Sat.Sep 14, 2019 - Fri.Sep 20, 2019

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What is After-Call Work (ACW) or Post-Call Processing? Tips, Industry Standards & More

Callminer

Tracking the time agents spend on after call work is an important component of running an efficient call center. Here’s how ACW tracking can benefit your company.

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How To Overcome Organizational Silo’s To Make Progress

Beyond Philosophy

How To Overcome Organizational Silo’s To Make Progress. In The Fellowship of the Ring , Gandalf the wizard calls all the creatures of Middle Earth—the elves, dwarves, men, and hobbits— to a council. Their goal is to determine what to do with the Ring that threatened to end life as they knew it. Gandalf reasoned that since the Ring was a problem for all of Middle Earth, everyone should be involved.

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What Customer Churn is and How to Calculate it

Lumoa

What is customer churn? It means that your customer canceled their business with you, or decided not to renew the agreement they previously had. You calculate the churn rate by dividing the # of lost customers by # of customers at the start of the defined period.

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How Can Customer Service Agents Help Upsell and Cross-sell? 3 Techniques and Tips

Fonolo

Your airline has updated your flight details, shortening an already tight connection time. After being on hold for 45 minutes, you spend a slow afternoon going back and forth with an agent before you are finally booked on another flight. Just as you’re about to hang up, the agent asks, “By the way, would you like to upgrade to our Premium Economy for only $70 more?”.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Join Us at UK Customer Forum

Callminer

We are excited to host our first UK Customer Forum 25 September in London, bringing together our analyst community from our UK customers base.

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Customer Satisfaction is Declining in the UK. Is the US Next?

Beyond Philosophy

In January, I was surprised and disappointed that research from Nunwood and Forrester, two significant firms in the Customer Experience movement, showed that Customer Experience was flatlining. Unfortunately, the recent UK Customer Satisfaction survey echoes those findings, indicating that it has fallen over the past couple of years, from 78.2 to 77.1. .

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COMMENT RÉDIGER UN ÉLOGE FUNÉRAIRE?

ClearAction

Lors de la cérémonie funéraire, il est d’usage qu’un membre de la famille ou un proche prenne quelques minutes pour rendre hommage au défunt, sous la forme d’un éloge funéraire. Riche en émotions, cette oraison peut être difficile à préparer, puis à déclamer le jour même. Pourtant, c’est un moment important de la cérémonie, puisque cela donnera l’occasion à l’auditoire de se rappeler de la vie bien remplie du défunt.

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Millennials and Generation Z are Reshaping Customer Support

UJET

Consumer demographics are changing. Baby boomers and Generation X are no longer the only age groups making key business decisions and purchases. Millennials (Generation Y) and Generation Z are becoming the dominant consumer demographic with buying power that is exponentially increasing. Millennials spend $600 billion annually in the United States with a $1 trillion dollar influence in consumer spending.

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The Customer Data Platform Benefits You Should Know

Totango

Hidden inside customer data, there are many opportunities to grow and improve your brand, but what if you don’t know what to look for? Say your customer just completed onboarding quicker than the average user, but you missed the chance to recognize their success. How do you build that relationship if your team does not have the right tools to engage intelligently with customers?

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The Top 5 Most Important Metrics to Customer Success Teams

TeamSupport

With more companies creating and expanding their customer success teams than ever before, it’s critical that leadership focuses on the right metrics to accurately gauge their work. Remember, this team isn’t just an extension of customer support, so common metrics like average ticket close time will fail at accurately representing their contribution to your company.

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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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6 Smart Strategies to De-Escalate and Transform Customer Complaints

ModSquad

It’s a hard truth: If you have a business, you’ll get complaints. It’s something you can prepare for with proactive strategies. While we might wish that every interaction could go swimmingly, some won’t, and a valued customer will be displeased. Better to handle those inevitable situations with a pre-planned response than with a spontaneous reaction.

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Millennials and Generation Z are Reshaping Customer Support

UJET

Consumer demographics are changing. Baby boomers and Generation X are no longer the only age groups making key business decisions and purchases. Millennials (Generation Y) and Generation Z are becoming the dominant consumer demographic with buying power that is exponentially increasing.

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The Best Customer-Centric Uses of Data

Totango

Becoming customer-centric —putting the customer’s needs and interests at the center of your goals and processes—is impossible without customer data. You need customer data to track progress toward goals, deliver on promises, and continually upgrade your product. Doing so will help you raise satisfaction rates and cultivate lifetime customers. By applying best practices, such as sharing data across teams and gathering multiple data points for each customer, you can operationalize data to yo

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“Are You Being Served?”: How 3 Century-Old Stores are Fighting to Stay Modern with Customer Service

Fonolo

For me, the soul of pre-21st Century customer service can be captured in three poignant words: “Are you free?”. These immortal customer service dew-drops I heard echoed many times via the television set on the Saturday nights of my youth when PBS would play Are You Being Served? as part of its BBC comedy lineup. “Are you free?” is one of the most used phrases in the series, where staff asks each other if they are free as a way of alerting them to the fact that a customer is in need of immediate

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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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Critical Skills That Successful CSMs Need to Develop

ClientSuccess

The role of a customer success manager (CSM) in the SaaS industry has become increasingly complex. As platforms themselves become more innovative and functional, and as customers become more well-versed in how these solutions impact their business, CSMs are faced with more questions and challenges than ever before. While working with customers takes a certain type of person with a certain temperament, there are also specific skills CSMs must work on and develop in order to be successful. .

