Callminer

JANUARY 23, 2019

CallMiner joined forces with nGUVU—makers of nGAGEMENT, the employee engagement platform for contact centers—discussed the employee engagement trends taking shape in 2019.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 22, 2019

Between 40% and 60% of people who sign up for a free trial of your software will never convert. What are you doing with the leads that don’t convert right away? If your answer is “nothing,” you’re leaving money on the table. By instituting a lead nurturing campaign sequence, you can guide those prospects through your buying cycle, from the moment they enter their email address on your website, to successful adoption of your product and beyond.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2019

Your customers are people and people’s behavior is complicated, especially as customers. Many psychological theories exist to help explain why people do what they do, and when those theories apply to how people behave as customers, they are called Behavioral Economics. I have been studying Behavioral Economics for a few years now and applying those principles to Customer Experience.

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Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 23, 2019

When you have an enraged customer on the phone or in front of you, nothing threads the needle like mirroring the customer’s words. Copying the customer’s angry expressions makes the customer feel heard and understood. When the unreasonable customer feels like you’re listening is when they go from a boil to a simmer. There are only three things you have to remember to do with mirroring.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 22, 2019

“We are in the Era of the Customer, ” says Shep Hyken. We are indeed. It’s a modern reality where customers call the shots, armed with the knowledge that they have options. This includes their expectation of a certain level of customer experience, one that is seamless, omnichannel, and with bot offerings. In fact, according to Forrester , today’s “consumers have more tech at their disposal than ever before and it has fundamentally changed how they experience brands.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 25, 2019

We’re conditioned to think from an early age that exciting things are the best. That attitude can extend to engineering, too. When trying to solve a problem with software, it can be tempting to build an exciting, complex solution. But that unnecessary complexity can lead to even more complicated issues. At our event Building Intercom in Dublin, I argued that when it comes to building software, we should avoid excitement and embrace boring.

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C3Centricity

JANUARY 21, 2019

If you commission or conduct market research, then this post is a must-read. It shares ten important reasons I have learned over the years for NOT doing research, but which are unfortunately still prevalent today. Which, if any, are you guilty of? Leave your comments below – I dare you! #1. WHEN THE ISSUE / OPPORTUNITY IS NOT CLEAR AND THE OBJECTIVES ARE NOT WELL DEFINED.

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Heart of the Customer

JANUARY 22, 2019

My wife and I took a long-overdue vacation to Mexico, and stayed at an ocean-side resort over the holidays. At check-in, the desk attendant told us they would upgrade us to an ocean-side room for free. Great! We were looking forward to having a nice view. Five minutes later, he came back saying, “I’m sorry. […]. The post CX – Good People can’t Overcome Bad Data appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2019

Often in software you’ll hear that you get something for free, like “the framework just gives us this for free,” or “if we use X service provider, we get Y for free,” or your developers will tell you “we were building this bit anyway so we get this extra piece for free.”. Nothing is free in software. It’s not free because you’re sitting there talking about it and you’re debating if you should do it.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Customer Experience Industry is suffering from a lack of results. Or perhaps it might be more accurate to say, it is suffering from a lack of proof about the results Customer Experience strategy is getting. It is time for all Customer Experience professionals to champion the ROI of their Customer Experience. The problem is many of our champions do not know how. <!

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Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

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The DiJulius Group

JANUARY 23, 2019

When I am working with my clients, I always tell them that creating the Service Vision is difficult, but what is even more difficult is sustaining the momentum. Ensuring that it is alive and being executed twelve to eighteen months from now. I had the pleasure of working with Al Serra Auto Plaza on their. Read Full Article. The post How To Avoid Your CX From Being Flavor Of The Month appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Taylor Reach Group

JANUARY 21, 2019

While The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., has been an industry leader in call and contact center consulting for more than 15 years, the main area of focus has been on establishing great customer care in the business sector, especially in retail and service industries. Although the company has worked with municipal and federal government agencies in the past, it is clear that the ever-expanding size and scope of public sector contact centers, as well as the unique needs of the people they serve, demand

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Fonolo

JANUARY 24, 2019

Companies have been outsourcing their call centers for decades to lower costs, increase productivity, and enable scaled-up customer support during peak times. It is so prevalent in the call center space that the term “Business process outsourcing” (BPO) is often used interchangeably with “outsourced call center.” In the last few years, the call center outsourcing industry has seen revenues crossing $140 billion.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Customer Experience Industry is suffering from a lack of results. Or perhaps it might be more accurate to say, it is suffering from a lack of proof about the results Customer Experience strategy is getting. It is time for all Customer Experience professionals to champion the ROI of their Customer Experience. The problem is many of our champions do not know how. <!

