Totango

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Knowing what influences customer satisfaction can help you improve your clients’ experience and increase retention rates. Here we’ll focus on five of the top factors which shape clients’ experience of your brand. We’ll cover a range of variables, spanning customer service performance to customer loyalty incentives.

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Chip Bell

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

First, thank you Chip for allowing me to offer this guest blog. Chip is one of the most talented and seasoned customer experience professionals globally, and I am grateful for his colleagueship and support. Most business owners and leaders want to provide experiences that drive customer engagement, loyalty, and referrals.

Net Promoter Score 111

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience E-commerce NPS 111

Totango

AUGUST 5, 2021

Strategies for communicating with upset customers can help you retain clients and transform escalations into opportunities. In this blog, we’ll look at some common causes of customer communication problems before presenting four effective strategies for managing difficult conversations. Miscommunications.

Technology 118

Technology Technology Start-ups Customer Experience 118

Callminer

MAY 11, 2020

Ultimately, disgruntled employees can even have a negative impact on the customer experience , as unhappy employees are less likely to go the extra mile to ensure that your customers are satisfied. Meet Our Panel of Customer Service & Customer Experience Managers: Anh Trinh. Elmer Taboada.

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Customers That Stick

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Welcome to the Monthly Mash, a mashup of tools, tales and tips on customer service and the customer experience from around the blogosphere. Thoughts on the Customer: The Omnipresent Customer. The Month in Customer Service Blogging. VOLUME 36: October 2014. ” Plus a great way to act on it.

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Omnichannel Construction CX Transformation Customer Service 147

Execs In The Know

APRIL 14, 2022

As covered in last week’s keynote-focused blog post , Customer Response Summit (CRS) Clearwater, Florida was a recent wrap (March 28–30, 2022). These types of sessions are often where some of the best discussion and sharing opportunities occur during such events, and CRS Clearwater was no exception. You’re Not Alone.

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SurveySensum

JUNE 29, 2023

A company, despite investing heavily in marketing and advertising, struggles to retain its customer base and faces a decline in sales. Well, here’s a startling statistic to ponder: 82% of customers stop doing business with a company due to poor customer service. Sound familiar? Don’t know?

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Execs In The Know

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Zenarate clients experience clear, tangible benefits that include: 56% Faster Speed to Proficiency 22% Higher Conversion Rates 33% Higher CSAT scores 32% Lower Employee Attrition Take, for example, Western Union – a Zenarate customer who has deployed Zenarate simulation training worldwide in multiple languages.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Totango

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The unpredictability of an economic downturn, such as the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, can introduce uncertainty into the relationship between you and your customer. Sudden and unexpected external forces beyond the control of either of you can also lead to unanticipated customer behavior. Establishing Customer Status and Goals.

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Uplifting Service

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Personalized Customer Service. Customer Experience. Customer Centricity. Customer Obsession. They mean vigilant, unwavering attention to the customer to determine actions and improvements. To align your business around customers ? Service excellence is the engine that drives customer obsession.

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Hodusoft

APRIL 5, 2023

7 Best Practices for Managing Call Center Operations Call centers are crucial for many businesses, especially the ones that deal directly with customers. A recent stat shows that almost 90 percent of customers feel that the experience is as important as the product or service. Read on to know more.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2015

The time had come to improve my digital experience for the company. Not surprisingly, I discovered the reasons were related to my Customer’s Experience. While there are many specific goals for my user experience, they tended to fall under three main areas: The old site was no longer easy to use. That sealed it.

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Customer Service Life

AUGUST 22, 2018

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on July 17, 2018. When customers contact you with a problem, do you apologize or do you not? In the first scenario you work for a SAAS (Software as a Service) provider and a customer is calling in because their service is impaired. Click here to read the original.

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Comm100

JANUARY 17, 2024

Lean into Automation – Transforming Customer Service with AI & Human-Bot Harmony In a world where immediacy and personalization have become the cornerstones of brand communication, the realm of customer service is undergoing a revolutionary transformation. How does it benefit organizations and customer experience?

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Zendesk

MAY 26, 2021

Customer service can make or break a business. In this guide, we’ll share how to set your business up for customer service success. The definition of customer service. Customer service is the act of supporting and advocating for customers in their discovery, use, optimization, and troubleshooting of a product or service.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 4, 2017

Over 150 customer experience professionals completed a PeopleMetrics online assessment about the presence, or absence, of customer-centric practices in their organizations. In our blog, we commented on the slow progress revealed by the trends in this data , with few disciplines improving over time.

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Zendesk

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In the early 2010s, the Age of the Customer emerged. The Age of the Customer continues today—and the data shows it. Gartner research reveals that 74 percent of customers expect more from brands, not only in their products and services but also in how they treat their customers. What is customer trust?

