Callminer

MAY 8, 2023

Customer experience management is complex, but the right software can help. Find out how to choose the right experience management software for your business.

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Customer Experience Management Customer Experience 344

Adrian Swinscoe

MAY 24, 2023

Any regular readers of my posts here on Forbes will probably have realised by now that I am partial to a bit of research and, in […] The post The state of customer engagement: Progress, work to be done and a delicate balance first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Inside Customer Service

MAY 25, 2023

If you want to solve a customer service problem, go and see it. That's a performance observation. It's a process for observing employees doing their work to understand how they currently do things and what can be improved. It's a go-to technique for improving performance, designing training, or identifying best practices. You might worry employees won't be truthful if you observe them.

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Bill Quiseng

MAY 3, 2023

Business leaders are happy because customers were satisfied with their product or service. But that’s not good enough. Satisfied customers feel that their experience was good, not better, just average. Nobody raves about average. And satisfied customers will not return as soon as they find an experience that is better or a price that is less expensive.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 11, 2023

We have been remiss. In the past five years, we have talked about the Cleveland Browns, a struggling team in the NFL, several times but we haven’t discussed customer engagement once. I became aware of this deficit after receiving an email from Vijay, one of my podcast listeners, asking me what we had on it. So, to remedy that, today we will focus on what customer engagement is and what you can do to promote more of it in your experiences.

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Customer Think

MAY 25, 2023

Image source: Canva for free It’s no coincidence that the more knowledgeable you are about email marketing strategies, the better your results are. Below I’ll share some easy ways you can make your emails better. Sometimes, the smallest tweaks can get you spectacular results.

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Technology Technology 133

Adrian Swinscoe

MAY 15, 2023

This is a guest post by Likitha Andugula, Marketing Analyst at Upshot.ai With the advent of digital devices and technology, we have been accustomed to having […] The post How to improve patient experience using gamification? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Technology Technology 188

Inside Customer Service

MAY 11, 2023

You've sent your team through customer service training. People seemed to like the training. It even feels like the team has a bit more energy than before, though you can't quite say for sure. But you face a nagging question. Did the training really work? Those post-training surveys don't seem like enough. Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation sounds interesting, but your executives don’t care about levels.

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Customer Service Mystery Shopper Mystery Shopping Customer Retention 187

ClearAction

MAY 25, 2023

Growth via Massive Customer Experience Savings Lynn Hunsaker Customer experience savings are NOT about automation or slashing value to customers! That’s a recipe toward many unexpected costs. Whenever you think about savings, think about value expansion. Your enterprise goals are to continually increase value to investors, so by definition, you must continually increase value to customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 6, 2023

Vijay, one of our listeners, drew my attention to a deficit in my content regarding customer strategy. He asked if we had anything on customer engagement. After a search of both my hard drives (computer and memory), I realized that I didn’t. To remedy this giant hole in our content, we recorded this podcast. Now, part of not having any content on the subject means I didn’t have a definition ready for the term.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience 147

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Bill Quiseng

MAY 24, 2023

A wife walks into the living room where her husband is reading. She leans over and whispers “I love you.” Nothing. She repeats louder, “I love you.” Complete silence. She stares at him and asks, “I say I love you a LOT to you. You NEVER say I love you back. Why is that?” Her husband turns to her and declares, “Look, I told you I loved you when we got married.

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Customer Service Customer Loyalty Education 109

Callminer

MAY 5, 2023

Bruce McMahon, VP of Product Management, shares key updates from CallMiner's 2023.05 release, including the rebrand of CallMiner Alert to CallMiner RealTime. Read this blog for more.

Innovation 242

Innovation 242

Adrian Swinscoe

MAY 19, 2023

Today’s interview is with Jerry Haywood, who is the Chief Executive Officer at boost.ai, a leading provider of conversational AI for enterprises. Jerry joins me today […] The post There’s no point having a fast bike, if you don’t know how to ride it – Interview with Jerry Haywood of Boost.ai first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Customer Think

MAY 10, 2023

Source: Canva The more you understand email marketing, the clearer picture you see that it’s really about personal connections. Whether a list is small or massive, your most imperative task is strengthening the relationship with your subscribers. You’ll please your customers, and you’ll enjoy more effective marketing.

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Speaker: Michael McMillan - Customer Experience Expert, TEDx Speaker, and Author

Are you looking to elevate your CX support strategy? Customers who have a seamless buying experience, from speaking with sales and purchasing the product to easily finding support, are more likely to return to your organization and recommend it to others. With the numerous changes in the market, it is critical that your CX strategy can evolve and better support your customers regardless of where they are in their journey.

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ECXO

MAY 15, 2023

Image source: SAS If you’re a marketer, chances are you’ve heard about MadTech. But if you haven’t, don’t worry – it’s never too late to join the party. So let’s dive into what MadTech is, why it’s important, how we got here and three tips you can use to get ready for marketing in a world driven by MadTech. What is MadTech? The term “MadTech” was coined in 2015 by David Raab, founder of the Customer Data Platform (CDP) Institute.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Technology Technology 128

Fonolo

MAY 23, 2023

Customer service is all about meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Contact center managers know this implicitly. But did you know that hyper-personalization in the contact center is one of the best ways to delight your customers? It’s true! Customers want to feel seen. Deloitte reports that 90% of people are attracted to hyper-personalized advertising content, and customers are quickly coming to expect it.

