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The Roles of Success in the Customer Experience

SmartKarrot

As a customer success leader, you likely feel strong ownership of the “customer experience” and its outcomes. That’s why it’s so painful when you do everything in your power to help customers thrive only to see disappointing results in sentiment or retention. You can go back to the drawing board–improve analytics, update playbooks, adjust team member incentives–but there’s also an inconvenient truth to address.

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7 Ways to Keep Your Customers Happy and Satisfied

CSM Magazine

Customers should never feel uncomfortable and out of place at your business; instead, they should be immediately put at ease when they walk through the door. Invest in a few comfortable chairs if your customers typically have to wait to see someone. Provide products such as a UV sanitizer to address any concerns you customers may have regarding the sanitation of your premises.

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How to Prepare Your Team for Digital Transformation

Russel Lolacher

How do you prepare your organization’s culture to fully embrace digital transformation? I was honoured to speak on a panel at the Public Sector Network event Virtual Digital Government Road Show: Turning Policy into Practical Delivery to talk about that very subject. Over the course of an hour, my fellow panelists and I shared our experiences and insights and I wanted to share my responses with you in case you find them helpful.

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The Light At The End of The Tunnel: Reimagine Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

It is not often in life that you get the opportunity to reset things. However, as the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, we have a chance that is, dare I say, unprecedented to reimagine Customer Experience. We have been through a shocking year of change. Now, we can decide what parts of the change we want to keep to respond to what customers want now. We’ve been doing some work with one of our clients recently who will be doing some research.

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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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Six Ways to Actively Build a Customer-Centric Culture

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

You know the brands that do customer culture well. They create such a focus on the customer that everything and everyone throughout the organization is on board. . Where does this organizational magic come from? In a word, it all comes back to the culture. Sometimes the customer-focused “way” is seen as a brand within a brand. “The Disney Way” or “Zappos Culture” is shorthand for that relentless view to prioritize customers, their wellbeing, and their goals.

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The Start of a New Era: How Service Leaders are Preparing for COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

TechSee

2021. A new year. A new era in the COVID-19 pandemic. As the widespread vaccine rollout gets underway, businesses are grappling with many questions. While vaccine rollout policies are being handled by governments and will later be addressed by legal and HR, service leaders must wade through the uncertainty and consider the implications of the vaccine on their business.

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What Does Management Want From You?

Steve DiGioia

Safety, security, and peace of mind. Nice calming words they are. They come with little worries and little stress. Every employee wants this. But what does management want from you? For many in the customer service industry, there is little room for advancement and few opportunities to make “change” – a change that is meaningful, impactful, and which enhances the customer experience.

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5 Customer Journey Touchpoints to Measure

Lumoa

At what point during the customer journey should you measure how the customer is feeling? In the middle? After their journey is over? Every month? In reality, there are several customer touchpoints along the customer journey where you can (and should!) measure the customer experience, and each requires a slightly different approach. Different surveys help you measure the experience appropriately at all customer journey touchpoints, and there is no one-size-fits-all.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 4, 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. Customer Experience Tips and Advice from the Pros During Disruption by Srijana Angdembey. (Oracle) An engaging customer experience (CX) was once only nice to have, but during periods of uncertainly, it becomes a must have to provide the advice and solutions your custo

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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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Customer journey map: The key to understanding your customer

delighted

When you think of your customer, who comes to mind? Can you name their intentions, motivations, and pain points? Better yet, do you know why they are choosing your company among competitors? . Defining customer needs, problems, and interactions with your company may seem overwhelming and at times, unnecessary. However, understanding every customer’s experience at each stage of the customer journey is crucial for turning business insights into long-term improvement strategies. .

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The Most Significant Things We Learned in 2020

Beyond Philosophy

We are looking at ringing in 2021 with pleasure. How about you? Chances are you are ready to call this year last year, too. Although this year has been anything but usual, we typically look back at this time of year to review what we have learned. So, for better or worse, we shall do that for 2020 as well. The pandemic has presented an opportunity to participate in a forced-perspective taking exercise for all of us.

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3 Ways to Avoid Professional Complacency in 2021

One Millimeter Mindset

Will you avoid falling into a pattern of professional complacency during 2021? Or do you long for a permanent oasis from ambiguous and uncertain scenarios? When I ask this question to colleagues and clients, like you, the answer is: “a little bit of both, please”. Because the professionals and associations I serve seek consistency and continuity in every level of their professional environments.

