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JANUARY 13, 2022

Stagnant NPS scores. Data silos. Slow response rates. Chevron Federal Credit Union realized it needed a change. As a not-for-profit, member-owned organization, Chevron Federal Credit Union’s mission is to provide the highest level of personalized service to customers. But when it became difficult to effectively measure and improve experiences, Chevron Federal Credit Union partnered with InMoment to create a holistic strategy for its customer service initiatives—and were able to power some incred

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Bill Quiseng

JANUARY 10, 2022

For many years, there has been a stranglehold of the “Profits over People” mentality on business. Senior executives care about revenue dollars, market share, the stock price, bottom-line profits, even their competitors, more than their people. Listening to the sweet cha-ching sound of profits, these bad bosses do not hear their grumbling employees and complaining customers many hierarchical rungs below.

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TechSee

JANUARY 10, 2022

Table of Contents: The need for property management solutions. Visual assistance for property management maintenance. Benefits. TechSee’s technology. The global housing management industry is thriving and expected to grow from $15.10 billion in 2021 to $28.21 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 9.3% for the forecast period. There are more than 300,000 property management companies in the US alone.

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Kustomer

JANUARY 11, 2022

Both 2020 and 2021 have been witness to an e-revolution across the entire retail landscape. While businesses and consumers had embraced and integrated e-commerce and social shopping into their company structures for some time, the last two years accelerated those efforts with dizzying speed. In this new era of retail, small businesses are enjoying a spotlight reflective of this moment in time.

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Heart of the Customer

JANUARY 13, 2022

I rarely post about bad customer experiences I myself have endured. On a professional level, I note what’s going on – and of course, what the company should be doing differently! – but on a personal level, I understand these kinds of things happen and typically don’t let them get to me. But I’m calling […]. The post Don’t Leave Your Customers Stranded appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Kapta Customer Success

JANUARY 10, 2022

Breaking down the key account management process and how KAM software can help. Key account management is an essential function of your organization. However, it can be extremely overwhelming to establish a process, but without one, you have no real way to track results and fix what isn’t working. Kapta provides a process roadmap and all of the tools to back it up so that your key account team can focus more on building strong relationships while the software does the heavy lifting of keeping tr

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Kustomer

JANUARY 11, 2022

Image source: Superoffice.com. With the growth of e-commerce, businesses can now sell in a global marketplace. In fact, more than two billion people bought online in 2020, with worldwide e-commerce sales exceeding $4.2 trillion. With this market only growing, there’s never been more potential for an online business to expand and see greater profits.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2022

What would it be like if your printer sent you an email to let you know it needed ink? Or if your car could tell you that you need to take it in for transmission service? Or if your refrigerator could tell the repair professional what was wrong with it before you ever said a word? Sound like a futuristic take on product technology? It is, and it’s called the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Eptica

JANUARY 9, 2022

Date: Monday, January 10, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Highlights from our customer service blog in 2021. Published on: January 10, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager As we enter the New Year, now’s the time to take stock of opportunities, challenges, and developments for the future. Our parent company Enghouse Interactive has done just this by collecting the top posts on its 2021 blog, providing insight for the year ahead.

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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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Stella Connect

JANUARY 10, 2022

Want to increase your contact centre team’s performance? Managers with high-performing teams use coaching approaches that their teams simply enjoy. In this guide we’ll share simple coaching best practices that will boost your team’s performance, especially after the holiday season. As we all know, contact centres have high staff turnover especially after the festive season due to a number of reasons, such as: employee absence without leave, poor attendance, late coming, and call manipulation, wh

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 10, 2022

Each week I read many 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. A Nation on Hold Wants to Speak With a Manager by Sarah Lyall. (The New York Times) The meanness of the public has forced many public-facing industries to rethink what used to be an article of faith: that the customer is always right.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2022

Proactive is a key word for me for the future of experiences and customer strategy. Anticipating the needs of your customers is going to be the next level of exceeding their expectations. However, to be proactive, you need to add a new voice into the mix with the “Voice of the Customer (VoC).” It’s the “Voice of the Product (VoP),” and it can tell you a lot about what your customers want.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2022

Ross Daniels at Calabrio argues the case for ‘less is more’. Read on to discover three ways to resolve, rather than increase, complexity in contact centres. Contact centres have been investing in sophisticated, omnichannel technologies for well over a decade. The shift to the cloud has also been happening over time and accelerated significantly in early 2020.

