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Don’t Ignore The Pot-Stirring Employee

The Belding Group

The Pot-Stirrer loves an injustice. He (she) lives to find real or imagined issues within the company, or even with you. He constantly questions decisions, and, like a dog with a bone, won't let go of something once he's got his teeth in it. To make matters worse, he just doesn't seem to be happy until everyone at work is talking about it. The Pot Stirrer is almost always in the middle of workplace morale challenges.

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Digital teams suffer from a perception gap that hinders customer experience improvement efforts

Adrian Swinscoe

Organizations are often fraught with gaps in perception, and many of these impact their ability to improve both the customer and employee experience. Bain is responsible […]. The post Digital teams suffer from a perception gap that hinders customer experience improvement efforts first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Lessons from The Overlook: 5 things vacation rental guests should know

Inside Customer Service

Note: Lessons from The Overlook is a periodic update on lessons learned from owning a vacation rental property in the Southern California mountain town of Idyllwild. It's a hands-on opportunity to apply some of the techniques I advise my clients to use. You can find past updates here. My wife, Sally, and I own a vacation rental cabin called The Overlook Idyllwild.

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Can data help assess customer vulnerability and affordability? Yes. Here’s why

Callminer

Ahead of his session at the Online Collections Technology Think Tank 2.1 on September 16, Frank Sherlock shares his thoughts on using data to identify vulnerable customers and assess affordability.

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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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How to Create a Call Center IVR Script

Fonolo

When customers call your customer service line, greeting them with a friendly and easy-to-navigate interactive voice response system is a standard in call center software. This is often the first stage in a customer service journey, so making your welcome greeting and routing accessible and intuitive is a key aspect to your call center functionality.

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You’re Terminated: Three Reasons Customers Will Stop Doing Business with You

Shep Hyken

One of the favorite chapters I wrote in my recent book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , was about why customers would terminate their relationship with you. Yes, the word terminate ties into the movie Terminator , which somehow became a theme in the background of the book. So, why would a customer terminate his or her relationship with you?

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Coaching sales interactions takes more than experience – it takes the right technology

Callminer

Sales leaders need to evolve with technology. Rick Britt, CallMiner's VP of AI, shares why it’s time to change the game and start moving the needle using technology like sales conversation analytics.

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What’s Actually Happening in AI and How Uniphore Is Advancing Language Understanding

Uniphore

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field that often attracts hyperbole and misinformation fueled by a general lack of understanding. Popular media hasn’t done much to help the public image of AI, with stories of machines capable of thinking for themselves, stealing people’s jobs and threatening humanity. In reality, AI isn’t close to having the cognitive capacity to surpass human intelligence.

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Tactics to stay ahead of the curve and boost efficiency with proactive support

Intercom

For so many years, customer support was seen as a cost center – the first port of call for customer complaints. Now, it’s taking center stage as the value driver it truly is , enabling businesses to build lasting relationships with their customers, drive increased operational efficiency, and influence better customer satisfaction and retention. Customers’ expectations of support are also changing dramatically as the support landscape continues to evolve.

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Experience vs. Touchpoint Journey Mapping: What’s the Difference?

Customer Think

I had a recent experience with a prospective client. They are a large global (bricks and mortar to digital) retailer who told me that they needed to map their “end-to-end customer journey” They said they wanted a “deep understanding of the emotional experience” and “how they could improve this journey for existing customers and prospects”, […].

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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 Measure Customer Service Quality: Methods & Tools

Help Scout

Just because a customer clicked a smiley face in your post-service feedback survey does not mean you gave them high-quality service. They might love the product, and your service is just okay enough not to make a difference. Or they might be very happy with an answer, not knowing you’ve given them incomplete or out-of-date information.

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CX in the Insurance Industry: Humanizing the Digital Experience

Uniphore

Digital servicing has given CX teams the ability to conveniently and efficiently reach out to more customers, and COVID-19 has enabled many companies to adopt digital platforms at scale. But there’s an inherent danger with focusing completely on digital: losing the empathy of the human touch. Dipu KV , President & Head of Operations and Customer Service at Bajaj Allianz General , talks about how the focus in CX is on transitioning from digitizing the physical, to humanizing the digital.

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How to Create a Customer Service Strategy That Drives Business Growth

Fonolo

As a call center leader, you have one main goal — to grow your long-term customer base. To do that, you need to keep your customers happy. Call center performance is heavily weighed on customer satisfaction; so, the importance of a customer service strategy is undeniable. READ THE FULL GUIDE: Creating a Customer Service Strategy That Drives Business Growth.

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How to Effectively Integrate Video Content in Your Marketing Strategy

Customer Think

Video marketing is the current trend, bolstered by social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube, which are putting video at the center of our everyday lives. In business, the benefits of making website landing pages more interactive and integrating video into more traditional marketing campaigns have been discovered. Video content has never been more […].

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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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Three questions to find out if you’re really customer centric?

Steven Van Belleghem

How do you react when you have an opposing interests with your client? The first question I ask them is “how do you react when your own interest and that of your customer oppose each other”. This type of situation happens more often than you would care to think. Let me illustrate with an example: imagine a bank customer with a sleeping account which hasn’t been used for the last five years.

