Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

Did you know that American businesses risk losing a whopping $494 billion in revenue from poor customer care? In the age of smartphones, where support is only a click away, consumers have massive expectations when it comes to customer service.

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Martin Hill-Wilson

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I recently designed and ran a new masterclass – Making Automation & Self Service Work In Your Contact Centre. We concluded that Intelligent Assistants are not just a channel shift strategy. At the very least, they are a transformational opportunity to redefine customer engagement.

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Martin Hill-Wilson

AUGUST 9, 2016

If you did not know that most of your day to day customer service volumes will be managed through intelligent assistance, then you need to quicken your pace and figure out what that means. Life’s busy enough with all the dextrous plate spinning entailed in running customer service when it’s primarily resourced through live assistance.

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Bold360

MARCH 9, 2017

As Forrester posited, we are in the Age of the Customer, and in this era of immediacy and availability, offering digital self-service is a requirement for any company hoping to provide high-level service for consumers. Human-like Interactions for True Connection with your Customers Where They’re Comfortable.

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Win the Customer

DECEMBER 15, 2015

According to research by Gartner, 89 percent of executives are betting on customer experience as their primary mode of competition before the end of 2016. We want our personalized customer service to encompass a wide variety of platforms from social media to mobile while still being easy to use with lightning-fast responses.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Remember when social media was the young upstart of the customer care channels and voice was still king? Way back in the good old days of the early 2010s… It seems like a lifetime ago that we were asking ourselves how to handle customers in such a public forum. And asking who really owned the channel anyway – was it marketing?

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Kustomer

MAY 14, 2020

Reply is the first acquisition for Kustomer, reinforcing Kustomer’s commitment to AI and machine learning capabilities throughout the customer journey. With Reply, Kustomer will now offer enhanced chatbot and deflection capabilities through its customer service platform.

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Vonage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The customer/company relationship is just that, a relationship. On one hand, customers want to feel that they have a close, unique, real relationship with your brand. When a customer calls, they’re most often looking for help and want the quickest resolution to their problem with as little friction as possible.

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Forcivity Salesforce

APRIL 1, 2022

Customer experience management in financial services is becoming more and more critical to success for the industry. Changing customer expectations and evolving government regulations have triggered a period of transformation for financial service providers. The importance of CX in Financial Services.

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John Paul

JULY 17, 2018

July 17 th , 2018 – Hong Kong – John Paul, the number one worldwide loyalty solutions service that was acquired by AccorHotels in 2016, is fast expanding in Asia Pacific (APAC). A highly innovative digital self-service solution. Andrew Quake, CEO APAC John Paul.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 13, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. How Twitter’s Recent Changes Affect Customer Service by Dan Gingiss. My Comment: Twitter has become an important customer service channel. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Calabrio

JANUARY 6, 2016

CEO of Calabrio shares his predictions for the Contact Center, for 2016 and Beyond. When it comes to the power of IoT and data, it’s high time customer engagement gets involved, and it all begins with the contact center. Here are my 7 predictions and key advice on where the contact center is going in 2016 and beyond.

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Martin Hill-Wilson

JANUARY 29, 2016

Its range of application is impressive – 100% compliance management, advisor dashboards for self development, a key input to Voice of the Customer initiatives and customer journey mapping. Smartphone addicted customers increasingly use their ‘third hand’ for all engagement touch points including customer service.

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Eptica

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Making the change from call center to contact center. Published on: February 03, 2016. Author: Laurence Chami 20 years ago customer service existed in a world dominated by voice , hence the widespread reliance on call centers to manage customer service interactions.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 24, 2018

Others started with inbound voice and over time have added omnichannel routing or workforce optimization. Cloud contact center deployments that began in customer care may have been extended to other business areas. A few years ago, the notion of managing customer journeys was an essential theme in customer care.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 20, 2016

The trends and challenges impacting contact centre people, processes and technology, illustrated with case studies and in-depth Interviews with customer service leaders. We have come a long way within the customer service industry since Automatic Call Distributor (ACD) technology in the 1960s.

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Kayako

DECEMBER 31, 2015

This year, we’ve seen the customer support community continue to grow, with small tribes setting up all over the internet and producing great support content. 2015 saw the support community talk a lot about making things easier for the customer through both customer experience and communication.

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Eptica

JULY 20, 2016

Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 What do millennials expect from customer service? Published on: July 20, 2016. Author: Guest author: Chloe Hacquard We hear a lot about the impact of millennials on customer service, and how they are driving change in customer service. Two strikes.

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SurveySparrow

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I bet every business guru you turned to advised you to create a customer experience strategy to enhance customer experience, didn’t they? Companies with successfully implemented customer experience strategies are found to achieve higher customer satisfaction, increased revenues, and reduced customer churn.

