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12 Examples Of Email Customer Service Best Practices

Magellan Solutions

Technological advances gave way to the proliferation of new modes of communication. For businesses, these new channels mean new ways to respond to customers and improve customer relationships. Among these new mediums of customer communication, customer service and customer support emails have become one of the most popular. What is email customer service?

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What a Customer First Strategy Means Post Pandemic

C3Centricity

Denyse Drummond-Dunn · What a customer first strategy means today. “Never miss an episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.”. I know, you probably don’t want to read yet another article about the post-pandemic era, especially when the infection numbers in many countries are once again headed in the wrong direction!

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Customer Experience Indexes: Modern Thinking

ClearAction

Customer Experience Indexes: Modern Thinking Lynn Hunsaker. Why are customer experience indexes powerful? To paint a concise picture of growth strength. An index is like an executive summary of your voice of the customer research. It says: overall, our propensity to grow is increasing or decreasing. One size does not fit all. There are many types of customer experience indexes, and they each communicate something specific, based on certain assumptions, with greatest usefulness to one or more gr

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What is Learned Helplessness and How Does it Hurt Employee Experience?

GetFeedback

A look into how the way we're wired impacts employees' perception of work and satisfaction.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto

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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Address the Argument the Right Way

Steve DiGioia

Always address the point of the argument, NOT, the emotions attached to it. Example: John is upset that his suggestions for improvements to an upcoming project weren’t adopted, so he vents his frustrations about being overlooked or undervalued. He lashes out at those around him and storms out of the meeting. It’s easy to dismiss John as “having a tantrum” or “acting childish”.

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Use SMIRC Goals to Define Customer Experience Outcomes

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

You’ve heard of SMART goals… But what about SMIRC goals? It’s not uncommon in my experience coaching, consulting, and workshopping with business leaders to come across goals that are vague, impossible to quantify, or otherwise unhelpful. I don’t say this to shame anybody, but to highlight it’s so easy for all of us to do.

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The Pandemic’s Impact on the State of Online Shopping Worldwide

GetFeedback

This report examines how COVID-19 has affected the ecommerce industry and the customer experience space.

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And the Customers Tweeted Happily Ever After

Storyminers

What makes a story stick around? Why do we enjoy hearing some stories again and again? More importantly, how do you turn your brand into a story? And how do you make your story tweetable, i.e., told in 140 characters or less? Let’s look at the ancient story of “David and Goliath.” It’s remarkably sticky. Having been around for more than 10,000 years, it continues to find its way into TV shows, movies, the news, and media ads.

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5 Keys to Hiring Customer Service Frontline Reps During COVID-19

Customer Bliss

This is a guest post from Niraj Ranjan, CEO & CO-founder of Hiver – a Gmail-centric customer service solution. At Hiver, Niraj is responsible for defining the vision and strategy of the business. With over 1500 customers across 30 countries. Niraj’s focus with Hiver has been to empower companies to provide customer experiences that are more human and empathetic. .

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4 HR Predictions for 2025: Supercharge Your Employee Experience with Internal Communications

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

The future of HR is here, and it's all about collaboration, innovation, and impact. Join us for a forward-thinking session where seasoned experts Miriam and Carolyn will share insights and practical strategies to help you stay ahead of evolving HR trends. Discover how to build strong partnerships with internal teams to craft a transparent, authentic, and connected workforce experience.

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Best Practices for Improving CSAT in your Contact Center

NICE inContact

Customer experience (CX) is the new tool for competitive differentiation and every company large and small is investing in creating better experiences for their customers. NICE inContact Global CX Benchmark study, 2019 shows that great service can build brand loyalty among 81% of customers and turn 87% of them into advocates. So, the case is built to show that there is true Customer Life Time Value (CLTV) in driving better CX.

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What is enterprise feedback management (EFM)?

GetFeedback

An overview of enterprise feedback management, its benefits, and how to effectively execute the software.

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Reviews Completed On Your Phone Are More Emotional

Beyond Philosophy

How we share information is affected by the medium that we use to communicate it. We can see this concept manifest in customer reviews and advertising response behavior. The technology through which customers write reviews and interact with your organization influences the content produced and information shared. We discussed the findings of the interface of technology and human beings with Professor Shiri Melumad on a recent podcast.

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Two More Opportunities to Journey Map In Your Pajamas!

Kerry Bodine

In-person training won ’ t be back for a while… But the need to understand your customers’ behaviors, needs, and expectations remains as important as ever. To help you drive critical customer-centric decision-making in your organization, I’m hosting two more Virtual Journey Mapping Bootcamps in 2020: October 7 & 8 . December 8 & 9. Day 1 will help you build a solid understanding of the journey mapping methodology and how you can apply it to specific business challenges.

