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21 Call Center Leaders Reveal the Biggest Concerns Keeping Call Center Managers Up at Night

Callminer

Call center managers are tasked with myriad responsibilities, and they maintain responsibility for ensuring that their call center operation runs smoothly and efficiently. With managers often having large staffs of call center representatives to manage, regulatory compliance requirements to address, customer satisfaction to uphold, sales targets to hit, and more, it’s no surprise that call […].

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Would you hire yourself?

Intercom, Inc.

That’s right, would you offer yourself a job at your company? It’s a question every interviewer should ask themselves. No, this isn’t some theoretical mental exercise. It’s actually a powerful question to ask yourself when you’re looking to expand your team but find yourself paralyzed with options. When you are a small but growing company or team each additional hire has a disproportionately large impact.

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4 Contact Center Reports to Start Off Your Year

Fonolo

It’s going to be a big year in the world of contact center and in customer service technology. Will Avaya soar upwards, freshly unburdened from its decade of debt? Will this be the year that messaging platforms from Facebook, Apple and others reach critical mass as a channel for customer service? Will the AI / chatbot hype start to live up to its promise?

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Social Proof: A Powerful, but Underutilized, CX Tool

Heart of the Customer

A common concern I see among CX pros is a concern over customers who are making “bad” choices. Customers who aren’t making the best use of the company’s products or services. This problem exists across industries, both B2B and B2C. Some examples include: Business customers who underutilize their purchased software; Patients who don’t follow a […].

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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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21 Call Center Leaders Reveal What’s Keeping Call Center Managers Up at Night

Callminer

Call center managers are tasked with myriad responsibilities, and they maintain responsibility for ensuring that they are running a call center operation smoothly and efficiently.

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Slack’s Rachel Hepworth on bringing growth marketing to a high growth company

Intercom, Inc.

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. That company, of course, is Slack, and Rachel’s growth marketing team now owns Slack’s full acquisition funnel, from demand generation and team creation to activation and monetization.

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Unusual Tips for Training Contact Center Agents

Fonolo

There are a few things to keep in mind when building an A+ team of call center agents. First and foremost, make sure that you’re hiring the right people (that’s of course more difficult than it sounds). Once the right candidates are in place, the training becomes critical. We already know how monotonous a call center agent’s role can be but, by making the training process exciting and fun, you’re creating a better environment for everyone.

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The “Feel, Felt, Found” Method for Empathy

Myra Golden Media

Today I’m going to show you how to use the Feel, Felt, Found method to express empathy to your customers. What’s great about the Feel, Felt, Found Method, is, it gives you the perfect response when you can’t give the customer exactly what they want. It helps you to be more relatable, and to foster a sense of connection with customers. The Feel, Felt, Found method is easy to use.

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Our second audiobook: Intercom on Customer Engagement

Intercom, Inc.

In customer engagement, the right context for a message matters just as much as the right time and recipient. Given that content is in itself a tool for engagement, the same principle is in play. Today, we released our second installment in our audiobook series, Intercom on Customer Engagement. Divided into 8 shorter chapters, this compilation is our guide to crafting actionable messaging strategies that will help you grow your business.

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4 Parts of a Winning Customer Engagement Strategy

UJET

A solid customer engagement strategy, when done well, increases reputation, customer satisfaction, and loyalty. After years in search of the perfect formula for building and maintaining successful customer relationships, we've uncovered a winning combination.

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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 Design (And Act On) Real-World Employee Surveys

Beyond Philosophy

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Companies are fond of saying that employees are their most powerful resource, and in many ways – especially their influence on customer loyalty – that’s been well proven. But, to understand what factors leverage employee behavior, most organizations have historically relied on satisfaction and engagement surveys, typically conducted through HR.

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Introducing CX Secrets with Sean McDade

PeopleMetrics

Hi everybody! Today I'm really excited to release the first video in a new series called CX Secrets , where I'll be talking about exclusive bonus materials from a book I'm working on titled Listen or Die! The 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold. CX Secrets includes exclusive bonus material from Sean's book. Download the video transcript here.

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Beyond the App

Uniphore

Annoying notifications, complex registration and freezing are the top three reasons for uninstalling mobile apps, according to an Appiterate survey, so it's no wonder that most people use only about five of the apps on their mobile, and ignore the other thirty or so. I personally couldn't live without 7-8 apps, but I rarely touch the rest. Read More.

