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Is Omnichannel and Personalization Mutually Exclusive

Uniphore

Omnichannel and personalization – and never the twain shall meet. Is the desire to deliver a true omnichannel contact center offering at odds with the idea of providing a truly personalized customer experience? Read More.

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Guess Who? They Know everything!

Beyond Philosophy

Find out what Google knows and your Customers won’t tell you: Economists hate surveys. They don’t trust them because people lie in surveys. Economists prefer to look at what people do instead, which, as we know, is what people are incented to do. Understanding these truths is critical to the work of an economist, and it is also vital to moving your Customer Experience to the next level.

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Breaking the Ice Episode #13: What We Shared at the 2017 ICMI Conference

Customer Service Life

Jenny and I had the privilege and honor of presenting at the 2017 ICMI Contact Center Conference last week in Orlando, Florida. In this episode you’ll hear a brief summary of our presentations, and if you stay to the very end, you’ll be treated to an original song that Jenny shared in her session. You’ll also learn about the worst trouble we’ve ever gotten ourselves into.

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The problem of real-time data in CX

Customer Bliss

There’s a new report out called “The Evolution To Real-Time Customer Experience,” which is a joint production of Forrester Research (consulting firm) and DataStax. There’s also a summary of the report here. What can we learn? Real-time data is a problem for customer experience. A whopping 95% of companies indicated they were “unable to make sense” of real-time customer insights.

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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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Financial Darwinism: Why Financial Call Centers Have Failed to Deliver

Uniphore

The Promise. Many years ago, the banking industry introduced the call center channel with the goal of lowering service costs and improving the overall customer experience. The plan was essentially to eliminate basic, low value transactions from the traditional banking branches banking, which would allow branch workers to focus on higher revenue-generating activities, while also providing customer service access around the clock.

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Shocking Product Recalls! How To React

Beyond Philosophy

The latest news – Graco is recalling more than 25,000 car seats that might not adequately restrain children during a crash! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Wednesday that the webbing in the car seat failed to meet Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. Surely this would be an absolute minimum requirement. This will no doubt cause great concern and worry among parents who believe they have invested in a safe and reliable product to keep their child safe.

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Select the right type of map to drive the right kind of change

Heart of the Customer

Before you can start a successful journey mapping initiative, it’s critical to think through the specific journey you want to map. Participants in our Best Practices in Journey Mapping survey referred to this as “Select the right journey to map.” This takes deliberate thought. If you go too broad, you may not have enough detail […]. The post Select the right type of map to drive the right kind of change appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Why the phone still seems to be the preferred channel of choice

Uniphore

I just called to say…I have a problem. Despite the massive investments many organizations are making in new digital contact channels, the majority of customers are still turning to the tried and tested telephone to resolve their challenges. Read More.

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5 Tips for Effective Leadership in Customer Service

Provide Support

5 Tips for Effective Leadership in Customer Service. Customer service team success is most significantly influenced by service-focused culture that starts at the top and works its way throughout the company. In today’s highly competitive marketplace, the most popular businesses attribute a large part of their success to having a customer service mindset that has the power to build a strong brand image and product differentiation.

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Ultimate Customer Service Culture: It’s About Unity Not Employees First | #custserv

Kate Nasser

The ultimate customer service culture is not about employees first. It's about unity. Leadership insights & lessons fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post Ultimate Customer Service Culture: It’s About Unity Not Employees First | #custserv appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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Recorded Webinar: The Customer Success Maturity Model

ClientSuccess

In this recorded webinar, Dave Blake, CEO/Founder of ClientSuccess discusses a customer success maturity model that will help you build, scale, and optimize a high-impact team and culture of customer success. The webinar will help you determine your current customer success maturity and guide you through the next steps and best practices to strengthen your approach to customer success.

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Transforming CX in Financial Services, With Claudiu Coltea – CB53

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Claudiu Coltea is the Executive Vice President and Head of Customer Experience for Citizens Financial Group. He’s a perennial customer experience leader with a background at Gallup, in health care, and in operational roles. He had several interesting takeaways on customer experience management and transforming CX throughout this interview; I’d encourage you to listen to the entire episode when you get some time.

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ACE Awards Judging: Business Impact

Confirmit

Every year we invite clients to enter the Confirmit ACE awards so we can identify those who really deserve some special recognition. Those who have taken our product and ideas and really put it all to good use within their organizations. And at the risk of provoking a wave of sniggering from the back of the room, it’s not about what you’ve got, but how you use it.

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To Tip or Not to Tip?

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay To tip or not to tip, that is the question. I just returned from a trip to Sydney, Australia, where I keynoted an event and also conducted a journey mapping master class. It was my first time to Australia, so before I traveled, I did a little homework on what I needed to take along, what to expect while there, etc. One of the interesting things I learned was that it's not necessary to tip; Australia has a non-tipping culture.

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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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What is an LMS?

ProProfs

A learning management system (LMS) is a software platform which allows any business to document, administer, track and report training or educational courses. An LMS is designed to help make delivery and management of training programs easy and hassle free experience. This invaluable web-based technology is versatile in nature and supports different forms of learning.

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Become a Consumer Customer Service Expert !

Allen Speaks

​Customer service failures have captured the headlines in 2017. As such, companies are becoming ever more aware of how their brand reputation is linked to individual customer service encounters! As a consumer, how can you take advantage of this customer focus? Here are 5 ways to become a customer service expert consumer: 1. Know your rights. Whether you are flying on an airplane or buying groceries, there are certain implied and government regulated consumer rights.

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Which Customer Journeys Should You Map?

Kerry Bodine

Where should you start your journey mapping efforts? If you don’t know the answer, you’re not alone. Many aspiring journey mappers feel overwhelmed because they believe that they need to map every single interaction that their customers could possibly have with their organization—a daunting task, indeed! I can’t say you should never map the full end-to-end journey (one that’s basically aligned with the complete customer lifecycle).