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3 Steps to Building a New Patient Experience and Communication Framework

Customer Bliss

How do you lead an organization’s CX when there’s no blueprint for you to follow? Well, you make your own! In today’s episode, Lisa Allen , the first Chief Patient Experience Officer at Johns Hopkins Hospital shares how she combined her experience and knowledge in anthropology to change the way the organization addresses patient experience.

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Do You Have A Relationship Building Strategy?

The DiJulius Group

The following is content taken from John’s new book The Relationship Economy, Building Stronger Customer Connections In The Digital Age. (October 2019 Greenleaf Books) Relationship-Building Strategy A study by the Relational Capital Group revealed that 89 percent of senior leaders believe that relationships are the most important factor in their success year over.

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6 Smart Strategies to De-Escalate and Transform Customer Complaints

ModSquad

It’s a hard truth: If you have a business, you’ll get complaints. It’s something you can prepare for with proactive strategies. While we might wish that every interaction could go swimmingly, some won’t, and a valued customer will be displeased. Better to handle those inevitable situations with a pre-planned response than with a spontaneous reaction.

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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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Confirmit Joins CXPA in CX Day Celebrations

Confirmit

You’re probably aware of CX Day by now, but if you’re not, it is the brainchild of the Customer Experience Professionals Association ( CXPA ), a global non-profit organization specializing in the advancement and cultivation of the customer experience profession. This year, it takes place on October 1 st and it promises to be a wonderful global event.

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List of the 20 MOST Common Survey Flaws

InteractionMetrics

This morning, my rep texted me from the shop where my car is serviced: “You'll receive a survey from us. It would mean a lot to me if you completed it. We hope you recommend us.” I get what he wants, but this is NOT how to do a survey. Essentially, my rep is pushing for the answers he wants his higher ups to see. But that’s not scientific data collection.

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CLAMED: AS OUR PRIVILEGED CLIENT

Hodusoft

HoduSoft, a leading VoIP software provider has gained fame for serving the global clientele with its high-quality, feature-rich, ready-to-use VoIP software for addressing business communication requirements. The company has added a new feather in the crown by providing ready-made HoduPBX- IP PBX Software to CLAMED, One of the Largest chains of pharmacies and drugstores in Brazil.

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“1 slide, 1 beer, and the CEO:” How Jim Harwood kick-started Farm Bureau’s CX program

Qualtrics

Ask Jim Harwood, VP of Marketing and Analytics at Farm Bureau Financial Services, how you sell a CX program to a CEO, and he’ll tell you to adopt the old Michael Gerber approach: “Start at the end.”. If we were to start at the end of this story, we’d say that Jim led the CX program at Farmers Insurance for five years and increased NPS by 60%. That he orchestrated huge cultural shifts in that organization and put in place inner, outer and closed loop CX processes.

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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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Continuous Listening Unpicked

Confirmit

When preparing for the Gartner ReimagineHR Conference, I started to ponder about the concept of Continuous Listening and different shapes and forms it seems to take. To state the scene, a comment from Gartner: “Many organizations continue to utilize a formal engagement survey conducted every one to three years as the primary means of gathering feedback from employees.

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Everything You Should Know About Sugar Partner BrainSell — But Didn’t Think to Ask

SugarCRM

When talking to successful Sugar customers , there’s one question we love to ask: . What advice do you have for other companies looking to enhance their customer experience technology? The answer we hear most often? Work with an integration partner. While Sugar is designed to be simple and easy to use out of the box, it can also be configured any way you want.

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“Are You Being Served?”: How 3 Century-Old Stores are Fighting to Stay Relevant for the Modern Customer

Fonolo

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Close.com’s Steli Efti on balancing competition and collaboration in sales

Intercom, Inc.

Some leaders mistake internal competitiveness for toxicity, opting instead to exclusively focus on collaboration. They avoid any internal ranking, out of fear that the workplace will become negative – or politically charged. This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive.

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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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Human-Centered Research

Confirmit

Sitting behind a computer crunching numbers, identifying trends, finding insights – it can be hard to remember that those numbers represent the thoughts and opinions of real people. Those people, their opinions, and thoughts, however, are extremely important to your research. Today, researchers and CX pros constantly struggle with low response rates, straightlining, and simply disengaged respondents.

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What’s new in EmployeeXM? | September 2019

Qualtrics

It’s been a busy few months for the EmployeeXM team over the summer, with plenty of new feature updates to help you monitor and improve your employee experience. From guided action planning tools that help you scale action and improvements across the organization to new reporting features and expert-built projects available in your account, there’s a lot we’re excited to share.

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Four Ways SugarCRM Boosts Credit Union Marketing

SugarCRM

Have you ever thought about using your credit union’s marketing team to increase cross-selling and upselling? A flexible CRM platform (such as Sugar) that supports your marketing team and integrates with your departmental tools can help your marketing team get members closer to their goals while at the same time boosting the revenue of the credit union.

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Piecing it together: how to design cohesive onboarding

Intercom, Inc.

Onboarding is a holistic, ongoing process sitting at the intersection of many different teams: product, sales, marketing, customer engagement and business operations. A customer’s onboarding may start with them visiting your website and choosing to purchase your product or service. But it should also persist as they learn how to use your product and become a confident power user who discovers continued value in your product over time.

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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