The Belding Group
OCTOBER 18, 2021
A positive attitude is something that everyone is capable of. It doesn't require a specific education or skill set; and it's not dependent on how much money you make, how good looking you are or what you do for a living. Attitude is, quite simply, a decision one makes. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.
Adrian Swinscoe
OCTOBER 30, 2021
This is a guest post from Tim Ferguson, a writer and editor of Marketing Digest. Just as digital marketers use analytics to understand their customers better, […]. The post A quick intro to people analytics and how it improves employee experience first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
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Futurelab
OCTOBER 17, 2021
A couple months ago, I wrote about the difference between consensus and alignment and why that’s important to know. Back then I wrote: Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) alignment customer experience culture leadership Facebook Like. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 25, 2021
We’re extremely excited to connect with the tech community – in person – at Web Summit in Lisbon from November 1st to 4th. This year’s event will be especially significant, as thousands of people from across the industry gather in person after so long in remote-working isolation. We can’t wait to see old friends and make new ones. The Intercom team is looking forward to showcasing our latest features and improvements to the world’s leading Business Messenger and powerful customer sup
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.
Bill Quiseng
OCTOBER 10, 2021
As a customer service professional, you have been told by your supervisor to interact with all customers as if they are the customer persona. Of course, it is easier to have one of your customer personas. A persona is the general image of customer personalities. A persona is many customers wrapped all in one. But a customer is just one individual. Unlike a customer persona, each customer is different from the other.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Loyalty is one of the most overused phrases in business today. To most companies, it invariably means “customers give us all their money.” But that is not what loyalty is. So, today we’re going to talk about the five rules that will build customer loyalty. Or you can listen to the latest episode of my podcast here. Before we get into the rules, let’s talk about what loyalty is.
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Adrian Swinscoe
OCTOBER 25, 2021
In 2015, I wrote an article called “Why Relying Only On Reactive Customer Service Is No Longer Good Enough.” In it, I quoted a couple of […]. The post On-site search, customer experience and inexplicable inaction first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Myra Golden Media
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Oh, wow! Day 3 of Customer Service Week was fun! I shared ten super-energizers that are fantastic for Customer Service Week and beyond! If you missed the live event, no worries. We’ve got you covered with the replay below. Join us at 9am ET tomorrow live!
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Getting the team right is one of the hardest parts of scaling sales. Rapid growth means you need a large, high-performing team, and you need it right now. But no sales team can afford to grow without intention. Many leads’ first meaningful interaction with your business will be a conversation with a salesperson – you have to carefully consider what kind of experience you want that to be, and who will be delivering it.
Bill Quiseng
OCTOBER 24, 2021
Several days ago, I was told that the counter person did not want to say, “How may I serve you?” “I’m not a servant,” she said. She already had an attitude that disdained servitude. To her, servitude meant slavery, having no liberty to determine one’s own way of life. Servitude is having no freedom, consigned to a lifetime of misery and boredom. Service is not servitude.
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Taylor Reach Group
OCTOBER 8, 2021
By John Cockerill. Too often as professionals in Customer Service we report and write about lousy service, long wait times, poor follow through, weaseling phases in terms and conditions, too many steps to get satisfaction plus many, many more. Today I share two bright spots of a personal experience. First, Google and their Pixel phone. I bought an upgrade phone last fall a Pixel 4a.
Fonolo
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Call center agents do much more than answer the phone. To achieve their performance goals , agents must be excellent problem solvers, expert rapport builders, and highly empathetic to the challenges of their customers. That’s why soft skills are so important in this line of work. To keep your customers happy, your contact center needs to know what types of transferable skills to look for in new hires, while also supporting the development of these same skills in your existing team members.
Adrian Swinscoe
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Vasco Pedro, CEO and Founder of Unbabel, recently told me a story when I spoke to him on my podcast about his experience with British Airways’ […]. The post Combating language discrimination in customer service first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Customer Think
OCTOBER 31, 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – the capability of a machine or piece of software to display human-like intelligence – permeates our daily lives, often in ways we do not notice. It touches us in myriad ways. Advanced technology operates behind the scenes, powering and optimizing smartphone apps, transportation, healthcare, retail, and more. In the words of […].
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.
Shep Hyken
OCTOBER 6, 2021
I was recently interviewed by Mario Martinez on his Modern Selling podcast. He shared a story about how he emailed the CEO of a company, and in an incredibly short amount of time, his phone rang, and you can guess who it was … the CEO. . In a state of shock, instead of launching into the reason for the complaint email , my friend asked him, “How are you?
Myra Golden Media
OCTOBER 7, 2021
My son brought in an enormous box from Salesforce Service Cloud 360 full of goodies! Watch me unbox that surprise here. #servicetrailblazers #customerserviceweek [link]. Oh, my gosh! This is amazing! .
