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Operational Challenges in the Call Center Industry

Callminer

There are numerous issues for which call center managers and leaders must account in running a successful customer support operation. From actively keeping track of shifts in the industry’s technological standards and accommodating economic imperatives to handling other critical processes within the realm of human resources , there are enough potential challenges to tackle in typical call center operations to keep entire management teams reasonably busy year-round.

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The evolution of Ember at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Last fall, I gave a talk at the JSDayIE conference in Dublin about how Intercom and Ember have evolved together over the past six years. It’s one of those facts of startup life that is easy to overlook, but the success and growth of companies can be deeply intertwined with the technology they use in their stack, and I’d like to explain how that has been the case with Intercom and Ember.

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Where AI Meets CX: How Conversational Commerce Effects Customer-Driven Growth

Beyond Philosophy

Technology, human behavior, Customer Experience are intersecting through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and taking marketing in a new direction. To understand how it requires a better understanding of what the inventor of the hashtag Chris Messina’s calls Conversational Commerce. We spoke to Messina on a recent podcast about this concept and how it applies to customer-driven growth.

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Humor Creativity And Empathy In Customer Service: Know How To Read The Room

Navedas

Using soft skills like humor, creativity and empathy in customer service, agents are able to change a mediocre customer experience into a memorable one. The post Humor Creativity And Empathy In Customer Service: Know How To Read The Room appeared first on Navedas.

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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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Operational Challenges in the Call Center Industry

Callminer

To help you address your operational challenges in the call center we've highlighted these major concerns businesses typically encounter.

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The difference between transactional surveys and relationship surveys

Lumoa

There are two types of surveys: relationship surveys and transactional surveys. Relationship surveys measure the overall health of your relationship with your customers. Transactional surveys are used when measuring something about a specific interaction with a customer.

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Is IT the ‘It Factor’ for CCOs?

Heart of the Customer

Chief Customer Officers (CCOs) are popping up in boardrooms across Fortune 500 companies in ever increasing numbers. Those chosen for the position often come from Marketing or Customer Support, as those disciplines are thought of as having the most interaction with customers, making them seem like a natural fit. But are those departments really the […].

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Voice of the Customer Tools and Best Practices

Callminer

Here are the most effective tools and best practices you can incorporate into your company's use of Voice of the Customer tech and techniques.

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Brew and Review: Building a knowledge sharing loop for Customer Success

Intercom

It was almost a year ago when our Customer Success team came up against an issue that all growing teams face: knowledge sharing. We had a large group of talented people – some who knew features and workarounds better than anyone else, some who were experts in technical concepts, some who excelled in project and relationship management, and others who had a deep knowledge of particular industries.

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The hidden success for brands in the future

Beyond Philosophy

Where AI Meets CX: The Remarkable Future for Humanizing Brands. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will transform the customer experience in many ways in the coming years. One area that we see interesting applications of AI Technology is the brand personification and social media management. This new way of creating meaningful interactions with your customers will build emotional engagement with your company, even though the entity doing it is not a human being.

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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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Time is of the Essence: Keep customers waiting at your peril

Fonolo

Today’s consumer is busier than ever. Digital technology hasn’t just made instant communication possible, consumers have come to expect it. This new but rapidly proliferating expectation of ‘always-on’ support — particularly from tech companies — has businesses scrambling to find ways to meet it. Artificially intelligent automation could help provide this level of customer support, as long as it’s executed well.

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How to Use Customer Lifetime Value to Manage Employee Empowerment

Customers That Stick

Employee empowerment is one of the most underrated tools in the customer experience leaders toolbox. Employee empowerment is what I call the win-win-win of customer experience leadership. By empowering employees to solve customer issues in real time, customers win, employees win and the organization wins. Yet leaders often struggle with empowerment.

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Build Admirable Acts, Guided by Your Non-Negotiables

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. For the previous video about this topic, click here to read the transcript and access the video.

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We all have a Superpower to better Understand Others

The DiJulius Group

1. Customer Service Feature Story We all have a Superpower to better Understand Others We spend much of our time trying to understand what our customers, employees, significant others, and children really mean by what they say or don’t say. Too often we try to analyze, decode, or judge without ever knowing what is going. Read Full Article. The post We all have a Superpower to better Understand Others appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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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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5 Ways Support Teams Can Show Customers They Care

TeamSupport

Everyone in the business world has had an experience where it didn’t feel like they mattered to a vendor or business. It’s a difficult feeling knowing your voice isn’t being heard, or even worse ignored by someone you’re trusting to meet your business needs. However, these situations can be avoided with your own customers by hiring support team members who legitimately care about them AND know how to properly display this care in conversations.

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What Should Be On My Customer Service Job Résumé?

Customers That Stick

What should be on my customer service job resume? I’m going to answer this in one word. Passion. There are lot of topics you should cover on your resume, but as someone who has hired hundreds of people for customer-facing roles, I can tell you the main idea you want to convey — especially if you’re just starting out — is that you are passionate about customer service.

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7 Reasons Why Nobody Is Replying to Your Surveys (and How to Make Sure They Do)

SurveySensum

You send the surveys and you may have even put some serious effort into writing the survey questions. But you fail to get the response you wanted or sometimes a response at all. What went wrong? Well, below are seven reasons why nobody is responding to your surveys, and how to make sure they do. Though this article was written with an email survey response rate in mind as email is one of the most popular channels for distributing a survey.

