Kerry Bodine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I don’t often run across survey data that makes me literally laugh out loud. But a recent — and somewhat cheeky — study commissioned by the CRM platform Insightly had me rolling in my desk chair. Thirty-one percent of U.S. adults reported that they’d rather wait in line at the DMV than try to resolve an issue with a company or service. A shocking fourteen percent said they’d rather go through the ordeal of getting a tooth pulled.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Can I please ask: what’s with all the old magazines in waiting rooms? For my whole life (and probably yours), old and dog-eared magazines have been a part of my doctor, dentist and hospital visit experience. Not only are the magazines old, but I also encounter the weirdest assortment. ( Horse & Hound anyone?) Waiting rooms appear to be the recycling bin of the healthcare industry.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Our experts help you understand customer lifetime value and how to increase that value with NICE CXone for call centers.

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Every company executive will agree that having loyal customers is a key to business success. But what are executives really doing to encourage customer loyalty? Most businesses will point to their customer care training or customer relationship management (CRM) system and count on these tools to build loyalty. Some will point to their monthly newsletter or discount program to demonstrate their efforts.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This week we feature an article by Jason Grills, Customer Support Expert at ProProfs , a company that provides software that empowers organizations to deliver happiness to their customers and employees. He writes about what automated customer service can do for your business. Customer service automation isn’t a new deal for businesses. It has built a stable reputation for itself in the past decade.?

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Conversocial

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Digital customer engagement has changed. Modern consumers expect personalized, convenient and speedy interactions from their favourite brands, and they’re more than happy to jump ship to a competitor if their needs are not being met. It’s up to businesses to adapt their strategies or risk losing out. In the past 18+ months, consumer habits have shifted overwhelmingly to the digital realm.

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What do you want a customer experience (CX) survey invitation to do? Besides literally inviting someone, you want your invitation to tell the recipient that they’re valued and will also receive something of value if they accept it. Obviously, not every invitation accomplishes that. Email survey invitations especially have a hard time convincing the customer to even open the invitation.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Here is an interesting idea. Most businesses are competitive. They want to be better than their competition. Sometimes they try to out-service their competition. Sometimes they lower their prices to beat their competition. The point is that they are only looking at the competition. What if they looked beyond the competition? What if they looked at the world?

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BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

“Be where your customers are” is more than just a basic principle of marketing. It is the foundation of effective marketing, delivering a quality customer experience , and establishing a competitive differentiator. Consumers have a wide array of channels to choose from when engaging with businesses. But, chat is one of the leading channels for attracting new customers. 69% of shoppers in the US demand chat features from a business.

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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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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The term “customer experience” (CX) has gained considerable currency recently, and in many ways has displaced “customer service” as the focal point of the contact center. Just as the call center evolved into the contact center, this shift is largely technology-driven and reflects the importance of adopting the right technologies to keep pace with changing customer expectations.

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Magellan Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

These five industries can leverage phone answering service to optimize their core operations. Phone answering service is often overlooked for some businesses. Some may assign an in-house staff to man the phone to answer any incoming calls from customers and stakeholders. However, by doing so, it could be exhausting to the assigned staff. It also does not guarantee that each call is answered and professionally. .

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Selling Through Tough Times. Utilizing Customer Experience as a Sales Tool. Shep Hyken interviews Paul Reilly, a professional speaker, sales trainer, and author of Selling Through Tough Times. They discuss how brands can provide value to their customers during uncertain times. Top Takeaways: When you create good experiences, especially during tough times, you are providing value beyond the product that you are selling.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

First, how will you get from where you were yesterday to where you really need to go, today? Then, how do you plan to navigate from a professional place of irresolution today to one of resolution tomorrow? Throughout September, the pace of how we work accelerated. Are you experiencing that sudden surge in the velocity of our workplaces, as everyone plugs in simultaneously?

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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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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Welcome to part three in our series exploring digital transformation in customer service. In this series, we’ve been looking at how digital transformation is helping organizations transition to a digital customer service offering that benefit both them and their customers. In the first part of this series , we looked at why businesses can no longer afford to ignore digital transformation.

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SAP Customer Experience

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At SAP, our mission is to build intelligent enterprises by infusing our AI technologies into applications and business scenarios across all lines of business (HR, procurement, or finance), at scale. In this blog post, let’s focus on two concrete AI applications in the customer service area. Use Case #1 –.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

A contact center is no longer a place to just handle calls. Today, there is click-to-chat, email, text, callbacks, and all the digital channels customers use. The importance of customer experience and loyalty has become more important than ever, and technology is improving and changing rapidly. Our goal at NICE CXone is to help our customers build lasting relationships with their customers because we understand the value and importance of satisfying customers.

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Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This is the first in a three-part series that explores critical questions CX leaders should be asking – and able to answer. There will be some overlap between B2C, B2B, and B2B2C issues, but I want to address each audience individually – starting here with B2C. One thing I’ve notice over years of talking with […]. The post 10 Questions for B2C CX Leaders appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The modern consumer is looking for the easiest and quickest way to access your products or services. Any delays in service provision can lead to client loss, decreased revenue, and injured brand reputation. With the revelation that up to 75 percent of consumers expect to see a live chat offered over any other communication channel, companies and businesses are now prioritizing investment in white label chat software to better service their customers and improve their response times.

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Doing CX Right

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Listen to Madalyn Sklar, social media evangelist, explain how to enhance customer relationships, build communities, and gain competitive info. The post Leveraging Social Media For Customer Service & Competitive Insights appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Myra Golden

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Several people have written in looking for help to improve the friendliness factor in phone calls. They reach out to me because they’ve gotten feedback or a warning from a supervisor that if they don’t turn things around, their jobs could be in jeopardy. So what makes a person sound friendly over the phone? Turns out, it’s easy to sound friendly with customers.

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SurveyGizmo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Alchemer University launched?a new program on September 30: Integrations. An Integration is a powerful connector that allows the Alchemer platform to work together with third-party platforms. These connectors allow Alchemer users to wire feedback into the core of their business, using the systems they use every day. Learn how to automate the pull and push of data behind-the-scenes in your Alchemer account in these three informational courses: Introduction to Integrations Integrations: Use Cases

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We’ve now reached the fourth and final part of our series exploring Digital Transformation in Customer Service. So far in the series, we’ve covered: Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore It , introducing the many benefits of digital transformation in customer service, including reduced costs, improved CSAT scores, improved efficiency, and much more. The Building Blocks for Successful Digital Transition , exploring strategies for boosting success in a customer service transformation. 5 Customer Service

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Magellan Solutions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

How much do virtual receptionist services cost? How much does a virtual receptionist solution cost? Answering this is quite tricky because call centers not only charge different rates, but have unique pricing structures, plans, and billing models. . Virtual receptionists can range anywhere from $25 to over $3,000 per month. Hidden fees and upcharges for different service levels may turn an affordable solution into a money pit. .

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Advantage Communications

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’re ready to outsource your customer service program to a contact center vendor, then you’ll know that an RFP is the most effective way to find the right partnership. The problem is RFPs can become complex. If you don’t provide potential vendors with the right information and ask the right questions, then you’re not going to find the right partner to fulfill your company’s specific customer service requirements.

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It’s possible to deliver higher volumes of customer service at a consistently high level of quality — here's how.

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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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