Comm100

AUGUST 29, 2021

As storefronts have evolved, so too has customer service. Now more than ever, customers are empowered to expect more from businesses and get more in return. Customers expect flexibility across channels and a consistent experience no matter how they reach out. In turn, businesses have adopted omnichannel customer service strategies for engagement. While omnichannel support improves the customer experience, as well as the agent experience, businesses have more to consider when allocating resources

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Zonka Feedback

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Ensuring a remarkable Customer Experience (CX) in a customer relationship delivers improved engagement, retention, satisfaction, and, ultimately, better financial growth. According to American Express, 70% of Americans are willing to spend an average of 13% more with businesses or brands that provide excellent customer experience. Similarly, Oracle found that 86% of customers are willing to pay more for a better customer experience.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 31, 2021

As a customer success leader, you’ve put a lot of hard work into building the perfect meetings with customers. You know to focus on the most relevant items at hand, come out with clear action items, and always have an agenda to keep things on track. . But did you know there is a difference between a meeting agenda and a meeting objective ? While an agenda is required to keep your team and your customer on track to make the most of your time together, both an agenda and an objective are needed t

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 31, 2021

What are the Best Customer Feedback Questions to Ask? I talk and write a lot about customer feedback. If you’ve read my article on Listening Assessments or downloaded our free Customer Interview Guide resource , you know I love customer feedback that tells a story and contextualizes our other data. When I talk with folks about customer feedback, one thing I often hear is “What questions should we be asking customers?

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 30, 2021

A little while after Indra Nooyi was named the CEO of PepsiCo, she traveled home to India to visit her mother. The morning after she arrived, piles of visitors began pouring into her mothers’ home. They walked past Nooyi and straight to her mom where they congratulated her on her daughter’s accomplishment. They praised her for her ability to raise a daughter who would become CEO.

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Michel Falcon Experience

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

To listen to this episode on an Apple device, click here. To listen on Spotify, click here. To listen to this episode on another platform,… The post #10: Lessons on Building a Team: Be Surgical in a Sea of Spray and Pray appeared first on.

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Alida

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It shouldn’t be a surprise that customer experience (CX) is now a focus for many companies. According to Forrester, a small improvement in CX translates to millions of dollars in additional revenue per year. In many industries, CX is the competitive advantage that differentiates winners from losers.

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Comm100

AUGUST 31, 2021

Customer service expectations have hit all-time highs. For companies to remain competitive, it’s now necessary to provide fast, personalized, customer-centric support – even more so while face-to-face service isn’t possible. As companies strive towards this level of support, live chat has become an integral channel – but the hard work doesn’t stop here.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the veritable reigning champion and current all-star industry buzzword. Most people interact with AI daily in some form or another.

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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

Call Center

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This week we feature an article by Apira Giriharan, a Marketing Manager from Blackchair with extensive knowledge of all matters related to CX solutions. She writes about how contact center agents can maximize productivity and provide a better customer experience. Contact center agents are often hampered by a lack of data and resources, which undermines their productivity. .

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Alida

AUGUST 31, 2021

An increasing number of companies are transforming product development by embracing a design method that puts the customer first. Instead of relying on people’s gut instincts, this new design framework cultivates empathy for users, emphasizes iteration and prototyping, and promotes tests throughout the process.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 31, 2021

Learning is complex. What does it take for a person to learn a language, for example? If it’s a modern language, the student buys a book, takes a class or downloads an app. In each option, the student receives specific instruction for mastering part of the language, including feedback from the teacher, checking answers in the book or interacting with the app’s interface.

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Eptica

AUGUST 29, 2021

Date: Monday, August 30, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How to plan for customer service success at peak times. Published on: August 30, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Every sector faces peaks in demand, where delivering excellent customer service becomes even more business-critical. Being able to scale up (and down) resources to meet changing demand is therefore vital.

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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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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

I’ve written about this before. Our customers are smarter than ever when it comes to customer service and receiving a great customer experience. They no longer compare us only to our direct competitors, but instead, to the best service they have received from any company, large or small, global or local. These companies are setting the bar higher. They are forcing everyone in business to up their game, and that’s great for us as customers. .

