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And the winners are…congratulations to our LISTEN 2021 Award recipients!

Callminer

We recently announced our LISTEN 2021 Award winners, including seven LISTEN 2021 Analyst Award winners, and Top Partner and Top Customer of the Year. Read the blog to learn about the recipients.

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Customer service teams: the time for more service advocacy is now

Adrian Swinscoe

Customer service teams are often taken for granted. Some of you may think that that is a strong statement. But, if you look up the expression […]. The post Customer service teams: the time for more service advocacy is now first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Prioritization and Decision-Making Tools: The Rice Scoring Model

Futurelab

As customer experience professionals, the work you do to identify improvement opportunities and other initiatives to design and deliver a better experience requires you to build the business case and help your executives prioritize those initiatives – because there are typically many improvements that need to be made. I’ve previously written about prioritization methods and criteria: Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience decision making leadership prioritizing Facebook Like.

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Growing up without growing old: How to keep the startup spirit as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

When you’ve launched your product, raised a round or two, and scaled the business beyond the early days, inevitably things start to slow down. You used to speak in hours and days, and now it’s months and quarters. You used to obsess about innovation and being at the front of the market, and now you’re feeling bogged down shipping table-stakes features.

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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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“Satisfaction Guaranteed” Does Not Lead to Customers Guaranteed

Bill Quiseng

When you are working in customer service, you have been happy that your customers leave satisfied. You have sold them a product or service that meets their wants or needs. Or you solved their problem for them. You were happy because, in the end, they were satisfied. But their satisfaction does not guarantee their return. The good news is that your satisfied customers didn’t complain.

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Building the CX Tech Stack of the Future

Uniphore

Ravi Saraogi, Co-founder and President APAC, Uniphore and Loan Kiss, Sitdown Events. As enterprises plan for the post-pandemic future, new goals—and new ways to achieve them—shape the customer service landscape. Tasked with driving operational efficiency, productivity and growth, business leaders are turning to technology to bridge the gap between rising customer demands and limited human resources.

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What Indeed can teach us about brand promises

Inside Customer Service

The job search site, Indeed , ran baseball-themed commercials during the recent World Series broadcast. In this one featuring Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher, Max Scherzer, Scherzer uses baseball analogies to coach an applicant looking for a sales management position. What's struck me about these commercials is the strength of Indeed's brand promise: "We help people get jobs.

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A New Old Look at Work-Life Balance

The Belding Group

Maybe you're looking at work-life balance the wrong way. Yes, working is something we have to do to survive. We also, however, have to eat to survive. Yet, how often do you hear someone roll their eyes and say, "Having to go to a restaurant is cutting into my Eat-Life balance.". Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.

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Banking on Great Conversations

Uniphore

For the finance industry, the global pandemic was a watershed moment. Customers unable to access their branch locations increasingly took to digital channels for their customer service needs. Faced with record-high contact center traffic, many organizations accelerated their digital transformations—and uncovered a wealth of untapped CX value. Today, conversational AI is helping businesses capitalize on every customer interaction across every channel.

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What’s Impeding Change in Your Business?

Futurelab

You know you need to make changes in the business, but there are competing forces, those that help to drive the change and those that impede the change. How do you identify and then solve for each of those and, ultimately, bring everyone together? Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) action change change management CX vision Facebook Like. Linkedin Share Button.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve the Way You Deal with Customer Complaints

Beyond Philosophy

Lately, my Customer Experiences have been lousy. At the beginning of the pandemic, I was more understanding when Customer Experiences weren’t great. However, 18 months later, my patience has run out, and organizations should have sorted things out by now. So, since the state of things is such a mess at the moment, we did a podcast on the 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve the Way You Deal with Customer Complaints, and I thought I would share them here as well. .

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The Key to a Great Customer Experience is Collaboration

Customer Think

I originally wrote today’s post for WixAnswers. It appeared on their blog on June 7, 2021. We know that the customer experience is important to the success of any organization. Customers are king, and they vote with their wallets – and with their fe.

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Preparing for the Journey Ahead

Uniphore

Travel and hospitality were among the hardest hit industries during the pandemic. While today both are recovering, businesses are grappling with new realities on the ground—and in the air. Fewer business travelers, newer no-contact preferences and higher overall expectations are a few of the factors shaping the customer experience landscape. Conversational AI is helping travel and hospitality leaders weather the turbulence and welcome new customers with next-generation CX.

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CX Journey™ Musings: Values Create Value

Futurelab

Culture is so important to your business. The right culture is even more important. If you ask me, the right culture is always one that is customer-centric. Putting the customer at the heart of the business is what makes the world, er, the business, go round. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) core values culture customer-centric culture Facebook Like.

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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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A Fast Answer or the Right Answer

Shep Hyken

Recently I was talking to a customer support rep. She was amazing. She was personable, genuinely cared, and I felt that she understood my problem. That said, we were struggling to get the problem resolved. She said, “I know you want to get this resolved right away. I can give you a fast answer or I can give you the right answer.”. Next, she explained why.

