BlueOcean

JULY 3, 2019

A low unemployment rate is cause for celebration. It means people are working, paying taxes, and bringing home the bacon. That’s why most people see the current 3.6% US unemployment rate as fantastic news – it’s an astronomical improvement over the 10% unemployment rate after the 2008-09 Great Recession. But there’s a hitch for folks who are tasked with hiring, especially those hiring for contact center teams: when more people are working, there are fewer active job seekers.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 2, 2019

What does co-creation with customers really mean? Co-creation means letting your customers in on the ground floor of innovation and creating new products, services, and customer journeys in sometimes real time with them. Customers become partners and advisors, not just end users. And it isn’t limited to just customers. Organizations can also co-create with vendors, suppliers, resellers and specific groups of employees.

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GetFeedback

JULY 4, 2019

Not many companies spend the necessary time to designing surveys that look good. Design is often overlooked, which is a shame because it’s an essential part of getting the best survey results. As a society, we’ve become more design conscious and even use design as a way to tell which companies deserve our business. According to a 2018 Adobe and Econsultancy study , organizations that describe themselves as design-driven, outperform their peers by a considerable margin, and 73% of the respo

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CloudCherry

JULY 5, 2019

I have been coaching high school lacrosse for 4 years now. I love the game of lacrosse and all that it can teach young athletes. I played the sport for 12 years and found that I love to coach just as much as I love to play. I value the relationships I build with my fellow coaches and my players. As a coach, I know that I can have a big influence on these young men as I interact with on a daily basis throughout the season.

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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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Alida

JULY 5, 2019

Twitter knows a thing or two about engagement. They launched Twitter Insiders , run on the Sparq customer insights platform, to uncover direct, consent-based feedback they could use to complement and augment traditional media metrics, behavioral and usage data to become experts in engaging new and receptive audiences for advertisers.

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GetFeedback

JULY 2, 2019

Net Promoter Score is a fundamental customer loyalty metric. Learn how to integrate NPS with Salesforce to drive real results from customer feedback.

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ShepHyken

JULY 1, 2019

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. Is Customer Service The Same As Customer Experience? I Debate Myself by Steve Olenski. (Media Post) Like many others, I’m sure, I talk to myself quite frequently.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2019

The Vital Art of Creating Memorable Messaging. When we make buying decisions, we usually are choosing from a short list of options. Our memory assembles these options. So, from a Customer Experience perspective, it is vital that your product or service is one of these options recalled at the moment of the buying decision. In this episode of The Intuitive Customer podcast, we explore how our memories generate these choice sets for buying decisions.

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Myra Golden

JULY 2, 2019

For all of my onsite customer service workshops and keynotes, I arrive at least 45 minutes before we start so I can meet and talk to the people who’ll be spending several hours with me. Now I didn’t always do this. In the past, I’d hide out in the back of the room, mentally preparing and praying, and only go up after I was introduced.

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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

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SurveySensum

JULY 3, 2019

Engage them, listen to them, delight them and that’s how you turn them into your super-fans. Give reasons to your restaurant guests remember you for the best-in-class experience you deliver. Experience is the influencer in the hospitality industry. Especially, for restaurants, it’s become pivotal to get more guests and earn customers loyalty. Real-time and actionable insights can drive a successful guest experience management for restaurants.

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ShepHyken

JULY 2, 2019

Punk CX with Adrian Swinscoe. Painting Outside the Lines of Customer Service. Shep Hyken interviews Adrian Swinscoe. They discuss his new book, Punk CX , and talk about how to apply punk sensibility to the customer service world. The Interview with Adrian Swinscoe: The speed of change is unceasingly fast, but true progress can be impeded by too much to quickly.

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Optimove

JULY 4, 2019

I’ve worked in the CRM realm for many years, and it sometimes feels like most CRM organizations and professionals are still dipping their toes in the shallow end of the pool. As teenagers, they are more excited about features (quick fixes) than substance. It may sound harsh, so let me explain. A few months ago, I relocated to the UK with my partner to head Optimove’s London office.

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Myra Golden

JULY 2, 2019

Imagine your next phone call is from an angry, irate customer, and you’ve only got a few seconds to gain control. Are you 100% confident you can handle it? If not, I’ve got the perfect program for you. Tae my 3 0-minute De-escalation Online Training , and you’ll be able to: Handle Any Difficult Customer. I promise, after just 30-minutes with me in this special “3-Step De-escalation Method” on-demand workshop, you will be inspired and thrilled with how much more productive you can be at getting a

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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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Experience Matters

JULY 2, 2019

Given the recent closing of Temkin Group, it seems like a good time to reflect on what I’ve learned over the last decade or so of building a successful business, creating a world-wide association, and nurturing the CX movement. Looking back, here are six principals that have helped me succeed: Actively Simplify. When faced with new situations, it often seems easiest to add layers of rules or additional concepts.

