Sat.Mar 21, 2020 - Fri.Mar 27, 2020

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What is attribution?

DemandJump

The Oxford Dictionary defines Attribution as "the action of regarding something as being caused by a person or thing". The term went from obscurity in the early 20th Century to relative popularity in the 2010s and today as more people asked questions like these. Why do people do what they do? What causes people to think or feel a certain way?

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Guest Post: The Importance of Surveys For Improving the Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Eralp Arslan, a digital marketing specialist at JotForm. He writes about different types of customer experience surveys and how they can help businesses gain customer loyalty. Did you know that customers who have a positive experience are 54 percent more likely to make another purchase and are five times more likely to recommend your brand to others ?

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Customer Success in the midst of a pandemic

inSided

It’s been a couple of weeks for most of us now, and a lot of us in the SaaS and Customer Success industries are getting into the swing of fully remote working. Maybe you’re already used to working remotely on occasion, perhaps you’re part of a fully-remote organization, or maybe you’ve never picked up your laptop outside of the office’s four walls—but whatever your situation, you’re no doubt having to deal with some significant changes to “business as usual” at the moment.

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4 Keys to Successful Customer Communication in the Coronavirus Era

InMoment XI

This article was originally published here. The coronavirus pandemic has done more than upended how brands communicate with customers—it has completely changed the lives of customers across the globe. The sudden influx of physical distancing, the (hopefully temporary) shuttering of businesses, and general unease about the virus have all reshaped how customers interact with brands virtually overnight.

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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.

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Keep Moving Forward Through These Difficult Times

Steve DiGioia

…my thoughts on the Coronavirus and what comes next. Because of the Coronavirus, I think I should stop writing, at least for a while until the world gets back to normal. It seems like the logical thing to do. So many others are sharing their stories or suggestions on how they’re coping with the isolation and fear of the unknown that it seemed petty for me to still write about customer service tactics when most businesses aren’t even open – and some may never reopen because they couldn’t withstan

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Customer Experience Management for Salesforce

GetFeedback

GetFeedback by SurveyMonkey offers the most flexible, easy-to-use CX technology with the fastest time-to-value in market.

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The Power of Questions

InMoment XI

The Importance of Listening Imagine a scenario where you just met a new CX colleague for the first time at a conference or other similar professional networking event. The two of you introduce yourselves to one another after which the person you just met launches into a personal story around something personally interesting to them. View Article.

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How to use Calabrio WFM to empower a remote workforce

Calabrio

Covid-19 is impacting all dimensions of the workplace from where we work to how we interact with customers and co-workers. Further, it has highlighted the need for schedule flexibility as more employees work from home and are faced with other constraints such as school closures and childcare. This new reality gives us a lot of questions to consider regarding the nature of work, technology and culture.

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Gaining Visibility and Improving Agent Performance

NICE inContact

Jeff Kennon, Director of Customer Experience for NeoNova, a customer support enterprise servicing some of the world’s leading internet service and telecom providers, says that leveraging a workforce management platform helped delight both customers and agents. He explains how opening new channels has made for a great customer experience.

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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.

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Introducing The Optimism Report: Highlighting Grand Acts of Humanity

Customer Bliss

Today, I’m introducing something new that I’m calling The Optimism Report. Because in this time that’s impacting all of our lives around the world, what we are seeing our grand acts of humanity, not only in business, but across the world with every kind of person. So what I want to share with you are acts of goodness that will drive and will earn both human and financial prosperity, as we work our way out of this.

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Webinar: Managing the Customer Experience in Times of Crisis

InMoment XI

Customers are still interacting with products and services even as COVID-19 continues to disrupt the economy, purchase habits, and everyday lives. Don’t stop listening to your customers during this critical time! Join top customer experience and research experts from Inmoment and MaritzCX, and Inmoment company, in this webinar as they provide answers to your critical.

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How To Direct Your Customers During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Uniphore

Famed psychologist, Abraham Maslow, outlined the five-tier model of human needs: physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Only when a person's lower-level needs are met can one move up the continuum of human potential. You may have been operating from an evolved state, an altruistic state even, before the coronavirus pandemic.

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Contact Center Leaders Advise How to Manage Your Team During a Crisis

NICE inContact

Our lives have been disrupted, both at home and work. And the rapid pace of information we are getting about COVID-19 worldwide both via traditional news outlets and social media creates an even more heightened sense of concern. COVID-19 is challenging for everyone, and especially for organizations who play important roles in supporting their communities.

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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.

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

Calabrio

Last week I talked about how we at Calabrio are approaching the impact of coronavirus on our employees, as well as our employee-customer collaboration. Since then, we have seen a huge amount of engagement across our Teams channels, a reduction in the concern about working from home and rewarding online workshops with customers. Virtual meetups and coffee breaks are also going strong.

