Chattermill

OCTOBER 12, 2020

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Bill Quiseng

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Facemasks, door signs, floor decals, partitions, and hand sanitizers won’t keep your customers. Such safety protocols in response to the pandemic are expected from your customers. While failing to implement them will cost you customers, maintaining those standards will not guarantee that you keep them. Your competitors are doing the exact same thing which means what you are doing is average, heightened like everyone else, but still average.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs often start with a general plan on how to gather customer feedback. The plan typically includes suggestions for customer listening posts. Customer listening posts are specific tools, locations and mechanisms to gather customer feedback along specific touchpoints on the customer journey. Listening posts: Help us understand individual customer needs and experiences closer to real-time.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Collected and written by your CX DJ, Jeremy Watkin. ,, In the #CXQOTD for Friday, October 16 we challenged our community to come up with a CX playlist. The question was, “What song sums up your aspirations as a CX leader?”. Let’s look at what the CX Accelerator community came up with. And a quick apology for being a bit heavy on the Coldplay. But what can I say?

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GetFeedback

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The common reasons online shoppers abandon their carts and how to overcome them.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For years, marketers like myself have long espoused the benefits of cloud platforms to help businesses gain agility. Over the past 10 months, the pandemic has accelerated cloud contact center adoption, which is a win for consumers where expectations for exceptional customer experience (CX) continue to rise. Throughout this year, many of our routines have been disrupted and re-engineered as we adopt to a new normal, we are connecting with each other more often via digital channels.

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Storyminers

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This dynamic trio really turn up the heat on the controversial topic: ”OFFICE POLITICS AND THE FINE ART OF SUCKING UP!” Certainly, an episode not to be missed as this hilarious trio dish out the down and dirty on sucking up! They agree to disagree and even draw up organisational “Sucking up” charts in this hour of friendly banter. – Have we piqued your curiosity yet?

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Any growth as a business in 2020 is a feat of its own, but rapid revenue growth is cause for celebration in a time when “right” can change at any moment. From a customer perspective, flexibility is essential, but businesses also need a collective understanding among employees and leaders of what tools are needed to succeed. What that goal in mind, we are honored to be awarded 20th place in the Minneapolis/St.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 21, 2020

With the pandemic’s restrictions and need for safety, enterprises face unprecedented operational challenges in their ability to deliver customer service. Many companies have been forced to adapt their support models to meet consumer expectations for service delivery. Back in May 2020, when the pandemic raged and safety was top of mind for millions, we carried out an in-depth study to explore consumer sentiment about technical support and residential technician visits.

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Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 1, 2020

When we try to forecast our preferences going forward, we often get it wrong. It’s a bias we all share called Naïve Diversification Bias. It happens a lot when we are making decisions now about some form of future consumption, and it can lead to feelings of dissatisfaction with our purchases. Naïve Diversification bias happens a lot at the supermarket.

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Steve DiGioia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Businesses all over this country are littered with the remnants of employees who do a good job. But what about those employees who go above and beyond? There is nothing that impresses a boss more than an employee who takes the initiative. The initiative to do more than he or she is asked for. Example: The initiative to plan ahead, look at the “big picture”, and take the steps needed to make the department or business more efficient, and improve on the existing way things are done.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 21, 2020

An outbound call center is a customer service or sales operation that makes outgoing calls to customers or prospects. It's staffed with specially trained agents who work on-site, remotely, or may work for a business process outsourcer (BPO). Outbound call centers require unique technology, KPIs, and compliance requirements.