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ShepHyken

JULY 3, 2019

Just last week I wrote about the concept of predictive customer support. Now, we take a slightly different angle with the concept of proactive customer support. The concept is simple. The company reaches out to the customer before the customer has a chance to reach out to the company. More often than not, the customer may not even know they have a problem.

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Gainsight

JULY 2, 2019

This year at Pulse 2019, Gainsight officially made our biggest product announcement ever. We unveiled the Gainsight Customer Cloud that includes incredible products like CS, PX, CX, CDP and RO—all purpose-built to drive customer success across the entire company. But there’s one announcement that’s just as big of a deal that may have flown under the radar compared to the Customer Cloud: a deep integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365.

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Heart of the Customer

JULY 1, 2019

We launched our book at this year’s CXPA Insight Exchange. We’d shipped them to the hotel ahead of time, but when I arrived, they were nowhere to be found. My tracking information showed they had been delivered, but nobody knew where they were. The hotel recommended I call USPS to ask who signed for the […]. The post Is Your Customer Experience Program Making Your Customer Experience Worse?

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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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Bizagi

JULY 4, 2019

Intelligent Process Automation is one aspect of a broader shift in technology, that of Automation as a whole. From driverless cars to autonomous drones, automation is helping make seemingly space-age technologies available today by creating and leveraging new forms of intelligence. Whether it’s customer communications in the form of desktop assistants, or automated tasks across an enterprise, automation is transforming the way we live and work.

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Customer Enthusiast

JULY 3, 2019

In 2017 I wrote a blog about a partnership between Walmart and Strivr, a company that designs virtual-reality (VR) training. At that time, Walmart was testing VR-enabled learning in 31 of its Training Academies with aspirations to expand the training to 140,000 associates per year. Two years later, according to this recent Wall Street Journal article, headsets […].

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NICE inContact

JULY 2, 2019

Digital customer service and business both move at the speed of now. Agility and flexibility are key, and responsiveness needs to be non-stop. This is why digital customer service is such a good fit for business and why integration needs to be seamless. There’s simply no time for mistakes. The case for digital customer service integration is clear: Companies using digital channels for customer service can increase customer engagement and answer more customer queries without any additional resour

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One Millimeter Mindset

JULY 4, 2019

What is your current customer retention strategy value? Do you still depend on what worked Yesterday, and hope that strategy will keep you viable and sustainable Today and Tomorrow? I offer these five customer retention strategy value blog posts for your reading pleasure. Contemplate what’s next for you, moving forward. While retaining customers is an art form, the relentless pace of technology change challenges the norm.

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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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ProProfs Chat

JULY 3, 2019

Customer expectations are on the rise. Now, how updated are you in meeting their expectations at all times? No doubt, instant help is their top priority, and live chat is the solution. Except, it’s just the first step. Your customer support operators need to know how to chat with customers online to keep them hooked with your brand. In this post, we aim to cover nine amazing online chat tips to help your business reduce 67% of customer churn and increase acquisition. 9 Amazing Tips on How to Cha

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Myra Golden

JULY 1, 2019

A lot of people are curious about self-service options in public libraries and in retail, but many customers will avoid trying self-service if it seems complicated. No one wants to add more stress to their lives, so if it looks hard, they’ll skip it, and work with a real person instead. Here are 6 keys to guiding you through exactly how to teach first-time users to master self-service in your library branch or retail store. 1.

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NICE inContact

JULY 1, 2019

Every day, 140,000 people depart from one of Swedish Rail’s 284 stations, traveling on one of its 1,200 daily routes between major cities in Sweden and the Scandinavian capitals of Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo. In the course of planning and traveling, customers contact Swedish Rail for a variety of reasons, from checking on delayed trains to disturbances on the tracks—volume that rises considerably during bad weather and vacations.

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C3Centricity

JULY 3, 2019

Which did you answer subconsciously when you read the title? Do you consider your packaging to be a part of the product, protecting its contents and framing its on-shelf life? Or do you consider it to be an integral part of your connection with your customers at an important moment of truth, that of purchase and usage? If you answered both, then I believe that you are making maximum use of your packaging or at least you recognise its potential for communication.

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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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