Hallmark Business Connections

MARCH 9, 2021

If you’re a brand marketer, that meant pivoting your strategy to account for the “new normal,” tossing out (or heavily revising) now-defunct messaging, and collaborating with teammates over Zoom rather than in person. Granted, these wheels were already in motion pre-pandemic: In 2016, 64 million people , roughly 20% of the U.S.

Marketing 97

Marketing Brands Tips Financial 97

ShepHyken

JULY 19, 2022

Employing Brand Advocates to Improve Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Megan Neale, Co-founder and COO of Limitless , a Gig CX platform that empowers people to earn money by providing brilliant customer service. They have the knowledge and passion for the brand that can be turned into a skill to help other customers.

Contact Center 129

Contact Center Brands Customer Service Innovation 129

Eptica

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Date: Friday, February 5, 2016 Meeting Millennial Customer Expectations. Published on: February 05, 2016. While Millennials are not the only group that brands need to engage with, they are becoming increasingly visible and vocal.

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Customer Expectations Meeting Self Service Social Media 48

Tricia Morris

APRIL 1, 2016

Customers’ expectations for brands and organizations delivering the right answer at the right time, whether through assisted or self-service, continue to grow. In Microsoft’s Global State of Customer Service Report, 90% of consumers surveyed now expect a company website to include a self-service application.

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Infographics Self Service Customer Service Report 40

Alida

DECEMBER 1, 2016

A report conducted by the tech company LinkedIn, the advisory firm Capgemini and the non-profit Efma found that half of banking customers around the world now use at least one product or service from a fintech firm. In the first quarter of 2016 alone, fintech startups saw an influx of $5.2 billion in funding.

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Customer Experience Financial Banking Culture 193

Eptica

JANUARY 12, 2017

Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 What were the top customer service trends of 2016? To help we’ve analyzed all 100+ posts published on the Eptica blog in 2016, and picked a top ten, based on a combination of readership and industry feedback. Is a lack of consistency letting your customer service down?

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Trends Customer Service Contact Center Analysis 48

CloudCherry

MARCH 15, 2018

Today, customers aren’t just leaving some of the biggest telecom brands in the world (Comcast ring a bell?) Given what’s happening in the market, it is crucial for telecom brands to not go out all guns blazing and pump millions of cash into advertising and marketing to attract new customers. Source: Wikipedia.

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Wireless Customer Retention Call Center Advertising 210

Tricia Morris

JANUARY 11, 2016

“Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.” ” ~ Richard Branson. Beyond Knowledge: Insights.

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Trends Customer Service Chief Customer Officer CRM 40

Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Best of all, we’re giving out prizes every single day to visitors at our Cloud Expo booth: Daily Prize: Every day of Dreamforce, we’ll be giving one lucky booth visitor a brand new iPhone 7. Brand Loyalty Starts with Brilliant Customer Interactions. The post Talkdesk at Dreamforce 2016 appeared first on Talkdesk.

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Contact Center Call Center Experience Conference Call Center 40

Vonage

JULY 25, 2016

To sustain success, businesses are having to learn how to become much more customer-centric in their approach. And one of the best ways to ensure your business meets customer expectations is through harnessing the power of feedback loops. Download our whitepaper to find out more about feedback loops in customer service.

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Feedback Brands Exceptional Customer Service Social Media 120

Optimove

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Bias and Discrimination : AI models trained on biased data can perpetuate these biases in marketing strategies, leading to unfair targeting or exclusion of specific demographic groups and ultimately harming brand reputation. If a brand uses AI to track user behavior too closely, customers may feel their privacy is violated.

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Innovation Marketing Consumers System 52

Lumoa

AUGUST 23, 2021

In any case, customer experience used to be the largest way to differentiate your brand among the turbulent sea of competition. New ways of interacting with customers A recent study from CMO found that 84% of companies were using social media for brand building and more than 54% have used it for customer retention.

