Sat.Aug 03, 2019 - Fri.Aug 09, 2019

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Why First Contact Resolution Makes All the Difference

SaleMove

Let’s face it: nobody likes calling customer service. The pre-recorded voices, the button pressing, and the wait times can all wear on a customer’s patience. When he or she finally does reach a human [or a bot], what customers want more than anything else is a quick and effective solution to their problem. If you want to keep them happy and loyal, it’s your job to deliver.

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4 Ways Agents Can Help Create the Ideal Customer Journey Map

TechSee

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Emotion as a Driver of Customer Loyalty

Second to None

Human emotion is complex and multi-layered, which makes clearly outlining its role in the customer experience tricky at times. Yet, its importance persists. While concrete, customer data can help to mold the basic requirements and expectations of your customer experience, emotion fills in all the intangible gaps. When recognized and implemented effectively , the emotional factor yields increased customer loyalty and advocacy over the duration of the customer lifetime.

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5 Common Mistakes Customer Success Managers Make When Managing Their Day

ChurnZero

5 Common Mistakes Customer Success Managers Make When Managing Their Day (And How You Can Avoid Them). Think you could be getting more done? Don’t we all, but the saving time is money is especially true when you are in charge of managing your customer’s success, which ultimately drives renewal revenue. . Productivity and time management skills don’t come natural to everyone and that’s okay.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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The Shocking Link Between Bad Customer Service and High Employee Turnover

Ecrion

If you’re like most businesses, you lose between 10-25% of your customers every single year. There are many reasons a customer might leave your business , but one of the biggest culprits is an age-old foe: poor customer service. What you might not realize is that your high employee turnover is intricately connected to bad customer service. Sure, you could say that high employee turnover means that customers have to deal with inexperienced staff, but the problem is much deeper than that.

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Breaking the Status Quo of CX — Part 2

CloudCherry

Many corporate initiatives start out with a flood of excitement and energy, but it can be hard to sustain that momentum over the long haul. That’s a big reason why some customer experience (CX) programs are struggling. Think about it: CX programs can take three to five years to become a core part of the business. You need time to institute the voice of the customer (VoC) practices and take action based on authentic customer feedback.

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Survey taking experience – what do respondents feel?

QuestionPro Audience

Not many would describe taking traditional surveys as a compelling experience. Reaching the modern internet user is becoming more of a challenge. There are multiple articles of people earning up to $1,000 per month through paid online surveys and it only takes a few minutes to sign up and get started. The problem is, there are plenty of paid online survey companies out there that aren’t legitimate.

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Five Recommendations For De-Emphasizing Benchmarking

Experience Matters

Benchmarking #CX against competitors is a good activity, but it is overused. See 5 pieces of advice. The post Five Recommendations For De-Emphasizing Benchmarking appeared first on Experience Matters.

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How to Win New Customers With Better Experiences – Part 1

Kayako

Customers enjoy doing business with companies that are easy to work with. The Ubers and Amazons of the world are constantly setting the gold standard in terms of what customers should expect from businesses, making consumers very aware of what great customer experiences should look like. Ease of business is everything. Your strategy should aim to make it simple and easy for your customers to get to you, find what they’re looking for, make a purchase, and get the best onboarding and support possi

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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The Best Companies Do This Even When They Don’t Have To

Steve DiGioia

it's one of the reasons why consumers maintain loyalty Buffer, one of the industry-leading apps used to schedule and share content on social media, recently had a “bug” that affected 0.00599% of Buffer users (467 out of 7,800,000). A pretty small number if you asked me. So, what did they do? Well, first off, they fixed the bug and made changes to the login process that made signing-in more secure for all users, not just the 467 who were affected.

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Rescued animals, animal shelters and pet ownership

QuestionPro Audience

How many times have you seen somebody advertise on social media about putting their pet(s) up for adoption? Initially, the excitement of getting a puppy or a kitten home knows no bounds. But after a few months or years, these exciting pets suddenly need a new home or are at the risk of being abandoned by their owners.

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Idaho Central Credit Union: A “2019 Best in Class Contact Center” Runner Up

Calabrio

Anyone working in the contact center industry knows Customer Contact Week (CCW) to be the end-all, be-all event for customer experience, contact center and customer care professionals. That’s why we were thrilled to see Calabrio customer Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU) named runner-up in the “Best in Class Contact Center, 100-199 seats” category in the 2019 CCW Excellence Awards, recently announced at the event in Las Vegas.

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Introducing GetFeedback for Field Service Lightning

GetFeedback

Get visibility into the onsite service experience and take immediate action to improve your field service operations. We’ve all experienced the dreaded four-hour window waiting for cable service installation. The appointment is set, the onsite technician is dispatched, but there’s no telling if or when he’ll arrive. Eventually he does, but it’s still a few more hours until the onsite service is complete.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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The Digital Revolution: Best-in-Class Digital Experiences

NICE inContact

In an earlier post, The Digital Revolution, Rising Consumer Expectations , we showed how consumer expectations are changing and placing a higher priority on digital engagement with companies. We ended by detailing 7 best practices that we’ll detail here. 1) Centrally managing next generation digital interactions in the contact center. Today in most company’s ownership of digital channels is siloed outside the contact center, typically in marketing.