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How to Keep Your Customers Coming Back

UJET

In today's competitive marketplace, how can you encourage customers to stay loyal to your brand and products when there are so many choices available? You have to provide an outstanding product, of course, and it must be appropriately priced, but there are a lot of companies that can do that. What will set you apart and build brand loyalty, however, is your customer support.

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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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12 Principles of Successful #CEM Change Management

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay Change. It's inevitable. And it's hard. Many - as high as 70% of - change initiatives fail. But don't let that stat scare you. And don't let it change your attitude about what lies ahead. Don't let that become a self-fulfilling prophecy! You know you need to make the change. You know that it will take a Herculean effort. You can do this!

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Lead with Purpose; IKEA Founder Ingvar Kamprad Leaves Behind a CX Legacy

Customer Bliss

Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA , recently passed away in Sweden, leaving quite a legend behind him. IKEA, the beloved furniture store not just for Americans, but for people all over the world, first came to the United States in the 1980s , slowly revolutionizing the way consumers shop for furniture and household items. . IKEA is a company that knows its purpose, understands its customers, and provides value and consistency.

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8 Ways to Say No to Customers with Examples

Provide Support

8 Ways to Say No to Customers. Have you ever heard “No” as a customer? How did you feel? Were you disappointed? Sometimes it may happen that we need to say “No” to our customers or deliver negative news. In fact, this is one of the most unpleasant parts of customer service workflow. Dealing with negative news requires specific skills and self-control.

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Service Leaders: Serving Well vs. Loving to Serve | #Leadership #Custserv

Kate Nasser

Service leaders, loving to serve outpaces serving well. Here's why. By Kate Nasser The People Skills Coach™ | Leadership, Teamwork, Customer Service, Morale. The post Service Leaders: Serving Well vs. Loving to Serve | #Leadership #Custserv appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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Bringing Relationship Intelligence to “Accounts” in Sugar

SugarCRM

Big news! We have expanded SugarCRM Hint, our flagship offering from SugarCRM’s Relationship Intelligence product line beyond leads and contacts. Now, you can gather relationship intelligence about businesses and organizations. It works like this: users enter a name and email address into Hint (just like they always have). In addition to more info about the contact, Hint now pulls in accurate, verified corporate data about the contact’s organization into Sugar’s accounts module.

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Recorded Customer Success Webinar: How to Build Out Your Customer Health Score Using the Customer Maturity Index

ClientSuccess

Webinar Details. ClientSuccess hosted Boaz Maor, VP of Customer Success of OpenGov and the 2017 Customer Success Innovator of the Year , for this month’s customer success webinar series: How to Build Out Your Customer Health Score Using the Customer Maturity Index. The webinar was held Wednesday, February 21st, 2018 at 11:00 am Mountain Time on the topic of building out your customer health scoring approach using the Customer Maturity Index (CMI).

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Why are you using a B2C approach and solution for B2B Customer Feedback?

Waypoint Group

If your company sells products and services to other businesses (B2B), are you confident that your customer engagement process is utilizing an effective B2B approach? Many companies make the mistake of relying on their own experiences as consumers to implement “survey” programs in their businesses. But B2B is a completely different structure than B2C, and you’re most certainly missing out […].

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The State of Customer Experience: Time to Get Real

Confirmit

In our recent report “The State of Customer Experience: Time to get real”, based on a survey of over 250 Customer Experience professionals, we have tried to identify what the most successful companies are doing, what we can learn from them, and what you need to do to deliver similar results. In this webinar, Claire Sporton, Vice President, Customer Experience Management, Confirmit and Steve Hurst, Editor, Engage Business Media discussed some of the key highlights of the report.

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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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Customer Service Training

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Pioneering Customer Experience in Healthcare at Cleveland Clinic

Customer Bliss

Being empathetic and engaged are core parts of the patient and caregiver experience at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Adrienne Boissy , a neurologist and the leader of the patient, caregiver, and family experience at Cleveland Clinic, shares the path to embedding customer experience into a healthcare organization. We talk about the importance of putting patients first, and what it takes to sustain the philosophy, mindset, and operational priorities to keep this work going.

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Our Top 10 Customer Experience Posts of 2017

Kerry Bodine

It’s the beginning of a new year, which is always the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past and make grand plans for the future. (And just in case you’re wondering, that’s exactly what we’re doing here at Kerry Bodine & Co.) As part of that effort, I recently took a look back at our most popular posts of 2017—and I wanted to share them with you here.