September, 2021

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Beyond Remote Support: 5 Ways Your Organization can use Visual Assistance

TechSee

When most service organizations consider implementing Visual Assistance, they mainly focus on how to use the technology to support remote teams in the field or contact center. However, Visual Assistance can deliver value to many other use cases, all of which can help your organization save time and money and improve both the employee and customer experience.

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How to Humanize Customer Experience & Drive Meaningful Customer Relationships

InMoment XI

There’s a problem with how many businesses view customer experience (CX) data: human beings cannot (and should not) be distilled down to numbers. For many years, experience programs have hailed numbers as a sort of holy grail, but the reality is that numbers are no substitute for genuine human connection. None of this is to say that metrics aren’t important, but companies should remember that they can only reveal so much about why customers may be experiencing an issue or even why they remain lo

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Five Overlooked Moments that may be Wrecking Your Customer Journey

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

This article is sponsored by PayPal. ne·glect /n???lekt/. verb: fail to care for properly. noun: the state or fact of being uncared for. from Oxford Languages. Neglect can feel like a harsh word. It’s easy to think that if we’re neglectful toward our customers, it must be through some negative action. But the most common type of customer neglect we see is simply the lack of attention paid to putting the customer first.

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White Label Chat Service – What to Expect And How to Use For Your Business?

Comm100

The modern consumer is looking for the easiest and quickest way to access your products or services. Any delays in service provision can lead to client loss, decreased revenue, and injured brand reputation. With the revelation that up to 75 percent of consumers expect to see a live chat offered over any other communication channel, companies and businesses are now prioritizing investment in white label chat software to better service their customers and improve their response times.

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2024 State of Customer Education Report

Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.

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Why You Should Use Dashboards for Community & Market Research Programs

Alida

As a result of data overload, dashboards have long been a commonly used data visualization tool for business intelligence and data teams. However, we've identified a number of trends that are leading to insights professionals and researchers turning towards this visual and interactive method of displaying data and telling stories. So why is this happening?

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Would Customers Pay to Do Business with You?

ShepHyken

Think about this … what if you were to charge a customer just to talk to you about what you would sell them? Or, if you own a retail store, a fee to enter the store. What would you have to do for your customers to be willing to pay for the privilege of buying your products or services? I’m not suggesting that you should. This is just to get you thinking about how good you really are.

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True Customer Loyalty Starts with The Basics: Which Of These Are You Missing?

InMoment XI

Every company executive will agree that having loyal customers is a key to business success. But what are executives really doing to encourage customer loyalty? Most businesses will point to their customer care training or customer relationship management (CRM) system and count on these tools to build loyalty. Some will point to their monthly newsletter or discount program to demonstrate their efforts.

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#10: Lessons on Building a Team: Be Surgical in a Sea of Spray and Pray

Michel Falcon Experience

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Digital Transformation in Customer Service – Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore it (Part 1 of 3)

Comm100

Digital transformation is by no means a recent trend. However, the past couple of years has seen its importance within customer service skyrocket as companies adopted new technologies to stay connected during the pandemic. With the benefits made clear for all to see, and customer expectations risen, customer service operations can no longer afford to ignore digital transformation.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Why we need to think of the contact centre as a revenue engine

Eptica

Date: Friday, September 24, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Why we need to think of the contact centre as a revenue engine. Published on: September 24, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager In the old days, the contact centre was seen primarily as a cost centre. Managing it successfully relied on improving productivity and keeping costs low, without impacting the service that was delivered.

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The Ultimate Guide to Small Business Customer Service

Help Scout

With access to fewer resources and generally leaner teams, small businesses need to be more creative and tactful in their approach to customer service. That’s not to say they can’t provide a top-notch experience — they absolutely can. They just need to be a little more focused with their efforts. In this guide, we cover some common topics surrounding small business customer service and provide some insights gained from our years of working in support — as well as insights from small business lea

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You’re Terminated: Three Reasons Customers Will Stop Doing Business with You

ShepHyken

One of the favorite chapters I wrote in my recent book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , was about why customers would terminate their relationship with you. Yes, the word terminate ties into the movie Terminator , which somehow became a theme in the background of the book. So, why would a customer terminate his or her relationship with you?

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Three Tips for Sending the Perfect Email Survey Invitation

InMoment XI

What do you want a customer experience (CX) survey invitation to do? Besides literally inviting someone, you want your invitation to tell the recipient that they’re valued and will also receive something of value if they accept it. Obviously, not every invitation accomplishes that. Email survey invitations especially have a hard time convincing the customer to even open the invitation.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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Not All Customers Are Created Equal

Doing CX Right

Businesses need to take extra care of high-value customers, or they'll go to a competitor Read & apply customer appreciation best practices. The post Not All Customers Are Created Equal appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Digital Transformation in Customer Service: 5 Inspirational Success Stories (Part 3 of 4)

Comm100

Welcome to part three in our series exploring digital transformation in customer service. In this series, we’ve been looking at how digital transformation is helping organizations transition to a digital customer service offering that benefit both them and their customers. In the first part of this series , we looked at why businesses can no longer afford to ignore digital transformation.

