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6 Dos and Don?ts for Improving Your Customer Onboarding

ChurnZero

Is your customer onboarding turning into a fixer-upper? The proper upkeep and continual improvement of a home (and onboarding process) are essential to maintain its value over time. When done right, it’s a worthwhile investment that substantially increases your return. Of course, you need good bones and strong foundation to build from—no aesthetic enhancements (or amount of shiplap) will remedy a weakening structure.

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How Customer Service Solves Churn Problems

ProProfs Chat

I bet you’ll agree with me on this one: Customers stop doing business with you when they are unhappy. In fact, 68% of customers leave because they believe you don’t care about them. More than that, only 1 in 26 unhappy customers will complain about what they don’t like about your service; the rest will churn. And that’s the problem.

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Using the Lens of Human Emotion To Improve CX

Martin Hill-Wilson

According to Lisa Barret Feldman and other leading neuroscientists, emotion is a constant. It is part of our brain’s core function – to interpret what is going on and then respond: based on ongoing simulation and prediction. The result is our everyday reality. Here is her three minute explanation if you want more insight. In this context, emotion is crucial to the accuracy of that ongoing interpretation.

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10 Ways Consumer Insights Help Improve the Customer Experience

ShepHyken

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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How Can YOU Make The World A Little More Beautiful?

Kerry Bodine

This post celebrates Service Design Day and everyone who’s working to create our new normal. While walking across the Millennium Bridge in London a few years ago, I noticed a group of people standing around and looking down curiously at a man who was laying at their feet. My first thought was concern: Is this man alright? Is he sick? Does he need help?

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Changes in Consumer Habits | Download the Report

IntouchInsight

Read about the findings from the large-scale survey we conducted in early May, on changes to consumer behaviors since the inception of COVID-19. Leveraging our platform, we received over 2000 responses and identified some pretty amazing findings.

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Five Leadership Principles For Truly Driving More Diversity And Inclusion

Experience Matters

The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others have sparked a renewed outrage against racial inequality around the world, leading many organizations to consider changes to how they operate. That’s great, but I’ve seen too many of these situations create an immediate response with no lasting change. I don’t have answers for solving deep injustices in broader society, but I want to apply what I’ve learned to help organizations become more inclusive and diverse.

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A Statement from our CEO, Ross Wainwright

Alida

The events of the past week have been difficult to process and put into words. I want to foremost express my devastation and condemn the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin and so many others who have been senselessly murdered for no other reason than the color of their skin. This is a recurring pattern, and the protests that have emerged in cities across the world further highlight this continuing racial divide.

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5 Essential Tips for Delivering Great CX in Today’s Circumstances, From HP’s Sr. Director of CX

GetFeedback

HP’s Brandon McGovern shares how he’s pivoting his CX program to stay relevant in today’s circumstances in our livestream series, CX Confessions.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Moving to the cloud: Real world advice

Calabrio

Over the past several weeks we’ve been hearing from a lot of you about the challenges that you’re facing due to COVID-19, especially as it relates to things like maintaining business continuity, having to rapidly deploy and manage a remote workforce, maybe adding new capabilities to address new problems, etc. For those of you that have your contact center and your Calabrio WFO solution on-premises, we understand that adjusting to these changing environments and adjusting to our new n

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Use The Human Conversational Model to Create Engaging Contact Center Interactions

Experience Matters

Human beings are naturally social, and one of the fundamental ways that we build rapport and bond with other people is through conversations. Organizations can tap into our innate affinity for engaging conversations to deepen relationships with their customers by designing interactions that mirror the key elements of compelling everyday conversations.

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How, when and if your call center agents should return to the office

NICE inContact

After a cancer diagnosis and undergoing treatment, A NICE inContact employee’s daughter knew she needed to work from home especially during COVID-19. She felt fortunate to have found employment with a call center after undergoing multiple rounds of treatment that resulted in a period of unemployment. Now she was worried about calling in sick or facing the alternative of going to work immuno-compromised.

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Improve Your Voice of the Customer Program: Focus on These 3 Things

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

My client walked me into the lobby of their shiny new headquarters. He exclaimed: “You’ll love this! We have the Voice of the Customer on screens everywhere!” The first screen I saw, behind the receptionist, rotated between company logos, inspirational sayings, and a colorful dashboard of graphs and numbers. “There it is!” My client proudly pointed to the dashboard.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Empathy.

