Integrity Solutions

APRIL 19, 2024

It’s about asking questions from a place of genuine curiosity, listening, fully absorbing what you’re hearing and then being willing and able to pivot in whatever direction the customer’s answers take us. The research also shows 61% of customers feel they’re treated as a number rather than a human being.

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Vonage

MARCH 26, 2018

Three years ago, Gartner predicted that more than half of businesses would implement significant changes to improve customer experience by 2018. The estimated price tag of losing customers due to poor service has reached $1.6 according to Accenture’s Digital Disconnect in Customer Engagement report. trillion in the U.S.,

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Vonage

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Social media has changed the rules of customer service. There was a time when if a customer wanted to complain, they’d have to dial the customer service number and then wait in a queue for 10, 20 or 30 minutes. It’s therefore not surprising that many businesses have concerns about social media customer service.

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Vonage

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Social media has changed the rules of customer service. There was a time when if a customer wanted to complain, they’d have to dial the customer service number and then wait in a queue for 10, 20 or 30 minutes. It’s therefore not surprising that many businesses have concerns about social media customer service.

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Customer Experience Insight

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Customer experience professionals might be the most valuable players in their company’s success in 2021. You hold the key to customer retention. Many just couldn’t retain the customers they had before they were forced to shut down. So retaining customers is more important than ever. Communicate with relevance.

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CX University

APRIL 2, 2024

Companies increasingly recognize that employee experience can be positive, powerful, and influential in engaging customers. Delivering the employee value proposition hinges on how effectively an organization communicates and acts. And when they are so engaged, they experience “Flow.”

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Avaya

AUGUST 25, 2017

As Hurricane Harvey approaches the coast of Texas, Avaya wants to ensure that we all review our plans to keep communication systems running at peak performance and stabilized when disaster strikes. Keeping communication systems running often includes a great partner with a deep bench of experts who have experience in many complex situations.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

Building trust and credibility with customers is essential for the long-term success of any business. Trust forms the foundation of strong customer relationships, which can lead to loyalty, repeat business, and positive word-of-mouth recommendations.

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Comm100

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Before “customer service” was even a thing, the Seven Deadly Sins existed as a guideline for moral living. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, some of these “old school” lessons still have a place in the society of today, and have significant overlap with bad customer service practices. avaritia / Greed. acedia / Sloth. ira / Wrath.

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Confirmit

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Despite the provision of dashboards, reports and alerts communicating the need for change, why do our programs struggle to continue to deliver true business results, particularly after the first flush of ‘‘low hanging fruit’’? Voice of the Customer White Papers.

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Avaya

AUGUST 25, 2017

Avaya wants to ensure that we all review our plans to keep communication systems running at peak performance and stabilized when disaster strikes. Keeping communication systems running often includes a great partner with a deep bench of experts who have experience in many complex situations. Before the Storm. Or call 800-242-2121.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By integrating the business into the Sabio Group it expanded our focus and capability in customer relationship management (CRM). The combination makes agent and supervisor jobs more seamless, bringing enterprise contact centre and workforce engagement management (WEM) capabilities from Genesys Cloud CX to Salesforce Service Cloud.

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Comm100

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Your customer retention is super important to your bottom line—after all, customer loyalty is well-known for being more valuable than customer acquisition. With stakes this high, it’s essential that you build a solid customer retention plan that can lead to long-term customer loyalty. Enhance your blog.

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CloudCherry

JANUARY 22, 2020

As with any business solution, it’s not uncommon for companies to feel trapped by their voice of the customer (VoC) vendor once they’ve already implemented VoC tools and attempted to put them into practice. According to the Forrester report, many VoC programs are still immature and face common challenges: Not Listening to Customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Whenever the subject of employee satisfaction and engagement arises, it is often difficult to differentiate between them. If you believe that “a satisfied employee IS an engaged employee.” However, there is little proven direct causation, the specific, defined linkage of employee thinking and behavior to customer loyalty and advocacy.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Meineke will present a fascinating session titled “Delivering High Performance, Personalized Brand Experiences to Customers,” at the 5th annual Engagement & Experience Expo presented by Loyalty360 – The Loyalty Marketers’ Association, which is set for Nov. 9-11 in Dallas, Texas at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Center.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

This week we feature an article by Brooke Harper who writes about the importance of using social media to provide great customer service. If you’re not monitoring what customers are saying about you and your company on social media, what are you waiting for?! – Shep Hyken. Not sure where your customers go when they’re online?

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 27, 2017

Alice is relatively new to her role at Marks & Spencer, where she is head of customer experience. Recently appointed into a brand new role for the business as ‘Head of Customer Experience at Marks & Spencer’, Alice has 15 years’ experience of retailing. Alice made her own video explaining customer experience.