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The DiJulius Group

MAY 1, 2023

Every so often I like to discuss several related topics under one umbrella. The underlying theme here is the power each member of every organization has to offer its customers either a true secret service company experience, where the customer journey has an almost magical flow or one that causes the customer to ultimately jump. Read Full Article The post Of CEOs, Mice & Men: Great Leadership Leads To A Great Customer Experience appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience 120

Callminer

MAY 29, 2023

Brand intelligence offers deep insights into customers’ needs, wants, and behaviors, and empowers companies to take action to improve customer satisfaction.

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Customer Satisfaction 182

Speaker: Megan Burns, Founder and Principal of Experience Enterprises

You can have the best CX strategy in the world, but if you can't get your organization to execute it you may as well have nothing. Unfortunately, that's the biggest challenge most CX leaders face: galvanizing people outside their team to take action on - and ultimately ownership of - CX work. This talk explores the functional and psychological roadblocks that keep others from embracing CX even when they think it's important and offers practical guidance on how to break through those barriers so

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Adrian Swinscoe

MAY 11, 2023

Today’s interview is with Don Schuerman, the CTO and Vice President of Product Strategy and Marketing at Pegasystems. Don joins me today to talk about the […] The post PegaWorld iNspire: Towards the autonomous enterprise and celebrating 40 years of innovation – Interview with Don Schuerman of Pega first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Innovation 145

Customer Think

MAY 8, 2023

The era has turned digital. So, enterprises around the globe are using digital transformation to drive business success. With the advancement in technology, companies can now engage with customers in more ways than ever. Digital transformation has become the key to improving customer experience.

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Customer Experience Technology Technology 131

Totango

MAY 17, 2023

Three learnings from TSIA on why your go-to-market leaders have an opportunity to work better together to drive growth. When it comes to understanding customer needs, marketing, sales, and CS teams are the experts, so it’s on us to work together to define today’s most valuable growth opportunities. Last week at the TSIA World: Interact conference in Orlando, I spent time talking with several sales and CS leaders about the opportunity we have to lean into our C-suite partnerships and take the rei

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Fonolo

MAY 30, 2023

Managers know that call center workforce management matters. Put it another way: if customer interactions are at the heart of a contact center’s success, then effective workforce management is the backbone. It enhances agent productivity, helps you deliver exceptional customer experiences and improves the agent experience , too. That’s why contact centers are investing in it in droves.

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Contact Center CX Customer Satisfaction Customer Experience 81

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The DiJulius Group

MAY 15, 2023

The Great Reshuffle continues as the shortage of front-line and hourly workers is still strongly felt across the labor market by industries in the private sector including airlines, gyms, hospitality, all manner of office environments, and elder care, to name just a few. Organizations are struggling with finding, hiring, and keeping good people yet ageism.

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Hospitality Hospitality 105

Callminer

MAY 23, 2023

Companies that want to improve customer service in the call center may not know where to begin, so we've created a list of 25 tips from call center experts.

Customer Service 182

Customer Service 182

Bill Quiseng

MAY 17, 2023

Customers pay for their experience, not your product or service. They buy with emotion and justify their decision with reason. Customers seek the best emotional value in their experience, not your logically reasonable price, product, or service. The value to your customers is in their personal interactions, not your “cash or credit” business transactions.

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Customer Loyalty CX NPS Customer Satisfaction 88

Customer Think

MAY 16, 2023

In our fast-paced and predominantly digital world, businesses are constantly searching for ways to create seamless, integrated marketing campaigns. Omnichannel marketing has emerged as a powerful strategy to engage customers across various channels, both online and offline. In essence, it’s about providing a consistent, personalized experience for consumers, regardless of the touchpoint.

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Speaker: Colin Taylor, CEO & Chief Chaos Officer at The Taylor Reach Group, Inc

Adoption and innovation are swift and ongoing. Contact center operators have been buffeted by the pandemic, work-from-home initiatives, the great resignation, and quiet quitting. As a result of these changes, new challenges have emerged, requiring contact centers to undergo major transformations. These challenges include the retirement of the baby boomer generation, low unemployment, the recession, and consumer trends that call for proactive customer engagement. 2023 is around the corner and as

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 27, 2023

Organizations often fail to consider the context in which customers enter the experience, assuming that every customer is the same. However, recognizing the context of a customer’s experience is crucial to developing an effective customer strategy. Context is an omnipresent factor in customer experience. Depending on a customer’s context, we must create a customized experience.

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Customer Experience 78

Fonolo

MAY 16, 2023

Correctly interpreting call center analytics and KPIs is key to improving your operations and your customer’s experience. Today, contact centers are increasingly viewed by businesses as the key to understanding customers. They’re valued by c-suites for providing insights gleaned from direct contact via customer service and support channels. But without proper data analysis and interpretation, contact centers – and the businesses they serve – may not reach their full potential.

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Customer Satisfaction Contact Center AI Customer Experience 91

The DiJulius Group

MAY 8, 2023

Have you ever been in a meeting where as soon as the most senior leader in the room starts to share what they think, the brainstorming and volleying of ideas cease? The conversation becomes completely reoriented around their thoughts. Most leaders, including me, feel like it is our job to state the challenge or opportunity. Read Full Article The post Great Leaders Speak Last appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Callminer

MAY 17, 2023

Companies that haven’t leveraged call center analytics are often unsure about how it works. Find out what call analytics are and the benefits they provide.

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JUST RELEASED! The Northridge Group’s State of Customer Experience 2023 research report reveals a surge in preference for online agent chat versus the phone amongst 18–35-year-olds—the first time online chat has eclipsed phone! At the same time, customer patience is dropping, with 35% of respondents willing to wait only a few minutes before re-contacting a company.

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