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Team Support

JANUARY 9, 2024

There are more ways than ever for customers to get in touch with tech support. Ever wonder what customer service looked like 50 or 60 years ago? Here’s a look back at how customer support technologies evolved over the last century, and a peak at where they’re going next. One of the early pioneers in CRM software was ACT!

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Martin Hill-Wilson

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

We are complex in our needs and so customer relationships are tricky in terms of striking the right balance. Therefore effective omni-channel design is an engagement experience that works in any given customer situation. In other words, John Lewis customers recognise they want both convenience and the human touch.

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Bold360

DECEMBER 4, 2016

According to Zendesk’s 2014 Benchmark report , customer service rankings dropped to their lowest during the holiday season, with the travel industry experiencing the largest -7 point drop, the most drastic in comparison to all other industries. Integrate a qualitative automated customer self-service solution.

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Avaya

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The evolving demands of digital-savvy customers have a deep impact on the contact center. In today’s highly connected society, customers are relying on other people around them to find information to solve issues. Despite playing such a crucial role in customer engagement, contact centers don’t always get the attention they deserve.

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Avaya

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The financial services industry ranks as one of the top markets to experience massive digital disruption in the coming years. In 2016, Ernst & Young introduced its Banking Relevance Index (BRI), designed to measure the importance of traditional banks to customers’ lives. Deliver a High-Touch Experience.

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 The 5 rules of Retail Christmas Customer Experience. It is likely that consumers will be more careful in their spending, with rising prices and inflation leading to overall retail sales falling year on year between September 2016 and 2017. Published on: November 22, 2017.

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Talkdesk

MAY 18, 2016

Opentalk 2016 was a whirlwind. Talkdesk’s inaugural summit was jam-packed with valuable insights on the future of the customer experience. Empathy is the heart of the most successful customer experiences. Customer satisfaction can seem an amorphous goal at times.

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Bold360

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In 2016, the customer experience became the focal point of marketing, acquisition, onboarding, UX design, and many other core business functions. Meet Our Panel of Customer Experience Pros: Daisy Jing. We make it a priority to respond to our customers as quickly as possible. Sasha Tenodi. Wendy Glavin.

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Kustomer

JUNE 27, 2022

A new era in customer service has arrived. The transformed landscape requires engagement like never previously seen, and customer service software is here to help. Not one single survey has ever indicated that customers wouldn’t pay more for great service, according to Forbes.

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Magellan Solutions

AUGUST 16, 2021

Following Google’s announcement that its ads would generate over 30 billion calls last 2016, many declared that “call commerce” is still very much alive. Here are 9 ways how Magellan Solutions keep inbound call volume in check and improve overall customer experience: 1. Proper omnichannel support and training.

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Bold360

MAY 18, 2017

Did you know that in 2016, Telecoms was the industry in the U.K. The unhappy customers in the UK numbered 6.9 Customers are expecting more from telecommunications companies, but many providers aren’t up to the challenge. This call to customer autonomy over service and support is the future of analytics.

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Avaya

JUNE 17, 2016

These folks witnessed developers with zero Avaya Breeze experience create applications in less than one day—because using Avaya Breeze is, well, a breeze! Both winners were invited to speak at the Wednesday keynote where they shared their positive experiences developing cool applications with the IAUG audience.

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Tricia Morris

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Customer expectations are changing and growing just as rapidly as the channels and technology consumers are empowered with to engage, encouraging (if not demanding) that brands and organizations embrace a strategy of non-stop, customer-centric adaptation. 2015 Aspect Consumer Experience Survey ).

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Solvvy

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Getting the customer experience right is a delicate balance. 97 percent of consumers said that a bad buying experience will lead them to change their buying behavior, according to a recent Zendesk study. Replacing human customer service agents with IVR technology: Bad idea. Customers hate it. . The problem?

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, we’ve seen a major shift in brands’ approaches to customer service delivery and contact center performance management. With market realities closing in, more and more brand leaders are having serious discussions about how to define, prioritize, and deliver service excellence in the face of unrelenting consumer demands.

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Solvvy

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Your business offers top-of-the-line products or services—but does your business offer top-of-the line customer support? Go all in on great customer service, and, instead of fending off angry tweets, you’ll win the Internet with rave reviews and customer support stories going viral for all the right reasons.

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Tricia Morris

MARCH 28, 2016

Today’s retail customer is always shopping around – in store, online, on the phone. For customers, expectations are up. Yet, despite these increasing expectations, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index , customer satisfaction is on the decline from a survey high set two years ago. Are We There Yet?

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Avaya

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Earlier this month, the CFI Group, which issues the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index, issued the Contact Center Satisfaction Index (CCSI). Here are some of the key findings : The index shows a four-point decrease in customer satisfaction from 2015 to 2016, sliding to the lowest score in the nine-year history of the report.

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