Callminer

JUNE 2, 2023

CallMiner's VP of Product Management, Bruce McMahon, shares updates from the CallMiner 2023.06 platform release, including AI-based contact summarization, AI redaction and more.

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Adrian Swinscoe

JUNE 29, 2023

Many customers are suffering right now with high inflation and interest rates. Now, while that is easy to say and observe, it’s often hard to quantify […] The post Is adhering to the FCAs new consumer duty impossible without the help of technology? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Technology Technology 217

Inside Customer Service

JUNE 8, 2023

Why do we subject employees to role playing? Managers often request it for customer service training, but participants don't like it. Here are just a few comments from a discussion on LinkedIn Live : "It's always awkward and stressful." "The interactions are just not natural." "It's unnerving." It would be one thing if role playing was a highly effective customer service training technique.

Customer Service 172

Customer Service Contact Center Start-ups 172

Bill Quiseng

JUNE 28, 2023

For many years, there has been a stranglehold “Profits over People” mentality for healthcare leaders. These “Profits over People” traditionalists care about their hospital’s labor, research, and equipment costs, Medicare reimbursements, pharmaceutical companies’ payments in cash and in-kind gifts, and their patients’ payments more than they do their patients.

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Healthcare Hospitality Hospitality CX 165

Speaker: Joe Cicman - Principal Analyst at Forrester, and Jason Cottrell - CEO & Founder at Orium

Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. The pace of tech shifts will intensify, businesses are set to defund legacy solutions, and attractive opportunities will surface as social and retail media players join forces. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 15, 2023

Your brand is in a relationship with your customers. Like any relationship, some of them are healthy while others are not. Unfortunately, people often form codependent or dysfunctional relationships with brands. To help yours be more beneficial than not, we have five rules about how to build strong brand relationships with your customers. We all have relationships with brands.

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Customer Relationship Construction Customer Experience 145

ECXO

JUNE 13, 2023

Real-time marketing is about engaging with the customer whenever and wherever they are in their buying journey. Making the most of customer data by using analytics to better understand who your customers are (and what they want) can help you create better real-time customer experiences. Harvard Business Review Analytic Services surveyed more than 500 leaders to help determine how fast and far along the real-time analytics maturity scale businesses are moving.

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Predictive Analytics Customer Experience Customer Retention Sales 133

Adrian Swinscoe

JUNE 12, 2023

This is a guest post by Alfonso de la Nuez, the author of The Digital Experience Company and Chief Visionary Officer at UserTesting. More and more […] The post Why customers’ digital experience is key to your company’s survival and success first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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eglobalis

JUNE 20, 2023

Harnessing Real-Time Data for Improved Customer Experience CX Understanding The post Harnessing Real-Time Data for Improved Customer Experience Understanding appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Bill Quiseng

JUNE 21, 2023

This June, I present each one of the Three Principles to Build Customer Loyalty. In this third week, here is Principle Three: Be Magnificently Boring! You have been happy that your customers leave satisfied. You have sold them a product or service that meets their wants or needs. Or you solved their problem for them. You were happy because, in the end, they were satisfied.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 22, 2023

Our recent guest on the podcast, author Vanessa Patrick , Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Marketing, and researcher in the Consumer Behavior Marketing field, has a new book, “The Power of Saying No: The New Science of How to Say No that Puts You in Charge of Your Life.” The book addresses the area of self-regulation or self-control.

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Start-ups Management Consulting Customer Experience 143

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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ECXO

JUNE 11, 2023

CX design is no longer just about aesthetics. It’s a strategic tool that helps B2B companies create meaningful difference in saturated markets. But, many European firms still have a long way to go to reach the levels of CX maturity seen in B2C. A maturity driven by hyper personalisation, empathetic human relationships and intuitive digital experiences – all accelerated by the pandemic.

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B2B CX Touchpoint Customer Satisfaction 130

Callminer

JUNE 28, 2023

Learn more about new product innovations and review some of the most influential innovative products in recent times, according to business experts.

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Innovation 182

Adrian Swinscoe

JUNE 2, 2023

This is guest post from Joyce Kim, Chief Marketing Officer at Twilio. It was in 2006 that the British mathematician Clive Humby uttered the now legendary […] The post Data silos: The silent killer of great customer experience first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Customer Experience 216

CX Network

JUNE 15, 2023

How chatbots and large language models are providing automated customer contact resolution, empowering businesses and agents with the tools and data they need

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Contact Center AI 136

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?

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Customer Think

JUNE 19, 2023

While we know that consumers value the opinions of their favorite influencers, attitudes toward traditional influencer marketing are changing. In a recent white paper from The Lacek Group, “Generationally Speaking: Gen Z Transforms Loyalty,” Montanna Cervenka points out that Gen Z thinks differently about influencer-driven content.

Customer Loyalty 128

Customer Loyalty 128

Bill Quiseng

JUNE 14, 2023

Once every week throughout June, I offer each one of the Three Principles to Build Customer Loyalty. In this second week, I give you Principle Two: Create their Experience. QUI Takeaway: Customers pay for their experience, not your product or service. They buy with emotion and justify their decision with reason. Customers seek the best emotional value in their experience, not your logically reasonable price, product, or service.

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Customer Loyalty Customer Expectations Touchpoint CX 109

ECXO

JUNE 20, 2023

Fotocomposicion ECXO(1) Article source: The Rising Tide of Brand Purpose in B2B [link] There’s an old adage in customer experience. Where B2C goes, B2B follows. But, the distinction between the two is fading. CX is everywhere. Expectations are set by the best experience on offer – inside and outside of the workplace – in Europe, in Asia, and across the globe.