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Keep Calm and Carry On: Controlling the Controllables with COVID-19

Beyond Philosophy

We are living in troubling times fraught with uncertainty. There are many questions about what comes next in the COVID-19 outbreak. We talked about this in a recent podcast. Many of our clients have been calling us about what to do. Here are ten things we have been telling them. Communicate, communicate, communicate. In times of trouble, it is best to start a dialog with your customers.

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What You Need To Know About Customer Service Automation

Uniphore

Digitization is on the mind of virtually every customer service leader, as new technology promises to improve the customer experience, streamline internal processes and boost agent productivity. Read More.

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Super Agents Needs Super Training: Create and develop highly trained and skilled agents

NICE inContact

Every contact center leader climbs a steep hill when trying to meet performance goals within budget. It doesn’t help that it’s hard to find, train, and retain qualified agents. Leaders face markets with historically low unemployment and plenty of competition that offers attractive compensation (e.g., Amazon). Even when they get folks to sign on, training takes too long, and time to proficiency can be even longer… if the agents stay long enough to get there!

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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?

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

Calabrio

Let me start by saying this: Like most of us who share a C-suite title, we believe we are good leaders. Over 25 years of practice, I have learned a lot about leadership and I have also made my share of mistakes. But the challenges we are collectively facing—in keeping ourselves, our families, our communities and our businesses safe—has proven to be my largest test yet.

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5 Best Practices For Crisis Communications During COVID-19

Gainsight

If you’re like me, you probably feel like the world we live in is completely different from what it was even just a few weeks ago. Companies, as well as their employees, are learning to adapt to the new normal of working from home, the economic fallout from the crisis, the business impact to their customers—the list goes on. It’s also clear that no one was 100% prepared for the pace at which this new normal came about.

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Your Call Center Business Continuity Plan: Shifting to Work from Home

TechSee

Work from home (WFH) for customer service agents is a concept that has rapidly gained traction over the past few years, enabling enterprises to partially address the ongoing contact center recruitment crisis. In the current climate, this model has emerged as a critical element of any call center business continuity plan and companies around the world seek to enable remote working as quickly and seamlessly as possible.

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5 Signs You Need to Improve Your Contact Centre’s Agent Experience

NICE inContact

What comes first — agent experience or customer experience? More and more, contact centre leaders are seeing why you can’t achieve maximum results on efforts to improve customer experience (CX) without a deliberate focus on improving agent experience (AX). And the improvements you make to your agent experience can have a profound impact on your contact centre’s customer experience.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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How SMUD Uses Customer Insights to Accelerate Product Innovation

Alida

For SMUD , a community-owned, not-for-profit electric service provider in Sacramento, California, supporting carbon emission reduction in the environment is a priority. That’s why the organization is constantly innovating and exploring ways to encourage its customers to convert their current energy systems from gas to electricity.

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Controlling The Controllable – Covid-19: How To Deal With Customers

Beyond Philosophy

A global pandemic wasn’t in your plans this quarter. However, we see an opportunity to enhance your relationships with customers in this global crisis. In this episode of The Intuitive Customer, we share ten strategies for managing the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19. Our practical tips help you manage the stress and anxiety at your front lines to the best possible outcome.

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The customer journey will be forever changed as a result of COVID-19

iPerceptions

Staying connected to your customers through customer feedback will help your brand navigate the impact of the coronavirus now, and after we emerge on the other side of the curve.

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Give Agents Tools to Address the Need for Speed

NICE inContact

Here’s a dirty little secret. Despite the industry’s focus on the customer experience (CX), contacts still take too long and don’t reach closure often enough. Generally speaking, it’s not the agents’ fault. They really want to help customers. They also want to achieve the center’s targets for Service Level (SL), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Contact Resolution (FCR), among others.

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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,

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Impact of Coronavirus on Small Business

FiveStars

In San Francisco, we are now starting on week 2 of ‘shelter in place.’ In the last 24 hours, New York, Louisiana, Ohio, and Delaware have followed suit and shut down non-essential businesses, joining a list of over a dozen states that have issued similar orders. While it’s only been a week of staying inside […]. The post Impact of Coronavirus on Small Business appeared first on Fivestars Insights.

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Difference Between Multichannel & Omnichannel Customer Support

ProProfs Chat

Remember when your business had limited platforms, mostly email, mail, and phone support, to help customers reach your brand? We’ve obviously come a long way from those times. No wonder customers today are more concerned about how their customer support experience might turn out with a brand. They know you have more platforms in place to help them reach your brand faster in times of need. “ More than 60% of modern consumers care less. about the price if they are getting the. best customer experi

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6 Digital Marketing Trends Shaping Customer Experience

Oracle

In the Experience Economy , customers are driving innovation, and digital marketers are challenged to capture a customer’s attention as soon as they can, and hold it — as there’s always another marketing message on the horizon. Thus, marketers need to stand out, but how can they? Data, making use of emerging technologies, content, and customer-centricity all play huge roles in these 6 digital marketing trends that are reshaping the customer experience in 2020.

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