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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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Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your contact center is planning for the future, be sure to make employee experience and getting the right technology in place top priorities. We recently participated in a discussion with two industry experts that focused on megatrends that will impact contact centers in 2022. The conversation identified several contact center trends that, if addressed effectively, can lead to the transformation of two critical elements of operational success: people and technology. . 2022 just might be The Y

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 12, 2022

There is a term in the customer service world that is often misused or misunderstood. That term is omnichannel. I have had many conversations with clients about the omnichannel experience, and I’ve even shared content about it with our subscribers in the Shepard Letter and my videos. It’s time to bring it back with what may be the perfect example. .

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 12, 2022

Customer service is one of the most significant differentiators between your brand and the competition, but its success solely depends on the performance of agents on the front lines — which is why your training program needs to include initiatives that improve agent engagement. From motivation and performance to empowerment and retention, engagement itself is connected to other key areas that deserve priority.

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Blueshift

JANUARY 12, 2022

Imagine this: you’re a marketer who’s trying to sell a streaming service or social media platform to a goldfish. Sounds tricky, right? Considering the theory that’s been swirling around the past few years — that humans now have an eight-second attention span. The post Keep Subscribers Coming Back with These Top 5 Omnichannel Campaigns appeared first on Blueshift.

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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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ClearAction

JANUARY 12, 2022

CEO’s Guide to Growth Through Ease of Business & Ease of Work Lynn Hunsaker. “Customer-centered management is straightforward business sense,” declared the first article 1 in this six-part CEO’s Guide to Growth series. Indeed, this declaration is reinforced by the new Principles of Corporate Governance, overhauled by Business Roundtable in August 2019. 2.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 11, 2022

The “Now” CX Movement. Changes Customer Experience Teams Need to Make to Meet the Demands of the “Now” Customer. Shep Hyken interviews Eng Tan, author of Experience is Everything and CEO of Simplr , a company that is redefining the way brands deliver CX. They discuss what CX teams need to let go of in order to succeed in the new era of CX.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 8, 2022

We all know that feeling when you see which client is calling and you inwardly groan, What is wrong now? Some customer relationships are more difficult than others, for sure. That is to be expected in any organization. However, there are other customer relationships that have moved beyond difficult. The costs of the resources it takes to manage the many aspects of doing business with them has outgrown the revenue the generate.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2022

SaaS customer onboarding makes or breaks your customer retention. Your onboarding process is a learn-or-churn, adopt-or-get-dropped situation. It has a long-lasting impact on your customer and deep ties to their likelihood to churn. For this reason, unlocking the optimal SaaS customer onboarding experience is invaluable. How exactly do you get customers to embrace your product instead of simply moving them through the motions and hoping something sticks?

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Blueshift

JANUARY 14, 2022

While physical shopping carts seem to be growing emptier as a result of the global supply chain shortage, digital shopping carts are still filling up. In fact, U.S. ecommerce sales continue to increase — with online sales hitting $204.62 billion. The post Top 5 Omnichannel Campaigns for Turning Browsers into Buyers appeared first on Blueshift.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

Jason Grier, Reputation‘s executive vice president and chief customer officer, reveals the key trends that will inform your CX Strategy this year and beyond. It’s true that what really matters for businesses — the customer and building customer loyalty — never wavers in importance year to year. So, it’s no surprise that in 2022 — as in years past — anything CX will continue to be top of mind for companies across verticals.

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Help Scout

JANUARY 12, 2022

Follow these nine startup customer service tips to get started creating an excellent experience for your prospects and customers.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 12, 2022

The demands facing contact center systems are getting more complex and more varied than ever before. Driven by a desire to cut costs with operational efficiencies and provide a better omnichannel experience to an increasingly digital customer base, executives are honing in to upskill their contact centers. Customer interactions aren’t what they used to be, and if you’re wondering whether your contact center operations are meeting expectations or if it’s time to innovate, keep r

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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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