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AI-powered insights to competitive benchmarking: features you need in your social listening tool

Sprinklr

Many modern brands recognize the importance of capturing customer feedback from social media and other digital channels, but, at the same time, their social listening strategies still fall short of their potential. According to Gartner data , 62% of marketing leaders report facing a significant or moderate challenge in leveraging integrated customer data.

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Three Ways to Make Your Case

Heart of the Customer

“We’ve all seen those studies where it says a one-point increase of CSAT equals this revenue, but to a Commercial Officer, a CEO, or a CFO, this doesn’t sound real. So it doesn’t put CX in a credible position. We need to prove this based on our own data: ‘These are the scores for the […]. The post Three Ways to Make Your Case appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Customer Service Team

Customer Think

Customer service is one of the most important elements of a healthy business. Unfortunately, it also tends to be the aspect of business that gets neglected for sexier components like marketing, branding, sales, and innovation. But if you extract more value out of your customer service, good things will happen for your business. 4 Ways […].

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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 Hidden Messages That Are Killing Your Culture Without You Knowing

Beyond Philosophy

If you are like most companies, you probably think that you put the customer at the center of everything you do. But do you? There are some critical things that the most customer centric companies do differently than the average company. It requires a mindset that understands the essential nature of it and then a consistent approach to applying it in all the areas of the company, from how you recruit talent and empower employees to how you prioritize customers in your team meetings.

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Are Your Managers “Heroes” or “Zeros” When Putting Out Customer Fires?

The DiJulius Group

We’ve all been there. Stuck in an unsatisfactory customer experience with no hope of resolution in site, and we utter the words “Can I speak with the manager, please?” Ah, The Manager – the person that holds the magical key to all resolutions and customer happy endings. That’s the way it works in your organization, Read Full Article. The post Are Your Managers “Heroes” or “Zeros” When Putting Out Customer Fires?

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Must-Have Customer Experience Management Skills for CX Professionals

Lumoa

Customer Experience is evolving. The barrier to entry is lower than ever, and new competitors are entering the market every day. To keep pace and make sure your products deliver value, you need to be continually listening for customer input. Sharpening your customer experience skills will help you stay ahead of your competitors. The Next Generation of CEM Today, product and service changes are typically driven by interviewing key clients, running surveys, or hosting customer advisory meetings.

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Marketing Leaders Should Always Be Looking “Beyond the Core”

Customer Think

A growing number of marketing leaders now believe that driving business growth is the raison d'etre of the marketing function. Recent research shows that the pressures on marketers to deliver on revenue growth have become intense. A 2021 global surv.

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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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How to Create an Omnichannel Contact Center in 7 Steps

Aquire

An omnichannel contact center offers more than just customer communication — it’s a powerful tool for creating memorable customer experiences (CX) and strengthening brand loyalty. In fact, according to the Aberdeen Group, companies with well-defined omnichannel CX achieve a 91 percent higher year-over-year increase in customer retention rate compared to those without.

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Customer story: OPEN cuts response times by 85 per cent with new contact centre

Logicalware

Payment solution company OPEN cut its response times by 85% after switching to Puzzel’s Contact Centre and completing a reorganisation process. OPEN specialises in payment solutions and point-of-sale systems for the commercial sector, in particular businesses such as restaurants, petrol stations and cruise operations. The company was created through a merger of several companies in the sector, and operates in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, with a workforce of approximately 170.

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Inbound Vs Outbound Call Center: Do you Know the Difference?

Ameyo Callversations

In the age of chats and social media, the call center is still a key to manage customer queries. It’s the closest experience towards face-to-face customer engagement. Call centers handle large volumes of calls, both inbound and outbound. Understanding the differences between inbound and outbound call centers will help you determine the best option for your business.

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Deep Neural Networks Addressing 8 Challenges in Computer Vision

Customer Think

As studied earlier, computer networks are one of the most popular and well-researched automation topics over the last many years. But along with advantages and uses, computer vision has its challenges in the department of modern applications, which deep neural networks can address quickly and efficiently. 1. Network Compression With the soaring demand for computing […].

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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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Amazon Customer Service: The Worst is Yet to Come

Bill Quiseng

Some of you may know I am a stroke victim who is paralyzed on the right and have selective short term memory. Several days ago I did not order on Amazon two bottles of Phillips Milk of Magnesia. Despite no order, Amazon shipped the products. In short, I was very frustrated with the Amazon NO REPLY emails and subsequent customer service webpages requiring resetting passwords.

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Guest Post: Customer Experience: Expectation vs. Reality

Shep Hyken

This week we feature an article by Tanya Ahmed, a Digital Marketer of Vantage Circle , a cloud-based employee engagement platform. She writes about what customers expect from companies in 2021 and what they actually get. Consumers today expect speedier access to services than ever before. They count on meaningful interactions with service professionals who make them feel valued.

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3 Winning B2B Client Engagement Strategies

Totango

B2B client engagement strategies can help you retain more customers if you know which best practices to follow. B2B engagement differs from B2C engagement in several important ways which require certain adjustments. Leveraging technology can help you implement the best practices you need to efficiently engage and retain B2B clients. These include engaging your customers from a 360-degree perspective, using support tools to help your clients use your product and taking a digital-first, team-based

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Presales Metrics – What to Measure and Why

Customer Think

With the appearance of presales-focused tools and products, presales managers and leadership now have the opportunity to track activities and establish metrics. But what should be tracked? What should be the measures? Contemplate the foll.

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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.