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What are the three ways to Measure Churn?

CustomerSuccessBox

Acquiring your customers is just a first step in the fruitful partnership process and retaining them is the next big thing and for that matter, it becomes extremely crucial to reduce the churn for any SaaS Business. Of course, churn is inevitable, but the better we analyze and measure churn, the better we will be at reducing the churn. So, how many ways can we actually measure churn?

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What Netflix Has Taught Us About Customer Success and Keeping Things Simple

Gainsight

We’ve watched A LOT of streaming TV this past year. Mostly for work, of course. I mean, how else were we supposed to “research” the many parody videos we had to create for Pulse Everywhere? And how else was yours truly supposed to study my personal CEO coach, the one and only “World’s Best Boss,” Michael Scott: Here at Gainsight, we have no shame admitting that we’re total nerds about Customer Success and Product Experience.

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How to set customer expectations through customer experiences, and why it is important.

Call Experts

Customer expectations are not uniform, nor are customer experiences. . To build an ideal experience, you want to think about various characteristics, like social expectations, how they met your company, and which channel they choose to communicate with your company. . Whatever shape or size of the expectations, it is essential to think through your experience to manage expectations.

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3 Actions to Take on the Road to Leadership Bravery

Customer Bliss

“The best way to learn if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”. – Ernest Hemingway. Companies that practice what I call “ leadership bravery ” are choosing to reverse the trend on business practices that have defined their industries. Through leadership guidance and company actions, they are establishing more balanced relationships, where both sides win.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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What Customers Want Next: How to Find & Act on CX Clues

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Human behavior is notoriously difficult to predict. Sophisticated modeling and massive data analysis can help, but these are typically based on past behavior. Past behavior might be helpful for predicting future successes, but what if the context or the entire environment changes from the past to the future? In one study by Concentric , 99% of leaders reported doing some kind of forecasting.

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4 Ways to Drive Healthcare Improvement with Voice of Employee

Alida

What’s the most overlooked but effective way to become a patient-centric healthcare organization? Prioritizing the voice of the employee (VOE).

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4 Innovations Enabling Truck Roll Optimization

TechSee

It’s no secret that truck rolls are a necessary evil for the service industry. Yes, they cost a lot. Absolutely, your customers aren’t happy to wait for service. Of course, in-person contact puts employees and customers at risk. Sure, they divert your workforce from more strategic tasks. . But even though a large proportion of truck rolls are non-value-added activities and a tremendous waste of resources, these dispatches remain a fact of life for service organizations.

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Did You Ever Get a Voicemail From Marble Mouth? – Tip #33

Steve DiGioia

The other day I got a voicemail message from someone who sounded like they had a mouth full of marbles. I couldn’t understand most of what she said, and she spoke so quickly that each word just bled into the next. I even played the message back hoping to catch what I missed the first time. No difference. A question for you salespeople…. Why waste your time making a phone call and then expect someone to call you back when we can’t even understand what you are saying?

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10 Ways the Best Call Centers Thrive in the New Normal

Uniphore

We’ve learned a lot during the past 12 months: what restaurants deliver, what six feet actually looks like, what makes up a “home office.” We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. When the whole world went remote, people started calling in in record numbers, forcing businesses to reassess their customer service game.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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

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An inside look at contact center BPOs

NICE inContact

Like everyone else, contact center BPOs (business process outsourcers) are emerging from more than a year of drastic and unforeseen upheaval. How have BPOs weathered this challenging period? How are they navigating this still-changing landscape and a “new normal?” And, what does the future look like in the world of BPOs?

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Flat Customer Care Budget? Outsourcing May Be the Answer

BlueOcean

As we slowly emerge into recovery, the post-pandemic world looks very different and we’re seeing it with new eyes. Our social lives have shifted, our work environments have changed, and how we spend our money is also quite different. Today we look at how this last consideration applies to the way companies are investing in customer care. We took a deep look at recent data published by Ryan Strategic Advisory , surveying more than 600 contact center decision-makers.

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How Retailers Can Navigate the Digital Commerce Experience Paradigm

Alida

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to dramatic shifts in consumer behavior. Safety and convenience have become more important than ever before as consumers have rapidly adopted new omnichannel and digital-first shopping habits. As retailers scramble to effectively serve customers through a variety of channels, the digital commerce experience has become a common denominator.

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3 Ways Call Center Coaching is Leading to Customer Churn

Uniphore

3 Ways Call Center Coaching is Leading to Customer Churn. And How to Fix it With Agent Assist. It’s no secret that better coaching creates more effective agents and better overall customer interactions. Why then do so many call centers struggle to convert coaching into real, measurable results? The problem comes down to a lack of coaching quality and on-the-floor facetime.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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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5 things every contact center leader should know about customer acquisition cost

NICE inContact

By now, contact center leaders are well aware of the impact great CX has on customer loyalty. Providing satisfying customer service experiences can build strong relationships that lead to lower churn and can turn happy customers into brand advocates. Taking care of customers is as important as ever these days because their expectations are increasing, and loyalty can be fleeting.

