Customer Think

MARCH 15, 2023

From state-sponsored Chinese hackers targeting telecom operators to the breach of a major Russian bank, cyberattacks continue to impact the world in new ways. These examples come from just the past month or so, but looking at any time over the past decade will tell a similar story. Businesses today find themselves under constant threat […]

Customer Experience 64

Customer Experience Customer Loyalty 64

Fonolo

MARCH 14, 2019

The buying experience often gets the most attention in customer service. These are all important components of a great customer service experience, but so are the processes that take place after the fact. Customers want to feel that they are important even after they have handed over their money.

Customer Service 111

Customer Service Social Media Retail Omnichannel 111

Inside Customer Service

APRIL 11, 2024

This training plan is for customer service managers and trainers. It helps you use the Customer Service Foundations course on LinkedIn Learning with your team. It also helps experienced customer service pros refresh their skills. Access to Customer Service Foundations for all participants.

Customer Service 219

Customer Service Start-ups Customer Expectations 219

Inside Customer Service

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The service is the same every time I go. What's never happened is unfriendly service. They have clear steps of service. In this article, we'll cover: What are steps of service? When do you need steps of service? Can employees deviate from steps of service? How can you create steps of service?

Contact Center 220

Contact Center Retail Customer Service Start-ups 220

CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Collaboration with Ben Motteram and Nate Brown To transform an organization into one that is more customer centric is a complex task that requires many different skills. Customer experience is multi-disciplinary. Customer Insights/Measurement/Analytics. Customer Journey Mapping. Project/Program Management.

CX 307

CX Customer Journey Map CX Transformation Government 307

Inside Customer Service

DECEMBER 7, 2023

You're a customer service trainer. You care deeply about helping employees develop customer service skills. It bothers you when employees' managers aren’t nearly as invested. These managers take a "fix my people" approach. What if managers won't attend the planning meeting?

Customer Service 227

Customer Service Start-ups 227

CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Surely customer support could help me sort this out. It was incredibly distressing to encounter a customer service representative who clearly couldn’t care less if I ever left my house again. Give inconsistent or incorrect answers to customers. 6) do not invest in the human experience. ,

Net Promoter Score 316

Net Promoter Score Legal Construction Social Media 316

ECXO

APRIL 18, 2024

Delving into Digital Conversations for Business Survival or Irrelevance, featuring Paolo Fabrizio The European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) is delighted to announce our upcoming session on AI digital conversations, a topic of utmost importance in today’s business landscape. Born and bred in Milan, Italy.

B2B 111

B2B AI CX Customer Service 111

Futurelab

MARCH 22, 2024

Think you know your customers? When we started to work on a Voice of the Customer (VoC) programme for a large building materials producer, we arranged a kick-off workshop to develop the roll-out plan with a local team. Their sales manager confidently claimed: “We know what our customers want. Think again.

VOC 157

VOC Voice of the Customer Sales 157

Zendesk

MARCH 13, 2024

Zendesk announced today that it will acquire Ultimate, an industry-leading provider of service automation, to deliver the most complete AI offering for customer experience (CX) in the market. The latest CX Trends data shows that unprecedented demand for AI is driving up the speed and frequency of customer engagement.

AI 138

AI CX Business Growth Innovation 138

Inside Customer Service

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Imagine two customers call a contact center at the same time. The two reps taking their respective calls follow the same routine: Listen to the customer Apologize for the issue Solve the problem The only difference is how each rep communicates. How does concrete language impact service? Why do customers prefer concrete language?

Customer Satisfaction 225

Customer Satisfaction Contact Center Start-ups Retail 225

Zendesk

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Zendesk today announced it completed its acquisition of Klaus, the industry leading AI-powered quality management platform. The acquisition of Klaus is the latest addition to the company’s existing WEM solutions which includes Tymeshift, a modern workforce management tool built exclusively for Zendesk.

