Sat.Apr 18, 2020 - Fri.Apr 24, 2020

article thumbnail

Empathy is the most important driver for business. Here’s why.

Hello Customer

How can empathy make a difference as we are all adapting to a changing world? Last week we hosted a strategic session with some of our customers, together with Steven Van Belleghem. During this session, they had the chance to put some of the biggest challenges they’re facing on the virtual meeting room table. In this blog post, we gladly share some of the insights with you.

article thumbnail

How to keep your customers top-of-mind during a crisis

iPerceptions

A crisis can have reverberating effects on the day-to-day of customers and brands alike.

How To 96
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Are You Supporting Your Customers Now?

Daniel Group

As we all continue to navigate through the Clovid-19 crisis, we hope that you, your families, and companies are safe and well. At The Daniel Group, we continue to strive to help our clients adapt to ever-changing business environments and supporting your customers. First, I want to share with you my latest blog, Customer Feedback during the Crisis: More is Better.

article thumbnail

Writing a CRM Plan: Useful Tips for Students

CSM Magazine

Customer Relationship Management (or CRM) is a phrase used about how your organization engages customers. It is often assumed that CRM implies a system used in capturing information relating to customers. However, it is important to reiterate that this is only a small part of the bigger picture. Effective CRM involves the use of tech to college data needed to offer improved services and support to customers.

CRM 52
article thumbnail

Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

article thumbnail

How to conduct B2B customer surveys that provide ROI

Lumoa

Conducting B2B customer surveys is for many a struggle. There are two major problems that B2B surveys often experience; not able to collect enough responses and hard to act on the feedback. Learn how to overcome these typical B2B survey problems.

B2B 338

More Trending

article thumbnail

How to Drive More Revenue with NPS, CSAT, and CES

GetFeedback

Join GetFeedback and TEDx speaker Jeannie Walters in this on-demand webinar, as we share ways to quantify your feedback data and the different actions you can take to improve customer relationships and drive business revenue. .

NPS 259
article thumbnail

Four Reasons Artificial Intelligence is the Next Step for Your Contact Center

NICE inContact

Why is AI becoming a priority for contact centers around the globe? What does it look like to actually implement it in your organization? And what kind of impact can you expect? Explore why and how contact center leaders are utilizing AI today.

article thumbnail

B2B Customer Surveys 101

Lumoa

B2B companies often struggle with common hurdles when it comes to surveying customers. Conducting B2B customer surveys should be an illuminating process, but instead, they become a nightmare that makes you want to tear your hair out. It’s kind of like making New Year’s resolutions… you know you should stick to them, but somehow you always stray from the righteous path.

B2B 208
article thumbnail

TRUSTING Your Team to Do What’s Right: University of Minnesota Bolsters Staff Through Trust

Customer Bliss

In each episode of the Daily Dose of OPTIMISM! , I want to share acts of goodness that will drive and will earn both human and financial prosperity, as we work our way out of this. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. In today’s “Daily Dose,” I want to talk to you about the wonderful gestures that so many companies are making on behalf of their employees.

Financial 210
article thumbnail

The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

article thumbnail

How To Help During The Pandemic: Figure Out Your Zone of Genius

Kerry Bodine

A couple of years ago, I read a book that changed the way I thought about my business — and my life: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. My main takeaway was Gay’s framework for describing four “zones” that we all function within: The Zone of Incompetence: When you’re in this zone, you’re doing things you’re not good at — and that others are. Gay suggests we all avoid doing these tasks by delegating them to someone else or finding another workaround.

How To 177
article thumbnail

Review & Refresh Your IVR: Make Life Easier for Customers

NICE inContact

One of the top ways to make life easier for customers is by improving (or implementing) your interactive voice response (IVR) system. IVR is an automated self-service voice menu that accelerates resolution and improves routing. It integrates with your automatic call distributor (ACD), leveraging natural speech to collect caller information and determine optimal handling.

article thumbnail

How COVID-19 Is Testing My Leadership Skills and What It Is Teaching Me Along the Way – a Weekly Update (Week Four)

Calabrio

In my last weekly update on the leadership lessons learned during COVID-19, I discussed overcommunication: the idea that leaders need to set the tone for our managers, offer flexibility and resources for our employees, and visibly participate in meetings and our more lighthearted company virtual events and challenges. This week, instead of exploring how we handle the here and now, I am keen to share some ideas on how leadership can prepare for a smooth, safe transition when companies return to p

article thumbnail

Building Community in Difficult Times with Insight Communities

Alida

It is in the difficult times when we see the best in people and the best in community.

