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Pink Goldfish, standing out, portmanteaus and wabi-sabi – Interview with Stan Phelps and Dave Rendall

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Stan Phelps and Dave Rendall, co-authors of Pink Goldfish 2.0: Defy Normal and Exploit Imperfection. They join me today to talk about […]. The post Pink Goldfish, standing out, portmanteaus and wabi-sabi – Interview with Stan Phelps and Dave Rendall first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Three Rules for Building Better Personal and Professional Relationships

The Belding Group

Looking to build stronger, closer relationships at work and in your personal life? Here are three we should always be working on: Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.

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Major sports league selects Taylor Reach to assess its contact center organization

Taylor Reach Group

A major professional sports league with teams and venues in virtually every city in North America has selected The Taylor Reach Group to assess its contact center operations. Award-winning global contact center consultants and customer experience experts, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG) have been enlisted to help the organization assess its customer experience operations.

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The Pros and Cons of In-Office and Remote Work Environments for Inside Sales Reps

Customer Think

While technology, comprising everything from laptops and software to bandwidth and the Internet, make remote working easier and more feasible than ever before, it’s taken the COVID-19 pandemic to bring the virtual office into reality. For almost a year, to control the virus, many inside sales reps made home their base of operations. And it […].

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 8-16-2021

Shep Hyken

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 16 Great Customer Service Tips and Examples by Tom Coombe. (Small Business Trends) Customer service in the U.S. is a multi-billion dollar industry, one that’s growing all the time.

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Virtual Selling Is Not The Future Of Sales! Part 2

Customer Think

It’s become high fashion to declare the future of selling is “virtual.” While F2F, telephone, text, and other approaches will continue to exist, everything is moving to virtual. Usually, there’s a whole bunch of data to support why this is important. For example, sales people can make back to back sales calls through the [.].

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Messenger-Based Support is Now Essential for Business Success

Customer Think

Digital transformation is advancing at breakneck speed, helping businesses become more competitive, resilient and profitable. In fact, a recent Deloitte survey found 69% of surveyed leaders plan to increase their financial commitments to digital transformation, particularly in response to the pandemic. With the pandemic serving as a forcing function to modernize technologies and strategies, businesses […].

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What is the difference between a zero-footprint contact center and digital first?

DMG Consulting

Question: What is the difference between a zero-footprint contact center and digital first? Answer: DMG defines a zero-footprint contact center as “a service, sales, collections, human resource, field service, etc. department that uses self-service solutions and software robots to automate the handling of 100% of inquiries.” These zero-footprint service departments do not give their customers and prospects the opportunity to speak to a live agent, as none are employed.

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Visionary Companies: One Part Vision, Many Parts Alignment

Customer Think

A couple months ago, I wrote about the difference between consensus and alignment and why that’s important to know. Back then I wrote: In business and especially in our customer experience work, we seek alignment – from both executives and emplo.

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CSMs: Set Your Week for Success

ClientSuccess

Juggling the day-to-day responsibilities of a customer success manager can be overwhelming at times. It can be hard to know where to focus between serving as the main point of contact between customers and the rest of your business and managing all of the minute details of implementation and ongoing projects. While focusing on the ins and outs of customer success strategy can allow CSMs to grip their weekly to-do lists better, sometimes it helps to go back to basics.

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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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Virtual Selling Is Not The Future Of Sales! Part 1

Customer Think

As we emerge from the pandemic, there are a lot of discussions about the future of sales. A lot of the discussion focuses on virtual selling–leveraging technologies like Zoom, Teams, and others as key engagement approaches. F2F continues to play a role, but many of the “pundits” are declaring virtual selling to play [.]. The post Virtual Selling Is Not The Future Of Sales!

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When to Use Workflow Automation for Mortgage Lenders

Lightico

Do you want to increase your productivity when it comes to mortgage lending? If so, then workflow automation is the answer. It offers a solution for mortgage professionals who are looking at scaling their engagement with prospects and customers, continually track and optimize their performance, and even integrate with artificial intelligence when automated communication is desired.

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How to Grow Your Customer Base with Product Education

Customer Think

Do you want to increase your conversion rates right away? And how about getting the customers you have to upgrade and stay with you longer? Sounds good, right? And that’s why you should make product education a critical part of your business strategy. Product education is all about teaching your customers what your product is, […].

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A Complete Guide to Leadership Development Training

ProProfs

83% of enterprises believe that developing leaders at all levels is important. Of all the employees who left their company at some point, 52% believed that their manager could have done something to prevent them from leaving. Whether you’re talking about CEOs, operations managers, or team leads, leaders play a crucial role in a business. They are responsible for keeping employees motivated, engaged, and committed to business success.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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Benefits of Recording Business Calls to Improve Quality Assurance

Customer Think

As a business, you should strongly consider a call recording software to record business calls and improve quality assurance and customer service. Here we will look at some ways companies are using call recording tools to increase office productivity. Why Should Your Business Record Calls? More and more companies are recording business calls in order […].

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Why is Cloud Call Center Better than On-Premise?

Ameyo Callversations

The customer engagement landscape is changing, and so are contact center dynamics. That makes cloud call center solutions more critical than ever with the growing consumer expectations and time. Technology empowers businesses and agents to provide omnichannel customer service and enables customers to handle most queries through self-service. Achieving high omnichannel engagement requires streamlining communication across voice, email, and other digital channels.

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How Can Banks Speed Loan Deferments & Extensions While Minimizing Customer Stress?

Lightico

By the time most banking customers request a deferment or extension of their loan, they’ve already been handling the stress of dealing with financial challenges for some time. Handling these requests efficiently is critical for banks to avoid process gaps and misunderstandings with customers that can waste time and frustration for both sides, drag them into collections processes, and escalate into disputes.

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Seismic Acquires Lessonly, Delivering to Customers the World’s Most Powerful, Comprehensive Sales Enablement Platform

Customer Think

In conjunction with the acquisition, Seismic closed a $170 million Series G funding round led by Permira; Seismic now valued at approximately $3 billion.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Customer Communication in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry: Overcoming Challenges

CommBox

Customer Communication in the hospitality and tourism industry is rapidly changing due to industry events. The hospitality and tourism industry took one of its biggest hits in 2020. According to the U.S. Travel Association, international travel and business travel showed the sharpest declines due to COVID-19. Global travel spending in the U.S. fell 76%, while business travel spending fell 70%. .

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Customer Communication in the Hospitality and Travel Industry: Overcoming Challenges

CommBox

Customer Communication in the hospitality and travel industry is rapidly changing due to industry events. The hospitality and travel industry took one of its biggest hits in 2020. According to the U.S. Travel Association, international travel and business travel showed the sharpest declines due to COVID-19. Global travel spending in the U.S. fell 76%, while business travel spending fell 70%. .