Sat.Jan 09, 2021 - Fri.Jan 15, 2021

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Insights from a CX Expert: Anatomy of a Great Contact Center Experience

Cyara

High quality customer service has always been the unsung hero of driving company profits, and the contact center experience often plays a key role in how that service is delivered and received. Back in 1990, a Harvard Business School and Bain & Company study revealed what is still one of the most quoted customer service insights: "In industry after industry… increasing customer retention rates by 5% increases profits by 25% to 95%," reported Harvard Business Review.

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Moving into CS Leadership Through Growth

Strikedeck

Mel Bilge shares her approach to growing success inside of a startup, and moving from the individual contributor role into a leadership position. The post Moving into CS Leadership Through Growth first appeared on Strikedeck | Customer Success Platform.

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5 Customer Experience Trends for 2021 and Beyond

Advantage Communications

With the hope and foresight of a new year now here, many executives are now proactively looking at new ways to grow their business in 2021, drive profitability, and improve the satisfaction and loyalty of their customer base.

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Celebrating Tony Hsieh's Contribution to CX

CX Accelerator

by Jeremy Watkin and Community. The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

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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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23 customer service tips to provide great experiences

GetFeedback

Top tips to provide better service that’ll benefit your business and your customers.

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An Empowerment Lesson From the Ritz-Carlton

ShepHyken

If you’ve been following my work, you know I’m a huge fan of the Ritz-Carlton. I was recently on a Zoom presentation with Horst Schulze , first president and co-founder of the Ritz-Carlton chain. When Horst speaks, I listen and take lots of notes. One of the questions he was asked had to do with empowerment, specifically about the $2,000 the Ladies and Gentlemen – what Ritz-Carlton calls its employees – are allowed to spend to ensure a guest has a great experience.

Hotels 147
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Celebrating Tony Hsieh's Contribution to CX

CX Accelerator

by Jeremy Watkin and Community. The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

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Customer loyalty survey questions

GetFeedback

20 essential customer loyalty survey questions and surveying best practices.

Loyalty 307
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After UK Coronavirus Lockdown #3, Will Remote Contactless Customer Support be Here to Stay?

TechSee

With the number of new daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK exceeding 60,000, the country has officially entered its third national Coronavirus lockdown. Having recognised the need to provide customers with alternative support options over the last 9 months when on-site assistance was not feasible, more and more companies are turning to contactless service as a way to help their customers without stepping foot into their homes.

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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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Guest Post: How to Effectively Monitor Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Thomas Fordham, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at TAP London. H e shares different strategies to help your business monitor and measure customer satisfaction. Customer experience is crucial for businesses looking to retain existing customers and attract new ones. But monitoring it is sometimes easier said than done.

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Intro to Insight Communities

Alida

Elevate your existing Voice of the Customer strategy with a customer insight community comprised of thousands of highly engaged customers and prospects.

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Are You Managing Teams for Innovation or Stasis?

One Millimeter Mindset

When you are managing teams for innovation, everyone focuses on creating better and better solutions. Otherwise, you reinforce stasis, or reliance on whatever worked yesterday. The concept and execution of managing for innovation is a hot topic in my keynotes, workshops and coaching. First, by focusing on innovation you and your team create outcomes which continuously meet client expectations.

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Teach smart devices to see what you see: Why TechSee is one of the best R&D companies to work for

TechSee

If you’ve ever been tempted to smash your wireless router or take a bat to your smart thermostat out of sheer frustration, then you already have a pretty good idea of why we do what we do at TechSee. Never heard of TechSee? That’s ok, we may be a relatively new startup (founded in 2015) but we are really starting to make a splash, so expect to hear more about us going forward.

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 11, 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. How to Measure Your Customer Experience Maturity by Sharon Florentine. (CMSWire) A customer experience (CX) maturity assessment is a great way for an organization to understand where it is on its path to customer-centricity and identify where further interventions mig

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The Incredible Impact of the Customer Experience Management Cloud

Ecrion

1. Meets Customer Needs | 2. Easy Access to Documents/Services | 3. Cloud CEM Generates Leads |. 4. Embraces Diverse Solutions | 5. Keeps Your Business Ahead. While 70% of businesses cited their customer retention strategies as average at best, nearly everyone agrees that it is a priority. This makes sense when you consider that a mere 5% increase in consumer retention can lead to a full 25% increase in profits.