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B2B CX Customer Experience Innovation 122

The DiJulius Group

JUNE 12, 2023

If your employee disappoints your Customer, whose fault is that? Typically, the blame is placed on the employee for using poor judgment or being indifferent to the Customer. However, ninety-nine percent of the time blame should be placed on the company or supervisor for putting someone in a position they were not qualified to handle. Read Full Article The post What Most CEOs Get Wrong About Customer Experience appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Customer Experience 116

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Adrian Swinscoe

JUNE 26, 2023

Today’s interview is with Deborah (Deb) Battaglia, Senior Vice President, Customer Experience at Assurant, Inc, a global B2B2C Fortune 300 company that provides risk management and […] The post Purposefully designed experiences don’t happen by accident – Interview with Deborah Battaglia of Assurant first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Customer Experience 167

Fonolo

JUNE 13, 2023

Today’s customers expect more from customer service. They want prompt, reliable, integrated service and they will not linger if it’s not readily available. Their patience is never shorter than when dealing with your call center. That’s why call-backs have become a contact center essential. If you leave callers on hold, your agents will hear the complaints and your social media timeline will show angry tweets.

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Contact Center Customer Satisfaction Customer Service NPS 104

Customer Think

JUNE 21, 2023

Organizational change in the modern era cannot be created and seen as a single episode of activity; instead, it requires adaptability and agility rather than staged or phased approaches or frameworks. The notion that change can be planned and managed as a distinct episode of activity is obsolete for many businesses.

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Innovation 128

Intercom

JUNE 7, 2023

There’s a big question being asked in the customer service industry right now: what will the future of support look like in the age of AI? The reality is that it will require a combination of automation and humans – or as we like to say, “bots and brains.” AI and automation have presented huge opportunities for customer service teams in terms of scalability, time savings, faster resolutions and response times, and improved customer experiences.

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Speaker: Donna Weber - Customer Onboarding Expert

Customer onboarding is so much more than going live with your product and driving adoption. The truth is, onboarding is the most important part of the customer journey. When you set positive first impressions, establish trusting relationships, and quickly deliver meaningful outcomes, you create customers for life. Invest an hour with Donna Weber to learn why your customer onboarding is critical to your success.

Customer Experience

ECXO

JUNE 11, 2023

Customer Experience = Seeing + Being + Doing Customer Centricity is the umbrella for concepts like Customer Experience, Customer Intimacy, Customer Advocacy, Customer Loyalty, etc. With their 1998 Harvard Business Review article “Welcome to the Experience Economy” (and 1999 book), Joe Pine II and James Gilmore introduced the term Customer Experience as the next competitive battleground.

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Customer Experience CX Government Customer Loyalty 122

The DiJulius Group

JUNE 5, 2023

There’s a common thread that connects each and every one of us, you just have to take the time to find it. Some people have an automatic connection, others end up connecting in funny ways. Think about how a concert can unite thousands of strangers. Completely different age groups, economic statuses, genders, political viewpoints, and. Read Full Article The post Building A Sense Of Community: American Airlines Opens Its First Hotel appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Adrian Swinscoe

JUNE 21, 2023

This obituary was written by Nate Sanders, the co-founder and CEO of Artifact, the customer experience forecasting company. The Survey, a long beloved method of gathering […] The post Obituary: The Survey (1920s – 2023) first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

Customer Experience 167

Customer Experience 167

Bill Quiseng

JUNE 6, 2023

During the month of June, I will offer each one of the Three Principles to Build Customer Loyalty. In this first week, I give you Principle One: Be the Customer. “Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!” Tom Peters. Did you know that FedEx delivery people never run.

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Customer Loyalty B2C CX B2B 88

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Churn starts within the first 30 days of customers purchasing a product. A lot of it comes down to the first impression customers get through the onboarding process. A poor experience can result in losing current and future customers, and unnecessary overhead. It’s important to know what a poor onboarding experience looks like, the associated hidden costs, and how to build a top-tier onboarding experience for your customers so you can avoid losing hard-earned revenue.

Customer Think

JUNE 6, 2023

Solid consumer engagement is the ultimate prize for marketers because engagement improves brand, which leads to greater lifetime customer value (LCV) and loyalty. But an overabundance of bland messages makes it difficult for brands to connect meaningfully with consumers.

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Technology Technology 128

Fonolo

JUNE 22, 2023

The contact center industry boasts some of the most intelligent and innovative CX technologies out there. Visual IVR – now known as Fonolo’s Web Call-Backs – was one of the first self-service technologies to have a hugely positive impact on the customer experience. The Ultimate Call-Back Check List If you haven’t yet encountered visual IVR, the first thing to know is that it’s self-service at its best – and quickly becoming an essential tool for businesses that prioritize customer satisfaction a

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Contact Center Customer Satisfaction Customer Experience CX 91

eglobalis

JUNE 12, 2023

The Rising Tide of Brand Purpose in B2B , The time of brand purpose The post The Rising Tide of Brand Purpose in B2B appeared first on Eglobalis.

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B2B Customer Loyalty Customer Relationship CX 106

The DiJulius Group

JUNE 19, 2023

The objective of a company’s hiring process is not to fill job openings with warm bodies. It doesn’t matter if you are a small, medium, or large organization, or you are the Director of Human Resources, Head of Recruitment, or a department leader. Nor does it matter if you are hiring seasoned people bringing a. Read Full Article The post Creating a World-Class Recruitment Experience appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hileman - Director, Retail Data & Technology at Orium, and Zach Ettelman - Solutions Partner Team in North America at Talon.One

Elevate your retail game by unleashing the power of customer loyalty! The holidays are the perfect time to redefine and reimagine your retail strategy, as modern customers are being re-engaged through creative retention tactics. Discover how the combination of loyalty management and MACH technology can revolutionize your retail strategy, ensuring sustained customer success through the holiday rush, into the new year, and beyond.

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