Adrian Swinscoe
MARCH 31, 2023
This is a guest post from Jim Davies, Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at Calabrio. There is an infinite amount of data in contact centres but what […] The post Enjoy a slice of customer data analytics Pi(e) first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Inside Customer Service
MARCH 2, 2023
This blog is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Is burnout gripping your contact center? A worldwide survey of contact center agents revealed 59 percent are at risk of burnout, including 28 percent who face a severe burnout risk.
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Callminer
MARCH 31, 2023
Bruce McMahon, VP of Product Management, highlights CallMiner's latest platform enhancements, including new speaker measures by talk time percent and duration, and hierarchy filtering in Alert.
Lumoa
MARCH 9, 2023
In the world of customer experience, “customer empathy” is not just a buzzword, it’s a game-changer. Put simply, it means genuinely caring about the experience your customers have with your brand. And when you master this skill, you can create an emotional bond that sets you apart from the competition. Let me give you a real-life scenario of how it works in general.
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker
Brands used to look for a commerce platform that could do everything. But over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, so they added, and added, and added— and now it's essential that these vendors work well together. That’s composable, and it’s important to get it right. Customers and your board expect you to be in new channels and to adapt quickly to market change.
Fonolo
MARCH 16, 2023
Your contact center may run like clockwork, with engaged agents answering calls quickly, solving problems, and creating satisfied customers in record time. But without the contact center KPIs and metrics that managers use to measure the effectiveness of their operations, you’d never know for sure. KPIs matter. And they’re changing quickly. We asked contact center industry influencers to share their insights into the changing role of KPIs and shine a light on new metrics to watch.
Steven Van Belleghem
MARCH 14, 2023
In my last book, The Offer You Can’t Refuse, I described how companies ought to invest in three different axes – on top of offering a great product or service, obviously, which is a given – in order to be able to react in an appropriate manner to the new generation of customer expectations: Ultimate Convenience : this is the use of new technology in a smart way in order to make interfaces ever more automated, so that the customer needs to make no effort to do business with your
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Inside Customer Service
MARCH 30, 2023
You want to build a service culture. Naturally, you think of training. This guide shares everything you need to know to get started. It includes step-by-step instructions for designing and delivering your training program. I've also included my best advice on who should do this training and when. And, I'll also explain why you should never hire an external trainer to deliver the training.
Callminer
MARCH 29, 2023
More businesses are deploying call center analytics. Read this blog to learn how your current or future call recorder can prime you for effectively implementing conversation intelligence.
Customer Think
MARCH 12, 2023
Today’s retail market is increasingly digitized and saturated with competitors, making customer experience (CX) a critical part of the customer journey. In fact, a recent study shows that 75% of shoppers prefer to buy from brands that personalize their purchasing experiences.
Intercom
MARCH 14, 2023
The arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT transformed everything – the huge implications for customer service were immediately obvious. We quickly launched a collection of AI features for our Inbox, applying this technology to deliver efficiency gains. But the number one thing we were asked was “Can ChatGPT just answer my customer questions?
Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber
Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.
eglobalis
MARCH 20, 2023
Evolving Your B2B Customer Experience and Employee Experience Maturity Model? Return to the Customer Experience Key Pillars. The post Evolving Your B2B Customer Experience Maturity Model? The Return to the CX Key Pillars. appeared first on Eglobalis.
Adrian Swinscoe
MARCH 15, 2023
This is a guest post by Dominic Fitch at Impact International. There is no denying that the world of business is evolving at an incredibly fast […] The post Five forward-looking skills for the future generation of leaders first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Lumoa
MARCH 21, 2023
Nowadays, most people search for information online. You read blog posts and research articles if you want to learn more about a specific topic. Although it makes sense to search for information online where you can find up-to-date answers to specific questions, what about getting a more comprehensive understanding by reading a book about the topic.
Customer Service Life
MARCH 13, 2023
Image by Irfan Ahmad from Pixabay In a world of social media, especially Instagram, I fear that we’ve fallen into a belief that more hashtags is better. Think about the last time you scrolled through the ‘gram and landed on a post that included a 100-character description followed by at least twice that character count in hashtags. I’m not sure I can really fault that person since hashtags are totally free.
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Customer Think
MARCH 16, 2023
The entire World is currently shifting towards a complete digital transformation. This means that having a user-friendly and effective website design is essential. When developing a website, it is crucial to have a top-notch User Interface (UI) and SEO to keep customers engaged.
The DiJulius Group
MARCH 13, 2023
While artificial intelligence (AI) is already improving the customer experience, it will dramatically improve the employee experience over the next decade. Tedious tasks that once took agents hours upon hours to complete—be it boring data entry or replying to repetitive questions—will be relegated to computers. Along with its subfield of machine learning (ML), there are.
Zendesk
MARCH 6, 2023
Many of the events over the past year were historic, especially for Black Americans. From Ketanji Brown Jackson becoming the first Black woman to serve as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, to the killers of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd being convicted, to Maya Angelou becoming the first Black woman on the U.S. quarter, there have been several recent triumphs for the Black community.
