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What Are Customer Touchpoints?

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Identify customer touchpoints, map out a complete customer journey, and optimize the customer experience. Guides

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Do Your Digital Transformation Efforts Meet Your Customers’ Needs?

Hello Customer

Digital transformation accelerated in many companies over the past year. Physical customer interactions have been reduced to almost 0. Companies increasingly have to service their customers via digital channels. As a service company, this can be challenging. How do you know if you still reach your customers?

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The Four Levels of Customer Satisfaction

SmartKarrot

The success of your company is directly proportional to how thoroughly your customers are satisfied with you. The satisfaction score of a customer is a critical determinant that portrays how far-fetched their loyalty will go on. While it is said that sales is the engine that is the driver of your business, customer satisfaction is the one that acts as fuel.

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Small Improvements in Customer Service Create Big Wins

ShepHyken

Little successes added together make for large success down the road. Small successes add up. To put it in baseball terms, you don’t need to hit a home run every time it’s your turn at bat. So, here’s the question to consider: What small change will enhance the experience for the customer, even if it is just by 1%? My friend and client, Jason Bradshaw of Volkswagen in Australia, was tasked with improving the customer experience for the VW dealerships.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Customers say the darndest things

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Customer service speaker, author, and coach Dan Gingiss reads real customer feedback live and gives you advice on what to do about it.

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If we can see it, we can fix it: How vision is expanding the roles of customer service staff

TechSee

There’s a new trend in customer service: the borders between technicians and agents are becoming blurred, with each one taking on aspects of the others’ traditional roles. Technicians normally found in the field are now stationed in a back office or working from home, guiding customers remotely as a traditional agent. Likewise, agents are now empowered to go above and beyond their standard scripts, using their newfound technical knowledge and skills to assist their customers.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 18, 2021

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. 21 Tips for 2021 Customer Experience Excellence by Lynn Hunsaker. (ClearAction) Here are 21 tips for achieving 2021 customer experience excellence in these areas and beyond.

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McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case and the Customer Experience

Steve DiGioia

We all know that the coffee McDonald’s sells is too hot to drink when served. If you put it to your lips, you’ll most likely receive a burn that will be far worse than anything most people have ever encountered. So why do they make their coffee so hot? And how does this affect the customer experience? By now you must have heard about the famous “McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case”.

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A Bottle of Shampoo and Digital Customer Experience

NICE inContact

Your customers are living their lives digitally, so meeting them where they live makes it easier for them to communicate with you. Connecting with customers on platforms that they use and are familiar with goes a long way to driving an exceptional customer experience. Agents can engage with customers on these digital channels but so can bots, using the same rules you're applying to a chat on your website.

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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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The Ever-Evolving, Influential Customer Experience Trends in Utilities

Ecrion

1. Debt Collection Is Changing | 2. Customer Loyalty Gaining Ground | 3. Justified Price Increases |. 4. Revamped Customer Engagement | 5. Mobile Communication. To ensure that your company performs optimally, you’ll need to have a strong understanding of the trends going on in your industry. While this is important for every niche, it is especially true for businesses that operate in the utility sector.

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How to Manage a Virtual Agent – Fate of the Bots | The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 7

SaleMove

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches. While these changes are significant, they are largely beneficial to agents and managers alike, who are now more engaged in the business.

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Why Employees Want to Leave and How to Stop It

The DiJulius Group

4 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1) Customer Service Feature Story Why Employees Want to Leave and How to Stop It Every year, improving employee morale, turnover, and employee experience is a major objective for many organization’s leadership teams. Building a world-class experience encompasses both customer and employee. How can. Read Full Article.

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How to Use Psychological Priming to Get Customers to Accept Your Word As Final

Myra Golden

Some of you know my undergrad degree is in Psychology. I taught college psych several years before jumping into the customer service space. I apply psychological principles to all my work in de-escalation and call control. In last week’s super-fantastic 4-day De-escalation Academy , I taught my students how to use psychology to get angry customers to back down and accept their word as final.

