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How Modern Support Impacts Customer Satisfaction

GetFeedback

Great customer support looks very different than it did a decade ago. Technology has given support teams incredible ways to reach the modern customer. But it’s also opened the flood gates to countless new channels. Once upon a time, customer support agents would split their time between one or two channels (usually phone and email). Today, they might work several channels at once.

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4 Essential Resources to Read Before You Craft Your Contact Center RFP

BlueOcean

You’re no stranger to RFPs. Love them or hate them, the undeniable truth is that they’re crucial to making informed business decisions about future vendors and partners. The purpose of a contact center RFP is no different: it’s an essential process to use when choosing an outsourcer. However, the contact center RFP is unique and can’t be modeled on the same old RFP template used for other services your company may procure.

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Ten Years, Ten Lessons: Memoir of a CX Neophyte

CX Accelerator

Ten years is a great deal of time in the life of a mortal. Considering the average life expectancy of a white bloke in the state of Tennessee is only 73.94 years, this is a really long time. Apparently I’d live eight years longer if I moved to Hawaii? Something to ponder for the future. ?? For now, it’s time to explore the past. This week I’m celebrating 10 years working for the same organization.

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Inspire a Customer Service Mentality In Your Organization

Customer Bliss

Maintaining a “customer service mentality” in the marketplace has to first begin with leaders and the behaviors that they themselves exhibit. That gives the organization—throughout the organization—the ability to act and model that behavior. And this is not just limited to those on the front lines caring for customers in distress. In our lives, we remember the companies, the people and the times when we were honored…. as a friend, as a partner, as a customer.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Managing the Customer Experience through Financial Advisors

InMoment XI

Financial Advisors (FAs) are key to the promotion, distribution and support of a wide assortment of insurance, investment and banking products and services. From life insurance, variable annuities, mutual funds and retirement products to trust services, wealth management and an assortment of investment instruments and securities, FAs often are the connection between customers and financial.

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3 Big Themes from the Most Dedicated CX Experts in the World

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) 2018 Insight Exchange offered CX experts and professionals of all kinds, various titles and comfort levels a few days to learn, connect and get inspired. I was there among them, wearing my CXPA volunteer hat and announcing some exciting things for their 60+ local networks. But per usual, I was learning from and with my peers.

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Want to Improve Your Customer Relationships and Bottom Line? Put Yourself in Your Customers’ Shoes Says CCO at Rigor

Customer Bliss

“The experiences start from the beginning; the customer has to start feeling that empathy from the beginning when they are prospects,” says Francis Cordón , the first Chief Customer Officer at Rigor. Like our previous guest, Patricia Pedhom Nono , Francis is a tech guy who made his way into customer service, taking on CX leadership in the company’s newly created role.

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Managing the Customer Experience through Financial Advisors

InMoment XI

Financial Advisors (FAs) are key to the promotion, distribution and support of a wide assortment of insurance, investment and banking products and services. From life insurance, variable annuities, mutual funds and retirement products to trust services, wealth management and an assortment of investment instruments and securities, FAs often are the connection between customers and financial.

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Smart Home Market Analysis – Expectations vs. Reality

TechSee

All eyes were on the smart home market in 2017. After all, industry experts such as MarketsandMarkets predicted that the industry would be valued at to$137.91B by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 13.61%. Tech giants are all clamoring to get in on the action with Google Home , Apple HomeKit , Amazon Echo and Samsung SmartThings creating buzz, and new smart devices flooding the market at a dizzying rate.

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The 2023 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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Are You A Complainer Or A Realist?

Beyond Philosophy

A difference exists between what people say they will do and what people do. People say they want salads in theme parks but order hamburgers. People say they want to save the planet but then ignore the recycling bin. People say they want many choices but then complain that there were too many choices to decide. In short customers are irrational! We recently enjoyed debating this in our podcast Why Are Customers Irrational?

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Mama’s Manners: A Guest Post by Chip Bell

Customer Bliss

In honor of the launch of my newest book, Would You Do That To Your Mother? , today’s guest post is from Chip R. Bell , the best selling author of the 9 1/2 Principles of Innovative Service , and many other customer service oriented books. Chip is also a customer service keynote speaker who educates organizations on how to create a customer-centric culture.

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Why the Retail Industry Is Shifting to Direct-to-Consumer Sales

Win the Customer

Abercrombie & Fitch is counting on direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales to counter the retail apocalypse, Columbus Business First reports. Despite closing 400 stores over the last few years and the prospect of 60 percent of its U.S. leases expiring over the next two years, the fashion brand saw a 4 percent increase in sales, largely thanks to direct-to-consumer sales.