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Customers That Stick

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Melissa opened her consulting practice in 1983 after a post-college customer-service near-death-experience as toy demonstrator at Sears during Christmas. She loves to blog about #custserv #cctr and #cx. Customer Service > Customer Experience. She had great empathy skills. False Dichotomy.

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Comm100

MAY 25, 2022

Further social upheavals amongst workers and customer expectations have also occurred. Ultimately, customer service and contact centers have not been immune to these changes. Then we’ll analyze how your organization can respond to these changes and the ways in which technology can benefit your ability to serve customers.

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Lumoa

JUNE 14, 2023

You’ve designed your NPS survey and emailed it to all your customers—and the results are in… but not those you were expecting. When it comes to gauging customer sentiment and loyalty, few metrics enjoy such widespread acclaim as the Net Promoter Score (NPS). In this blog post, we’ll answer all these questions and more.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 30, 2015

In customer experience management , those challenges can threaten how we relate to customers as people. We’re trying to help our customers. Customers are people, with needs to satisfy and problems to solve. Customers are people, with needs to satisfy and problems to solve. Customer journeys can be arduous.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world. We want to be the most customer-centric company on the planet.”

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

Tyler Riddell is the Vice President of Marketing for eSUB with over 15 years of experience in Marketing, Product Management, Advertising, and Public Relations. If customers are being sent to the wrong department, then they tied up customer service personnel from helping the right people. Tyler Riddell. Alex Tebbs. Vincent Nero.

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Contact Center Real Estate Start-ups Sales 334

Customer Bliss

JANUARY 30, 2020

The most admired companies remove practices that might curb the extension of care, or limit employees to act in good conscience. They work to remove boundaries and pressures that prohibit customer-driven decision making. And they challenge themselves to walk away from practices that aren’t congruent with their values.

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Hospitality Hospitality Start-ups Innovation 86

Aquire

AUGUST 30, 2021

If we had to pick one thing (apart from freshly baked goods), it’d be personalized customer service. Thanks to their lower sales volumes, small businesses can easily get to know who their customers are and what they want. This kind of service makes a difference, and people want that experience when they interact with companies. .

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SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But there still is a question: How can companies make customer data actionable to transition from a reactive to a proactive CX approach? Turn Intent Data into Proactive Action Data alone is not enough to give you context to what customers want and need. Once you make data actionable, you can use it proactively.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world.

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Innovation Customer Service Customer Experience CX 59

Intercom

JANUARY 11, 2024

A profound transformation is underway in customer service. Beyond the buzz of AI and having to manage teams through organizational restructuring and the evolving notion of support, CX leaders are also facing increasing customer expectations, dealing with the complexities of layoffs, and the ubiquitous task of doing more with less.

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Customer Service CX AI Start-ups 86

Execs In The Know

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In October, Execs In The Know held its Fall 2021 Customer Response Summit (CRS) event featuring nearly two dozen online, virtual sessions including engaging panels, a featured case study, highly informative Shop Talks, and five powerful keynote presentations. 3) Start with the big questions: What is the customer need?

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Execs In The Know

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In October, Execs In The Know held its Fall 2021 Customer Response Summit (CRS) event featuring nearly two dozen online, virtual sessions including engaging panels, a featured case study, highly informative Shop Talks, and five powerful keynote presentations. 3) Start with the big questions: What is the customer need?

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Compliance AI CX 52

ECXO

MARCH 24, 2024

1710668672319 AI in Customer Experience – should I stay, or should I go? One area where AI has already made a significant impact though is in customer experience. The concept of hyper-personalization, which involves creating a personalized experience for each customer, has become a reality, thanks to AI technologies.

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AI Customer Experience Social Media Machine Learning 52

ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. The goal is that by sharing our experiences we’ll be able to learn and apply more practical advice / practices to our careers.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 29, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. The goal is that by sharing our experiences we’ll be able to learn and apply more practical advice / practices to our careers.

Start-ups 59

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Customer Service Life

AUGUST 10, 2017

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on July 25, 2017. If you’ve worked with a customer service team for any length of time, you’ve likely encountered a quality assurance form at some point. You’re essentially teaching your agents to speak a common language and customers appreciate the consistency.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

But if these design leaders can seize the opportunity of having a seat at the table, they can assemble an interdisciplinary team that solves real customer problems, proves their worth, and ultimately changes the future of the company and the products it delivers. Here are five quick takeaways: You must establish deep empathy for the customer.

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Start-ups Innovation Engineering Retail 179

Totango

JANUARY 17, 2019

Customer retention is vital to the health of your business. In order to run a successful enterprise, you have to think in terms of customer growth and expansion. The digital transformation of business has given customers more choices and greater freedom from long-term arrangements. The right solution for the right customer.

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