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Customer and Employee Criticism: Your Leverage Tool for Growth

eglobalis

Use Criticism to Improve Your Customer Experience and employee experience products and services. The post Customer and Employee Criticism: Your Leverage Tool for Growth appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Guest Blog: Emphasizing the Human Side of Remote Work

Calabrio

The following post is a guest contribution summary from Kimberley Drobny of Waterfield Technologies. You can read the full post on the Waterfield blog, and register for an upcoming webinar featuring Calabrio’s Dave Hoekstra on September 15th. Let’s face it, the workplace will forever look different. Companies that would have never allowed employees to work from home – have now uncovered a well of productivity they didn’t know they had.

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Insights with impact: How AI technology improves CX

Keatext

The post Insights with impact: How AI technology improves CX appeared first on Keatext.

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The 4 Elements of Great Digital UX

GetFeedback

A comprehensive guide to delivering great digital user experiences and measuring your success.

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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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Guide on How to Measure Customer Loyalty

Lumoa

Do you remember punch cards? They were often a staple of sandwich shops and ice cream parlors. After so many visits, you would be the lucky recipient of a free item. What a thrill it was to present your fully punched card, then immediately start on the next. Simpler times, right? Measuring customer loyalty these days is a little more complex. Long gone are the days of punch cards.

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What’s in a Speaker’s Kit

Storyminers

What a speaker’s kit should contain and how to organize one. A Speaker’s Kit is a multi-page summary for meeting planners and event owners that gives them a quick overview of what an individual can do for them (and their event). At a minimum, a speaker kit should contain: Name. Headshots. Contact Info. Bio + Backstory. Speaking Topics. Other Services.

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Meet Interaction Analytics: Let’s Play Two Truths and a Lie

NICE inContact

If Interaction Analytics is a new concept to your contact center and you are just getting to know its capabilities and value, you will be charmed by your first impression. If you are already familiar with the benefits Interaction Analytics provides, here is a chance to test your knowledge.

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Why We Think Things Are Good When They Are Bad

Beyond Philosophy

Human beings are magnificent at holding onto two contradictory beliefs in their minds. It’s a psychological phenomenon called Cognitive Dissonance, and it’s why we sometimes think that things are good when they are, in reality, bad. We discussed this phenomenon in a recent podcast and how we all do this. For example, I think the Luton Town Football Club is the best team in the world.

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How To Dispel CX Misconceptions & Miscommunication in Your Organization

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What is Your Team Saying — And Hearing — When it Comes to CX? Customer experience is a broad, often misunderstood topic. To deliver consistent, positive experiences, you need consistent, positive communications. It’s difficult to change things for the better when there are pervasive falsehoods, fables and factually-questionable stories traveling throughout your organization.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Case Study: How Nimble CRM Helped CX Experts StoryMiners Reinvent Their Own Customer Experience

Storyminers

Mike Wittenstein is the founder of StoryMiners, one of the world’s first customer experience design consultancies. The company is renowned for its ability to hone into the core values of a company and translate them into captivating experiences, enabling their clients to reach their full potential. Last year, Mike found himself facing a problem many of his clients can relate to: his numbers were slipping.

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Pivot Your Customer Service Model Using Digital Capabilities and Emerge from the Pandemic Even Stronger

NICE inContact

Businesses should respond by being where their customers are. This doesn't just mean stepping up online marketing or social media presence. It also means providing digital customer service to match consumers' increasing adoption of digital lifestyles. Not only will this align better to customer behavior, but it's also a lower cost alternative to phone support, an important consideration in these days of shrinking revenue.

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Guest Blog: Emphasizing the Human Side of Remote Work

Calabrio

The following post is a guest contribution summary from Kimberley Drobny of Waterfield Technologies. You can read the full post on the Waterfield blog, and register for an upcoming webinar featuring Calabrio’s Dave Hoekstra on September 15th. Let’s face it, the workplace will forever look different. Companies that would have never allowed employees to work from home – have now uncovered a well of productivity they didn’t know they had.

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Tenant Experience and Remote Support: How Property Management Organizations are Transforming Service

TechSee

Right across the housing sector, tenants aren’t just seen as renters anymore – they are now considered clients. They want to communicate on their preferred channels, receiving personalized content and proactive services. This tenant-first philosophy applies to both the private and public housing sector and requires the creation of a new kind of digital tenant experience – everything from live chat and online knowledge resources to self-service portals.

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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.

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Best Practices for Effective Email Customer Support in 2020

Comm100

Email is a foundational pillar of customer support. Research shows that 91% of consumers use email daily. And yet, although companies have had a long time to perfect their email customer communications, many still fumble when it comes to this support channel. According to a benchmark report by SuperOffice, 62% of companies do not respond to customer service emails at all!

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10 Signs You Need to Upgrade to the Best Call Center Software and 15 Benefits if You Do

NICE inContact

All businesses are using some type of cloud software these days, whether it be email, storage, CRM, etc. So why are so many companies that rely on customer experience for their business’ success still using old or on-premise call center software?

