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5 Support Tools to Improve Customer Experience

GetFeedback

Today’s customers have high expectations for support. They want answers to their questions—and they want them quickly. In order to meet this demand, your team needs modern customer support tools that aid their efforts in providing the best customer experience possible. Whether you run a tiny support team with just a few team members or a large team with hundreds, you’ll need a number of software tools to make sure that you’re efficient, productive, and organized.

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The Basics of Establishing and Operationalizing Your CX Foundation

Customer Bliss

In today’s episode, I explore the basics of establishing a core CX foundation for your organization with Darin Byrne, Vice President of Client Experience and Delivery at Wolters Kluwer , a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services for clinicians, nurses, accountants, lawyers, tax specialists, and finance, audit, compliance, and regulatory sectors.

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4 Vital Concepts of Behavioral Economics Every CX Manager Should Know

Beyond Philosophy

Your customers are people and people’s behavior is complicated, especially as customers. Many psychological theories exist to help explain why people do what they do, and when those theories apply to how people behave as customers, they are called Behavioral Economics. I have been studying Behavioral Economics for a few years now and applying those principles to Customer Experience.

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Your Personal Promise to Your Customers

ShepHyken

Not long ago I wrote about Dr. Neil Baum’s Win-Wynn story. A few people went to his website and read his promise to his patients that he appropriately calls “My Personal Promise to You.” The feedback and comments about this promise were excellent, so I thought it was worth sharing with everyone. By the way, at the end of this article, I’ve shared a very important call-to-action for you.

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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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5 Support Tools to Improve Customer Experience

GetFeedback

Today’s customers have high expectations for support. They want answers to their questions—and they want them quickly. In order to.

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Ignoring Customers’ Risk Aversion is Risky Business

Beyond Philosophy

I recently met with my financial advisor and learned my portfolio was riskier than my wife’s. That’s always been the case; I have always been the one taking more risks. Sometimes the risks I take pay off; sometimes they don’t. My good lady wife is more risk-averse than me, it seems. She does not take many risks, save for marrying me in the first place.

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Amazing Business Radio: Mark Samuel

ShepHyken

The Habit of Service Consciousness. Pulling Yourself and Your Company Toward Success. Shep Hyken interviews Mark Samuel. They discuss Mark’s new book, which outlines how to achieve success by breaking down silos, creating a vision of success, and emphasizing behaviors over outcomes. In Shep’s Opening Monologue… He addresses the age-old assertion that “the customer is always right” and argues that “the customer is NOT always right.

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5 Support Tools to Improve Customer Experience

GetFeedback

Today’s customers have high expectations for support. They want answers to their questions—and they want them quickly. In order to.

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How to Create a Superb Client Experience

Survicate

Creating an outstanding client experience is a matter of life and death. Why? Because we live in the age of product abundance, which makes product differentiation a massive challenge. It also allows customers to be picky, and if there is one aspect that no customer will compromise on, it’s the client experience. . Creating a unique customer experience is not an option, it’s a requirement.

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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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The BIG Dangers For ‘Customer Experience’ in 2019 – Expert Debate

Beyond Philosophy

The Customer Experience Industry is suffering from a lack of results. Or perhaps it might be more accurate to say, it is suffering from a lack of proof about the results Customer Experience strategy is getting. It is time for all Customer Experience professionals to champion the ROI of their Customer Experience. The problem is many of our champions do not know how. <!

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Guest Blog: Rhyme Your Way to Customer Satisfaction

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Dr. Marlene Caroselli shares a rhyme that will help you to communicate with customers and provide customer satisfaction. – Shep Hyken. Especially when an angry customer is calling your office, it’s important to have a verbal safety net that will rescue you should the metaphorical tight rope become difficult to navigate.

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How CRM Systems Can Help You Provide Better Customer Service

ProProfs Chat

People stop doing business with a brand if they get subjected to poor customer service. Numbers don’t lie. More than 50% of customers stop giving business to brands that did not stand up to their customer service expectations. And due to poor customer service, many organizations across the globe have incurred a loss of $1.6 trillion. These numbers indicate how essential it is for your business to have the right customer service tool like ProProfs Enterprise Chat Software to tackle queries faster

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Peloton Wins with Improved Scalability, Reliability and Innovation from Talkdesk

Talkdesk

The fitness industry has changed. Historically, consumers had to go to a gym to work out, but in 2012 a new player came on the market to introduce new digital options. Peloton is using technology to reinvent fitness with their mission to bring fitness to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Customer service is the core of Peloton’s success. They work hard to ensure their members are always able to use their Peloton equipment the way they want to.

