Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 16, 2021

When you analyze your company, it’s easy to look at everything in its current state. What’s our biggest problem today ? What’s our best asset today ? That perspective is not so useful, however, when planning for where you want to be tomorrow. It’s not about where you are, it’s about where you’re headed, and how fast you’re getting there. Long-term thinking is hard for a very simple reason: every company is in a race against the clock.

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Engineering 265

The Belding Group

JUNE 18, 2021

Father's Day is a great time to reflect on how much of a difference we can make in the lives of those around us. Whether you are a parent, a friend, a teacher, a leader, a service provider or just a casual acquaintance, you have the opportunity every day to make a difference in someone's life. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.

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Uniphore

JUNE 16, 2021

How to Train and Onboard (Work From Home) Contact Center Agents in 2021. How do you make every agent sell to and serve your customers just like your very best agents? How do you shorten the learning curve in the contact center and retain more agents when 91% of agents are likely to quit in 2021? These are the questions that keep customer operations leaders up at night — especially as modern customers rely heavily on contact centers and expect more from each interaction.

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Contact Center Social Media NPS AI 204

Inside Customer Service

JUNE 17, 2021

Employees are often confused about mission, vision, and value statements. Here are just a few of the questions I'm frequently asked: What's the difference? What are they for? Do we even need them all? These questions came up a lot while I was doing research for The Service Culture Handbook and The Guaranteed Customer Experience. They’ve also come up while training thousands of employees on mission, vision, and values.

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Transportation Legal Customer Service Technology 148

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.

Customer Experience

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 17, 2021

As vaccination efforts soar and lockdowns ease, people are slowly leaving home and getting back to the office. But what can we do to make this transition as smooth as possible? It’s been a while since, almost overnight, we had to pack our things and start working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But now, almost a year and a half later, the time has come to start thinking about returning to the office.

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Start-ups Construction Gaming Engineering 207

The Belding Group

JUNE 15, 2021

In today's global village it is not uncommon to find yourself face-to-face, or on the telephone, with a customer who is struggling with your language. It can be a tremendously awkward and frustrating situation for all concerned. If you can't find an app to help out, here are six rules for overcoming language barriers: Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.

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Customer Service 130

Fonolo

JUNE 17, 2021

Keeping your staff motivated and satisfied in their work is vital to contact center performance. Studies show that agent engagement is linked to increased profitability, better employee performance, employee retention, and employee empowerment. But agent engagement isn’t just about making your employees happy. Its true power lies in making your team feel involved, enthusiastic, and committed to their work and workplace.

Contact Center 140

Contact Center Gaming Healthcare Customer Service 140

The DiJulius Group

JUNE 16, 2021

On this week’s podcast, it is Jess Pischel, Customer Experience Consultant for The DiJulius Group and Dean of the Customer eXperience Executive Academy who interviews John DiJulius on his latest book The Relationship Economy: Building Stronger Customer Connections in the Digital Age. This is part 1 of 2 episodes. You will learn: Today’s illiterate are.

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Customer Experience 145

Myra Golden Media

JUNE 18, 2021

For Jack Cooper University , I produced a ten week conflict resolution training. Jack Cooper’s managers are ready to preempt escalations and manage conflict. Here’s our week eight video training. I loved every minute of this interactive training project! Download the cheat sheet I talk about in the video. Learn about my customized 30-minute video training for your team, shot from my broadcast studio in Tulsa.

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Customer Experience 127

Uniphore

JUNE 15, 2021

Call Center Life. High Stress. High Stakes. It's All In A Day's Work. Your Call Center Is a Glass House. You’re listening to your customers on social media—and taking steps to improve their experience—but what about your customer service employees? Online, they’re screaming. From toxic interactions to unrealistic expectations, unhappy agents have made a glass house out of call center life.

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CX Social Media Contact Center Actionable Insights 162

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.

Customer Loyalty

Help Scout

JUNE 17, 2021

We’ve all read those great customer experience stories that make us feel awed and admiring, but some of those stand-out examples can be misleading. While they certainly jerk at the emotions and evoke a sense of wonder for the brand, they usually end up drawing attention because they are so far outside of the norm. They aren’t the typical conditions under which the company does business.

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The DiJulius Group

JUNE 14, 2021

The trusted connections one has built up over time are known as “social capital.” It acts as a human library of resources we can access anytime to gain or share information, knowledge, advice, and introductions. Social capital is a result of long-term, continuous relationship-building and one of the most powerful resources a person can have. Read Full Article.

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Start-ups 145

ECXO

JUNE 15, 2021

SHARE ARTICLE. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on email. Share on whatsapp. Tips for Transforming to a Customer-Centric Company Culture. I have been asked a lot what it means in practice to be customer-centric and how to get everyone on board in the company? Customer-centricity can’t be achieved overnight – it requires dedicated commitment from everyone in the organization as well as shifting mindsets and behaviors.

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Uniphore

JUNE 16, 2021

10 Agent Assist Superpowers That Reduce AHT and Boost NPS on Day 1. ??? You probably already think enough about Average Handle Time, or AHT for short. Maybe even a little too much. AHT is the average length of time it takes an agent to complete a call. While this is an important metric for internal operating costs — shaving 10 or 20 seconds per call across thousands of interactions can add up to significant savings — managers often get in trouble by thinking of it as an end-all-be-all.

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NPS Net Promoter Score Contact Center AI 147

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 12, 2021

You might not realize it but the failure of the European Super League in soccer, the pros and cons of vaccine passports, and a brand that took a political stand and paid the price for it all have something in common. These things are part of three news stories that can provide insight into improving your Customer Experience. So how do they provide insight?