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How Customer Onboarding Can Help Improve Loyalty

Joe Rawlinson

A recent study by Accenture found that over 90 percent of companies today have some kind of customer loyalty programs in place. Yet, over 71% of customers surveyed by the researchers said that these programs do not really engender loyalty. One of the primary reasons for this wavering loyalty is that although investments in such programs have increased, businesses have not kept pace with understanding their customer’s responsiveness to these initiatives.

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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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For a Successful CX You Must Have a Successful EX

ShepHyken

A successful customer experience strategy is a result of the company’s culture. In other words, and I’ve said it many times before, what’s happening on the inside of the company is going to felt on the outside of the company by the customer. So, let’s look at the inside of the company. Let’s look at the EX, which is the Employee Experience. The EX is part of the culture.

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Open Up Your Organization’s Communication Channels

Second to None

Creating a system that collects voice of customer feedback in perpetuity is essential to understanding your brand’s place in the minds of consumers. Consumers now have many different opportunities to express their voices to brands, and if your organization is not receptive to this feedback, it could result in disengaged customers, ultimately impacting your ability to confirm long-term relationships.

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Why Core Values Need to Be in Your Customer Experience Focus - Transforming the Customer Experience

Kristina Evey

Embed Core Values into the Customer Experience. Core Values are the fundamental beliefs of a person or organization. Core Values serve as the guiding light for how everyone in your company interacts, communicates and works with each other, external customers, and the community. The core values are the solid foundational building blocks on which your culture is built.

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Employee Morale: The Hidden Secret to a High NPS

Omnicus

Not sure how to increase your NPS? Check out your employee morale rate for a hint! “Kids these days don’t understand the meaning of the word loyalty,” my grandfather would say as he boasted about how he worked for the same company doing the same job for over 30 years.

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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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Guest Blog: What’s Most Vital to Success: Product, Price, or Experience?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Gary Anderson who explains why the customer experience creates customer loyalty and generates repeat business. – Shep Hyken. The goal of this article is to touch on three pillars of a business –– product, price, and experience –– and break down which of these three is the most important to driving success. The article will argue that while offering a superior product at a competitive price is a must, it is this third pillar, experience, which can build a brand

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How artificial intelligence can transform your customer experience

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 Author: Anne-Claire Bellec How artificial intelligence can transform your customer experience. Published on: May 16, 2018. Author: Anne-Claire Bellec When interacting with brands, consumers want the process to be easy , effective and based on an understanding of their emotions and the individual needs. They want a personalized service – and their expectations are continually growing.

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6 Industry-Approved Channels to Collect Customer Feedback Efficiently

Customer Guru

Why should you be collecting customer feedback? If you would like to see your business grow and prosper, customer satisfaction is not only important but also necessary. Understanding how customers view your products, services and company is invaluable. It is only after you understand their point of view that you know your strengths and weaknesses. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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“Better Customer Journey Analytics are Critical,” says Red Cross Loyalty Lead

ERDM

Article by Ernan Roman Featured on CustomerThink.com Andrew George is the Lead for Loyalty and Retention at the Canadian Red Cross. He spent the last 3 years focused on customer experience initiatives and analysis and customer journey discovery. Andrew is a former Loyalty360 Gold Award winner in the category of Brand Messaging and Communication in the Customer Experience category.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of May 14, 2018

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. Google’s robot assistant now makes eerily lifelike phone calls for you by Olivia Solon. (The Guardian) Google Duplex contacts hair salon and restaurant in demo, adding ‘er’ and ‘mmm-hmm’ so listeners think it’s human.

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The Top 7 Reasons Advocacy Programs Fail (And How to Fix Them!)

Influitive

In the 1994 film Angels in the Outfield, a disembodied voice talked Kevin Costner into building a baseball field with some of the worst marketing advice of all time: “If you build it, they will come.” Success in advocate marketing takes way more than just launching a program. No team of ghostly heroes will materialize.

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Tailoring Retail Customer Experience Programs

Centriam Customer Experience Lab

When it comes to improving customer experience, not all retailers are the same. Different business models, customer bases, and product selections prevent a one size fits all approach to providing great customer service. In their recent article titled “The Great Retail Bifurcation: Why the retail “apocalypse” is really a renaissance” , Deloitte divided retailers into three groups—price-based, balanced offering, and premier—to help explain differences in retail business performance post-recession.

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Doing the right things the right way. An interview with Genevieve Bruketa-Baskovic

ijgolding

The launch of my first book has finally become a reality! ‘Customer What? The honest and practical guide to customer experience’ was published at the end of April 2018. I would never have been able to achieve my ambition without the support of many people. A significant amount of support came via my crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. I feel genuinely blessed that so many people believed in what I am doing enough to pledge their support to make my dream come true.

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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.