CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The holiday season can be stressful – for customers and businesses alike. Here are three ways to better engage with customers during the holidays, brought to you by Zenarate. 1. Empathy First. Customer empathy starts by seeing things through the eyes of others. Through understanding and conveying a sense of shared experiences – “I know how frustrating that can be” – a bond is forged, and hostilities are lowered.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be a defining trend for contact centers in 2023, and IT leaders must be prepared to think broadly about the possibilities. When it comes to AI and customer service, automation usually comes to mind. While that’s an important driver, it’s not the only use case. Chatbots are the most common way to automate self-service, but to get fuller value, a wider spectrum needs to be considered.

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The DiJulius Group

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Now is the best time to create your Customer Experience theme for the new year, one that you can rally your entire organization around. Here are some excellent and actionable insights to kick off brainstorming for making 2023 your best year ever: 1. The Great Retention Great companies help people live amazing lives. Great. Read Full Article. The post 11 Potential Customer Experience Themes to Make 2023 Your Best Year Ever appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Totango

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As subscription models and recurring revenue become the norm for both SMBs and enterprise solutions, customer success is becoming an essential part of businesses across the globe. It’s clear to corporate leaders that strong onboarding and ongoing engagement help convert tentative new relationships into happy customers and established revenue streams; and risk management protects hard-earned customer trust and shines a light on opportunities for expansion.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Customer experience (CX) is the convergence of three elements – human, process, and increasingly, technology. With 100% of customers clamoring for self-service options — be it for setting up demos or answering product questions — it’s no wonder that ‘improving customer experience’ has catapulted to the top three automation goals of marketers everywhere.

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Helpware

DECEMBER 15, 2022

According to a PWC report , around 73% of consumers consider customer experience an essential factor in their buying decisions. Moreover, 65% of consumers find a positive experience with a brand to be more influential than great marketing.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As CX tops the business agenda, there’s never been a better time to master the art of listening. Jade Turley at Calabrio shows us how with a simple step-by-step guide. Delivering the right customer experience (CX) is typically a top priority for businesses for good reason. According to international outsourcers CGS, 80% of consumers feel more emotionally connected to a brand when customer service solves their problem and 30% of consumers are willing to pay more for excellent service, a 6% increa

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Welcome to the XI Café Podcast! In order to continue Experience Improvement, the XI Café Podcast was created so that CX program owners around the world could join the conversation and learn from global businesses and industry experts about the latest experience improvement innovations in technology and research services, industry and market expertise, and customer (CX) and employee (EX) engagement best practices.

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Lumoa

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Voice of Customer (VoC) is not a new concept. It’s a strategy that many companies have used for years to understand and prioritize customer needs. However, how VoC data is collected, analyzed, and acted upon has changed. Companies are finding that innovative technologies can make collecting voice of customer analytics more effortless than ever—and these technologies have opened up exciting new possibilities for improving customer experiences.

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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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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We have another great episode of Deep CX: A Blue Ocean Podcast for you this month! We were lucky to sit down with Tony Won, a leading specialist in player support and our very first guest in the gaming industry. Tony has built up quite the gaming résumé over the years, working with industry giants like Riot Games and Epic Games—he even worked on the smash hit cross-platform game Fortnite!

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IntouchInsight

DECEMBER 16, 2022

2022 at Intouch was all about data. How to do more with your data, dig deeper into your data, and perform better data analysis - and it’s never been easier to do it!

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Digital experience trends are the new road maps of modern day business. Are you still using a paper map to direct you when you’re driving to work? Of course not, you’re using your smartphone that tells you where you are, when to turn, and if there is an accident up ahead. Think of digital experience trends being the new maps application in your business.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Today’s field service leaders face a growing number of challenges, many of them not dissimilar to those faced by their predecessors. However, the simultaneous arrival of economic, operational, and technical challenges is straining many field service organizations. In this post we will examine the trends shaping these challenges, and why leaders are increasingly adopting new strategic approaches to overcome these challenges.

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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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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you operate in a country with multiple official languages or across multiple regions, your audio files can contain different languages. Participants may be speaking entirely different languages or may switch between languages. Consider a customer service call to report a problem in an area with a substantial multi-lingual population. Although the conversation could begin in one language, it’s feasible that the customer might change to another language to describe the problem, depending on com

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As a CSM, do you have to chase customers into doing the bare minimum required to see product gains, whether it’s responding to an email, showing up to a meeting, or finishing a task? Your first instinct might be to blame sales for a bad-fit customer…but the account matches your ideal customer profile (ICP) to a T. It’s not down to a lack of structure either, since you have defined processes and roles for every journey stage.