232
232
article thumbnail

Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

article thumbnail

Virtual Journey Mapping Bootcamp: May 19 & 20

Kerry Bodine

We’re in the midst of the most momentous and rapid change to human behavior that many of us will ever see. Even as countries around the world look to ease restrictions on citizens’ movement, this transformation will have a lasting impact on both our personal and professional lives for months and years to come. That means the need to understand your customers’ behaviors, needs, and expectations is greater than ever.

article thumbnail

How the Cloud Contact Center is Helping Businesses Adapt to COVID-19

NICE inContact

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered every aspect of our lives. For government agencies, the stakes have never been higher. Agencies responsible for providing essential services to citizens have been forced to take drastic action in order to continue to provide those services while protecting employees that are fielding an exponential increase in call volumes.

article thumbnail

The Emotional Trigger That Influences Your Customers’ Minds

Beyond Philosophy

We have a mirror that has been resting against the wall in our garage for the last five years. I want to give it away, but my wife Lorraine keeps saying, “No, we’ll sell that. It’s a nice mirror.”. It is a lovely mirror. But we aren’t going to get that much for it. Still, there it sits. Lorraine is demonstrating how the Endowment Effect works.

article thumbnail

Why Offering Virtual Learning is Crucial, But Not Enough

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer Experience is Multifaceted. Customer experience is the culmination of so many things. It’s about the end-to-end journey your customers has with your brand, built on every interaction and emotion along the way. It’s about employee experience, ensuring your employees feel connected to the mission and empowered to deliver the best possible experience.

Course 143
article thumbnail

Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

article thumbnail

5 Ways AI Can Help Call Centers in Crisis

Uniphore

It’s fair to say COVID-19 has changed the way businesses operate. Compare everyday life today with your daily concerns from a month ago. The difference is pretty stark. Like everyone else, call centers have been reeling from the aftermath of the coronavirus. Paul Stockford, National Association of Call Centers Research Director, raised concerns about what he called a “pretty high” risk of exposure in those working environments.

article thumbnail

Review & Refresh Your IVR: Make Life Easier for Customers

NICE inContact

One of the top ways to make life easier for customers is by improving (or implementing) your interactive voice response (IVR) system. IVR is an automated self-service voice menu that accelerates resolution and improves routing. It integrates with your automatic call distributor (ACD), leveraging natural speech to collect caller information and determine optimal handling.

article thumbnail

How COVID-19 Is Testing My Leadership Skills and What It Is Teaching Me Along the Way – a Weekly Update (Week Three)

Calabrio

Last week, I talked about some of the inspiring ways our customers are tackling the challenge of coronavirus and strategies Calabrio is using to aid our customer network. Staying positive can be difficult now, and that’s why sharing positive stories from our network is so important. As leaders, our role is to help our people understand what is going on—with our company, our employees and partners, and within our communities.

article thumbnail

Remote Assistance Software for Technicians: What to Consider

TechSee

During the COVID-19 crisis, every company wants to continue providing uninterrupted service. From utility companies and communication services providers to insurers and consumer electronics suppliers, the two main challenges are ensuring service delivery and protecting their most essential workers: field technicians. This has prompted many organizations to explore innovative technologies such as remote Visual Assistance.

Software 109
article thumbnail

The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

article thumbnail

How To Overcome Security Concerns With #WFH On the Rise

Uniphore

How do you create a call center work environment when agents are worried, tired and stressed? As the coronavirus chaos continues, many contact centers face little choice but to allow their employees to work from home. Yet, working remotely has many complications. Overcoming security and privacy concerns and remaining compliant with governmental regulations requires call centers to walk a tightrope.

article thumbnail

How the Cloud Contact Center is Helping Businesses Adapt to COVID-19

NICE inContact

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered every aspect of our lives. For government agencies, the stakes have never been higher. Agencies responsible for providing essential services to citizens have been forced to take drastic action in order to continue to provide those services while protecting employees that are fielding an exponential increase in call volumes.

article thumbnail

There’s Magic in Managing the Details

ShepHyken

“Detail is no detail.”. I’m not sure where I heard this first. I even did a Google search and couldn’t find it. Maybe I made it up. If I did, this is what I meant by it: details are important. They must be purposeful. Some of the “little things” that seemingly don’t matter can actually be very important. An example of this comes right out of my recently released book, the updated and revised version of The Cult of the Customer.

article thumbnail

What’s Ailing Your Journey?

Heart of the Customer

During these challenging times, I’ve been posting weekly videos on LinkedIn, sharing best practices on how customer experience (CX) pros can ensure their companies come out of this pandemic in a position of strength. We’ve also created a LinkedIn group, Managing the Coronavirus Experience (the Other CX), for you all to share your own tips. […].

Tips 103
article thumbnail

11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

article thumbnail

The 4 biggest challenges insights & analytics professionals are facing right now (with solutions)

Thematic

Some companies are seeing massive growth as a result of COVID-19. This brings its own set of challenges and opportunities for customer insights & analytics leaders. One way we’ve responded at Thematic has been to start hosting virtual roundtable discussions for customer insights and analytics professionals to connect and share how everyone is managing.

Analytics 103
article thumbnail

Four Reasons Artificial Intelligence is the Next Step for Your Contact Center

NICE inContact

Why is AI becoming a priority for contact centers around the globe? What does it look like to actually implement it in your organization? And what kind of impact can you expect? Explore why and how contact center leaders are utilizing AI today.

article thumbnail

Remote Agent Online Customer Service Skills Boot Camp

Myra Golden

It’s not unlike having your firstborn away at college. Your child is in the dorm and on her own. For eighteen years, you’ve prepared her for adulthood. But you worry. Is she making friends? Will she be safe at parties and with alcohol? Can she juggle classwork with fun? Is she eating healthy? Your employees are on their own at home. If a remote employee’s next phone call is from an angry, irate customer, can they handle it?