AI 144

AI Customer Expectations Customer Satisfaction CX 144

TeamSupport

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A customer can expect everything from the ordinary to the seemingly impossible. But whether or not a customer is asking you to take them to the Moon or provide a simple reporting apparatus, your business needs to be able to meet their expectations in at least some manner, or risk the consequences. Openly discuss solutions.

Customer Expectations 126

Customer Expectations B2B Customer Service Customer Experience 126

Comm100

APRIL 2, 2024

Customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores are a vital metric for any business trying to track and improve their customer service and support. The scores provide a snapshot of how satisfied your customers are with your products or services, indicating areas of success and those needing improvement.

Customer Satisfaction 89

Customer Satisfaction CRM Actionable Insights Social Media 89

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 21, 2024

Even the most well-managed companies will have things go wrong. So, it’s not a matter of if but when regarding a customer crisis. Too many organizations do not plan for a customer crisis, and I want to change that. To that end, I have five rules to handle a customer crisis. Rule #1: Have a plan and process.

Customer Relationship 78

Customer Relationship Start-ups Engineering Education 78

Lumoa

JANUARY 31, 2023

Customer experience plays an important, if not the most important role in the success of any business. Nearly all companies (89%) believe that customer experience will be their primary basis for competition. In This Article: Why do you need Customer Experience Management?

Customer Experience 176

Customer Experience NPS Touchpoint Close the Loop 176

Customer Think

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In the past year, at least 24 new discoveries were made in the immature field of Customer Experience Management (CXM). As I write and talk about CX (Customer Experience), CS (Customer Service and Customer Success), and CXM, I continually realize there is still […]

CXM 113

CXM CX Customer Experience Customer Experience Management 113

Comm100

APRIL 22, 2024

The productivity of your customer service agents directly impacts your company’s success. Enhanced agent productivity not only accelerates response times but also elevates the overall quality of service. This can directly lead to improved customer satisfaction, increased sales, and more repeat business.

Omnichannel 52

Omnichannel Social Media Customer Satisfaction AI 52

Bill Quiseng

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Many CX professionals have advocated CX as strategies that explain customer journey mapping, the Peak End Rule, or innovative speed technologies among others. Let’s be revolutionary to transform CX Into CXM, customer service to customer CARE, and customer service training to an education in customer CARE or customer CARE University.

CX 97

CX CXM Customer Journey Map Sports 97

Intercom

APRIL 25, 2024

In the customer service and customer experience spaces, there’s a lot of discussion happening about what the future of the human-AI partnership will look like – and more specifically, what role will humans play in this new dynamic. The answer? But AI is reliant on human input.

AI 52

AI CX Customer Service Technology 52

Fonolo

MAY 30, 2023

Managers know that call center workforce management matters. Put it another way: if customer interactions are at the heart of a contact center’s success, then effective workforce management is the backbone. Executive Guide to 6 Call Center Metrics What is Workforce Management in a Call Center? The results?

Contact Center 106

Contact Center Customer Satisfaction CX CRM 106

Comm100

APRIL 10, 2024

AI is reshaping countless industries and services, and customer service is one such area that is changing for the better. We will also consider how AI algorithms are used to process customer data patterns to predict their service requirements – dealing with issues before they even arise.

Customer Service 84

Customer Service Predictive Analytics AI Artificial Intelligence 84

ECXO

APRIL 18, 2024

posts header on ECXO The Story of Jose – A Tale About Customer Experience Once upon a time in the bustling city of Metropolis, there was an extraordinary lion named Jose. Though TechEase was renowned for its innovative products, it was infamous for its lack of customer-centric culture.

Customer Experience 101

Customer Experience Start-ups Customer Feedback Sales 101

Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 5, 2024

Customer emotions heavily influence experiences and motivate actions, yet these motivations are often hidden, even from the customers. Organizations must uncover these hidden motivations to serve their customers better. It prompts companies to ask what customers are buying and why they are buying it.

Customer Experience 88

Customer Experience CX 88

Intercom

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As Intercom’s VP of Customer Support, I have had the opportunity over the last year to lead an AI-driven customer service strategy. There is so much more to be done to leverage AI to transform the customer experience, the employee experience, and the overall health of the business.

