Inside Customer Service
OCTOBER 20, 2022
"Who was it?! Who's making us look bad?!" The employee was furious at her coworkers, and she let everyone in the customer service training class know it. I was facilitating the class. The night before, I had completed a mystery shop on five random employees at the client's request. The class was shocked when I revealed the dismal results. Nobody passed.
ClientSuccess
OCTOBER 18, 2022
As the importance of customer success – and the role of customer success managers – has grown over the past few years, more and more responsibility is falling into the laps of CSMs. Managing customer accounts is no longer contained to spearheading implementation and being on call to help customers through issues. Modern CSMs are now responsible for the full spectrum of customer conversations, including those trickier ones that may center around strategic initiatives such as renewals, upsells, ex
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Callminer
OCTOBER 27, 2022
A solid core of loyal customers is essential to any growing company. Read on for our list of strategies to improve CX and boost retention.
Adrian Swinscoe
OCTOBER 31, 2022
This is a guest post by a Graeme Meikle, a Senior WFM Consultant and Project Manager for Calabrio. Despite a rise in digital interactions, the phone […]. The post UK consumers say it’s good to talk but are contact centres really listening? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
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JUST RELEASED! The Northridge Group’s State of CX 2023 Part II research report reveals that nearly half of consumers surveyed had knowingly spoken to a customer service associate working from home—and almost 75% of those respondents felt the associate's location did not impact the service or experience. So why do more than ⅓ of business leaders want contact center associates back in the office?
The Belding Group
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Outward focus is our guide to staying on the tightrope. When your customer is the focus of your thoughts, actions and words, creating outstanding customer experiences becomes easier. But it’s not easy. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.
Heart of the Customer
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Visualize, monitor, and manage your journeys with a customized metric designed around your needs, your organization, and your customers.
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Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 19, 2022
At Intercom, we believe trust is at the core of every relationship between a business and its customers. As businesses grow and scale, they need to continue to earn and build on that trust in every way they can – but with rapidly expanding tech stacks, it’s not just their own company policies they need to monitor, it’s those of every company they partner with.
Callminer
OCTOBER 24, 2022
In CallMiner’s continued work with mortgage lenders and financial institutions, we’ve identified four key use cases for conversation intelligence technology. Read this blog for more.
Adrian Swinscoe
OCTOBER 10, 2022
This is a guest post from Julie Mcintosh, Chief Culture Officer at Kura, the largest independent outsourcer in the UK. The mental well-being of your employees […]. The post Contact centres: How to look after your employee’s mental health first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Fonolo
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The great migration of contact centers transitioning from on-site to hybrid work environments isn’t slowing down–and an air-tight call center security strategy has never mattered more. There’s a staggering amount of sensitive information that flows through a contact center every day. The personal email addresses, passwords, and credit card numbers that are all in a day’s work for a call center, are very desirable to cyber criminals.
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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.
Heart of the Customer
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Show business impact quickly by mplementing a closed loop feedback system. You probably already have the tools you need to get started!
Customer Think
OCTOBER 15, 2022
Whether you’re just getting started with content marketing or you’ve been at it for awhile, it’s important to have a variety of content in your arsenal. However, it isn’t useful to generate content without a serious intention – especially when it comes to the B2B market. Done correctly, great content can support B2B lead generation […].
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 27, 2022
?. Manual document collection is not exactly what you would call a seamless process. Whether it’s customer onboarding or just gathering information for an event, we’re often trapped in endless follow-ups and back-and-forth emails until we finally get the assets and can move on with other, more meaningful tasks. Alex Delivet , one of the protagonists of the Paris startup scene, has experienced this predicament first-hand.
Callminer
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Read this blog for seven tips and best practices for improving CX in the contact center.
Speaker: Michael McMillan - Customer Experience Expert, TEDx Speaker, and Author
Are you looking to elevate your CX support strategy? Customers who have a seamless buying experience, from speaking with sales and purchasing the product to easily finding support, are more likely to return to your organization and recommend it to others. With the numerous changes in the market, it is critical that your CX strategy can evolve and better support your customers regardless of where they are in their journey.
Adrian Swinscoe
OCTOBER 4, 2022
As we approach the end of the Summer and head into Autumn, here in the Northern hemisphere, many gardeners will be starting to think about getting […]. The post In times like these, customer service leaders can learn a lot from gardeners first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Fonolo
OCTOBER 26, 2022
When you think of improving your call center motivation, do you dream of near-perfect customer satisfaction scores ? Impeccable customer service and experience? To get a real sense of how things are going, don’t just look at your customers; look at your agents. If they’re motivated, your customers will likely feel satisfied. If not? Everything goes downhill.
Shep Hyken
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Social customer care may not be the most popular channel to deal with customer issues for most businesses, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. More and more customers are turning to social media to get help. More on why in just a moment. For now, let’s address why companies aren’t using social channels. . When a company tells me they don’t want to participate in social media customer care, I ask why.
Lumoa
OCTOBER 20, 2022
It’s no secret that customer experience is key to a company’s success. But what may be surprising is that as businesses compete more and more for customers, customer experience is becoming the new competitive battleground. . What does this mean for companies? It means that in order to stay ahead, they need to focus on delivering not just a good product or service, but a great customer experience as well.
