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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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Only at LISTEN: An AI Perspective from Outside the Cave

Callminer

At LISTEN, experience our most complete and advanced AI track to date with an AI-centric keynote and four dedicated AI sessions ranging from moderate to expert level.

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When should engineering managers write code?

Intercom, Inc.

Many engineers who make the transition to a management role face a bit of a conundrum – if I stop doing hands-on work, my team will lose a strong engineer and instead will gain an inexperienced manager. When I became a manager three years ago, this thought kept popping into my head, especially in the first few months, and breaking out of this mindset was one of the biggest challenges in my transition from maker to manager.

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The Remarkable Power of Habit to Transform Customer Behavior

Beyond Philosophy

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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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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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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Reduce Employee & Customer Churn with Actionable Engagement Insights

Callminer

It’s no secret that customer churn is costing businesses huge amounts. Here's how to identify actionable insights to reduce employee and customer churn.

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What Happens When Everyone Has a CDP?

Customer Experience Matrix

October 22 was a landmark day for the CDP industry. We reported three significant announcements: Mastercard bought CDP and loyalty vendor SessionM which will power Mastercard services for its merchant clients Teradata launched its own CDP offering, Vantage CX, which will anchor Teradata’s marketing software product line Tealium partnered with marketing agency Wunderman Thompson , which will use Tealium AudienceStream to manage customer data for agency clients Each announcement following a string

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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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Women in Analytics Networking Event: A LISTEN 2019 Production

Callminer

Speech analytics is a complex industry, but our women employees make it look easy. Don’t miss the opportunity to meet and network at LISTEN 2019.

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Calls Are Taking Longer, and That’s a Good Thing

Fonolo

It’s hard to get clear, objective data about the overall state of self-service technology. Case studies about specific projects are plentiful, but, as the saying goes, “the plural of anecdote is not data.” In addition, you always have to account for bias in that reporting: Vendors are going to highlight the data that makes their technology look good.

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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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Good CX = Great Business Case

Heart of the Customer

I’m returning home from a day and a half at Comcast’s headquarters, locked in a room with other marketing and CX thought leaders. (Okay, so not exactly locked in…) They brought us to Philadelphia to share the work they’re doing in customer experience and to get our feedback and advice. But mostly to show us […]. The post Good CX = Great Business Case appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Taylor Reach Welcomes CX and Contact Center Industry Leader Steve Edmondson as Strategic Partner and Consultant

Taylor Reach Group

Industry-leading Customer Experience (CX) and Contact Center consulting firm, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG), is continuing its forward momentum and growth with the addition of strategic partner and consultant, Steve Edmondson. Colin Taylor, CEO and Chief Chaos Officer of The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., this week announced the addition of Steve Edmondson to the globally recognized consulting firm.

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Survey Health Is Everything. The Success of Your VoC Program (And Probably Your Job) Depends on It.

PeopleMetrics

Today, I am going to focus on a very important topic – survey health. Let’s start with the obvious… if survey health is poor, nothing else you do with your VoC program will matter. The quality of your questions won’t matter, the beauty of your dashboards won’t matter, and your case management workflow won’t matter either. So what is a healthy survey?

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Five Tips for Building a Customer Success Team

Totango

In the customer-centered economy, your customer success (CS) team is invaluable. The team’s goal is to retain your hard-won customers and help them grow by deepening the customer relationship and ensuring they are realizing value with your product every step of the way. This leads to greater customer success, which reduces churn and increases renewals. .

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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 Prepare Your Call Center For Spikes in Call Volume: Credit Unions

Fonolo

Credit unions’ commitment to serving their members is reflected in their healthy growth: these financial institutions now count more than 110 million people as members and hold deposits totaling $1.1 trillion. When a growing sector builds its reputation on customer service, customers themselves can feel the strain of growth when that reputation is no longer met or exceeded.

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Press Release: Leading BPO reaches out to CX and Contact Center consulting firm for assistance in improving agent retention

Taylor Reach Group

Taylor Reach Group, Inc., an internationally acknowledged and leading CX and Contact Center consulting firm, announced today that they have been engaged to assess the BPO operational practices and policies with a view to improving agent retention. The US-based client provides customer care and account receivables management services to some of the most respected companies nationwide, including many Fortune 500 companies.