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Centercode

JUNE 18, 2019

Whether it comes early in the development lifecycle, right before launch, or between releases, customer feedback is vital to understanding what your target market wants and expects. One focuses on communication and customer experience and looks like this: Customer submits product feedback as issues, ideas, or praise.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In today’s episode, we’re going international with Rekha Weerasooriya , General Manager of Customer Experience Management and People Development at Dialog Axiata , the number one telecommunications provider in Sri Lanka. This is a major responsibility with a company that has 13 million customers and about 3,000 employees.

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Comm100

JUNE 7, 2016

If you read our last post, How to Prevent Difficult Customers in Retail: Online , you know we believe that when it comes to difficult customers, prevention is key. And just like in your online store, customers have plenty of room to grow difficult in a brick and mortar setting. Communicate Return Policies Effectively.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In today’s episode, we’re going international with Rekha Weerasooriya , General Manager of Customer Experience Management and People Development at Dialog Axiata , the number one telecommunications provider in Sri Lanka. This is a major responsibility with a company that has 13 million customers and about 3,000 employees.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

: Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. Some say it’s about lead generation, creating demand, building relationships and engagement. I like that last word, engagement.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2021

Customer service leaders and chief information officers (CIOs) are often asked what are they doing about artificial intelligence and automation. Know what you want to achieve and communicate it – the first step starts with defining what AI success means to your organisation. Do they centre around increasing customer engagement?

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Inbenta

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Reduce Costs, Find Efficiencies, and Improve Customer Service with AI Automation AI is set to reshape how businesses communicate and engage with their customers. By leveraging AI to automate responses and complete tasks, businesses can drastically lower the time, cost and effort of handling customer requests.

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Andrew Mcfarland

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

People with this skill can also communicate effectively and make others feel comfortable. People with excellent relationship-building skills can often cultivate long-term relationships with customers, suppliers, and business partners. In this case, you can provide them with content like e-books, webinars, and white papers.

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Up Your Service

MAY 25, 2017

This blog continues from my earlier posts where I offered Step One and Step Two to engage Ambassadors and Supporters in your service culture change initiatives. Start engaging your Supporters, fast. This can include contests, communications, and recognition across the organization.

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Comm100

APRIL 8, 2016

Even with 244 million unique customers , Jeff Bezos knows better than to see his customers as a series of transactions. But with so many different customer relationships to maintain, what’s the wisdom that keeps this enterprise running? “We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts.

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inmoment

JUNE 17, 2019

Brands are being inundated with talk about consumers’ increasing expectations when it comes to customer experience (CX). And as businesses deliver more creative and engaging experiences, forming impactful customer relationships becomes more difficult. So how can brands keep up with the change? Dismissing the Human Factor.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Many companies devote considerably more energy and resources to capturing customers than they do to keeping them. But, all customers are not created equal; some have more potential value than others. Companies can achieve a higher, more attractive cost/benefit ratio for customer acquisition and advocacy efforts.

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Interested in learning more about your customers so you can improve products, enhance customer experience , and ultimately drive growth? Net Promoter Score is a trusted measure of customer loyalty. It can help companies understand their audiences by quantifying customer sentiment toward products and services.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Customer acquisition costs: To be successful, you’ll want to reduce acquisition costs and drive faster adoption. At the same time, you can use customer feedback loops to build a pipeline of ongoing product-market fit data. With that analogy in mind, there are three KPIs that will help you keep your business’s bucket full: .

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The call center industry has been changing faster than ever, due to technological breakthroughs and constantly evolving customer demands. In 2024, businesses have the crucial responsibility of understanding and adopting the latest technology trends in customer service.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

As he pulled up to my destination, Rodrigo asked only one thing of me: “If you wouldn’t mind filling out the customer satisfaction survey and rating my service today, I would really appreciate it,” he said. What is a Customer Satisfaction Survey? These surveys can reach customers as any of the following: Emails.

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COPC

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This blog entry was written in conjunction with our upcoming Optimizing Post-Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop during Execs In The Know’s Customer Response Summit. To learn more about these priorities, check out our white paper , The 2021 State of Contact Center Vendor Management.

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RapportBoost

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

At Customer Contact Week in Austin last month, we noticed how the discussions surrounding chat training and onboarding stood out far more than in previous conferences. For starters, the emphasis for call centers and customer service teams to employ “omnichannel” solutions took center stage. By Tony Medrano and Scott Moberly.

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North Highland

MAY 28, 2019

Discussions throughout the 3-day conference highlighted the need to continue to strive to ensure the customer is at the center of strategic business decisions. Engaging Executives to Effectively Build CX. During the conference, I was lucky enough to participate in a discussion titled “Effectively Engaging Executives.”

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