Speaker: Megan Burns, Founder and Principal of Experience Enterprises
You can have the best CX strategy in the world, but if you can't get your organization to execute it you may as well have nothing. Unfortunately, that's the biggest challenge most CX leaders face: galvanizing people outside their team to take action on - and ultimately ownership of - CX work. This talk explores the functional and psychological roadblocks that keep others from embracing CX even when they think it's important and offers practical guidance on how to break through those barriers so
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 13, 2022
?. At Intercom, we believe that in-product messaging will become the primary customer communication channel. Not only is it the only channel you have full control over, but it’s the best place to quickly sort out issues and share information with your customers in a swift, non-disruptive way. After all, if you’re trying to engage your customer or persuade them to take an action, the best and easiest place to do that is when they’re in the product itself – not a few hours or days late
Customer Think
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Would you like to have a more personal relationship with your favorite brands? Of course, you would! And that’s where personalization comes in. Personalizing a customer’s experience means tailoring what they see and how they interact with your brand to make them feel special. It can be as simple as using their name on the […].
Experience Investigators
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Happy Customer Service Week and CX Day, 2022! Customer Service Week is all about Celebrating Service. And we’re celebrating customer experience (CX) on October 4th with CX Day’s theme: CX Drives Success. They go hand-in-hand to provide amazing experiences for customers that lead to better business results. Customer experience success, as we define it, is about living up to the promises made to customers AND delivering business results for your organization.
Totango
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Recent years have seen an astonishing rise in the popularity of subscription-based products and services. The world of ownership is being replaced by Spotify, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and a host of other on-demand services. And of course, customers can easily cancel the very second they become dissatisfied, lose interest, or feel they aren’t getting the value they expected. .
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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. So in the cases where a customer is asking for something you can't provide, whether that's faster response times or new features (or a trip to the Moon with Wallace and Gromit), your business needs to
The DiJulius Group
OCTOBER 24, 2022
“If you had hard times in your family, would you ever consider laying off one of your children?” asks Charlie Kim, founder & Co-CEO of Next Jump. Next Jump is an employee discount platform, used by over 70% of the Fortune 1000 to help their employees save money. Next Jump also offers various apps and. Read Full Article. The post A Company that Offers Lifetime Employment appeared first on The DiJulius Group.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 13, 2022
We’ve just wrapped up another edition of New at Intercom to share our fall 2022 product launch with everyone. Meet the five brand-new product innovations that will drive up customer engagement this fall – including our biggest messenger update yet. The last year hasn’t been easy. The industry landscape is changing, the prospects of a global recession are ever-present, and everyone is struggling to get leaner, reduce costs, increase efficiency, and increase customer satisfaction and retenti
Customer Think
OCTOBER 9, 2022
When B2B marketers think “buyer,” they’re most often thinking about net-new buyers. But the biggest opportunity in an uncertain market is to focus on convincing customers to stay and customer expansion opportunities. Buyer-driven experiences (BDX) prov.
Speaker: Colin Taylor, CEO & Chief Chaos Officer at The Taylor Reach Group, Inc
Adoption and innovation are swift and ongoing. Contact center operators have been buffeted by the pandemic, work-from-home initiatives, the great resignation, and quiet quitting. As a result of these changes, new challenges have emerged, requiring contact centers to undergo major transformations. These challenges include the retirement of the baby boomer generation, low unemployment, the recession, and consumer trends that call for proactive customer engagement. 2023 is around the corner and as
Shep Hyken
OCTOBER 19, 2022
There are many definitions of the term brand. One of my favorites is this: A brand is a promised delivered. . Is what you’re known for delivered consistently? Consider Ace Hardware, whose brand promise is The Helpful Hardware Place. When you visit an Ace Hardware store, do they keep their promise? Are they helpful? Based on all their awards and the comments from happy customers posted on social channels, they deliver. .
Lumoa
OCTOBER 26, 2022
After a couple of years of hiatus, many Customer Experience Conferences are going back to live events, as you have already seen in late 2022 – or at least they are trying to. There are nonetheless also many options for those who are still not ready to travel and meet people, as organizers have become better and better at offering an experience that is comparable to face-to-face interactions.
eglobalis
OCTOBER 29, 2022
The Best Customer Experience books 2002 list, Data and Design Readings of 2022, CX, experience design, cx strategy. The post The Best Customer Experience, Data and Design Books of 2022 appeared first on Eglobalis.
The DiJulius Group
OCTOBER 31, 2022
We had been consulting with one of the largest accounting firms in the world, guiding them in building a stronger client experience model. About a year into the CX project, there was still a small percentage of the accountants, including partners, who had not totally bought in. At one of our regional workshops, one of. Read Full Article. The post Going from Greg to Benny: Building a Stronger Client Experience Model appeared first on The DiJulius Group.
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JUST RELEASED! The Northridge Group’s State of Customer Experience 2023 research report reveals a surge in preference for online agent chat versus the phone amongst 18–35-year-olds—the first time online chat has eclipsed phone! At the same time, customer patience is dropping, with 35% of respondents willing to wait only a few minutes before re-contacting a company.
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