March, 2014

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3 Steps to Establish Customer-Centric Call Centers in 2014

Callminer

With customer experience management more important than ever, customer satisfaction has become an area of focus. Here’s a look at 3 best practices to establish call center customer-centricity.

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6 Ways to Make Customers Fall In Love With You Over and Over Again [INFOGRAPHIC]

Win the Customer

'When you fall in love you gladly go the extra mile for that special someone every time. Everything you do, are, and want to be is what will make that special person truly happy.

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How To Disappoint Customers on Social Media: A Cautionary Twitter Tale

PeopleMetrics

'Last week we wrote about a bank that has exceptional customer service in our post “ How to Amaze Banking Customers: A Simple Story ” This week we are going to focus on a story that happened right in @PeopleMetrics Twitter feed. I had read an interesting article on Barclays Kenya ''s refocused customer experience efforts. So naturally, I pulled up Twitter and fired off a tweet at the bank, curious to know what their customer experience efforts were behind the scenes.

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Use Coupons To Increase Your Quiz Sales By 83%

ProProfs

'With thousands of educators actively using ProProfs Store to sell their quizzes, ProProfs has become the ideal online destination to buy quizzes on all kinds of topics from college tests like SAT to professional courses such as CISCO and many more. Taking our online store a step further we have introduced “Coupons” to help you improve your quiz sales and reach out to a larger learner base.

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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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Five Lessons Your Business Can Learn from This Year's Oscar Winners

1 to 1

'Last night the stars came out for Hollywood''s biggest night. From Jennifer Lawrence''s stumble on the Red Carpet, Jared Leto''s poised, tear-jerking speech dedicated to his mother, or 20 Feet From Stardom singer Dorothy Love singing a rousing rendition of a gospel song during her acceptance speech, the 86th Academy Awards, didn''t disappoint. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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How do you develop a team of top performers in your call center?

Callminer

Call center agents are at the heart of your business due to their level of customer interaction. Here’s a look at 3 ways to develop a team of top performers.

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Hire Your Way To A World-Class Customer Experience, One Agent at a Time

Win the Customer

'Organizations that "get" customer experience and are known for their excellent customer service, realize that it''s more about the people you assemble to serve than the processes you have in place.

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The Human Psychology of Customer Service and Why You Have to Master It to Win Customers

Win the Customer

'Customers are living, breathing, feeling individuals who need care, attention, and meaning when it comes to the experience we create for them in our customer service offerings.

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Fire, Ready, Aim Customer Service Will Always Fail. Great Experience Requires Preparation.

Win the Customer

'Without consistency in your service execution, one-off customer experiences can cause confusion and foster disappointment in your customers. Creating the framework for consistent excellence in service is key to long term customer delight.

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3 Simple Ways To Upgrade Your Call Center Experience and Win the Customer

Win the Customer

'With the growing number of channels by which customers can now contact businesses, call centers must adapt their strategy and structure to leave room for coordination, collaboration, and enhance the customer experience.

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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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The ‘11-4’ Syndrome – What Every Service Company Should Banish to Win Customer Loyalty

Win the Customer

'By taking into consideration all the variables such as employee skills, preferences, location, and assets needed, service businesses can increase their first time fix rates almost overnight.

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How to Benefit from Real Time Data to Enhance Customer Service and Win New Customers

Win the Customer

'Information is accessible at the click of a button, and customers are loath to be placed on hold. Studies have emerged that now endorse the significance of real-time data as it affects the customer service experience.

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The Worst Customer Service Email Subject Lines Ever. And How To Avoid Bad Email Service.

Win the Customer

'Successful email subject lines are eye-catching, attention-grabbing and tempting. But there are also annoying, boring, careless, lazy, desperate, or worst of all, deceiving subject lines that give all other hardworking subject lines a bad rap.

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The Most Important Question Customer Service Isn’t Asking and Why It Means Everything to Customers

Win the Customer

'Working together with a customer, means being concerned about how you’re helping the customer succeed in getting what they need. This should always take precedence over workflows and metrics.

