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How can managers support and progress their hybrid workforces?

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post from Natasha Bougourd, a copywriter for Impact International. COVID has revolutionised the way we work, and many businesses are now living […]. The post How can managers support and progress their hybrid workforces? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Make better decisions faster: The 6 stages of quick, effective decision-making

Intercom, Inc.

Your decision-making process is slowing you down. . Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . They’re considered heedless, overly luck-dependent, and almost treasonous by those of us in the data and research domains.

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Experiences We Are Grateful For

CX Accelerator

As I like to say, "life is made up of experiences." And we get to design them! What awesome and important work this is. We asked our CX Accelerator leaders to let us know an experience they were thankful for this year. One thing is clear from the responses.we love building strong relationships! I am really grateful to have the opportunity to see my friends thrive in their careers.

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Insights on the Value of Conversational Automation

Uniphore

The partnership between Uniphore and Tech Mahindra combines Uniphore’s AI and automation-driven technology with Tech Mahindra’s service expertise. Uniphore and Tech Mahindra jointly create exceptional customer experiences and improve service outcomes by supporting customer service automation. Subject matter experts Jafar Syed of Uniphore and Saurabh Rai of Tech Mahindra have teamed up to present a podcast that explores how conversational automation generates return on investment (ROI

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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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Only 2% of marketers say they experience perfect alignment with sales – Interview with Scott Addington of SugarCRM

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Scott Addington, VP of EMEA Marketing for SugarCRM. Scott joins me today to talk about letting the platform do the work, the […]. The post Only 2% of marketers say they experience perfect alignment with sales – Interview with Scott Addington of SugarCRM first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Best New Customer Experience and Design Books – 2021 List

eglobalis

Best New Customer Experience and Design Books – 2021 List best employee experience and design books. The post Best New Customer Experience and Design Books – 2021 List appeared first on Eglobalis.

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4 Easy Ways to Make Call Center Training More Fun

Fonolo

When you think of the phrase “call center training”, does the word fun come to mind? If it doesn’t, you’re probably not alone. After all, workplace training has a reputation for being dull with endless PowerPoint presentations and the occasional role-playing exercise. But now, with agent engagement becoming a growing priority for call centers, it’s a great time to reimagine your approach to training your team members.

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Only 2% of marketers say they experience perfect alignment with sales – Interview with Scott Addington of SugarCRM

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Scott Addington, VP of EMEA Marketing for SugarCRM. Scott joins me today to talk about letting the platform do the work, the […]. The post Only 2% of marketers say they experience perfect alignment with sales – Interview with Scott Addington of SugarCRM first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Welcoming new senior leaders to Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

I’m excited to welcome three new senior leaders and a new Board Member to Intercom, to help deliver even more breakthrough value to our customers at an exciting moment for the company. We welcome former Smartsheet CMO Anna Griffin and former Lumileds Chief Legal Officer Cheree McAlpine to the executive team as Chief Marketing Officer and General Counsel respectively.

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How Conversational AI Enhances the Buyer Experience

Customer Think

In B2B, a buyer is nearly always a group of people working together rather than an individual acting alone. Forrester’s 2021 B2B Buying Study revealed that over 60 percent of purchases have more than four people involved–versus just 47 percent in 2017–and they can include different buyer roles and departments. These findings led to Forrester […].

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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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How NFTs could change customer loyalty completely

Steven Van Belleghem

What on earth is an NFT? But first, for those who don’t know what an NFT or non-fungible token is, it’s a record on a cryptocurrency’s blockchain that represents a piece of digital media. Non-fungible means that it is a unique digital piece and that it cannot be replaced with something else. To borrow an analogy from Verge: “a bitcoin is fungible — trade one for another bitcoin, and you’ll have exactly the same thing.

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Amazing Business Radio: Kiel Harkness

Shep Hyken

What the Holidays Mean for SMB’s. The Opportunities and Challenges Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMB’s)Will Face This Holiday Season. Shep Hyken interviews Kiel Harkness, Head of Global Marketing and Business Intelligence at UPS Capital®. They discuss how SMB’s can compete with giant brands when it comes to problem resolution for delays, theft, and problems during the holiday season.

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Delivering Excellent B2C Customer Service: 7 Best Practices

Help Scout

B2C customer service differs greatly from its B2B counterpart, and many strategies need to shift to do it well. Follow these 7 tips to excel.

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Why Measuring the Overall Customer Service Experience is Not Enough

Customer Think

A broadly accepted notion is that a customer service interaction is an isolated, one-time experience for the individual. The most common methods used to measure that experience have been to send surveys asking customers to rate how likely they are to recommend the brand after a particular experience, or to rate their singular experience from […].

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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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3 steps to creating a great customer experience strategy

Steven Van Belleghem

Step 1: Create an engaging vision. At the heart of any successful strategy lies a powerful yet tangible vision, and that’s no different with anything CX-related. As stated above, “putting the customer at the center” is not specific enough to be able to enthuse and engage your employees. You need to specify which problem you want to solve for the customer, what you will be able to do to improve their life and which mindset should be connected to that.

