Bill Quiseng

APRIL 18, 2021

Social media is bad for customer service. Whether ranting or raving, customers are telling stories online about businesses whether those businesses are listening or not. With customers using platforms like Twitter and Facebook to complain loudly and sometimes virally to the world, companies have had to add resources to respond accordingly. But I am not against monitoring social media or using it as a responsive customer service channel.

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Steve DiGioia

APRIL 5, 2021

As I’ve gotten older, I better understand why many “old folks” (speaking from the viewpoint of me as a kid) got so grumpy. They’re tired of dealing with years of B.S. from so many people and have had enough of it. They just want to live their lives in peace and will no longer accept subpar work or attitudes. Me too. During our young adult years, we’re still concerned about “fitting in” and finding our place in “work world” – which is either far different from or eerily similar to “school world”.

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eglobalis

APRIL 11, 2021

In the Digital Experience and Customer Experience World, there are two lives: Before and After COVID-19. Is your company ready? experience Design. The post In the Digital and Customer Experience World, there are two lives: Before and After COVID-19. Is your company ready? appeared first on Eglobalis.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 23, 2021

Best practices for collecting and responding to both positive and negative customer feedback.

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ECXO

APRIL 28, 2021

SHARE ARTICLE. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on email. Share on whatsapp. Tabitha Dunn guest speaker for ECXO announced. You are invited to our second event with the fantastic Tabitha Dunn , the Chief Customer Officer, Head of Customer Experience and Global Sales Excellence at Ericsson. Taking Your CX Programme to the next level of Maturity Register in advance for this webinar.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 23, 2021

Global Gurus’ list for World’s Top 30 Customer Service Professionals for 2021 came out recently, and I wanted to use it as an opportunity to highlight some of my friends and colleagues who are not only on the list, but who have shared their wisdom on my podcast. (And, of course, I appreciate Global Gurus for including me on the list once again!

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Steve DiGioia

APRIL 19, 2021

The best intentions only get you so far and sometimes, your “best” is not good enough for your customer. They are upset, they are disappointed, and they deserve an apology. And here is where your “best” gets even worse. When you sit down to write that scorned customer an email to say how sorry you are for the lack of service they received, sometimes the apology makes the situation even worse.

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eglobalis

APRIL 4, 2021

Change These 6 Fundamentals to Improve Your Digital Transformation and Supply Chain Experience customerexperience supply chain experience. The post Change These 6 Fundamentals to Improve Your Digital Transformation and Supply Chain Experience appeared first on Eglobalis.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 22, 2021

A detailed explanation of the different between customer experience and user experience.

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ECXO

APRIL 12, 2021

SHARE ARTICLE. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on email. Share on whatsapp. Customer Experience and Service Management; meeting along the Customer Journey. The Customer Journey is an important common denominator between the CX and Service Management frameworks. Although their approaches may differ, both share the common goal of realising a great customer experience.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 13, 2021

Customer experience leaders often talk with confidence about their Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs. They boast about how often they survey customers, collect feedback via fancy technologies, and produce reports with color-coded graphs. Yet how often do we, as CX leaders, really just focus on listening to customers in authentic, low-tech ways? Customer interviews can be a key step in: Customer Journey Mapping.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 14, 2021

If you’ve interacted online with pretty much any sort of business in the past year, there’s a good chance it was handled by a chatbot. Lately, I’ve encountered more local small businesses using them to take orders and answer questions. The convenience offered by their chatbot helped to win my business. And they seem more prevalent than ever. Have you noticed the proliferation of chatbots on websites and social media platforms?

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Comm100

APRIL 22, 2021

By 2022, CNBC predicts that 75-90% of customer queries will be handled by a chatbot. From Starbucks to Duolingo and in almost every industry in between, top brands are turning to chatbots to improve their customer service and support operations. While some brands were initially hesitant to get onboard, thanks to tech advancements, these chatbot fears are being put to bed.

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Steve DiGioia

APRIL 22, 2021

Many managers love to micromanage. They just can’t help it. They believe that telling an employee exactly how to do something and when to do it will fix all their ills. This makes the employee’s job easier. They don’t have to think. Simply “tell them what to do” for every situation and they’ll do it. But what happens when the boss isn’t around? What do the employees do?

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Storyminers

APRIL 12, 2021

1. What have you found most challenging as a leader of a small or medium enterprise? Since I work primarily in professional services, the hardest thing is knowing what my future clients need. If I don’t know that, it’s hard to position our services and reason for purchase properly. Since I don’t know who they are (yet), it’s always a mystery to understand what they’ll respond to.

