Tricia Morris
JANUARY 26, 2023
Contact center leaders, your time is now. Customer service and customer experience analysts and thought leaders are suggesting that the contact center is “the next big tech frontier.” Investment in the contact center is increasingly—finally.
TechSee
JANUARY 24, 2023
Visual engagement is a proven strategy to improve call center performance, especially as it relates to two key metrics: 1) First call resolution (FCR) : The percentage of customers that achieve resolution during their first contact, with no further action required and 2) Average handle time (AHT) : The amount of time it takes to resolve an issue from start to finish, including time on hold.
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Comm100
JANUARY 23, 2023
2023 looks to be a year of great change in customer experience (CX). With economic uncertainty ahead, some organizations are asking employees to make do with fewer resources, while others are increasing CX investment. This is all occurring against a backdrop of incredibly high CX expectations across industries and ever-developing technology. To help make sense of the year ahead and plan for the ever-shifting CX landscape, we’ve asked five experts in the field for their CX predictions for 2023. 1
Alida
JANUARY 26, 2023
The insurance industry often ranks at the bottom of customer satisfaction studies. Insurance companies typically interact with people who are going through difficult times, which increases the challenge of creating an exceptional customer experience. Those insurers that get it right have the potential to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives and help their organizations save money, increase revenue, and grow market share.
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Bill Quiseng
JANUARY 25, 2023
In retail customer service, your people are NOT your most important assets. In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins writes that “People are not your most important asset. The right people are.” Stephen Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, claims that success in any job is 20% knowledge and 80% interpersonal skills. Ultimately, success in retail customer service is all about interpersonal skills.
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BirdEye
JANUARY 25, 2023
Most business owners don’t enjoy reading one-star reviews. Unfortunately, negative reviews are part of doing business – and they need to be addressed early if you want to protect your company’s online reputation. When left unchecked, one-star ratings can damage your business and impact how customers perceive your brand. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to manage one-star reviews and protect your business’s online reputation.
One Millimeter Mindset
JANUARY 25, 2023
I have two questions for you today. First, how many times during sales calls or project meetings are you intimidated by other colleagues’ perceived levels of knowledge? Next, what do you plan to do about that scenario, after today? Consider the opportunities missed (and sales dollars left on the table) when you remain a spectator when working with or selling to individuals who do not solve problems the same way you do.
Bill Quiseng
JANUARY 26, 2023
In hospitality, your people are NOT your most important assets. In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins writes that “People are not your most important asset. The right people are.” Stephen Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, claims that success in any job is 20% knowledge and 80% interpersonal skills. Ultimately, success in hospitality is all about interpersonal skills.
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 26, 2023
It’s time for an update. A few years ago, we went over some of the essential questions for your clients. However, in reviewing that content, I realized I was in sore need of an update. Therefore, we will discuss the seven key strategic questions updated for the new year. Before we get started, you should know that typically, people don’t know the answer when I ask these questions, which is why I ask them.
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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
ClientSuccess
JANUARY 24, 2023
Listening Vectors by Vecteezy Customer success health scoring is one of the most valuable activities SaaS organizations can undertake to evaluate and improve customer engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty. Understanding a customer’s health will let you examine any account at any given time and understand where the relationship is. What is a Customer Health Score?
SaleMove
JANUARY 27, 2023
Glia Call Center breaks down service silos, bringing all interactions together within Glia’s ChannelLess Interaction Platform. The post Major Upgrade to Glia Call Center Streamlines Phone and Digital Engagements Within Glia Interaction Platform appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.
The DiJulius Group
JANUARY 24, 2023
We read about it every day. Companies are charging customers hidden fees. One company eliminates their customer service, another starts charging patients for messages in amounts that would make most consumers say “Ouch” not to mention “You’ve gotta be kidding me!” Unfortunately, this trend is affecting a wide variety of businesses across industries.
ShepHyken
JANUARY 24, 2023
Faster Service Without Sacrificing Satisfaction Delivering Personalized Support with Technology Shep Hyken interviews Paulo Almeida, CEO & Co-Founder of Clientscape , a company that helps support agents seamlessly manage customer interactions across multiple channels. He talks about how companies can adapt to changing customer expectations by leveraging data and analytics.
