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What is attribution?

DemandJump

The Oxford Dictionary defines Attribution as "the action of regarding something as being caused by a person or thing". The term went from obscurity in the early 20th Century to relative popularity in the 2010s and today as more people asked questions like these. Why do people do what they do? What causes people to think or feel a certain way?

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Guest Post: The Importance of Surveys For Improving the Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Eralp Arslan, a digital marketing specialist at JotForm. He writes about different types of customer experience surveys and how they can help businesses gain customer loyalty. Did you know that customers who have a positive experience are 54 percent more likely to make another purchase and are five times more likely to recommend your brand to others ?

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Customer Success in the midst of a pandemic

inSided

It’s been a couple of weeks for most of us now, and a lot of us in the SaaS and Customer Success industries are getting into the swing of fully remote working. Maybe you’re already used to working remotely on occasion, perhaps you’re part of a fully-remote organization, or maybe you’ve never picked up your laptop outside of the office’s four walls—but whatever your situation, you’re no doubt having to deal with some significant changes to “business as usual” at the moment.

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4 Keys to Successful Customer Communication in the Coronavirus Era

InMoment XI

This article was originally published here. The coronavirus pandemic has done more than upended how brands communicate with customers—it has completely changed the lives of customers across the globe. The sudden influx of physical distancing, the (hopefully temporary) shuttering of businesses, and general unease about the virus have all reshaped how customers interact with brands virtually overnight.

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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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Keep Moving Forward Through These Difficult Times

Steve DiGioia

…my thoughts on the Coronavirus and what comes next. Because of the Coronavirus, I think I should stop writing, at least for a while until the world gets back to normal. It seems like the logical thing to do. So many others are sharing their stories or suggestions on how they’re coping with the isolation and fear of the unknown that it seemed petty for me to still write about customer service tactics when most businesses aren’t even open – and some may never reopen because they couldn’t withstan

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Customer Experience Management for Salesforce

GetFeedback

GetFeedback by SurveyMonkey offers the most flexible, easy-to-use CX technology with the fastest time-to-value in market.

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The Power of Questions

InMoment XI

The Importance of Listening Imagine a scenario where you just met a new CX colleague for the first time at a conference or other similar professional networking event. The two of you introduce yourselves to one another after which the person you just met launches into a personal story around something personally interesting to them. View Article.

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How to use Calabrio WFM to empower a remote workforce

Calabrio

Covid-19 is impacting all dimensions of the workplace from where we work to how we interact with customers and co-workers. Further, it has highlighted the need for schedule flexibility as more employees work from home and are faced with other constraints such as school closures and childcare. This new reality gives us a lot of questions to consider regarding the nature of work, technology and culture.

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Gaining Visibility and Improving Agent Performance

NICE inContact

Jeff Kennon, Director of Customer Experience for NeoNova, a customer support enterprise servicing some of the world’s leading internet service and telecom providers, says that leveraging a workforce management platform helped delight both customers and agents. He explains how opening new channels has made for a great customer experience.

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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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Introducing The Optimism Report: Highlighting Grand Acts of Humanity

Customer Bliss

Today, I’m introducing something new that I’m calling The Optimism Report. Because in this time that’s impacting all of our lives around the world, what we are seeing our grand acts of humanity, not only in business, but across the world with every kind of person. So what I want to share with you are acts of goodness that will drive and will earn both human and financial prosperity, as we work our way out of this.

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Webinar: Managing the Customer Experience in Times of Crisis

InMoment XI

Customers are still interacting with products and services even as COVID-19 continues to disrupt the economy, purchase habits, and everyday lives. Don’t stop listening to your customers during this critical time! Join top customer experience and research experts from Inmoment and MaritzCX, and Inmoment company, in this webinar as they provide answers to your critical.

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How To Direct Your Customers During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Uniphore

Famed psychologist, Abraham Maslow, outlined the five-tier model of human needs: physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Only when a person's lower-level needs are met can one move up the continuum of human potential. You may have been operating from an evolved state, an altruistic state even, before the coronavirus pandemic.

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Contact Center Leaders Advise How to Manage Your Team During a Crisis

NICE inContact

Our lives have been disrupted, both at home and work. And the rapid pace of information we are getting about COVID-19 worldwide both via traditional news outlets and social media creates an even more heightened sense of concern. COVID-19 is challenging for everyone, and especially for organizations who play important roles in supporting their communities.

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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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How to Handle a Large Volume of Live Chats

Comm100

Ensuring that your customers can reach you in a click (or two) is crucial to offering great digital customer service and is what makes live chat such a popular customer support channel. However, the volume of chats you receive may get out of hand if you aren’t prepared. You don’t want your agents to feel bombarded with visitor inquiries, and right now, for many customer service teams, this is a bigger challenge than ever. .

