Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

Most call centers struggle with efficiency at one time or another. And because efficiency is directly tied to minimizing overhead costs in the call center, it’s a prominent challenge. Coping with unanticipated upticks in demand, staff turnover, and other common call center challenges only further complicate matters for managers working to create an efficient, productive, and effective team.

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Contact Center Real Estate Start-ups Sales 334

Uniphore

AUGUST 29, 2017

Who wants to be a customer experience manager? A relatively new job title in the customer service space, customer experience manager is more than just a fancy title – it is the glue that holds the customer service center together. Read More.

Customer Experience Management 176

Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Customer Service 176

Heart of the Customer

AUGUST 7, 2017

I met Beth Berg—a customer experience researcher—at a journey mapping round table at this year’s CXPA Insight Exchange, and really enjoyed her approach. So, I invited her to get together and discuss her approach, and she agreed. First, tell us a little bit about yourself and your work. My area of expertise is bringing the […]. The post Bringing the Voice of the Customer into CX Design – and Interview with Beth Berg appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Voice of the Customer CX Customer Experience Customer Journey Map 149

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 21, 2017

By nature, I’m an organized person. I like things clear and orderly, laid out in black and white. So, some years ago, as a new senior manager, I asked my boss to explain what my responsibilities would be after a company reorganization. I wanted to know, with absolute certainty. But my boss just looked at me and said, “Colin, in a senior position you need to deal with ambiguity.”.

Healthcare 141

Healthcare Customer Experience CX 141

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2017

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Contact Center Social Media CRM Customer Relationship Management 96

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 31, 2017

About 500 Southwest Airlines customers were stranded at Houston’s Hobby Airport last Sunday morning once the Hurricane Harvey flooding began and the FAA shut down Hobby. What did Southwest do? Something great from a CX perspective. Step 1: They got permission from the FAA to find a way to fly out the 500 or so passengers and work with the FAA on the security and legal nature of it.

Legal 106

Legal CX Customer Experience 106

Uniphore

AUGUST 30, 2017

The customer experience manager is key to delivering the kind of service offering that can truly differentiate an organization. Here are some of the most important things that a CEM should (and should not) do. Read More.

Customer Experience Management 150

Customer Experience Management CEM Customer Experience 150

Customers That Stick

AUGUST 21, 2017

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Customer Service 107

Customer Service 107

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 9, 2017

A Canadian food chain Iq Food Co. is like most of the others. It has an assortment of food choices ranging from snacks to meals and even coffee and tea. But if you want to buy anything at their soon-to-be eleven locations, your money is no good there—quite literally. Iq Food Co. does not take cash. The restaurant’s founder Alan Bekerman said it was one less thing to think about when he made the decision back in February 2016.

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Retail Customer Loyalty Customer Experience 0

Win the Customer

AUGUST 7, 2017

In today’s world, more and more small business owners are realizing that they need to develop substantive, savvy online marketing strategies. In addition to optimizing conversion rates, taking this course of action can make the brand more influential and cutting edge. Below you’ll find just five of many strategies you can implement to make your web-based efforts sophisticated and successful: Pay-Per-Click Advertising.

Social Media 99

Social Media Innovation Technology Technology 99

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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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 24, 2017

I have said this over the years, and recently, several of my podcast guests have also discussed it: there is an ever-increasing need to think of employees as customers as well, i.e. internal customers. Retention rates in major companies have been dropping for years, for a variety of reasons: more flexible work options, people pursuing their own ventures or teaming with startups, bad management, etc.

Customer Experience 107

Customer Experience Close the Loop Customer Retention 107

Callminer

AUGUST 9, 2017

With energy prices rising, the UK government recently announced an independent review into the total cost of electricity and factors that could be driving up the cost.

Contact Center 182

Contact Center Government Customer Experience 182

Uniphore

AUGUST 31, 2017

Keeping it in the family. RPA and BPM display a lot of similarities, and as such are often confused with one another. They are certainly members of the same family, though they could not ever be called identical twins. Read More.

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Customers That Stick

AUGUST 14, 2017

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Customer Service 107

Customer Service 107

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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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 16, 2017

How committed are you to your present employer? Are you wild about what you do or simply content in your position? Do you hate your job or are you ambivalent? It’s an important set of questions to consider. How you feel about where you work has a lot of influence on the job you are doing there. This concept becomes even more crucial when you become a manager and assess your team—especially as it pertains to how they work with or on behalf of customers.

Customer Experience 140

Customer Experience 140

Fonolo

AUGUST 24, 2017

We’ve been chatting a lot about customer satisfaction (CSat) recently, but for very good reason; measuring the degree to which your product / service meets customer expectations is critical to the success of your brand, regardless of the vertical or size. In our most recent whitepaper, we provide a playbook for contact centers to use as a guide to improving customer satisfaction.

