Callminer

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Does using your product or service require too much effort from your customers? Here's an overview of customer effort score, how it works, and measuring it.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. You also need to evolve and adapt at a greater pace than more established peers.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The 7 Telltale Signs of a Company NOT Committed to Customers. I discovered many years ago that I could determine whether a company was committed to customers pretty quickly. When I thought about how I recognized it, I found that organizations that did not commit to customers had some shared company culture cues that indicated where their focus was. The ideas behind this discovery later became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience.

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Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Two-thirds of customer journey mapping initiatives fail to drive action, as we revealed in our book How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer? Using Journey Mapping to Drive Customer-Focused Change. That’s not really surprising, is it? It’s easier to reveal where customers are having problems than it is to do something about it. Taking […]. The post Turbocharge Your Journey Map appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Customer Journey Map Customer Experience 120

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Win the Customer

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In today’s competitive marketplace, customer care isn’t merely an add on, it’s become an integral part of most business strategies. Entrepreneurs understand that high-quality customer care drives profits, increases customer satisfaction, and helps to secure and retain happy customers. . If you’re confident you have the right team members in place, you need to equip them with the best tools so they can be fully responsive to your customers’ needs.

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Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Is your Quality Assurance Arrogant. By Colin Taylor. I was reading a recent post by Helen Dewdney regarding playing Christmas music in stores to early in the season, and the fact that many retailers plan music even though it is not well received by their customers. The question Helen poses at the end of the post is “Do you think that believing you know better than your customers what they want is slightly arrogant?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

If your support team is routinely asking the same set of questions at the start of every chat conversation, it’s time to ask if you’re using the right tools to triage support issues. Recently our internal tech support team found themselves in this situation while providing support to our 650-person team spread across five offices and timezones.

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Start-ups Education Business Operations Sales 143

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Some customer habits may be useful for your Customer Experience strategy, and some of them may not. Understanding how customers’ habits form and how to identify them is crucial for Customer Experience. We talked about how habits form and understanding your customers’ habits in a recent podcast. We discussed how one of the ways to view patterns is through this two-system lens, meaning the Intuitive and Rational Systems we use in our thinking. .

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Education Technology Technology Customer Experience 140

Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Successful customer journey maps drive customer-focused change like improving customer experience, developing a new way to deliver value to customers, or reducing the cost to serve current customers. Based on a 2016 study of customer experience professionals, over two-thirds of respondents did not rate their journey mapping project as successful. The reason?

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Combating the High Agent Turnover Crippling US Contact Centers. by JD Fairweather. The revolving door of employee turnover is a source of frustration for any organization. For contact centers, an industry known for its high attrition rate, high employee turnover can impact not just team morale and productivity, but customer acquisition and retention as well.

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Contact Center Customer Acquisition Education Customer Satisfaction 98

Callminer

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

An understanding of the CFPB arbitration rule illuminates some of the struggles between organizations and consumers. Learn more about its implementation and its implications.

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eglobalis

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Customer Experience Best Books of 2019 -2020 Yearly List. The post Customer Experience Best Books of 2019 – 2020 Readings appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Customers have an idea of whether you are a low- or high-priced store almost before they ever interact with you. There are many reasons for it, and you are responsible for a lot of them. There is a story that demonstrates this concept that happened in a neighborhood in Boston called Jamaica Plain. It was historically a working-class neighborhood with many immigrant families living there.

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Construction Start-ups Customer Experience 120

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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Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Think about the last time you lead brainstorming to improve your customer experience (CX). Did you give people Post-It Notes and have them shout out ideas while they put them on the wall? Doing that is a ton of fun. But it’s also a terrible way to develop ideas. So, stop doing it. You reply, “But […]. The post Ideas are Your Fuel for an Improved CX appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

There’s a saying in business: if you can’t measure it, it never happened. But how do you measure satisfaction? Luckily, there’s a measure for that, too: customer satisfaction metrics. Customer satisfaction quantifies the degree to which a customer is pleased by a product, brand, or overall experience. If you don’t measure customer satisfaction, you may be blindsided by customers who churn or discourage others from working with you.