Heart of the Customer

A key outcome of our work at Heart of the Customer (HoC) – and the essence of CX as a discipline – is to create empathy. That’s how we help our clients better understand their customers. When empathy is high, organizations are more likely to serve their customers better. They invest in the right initiatives […]. The post Empathy. appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense: Part 2

Beyond Philosophy

In our last issue of Why Customers Buy, we discussed how doing things differently than your competition could be the most reliable path to success for your brand. Today, we are going to discuss in more detail why this works and what you can do to implement these surprising ideas that don’t make sense to encourage the success of your brand. Before we get into that, let me remind you that this issue is based on a conversation we had on our podcast recently with advertising legend Rory Sutherlan

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How to safely operate your small business call center as businesses reopen

NICE inContact

Small businesses are anticipating when they can reopen their call centers and doors as new developments continue in the COVID-19 pandemic. Since mid-March, many small business call centers have either sent staff to work from home, worked with limited staffing at their site, or closed their doors all together.

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Why Your Live Chat Solution Needs Audio and Video

Comm100

There is an abundance of stats on the internet revealing the popularity of live chat for customer service. It’s accessibility and speed meet today’s customer expectations and digital-first preferences. But while these stats are true, the figures don’t always tell the whole story. Why? Because when you offer audio and video chat within your live chat offering, its popularity rises even further.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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What Value Do You Bring? – Tip #1

Steve DiGioia

The “ Customer Value Proposition ” is providing convincing reasons why a customer should buy a product, and also differentiate your product from competitors. The same works for our “internal customers”, our employees. The “value” one brings to their organization is not easily measured but can, and usually does, make itself known very quickly within the process.

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7 Expert Customer Service Tips during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Crisis

ProProfs Chat

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed businesses to dodge bullets and the global economy is in dire straits. While the number of positive cases increases, the negative scenarios keep piling up. . Charles Darwin’s famous quote on species evolution stands true for today’s volatile business world- “ It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. ” .

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Do Your Work-From-Home Contact Center Agents Have What They Need? Our Benchmark Study Can Help

NICE inContact

Has the pandemic permanently changed the way people work? Specifically, are all the employees currently working from home really going back to the office? It's hard to see how. In fact, some employers have already announced permanent changes.

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Chatbot Best Practices: 8 Tips & Tricks you Can Benefit from Today

Inbenta

1. Set a goal for your chatbot. As obvious as it may seem, this is the number one chatbot best practice to keep in mind when starting to design a conversational agent. You can create a bot for almost anything nowadays, so setting a clear goal for yours and outlining what it’s supposed to do, right from the beginning, will prevent you from getting carried away.

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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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A Statement from our CEO, Ross Wainwright

Alida

The events of the past week have been difficult to process and put into words. I want to foremost express my devastation and condemn the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin and so many others who have been senselessly murdered for no other reason than the color of their skin. This is a recurring pattern, and the protests that have emerged in cities across the world further highlight this continuing racial divide.

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The Power of Multiplying Leadership

Horizon CX

How is it that some leaders seem to instill a spark of creative energy and enthusiasm within nearly everyone around them while others seem to suck the energy out of the room the moment they enter? Those might at first appear to be two leadership extremes and to some degree they are but unfortunately, they’re more common within business than we’d probably like to admit.

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Call recording: Back to the basics

Calabrio

Call recording is one of the core requirements for contact centers. With voice still being the most critical and main channel used, being able to securely and reliably record calls no matter where the agent sits is a must—especially in today’s environment. In addition, something we’ve all experienced recently, being able to rapidly respond and adapt to change is a core requirement for any business.

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Ridiculous Interpretation of Rules

ShepHyken

This is one of those unbelievable customer service stories that borders on the ridiculous. I actually thought I was in the middle of a Seinfeld episode—or maybe there was a hidden camera hoping to get a crazy reaction to the interaction I’m about to share with you. I was at an airport and wanted some breakfast. There was just one person ahead of me in line.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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The Dark Art of Creating Magic in Brands

Beyond Philosophy

Business as usual is anything but usual today. How things will change in the “new normal” and what you can do to manage it is almost anyone’s guess. However, if you can open your mind to trying new things other than what you normally would do, you might discover the magic trick that makes it all work well for managing your customer behavior.

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Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Field Service

TechSee

Today’s number one challenge in field service is the knowledge gap between Baby Boomer technicians – an aging workforce – and the next generation of technicians who have less experience and want more independence. The population aged 60+ is growing faster than any other group. According to the United Nations’ 2019 World Population report, by 2050, 1 in 6 people will be over the age of 65, up from 1 in 11 in 2019.

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Ecrion Enhances Its Customer Experience Platform Providing More Customization

Ecrion

With the upgraded CCM platform, Ecrion is providing a faster, user-friendly customer communication management solution. Ecrion announced the release of the latest version of its customer communication (CCM) and customer experience (CX) platform. This release, based on a microservices architecture, also introduces a new suite of digital experience (DX) applications, designed with specific business processes in mind, including insurance claim processing, loan applications, patient onboarding, and