BlueOcean

AUGUST 7, 2018

Planning for 2019 already? You’re in good company. Contracting a new contact center outsourcer may be one of the most impactful decisions you make all year (no pressure, right?) You’re putting your brand and your customers in the hands of someone new, whose efforts will have a direct impact on your business, its ROI, and all its related KPIs. It’s the type of decision that is well-suited to a formal RFP and procurement process.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 9, 2018

In today’s episode, I chat with Daniel Coullet , Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Experience, and Elizabeth Curtin , Customer Experience Practice Manager at PTC , about defining customer success, and the value of designing customer room for enhancing employee and customer experience. PTC is a B2B global software company that offers a technology platform and solutions to help companies design, manufacture, operate, and service things for a smart, connected world.

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CloudCherry

AUGUST 9, 2018

Customer expectations are higher than ever. In a world where convenience is everything, companies need to work harder than ever to meet and exceed their customer’s expectations. But the methods we’re using to manage the customer experience are stuck in the past. We’re still surveying customers the same way we were in the 90s, still battling siloed data and processes, and still relying on guesswork or bureaucratic reports to choose potential initiatives.

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Magellan Solutions

AUGUST 6, 2018

“We live in a world where your online reputation can be your strongest asset or your biggest liability,” a Forbes article stated. This is true as information is just a click away. Anybody can access the internet and write anything about you and your business. Now, the ultimate question is this: how to build brand reputation ? Brand reputation is pretty self-explanatory.

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 10, 2018

There’s no sweeter deal than a lead who’s ready to buy and just needs a bit of coaxing. But as any salesperson will tell you, hot leads like that are a rare find, not a reliable source of new business. In fact, they’re a lot harder to come by than most people (looking at you, marketers) tend to think. According to Gleanster Research , only 25% of marketing leads are actually qualified enough to pass to sales, and 79% never become customers.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is the relationship of a customer with a business at all touchpoints during the period of the customer journey. It is widely said that customer experience is the next battleground for organizations. There is no denying that it is critical to business success. But as a CX enthusiast, where do you start? While there are many experts on this field, we have created a list (in alphabetical order) of customer experience influencers (experts, speakers, consultants, and authors)

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TechSee

AUGUST 7, 2018

Online retail has been revolutionized in recent years; creating ease for consumers while allowing retailers to track and influence the buying process, effectively reshaping how, where and when customers interact with their brand. Yet, all this progress has created a new set of sales challenges. Understanding and addressing these e-commerce obstacles is the key towards improving sales processes, driving a better customer journey, delivering more consumer conversions, and ultimately garnering a gr

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Think Customers

AUGUST 6, 2018

There is a discussion brewing among contact center leaders about what to call the front-line employees who handle calls and other customer interactions. Historically they have been referred to as “agents” or “representatives.” But as customer experience takes a more prominent role and these employees become more strategic, those titles don’t go far enough.

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Heart of the Customer

AUGUST 9, 2018

You probably don’t view Amazon as a competitor. That’s where you’re mistaken. When we look to build a better CX, it’s natural to focus on our people. After all, they are often the heart of our customer experience. However, while we need to ensure a strong person-to-person experience, we also need to make sure the experience is strong even when […].

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Russel Lolacher

AUGUST 8, 2018

What does it look like when an entrepreneur doesn’t practice what they preach? Stay tuned for a story of literary frustration, online confusion and broken promises. This is the Customer Experience Storytime Tale of… The Anti-Social Socialite The Story ACT ONE: Working in social media and customer experience… it’s exhausting. Continually looking for new books to read, The post CX Storytime Tale of The Anti-Social Socialite appeared first on The Upsell.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 8, 2018

Choice Architecture, a principle that psychologists have studied for decades, is the concept that describes how the presentation of information affects people’s decision-making. Framing is the tone you use to present your options. How you frame the choices changes your results. These two concepts can help you present your goods or services to customers in ways that influence them to respond the way that you want and drive more value ($$$$) for your organization.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 7, 2018

Delivering A Rockstar Customer Experience. Putting Your Customer First By Putting Your Employees First. Shep Hyken sits down with James Dodkins to discuss James’s new book, 136 Ideas For Rockstar Employee Engagement , having an employee mission, and the real definition of customer experience. ? ?. Top Takeaways: James previous experience as a rockstar in a heavy metal band helped him discover that companies can be customer service rockstars, too.