The DiJulius Group
OCTOBER 12, 2021
The statistics are alarming: A record-setting 1 million job openings in the US 5 million workers quit just in quarter 2 of this year 41% of the global workforce would consider leaving their current employer within the next year 54% Gen Z’s are considering quitting A Professional Awakening For so many, the pandemic has been. Read Full Article. The post Stop Calling it a Labor Shortage—It is a Turnover Crisis appeared first on The DiJulius Group.
Fonolo
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The reviews for your contact center are in—but they won’t be found in the newspaper or on Rotten Tomatoes. You can see what your customers think about your contact center by determining your Net Promoter Score (NPS). Customer experience surveys can tell you a lot about the service callers are receiving from agents, and NPS is a key statistic you should be considering when reviewing how successful your contact center is at providing exceptional customer service.
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?
Adrian Swinscoe
OCTOBER 4, 2021
This is a guest post from Jason Howard, Executive Vice President at Ethoca. Online shopping has changed dramatically in the last 12-18 months, with online spending […]. The post Why digital bank statements must change with consumers habits first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Customer Think
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Tools for Excavating Sources of Next Generation Loyalty Marketers have an overly optimistic perspective on customer loyalty and their implementations of customer loyalty programs. The reality is that very few customers are loyal and much of what we speak of as customer loyalty is no more than repeat transaction behavior. Customer Loyalty Programs Are Really […].
Shep Hyken
OCTOBER 1, 2021
This week we feature an article by Jason Grills, Customer Support Expert at ProProfs , a company that provides software that empowers organizations to deliver happiness to their customers and employees. He writes about what automated customer service can do for your business. Customer service automation isn’t a new deal for businesses. It has built a stable reputation for itself in the past decade.?
Myra Golden Media
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Several people have written in looking for help to improve the friendliness factor in phone calls. They reach out to me because they’ve gotten feedback or a warning from a supervisor that if they don’t turn things around, their jobs could be in jeopardy. So what makes a person sound friendly over the phone? Turns out, it’s easy to sound friendly with customers.
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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
Experience Investigators
OCTOBER 19, 2021
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”. – Robert Collier. What are Micromoments? In any customer journey, there are countless small efforts. These include efforts from the company serving the customer and effort from the customer themself. . After all, the customer journey is really the journey of a relationship. The customer might be buying a product, but they’re also engaging with the brand in a thousand small ways.
Fonolo
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Traditional call center environments are often busy, fast-paced environments, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Conversations around call center optimization often focus on technology, training, and metrics, but call center workforce optimization also includes the physical elements of your operation. The physical environment in your call center can be just as impactful as the technology you use.
PeopleMetrics
OCTOBER 19, 2021
The world has changed, and the way people communicate has changed along with it. With texting & video chat being more popular than ever, it’s imperative that your customer feedback program keeps up to date on the way your customers want to speak with you. In this PeopleMetrics LIVE! session, our customer experience experts dive into these two methods, SMS & video feedback , to show you how modern companies are using them to get not only more feedback but richer feedback that drives resul
Customer Think
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Photo by Pixabay, CC0 1.0 Customer Experience (CX) is becoming a significant concern for most business owners. In recent years we have seen many small and large companies investing a fortune to improve customer experience and stay ahead of the competition. Whether it’s for keeping the customer data safe by opting for IT security risk […].
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.
Shep Hyken
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Many years ago, my daughter and I were in our basement, and she found an old typewriter. She looked at it with amazement and asked, “Dad, what’s this?” I explained it was what we used before computers and keyboards were invented. We would type letters and thank-you notes on a piece of paper, without spell-check. She asked if she could play with it. It kept her busy for days.
Myra Golden Media
OCTOBER 20, 2021
People in my workshops ask, “What do I say when a customer threatens suicide?” Customers in distress are stressful for customer support teams. When customers threaten self-harm or harm to others, they’ve taken the interaction outside the boundary of sincere conversation. Understand this. You’re not trained to handle people in crisis.
Hodusoft
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Top 10 Tips to Improve the Productivity of Your Call Center Agents. Call centers are typically considered cost centers, evaluated primarily based on the results they produce. Particularly, the metric- cost per contact. Due to its highly competitive nature, it is one of the toughest, and demanding industries. Therefore, maintaining improve call center productivity, agent productivity can be a difficult task for managers.
Fonolo
OCTOBER 7, 2021
With businesses reopening after COVID-19 closures, US economist Mark Zandi asserts that retailers benefited significantly from the reopening economy. Moreover, retail spending is expected to increase by 19% this year. These predictions represent significant opportunity for retailers. That’s why it’s more important than ever to have a superior customer service strategy — that includes ensuring your retail contact center operations are optimized for a smooth customer experience.
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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