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ECXO

APRIL 1, 2021

SHARE ARTICLE. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on email. Share on whatsapp. Orchestrating surprise and delight strategies to evoke positive emotions Image: Ben White, Unsplash Surprise and delight are commonly used terms within the realm of customer experience strategising. As simple as these two words may seem, there lies a complexity regarding their relation to the customer experience.

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Bill Quiseng

APRIL 25, 2021

When first confronted with this pandemic we moved quickly to identify the high risks for our employees and our customers and then worked to define the action steps required to minimize those risks. We got everyone involved at all levels of the organizations, followed local, state, and federal guidelines which changed week-to-week, and innovated, looking at every possible solution to keep us safe.

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Customer Experience Hospitality Guidelines Airlines 190

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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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 23, 2021

Emotions rule your customers’ buying decisions. Sure, their rationality weighs in sometimes, too, but often, it’s the emotional side that drives customers to buy. These two parts of us, the emotional and the rational represent the two ways of thinking that serve as the foundation for understanding customer behavior. Knowing how these two systems of thinking work together and, in some cases, against each other to make decisions is vital to achieving customer-driven growth.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 28, 2021

This is why some companies get a bad rap! Our colleague here at Shepard Presentations, Nate Jones, shared a story about something that recently happened to his father. This is a great customer service training lesson. He bought a new car. About a month later he’s in a parking lot and the car won’t start. So, he calls the dealership’s customer service number, which was actually a support center for all of that brand’s dealerships in the U.S. – maybe even the world.

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Bob Hayes

APRIL 29, 2021

I recently reached out to data professionals on LinkedIn to ask a series of questions about their work. Results from one of those polls revealed that data professionals are generally dissatisfied with their company’s use of analytics in helping it gain a competitive advantage; nearly 6 in 10 data professionals said they were dissatisfied with their company’s use of analytics (22% extremely dissatisfied).

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Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. For proof, compare this 2014 customer promise from Comcast — “We are committed to providing Comcast customers with a consistently superior customer experience” — to this recording from the same year. Your culture is the set of beliefs held by your employees about your company: who and what it is for, what it values, and how they act in response to

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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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ECXO

APRIL 28, 2021

SHARE ARTICLE. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on email. Share on whatsapp. Customer Success – Sowing the Seeds for Mutual Growth. While the role of customer success is not new, it has rapidly become mainstream as companies now recognize its contribution to business growth. According to Jason Lemkin, “Customer success is where 90% of the revenue is”.

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PeopleMetrics

APRIL 30, 2021

What does world-class customer experience look like? Take a look behind the curtain. The key lies in how those experiences are designed and managed internally through things like survey design, program configuration, employee engagement and more. In this session, we reveal 5 CX secrets behind the world's best brands and provide real-world examples of how these beloved companies attract, retain and delight loyal customers by taking extra care behind-the-scenes to deliver exceptional customer expe

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 9, 2021

Let’s imagine that you’re an account manager with 200 customers. If you know that 80 percent of your revenue comes from 20 percent of those customers, what do you think happens to the other 80 percent that only accounts for 20 percent of the revenue? Yep, you guessed right, not much. However, the reason not much happens with these accounts could be influenced by the biological amount of bandwidth you have for maintaining relationships.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 21, 2021

Let me put it to you in the simplest terms possible. When your customer calls, emails or texts you, you must respond. That is unless you don’t care if they ever do business with you again. One of our subscribers to The Shepard Letter , Andy Saks, owner of Spark Presentations and professional corporate presenter , sent in a story worth sharing. (By the way, if you’ve got an amazing – or horrific – customer service story, send it over.

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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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Talkdesk

APRIL 13, 2021

Talkdesk offers advanced administrative services to help customers optimize their contact center. We continue to work closely with our customers to improve Customer Experience (CX) and achieve greater revenue. By partnering with leading customer experience consultancies to outsource administrative efforts, we aim to reinforce our commitment towards providing customers with a better agent and customer experience, and increased customer advocacy.

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Help Scout

APRIL 27, 2021

Your relationships with your customers have more in common with relationships in your personal life than you might think. Like the happiness that you derive from being around your friends and loved ones, customer happiness is a product of a lot of time, effort, and learning. It’s not just about a single action but the accumulation of activities over time.

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Eptica

APRIL 15, 2021

Date: Friday, April 9, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager 5 ways collaboration tools benefit customer service. Published on: April 09, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How are collaboration and communication tools benefiting the contact centre? New research from ContactBabel, sponsored by our parent company Enghouse Interactive, highlights five areas where adopting these solutions is helping improve the experience for both agents and customers.

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