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Customers That Stick

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The holidays are a special time both for retail businesses and retail employees, a time of great challenge and opportunity. Having worked in retail for many years, I’ve seen how this season can test even the best retail teams. With Black Friday just around the corner, I wanted to share a few tips on how you can prepare your retail team for this holiday season.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Employers and other entities that need to check an individual's prior work history can call upon an arsenal of tactics, including Verification of Employment (VOE).

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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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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

People are busy, often going from meeting to meeting at work, chasing after their kids, running errands, or out and about with friends and family. Moments when they have to get in touch with the customer service call center of a company is met with dread, because they don’t have the time or energy to call, wait on hold, and be passed around from one customer service agent to another to solve their problem.

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Technology Technology Social Media Healthcare 89

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

You turn on the news, and the newscaster says, “There’s a lack of confidence in the stock market,” which we know means that the market is about to drop. However, confidence is a feeling. It’s not an actual physical thing, but, apparently, not having it can be costly for your net worth. . The question becomes, are we talking ourselves into a recession?

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Manufacturing Agriculture Start-ups Customer Experience 118

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

As a customer experience leader, you need to have a good understanding of your organization’s culture. The culture is defined by actions, not words. It is consistent behaviors that give people direction on what to “model.” It’s decisions made and actions taken that prove that the customer commitment is real and not lip service.

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Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

By Colin Taylor. We constantly hear about “best practices,” and these are held up as the shining examples of what the best organizations do. The desire for us to want our organization or contact center to be “the best” can be a heady goal and many blindly start down the road to get their organization to be a “best practices” organization. But is this the best approach for your contact center, your staff, or your organization?

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Customer Service Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Image by rawpixel from Pixabay. This article was originally published on CustomerThink.com on August 23, 2019. Click here to read the original. I recently sat with a group of customer service leaders who declared that email support was dead for their company. They were turning off their support@ email address(es) and instead channeling their customers to phone, web form, text(SMS), chat, and other messaging channels.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This year’s annual LISTEN user conference was the largest yet with 413 attending the event! It's hard to believe it's "in the books!" Here's our wrap up!

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Zappos. Apple. Wistia. Netflix. Whatever your business or its size, the first place your customers go when seeking help is your website. And if they can’t find the information they need there, you’re going to lose them. You don’t have to be reachable by phone 24/7, but you do have to give your customers a way to solve their problems or get in touch when they can’t help themselves.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

People know an expensive brand when they see one. They also can spot a discount retailer at fifteen paces. So, why do they get it wrong so often? They get it wrong because of a concept called Price Image. Price Image is a concept that describes how people form impressions about whether your brand is high- or low-priced based on many non-price indicators.

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Retail Customer Loyalty Customer Experience 112

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

Kate Nasser

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Avoid these defensive replies to feedback to preserve other's trust & professional respect of you. Success insights fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | Leadership, Leading Morale, Teamwork, Customer Service, Career. The post Avoid These Defensive Replies to Feedback | #PeopleSkills #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

2019 is coming to a close and the customer support industry is moving into the next decade. It’s become even more clear that support expectations are changing, expanding, and require a higher level of diligence to provide the best experience possible for customer satisfaction and loyalty. To welcome the new year, here are five predictions for 2019. Messaging Surpasses Voice.

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TeamSupport

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

While 90% of business-to-business (B2B) leaders recognize the importance of customer support, fewer than 25% of companies excel at helping their customers. It’s a concerning statistic as B2B markets thrive off long-term relationships with their clients. Phone calls are a vital component of any B2B customer support strategy, as it’s often the fastest way to resolve problems.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

These tips provide valuable insight into choosing and using call center metrics more effectively to condense performance data into actionable insights.

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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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