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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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The BIG Dangers For ‘Customer Experience’ in 2019 – Expert Debate

Beyond Philosophy

The Customer Experience Industry is suffering from a lack of results. Or perhaps it might be more accurate to say, it is suffering from a lack of proof about the results Customer Experience strategy is getting. It is time for all Customer Experience professionals to champion the ROI of their Customer Experience. The problem is many of our champions do not know how. <!

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Four Predictions for Customer Experience in 2019

Sampson Lee

Here are my four predictions for Customer Experience in 2019. Prediction #1: The fever of effortless experience will reach new heights Ignited by the rise of Generation Z with its zero-tolerance of wait time and the ‘expectation transfer’ incited by the ‘Amazon Effect’, the fever of effortless experience will reach its peak since the launch […].

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The Fastest Way to De-escalate Is To Use Your Customer’s Last 3 Words

Myra Golden

When you have an enraged customer on the phone or in front of you, nothing threads the needle like mirroring the customer’s words. Copying the customer’s angry expressions makes the customer feel heard and understood. When the unreasonable customer feels like you’re listening is when they go from a boil to a simmer. There are only three things you have to remember to do with mirroring.

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How To Avoid Your CX From Being Flavor Of The Month

The DiJulius Group

When I am working with my clients, I always tell them that creating the Service Vision is difficult, but what is even more difficult is sustaining the momentum. Ensuring that it is alive and being executed twelve to eighteen months from now. I had the pleasure of working with Al Serra Auto Plaza on their. Read Full Article. The post How To Avoid Your CX From Being Flavor Of The Month appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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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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Stay Ahead of Your Competition with New Advances in CX Marketing

Beyond Philosophy

Stay Ahead of Your Competition with New Advances in CX Marketing. This podcast discusses the five areas you can address that will change the results you get with your Customer Experience. With a focus on these five key actions, you will not only improve your Customer Experience, but you can also get a jump on the competition in the new year. 5 CX Concepts to Keep You Ahead of the Competition.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of January 21, 2019

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. Before you automate people’s jobs, here are some things to consider by Kindra Cooper. (LinkedIn) Industry wisdom holds that CX automation squares away the “boring” and “repetitive” parts of an agent’s job, thereby “freeing them to do more high-value work.”.

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How to De-escalate an Angry Customer in 3 Words

CSM Magazine

When you have an enraged customer on the phone or in front of you, nothing threads the needle like mirroring the customer’s words. Copying the customer’s angry expressions makes the customer feel heard and understood. When the unreasonable customer feels like you’re listening is when they go from a boil to a simmer. There are only three things you have to remember to do when mirroring: Copy the last three words the customer says: Pause for a beat.

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4 reasons email is on the rise in 2019

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 Author: Pascal Gauvrit - CTO 4 reasons email is on the rise in 2019. Published on: January 23, 2019. Author: Pascal Gauvrit - CTO In an era dominated by social media and smartphones, it is easy to write email off as yesterday’s channel when it comes to customer service. However, as consumer and industry research shows, this is far from the truth – rather than declining, email usage is actually increasing with new channels simply supplementing, rather

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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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Stay Ahead of Your Competition with New Advances in CX Marketing

Beyond Philosophy

Stay Ahead of Your Competition with New Advances in CX Marketing. This podcast discusses the five areas you can address that will change the results you get with your Customer Experience. With a focus on these five key actions, you will not only improve your Customer Experience, but you can also get a jump on the competition in the new year. 5 CX Concepts to Keep You Ahead of the Competition.

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Podcast: Why Natural Language Design Is the First Step to Make an Effective Chatbot

Bold360

?. In all the hype of AI and the rush to get something “out the door”, companies are starting realize how poor AI and chatbot design can be detrimental to a business. Having “AI” isn’t good enough. Having a chatbot that can control conversations and solve problems all while keeping the user engaged and feeling great about the interaction is key. This is where Hans van Dam’s expertise comes in.

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6 Winning Lessons From The New England Patriots (For All Organizations)

Experience Matters

The New England Patriots just won the AFC Championship, earning a trip to their third straight Superbowl. As a Patriots fan, I’m thrilled. I know that many people don’t like the team, but there’s no denying that the Patriots have built a dynasty and are one of the most dominant teams in recent history (across any sport). How do the Patriots keep achieving success?

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7 Q1 Metrics You Should Be Tracking on Social Media

NetBase

Now that 2019 is here, what should your brand or business be focused on during this first, pace-setting quarter? In addition to metrics like revenue, profit margins, expenses, and monthly profits/losses, there are several social KPIs worth tracking – because they can define the next year. For that to happen, though, you need to first determine your goals for the year and quarter.

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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.