AI 98

AI Customer Service Customer Journey Map Engineering 98

Bill Quiseng

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many CX professionals have advocated CX as strategies such as AI, online, self-service, telephone, and face-to-face customer support, customer journey mapping, the Peak End Rule, NPS, CSAT, CES, or other CX metrics, and many innovative technologies to improvetheir customers’ experiences. But no more.

CX 97

CX CXM Customer Journey Map Education 97

Zendesk

MARCH 18, 2024

In the current landscape of customer service, expectations are skyrocketing, with demands for faster and higher quality service experiences becoming the norm. Zendesk’s Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) solution is best positioned to help companies navigate these challenges.

AI 64

AI Customer Expectations Customer Service 64

Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2018

This is especially true for those of us involved in the cacophony of contact centers; we are essentially the appointed, trusted ‘brand listeners’ who hear many, many voices on a given day, including those of both customers and colleagues. Sheri Greenhaus – Managing Partner CRMXchange. We are all customers for something.

Contact Center 271

Contact Center Non-Profits Technology Technology 271

TeamSupport

APRIL 24, 2024

That's where the magic of simplified ticket management comes into play. Enter TeamSupport: a game-changing support ticket system that is revolutionizing the way support agents interact with customers, emphasizing ease of use, personalized support, and operational efficiency. TeamSupport takes this principle to heart.

Gaming 52

Gaming Customer Loyalty Customer Satisfaction Customer Service 52

Lumoa

JULY 21, 2022

There are many factors contributing to this result, but one of the most impactful may just be the change in needs and expectations from telecom’s customers. . During the pandemic, European telecommunications providers had to meet the need for new services and adjust to a rapidly growing demand.

Customer Experience 94

Customer Experience CXM CEM Net Promoter Score 94

Hodusoft

APRIL 4, 2024

Enhancing CX with HoduCC Omnichannel CX Suite: An All-In-One Solution for Modern Businesses In today’s competitive business landscape, providing excellent customer experience (CX) is not only a differentiating factor but a necessity. Are you finding it challenging to provide a seamless experience across various touchpoints?

Omnichannel 52

Omnichannel CX Social Media Contact Center 52

Bill Quiseng

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The more emotional the connections, the more memorable the experiences, and the more loyal the employees are. Ultimately, your employees will exceed customer expectations. HEARTS If you want to win the hearts of your customers, you, first, must win the hearts of your employees. Don’t just be good. Be GREAT out there!

Social Media 158

Social Media Customer Loyalty Customer Expectations Customer Service 158

Intercom

APRIL 10, 2024

The era of AI-first Customer Service is here, and it will lead to happier customers and more strategic customer service teams. When an AI Agent can answer the vast majority of customer questions, this fundamentally changes the nature and makeup of a human support team. What is AI-first Customer Service?

AI 59

AI Customer Service Customer Satisfaction Technology 59

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 15, 2024

You will have a customer crisis. We apologize for being so direct, but the fact is customer crises are inevitable. Most think a customer crisis isn’t going to happen to them or that they will be able to manage it when it does with their business-as-usual approach. Do you have a comprehensive approach? We doubt it.

Start-ups 88

Start-ups Customer Relationship Customer Service Customer Experience 88

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Actionability is also, as we believe, one of the essential aspects of customer experience management.

Net Promoter Score 178

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience B2C Social Media 178

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Executives and managers know that contact center goal-setting helps usher in progress and bring about positive change. In a busy customer service department, having an agreed-upon set of milestones helps you cross the finish line because it clarifies decision-making, keeps morale up, and can even reduce agent turnover.

Contact Center 91

Contact Center Customer Satisfaction Construction Social Media 91

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

From social media posts to Google and Yelp reviews, every buyer can recount their customer experience with your company to a global audience. It is no wonder, then, that businesses have started paying much closer attention to their customer experience (CX) strategy.

Customer Experience 83

Customer Experience ML Social Media CX 83