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Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

OCTOBER 12, 2020

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Speaker: David Nisbet, 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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Win the Customer

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Customer service is one of the most important things to get right as a business – these moments of interaction with customers and clients leave a long lasting impression in individual hearts and minds. The sum total of these impressions is incredibly important to how your brand is perceived, and as people become more outspoken than ever on digital platforms, that counts.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In 2019, before the world had ever heard of COVID-19, a Research Report by Field Service News showed that field service organizations were already transitioning to a more customer-centric model. 65% of FS organizations identified customer satisfaction as either equal to or higher in importance than operational efficiency. This focus on customer satisfaction has led companies to shift their measures of success as well. 91% of companies surveyed stated that NPS or another alternative CSAT KPI was

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2020

You might have noticed that the global pandemic isn’t doing much for your bottom line. You might also be wondering how you can reduce costs to save your assets—even when the economy is robust and healthy. Today, we offer you the five rules of reducing costs to help you make it through what we will likely call the COVID-19 Recession. We discussed these five rules on a recent podcast.

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Steve DiGioia

OCTOBER 12, 2020

There are two viewpoints to take when answering the question; is your team better with or without you. It all depends on what is more important to you as a manager. Let’s break both sides down. Is Your Team Better With You or Without You? The Better With You Manager. Some managers want to be the center of attention, the star. They want the bosses to know how important their contribution is to the team.

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Heart of the Customer

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I’ve always been a big reader, but the pandemic has given me even more time to indulge my passion. I recently devoured Conscious Capitalism, by John Mackey and Rajendra Sisodia. It really struck a chord with me, particularly this paragraph calling on businesses to stop using the term consumer: “Businesses must think of their customers […]. The post What’s in a Name?

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Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

OCTOBER 12, 2020

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 7, 2020

One of our loyal subscribers, Warren Danziger, shared a story about how a delivery was made to his home and placed between the screen door and the front door. The delivery person never knocked or rang the doorbell to inform him his delivery was there. He was waiting for the package, which contained medicine that was temperature-sensitive. Sitting outside in the heat, baking between the two doors, was not customer service… it was customer disservice.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Field service organizations have long been implementing measures to reduce their high operational costs. In particular, technician dispatches are a huge drain on operating expenses when considering labor costs, vehicle expenses, and the opportunity-cost of having technicians unavailable for revenue-producing activities. Field services may be tempted to decrease field service costs through various ‘quick fix’ methods, including: reducing technician headcount. minimizing hours of servi

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2020

You can have a great philosophy, deliberate strategy, and cunning tactics to inspire customer-driven growth, but if you don’t change your culture, they won’t work. Changing the culture within your organization is vital if you want to deliver a Customer Experience that fosters customer loyalty and retention. Culture change is not easy. I was running a workshop with a utility client many years ago about the concept of Customer Experience.

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eglobalis

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Experience design Customer Perception Design The Journey to Resonate with Customer and Employees , customer experience , employee experience. The post Experience Perception – The Journey Design to Resonate with Customer and Employees… or Not appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Kustomer

OCTOBER 27, 2020

You’ve no doubt heard of digital transformation before. Maybe the term has been batted around the boardroom, maybe you already have a strategy in place, or maybe you’ve skipped over it, deciding it wasn’t necessary for your business. Digital transformation is more important now than ever before. Smart technology is allowing people to work remotely , and the future of healthcare has embraced telemedicine.

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Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Today, 84% of consumers value brand experience as highly as a company’s products and services. Here’s how any customer service department can leverage AI, self-service and more to maximize positive customer interactions—even during a global pandemic.

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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.

Customer Insights

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Stop comparing yourself to the competition. It’s okay to ask yourself, “What are they doing that we aren’t?” However, that can be a dangerous question. I use the word dangerous to warn you that all you are doing is “baseline thinking.” I call it that because it’s at the base. Realize that others in your industry are probably asking themselves the same question.

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Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The Behavioral Styles ® model is an easy-to-use tool for assessing the behavioral characteristics that fall within four distinct customer communication styles: Talker, Doer, Controller and Supporter. Does communication style matter when it comes to sales? More than you might expect. Studies show that over 80% of customer dissatisfaction is rooted in emotional issues rather than intellectual ones.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Customer Experience , like everything else in the world, is changing. What customers want and what they do is changing, too. As we prepare for the next generation and level of putting the customer at the center of everything we do for a Post Pandemic world, we should remember that the critical part to achieving what we want (aka, customer-driven growth) is getting inside the customer’s mind.

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