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How to Create a Customer Experience Journey that will Produce Amazing Results

The DiJulius Group

5 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1) Feature Story How to Create your Customer Experience Cycle that will Produce Amazing Results By Dave Murray Nothing will have a bigger impact on elevating your customer service company-wide than developing your Customer Experience Cycle (CEC). The vast majority of businesses suffer from inconsistencies in.

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Are You Professionally Understandable To Everyone?

One Millimeter Mindset

Being professionally understandable is a huge part of how you show up to work each day. When people do not understand what you are saying, they cannot figure out what you want. Or what you really need. Or even what you both can accomplish working with each other and for each other on behalf of better serving clients. In speaking to, coaching and facilitating cross-functional teams, I’ve identified three always-on miscommunication scenarios.

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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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Part 1: B2B Customer Support Transformation Imperatives

Team Support

ServiceXRG and TeamSupport have joined forces to create a comprehensive study of the Support industry that is now available for download. The 2021 Customer Support Transformation report examines current trends in Support delivery and offers tangible guidance for Support and Service professionals to meet growing expectations of both customers and company executives.

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43 Interesting Stats about Customer Loyalty

Zonka Feedback

Customer Loyalty plays a great role in the growth of any business. In order to stand strong in a competitive market, it is important to have a base of loyal customers. Loyal customers are one of the most crucial asset of your business. They not only give you business but also help in increasing it by their good word of mouth.

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Amazing Business Radio: Dennis Wakabayashi

ShepHyken

The New, Better Customer Experience. How to Drive a Customer-Centric Culture. Shep Hyken interviews Dennis Wakabayashi , the VP of CX Solutions Delivery for RR Donnelley. They discuss strategies for creating customer-centricity by improving the employee and customer experiences. Top Takeaways: There are two halves to customer centricity. One is the great leaders of CX, who are inspirational catalysts for creating customer-centric culture.

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Vital for 2021 – Digital Nudging Will Revolutionize Your CX

Beyond Philosophy

As we all interact more online than we ever have before, digital experiences are becoming an essential part of your CX. Like a physical experience, digital experiences should center around customers and focus on what they want so you can get what you want, customer-driven growth. However, there is also nothing wrong with giving people a little Digital Nudge in the right direction.

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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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Customer Experience Collaboration and Case Management – Made Simple

CX Workout - Ideas Blog

Customer Experience Collaboration and Case Management – Made Simple. Complex case management – handled simply. It’s usually the complex and unpredictable customer cases that make it past your automated processes and self-service channels to reach your agents. To handle them, agents need increasingly specialized knowledge—knowledge about which step is next and what information is relevant when a case takes an unscripted turn.

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Top 20 Most Popular Customer Centricity Articles of 2020

C3Centricity

Traditionally C3Centricity publishes a list of the most popular customer-centricity posts on its blog in January and this year is no exception, despite covid’s extraordinary impact on businesses the world over. Many people were working from home this year, were you? If so, then I’m sure that because you avoided commuting most days, you had the chance to discover some new blogs and podcasts.

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How to De-escalate in Chat and Email

Myra Golden

We kicked off De-escalation Academy yesterday, and a student asked a question that I think is important for us to discuss here. His question was: “Our team is working 99% by email, will we able to apply everything that we learn here and translate it into a purely written environment? Any advice is appreciated.” Customers escalate in chat and email interactions intensely!

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How to Scale the Customer Renewal Process Effectively

CSM Practice

“It costs five times as much to acquire new customers than it does to keep existing ones” is a saying that only begins to scratch the surface of why renewals are so important. In the SaaS world, where revenue generation and business growth depends on the customer’s decision to renew, the customer renewal process demands even more attention. Despite the obvious advantages of mastering and scaling the renewal process as SaaS companies grow, renewals still pose a big challenge for most.

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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.