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Unleash the power of CX metrics with feedback analytics

Thematic

NPS, CSAT, CES.it doesn’t matter how many letters you throw out there or how many customer experience (CX) scores you get. If you don’t know what’s driving your CX metrics, it’s hard to replicate success, let alone find ways to improve. Through comments in customer feedback surveys, social media conversations, call center dialogue, etc., your customers are often telling you how they feel about specific features, customer service quality, user experience, and more.

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Help Scout’s Step-By-Step Remote Hiring Process

Help Scout

While the opportunity to hire the best people anywhere in the world is incredible, hiring for a remote team does have its unique challenges. Help Scout has been a fully remote company for over 10 years now — with 129 people across 80 cities around the world — so our hiring process has to be aligned with our remote culture. That means: Optimizing interviews for people in different time zones.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Best in Class Versus Best in Industry

ShepHyken

Here is an interesting idea. Most businesses are competitive. They want to be better than their competition. Sometimes they try to out-service their competition. Sometimes they lower their prices to beat their competition. The point is that they are only looking at the competition. What if they looked beyond the competition? What if they looked at the world?

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3 Ways CX-Driven Brand Reputation Helps Your Business

InMoment XI

Every business can agree that a sterling brand reputation does wonders for both the customer base and the bottom line—but how can companies build a better rep by leveraging customer experience (CX) tools? Additionally, why are CX programs (especially those that drive Experience Improvement (XI)) ideal for building a reputation that your existing customers will love and that new customers will find enticing?

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The Modern Guide to Customer Satisfaction in the Restaurant Industry

ReviewTrackers

Cultivating a high level of customer satisfaction is a priority for all restaurant brands because foodservice is one of the most competitive industries. The 2018 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) reported that American now spends more than half of their food budget on dining out, which puts the annual sales projection for the restaurant industry at nearly $800 billion.

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Evolving Customer Service: Easy Steps to Help Your Customers Through Digital Transformation

Comm100

Technology continues to evolve across all business sectors. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, and analytics are part of the technology stack that every company has actively started using to enhance productivity and efficiency. However, regulated organizations must have a clear and intense focus on customer experience and loyalty to achieve their business objectives, even as they embrace this new technology.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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How to analyze Zendesk tickets & Intercom chats for customer insights

Thematic

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could automatically analyze your support conversations to gain deep, actionable insights? Thematic has just rolled out two new integrations with Zendesk and Intercom. With just one click, you can now send your customer conversations to Thematic for automated tagging and analysis. Read on to learn how to use our powerful analytics for deeper customer insights.

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How to Measure Customer Service Quality: Methods & Tools

Help Scout

Just because a customer clicked a smiley face in your post-service feedback survey does not mean you gave them high-quality service. They might love the product, and your service is just okay enough not to make a difference. Or they might be very happy with an answer, not knowing you’ve given them incomplete or out-of-date information.

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Amazing Business Radio: John Jantsch

ShepHyken

The Ultimate Marketing Engine. Creating Customers for Life. Shep Hyken interviews John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker, and author of The Ultimate Marketing Engine. They discuss how to serve, understand, and create evangelists out of your ideal customers. Top Takeaways: A repeat customer keeps coming back but a loyal customer is someone who will do even more business with you once they come back.

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Why contact centres need to embrace omnichannel

Eptica

Date: Friday, September 17, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Why contact centres need to embrace omnichannel. Published on: September 17, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Customers are now more demanding – and want to be able to contact organisations across more and more channels. They expect to be able to swap between these channels as their needs change, meaning the contact centre has to become omnichannel.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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How to Celebrate Customer Service Week (3 Steps)

Myra Golden

Download agenda, themes, certificates and more here! Are you still trying to figure out how to celebrate Customer Service Week? After the year and a half your team has pulled your company through, don’t let National Customer Service Week pass without an epic celebration of your front line! Here are three steps to easy National Customer Service Week planning!

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Digital Transformation in Customer Service – Navigating Security Threats (Part 4)

Comm100

We’ve now reached the fourth and final part of our series exploring Digital Transformation in Customer Service. So far in the series, we’ve covered: Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore It , introducing the many benefits of digital transformation in customer service, including reduced costs, improved CSAT scores, improved efficiency, and much more. The Building Blocks for Successful Digital Transition , exploring strategies for boosting success in a customer service transformation. 5 Customer Service

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Qualitative Data Analysis: Step-by-Step Guide (Manual vs. Automatic)

Thematic

When we conduct research, need to explain changes in metrics or understand people's opinions, we always turn to qualitative data. Qualitative data is typically generated through: Interview transcripts Surveys with open-ended questions Contact center transcripts Texts and documents Audio and video recordings Observational notes Compared to quantitative data, which captures structured information, qualitative data is unstructured and has more depth.

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