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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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How to Win Over Skeptical Customers in a Skeptical Age of Informed Online Customers

Win the Customer

'Aggressive advertisements created a digital era where users were skeptical to the point that they rejected anything that felt like an advertisement. Even companies that attempt to run honest online marketing campaigns feel the cynicism.

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4 Tried and True Customer Service Strategies for New Call Center Managers

Win the Customer

'How do you make your customers stay with you for the long haul? Through the magic of customer service. These 4 tips make sure you''re sticking to what works.

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Repetition is Key to Consistent Customer Experience. Keep Serving, Even When You’re Not Perfect.

Win the Customer

'By repetition, good customer service actions become habits and eventually natural behavior. With effective training and consistent practice, great customer experience can be part of our natural behavior in any customer interaction.

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A Happy Employee Equals Happy Customers, So Stop Treating Call Center Agents Like Trash

Win the Customer

'One of the most valuable assets a company owns is its employees, and ensuring their happiness can be one of the most challenging aspects facing any business.

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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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7 Tips for Reducing Field Service Costs and Enhance Customer Experience That Actually Work

Win the Customer

'With software companies providing innovative solutions to enable smarter decision-making and more efficient resource allocation, a truly lean enterprise is within reach that leaves more time and resources to take care of customers.

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Sucking is the First Step to Being Sorta Good at Customer Service

Win the Customer

'Getting to the point where customer service is good, or even great takes a long, long time. No matter who you are and how much experience you have, you''re going to suck at first.

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Learn from Apple, Don’t Rush Technology to Fix the Call Center, Get the Experience Right

Win the Customer

'Apple knows who they are, understand the needs of their customers, and they have a clear vision for the customer experience they want their customers to have. They stick with their plan and execute it to perfection time and time again.

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When is Customer Experience Bad for Business? When Technology Gets In the Way of Service.

Win the Customer

'If Apple designed a phone based on cell phone users of the early 2000''s we''d all be rocking Motorola Razrs and no one would have heard of the iPhone.

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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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5 Ways to Grow Your Business by Emulating the Big Boys and Treating Your Customers Right

Win the Customer

'In most cases, great customer service starts with a clear philosophy and a commitment to creating something exceptional. Make sure you know what makes you unique, and have a guiding idea that governs all levels of your organization.

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Believe in the Power of Customer Service to Win New Customers

Win the Customer

'Customer service quality is a manifestation of your customer care and the degree of your customer focus. The degree to which you go to serve your customers shows the true essence of the existence of your organization.

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Show Your Customer Some Appreciation and Increase Your ROI With Better Customer Service

Win the Customer

'Customers love feeling special, they crave being part of an exclusive group. Even the smallest thing you to do to show your customer you go out of your way for them will have a positive impact in the customer experience.

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Design Customer Experience Like Pixar If You Want to Win the Hearts of Customers

Win the Customer

'The idea that everybody deserves quality is a fundamental Pixar concept. The experience creates positive emotional connections with every customer.

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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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Faceless Social Customer Service in the Social Media Age

Win the Customer

'Customers today crave that sense of connectedness with the people they do business. Too many corporations hide behind a faceless corporate image. And by doing that, they fail to connect with customers in a meaningful way.

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Business Insurance: Do You Need It? Yes, You Do – Here’s Why It Matters to Your Customers

Win the Customer

'Whether you work from home or an office, you need reliable business insurance to protect yourself from liability and circumstances that interrupt business. Here''s a roundup of what to look for and how to budget accordingly.

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Love Customer Service for the Right Reasons and Customers Will Love You Back

Win the Customer

'Working in customer service is about helping people take that next step and move forward making things better. Customer service is about supporting when frustration overtakes and just before despair causes customers to give up.

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Create amazing customized quizzes that match your theme colors

ProProfs

'Whether you’re planning a wedding or revamping your room, selecting a particular theme or color is sure to sweeten the experience and enhance the final look. The same is also true when it comes to ‘designing’ your quizzes. So are you looking to match colors in your quiz with your website? With ProProfs Hex code support in Themes you can now do that!

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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.