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Customer Experience Social Media Video Customers 221

ShepHyken

AUGUST 22, 2016

Exceeding Customer Expectations Is Nice but Not Necessary by Adam Toperek. CTS Service Solutions) Let me say it here once and for all: You do not have to exceed customer expectations to deliver great service. My Comment: Don’t just listen to your customers, listen to your employees as well.

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Eptica

JANUARY 25, 2017

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 The 5 trends brands need to address for improved customer service. Author: Pauline Ashenden The latest Institute of Customer Service (ICS) UK Customer Satisfaction Index (UKCSI) has a positive message for everyone involved in customer service. Published on: January 25, 2017.

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Net Promoter Score Trends Brands Customer Service 48

Kustomer

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Modern customer service looks very different from prior decades. Customers gravitate toward brands that have differentiated customer service, leaving those that don’t in the dust. With this in mind, brands now realize that customer service is directly tied to their revenue, and are modernizing applications.

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Customer Engagement Engagement Omni-Channel Customer Centricity 93

ijgolding

MARCH 22, 2017

The customer has always been at the heart of every business, be it a street vendor selling hot dogs or a multi-national firm selling a wide range of products. With the onset of digital channels, the distance between businesses and customers has shortened even more and businesses are able to interact with customers in every walk of their life.

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Omni-Channel Customer Experience Multi-Channel e-support 204

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Customers (and companies) faced unprecedented problems causing query volumes to spike, which put huge pressure on customer service teams. A shift to hybrid working has also forced brands, who hadn’t done so already, to digitally transform, increasing the speed of technology adoption.

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Trends Industry Customer Service Chatbots 98

ShepHyken

AUGUST 15, 2016

6 Must-Dos for Best-In-Class Social Media Customer Service by Sara O’Keefe . Ignite) If you’ve heard feedback from your customers or fellow marketing experts that your brand could improve, let these must-dos below be your guide to an A grade from your customers. This is reactive customer service.

Customer Service 48

Customer Service Social Media Chatbots Tips 48

Tricia Morris

JULY 25, 2016

In Microsoft’s 2016 State of Global Customer Service Report , 44% of the 5,000 respondents across Brazil, Germany, Japan, the UK and the United States said they feel it takes them, the customer, more effort to resolve their customer service issue than it does a brand. Customer expectations continue to mount.

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Poor Customer Service Self Service Consumers Brands 40

Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Meeting these expectations requires a comprehensive view of the customer and being accessible on their preferred channel at any time. Talkdesk , the cloud contact center for innovative enterprises, and Salesforce , the industry’s leading CRM system, have been partnering since 2016 to not only meet but exceed customer expectations.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Touchpoint CRM 68

InteractionMetrics

AUGUST 14, 2024

Each interaction your customers have with your company’s representatives gives them either a positive or a negative view of your company. In other words, your customer service is either promoting your brand or driving your customers away. Bad customer service hurts companies’ bottom lines—by a lot.

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CloudCherry

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In 2016, when Ralph Cumbee was named the CXO, he realized the potential of ‘Member Experience’ in the fast-developing digital world. You get all of your goal and the customer is still there to complete your survey.” ” Rapidly Increasing Customer Expectations. ’ Journey Mapping.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score NPS Survey 150

Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

Customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein sheds light on enhanced customer expectations, AI innovation, and more. 2017 will be a year defined by how well companies continue to adapt to customer expectations—like the ability to get good service at any time of the day, via any device. Here’s what we learned.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Brands Hospitality 133

Stella Connect

MARCH 7, 2017

No matter what your customer experience looks like, the journey with your brand should be easy and engaging. It’s exactly what your customers want, expect, and deserve. Including—or especially—those customers who decide they’ve made the wrong purchase. Zappos is one brand that has mastered the art of happy returns.