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Thematic

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Tier 2 support team members are the folks responsible for handling technical escalations and more advanced inquiries that are beyond the skills or knowledge of your first level customer service representatives. When supporting a highly technical product, a tier 2 team may handle implementation and core product guidance. In contrast, the tier 2 team supporting a retail product may handle lower priority bugs, dispute resolutions, or triage, as their skills are less about product knowledge and more

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 30, 2021

When it comes to hiring salespeople, why has it become so hard to get people excited about a job in sales in the first place? If you’re hiring salespeople right now, you’re not alone. After a devastating year for layoffs and record-setting degrees of turnover on the horizon, open sales positions abound and salespeople are in hot demand. But there’s a reason so many of those roles remain unfilled.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Experience Maker. Creating Consistent Exceptional Customer Experiences. Shep Hyken interviews Dan Gingiss, an international keynote speaker, coach, and author of The Experience Maker. They discuss how to create experiences that customers want to talk about. Top Takeaways: An Experience Maker is that person in an organization that wears the customer hat at all times.

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Vanilla Forums

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The work of online community building may be an art, but it can still benefit from a foundation in science. There are theoretical foundations for our work, especially among research of interpersonal (one-to-one) and group communication. Let me clarify that these communication theories are just that: theories. They are not hard rules, or facts. They are not necessarily true in all circumstances.

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SurveySparrow

AUGUST 31, 2021

Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Naturally, you have to take certain measures to ensure they are happy and satisfied with your offering. But how do you get inside the mind of your customers? Through feedback, of course. There is no doubt that customer feedback is essential for growing a business. A well-structured survey, irrespective of the different types of surveys and their uses helps you identify consumer pain points, find scope for improvement, and discover the need for i

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Optimove

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

**. Gaming operators constantly look for ways to stand out and ensure that they’re ahead of the competition by finding ways to differentiate themselves. However, the foundations of successful gaming operators all boil down to the same components. Working with the leading gaming operators in the industry for over a decade, including Entain, Penn National, and Funstage, Optimove has identified three main strategic initiatives, pictured below, that all operators need to excel at to achieve su

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The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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Opinionator

AUGUST 30, 2021

Public restrooms are convenient but can turn people away if they are dirty. The cleanliness of a company’s restroom makes a big impression on those that go in there. As operations managers, you have an important role to oversee visitor feedback and satisfaction. Help your guests to feel welcome by taking the right steps to […]. The post Don’t Rest on Restroom Feedback: A Guide for Operations Managers appeared first on Opiniator.

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Magellan Solutions

AUGUST 31, 2021

Looking for a back office outsourcing company to assist you? Here’s how you can get one. For SMEs, a 24/7 and full back-office operations are no longer impossible in today’s digital environment all thanks to BPO companies in the Philippines. . If you are not yet subscribed to a BPO company, consider the pressure to provide faster service while meeting increased customer expectations and lowering costs has multiplied.

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NobelBiz

AUGUST 31, 2021

This time, among some of the more traditional development projects, the bill directs a staggering $65 billion towards improving the internet infrastructure nationwide. Let’s see what are the two main goals of this investment and how can this impact the future of the contact center industry as a whole. The post 2021 Infrastructure Bill: Contact Centers and the Broadband Revolution appeared first on NobelBiz®.

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Optimove

AUGUST 29, 2021

It may not come as a shock to you learning that our data shows a strong connection between the nature of the experience had with your brand early on – and the chances of them becoming a returning, more loyal customer. A great experience usually leads to a better retention rate. And a poor one, to lower such rates. Make sense, right? But what does come as a surprise to us here at Optimove time and again is how often marketing teams miss out on that insight and fail to act on what it tells them.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 31, 2021

For most B2B companies, Q4 means the time of contract renewals. It can be a busy selling season! It has become just as important, in the SaaS industry particularly, to work to keep existing customers as it is to chase down new leads. Customer retention and renewal are now crucial pieces of business growth. Focusing on customer success and the renewal proces s in tandem can help improve customer retention.

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DemandJump

AUGUST 31, 2021

Since Google owns the lion’s share of the search engine market, it’s critical to know how to use keywords to your advantage to make your website readable, relevant, and ranked by the search engine giant.

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Help Scout

AUGUST 31, 2021

Customer support representative is one of the most common jobs on the market for individuals looking to work in technology, so the job description you write for your open role needs to be exceptional in order to attract applications from exceptional candidates. It’s important for your job description to clearly reflect your company’s needs and the requirements of the role.

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