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8 Customer Satisfaction Metrics For 2021

SurveySparrow

You have the dream cupcake store you always wanted. You have 10000 followers on Instagram and another 25000 on Facebook. That’s a long way from your first post in January 2020. Google reviews have put you at a decent 4.4/5. At the rate business is going, you should be breaking even in 3 months. You even managed to get your actual physical store last month.

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Why You Should Be Proactively Firing Customers Without Hesitation

Beyond Philosophy

In the early days of my career, I thought the customer was always right. The idea that one should fire a customer sometimes would have sounded like madness to me. However, as I have matured over the following four decades, I learned that sometimes the customer is not right. Sometimes they are really, really wrong, from how they abuse your systems to how they tax your resources to how they talk to employees.

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How to Boost Customer Satisfaction Levels Through Live Chat

Advantage Communications

The most effective way to answer your customers’ questions today is to meet them in the channel they prefer, with a solution that gives them seamless access to customer support when they require it.

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How To Best Handle Long Wait Times In Your Contact Center

Omnicus

Although most companies will claim that “your call is important” to them, bad planning and lack of resources create a situation where long waiting times become the norm. A norm turning most customers to look elsewhere to meet their needs. Don’t be the norm. It doesn’t always feel like my call is important Most of us have heard the phrase “your call is important to us” many times.

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Exploring CX Strategy and Technology Adoption: A Decision-Makers Chart

A high-quality customer experience creates loyal customers for years to come and makes for an easy win against businesses that are competing on other factors like price and quality. We partnered with ContactBabel to uncover the biggest hurdles businesses face when trying to improve CX and offer practical suggestions to overcome them.

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[Infographic] 4 Pillars of CXM Value

Alida

Customer relationships are more complicated and more important than ever as businesses interact with customers across a wide variety of physical and digital touchpoints. Customer experience management (CXM) is essential for organizations to monitor those relationships, evolve along with their customers' changing needs and preferences, and incorporate customer insights and feedback into their decision-making.

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Security and Ethics of Contact Center AI: When is AI Creepy?

NICE inContact

AI can yield significant benefits when it's used properly and ethically. Applying AI in the contact center can improve accuracy, efficiency, and the customer experience. If your organization doesn't use AI yet, it's probably just a matter of time. Be sure to consider ethics and data security beginning Day 1 of your project. Designing your solution right and putting good standards and governance in place will help ensure your solution isn’t creepy.

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5 Rules for Managing Your Customer Experience in Business-to-Business

Beyond Philosophy

Business relationships are a lot like customer relationships. They both involve buying decisions and loyalty—and emotions. However, there are some differences between managing Customer Experience in business-to-business (B2B) relationships and business-to-consumer (B2C). Today we will go through those differences with our 5 Rules for Managing Your Customer Experience in B2B relationships.

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The Top Challenges in VoC—and How These Industry Leaders Tackle Them

Alida

Earlier this month at Alida Activate , a customer experience masterclass event, a panel of voice-of-the-customer (VoC) innovators from leading brands—Twitter, AutoDesk, Adobe, and HBO Max—took to the virtual stage to share how they’re adapting and evolving their VoC programs to address the toughest challenges and hot topic issues facing companies today.

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The Worst Sales Call Ever

ShepHyken

Even though this is about a sales presentation, it ties into customer service. It has to do with preparation, knowing your customer, understanding what they want, and more. This is what great salespeople do to prepare for a meeting with a customer or client. This is how anyone delivers a better experience, regardless of whether it’s during the sales process or any other interaction the customer has with people in a company.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Why Contact Center Leaders Need to Pay Attention to AI-powered Analytics

NICE inContact

Today's contact center analytics can give leaders unprecedented insights into operations and identify if they're delivering the experiences customers expect and value. Artificial intelligence (AI) can take standard contact center data and transform it into actionable information about customer behavior, agent performance, and operational efficiency – key information that can’t be ignored for the modern contact center.

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5 Ways Home Security Firms can Boost CX with Visual Assistance

TechSee

The future of the market for home security firms is bright. Rising crime rates, falling prices of home security devices, and the growing adoption of IoT smart homes and cloud-based technologies are driving the sector to an estimated $62.3 billion by 2025. While the increasing demand for 24/7 monitoring service means that professionally installed products are expected to remain the largest installation type, the DIY (Do-it-yourself) segment is expected to experience the highest growth rate durin

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3 Ways to Optimize Sales Performance and Be Ready for the Coming Boom

Integrity Solutions

To ramp up sales performance and strengthen your sales pipeline, you have to develop your salespeople’s confidence; inspire them to be more proactive; improve their ability to build trust and rapport in an increasingly digital world; and equip them to engage in buyer-centric, results-driven conversations. The sales business went through rough waters (to put it mildly) in 2020, but now it’s time to get your sales plan ready and your team geared up to ride the coming wave.

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Amazing Business Radio: Hank Ebeling

ShepHyken

The Competitive Advantage of Amazing Customer Service. How to Out-service Your Competition. Shep Hyken interviews Hank Ebeling, founder of H4 Training. They discuss the value of selecting the right people to carry out your vision of service. Top Takeaways: People can steal your ideas or create the same products. What they can’t take away is the level of service and relationships you’ve built with your customers.

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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Introducing: The Conversocial CX Playbook for Private Messaging Channels

Conversocial

At Conversocial we saw an 87% rise in the volume of private messaging between 2019-2020. Only 27% of the conversations our partners have with their customers are over public social channels - what does this tell us? There’s been a fundamental shift in where, when and how consumers want to interact with their favourite brands. A new way of doing customer conversations means adapting your methods or risk being left behind.