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2022

My name is Ton Luijten, Customer Success Director + Data Science Lead in APAC—and in this post I’ll help you unlock a new take on ROI —through failure demand. When we manage client programs at InMoment, return on investment (ROI) is always top of mind. We strongly believe this should be a top priority for any team trying to improve customer or employee experiences to show that they are positively contributing to the financial outcomes of their business.

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Adrian Swinscoe

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is a guest post by Tom Gibby, the Co-Founder and CMO of The Bot Platform. The first step in asking is always the hardest. You […]. The post 9 ways to help get your budget approved first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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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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Zonka Feedback

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Customer feedback helps companies and brands to identify areas that require modification to enhance customer satisfaction. How do you generate customer feedback ? Companies use different methodologies to get customer feedback after purchasing some of their products. But, surveys are the best when you want to get reliable information from customers.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The winners of 2022’s ChurnHero Awards, recognizing and celebrating ChurnZero customers who champion Customer Success with remarkable results, have been announced! For the third year running, we asked CS teams who’ve challenged the status quo with innovative, meaningful, and customer-centric approaches to enter the ChurnHero Awards and tell us all about it.

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BirdEye

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It’s no secret that customer reviews have become an essential part of running a successful business. In particular, there is great importance to Google reviews because they can have a direct impact on local businesses success. Most people search for products and services on Google, and these reviews provide important information about the value of your products and services.

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West Monroe

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Today’s utilities are evolving. While foundational aspects—affordability, resiliency, and reliability—are still top of mind, energy industry trends show that utilities are quickly becoming digital, service-based enterprises tasked with leading the charge toward decarbonization while enabling customers to reach their own sustainability goals.

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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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Think Customers

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It’s impossible to know what 2023 will bring but, as we head into the new year, some clear challenges (and opportunities) are emerging and businesses have clear priorities when it comes to elevating customer and employee experience. We polled business leaders on TTEC’s LinkedIn page, asking “What will be the biggest CX focus in 2023?” Among the 457 people who responded, employee engagement and digital engagement got the largest shares of votes at 37% each.

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Kustomer

DECEMBER 12, 2022

When organizations are considering a chat strategy, there’s a common debate over whether live chat or a messaging app is the right method to use for client communication. Both models have pros and cons, but technologies have evolved to make a hybrid approach not just possible, but effective. By blending both models together, you can test, collect feedback, and grow — and new tools make it easier than ever to take the best from each approach.

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BirdEye

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Over 90% of marketers use social media as part of their marketing strategy because they know it’s a powerful tool. However, coming up with social media post ideas can be challenging and time-consuming. To help you get started, here are 20 simple social media post ideas you can use today. Table of contents 1. Share your company’s content 2. Highlight relevant industry news 3.

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kommunicate

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Last Updated on December 13, 2022 Chatbots have revolutionized customer support and service automation in business organizations today. It doesn’t matter if your organization is big or small; chatbots have something to offer everyone. Almost all modern and evolving businesses have deployed chatbots to increase market relevance. Not only are they multifunctional, but they also [.].

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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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Merkle

DECEMBER 14, 2022

AWS re:Invent wrapped up earlier this month in person in Las Vegas. The week was packed with knowledge-dropping sessions and networking opportunities with over 50,000 industry experts. The keynotes shared AWS’s plans to build end-to-end data and AI offerings in the new year as well as the company’s heavy investment in industry solutions. Pushing further up the software as a service (SaaS) stack, AWS also debuted its AWS Supply Chain offering, which we are excited to see in action in the new year

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Zonka Feedback

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Pipedrive is pretty useful and powerful tool and it's already fulfilling my organization's needs of tracking and managing deals, so what's with the integrations?

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BirdEye

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A well-crafted social media campaign can turn your brand’s content into a powerful marketing tool. However, it’s not always easy to create a campaign that’s guaranteed to help accomplish your specific business goals. You’ll need to spend time and effort pre-planning your campaigns if you want to see more followers, higher engagement, and boosted brand awareness.

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