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SuccessBLOCs – Now With More Usage Metrics

Totango

Hi, Today we have some exciting product updates, as well as an upcoming webinar you can join for more best practices. SuccessBLOC Scorecards, Now With User KPIs. We’ve added an enhancement to SuccessBLOC Scorecards which now allows you to create KPIs based on user metrics, as well as account metrics. Some example use cases of this would be for usage trends, active users, and more.

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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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“Unlock your Potential”: ADP Canada and the Secret Behind Customer Service Success

Fonolo

“How does ADP do customer service so well?”. Amar Sidhu leans in and chuckles, “That’s easy — we’re customer-obsessed.”. Sidhu, the Senior Vice President of Service Delivery at ADP Canada — and leader of over 1000 associates on a day-to-day basis — knows what he’s talking about. I sat down in conversation with Sidhu at the tail-end of 2019, the year that his team took home the prestigious Customer Obsessed Award from the Customer Service Professionals Network (CSPN) annual conference

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The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams (a One Win Book Review)

Customers That Stick

In this One Win Book Review, we take a look at The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams. Check out the video below to hear Adam’s one win that you can take away from The Non-Designer’s Design Book to improve your organization’s customer experience and customer service. About The Non-Designer’s Design Book. FROM THE PUBLISHER: For nearly 20 years, designers and non-designers alike have been introduced to the fundamental principles of great design by author Robin Williams.

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DR/BC Plans to Mitigate the Impact of Pandemics on Contact Centers

DMG Consulting

DR/BC Plans to Mitigate the Impact of Pandemics on Contact Centers. As the Coronavirus and the heightened risk of a pandemic fills the news headlines, service organizations must be prepared to keep operating if their region is stricken. Many companies have disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans to address the ability to operate if a major disruption were to occur.

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How Blockchain Is Impacting The eLearning Industry

ProProfs

What Is Blockchain? Blockchain is a decentralized digital public ledger. It works through a network of computers that are capable of securely logging multiple transactions while preventing the tampering of records. It enables enterprises and individuals to verify every transaction that takes place. Blockchain technology got worldwide popularity through cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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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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Confirmit Studio

Confirmit

Confirmit Studio makes the complex simple, helping you to deliver personalized end user experiences across data analysis, exploration and taking action. Using Confirmit Studio you can easily add your preferred widgets onto a canvas to build out reports and dashboards tailored to the unique needs of your company’s users. The pages you create can provide at-a-glance data visualizations, reports, metrics and KPIs, as well as support tactical and strategic actions.

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How Customer Service Has Changed?

Customers That Stick

One question I’m often asked, particularly when doing media interviews, is how customer service has changed in recent years. Obviously, the changes have been immense, particularly if you go back 20 or 30 years. Many of the biggest changes in both customer service and customer experience have been around technology. Technology has increased our ability to speedily communicate with our customers and to provide goods and services in ways that we never could as recently as 10 years ago.

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What contact center organizational structure is being used by enterprises to deliver an exceptional customer experience?

DMG Consulting

Question: What contact center organizational structure is being used by enterprises to deliver an exceptional customer experience? Answer: While there is no “one-size-fits-all” alignment, many successful companies now include a customer experience (CX) executive who manages all customer-facing operations either directly or indirectly. To underscore the importance of this position, it typically reports directly to the COO or CEO, and is held by a politically skilled individual who is adept at get

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Humor Creativity And Empathy In Customer Service: Know How To Read The Room

CSAT.AI

Though there are great customer service experiences, they are not considered the norm. You want to define exceptional customer experience, and make it standard at your company. One of the keys to this puzzle is service agents who can “read the room”. They tune in to what your customer needs beyond their question or product issue. Using soft skills like humor, creativity and empathy in customer service, agents are able to change a mediocre customer experience into a memorable one.

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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

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Confirmit Studio

Confirmit

Confirmit Studio makes the complex simple, helping you to deliver personalized end user experiences across data analysis, exploration and taking action. Using Confirmit Studio you can easily add your preferred widgets onto a canvas to build out reports and dashboards tailored to the unique needs of your company’s users. The pages you create can provide at-a-glance data visualizations, reports, metrics and KPIs, as well as support tactical and strategic actions.

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Marketing and customer experience lessons from six of my favourite movies & series

Steven Van Belleghem

What would Joy do? – Inside Out. I’m a big Disney fan, so it should not come as a surprise that I loved Inside Out, a movie about the five personified emotions inside the mind of young girl Riley Andersen, who’s going through a rough time when she moves to another town. Four of her (and of humans in general, actually) basic emotions are negative: Anger, Sadness, Disgust and Fear.

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How to manage live chat

CallCare

Live chat support can be a useful feature on your website, making it easier for people to get in touch with your business and reducing the number of unanswered emails and phone calls. Also, because it doesn’t require a verbal conversation, it may speed up the response time between both parties and encourage people who aren’t fond of speaking over the phone to get in touch.

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Top 10 IP PBX Software For 2020

Hodusoft

It is obvious that businesses small and large cannot do without IP PBX. But which IP PBX software is good enough for you in 2020? Here are the top 10, not necessarily in order of excellence. HoduPBX – IP PBX Software. 3CX. CISCO IP PBX. Digium. NCH Axon IP PBX. Yeastar. ShoreTel IP PBX. Sangoma. Xorcom. Avaya. 1. HoduPBX -IP PBX. With giants like Avaya, Sangoma, and Avaya you would hardly expect an upstart to make the biggies blink.

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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.