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How to motivate employees to learn new customer service skills

Inside Customer Service

I once delivered the same customer service workshop over 200 times in a two-year period. Thousands of employees attended. Over time, I learned I could split the classes into three distinct groups: Motivated: Enthusiastic employees who were eager to learn. Neutral: Employees who willing to go along, but weren't fully engaged. Hostile: Upset employees who used the class to air their grievances.

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HubSpot’s CEO Yamini Rangan on ditching the funnel for the Flywheel

Intercom, Inc.

The idea behind the funnel is quite simple – marketers craft campaigns to capture potential customers’ attention and slowly nurture them until they are ready to be handed off to the sales team, which guides them through the purchasing stage until they become paying customers and, hopefully, loyal advocates. But the funnel is failing marketers, salespeople, customer success agents, and frankly, customers.

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Poor Internal Customer Service? Here’s What To Do

Shaun Belding

Internal customer service has become a hot topic over the last few years. It’s frustrating when you feel you can’t rely on your coworkers to do their part. Shaun Belding | www.beldingtraining.com. Shaun Belding: Author, Entrepreneur, Speaker - Keynote speaker and customer service blog.

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Our Customers Are Always Complaining About Our Prices. What Do We Do?

Beyond Philosophy

On a recent podcast, one of our listeners contacted us with a Business Pickle with which he wanted our help. Peter Harvey is in a Business-to-Business (B2B) organization. Their offering does not have the lowest price, and they have no plans to lower it. However, their customers keep complaining. Peter wanted to know what we thought he should do. Since price is something that can seldom be low enough, I figured some of you face the same issues, and I would share our advice here with you.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Lisa Sinacola, Worldwide Leader at Microsoft, Joins the Execs In The Know 2022 Corporate Advisory Board

Execs In The Know

PHOENIX, ARIZONA, US, April 28, 2022 / EINPresswire.com / — Global customer experience (CX) industry leader Execs In The Know (EITK) is pleased to announce the addition of Lisa Sinacola, Worldwide Leader | Modern Life, Gaming and Customer Service – Customer Service and Support at Microsoft, to the company’s 2022 Corporate Advisory Board.

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Failing in Customer Service – What Industries and Companies are the Worst

CSAT.AI

Do you want to be known throughout your industry as failing in customer service? Are you eager for the kind of negative reputation that vitriolic customers can give you? Is being sued by your customer base one of your top goals? If so, read on. Here we have some of the worst performing industries and brands, according to the 2021 American Consumer Satisfaction Index , JD Power 2021 Service Provider Satisfaction Studies and more.

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Sales coaching: How to coach reps to succeed in 2022

Zendesk

High-impact sales companies rank at the top of the list for many reasons, but one of their most enviable traits is that over 75 percent of their reps achieve quota. Meanwhile, companies in the mid- or low-impact range may be struggling to reach even 25 percent quota attainment. If you’re one of the hundreds of businesses striving to boost your reps’ sales numbers, your first question has to be: How do these high-impact companies do it?

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Shhhh, they’re listening - inside the coming voice-profiling revolution

The Customer Service Blog

You decide to call a store that sells some hiking boots you’re thinking of buying. As you dial in, the computer of an artificial intelligence company hired by the store is activated. It retrieves its analysis of the speaking style you used when you phoned other companies the software firm services. The computer has concluded you are “friendly and talkative.

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UK Investors Put Their Money Behind Sustainability

MyCustomer Experience

UThe average retail investor often doesn’t know how their funds are connected to the underlying economic activity that they finance. 28th Apr 2022. By Forrester Independent research and advisory firm.

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Captive contact center vs. outsourcing: The most overlooked part of retail CX

1 to 1

Jon Stough. As retailers contend with the latest slate of challenges—inflation, snarled supply chains, the return to experience spending—there’s no overstating the importance of having a high-quality contact center. Contact centers are often where customers directly interact with a brand, and their experiences can bring swift consequences: positive experiences can lead to sales and repeat business, while negative ones can turn customers off a brand for good.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

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.

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How to Combat the Great Customer Resignation

SugarCRM

Customer acquisition is costly. It takes time and considerable effort and requires significant expertise. It makes sense to keep your existing customers happy as the cost of churn is so high. New research from SugarCRM reveals that almost two-thirds (63%) of sales and marketing leaders agree that keeping existing customers is more cost-effective than closing a new deal.