March, 2019

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The Personality Of Customer Experience

CX Accelerator

When it comes to Customer Experience (CX) work, it takes a very special type of person to be successful. Consider all the skills required to thrive in the role.data crunching, storytelling, journey mapping, process improvement, change management, strategic thinking, influencing behaviors, project management.the list goes on. It's essentially impossible for any one person to be strong in all of these areas.

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How Trends Are Changing With Unified Communications

Callminer

Unified telecommunications is a solution in the communications world that allows businesses to get more out of their crucial tools and applications, by placing them in a streamlined environment.

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The magic of goal setting: A simple framework for managers and teams

Intercom, Inc.

How can you make sure, on a Monday, you’re doing the right things all week long – not just as an individual, but as a manager, across your team and organization? How do you help your team focus and make meaningful progress, so that at the end of the week, you go home knowing you spent energy on the most important work? Finding the answers to these questions and putting them into practice is critical to scaling your impact as a manager and individual.

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5 Things You Should Do Today to Manage Uncertainty in Business

Beyond Philosophy

A consistent finding in psychology is that people don’t like uncertainty or risk. It’s called Risk Aversion, and we all have it to some degree. To be fair, we are not risk averse all the time. We also enjoy risky behavior, like gambling, smoking, or playing fast and loose with food expiration dates. However, as a general rule, we don’t like risk. Managing our risk aversion and the risk aversion of our customers is a significant part of providing an excellent Customer Experience.

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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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What to Learn from the Best Customer Experience Companies in 2019

Lumoa

There are clear reasons why companies should create an outstanding customer experience for their customers. Take a look at what you can learn from the best customer experience companies of 2019 and find out how to apply it to your customer experience work.

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Four Phrases Call Center Agents Should Avoid at All Costs

Fonolo

While on a call with a customer, the language used is incredibly important. Call center agents are likely to have many, many conversations over the course of a work day, so it’s easy to forget the importance of each and every interaction you have with a customer on the line. When handling multiple customer service tickets each day, using certain phrases or expressions can become second nature.

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The True Path to Measuring Customer Sentiment Through Speech Analytics

Callminer

While asking for direct feedback is a critically important component of measuring customer sentiment, surveys have several limitations for VOC tracking in your contact center.

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How to learn from churn – designing good user offboarding

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve all signed up for a product only to realize a few months later that it didn’t quite fit our needs. Think about that gym membership you bought in January you’re still paying for even though the last time you went to the gym was in early February. We remember how easy it was to sign up for the one week free trial on the gym’s website. But to actually cancel, you have to find a phone number, wait on hold, give your membership number and finally pay an exit fee before you can put an end to you

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How To Create Innovative Service

Beyond Philosophy

One thing many positive Customer Experience stories people tell have in common is they involve a moment that surprised and delighted customers. Customer loyalty consultants refer to it as Innovative Customer Experience, and it is the key to getting your customers to talk about your experience to everyone they know. Author, speaker, and customer loyalty expert Dr.

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Effectiveness Indicators: First Call Resolution, Calls/Resolved

Taylor Reach Group

By Turaj Seyrafiaan. In the recent years, First Call Resolution (FCR) has become a buzz word in the contact center industry! Everyone is talking about it and it appears that everyone is working on improving the results in their center. Everyone agrees that this is an important aspect of a contact center, however, many organization still struggle with the basic definition and measurements of FCR and we all know that if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it!

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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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Four Tips for Improving Customer Service in a Healthcare

Fonolo

Customer service is a difficult job at the best of times. However, when your customers are patients, the dynamic becomes all the more challenging. Dealing with patients who are in crisis or pain, and on top of that, are emotionally drained, can create increasingly sensitive scenarios for call center agents to handle. This is why handling call center conversations within the healthcare field requires a unique set of skills.

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Looking Ahead: the State of Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

In lieu of alieu of a regular Daily Dose video, I want to share with you an excerpt from an interview I did last year with my good friend Laura Ortman—chief customer officer of Equinix —in which we discussed a wide range of topics including the future of customer experience, our role as customer experience leaders, and the experiences of women in leadership. .

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See CallMiner At Enterprise Connect 2019!

Callminer

Meet us at Enterprise Connect. CallMiner has a number of activities going on which we invite you to attend that focus on AI, contact center technology, and better customer experiences!

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Expand your addressable market to drive your next wave of growth

Intercom, Inc.

During your first wave of growth, your initial customers are very important. You have to build a product that solves a problem and works well for them. As you reach your next wave of growth, you need to continue to invest in those customers and in that product, and recognize that, in order to keep growing, you need that product to appeal to more people.

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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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Why You Must Address Customer Irrationality Before It’s Too Late

Beyond Philosophy

At British Telecom (BT), we were buying a CRM system. I was leading the project and we had 15 people around the table to make this choice. It was a significant decision for a lot of money. So, as it was a business decision, you would think we were logical about it. However, we weren’t. We were irrational about it. Your customers are irrational, too.

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Creating a Simple and Simplified (S+S) Experience Culture: What needs to change first?

eglobalis

Creating a Simple and Simplified Customer Experience Culture. The post Creating a Simple and Simplified (S+S) Experience Culture: What needs to change first? appeared first on Eglobalis.