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Your Customer Service Level is a Direct Reflection on your Company

CSM Magazine

A few days ago, I was shopping around for a roadside assistance plan. I nailed my search down to three companies. Here some key takeaways I collected from the experience. The first company that had a few good reviews and an A rating with the better business bureau (BBB) was the first one I reached out to via phone, selected all the suitable options to talk to new membership sales.

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How do we move the call to closure when we can’t give the customer what they’re asking?

Myra Golden

Yesterday I held a live Q & A on YouTube, and it was engaging, educational, and energizing! Questions came in from Idaho, Germany, North Carolina, Georgia, the UK, and Denver. . Watch the replay to hear my answers to: 4:04: Can you answer how to phrase the USA method if the client received an incorrect item, and we can offer a replacement or refund due to practice and send a small electronic gift certificate while the client is upset she is not going to get the item for an event?

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A Guide to Collecting Product Feedback

mopinion

Markets move fast, leaving little room for delay; a trend which has left many product managers and marketers with a great deal of pressure to perform and achieve product excellence. For these teams, it’s all about getting the right products to market faster with the guidance of user insights, a clear product strategy, and a […]. The post A Guide to Collecting Product Feedback appeared first on Mopinion.

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Unlock the Future of Learning Growth and Retention at Cognition24!

The annual Cognition virtual conference is back on October 16, and this year it’s FREE! You’ll enjoy: Inspiring Keynotes from top learning industry leaders, providing fresh perspectives to help you outperform the competition. Hands-on, Skill-Building Sessions to elevate your growth, retention, and product adoption strategies. Exclusive First Look at the latest innovations from Thought Industries, empowering you with tools to grow faster.

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Shared Inbox 101 + The 7 Best Shared Inbox Tools

Help Scout

When your business is small and you have a low volume of support requests, using a distribution list or shared Gmail or Outlook mailbox may be an effective way to handle customer service. After all, it’s simple — everyone knows how to use email — and it’s inexpensive. However, it’s important to remember that distribution lists and shared mailboxes aren’t built for customer service.

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How to Use Digital Customer Journeys to Scale Your Business

Totango

We recently polled the Customer Success industry asking about the top challenges they are facing. The number one answer? Scale. Over the years, we’ve found that most companies are very oriented around a high-touch customer engagement model. However, as the world has shifted (particularly last year during the pandemic), the modern customer journey has shifted as well and it now requires a different engagement model.

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A Policy Is Not An Excuse For Your Disrespect

Myra Golden

One of my sisters is a flight attendant. Yesterday we talked about her enforcing mask requirements on her flights. With the CDC’s recommendation, I knew that vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks outdoors or indoors, but we still should cover up on planes, trains, and busses, which would put her in a challenging position. We happened to be having the mask conversation as my sister was walking down the jetway for a flight from Dallas to Des Moines.

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Revenue Generation is Everyone’s Collaborative Responsibility

One Millimeter Mindset

Revenue generation is everyone’s collaborative responsibility, regardless of whether it is stated or not in your job description. Are you engaged in revenue generation or cost containment in your current professional role? Instead of either-or, let’s transform your role into yes-and. Are you going back into traditional professional roles which separate people by how they solve problems?

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Customer Success Plans That Rock!

Education Services Group

Let’s talk Customer Success Plans. What’s a Customer Success Plan, you ask? Well, let’s just say it’s the wind beneath your customer’s wings. It’s the recipe for their success. It’s the chocolate in their cake. Or whatever flavor of cake you like best. My amazing metaphors aside, Customer Success Plans are essentially the “what” and “how” of delivering on your CS strategy.

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Why You Need to Engage New Users Even After Product Launch

ChurnZero

If your goal is to keep your customers loving your product long term, you need to engage new users even after your customer spreads its wings and goes live. Customer dynamics constantly change. Teams grow and employees come and go, which means your product users do too – for better or worse. To avoid drop-offs in product adoption, you need to always be aware when new users join your customer’s team.

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CRM Journey Orchestration Showdown: AI vs. Manual

Optimove

Obvious alert: The more granular your CRM journeys are, the more personalized your marketing becomes. It’s one and the same, basically, but bear with me. As your marketing becomes more personalized, your messages become more relevant and effective, Right? And that leads to increased customer lifetime value. And so, to increase customer lifetime value and deliver customers a more relevant experience, all you have to do is create more personalized campaigns, targeting more granular segments

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Prototyping for Pluralism: Design as a Means for Social Change

dscout People Nerds

Project Pluralist founder Hina Shahid takes us through her career and explains why now is best the time for designers to make a social impact.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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Customer Advocacy is a Two-Way Street

Influitive

You’re on a first date. You know a little bit about this person and are interested in learning more to see if there’s really a spark. The two of you meet at a quaint coffee shop (outdoors of course–social distancing). The barista brings your hot beverages to the table. Half a drink through and you […]. The post Customer Advocacy is a Two-Way Street appeared first on Influitive.

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How to Make your Customer Experience Training More Fun and Effective

The DiJulius Group

The Customer Experience Olympics The video you just watched (above) was NewDay USA, a mortgage company serving veterans, having their teams compete against each other on the different components of their customer experience training they had all just received. The training was on their customer service vision, three pillars, their never & always.

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Integrate IBM Watson chatbot with Flutter App using Kommunicate

kommunicate

Flutter is Google’s new open-source technology for creating native Android and iOS apps with a single codebase. Since it has ready-made and custom widgets, it’s easy to build the UI. Flutter has many advantages so the flutter apps implementation will be common. Integrating the IBM Watson on the flutter app will be more beneficial and [.]. The post Integrate IBM Watson chatbot with Flutter App using Kommunicate appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.