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Getting Things Done

The Belding Group

The ability to break through the talking and actually get things done is the hallmark of all highly successful people. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.

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Built for you: Increased customizability, workspace security upgrades, custom objects in the Inbox, and more

Intercom, Inc.

This month, we’ve been working on email, security, and tooltips – and that’s just the beginning. Welcome to the November edition of Built for You. It’s that time of year again! As we approach the holiday season, your support team will no doubt be looking for ways to become more efficient, more effective, and less strapped for time – all while maximizing customer satisfaction. .

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A Great Experiment in Listening

The Belding Group

One of the reasons that this experiment works so quickly and the results are so dramatic is that good listeners are in incredibly short supply. The reality is that most people prefer talking - and most of us aren’t nearly as good at listening as we think we are. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.

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[Book Review] Ann Handley’s Not-To-Be-Missed Guide to Better Marketing Writing

Customer Think

Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Ann Handley's new book, Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022), was released last month, just in time for as.

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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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Have You Mastered The Skill of Listening?

The Belding Group

If you're like most people, though, even though you know how important the skill of listening is, you've probably never taken the time to actively improve that skill. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.

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Don’t Forget What Got You to the Dance?

Shep Hyken

A restaurant took its most popular item off the menu. It had been on there a long time, and the owner decided it was time to make a change, even though it was his guests’ favorite dish. . A company changed its invoicing terms. It wanted to tighten its terms to get paid sooner, with larger penalties for late payment. . A retail store changed its return policy.

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What is Customer Churn?

NGDATA

A Definition of Customer Churn Simply put, customer churn occurs when customers or subscribers stop doing business with a company or service. Also known as customer attrition, customer churn is a critical metric because it is much less expensive to retain existing customers than it is to acquire new customers – earning business from new customers means working leads all the way through the sales.

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The 2022 Holiday Season Customer Service Staffing: Keep the Agents You Have

CSAT.AI

You just got through Black Friday and Cyber Monday. How did your customer service team do? Entering the momentum of the holiday season 2022, customer service is still facing labor shortages. Research released in November found 45% of businesses are having trouble staffing contact center and back office roles. For 2022 holiday season customer service staffing it’s critical to keep the agents you have during your most profitable season. .

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If more is not done to protect agents, customer service standards will fall

Customer Think

The UK recently introduced some new legislation that has implications for customer service.Specifically, an amendment was included in the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 that aims to provide new legal protections for customer-facing w.

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How to Increase Google Reviews – Top 8 Tips

Zonka Feedback

What’s the first thing you do when you’re looking to book a service, buy a product, visit a restaurant, or book a hotel? Usually, we would go online, look up the brand, and check its Google reviews. Based on the reviews and experiences of other customers, we tend to move ahead with the transaction.

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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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It’s Time to Move Your Customers to Where You Want Them to Be

Customer Think

Customer strategy results in some interesting questions. Recently, Claire Hillman, a listener (and viewer of our new YouTube channel) asked us one she has been mulling in her strategic planning: Should I move to where my customers are or move t.

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Retain your customer base through a recession

Zendesk

No one likes to lose customers. And for many businesses that made the shift to operating online during the pandemic, it’s been a challenge to connect with customers on a personal level. We’ve learned that we can be hindered by the tools we use to connect, or greatly aided by them. Fortunately, there’s a wide range of digital platforms that can help you understand your customers in a deeper and more meaningful way.

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How to create winning industry solutions 

Customer Think

One of the terms du jour is „industry cloud“. We hear it even more often than even platform or CX at this time. Why is that? Why do we speak about them only now and not for a longer time? After all, we have seen industry solutions forever, albeit on pr.

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What is the Reality of Agile CX?

MyCustomer Experience

Recently I have noticed more and more customer experience (CX) experts and analysts talking about the need to design a more agile customer. 30th Nov 2022. By Andrew Hall Chief Commercial Officer.

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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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Retention Cloud Leader CleverTap Launches CleverTap for Startups

Customer Think

Initiative to help smaller businesses improve user engagement and conversion rates at affordable costs.

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Reaccelerate: Finding new engines of growth in your business

Intercom, Inc.

At this year’s Web Summit conference in Lisbon, I gave a talk on how businesses should think about weathering these tough economic conditions, and indeed how they can actually find growth during them. You can check out the slides here, or read on for an illustrated transcript of my talk. Hi, I’m Des from Intercom. I hope you enjoy Web Summit and when it’s over I hope you return to offices, bedrooms or boardrooms with some good takeaways, new contacts, and also a little bit refreshed and re