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How to find Product-Market-Fit before you have a product

Customer Think

This was a question I had often asked myself. Your team might take weeks or months to build a product. You’re about to ship it. And you find out that your customers don’t use it much, or even worse, they ask you to keep adding minor and irrelevant features that they may not end up […].

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Fulfilling Conversational AI’s Promise in Your Contact Center

Uniphore

Contact centers can deliver superior CX, save costs, and achieve better ROI with AI and automation. Over a year after the onset of the pandemic, contact centers have stepped up digital transformation plans at scale. To address common challenges, many organizations are turning to artificial intelligence and conversational service automation to deliver better customer experiences and employee efficiencies.

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UserOnboard’s Samuel Hulick on designing paths, not products

Intercom

Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. For Samuel Hulick , a UX consultant and one of the biggest authorities out there on user onboarding, that means thinking less about the product itself and more about how to get users the results they’re after.

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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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How can you empower your employees to become more customer centric?

Steven Van Belleghem

Create a safe space. The most crucial part of enabling customer centric behavior is creating a safe environment for your employees. If you want them to act in a customer centric way, they will need to be able to solve problems or offer customer advice in a fast and smooth manner. You will probably have your very own vision on how that should be done in the most optimal manner, and that’s great.

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B2B Marketers: How to Win the Trust of Your CEO

Customer Think

As a chief marketing officer (CMO) or senior B2B marketing professional, there are few things as satisfying as earning and maintaining the trust of your CEO, and for that matter, the rest of the executive team. Conversely, if you do not have this trust, your professional life can be quite painful. In my career, I’ve […].

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Conversational AI is Transforming the Future Contact Centers

Uniphore

Contact centers can adapt to a post-pandemic world and be future-ready with conversational AI and automation. Over a year after the onset of the pandemic, contact centers are looking to transform and enrich their operations with conversational AI and Automation technologies. Call volumes have increased and the pressure to deliver an exceptional customer experience while keeping costs down continues to be a challenge.

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6 Ways to Remove Employee Roulette from your Brand’s Customer Experience

The DiJulius Group

Is the level of experience your customers receive is dependent on which employee they encounter? Are there certain employees on your team you hope your best clients interact with? If so, then you have what is known as employee roulette. Employee roulette is a problem most organizations have. There is good news: You can significantly. Read Full Article.

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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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The 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve The Way you Deal with Customer Complaints

Beyond Philosophy

The 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve The Way you Deal with Customer Complaints. A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. Does your organization like to pretend that complaints never happen?

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The Great Resignation and customer service

Customer Think

The Great Resignation, the Big Quit, the Turnover Tsunami – whatever you want to call it, is a growing trend in the world of work that is taking off across the globe. But what exactly is it, what consequences might it have for the customer service industry and could it be the wake-up call our […].

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Prioritizing CX and agent experience with AI and automation

Uniphore

Contact centers can deliver superior CX and agent experience with conversational AI and automation tools. In a digital-first post-pandemic world, organizations need to pay close attention to the customer experience and agent experience alike. Emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Intelligent Automation are helping brands not just to thrive but succeed in a post-pandemic world.

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The New Normal: Today’s Brand Must Elevate Customer Experience to Compete

Totango

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced brands to elevate customer experience to stay competitive. As more consumers turned to e-commerce, more companies had to step up their digital game, in turn forcing SaaS providers to deliver so brands could satisfy their buyers. This accelerated a digital-first customer success transformation that was already in motion before the pandemic.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Buyer's Guide to Choosing the Right Customer Support Tool

Help Scout

Use this guide to identify your specific support software needs, understand the types of solutions to look for, evaluate your options, and get leadership buy-in.

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How the Customer Experience is Shifting in Manufacturing

Customer Think

Photo by Unsplash, CC0 1.0 Manufacturers can serve as a valuable resource to their customers by implementing digital strategies. It makes doing business simpler, which is another excellent growth strategy. Customer experience is at the heart of acquisition and retention, but until now seemed to be only a strategy for B2C. However, B2B companies have […].

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A Wonkish Look at First-Principles Thinking

Heart of the Customer

I’ve been thinking lately about why we measure things like, for example, Net Promoter Score (NPS). What are we actually doing? These thoughts are prompted by Reid Hoffman’s great new book, Masters of Scale. (In addition to writing books and hosting a podcast, Hoffman is the co-founder of LinkedIn and serves on the boards of […]. The post A Wonkish Look at First-Principles Thinking appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Open-Ended Questions: Get Feedback With More Context

Zonka Feedback

How often have you created a feedback survey with an “other” option in your multiple-choice questionnaire? This option is for when your respondents may have an answer other than what’s already in the questionnaire. However, it may create ambiguity since there is no definite way to know what it is that customers mean when they choose the “other” option.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the