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Help Scout

JUNE 15, 2021

Many want to draw strict boundaries around customer experience and customer success, but I find it much more satisfying to live inside the spectrum rather than at the edges. I see customer experience and customer success as flavors inside the same ice cream parlor of treating the customer well. If you’re doing it right, you’re delivering a great experience that helps them successfully use your product or service.

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SurveySensum

JUNE 13, 2021

Give customers a positive customer experience and they will buy more. They will remain loyal. Your revenues will skyrocket. You must have heard this countless times. But, what no one talks about is, how to deliver that positive customer experience? A customer experience strategy is what helps you deliver delightful customer experiences to the customers. .

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Social Listening CX Unstructured Data Social Media 111

Heart of the Customer

JUNE 13, 2021

As regular readers have probably noticed, I’ve been referencing the massive research project we undertook last year often in recent blog posts, especially while sharing learnings. Today I want to take you behind the curtain and describe the impetus for the project, explain some of the methodology, and tell you about my motivation and goals. […].

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B2B CX Customer Experience 88

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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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 18, 2021

What tactics do you use in your pricing strategy? There are various ways, such as running promos like “buy one, get one free,” or branding it into your customers’ minds like “everyday low prices.” Some coupons discount 20% off any item in the store or offer subscription discounts versus buying one-time that you submit at the online checkout.

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Retail Sales Manufacturing CX 88

Zendesk

JUNE 18, 2021

People love to gather in groups and discuss the topics they’re most interested in, whether it’s in person or online. That’s why so many consumers turn to community forums when they need information or support from their favorite brands. These online platforms are where users can come to ask questions, enter into debates, share knowledge, and discuss topics of common interest.

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Customer Retention Customer Loyalty Customer Feedback Customer Experience 98

Conversocial

JUNE 18, 2021

Modern banking is a very different beast to what was the norm 15-20 years ago. Since the mid 1990s the total number of brick and mortar branches in the UK has fallen by 28% and it’s a similar story in the US, with 12,000 closing between 2010 - 2019. A shift towards using digital services has seen less need for the ‘high street branch’ and has changed customer expectations across the world, part of a wider change in consumer habits that has been accelerated over the past 15 months. 50% of consume

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CX Customer Expectations Customer Experience 98

Hodusoft

JUNE 17, 2021

HoduCC makes it to Gartner’s Category Leaders & FrontRunners List. There is nothing more rewarding than knowing that you are truly serving your customers well. HoduCC – the Call & Contact Center software by HoduSoft has been named as Category Leader and FrontRunner for call recording software in the latest list published by Gartner Digital Markets Report.

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Contact Center Gambling Text Analytics Government 98

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?

Technology

Steven Van Belleghem

JUNE 15, 2021

The company hosts “experience-a-thons” that give front-line employees the chance to test new products and provide honest feedback. The idea is that employees can point out potential issues and offer fresh perspectives. After test driving a car, potential Tesla customers are sent a link so they can configure their car and learn about pricing. Instead of wasting time with unnecessary sales pitches, Tesla gives customers the information to make their own decisions.

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Zendesk

JUNE 17, 2021

What customers want and what they get might not always align, but the stakes are getting higher for any business that falls short. 80 percent of customers say they’d switch to a competitor after more than one bad experience. And that’s a number that should have most companies paying attention. Why? Customer expectations have shifted considerably over the past year.

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Customer Expectations Social Media Omnichannel AI 94

Execs In The Know

JUNE 15, 2021

PHOENIX, Ariz., June 15, 2021 — Global customer experience (CX) industry leader Execs In The Know is pleased to announce the launch of a new, altruistic-minded initiative for its vast community of CX leaders and practitioners, as well as the wider industry. The initiative is called Leading with Impact. Leading with Impact goes beyond the boardroom with the goal of projecting time, resources, and attention to the issues that matter most to our community members, as well as their friends, family,

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CX Education Innovation Customer Experience 81

Totango

JUNE 17, 2021

What is customer segmentation ? It’s a key principle for doing business in a digital environment, but many companies don’t apply it effectively. Here we’ll discuss what it means, different ways you can do it, and how to leverage technology to apply it effectively. We’ll discuss the subtle shade of difference between customer segmentation and audience segmentation, two terms with some overlap that are often used interchangeably.

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B2B Customer Journey Map Sales Technology 71

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

Retail

Conversocial

JUNE 15, 2021

I recently spoke at The Customer Experience Conference and was able to share with the audience my thoughts on how the past 15 months has completely changed the way consumers interact with brands.

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Customer Experience 59

Zendesk

JUNE 14, 2021

Forty-two percent of people worldwide have a smartphone, and 87 percent of smartphone owners use messaging. Let those numbers sink in for a minute. Customers overwhelmingly want to interact with businesses on the same messaging channels they use in their personal lives. They’re also looking to connect with brands through live chat on their web and mobile apps.

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E-commerce Customer Service Manufacturing Healthcare 76

Doing CX Right

JUNE 12, 2021

Every business has been impacted by Covid-19. Many thrived & others pivoted for survival. Listen to customer experience expert views. The post The Effects of A Pandemic on Customer Experience appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Customer Experience CX 59

MyCustomer Experience

JUNE 15, 2021

CLooking for your next step in the world of customer experience? Every week, MyCustomer scours the internet to find the latest CX job. 15th Jun 2021. By Neil Davey Managing editor.

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