Sat.Dec 05, 2020 - Fri.Dec 11, 2020

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10 Essential Customer Service Metrics to Track Now

NICE inContact

To maintain your service level, what are the top metrics you should be tracking? Check out the list in our blog of top 10 metrics and KPIs to keep your customers satisfied and loyal to your brand.

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Sales Acceleration is Possible, Even in a Pandemic

Think Customers

There’s no doubt the COVID era is reshaping the consumer goods industry, possibly forever. Consumers’ shift to digital, which had been steadily gaining momentum prior to the pandemic, has ratcheted into overdrive during this time of social distancing and stay-at-home orders. Against this backdrop, the sales cycle continue to get faster, meaning companies looking to prioritize sales acceleration have to be smart – and quick – when it comes to devising and implementing strategies to boost sales.

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On Customer Experience and Correspondence

Topdown

Human communication has been a vital aspect of society since the beginning of time. Even before written languages developed, tribal societies developed an iconographic form of communication depicting their primitive versions of verbal communication. In today’s business, personal, and professional relationships, communication is the essential ingredient to creating successful and long-lasting connections.

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Customer Experience Planning: Ask These Reflection Questions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Within the natural cycles of any business, there are times that offer a chance to review, reflect and recharge. Some of the most common moments include: The end of the calendar year. The end of your fiscal year. As you wrap one quarter and prepare for the next. Before budgeting season. Any time changes demand you assess and adjust your goals, strategy, and tactics.

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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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Mylo drives positive customer experience with GetFeedback

GetFeedback

Customer feedback prompted changes that resulted in month-over-month revenue growth for Mylo.

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The Top Alida Innovations of 2020

Alida

At the beginning of 2020, Vision Critical made the strategic decision, guided by new leadership , to continue to help brands deeply understand their customers AND make it easier for them to manage the end-to-end customer experience. As part of this vision, our new brand, Alida , was unveiled to the world in September. By that time, we had successfully executed 3 on-time, compelling product releases, and unveiled our fourth product release the next month.

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Multiple Choice Survey Questions: Advantages and Disadvantages

Lumoa

As every customer experience professional knows, surveys represent an invaluable tool for improving the customer experience , by understanding the strong and weak points about your business, and ultimately boosting revenues. Questions posed in surveys tend to take a range of different forms, with the most popular being multiple choice questions. However, although widely used, multiple choice questions alone are not always able to produce the helpful data you need to make smart business deci

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The complete guide to website surveys

GetFeedback

Everything you need to know about website surveys, from deciding what kind of survey you want to run to asking the perfect questions.

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Crucial Communications

Storyminers

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing each of us to respond to change. It is causing many of us to become leaders. In “ What We Say And How We Say It Matters More Than Ever ” (and in the accompanying video), you’ll learn about how to frame communications, not as a chore or a pattern. Instead, we’ll remind you how to communicate in profoundly human terms.

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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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How Contact Centers are Rising to the Demands of Consumers Based from Home

NICE inContact

When history is written about the pandemic, there will be chapters on the increasing importance of customer service, adaptation, and the evolving role of contact centers in the quest to survive. Stories of automating routine tasks and providing automated self-service options, while highlight how contact center focused on enhancing personal CX by allowing agents to do their best work will be a focal point for businesses.

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How a Major US-Based Sports Association Launched a New Customer Care Program in the Middle of a Pandemic

BlueOcean

This national sports association leads the US in governing and promoting one of the nation’s well-loved sports, including its annual pro championships, community involvement and coaching programs, charitable initiatives, and more. In the downloadable case study, discover how we: Pivoted to 100% remote recruiting, onboarding, and training. Launched on-time despite major challenges of the pandemic.

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Follow up With Your Customers Using Closed Loop Feedback

GetFeedback

How to set up a closed-loop feedback program to improve the customer experience and increase customer loyalty.

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The 5 Rules of Measuring and Managing Customer Emotions

Beyond Philosophy

When I was in corporate life, my boss asked me to improve the Customer Experience and do it for the least cost. I remember thinking, “Ok. Sure, but….what is a Customer Experience?” Nobody knew back then. I defined it for myself as the mix of rational and emotional parts of an interaction with a customer, which later became my first book, Building Great Customer Experiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

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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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3 Tips to Make Your Contact Center a Little More Ho-Ho-Happy this Holiday Season

NICE inContact

The holidays are upon us, and you can make this holiday season merry and bright not only for your customers but for your agents too. Here are easy tips and ideas for low-cost ways to diffuse tension and bring more fun to December, no matter what industry you’re in.