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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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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 24, 2019

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 25, 2019

In today’s episode, I explore the basics of establishing a core CX foundation for your organization with Darin Byrne, Vice President of Client Experience and Delivery at Wolters Kluwer , a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services for clinicians, nurses, accountants, lawyers, tax specialists, and finance, audit, compliance, and regulatory sectors.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 23, 2019

This post was supposed to be about the “Top Contact Center Acquisitions of 2018”, but two significant deals occurred in the last two weeks, and I didn’t want to wait another year to include them on the list. Plus, we already published a blog on “ 5 Intriguing Call Center Acquisitions from the First Half of 2018″, so there was no point in repeating some of the deals that were covered in that post.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 19, 2019

Stay Ahead of Your Competition with New Advances in CX Marketing. This podcast discusses the five areas you can address that will change the results you get with your Customer Experience. With a focus on these five key actions, you will not only improve your Customer Experience, but you can also get a jump on the competition in the new year. 5 CX Concepts to Keep You Ahead of the Competition.

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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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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 22, 2019

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UJET

JANUARY 24, 2019

There’s no denying that excellent customer service is crucial for your business.

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ProProfs

JANUARY 25, 2019

If you’re done with adding more and more content to your blogs and are looking to try something new to make them more exciting, try quizzes such as ‘what would you do if you were caught in these situations’. Quizzes can literally save your blogs from cramming up with written content and make them a more interactive concept for your readers. You can either opt for a quiz creator software or free quiz makers available online, or you can simply jot down the following hacks. .

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 19, 2019

Stay Ahead of Your Competition with New Advances in CX Marketing. This podcast discusses the five areas you can address that will change the results you get with your Customer Experience. With a focus on these five key actions, you will not only improve your Customer Experience, but you can also get a jump on the competition in the new year. 5 CX Concepts to Keep You Ahead of the Competition.

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Totango

JANUARY 24, 2019

Your customers should be your greatest obsession. The digital transformation of business has created a customer-centered economy built on subscriptions, personalized services, and new definitions of customer loyalty. No longer can we be content with a traditional account management relationship that consists of monthly calls and simple questions of, “Is everything okay?”.

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Transcosmos

JANUARY 21, 2019

The customer service industry has seen a dramatic shift over the years. With new innovations and trends, companies now leverage advanced tools, such as automation, in delivering the best customer support. A survey shows 89% of businesses compete through the level of customer service experience they provide. Meanwhile, 70% of unsatisfied customers whose problems are resolved are eager to do business with the brand again.

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CSAT.AI

JANUARY 19, 2019

Isn’t this the dream for every company? Gone the days, when you do your best customer service without knowing if your customer was satisfied. Introducing CSAT.AI – The real time Analytics tool which enables you to analyze your service agent’s response while they type so that you can make sure that your customer is happy! The post Happy Customer!

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Steven Van Belleghem

JANUARY 20, 2019

Efficiency & the era of Pig Data. When a new or a matured software enters the market, it’s typically used to increase the speed and efficiency of certain processes. So it should not come as a surprise that organizations are looking into facial recognition to make them more effective, secure and to improve the quality of their products. This is not the cool or ‘sexy’ part where the customer experience is enhanced to nearly magical levels, but it’s where processes are sped up and made cheaper.

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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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UJET

JANUARY 24, 2019

There’s no denying that excellent customer service is crucial for your business.

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Chip Bell

JANUARY 22, 2019

Whether it is physically less exhausting to smile than to scowl, it is certainly beneficial, and thus there is something to this ancient exhortation to put aside negative emotions long enough to “turn a frown upside down.”. In a 2002 study performed in Sweden , researchers confirmed what our grandmothers already knew—people respond in kind to the facial expressions they encounter.

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 24, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful. Each day we learn from the trenches what it takes to make clients happy and successful.

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TeamSupport

JANUARY 25, 2019

Too often, customers rush to the phone whenever an issue or question pops in to their mind. While having customer conversations is great, too much communication can be harmful and have a negative impact on your business. To alleviate some of this communication, more companies are leveraging an online customer portal to stop mundane conversations before they even begin.

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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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