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Meet Momentive: agility and insights to help you shape experiences of tomorrow

GetFeedback

SurveyMonkey (SVMK inc.), the maker of GetFeedback, is now Momentive.

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Task Bot: Free 24/7 Automated Support for Small Business

Comm100

As a small business, it can seem difficult or even impossible to reach the same level of customer service & support as bigger brands. Organizations with greater resources are recognizing the impact of customer service on the bottom line, and so are investing heavily into it. 24/7 support is becoming commonplace among these well-resourced teams. Automation is too, passing off routine and repetitive tasks to technology like chatbots so agents have more time to spend on complex or high-value ta

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5 Questions Call Center Leaders Ask About Agent Assist

Uniphore

Sometimes, the key to success isn’t having all the answers, but asking the right questions. One of the most hyped new trends in the contact center is agent assist software. With increased interaction complexity and the adoption of work from home processes, agents have a lot on their plates right now. An agent assist solution could make a world of difference — improving agent performance and preventing burnout.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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How to demonstrate the ROI of contact center AI throughout your business

NICE inContact

Contact centers are at the heart of a company’s relationship with its customers. In no other business function do you see the exchange of ideas and feedback that happens between agents and customers during support interactions. This conversational information, plus a wealth of operational statistics, make contact centers a treasure trove of customer data.

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Six Ways to Handle Angry Customers

ShepHyken

Everybody has angry customers. Some customers are angry because they have a complaint. Some are just having a bad day. Whatever the reason, you must know how to handle angry customers. In our customer service training workshops , we provide a number of tactics to manage these difficult customer situations. Before I get into the specifics, remember that when angry customers have their problems managed appropriately, they can become your best customers.

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Task Bot: Free 24/7 Automated Support for Small Business

Comm100

As a small business, it can seem difficult or even impossible to reach the same level of customer service & support as bigger brands. Organizations with greater resources are recognizing the impact of customer service on the bottom line, and so are investing heavily into it. 24/7 support is becoming commonplace among these well-resourced teams. Automation is too, passing off routine and repetitive tasks to technology like chatbots so agents have more time to spend on complex or high-value ta

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Why You Don’t Need an AI Support Chatbot

Help Scout

Artificial intelligence (AI) shows incredible promise in 2021, but the experience of interacting with an AI chatbot is more like talking to a distracted toddler than it is to Tony Stark’s Jarvis. Still, using AI chatbots for customer service makes plenty of sense. Perhaps you’ve read about recent AI breakthroughs, seen a compelling demo, or heard that your competition is installing an AI system.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

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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This Is One of The Most Powerful Marketing Tools: Peoples’? Aversion to Loss

Beyond Philosophy

I downgraded one of my online subscriptions recently. I noticed in the process that not only did the platform tell me about all the features and benefits I would lose access to by downgrading, but they put it in red typeface AND had me check off a box for each item I was losing. I couldn’t help but think what a great example this experience was for using Loss Aversion to get customers to do what you want.

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Guest Post: Hang It on the fridge

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by John O’Leary, a speaker, coach, and best-selling author. He shares an excerpt from his #1 bestselling book In Awe. Scott worked at the valet stand. . When he saw [me] this nine-year-old kid wrapped with bandages, eyes reddened from the physical therapy session he’d just endured, Velcro-strapped into a wheelchair, waiting for a ride home, he must have recognized that this kid needed some extra attention. .

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What is a Chatbox & How to Add it to Your Website (for Free!)

Comm100

If it feels like everyone around you is adding a chatbox to their website, it’s probably because they are! The live chat market is in the process of doubling itself. As the years go by, live chat is shifting from a “nice to have” to a “basic customer requirement.”. But meeting this requirement doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, it can be completely free.

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Successfully managing the shift to hybrid working

Eptica

Date: Friday, June 4, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Successfully managing the shift to hybrid working. Published on: June 04, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager The switch to hybrid/blended working provides contact centres with opportunities to become more flexible and efficient while accessing a greater pool of talent.

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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Q&A Session: Mastering Scale with Digital Customer Journeys

Totango

During the live presentation of the Technology & Services Industry Association (TSIA) Interact webinar “Mastering Scale with Digital Customer Journeys”, Totango CCO and COO Jamie Bertasi, Trustpilot Senior Global Director of Customer Marketing Taylor Cunningham, and Monster Senior Director of Customer Success and Client Adoption Karla Russel answered several questions from attendees.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 6-7-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Customer Interviews for CX: How to Conduct Interviews & How They Can Make a Difference by Jeannie Walters. (Experience Investigators) Customer interviews can highlight issues in emotional ways.

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Task Bot: Simple but Effective 24/7 Automated Support

Comm100

24/7 support is becoming commonplace among well-resourced teams. Automation is too, passing off routine and repetitive tasks to technology like chatbots so agents have more time to spend on complex or high-value tasks, improving customer experience. . As this quality of support becomes commonplace, consumers expect it from every brand they interact with – no matter their size – and this has far-reaching consequences.

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