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Brands How To Ecommerce Retail 40

Ann Michaels and Associates

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Customers are reading reviews. 94% of customers read online reviews (Fan and Fuel, 2016). • 72% of customers don’t take action until they have read reviews (Testimonial Engine). Obviously customers are researching your company before they decided to do business with you. Consumer engagement with reviews. •

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B2B Hotels Consumers Brands 73

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Expectations for Social Customer Support Are Maturing. Even though social media doesn’t handle the lion’s share of support interactions, customers still demand a lot from it. At least 84% of your customers expect a response within a day and 47% expect it within an hour (is patience still a virtue?).

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Omni-Channel Social Media Contact Center Self Service 149

Tricia Morris

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Love it or leave it, brands and organizations just can’t shake customer expectations for social customer service, and from Microsoft’s 2016 State of Global Customer Service Report responses, it looks like those expectations are only set to grow as time goes on and a next generation of customers comes of age.

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Social Media Customer Service Entertainment Travel 70

ReviewTrackers

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In today’s age of customer reviews and online word-of-mouth, brand reputation is shaped not only by what a business says about itself, but also (and probably mostly) by what its customers are saying online about the business. When responding to reviews, it helps to let customers know that you welcome their opinions and thoughts.

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Study Hotels Feedback Financial 78

Kayako

JULY 4, 2016

Something that would help us speak the customer’s language, tick their boxes, and voila — ticket closed. Happy customers, happy support team, right? It’s 2016 and yet, in many ways, customer service is still living in the 1990s. When customers expect more, teams and businesses must raise the bar accordingly.

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Customer Service Meeting Multi-Channel CRM 163

Alida

AUGUST 15, 2016

At the 2016 Asia Pacific Customer Intelligence Summit in Sydney , I had the pleasure of delivering a presentation to 200 client-side market research professionals and their stakeholders from all over the region. The industry can’t expect them to participate as a favor to brands.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Carlton Retland, Principal Solutions Engineer at Applause details how brands can successfully identify and remove barriers for new customers. Poor customer onboarding hurts your bottom line, increasing customer acquisition costs and driving down customer lifetime value. Common friction points for new customers .

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

So, how do brands best manage their customer service teams in a disruptive and unforeseen event such as the pingdemic? Meeting Changing Expectations. Despite the crisis, customers still expect the same level of service, particularly within the CX sector. The Future Is Flexible.

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Transportation Hospitality Customer Service Brands 96

NICE inContact

DECEMBER 12, 2016

When I think about “great” service, I envision a customer interaction that required little customer effort, that was resolved on the first contact, by the first agent, and in which the agent served as a positive ambassador for the brand. But, does hiring great contact center agents equate to great service?

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Contact Center Customer Service Culture Interaction 185

BirdEye

MAY 31, 2023

It builds brand awareness Advertising may help you build brand awareness , but it can be expensive with a limited ROI in the short term. consumers today say friends and family are their top source of brand awareness. When you invest in referral marketing, it provides a significant boost to your brand awareness efforts.

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Strategy Marketing Social Media Rewards Programs 52

BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Welcome to the experience economy, where a winning customer engagement strategy sets your business apart from your competition. 77% percent of American consumers say that the customer experience is a critical factor in their purchasing decision, even if they have a strong affinity to a brand or product. Boosting revenue.

Customer Engagement 96

Customer Engagement Engagement Strategy Customer Journeys 96

Forcivity Salesforce

APRIL 1, 2022

Customer experience management in financial services is becoming more and more critical to success for the industry. Changing customer expectations and evolving government regulations have triggered a period of transformation for financial service providers. Integrated, seamless, and personalized touchpoints. “To

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Financial Self Service Customer Experience Multi-Channel 52

Kayako

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

When you give your customers exceptional support, they are 4 times more likely to reward you with their loyalty. But what does exceptional support look like in 2016? Because helpdesks encourage your staff to see customers as faceless support tickets. . But customers are people, just like you and me. So do it justice.

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