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Guest Post: How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Progression of Contact Centres

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Gary Williams, Director of Sales and Consultancy at Spitch. H e explores the impact of COVID-19 on contact centres and the consumer response during the pandemic. Before the age of landing pages, online forms, and pop-up chatbots, contact centres were the only way we could engage with brands and services. They were the cornerstone of the service industry, and in many ways they still 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.

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Using Data to Personalize the Customer Experience with Steven Maskell

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Steven Maskell , Vice President of Customer Experience at Zones , to discuss how to create a personalized, data-driven customer experience. Learn how Steven does so by listening to the podcast below. Creating a Data-Driven Customer Experience.

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5 Ways to Automate Contact Centers with AI in 2021

Upstream Works

AI has many valuable uses in the contact center, from providing data and channel options to reducing costs. One of the biggest drivers for AI is automation. Automation may take many forms, including providing intuitive self-service options for customers, as well as allowing organizations to further scale their operations—not to just provide 24/7 service, but to also handle higher call volumes.

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Is Professional Elitism impacting How You Lead Teams?

One Millimeter Mindset

Ouch! That’s an in-your-face question to ask yourself, isn’t it? And if you feel defensive, it is understandable. After all, you feel you do all the right things. Following processes and steps outlined in guidelines and playbooks. Yet, projects go unproductively sideways. And team synergy slowly evaporates. In addition, unproductive rework and reduced efficiency remain the norm.

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Amazing Business Radio: David Wachs

ShepHyken

The Power of the Handwritten Note. Personalizing the Customer Experience at Scale. Shep Hyken interviews David Wachs , Founder and CEO of Handwrytten. They discuss how personalized, handwritten notes can increase customer loyalty and improve the overall customer experience. Top Takeaways: If you send a personalized item to your customers, whether it’s a note or other gift, don’t put your logo on it.

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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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21 Tips for 2021 Customer Experience Excellence

ClearAction

21 Tips for 2021 Customer Experience Excellence Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience excellence is certainly defined a bit differently now, compared to years past. Some aspects of the new definition are obvious: heightened empathy and benevolence, smoother digitalization, stronger security and safety, greater inclusion and diversity. The 2020s decade is clobbering us over the head with the urgent realization of these essentials.

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Cultivating and Building Long-Lasting Relationships in the SaaS Economy

Strikedeck

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Nir Kalish talks about the importance of providing a well-rounded and excellent customer experience from start to finish. Nir believes that "relationships are the future of business.".

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Will You Be Able to Keep Your Superstars in 2021?

Integrity Solutions

Money and incentives matter, but this year more than ever they’re only part of the sales retention story. Coming off of a tough year in 2020, more employees are feeling burned out and overwhelmed. With the stresses of the pandemic, uncertainty in the business environment, and pressures of working from home and juggling personal and professional lives, we’re all looking forward to a fresh start in 2021.

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#Onapositivenote – Exceptional Customer Experience Stories of 2020

SurveySensum

2020 is not a year you would like to remember, it’s also not a year which any of us can easily forget. It was exceptional in many aspects! A year in which we could experience the worst of humanity and also the best of it. As a company that is focused on improving the ways you help your customer, we reached out to our customers and community to collect some exceptional stories of customer experience.

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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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Whose problem are you solving?

Zeisler Consulting

I’ve written about Customer Effort Score (CES) before and kind of chided the intractability of defining it specifically. Of course, it’s not fair to pick on CES, as I’ve written in other instances , even common definitions like First Contact Resolution runs into definitional problems when they encounter actual Customer opinions (we all have our own definitions).

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The Ultimate List of Customer Success Resources For 2021

Gainsight

As we embark on the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on Gainsight’s Customer Success resources from 2020. We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Bookmark this list and get through it bit by bit. It may seem daunting at first, but small daily rituals can lead to big results.

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Regain control of a conversation with a customer using the jump rope technique

Myra Golden

Continue the training with me? Join me at De-escalation Academy. This tip is from my De-escalation Academy. In De-escalation Academy, your employees go from feeling overwhelmed and powerless when they have to give customers bad news, to feeling confident, firm, and in-control as they bring down the temperature in interactions and guide customers to next steps.

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Reviewing 2020 – our top blog posts from last year

Eptica

Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Reviewing 2020 – our top blog posts from last year. Published on: January 05, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager As we move forward into 2021, now is the perfect time to review the past year, with all its disruption and challenges. We’ve chosen 8 of the top articles from our own and our parent company Enghouse Interactive’s blog to illustrate the trends and opportunities that 2

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the