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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Interactions
JANUARY 26, 2023
The telephone is still a popular customer service and support channel, but unstructured voice communications present security risks and compliance challenges, particularly in a work-from-home (WFH) environment. In an increasingly digital world, people continue seeking ways to make human connections. Automated-response bots, live chat, social media, and email are all cheaper channels than voice, but demand for empathetic human relationships remains high.
Optimove
JANUARY 26, 2023
Consumer trust is a crucial component of any successful marketing strategy. It’s more important than any promotion, feature, funny post on social, or brand color. As economic uncertainty persists, consumer financial confidence declines (see our recent Consumer Holiday Spending Survey ), and their willingness to spend drops. Naturally, with their limited budgets, consumers prioritize brands they know and trust over new ones they don’t know, or worse, brands they already know and don’t trust.
The DiJulius Group
JANUARY 25, 2023
On this episode of The Customer Service Revolution, Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius of The DiJulius Group talks with Jason Reid. Jason is a serial entrepreneur, author, ironman athlete, and, most of all, a great family man. In 2018, life couldn’t get much better until he and his wife received the devasting news that their. Read Full Article The post 105: What I Wish My Parents Knew appeared first on The DiJulius Group.
CSM Magazine
JANUARY 26, 2023
Angie Tay, Group Chief Operating Officer, TDCX TDCX Inc., an award-winning digital customer experience (CX) solutions provider for innovative technology and other blue-chip companies, announced today the launch of its first Digital CX Center of Excellence in Singapore. The Center will focus on leveraging technology to develop CX solutions that enable hyper personalized, seamless and secure customer engagement in both physical and virtual environments, such as in the metaverse.
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
ShepHyken
JANUARY 25, 2023
Here’s an interesting concept. I’ll describe it in the form of a question: Do you create an experience that is so good your customers want to remember it with a photograph? I started thinking about this as I walked through Times Square in New York City and couldn’t help but notice how many people were taking pictures of themselves with the bright lights, huge signs, and thousands of other people in the background.
West Monroe
JANUARY 25, 2023
The potential for a recession holds significant implications for even the private equity market. Financial giants with their own private equity arms, such as Blackstone , have already cashed out of deals to ease the pain of major write-downs and their resulting losses, while the Federal Reserve’s continued war on inflation means lending costs will continue to increase.
Call Experts
JANUARY 26, 2023
If you’re in the business of providing heating and cooling services, your best tool for success is the customer service agents who answer the phone from your HVAC call center. Keeping those customers happy and returning for more separates you from businesses with lower prices or bigger advertising budgets. And finding differentiators for your HVAC business is essential in today’s growing market.
CSM Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2023
If the festive season left your frontline staff frazzled, now is the time to give them a welcome energy boost. Magnus Geverts shares his top tips for beating agent burnout—and the competition—in 2023. Despite the cost-of-living crisis, research from Statista predicted that retail sales during the holidays were expected to reach more than £82 billion in the UK, the busiest shopping period of the year when customer queries typically increase dramatically.
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Gainsight
JANUARY 25, 2023
The Chief Customer Officer (CCO) role is crucial for virtually every SaaS company. Hiring one moves Customer Success (CS) from a function to a company-wide strategy, offering a customer voice in the boardroom and a peer to your Sales and Product leaders. Yet if you asked 100 SaaS CEOs to define a CCO’s roles and responsibilities , chances are you’d get 200 answers.
2020 Research
JANUARY 24, 2023
Are you looking for a fast, cost-effective way to conduct research? An omnibus survey might be the solution for you. An omnibus survey is a quantitative research method that collects data on behalf of several companies by sending out surveys at pre-determined, regular intervals (such as every Tuesday and Friday). Rather than asking a large number of questions on just one brand or company, several companies submit a small number of questions (typically 3-6).
Circular Edge
JANUARY 24, 2023
Blog Credit: Lisa Schwarz, January 18, 2023 (NetSuite 2023 Release 1 Delivers Added Efficiencies Across the Suite to Help Businesses Do More | NetSuite) We’re entering another year that falls into the “may you live in interesting times” category. No matter your industry, you’re likely facing the implications of ongoing historically low unemployment, fast-rising interest rates, and global uncertainty.
CSM Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2023
In today’s day and age, technology is evolving at a never-before-seen rate, providing organizations with fresh and creative options – from customer relations to inventory management. Modern monitoring technology and business software enable businesses to manage client interactions more skillfully, increase sales conversions, and increase profit margins.
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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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