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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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Resilience – Tip #12

Steve DiGioia

For decades, stress was viewed as bad and damaging. Then we began to see the power of resilience as an accelerator in our lives. Whether you are coping with adversity, bouncing back from setbacks, or leading through uncertainty, these experiences can make you stronger. When you rise to a challenge, you reveal your hidden abilities, strengthen your capacity to suffer through setbacks and build character.

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Top 10 Contact Centre Challenges for Small Businesses

NICE inContact

The ‘new normal’ still feels far from normal and contact centres now need to look at building a solid foundation for a work-from-home model, one which addresses technology needs and environment specifics like security and reliability. Small businesses are now looking to best practice guides to have agents up and running in a work at home environment, as well as build agility and scale.

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Reviews Completed on Your Phone Are More Emotional

Beyond Philosophy

How we share information is affected by the medium that we use to communicate it. We can see this concept manifest in customer reviews and advertising response behavior. The technology through which customers write reviews and interact with your organization influences the content produced and information shared. . We discussed the findings of the interface of technology and human beings with Professor Shiri Melumad on a recent podcast.

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Rethinking the Outsourcer Selection Process in the New Normal

BlueOcean

Over the years, we’ve written many articles singing the praises of on-site visits with potential customer care outsourcers. We firmly believe that shaking hands with leadership and frontline agents, seeing capabilities in action, and experiencing the corporate culture first-hand are the intangible, immeasurable, yet essential final steps in evaluating and comparing potential partners.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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 Big Data is Changing Opportunities to Serve Customers in SMB

Storyminers

In a previous Story Miners article , we shared insights about this year’s trends in customer experience. It was mentioned that innovations like AI, the IoT and virtual reality will change how consumers interact with sellers. That was at the start of this year, and many of those projections are happening already, with smart virtual assistants, augmented reality shopping and other similar retail advancements now becoming mainstream.

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Everything You Need to Know About Finding the Best Cloud Contact Center Software

NICE inContact

Selecting contact center software is kind of like choosing a house to buy - you want to get it right because it's a big investment and you know you'll have to live with the decision for a while. Just like you don't want to move into your new house and be unpleasantly surprised, you don't want to implement your new software only to find it has some significant shortcomings.

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14 CX lessons from digital transformation leaders

MyCustomer

24th Aug 2020 Customer experience leaders are documented to have greater top- and bottom-line growth than those who haven’t made customer experience.14 CX lessons from digital transformation leaders. By Michael Hinshaw Managing Director.

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A Really Simple Way of Getting Better Reviews

Beyond Philosophy

Did you know that if you were to write a Customer Experience review on your mobile phone, it would be more emotional than if you did it on your computer? Did you also know you are more likely to tell me your email and or home address and your substance abuse history if I ask you on your mobile? You might be thinking that this can’t be true. However, recent findings by Professor Shiri Melumad, assistant professor of marketing for the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania suggest

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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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Be a Professional

ShepHyken

What is a professional? Is it the opposite of an amateur? In the sports world, professional athletes are paid, while amateurs are not. In my business, the title “professional keynote speaker” implies that I’m paid to speak in front of audiences. So, does being a professional simply mean you’re paid to do whatever it is you are doing? I’ll answer that with a resounding, “No!

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How You Can Syndicate Reviews to Amplify Your Online Reputation

ReviewTrackers

Here at ReviewTrackers, we frequently receive questions from our clients and partners seeking guidance on the impact different review sites and review display formats may or may not have on their business. If you are a business of any size whose lead generation is tied to Web searches – specifically, results generated in association with popular review sites – the topic of review and multimedia syndication is probably influencing your lead generation, whether you are aware of it or not.

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SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success

Totango

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform. It was a great must watch panel discussion that provides many insights into SAP’s journey to becoming the largest Customer Success implementation world-wide.

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Customer surveys gone stale? Why COVID-19 should be the catalyst for enhancing your VoC programme

MyCustomer

Voice of the Customer Have your customer surveys gone stale?

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Amazing Business Radio: Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey

ShepHyken

Customer Service and Community Support. How to Use Customer Experience as a Brand Identity. Shep Hyken interviews Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey , founders of Barefoot Wine. They discuss how Michael and Bonnie built a successful wine business from the ground up by focusing on customer service and experience. Top Takeaways: Creating a good customer experience requires doing research.

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The Hotel Review Sites You Should Monitor

ReviewTrackers

Hotel review sites are one of the most important sources of customers in the hospitality industry. Research shows that 78 percent of consumers use online reviews to compare hotels before placing a reservation. By comparing hotels on multiple review sites, consumers get a comprehensive picture of your business. In addition, 70 percent of customers will not even visit or stay at a hotel with negative reviews about its cleanliness.

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Contactless and effortless – service excellence in the new normal

TechSee

In the age of social distancing, is contact the new dirty word? With COVID-19 on everyone’s mind, it certainly seems that way. The new normal has companies seeking alternative methods of serving their customers without direct person-to-person contact. Known as “contactless service,” this new model is emerging as the goal of many of the world’s leading enterprises.