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The Power of Perseverance

Horizon CX

How often have we found ourselves witnessing a company’s leadership suddenly experience the revelation that their competitors, who have adopted the best practices of Customer Experience Management, are showing impressive positive returns and a clear competitive advantage? And, how often has that realization and fear-of-missing-out resulted in an impulsive appointment to a newly-created Director of Customer Experience (CX) position, dropped on an individual who has little clue as what this means

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Lo que hay en un kit de orador

Storyminers

Qué debe contener el kit de un orador y cómo organizar uno. Un kit de orador es un resumen de varias páginas para los organizadores de reuniones y propietarios de eventos que les da una visión general rápida de lo que una persona puede hacer por ellos (y su evento). Como mínimo, un kit de orador debe contener: Nombre. Fotos. Información de contacto.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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Best Practices for Effective Email Customer Support in 2020

Comm100

Email is a foundational pillar of customer support. Research shows that 91% of consumers use email daily. And yet, although companies have had a long time to perfect their email customer communications, many still fumble when it comes to this support channel. According to a benchmark report by SuperOffice, 62% of companies do not respond to customer service emails at all!

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Chip R. Bell: Innovate, Don’t Imitate

Bill Quiseng

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” Charlie “Tremendous” Jones. Intent on learning how to “Deliver The World’s Best Customer Experience”, I have read more books by Chip R. Bell than any other author. Several of his 24 customer service books that I highly recommend include “Kaleidoscope: Delivering Innovative Service That Sparkles,” “Sprinkles: Creating Aweso

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How to Turn Your Hobby into a Profitable Business

Joe Rawlinson

Do you have a hobby that you cannot wait to get home to after work? Is there a way to monetize it and turn it into a profitable business? These are questions that many people ponder as they make their way home from another dull day at the office. If you think that there is a possibility that you could turn your hobby into a business, it might be time to stop daydreaming about it and make your vision a reality.

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When Surprise and Delight Becomes Surprise Without Delight

ShepHyken

We’ve all heard the expression surprise and delight. The intention is that we surprise our customers with better-than-expected service. The result is that they are delighted. But what happens when the intended surprise does not delight? That’s exactly what happened to my friend and fellow professional speaker, Beth Terry. She has a three-bedroom home.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Enable CX Action by Removing Barriers

Heart of the Customer

On our continuing journey exploring John Kotter’s 8 Steps to Accelerate Change and how you can apply them to the CX world, we have reached the fifth step: Enable Action by Removing Barriers. (Catch up on earlier posts in the series here!) According to our forthcoming work on understanding how companies improve their customers’ journeys, […]. The post Enable CX Action by Removing Barriers appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Advance from Personalization to Customer Journey Orchestration

Pointillist

By Steve Offsey The goal of customer journey orchestration is to improve journey outcomes by enabling the most relevant interactions in the context of each customer’s goals and their overall experience. Customer journey orchestration enables enterprises to engage prospects and customers at optimal points along their journeys, in real time and through the most effective channels.

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Why What We Believe Is Sometimes Just Wrong!

Beyond Philosophy

Why What We Believe Is Sometimes Just Wrong! Many sports fans will tell you their team is the best. However, only one of the sports teams wins the championship and is definitively the best. Moreover, many organizations that never get close to the championship have fans who would say these teams are the best. For this last lot, the claim that their team is “the best” creates some serious conflict compared to reality.

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Amazing Business Radio: Chip Bell

ShepHyken

Getting Inside Your Customer’s Imagination. Creating a Company with the Best Customer Experience Culture. Shep Hyken interviews Chip Bell , customer service keynote speaker and bestselling author. They discuss the 5 Secrets from his new book, Inside Your Customer’s Imagination , that can help organizations better understand their customers. Top Takeaways: Good customer service and experience principles can be applied in any relationship—professional or personal.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Three uses of your feedback

Zeisler Consulting

I’m a big fan, as you know, of negative feedback. I suggest that CX professionals be greedy for negative feedback. Since slaps on the back and hoorahs from your most ardent fans don’t really help you improve, you should be eager to hear “suggestions” from your Customers as to how you can better serve them. Fortunately, there’s rarely a shortage of such inputs.

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Powerful Relationship Lessons: Best Nurses Teach Us These | #CustServ #PeopleSkills

Kate Nasser

Great nurses teach us the following powerful relationship lessons. Use these lessons in business! Insight fr Kate Nasser, The Poeple Skills Coach™, Author of Leading Morale. The post Powerful Relationship Lessons: Best Nurses Teach Us These | #CustServ #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Is social engineering damaging your contact center?

Talkdesk

Due to the pandemic, 2020 has been the year where many organizations have transitioned to a work-from-home (WFH) model to ensure employee safety. In addition, businesses worldwide have experienced drastic fluctuations in customer demand, as COVID-19 brought uncertainty to a lot of industries. In some cases, organizations saw themselves dealing with more calls while transitioning to a WFH practice.