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ReviewTrackers

AUGUST 10, 2018

What are the SEO benefits of reputation management? It may be plain to see how online reputation management efforts can affect the ways consumers perceive your company or brand. But ORM can do wonders for your SEO strategy, too, helping you achieve greater visibility in search engine results, drive more traffic, and improve your conversions. Let’s talk about some popular SEO reputation management concepts that can supercharge your performance.

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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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Chattermill

AUGUST 5, 2018

The Customer Experience Technology Stack | Data Visualisation. by Sam Frampton. on 6 Aug 2018. Data Visualisation. Customer Experience Technology Stack. The best tools to visualize your CX data. Visualisation. You have the data to drive the CX program you want to create. But that data needs to be presentable. Bit-sized. Attractive. You need tools that present your data in a way that’s pleasing and simple to understand.

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Myra Golden

AUGUST 8, 2018

I read that the average customer service call lasts two minutes longer than it needs to. And from personal experience in my own business and my years of customer service work, I believe this. Twenty years ago I began teaching a conversation control technique called Ask 3 Closed-ended Questions Back-to-Back. I learned the technique from a consultant I hired to work with my employees in a call center in Tulsa.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 6, 2018

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. 8 Tips for Delivering Authentic Customer Support by Tamina Steil. (CustomerThink) Whether a support delivery is good or bad depends largely on its authenticity.

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Experience Matters

AUGUST 7, 2018

Many common beliefs about customer experience are misguided, based on oversimplifications or a lack of consideration for real-world constraints. In this series of posts, we debunk these myths. CX Myth #1: The Customer Is Always Right What’s Wrong: Like all human beings, customers aren’t always right. They sometimes complain when the company did nothing wrong, request things that the company can not or should not provide, and periodically just make mistakes.

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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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Second to None

AUGUST 9, 2018

The overarching goal of any brand is to encourage consistent profitability, but sometimes these profits do not tell the whole story. Not every dollar is earned equally, and if your platform is reliant upon the wrong stream of cashflow it could have permanently damaging effects. Rather than creating an organizational philosophy solely focused on improving the bottom line, the best organizations are focusing on optimizing each individual’s experience with your brand, as a tool to improve the botto

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LiveChat

AUGUST 7, 2018

Your business depends a lot on how you manage issues that your customers face on a daily basis. When you are maintaining a website, you are going to get a variety of queries and requests from your customers. There should be a systematic approach to handle the issues based on their complexity, priority, etc. By streamlining the workflow of your customer service department , you can enhance the customer experience and manage their expectations.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 8, 2018

Some people are just naturally good at providing great customer service. They are people pleasers. They pay attention to details. And, it seems to come naturally to them. So, are they born with it, or do they learn it? How do they recognize that this is what they are good at? Just a few weeks ago I went through an exercise and one of the questions was about my “entrepreneurial DNA.

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One Millimeter Mindset

AUGUST 8, 2018

What happens when we become professionally compelling to clients? For starters, clients invite us to their business tables. As resources. Even when no “apparent” business opportunities exist. Over time, becoming professionally compelling positively impacts client experience. Think of the implications of this professional innovation strategy on customer success and customer retention.

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Second to None

AUGUST 7, 2018

The following article is a guest submission written by Laura Gayle. Laura is an experienced writer who currently works for Business Woman Guide. If you are interested in submitting a guest article to the Second To None blog, please send over your ideas to danielb@secondtonone.com. . You may have an attractive website, high-quality products, and great prices.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 9, 2018

In a previous blog, I outlined 14 different metrics that contact centers should be tracking to improve customer experience. However, these metrics are designed to influence real-time decision making in your contact center. In this blog, I outline 3 critical customer service metrics that organizations are using to answer broader business questions including: Are my customers happy with my products and services?

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Kayako

AUGUST 10, 2018

Customers and prospects have a number of ways to reach your team with sales and support questions, but none are as effective and immediate as live chat. Live chat can be used as a customer success tool through strategic outreach and engagement or as a customer support tool by providing a live channel for customers to connect with support teams. Over the past 4 years live chat usage has grown by 400% and more and more customers expect businesses to have it.

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Influitive

AUGUST 10, 2018

If only reading your customers’ minds was as easy as peering into a crystal ball… Then you could get to know them on a personal level—a necessary part of laying the groundwork to engage them. The benefits of creating an engaged community are twofold: first, you’re cementing customer loyalty by adding value and giving them.

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