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Don’t Bury your Customer Service

CSAT.AI

Don’t Require a Treasure Map. No contact tab, no customer service number, and no chat icon. How are your customers going to contact you if you bury your customer service? If your customer service avenues are more hidden than the mummy’s tomb you are likely to lose repeat business. By the time customers do find you they may have more than one simple question to address, which impacts First Call Resolution (FCR).

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Conversation Nevers & Always

The DiJulius Group

*The following is an excerpt from my newest book The Relationship Economy, Building Stronger Customer Connections In The Digital Age, which hit #1 on Amazon! Customer experience and employee experience starts with your ability to communicate with both parties. How can you perfect the art of listening? Ask fascinating, probing questions, follow-up questions, and then.

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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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Calls Are Taking Longer, and That’s a Good Thing

Fonolo

It’s hard to get clear, objective data about the overall state of self-service technology. Case studies about specific projects are plentiful, but, as the saying goes, “the plural of anecdote is not data.” In addition, you always have to account for bias in that reporting: Vendors are going to highlight the data that makes their technology look good.

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Press Release: Stock transfer firm selects Contact Center Consultancy to develop roadmap to improve customer experience

Taylor Reach Group

Today, CX and Contact Center consultancy, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG), announced they are administering a Strategic Assessment for a leading stock transfer organization. The consultancy will conduct an essential health check of the firm’s customer experiences and Contact Center operations. “We use a hands-on, holistic approach to assess the interaction experience and review all elements of the contact center.

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Take the Customer Care Approach with B2B Artificial Intelligence

The PhaseWare Files

Artificial intelligence can help your support team improve the customer care they provide your clients. Let us help with B2B customer support software.

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Do You Actively Communicate with Customers During Times of Disruption?

Customer Bliss

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. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. When customers need you, are you there?

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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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Do Your Customer Service Employees See Their True Impact? | #CX #CustServ

Kate Nasser

Want high performance from your customer service employees? Show them the true impact they have on customers! Leading morale tips fr Kate Nasser The People Skills Coach™, Author of Leading Morale. The post Do Your Customer Service Employees See Their True Impact? | #CX #CustServ appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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2020 Predictions for the Future of Market Research

Confirmit

As Charles Darwin pointed out, it isn’t necessarily the strongest or the smartest that survive – but rather, those who are most responsive to change. Over the past 100 years Market Research has gone through many changes - from the 1920s when Market Research emerged as a formally recognized discipline through the continuous development of new methodologies, techniques, and technologies up to present day.

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iQor SVP of Operations and GM, Connie Long, Serves as Industry Expert at the Digital Transformation in Reverse Logistics Seminar

iQor

Long leads iQor’s Memphis logistics and product services center where they work with big name brands to reduce returns and repair products better than new.

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How to Address the Underbelly Work as a Chief Experience Officer at a Nonprofit

Customer Bliss

As CCOs, a lot of our work involves understanding what drives the culture of the organization. It’s about how the organization views its customers/audience, and vice versa. This deep dive is what I often refer to as the underbelly work. It’s about getting into the nitty-gritty and involves restructuring and reexamining how things have been done before.

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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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Why Qualtrics – Suzanne Scharer – Principal Customer Success Consultant – Provo, UT

Qualtrics

At Qualtrics we want to connect our people to careers that feed their purpose; jobs that motivate & inspire them. This is Suzanne’s “Why Qualtrics” story. I’ve been given so many unique opportunities & so much support (both personally & professionally) that I live life by paying it forward. While I will always leverage my mentors, I’m at a great point in my life where I can support others on their way up.

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Connecting Data to Map your Customers’ Journey

Confirmit

Every organization wants happy customers! According to Forrester Research 1 experience-driven businesses grew revenue 1.4 times faster year-on-year. Happier customers ultimately mean more revenue. We often find companies pay particular attention to individual touchpoints and transactions, and as a result are less informed of their customers’ end-to-end experience.

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Nine Key Features of a Winning Mobile CRM App

SugarCRM

CRM is the one of the most prominent assets for a business. It streamlines operations and reduces human errors with its systematic approach. But with the desktop version, you can only use it in the office. Because nearly every aspect of the product has been digitized, employees are no longer tied to their desks; especially sales, marketing, and customer support teams.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

? ? ?. Two weeks into Tim Campos’ job as the CIO at Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s executive assistant asked him to join the CEO for an important meeting at 8 a.m. the next morning. But when he arrived, his boss was nowhere to be found. In reality, a group of the top brass’s EAs wanted to talk about how their calendar app was destroying their productivity and credibility in the form of double-bookings and missed meetings.

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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