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Eliminating Data Disparity: Q&A with UJET COO Vasili Triant

Calabrio

Originally deployed primarily by larger or more sophisticated contact centers, analytics quickly emerged as a “must-have” application for modern customer service teams. Yet confusion still surrounds the optimal functionalities these analytics must have. Look at the term “real-time feed.” You’ve probably heard contact center system vendors touting their ability to provide real-time feeds of data.

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How to Use Microsurveys to Improve Your Product

GetFeedback

Everything you need to know about using microsurveys to improve your product and customer experience.

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Guest Blog: 5 Ways Chatbots Can Improve Your Customer Satisfaction

Comm100

Owning a business is not a piece of cake. It takes careful management of a lot of moving parts. It takes patience and dedication. Plus, streamlined processes to get things rolling in the right direction. And with so much work, it’s no wonder that the need for simpler solutions has become essential to a business’s success. Enter automation. Using artificial intelligence to make business processes more efficient is no longer a thing of the future.

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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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Reimagining the Contact Center for Work From Anywhere

NICE inContact

Even the biggest skeptics have found benefits with WFH that enable them to now rethink how they want to operate customer interactions. Most organizations (56.8%) in our Customer Engagement Transformation: 2020-21 Research Study already have decided to continue with a WFH strategy once the pandemic has passed. The reimagined, work-from-anywhere contact center has several benefits.

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IBTM Keynote: Mike Wittenstein

Storyminers

The post IBTM Keynote: Mike Wittenstein appeared first on StoryMiners.

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Employees Love the Story, Too

ShepHyken

Last week, I covered the idea of the story. Customers love to read the stories of other customers using the products they are interested in purchasing. Reviews are where they start. High ratings can turn into high interest. Customer commentary in the review—as in how much they are enjoying the product and how they are using the product—can push a potential customer to make the purchase.

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Live Chat Software – If You’re Only Typing, You’re Missing Out

Comm100

If you’re reading this blog, then you probably already know that live chat is the most popular digital customer service channel – and it keeps on growing. From January to August 2020, chat volume increased by 24% compared to 2019. And the reasons are straightforward. When a customer is looking for an answer to their question, they want three simple things – speed, ease, and accuracy (plus often a touch of personalization).

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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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4 Important Roles the Best Cloud Call Center Software Plays in the Customer Journey

NICE inContact

Contact centers are a critical touchpoint that can make or break a customer journey. Having the best cloud call center software can ensure this particular part of the journey is smooth sailing rather than rough seas. We explore the critical role contact centers play in customer journeys and how the best cloud call center software can ensure this particular touchpoint offers frictionless service.

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5 Proven Ways to Make your Contact Center RPA Successful

TechSee

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, organizations have always looked to robotic technology as a way to advance their operational efficiency. Think sewing machines, factory conveyor belts, even traffic lights. As industries digitize, more and more manual or routine repetitive activities can be automated – a phenomenon known as Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

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3 Holiday Wish-Listed Gifts to Give Your Customers. And Your Business | Part 1

Cyara

The Gift of Time: Give More to Your Customers, and Keep More for Your Organization. Time, quality, and cost—pick only two. If you sacrifice time’s speed and efficiency for the sake of elevating quality or reducing cost, you realize what you’re truly giving up. The business world won’t wait for you to play catch-up, and deadlines are deadlines for a reason.

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5 revolutionary trends in CX for financial services and insurance

Talkdesk

We talked to almost 900 consumers and hundreds of customer experience (CX) professionals to understand the changing landscape of CX in financial services and insurance. We heard the same thing over and over: the expectations for CX have skyrocketed. . We’re calling it the CX revolution in financial services and insurance. . With this revolution comes the opportunity for companies in the industry to transform their contact centers into strategic assets.

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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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How to Make 2021 Your Greatest Year by Weaponizing Adversity

The DiJulius Group

Before I share how to make 2021 your greatest year ever, let me first ask two questions: #1 What do Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, Venmo, & Square all have in common? All of these revolutionary companies started during the great recession between ’07-’09. #2 Why do so many companies and industries get. Read Full Article. The post How to Make 2021 Your Greatest Year by Weaponizing Adversity appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Every Space is Political

dscout People Nerds

Transformative justice is more crucial than ever. Sarah Fathallah believes researchers are primed to assist in this critical moment if we can “move at the speed of trust.” .

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Which Team Role Are You Most Comfortable Serving In?

One Millimeter Mindset

Which team role do you usually take during meetings? Are you usually boxed into a corner, fulfilling a pre-determined role? Or do you assume a different voice at each meeting? And the voice you speak from depends on the nature of the meeting, the participants, and the desired outcomes. Regardless of whether you meet virtually or in-person, even the best teams have members who always fit into “assigned” team roles.