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How COVID-19 Is Testing My Leadership Skills and What It Is Teaching Me Along the Way – a Weekly Update (Week Two)

Calabrio

Last week I talked about how we at Calabrio are approaching the impact of coronavirus on our employees, as well as our employee-customer collaboration. Since then, we have seen a huge amount of engagement across our Teams channels, a reduction in the concern about working from home and rewarding online workshops with customers. Virtual meetups and coffee breaks are also going strong.

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What You Need To Know About Customer Service Automation

Uniphore

Digitization is on the mind of virtually every customer service leader, as new technology promises to improve the customer experience, streamline internal processes and boost agent productivity. Read More.

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Super Agents Needs Super Training: Create and develop highly trained and skilled agents

NICE inContact

Every contact center leader climbs a steep hill when trying to meet performance goals within budget. It doesn’t help that it’s hard to find, train, and retain qualified agents. Leaders face markets with historically low unemployment and plenty of competition that offers attractive compensation (e.g., Amazon). Even when they get folks to sign on, training takes too long, and time to proficiency can be even longer… if the agents stay long enough to get there!

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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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How to Handle a Large Volume of Live Chats

Comm100

Ensuring that your customers can reach you in a click (or two) is crucial to offering great digital customer service and is what makes live chat such a popular customer support channel. However, the volume of chats you receive may get out of hand if you aren’t prepared. You don’t want your agents to feel bombarded with visitor inquiries, and right now, for many customer service teams, this is a bigger challenge than ever.

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How COVID-19 Is Testing My Leadership Skills and What It Is Teaching Me Along the Way – a Weekly Update (Week One)

Calabrio

Let me start by saying this: Like most of us who share a C-suite title, we believe we are good leaders. Over 25 years of practice, I have learned a lot about leadership and I have also made my share of mistakes. But the challenges we are collectively facing—in keeping ourselves, our families, our communities and our businesses safe—has proven to be my largest test yet.

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Keep Calm and Carry On: Controlling the Controllables with COVID-19

Beyond Philosophy

We are living in troubling times fraught with uncertainty. There are many questions about what comes next in the COVID-19 outbreak. We talked about this in a recent podcast. Many of our clients have been calling us about what to do. Here are ten things we have been telling them. Communicate, communicate, communicate. In times of trouble, it is best to start a dialog with your customers.

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5 Signs You Need to Improve Your Contact Centre’s Agent Experience

NICE inContact

What comes first — agent experience or customer experience? More and more, contact centre leaders are seeing why you can’t achieve maximum results on efforts to improve customer experience (CX) without a deliberate focus on improving agent experience (AX). And the improvements you make to your agent experience can have a profound impact on your contact centre’s customer experience.

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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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5 Best Practices For Crisis Communications During COVID-19

Gainsight

If you’re like me, you probably feel like the world we live in is completely different from what it was even just a few weeks ago. Companies, as well as their employees, are learning to adapt to the new normal of working from home, the economic fallout from the crisis, the business impact to their customers—the list goes on. It’s also clear that no one was 100% prepared for the pace at which this new normal came about.

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Your Call Center Business Continuity Plan: Shifting to Work from Home

TechSee

Work from home (WFH) for customer service agents is a concept that has rapidly gained traction over the past few years, enabling enterprises to partially address the ongoing contact center recruitment crisis. In the current climate, this model has emerged as a critical element of any call center business continuity plan and companies around the world seek to enable remote working as quickly and seamlessly as possible.

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How SMUD Uses Customer Insights to Accelerate Product Innovation

Alida

For SMUD , a community-owned, not-for-profit electric service provider in Sacramento, California, supporting carbon emission reduction in the environment is a priority. That’s why the organization is constantly innovating and exploring ways to encourage its customers to convert their current energy systems from gas to electricity.

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Give Agents Tools to Address the Need for Speed

NICE inContact

Here’s a dirty little secret. Despite the industry’s focus on the customer experience (CX), contacts still take too long and don’t reach closure often enough. Generally speaking, it’s not the agents’ fault. They really want to help customers. They also want to achieve the center’s targets for Service Level (SL), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Contact Resolution (FCR), among others.

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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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Controlling The Controllable – Covid-19: How To Deal With Customers

Beyond Philosophy

A global pandemic wasn’t in your plans this quarter. However, we see an opportunity to enhance your relationships with customers in this global crisis. In this episode of The Intuitive Customer, we share ten strategies for managing the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19. Our practical tips help you manage the stress and anxiety at your front lines to the best possible outcome.

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The customer journey will be forever changed as a result of COVID-19

iPerceptions

Staying connected to your customers through customer feedback will help your brand navigate the impact of the coronavirus now, and after we emerge on the other side of the curve.

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Impact of Coronavirus on Small Business

FiveStars

In San Francisco, we are now starting on week 2 of ‘shelter in place.’ In the last 24 hours, New York, Louisiana, Ohio, and Delaware have followed suit and shut down non-essential businesses, joining a list of over a dozen states that have issued similar orders. While it’s only been a week of staying inside […]. The post Impact of Coronavirus on Small Business appeared first on Fivestars Insights.

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