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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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Next-Level CX for B2B Companies With Steve Walker and Troy Powell

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Steve Walker and Troy Powell from Walker to uncover the secrets of their newest research report focused on the differences between B2C and B2C customer experience. Learn how Steve and Troy are helping CX leaders make steady progress to achieve the next level of CX excellence for their companies by listening to the podcast below.

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Reorienting the Next Battle Ground of Competitive Differentiation

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Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Nimesh Mathur talks about the evolving role of Customer Success as a competitive differentiator and why companies have started to look at it as a growth engine. The post Reorienting the Next Battle Ground of Competitive Differentiation first appeared on Strikedeck | Customer Success Platform.

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How to Build Your Customer Service Chatbot?

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In the past couple of years while working with large financial institutions and educational institutions we have learned a lot about customer service. When we started we saw customer service as a process to answer customer queries. However, soon we started seeing it as a great way to build loyalty, excite customers while ensuring satisfactory [.]. The post How to Build Your Customer Service Chatbot?

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Small Business Guide to Live Chat in 2021

Comm100

There are many digital customer service tools for small businesses to choose from, but there’s only one that stands out with real-time, accessible, and cost-effective support – and that’s live chat. Live chat has quickly become the most popular digital customer service channel for small businesses and large – and it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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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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What is NPS: the Concept and Formula

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You hear the term tossed around in most any meeting focused on customers: “What’s the NPS? How many Promoters do we have? How many Detractors?” You may be asking yourself “What is NPS and what should we be doing with it?” . Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a simple, powerful measure of customer loyalty. By asking customers to rate their likelihood to recommend a product or service on a 1-10 scale, you can gain actionable insights to guide decisions across your business.

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C Space promotes Jessica DeVlieger to global CEO role

C Space

C Space promotes Jessica DeVlieger to global CEO role. C Space, the global customer agency today announced that Jessica DeVlieger will become its new Global Chief Executive Officer, effective February 1st, 2021. Tweet. BOSTON, January 21, 2021 – C Space, the global customer agency today announced that Jessica DeVlieger will become its new Global Chief Executive Officer, effective February 1 st, 2021.

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Love Your Employees As Much As You Love Your Customers

Kerry Bodine

While my co-author Harley and I were prepping Outside In for publication back in the spring of 2012, I learned about the strange practice of soliciting “blurbs,” those pithy words of praise on a book’s back cover that tout the messages inside. There’s even a verb associated with this process — as in, “Would you consider blurbing our book?”. One of the people we reached out to with this request was a well-known author who I kind of idolized at the time.

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Keep Your 2021 Sales Pipeline Full Using the Selling Lessons of 2020

Integrity Solutions

By Will Milano. This past year laid bare some critical underlying selling skills and cracks in their sales pipeline that sales leaders were able to ignore or avoid while focusing on more immediate concerns. There’s no putting it off anymore. The good news is, we just went through a crash course in transformation — and there’s plenty to learn from it.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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The Path to Sustainable and Reliable Business Partnerships

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Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Harpreet Oberoi shares his thoughts on why organizations should keep their laser focus on meeting and achieving customers' desired outcomes. The post The Path to Sustainable and Reliable Business Partnerships first appeared on Strikedeck | Customer Success Platform.

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Best Practices to Monitor Your Remote Call Center Agents

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Tanya Bansal , Marketing Executive at Ameyo. Sh e shares best practices supervisors can use for monitoring call center agents in a work-from-home scenario. COVID-19 has led us to believe that we need to rethink, amend, and strengthen our contact centers with robust technology to stay ahead of the pandemic.

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Strategies to Hire and Work from Anywhere

NICE inContact

Aside from the negative outcomes of the past year, there's one shining example of a positive consequence - the seismic shift towards a work from home model in the general workforce and more specifically among contact center agents and staff.

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Does Working in Silos Prepare You to Lead Strategically?

One Millimeter Mindset

If your goal is to lead strategically, consider the value of repeatedly seeking new jobs that keep you working in departmental silos. New job. New silo. Same old thing. Depending on your organization’s size, these silos can be big. Yet no matter how far you “travel” to collaborate cross-functionally, you never leave the silo you operate within.

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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.