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DIY Market Research – Partner with QuestionPro Audience

QuestionPro Audience

Is conducting DIY market research easy? How do I begin researching my market? Where will I get my target respondents? What questions should I ask them? And most importantly, will I be able to conduct successful research on my own? If you think only a professional research agency will help you solve these problems, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to know that the internet has helped change this business model. .

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Valuable CX Industry Insight Shared by MaritzCX CEO

InMoment XI

This article was originally published by ESM. You can view the article here. Technology Vet to Enterprises: Stop Chasing Bright Shiny Objects and Focus on Basics When the CEO of a leading technology company warns business leaders to beware of ‘bright shiny objects,’ one should listen. With extensive experience in customer relationship management, human resources.

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We’re excited to join the SurveyMonkey family!

GetFeedback

Six years ago, GetFeedback started on a journey to give companies a better way to listen to their customers – through surveys. Since then we’ve continuously worked on making it easier and simpler for organizations to build better customer relationships. Our goal is to provide companies with a seamless way to marry feedback data and customer data, enabling them to take intelligent action at the right time and provide an exceptional customer experience.

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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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Why Digital Customer Service Depends on Software and Soft Skills

NICE inContact

If delivering extraordinary digital customer service were as simple as following a formula, everyone would be doing it. But not everyone is. In fact, 89% of tweets from customers to businesses still go unanswered, and poor customer service is one of the main reasons for customer churn. Clearly there’s plenty of room for improvement in customer service.

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Soccer – gaining traction in the USA

QuestionPro Audience

Hands down, soccer is the most popular sport on this planet today. It is estimated that more than half of the world’s population (4 billion out of 7.7 billion) consider themselves to be soccer fans. But soccer in the USA is still far behind being the most popular sport. Americans are more into baseball, basketball, and NASCAR.

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Deliver Peace of Mind, Not Paperwork

Customer Bliss

In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. Where is a navigator when you need one? I always wonder, when a company sends customers this much paper, are they just hoping no one reads it? If they did want people to read it, wouldn’t they make it easier to understand and get through?

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Introducing GetFeedback for Field Service Lightning

GetFeedback

GetFeedback turns Field Service Lightning into a more well-rounded solution by providing deeper visibility into the onsite service experience.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Transform Citizen Connections with Cloud

NICE inContact

Our ability to interact and engage with our government is clearly fundamental to the functioning of our cities, states and nation. And, while it can be frustrating at times from a convenience standpoint, government agencies shoulder a significant burden in ensuring the privacy and security of its citizens, leading to possible longer handle times. Contact centers must adhere to strict compliance standards, like FedRAMP that have largely precluded the government from easily taking advantage of new

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VSP Global Shares 6 Tips to Drive Customer-Centric Cultural Transformation

Alida

In this automated, AI obsessed and data-driven world there is sweet irony that one of the biggest impediments to digital transformation, successful product launches, and exceptional customer experiences, are gut decisions and the opinions of the most senior person in the room.

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Must Read: 5 Books with Tips and Techniques to Improve Your Customer Experience and Service

Customer Bliss

I know we’re in August and the Back to School advertisements are making the rounds, but summer isn’t over yet! So if you’re heading on vacation soon or relaxing as business slows down a bit, here are a few book suggestions for you to uplevel your own CX skills and that of your team. The following books should be in your arsenal for customer experience transformation.

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We’re Excited to Join the SurveyMonkey Family!

GetFeedback

Six years ago, GetFeedback started on a journey to give companies a better way to listen to their customers –.

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Case Study: Key Insights on Wait Times and Customer Service

Faster response times mean happier customers Are your customers on hold too long? Nearly half of consumers find hold times unacceptable, and a quarter will leave your brand because of it. Our latest report reveals how companies are affected by wait times and the impact on customer satisfaction. Read the report to get insights into the impact of long hold times and areas for opportunities.

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Gain Workforce Optimization Tips from Top Brands

NICE inContact

Contact centers need to manage, engage and retain their contact centers’ most important resource—their people. Workforce optimization can provide the insights, analytics and clarity into productivity to build and keep an expert team. 45 Workforce Optimization (WFO) Ideas in 45 Minutes features four panelists sharing practical workforce optimization tips based on their extensive experience managing contact center teams.

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Customer Service May Not Be Your First Priority, and That’s Okay

ShepHyken

Tony Hsieh is the CEO of the online shoe and clothing company, Zappos. The company’s reputation for amazing customer service is almost a cliché in the customer service world. Zappos stories have become customer service legends. The Zappos phone call that lasted 10 hours and 43 minutes is one such legend. There are many others, and this is just one of the reasons Zappos is recognized as one of the top customer service companies on the planet.

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Build Customer Trust By Avoiding These Mistakes

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Success Relies Upon Customer Trust. When I ask you a question like “what brand are you loyal to?” you are actually answering the question “what brands have earned your trust?” What brand has proven, time and again, they can live up to their promises? Which brand hasn’t disappointed you? Which brand delivers on their expectations?