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7 Best Ways to Improve Patient Satisfaction

Zonka Feedback

Several studies show that satisfied patients who receive appropriate counseling, treatment instructions, comprehensive care, and an overall satisfactory experience, often respond positively to the treatment and experience better clinical outcomes. What healthcare providers must remember is that every positive experience can add to patient satisfaction, and thereby, the success of the hospital or facility.

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Webinar: Get started with journey orchestration

MyCustomer Experience

WThe European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) in partnership with MyCustomer presents 'Getting Started with Journey Orchestration', 22nd Nov 2021. By Ricardo Saltz Gulko Managing Director.

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5 Fresh Tactics to Invigorate Your Newsletter

Customer Think

Source: Freepik You can accomplish so much by sending email newsletters. You can keep readers updated about your products and the developments in your brand. Of course, there are also the marketing aspects. However, if you want to grow, you have to be willing to try new things instead of reaching into the same old […].

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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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The power of hybrid experiences

Logicalware

Hear the word ‘hybrid’ these days and you probably think of hybrid working. But ‘hybrid experiences’ are the next big thing in customer service, Puzzel CEO Frederic Laziou writes. There’s no doubt this year has been all about hybrid working. With vaccination rates increasing across Europe, many companies have now implemented new working models to allow staff to work from home and the office.

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Top ways to drive collaboration between support and development teams

Zendesk

Customer support agents are your business’ eyes and ears. They know what your customers need, what they expect, and what they think about your product. Meanwhile, if your organization is in the tech or software industry, developers are its backbone. That means collaboration between these teams is inevitable. But few businesses have clean, clear workflows for this kind of teamwork.

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When Should You Upgrade CS Software?

Totango

Whether you’re not using a customer success platform yet or you’re using an aging CS tool, there comes a time when you need to upgrade CS software. How do you tell when it’s time to ditch your current system and invest in a CS upgrade? There are some common symptoms that your current system is no longer up to the task of managing your customer’s success needs.

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How autonomous automation is the future

Customer Think

During the past weeks I had a couple of observations and conversations that lead me to thinking that sometimes software vendors underestimate the power that their machine learning based systems could have to improve the lives and experiences of employe.

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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 four Ps of preparing for seasonal demand 

Logicalware

The holiday season is one of the busiest times of year for retailers. From September to January, shops are a frenzy of Halloween, Cyber Week, Black Friday, Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year sales. And behind the scenes, contact centres are inundated with customer requests for stock updates, product information, deliveries and returns. So how can you ensure your contact centre is ready for this seasonal demand?

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These IVR Best Practices Will Take Your Call Center to the Next Level 

Fonolo

Contact centers face constant shifts like any industry, with contact center trends reporting more remote call centers and a heightened need for customer intelligence and improved work environments. A robust call center IVR system and strategy can support all the above trends. Here we’ll get into the basics of call center IVR and why it’s important, as well as some call center IVR best practices that’ll improve your call center performance.

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Our Competition is Beating Us Despite the Fact We Are Better Than Them

Beyond Philosophy

One of our podcast listeners, Jeanne-Claude, wrote about a problem he was having for a recent episode. I am writing about it here today because it is likely a problem some of you share. Jeanne-Claude’s problem is that his company offers a complicated product, and despite their offering being better than the competition, the competition is winning. .

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What Matters Most To Todays B2B Buyers

Customer Think

Photo by Unsplash, CC0 1.0 What’s the greatest hurdle you face when trying to sell your products and services? For B2B sellers, grasping the thought process behind a customer’s purchasing decisions can be particularly challenging, as that thought process isn’t strictly governed by logical elements. Contrary to some commonly held sales beliefs of the past, […].

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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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With my heartfelt gratitude this Thanksgiving

Bill Quiseng

Some of you may know that I suffered a stroke in April. Ever since then, I have been sidelined with extensive recuperation and excruciating rehabilitation. In the United States this week we celebrate Thanksgiving. So I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation and gratitude for many who have wished me well as I recover. Today I would like to give a very special mention to the following people: Edgar Gum, regional vice president for Marriott Vacations and his team, along with my fe

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How Live Chat Improves the Digital Customer Experience

Comm100

87% of senior business leaders see customer experience as their top growth engine, and yet only one in three feel prepared to address this. Although this level of uncertainty is worrisome, the first step towards improving customer experience (CX) is far simpler than many realize. To begin the journey towards improving CX, organizations must offer live chat – and in this blog we will explain why.

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Our Competition is Beating Us, Despite the Fact We Are Better Than Them. Why?

Beyond Philosophy

One of our listeners, Jeanne-Claude, has a problem. He sells a complex product and despite the fact that they have the best one in the industry, the competition is outselling them. I can relate. I sold a complicated product when I was in corporate life, and it was always a highly competitive field. It can be challenging to communicate why you are the best when you have a complex offering and you want to tell customers all about it.

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How to build a sustainable business with customer loyalty

Customer Think

Keeping a customer is so much cheaper than acquiring a new one- a discussion for eCommerce Customer trust precedes loyalty. You must engage your customers first, provide them top-notch service, and make sure always to offer additional value with your products. These may seem easy, but the difference between brands that survive and those that […].

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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