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Contact Center Customer Satisfaction Customer Expectations NPS 98

Heart of the Customer

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s something that always bugged me about how people present their customer scores – whether satisfaction, NPS, Customer Effort, or anything else. There are really two primary approaches to this reporting: Give an average (4.65 out of 5, for example) Give the % of top box (5 out of 5, 9 or 10 out of […]. The post Customers + Bad Math = Worse Strategy appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

NPS 87

NPS Net Promoter Score Customer Experience 87

Callminer

AUGUST 28, 2017

Omnichannel customer engagement best practices and solutions empower companies to deliver consistent, personalized customer experiences.

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Omnichannel Customer Experience 182

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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Uniphore

AUGUST 15, 2017

5 Technological Trends in the Call Center. What are the new technologies being deployed in the contact centers? Several key trends are currently dominating the landscape, and have already started to infiltrate the industry even well before this year. Read More.

Contact Center 138

Contact Center Technology Technology 138

Customers That Stick

AUGUST 16, 2017

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Customer Service 0

Customer Service 0

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 23, 2017

Many organizations measure their Customer Experience (CX) in the wrong way. Chances are, you are too. So, what is it? How are you inadvertently thwarting your efforts to improve your CX? It is how you measure it and it’s one of the fundamental failures of many CX programs. Measuring is a critical part of any effort to quantify progress (or failures) when you have a goal of improving your CX.

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CX Legal Customer Loyalty Finance 133

Fonolo

AUGUST 10, 2017

Whether you’re a customer service director, manager, or representative, reading a few good words of wisdom always seems to help inspire your next course of action. Especially when those words are from veteran leaders, who have said some amazing things about how to interact with your customers, and how to motivate you and your team to succeed. Let’s take a moment to read through our picks of the 5 most useful quotes for customer service professionals: 1.

Customer Service 97

Customer Service Contact Center NPS Customer Satisfaction 97

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JUST RELEASED! New research reveals 92% of business leaders would like to provide additional training to their customer service representatives. Soft skills training stands out as a priority area of investment and/or improvement. Check out The Northridge Group’s latest CX research report —the 7th annual CX survey of 1,000 customers and 250 business executives—to see additional statistics as well as insights that businesses can use to benchmark their customer service and improve the overall exper

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 3, 2017

Some interesting, if not surprising, news from the customer experience world recently. Forrester recently released their US 2017 Customer Experience Index , which goes through data from 120,000 online consumers to rank 300 brands across 21 industries. Forrester is a very-vetted research brand, but it’s important to understand the ecosystem here.

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Customer Experience Touchpoint Retail CX 94

Callminer

AUGUST 21, 2017

Finding ways to streamline contact center processes is the best way to effectively increase efficiency and make better use of resources.

Contact Center 182

Contact Center 182

Uniphore

AUGUST 28, 2017

Turning disruption into opportunity. One of today’s major buzzwords is ‘digital disruption’, which sounds scary, but in fact offers many opportunities for contact centers to improve their service levels. Read More.

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Contact Center 113

Myra Golden Media

AUGUST 25, 2017

My website was down for 37 hours this week. Not only was the website down, but we couldn’t send or receive emails. The outage happened because something went wrong in a scheduled site upgrade on Sunday night. My hosting company was to perform a simple process that I thought would take a few minutes. I reached out to my hosting company more than a dozen times during the 2-day outage, desperately trying to get the issue resolved and to check the status of the problem.

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Start-ups Customer Service Technology Technology 90

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.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 30, 2017

Why did you buy the shirt you are wearing today? What about the car you drive, how did you choose it? Why did you go with the financial advisor you did? If “because I felt like it” wasn’t the answer to each of these questions, you are missing the biggest reason that you did these things at all —and the reason you do almost anything for that matter. It isn’t your fault you got it wrong, however.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience 130

Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2017

In case you’ve been living on an island in Tahiti, with no communication to the outside world, you may not know how important mobile apps have become. In that case, let’s recap. Mobile apps are software applications designed to run on smartphones , tablets and other mobile devices. They dominate the time spent on mobile devices by 74% compared to mobile time spent on the web.

Customer Service 91

Customer Service Contact Center Customer Satisfaction NPS 91

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 1, 2017

Episode Overview. Tom is the Principle, Head of Member Experience at Aon Hewitt. While he’s been in customer-facing roles for about 25 years, he’s only been at Aon Hewitt since mid-2016. (Immediately prior, he was a Senior Customer Experience Analyst for Forrester.) Because he’s been in his role about 12 months, most of this conversation is focused on what he set out to accomplish in the first year — and what he thinks the next 6-12 months will look like.

Customer Experience 0

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Customers That Stick

AUGUST 7, 2017

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Customer Retention 79

Customer Retention Customer Loyalty 79

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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.