Adrian Swinscoe
MARCH 6, 2023
Over the last few years, despite the investment in self-service tools and technology to help drive proactive, predictive and pre-emptive service, live, and asynchronous, customer support […] The post Dialpad is betting that TrueCaaS is the future of customer service. They might be right. first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
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.
Steven Van Belleghem
MARCH 30, 2023
Temu – the shopping app and e-commerce platform from Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo – is probably the most popular downloaded (in the US) app you never heard of. Yet, it currently has more downloads than Amazon, TikTok, Instagram or even Shein. So what is? Offering cheap factory-to-consumer goods, Temu sells a wide range of products, including women’s and men’s clothing, kids fashion, jewelry, accessories, shoes and bags.
Doing CX Right
MARCH 5, 2023
Brian Solis, Author, and VP of Global Innovation at Salesforce joins Stacy Sherman's DoingCXRight podcast about creating superior customer experiences by balancing AI, emerging tech & human interactions. The post AI and the Human Element: How to Strike a Balance in the Workplace appeared first on Doing CX Right.
Customer Think
MARCH 27, 2023
We are just one quarter into 2023 and it is certainly shaping up to be a tough one. We have already seen disruption in the tech sector with layoffs amounting to a whopping 140,000 people in three months.
Fonolo
MARCH 14, 2023
We’ve all heard about the human touch and how important it is in the CX and call center spaces. Your customers want thoughtful and empathetic service, and that’s not something you can get from technology alone. Skilled agents are key to delivering a great customer experience, and agent retention is vital to a healthy contact center. Why do call centers struggle with retaining their agents?
Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera
Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
SixteenVentures
MARCH 21, 2023
When you’re working with customers, whatever your role (CSM, Sales, Account Management, Consultant, etc.), you may find yourself acting as a coach. To be an effective coach, you need to strike the right balance between motivation and discipline. Which means we need to explore the differences between motivation and discipline, and how to apply them effectively to engage your human customers.
Adrian Swinscoe
MARCH 28, 2023
Today’s interview is with Paul Greenberg, the founder & Managing Principal of The 56 Group, LLC, an advisory firm, focused on customer-facing strategic services, including CRM, […] The post As people, we don’t need personalization, we need humanization – Interview with Paul Greenberg first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Steven Van Belleghem
MARCH 19, 2023
Muji (Japan) You probably haven’t heard of Muji yet, a retail company which sells household and consumer goods, but it is incredibly successful in Japan and operates no less than 700 stores around the world. Just to compare, even if that does not sound like a big deal: IKEA has about 460 stores in total. Launched in 1980, in a Japan that was overly brand obsessed, it profiled itself as the antithesis of consumerism: by offering generic, brand-less and anonymous products as a statement against ex
Beyond Philosophy
MARCH 18, 2023
Fads come and go. From Tamagotchi’s to fidget spinners, we have seen plenty come and go. However, one fad that will never go out of style is treating your employees as the valuable resource they are. So, to answer our own question, Employee Experience is not just a fad and is definitely the future of a successful organization. We are fired up about this today because one of you, Praveen Kumar is in a pickle and he asked for our help.
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JUST RELEASED! New research reveals 92% of business leaders would like to provide additional training to their customer service representatives. Soft skills training stands out as a priority area of investment and/or improvement. Check out The Northridge Group’s latest CX research report —the 7th annual CX survey of 1,000 customers and 250 business executives—to see additional statistics as well as insights that businesses can use to benchmark their customer service and improve the overall exper
Customer Think
MARCH 22, 2023
Renowned architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist Buckminster Fuller said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” So what happens to a business or brand that can’t react to a changing model or environment?
Heart of the Customer
MARCH 17, 2023
Last week, I attended X4, Qualtrics’s experience management summit in Salt Lake City. From my conversations with B2B leaders, it became apparent that they were grappling with a fundamental question: How do you collect enough customer data when only a fraction of your customers respond to your surveys? Even the most significant manufacturing companies lamented […] The post No B2B Survey Responses?
Bill Quiseng
MARCH 15, 2023
Instead of “Hire for attitude, not aptitude” or “Hire for personality, train for skills”, remind yourself when you recruit to Select for passion, not past performance. You hire an employee. At some point, before employees start or while they begin working, they may think that you could be a top-down, one-way, “I know everything, you know nothing” command-and-control dictator.
Adrian Swinscoe
MARCH 20, 2023
Today’s interview is with Sue Duris, Principal Consultant of M4 Communications, a global CX consulting firm. Sue joins me today to talk about customer understanding, internal […] The post We can’t be digital-first, we have to be customer-first – Interview with Sue Duris of M4 Comms first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Speaker: Donna Weber - Customer Onboarding Expert
Customer onboarding is so much more than going live with your product and driving adoption. The truth is, onboarding is the most important part of the customer journey. When you set positive first impressions, establish trusting relationships, and quickly deliver meaningful outcomes, you create customers for life. Invest an hour with Donna Weber to learn why your customer onboarding is critical to your success.
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