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How to Successfully Manage the Post-Purchase Customer Service Experience

Fonolo

The buying experience often gets the most attention in customer service. Conversions are the name of the game for most businesses, so it would make sense that importance is placed on the process leading up to a purchase. For example, retail brands focus heavily on ensuring that sales associates help shoppers find the right sizes, greet guests warmly, create quick and easy checkout processes, and include thoughtful touches like water bottles in change rooms.

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I Can’t Believe You Cut Me Off!

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on February 7, 2019. Click here to read the original post. It’s official. I’ve completely caught the fly fishing bug — an unavoidable consequence given the abundance of fishable water here in Oregon. New in 2019, the state moved to an online system for fishing and hunting licenses which means we can now carry our licenses in an app on our phones rather than toting around a piece of paper.Eager to start fishing as soon as possible, I tried to

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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Solution News: CallMiner Launches Customer Experience Solution Pack

Callminer

The CallMiner Customer Experience Solution Pack is designed to harness data, as well as accelerate time to insight with a categorization framework designed around best practices in measuring CX.

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5 lessons learned starting a new team within our sales organization

Intercom, Inc.

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. The opportunity emerged out of a shift in how we practice sales. We had split into two distinct but complementary functions. We now had “hunters” who acquire new business and “farmers” who nurture existing business.

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3 Tools to Measure Authentic Customer Emotions in Real-Time

Beyond Philosophy

I am routinely gobsmacked by the number of organizations that don’t measure customer emotions. Those that do often don’t think about how they will use the information they measure. The classic phrase, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” applies. To measure something like customer emotions in your Customer Experience, you need the proper tools.

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Leadership Strategies for a High-Performance Contact Center

Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor. What is a high performance contact center? High performance is generally accepted to mean performing at the top of any possible performance range. So a High performance contact center is one that meets or exceeds the performance parameters or metrics expected of it. In contact center these parameters will include quantitative: grade of services, AHT, ATT, ASA etc., and qualitative: First Call Resolution, Customer Satisfaction, Quality scores etc., measures.

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7th Annual CX Report by The Northridge Group Uncovers Priority Training Focus

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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Why Utility Companies Should Embrace Modern Customer Service Technology

Fonolo

Utility companies provide people with critical and valuable services: Heat, hydro, and other essentials that consumers have come to rely on. Given the increasing number of customers they must support, these companies would certainly benefit from implementing strong customer service offerings. Poor customer service and disorganized call centers can not only be frustrating for consumers, but also have a negative impact on the company’s revenue, customer retention, and business acquisition.

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Defining Scope: Should You Map an End-to-End Journey or a Specific Sub-Journey?

Heart of the Customer

Editor’s Note: As we get ready for our book launch in May, we’re previewing the major topics. You can read more about our book at [link] Mapping the Right Journey At Heart of the Customer, we recommend starting a journey mapping project by answering these five questions: What is the business problem or opportunity behind mapping? […]. The post Defining Scope: Should You Map an End-to-End Journey or a Specific Sub-Journey?

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19 Experts Reveal the One Aspect of Call Center Regulations They'd Improve

Callminer

Call center regulations are complex and stringent. Here's what a panel of 22 experts had to say about what they’d change about call center regulations.

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The key to having impact as an engineer? Empathy

Intercom, Inc.

As product engineers, we like to build things, we like to solve problems, and we also want to have impact, right? But in order to have maximum impact, you need to build things that solve the right problems. How do we do that? By cultivating a deep sense of empathy for our customers. At our event Building Intercom in Dublin, I discussed how this empathetic approach can play out even on a small scale, using the example of a seemingly simple feature I was working on.

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When Customers Win, You Win: How to Deliver Value That Transforms Your Customer Experience

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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Brand Or Customer Experience – what comes first?

Beyond Philosophy

Brand Or Customer Experience – what comes first? The ubiquity of brands is undeniable. With the constant exposure to them, we all feel like we know what a brand is. However, when we are asked to explain it, we often fumble. In fact, it is remarkable just how different our answers are. It seems as if no one really knows what a brand is at all. Branding is imperative to having an outstanding Customer Experience.

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3 De-escalation Techniques Gayle King Used In the Emotional R. Kelly Interview

Myra Golden Media

The first thing I read on my iPhone this morning was the interestingly trending Gayle King interview with R&B singer R. Kelly. In the interview, the singer cries, rants at the camera, beats his chest, and stands, towering over Gayle King with warlike body language. The CBS This Morning crew stopped the interview to give R. Kelly the chance to compose himself.

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8 Customer Service Networks You Need to Follow in 2019

Fonolo

When I first stepped foot into the Fonolo office nearly a year ago, I was also knowingly dipping my toes into the customer service ecology. With the abundance of experts, thought leaders, Twitter handles, and publications that make up the DNA of both the customer service and customer experience industries, it quickly became clear that the learning curve would be steep.

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Creating a Customer Experience Culture: What needs to change first?

eglobalis

Creating a Customer Experience Culture - First change. The post Creating a Customer Experience Culture: What needs to change first? appeared first on Eglobalis.

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The Hidden Costs of Poor Customer Onboarding

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.