Tue.Sep 20, 2016

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Why We Changed the Way We Run CSAT Surveys

GetFeedback

When we (a survey company) discovered the flaws in our first CSAT surveys, we set out to find a reliable formula for measuring customer satisfaction.

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Serial CCO Tips for How/Why to Take a CCO Role, With Tish Whitcraft – CB20

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Tish Whitcraft is what we call a serial Chief Customer Officer, or CCO. She has held a version of this role in over four technology driven and internet companies, including Yahoo, MySpace, and OpenX. In our conversation, Tish walks us through her expanded version of the CCO Role. In her mind (“in her humble opinion”), it’s a mix of the newly-established CCO role and the long-tenured COO, or Chief Operating Officer, role.

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Break Down Barriers to a Great Customer Experience

CX Journey

Image courtesy of real ramona Is your organization suffering from silo-itis? If you answered that question with a "yes," you're absolutely, 110% not alone. Unless your company was intentionally built from the ground up to not function in silos - and you're lucky, and unique, if it was - then silos are an issue for you and for your customers. We all know how detrimental silos can be not only to the customer experience but also to an organization.

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Why We Changed the Way We Run CSAT Surveys

GetFeedback

When we (a survey company) discovered the flaws in our first CSAT surveys, we set out to find a reliable formula for measuring customer satisfaction.

Survey 150
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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Amazing Business Radio: Shai Berger

ShepHyken

Shai Berger on Improving Customer Support. Shep Hyken speaks with leader, innovator, call center educator, and co-founder and CEO of Fonolo , Shai Berger about improving customer support. They discuss some of the friction points customers have when dealing with companies, and Shai offers great tips and solutions for eliminating these pain points. Do you want to provide a better customer support experience?

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Advanced Techniques for Writing Avaya Breeze Snap-Ins Using Engagement Designer—Part Three

Avaya

Welcome to the third in my series of videos addressing some of the more advanced Avaya Breeze ™ techniques. Here, I add multimodal communications (SMS text and email) and parallel gateways to a Breeze Snap-in. To make things a tad more exciting, I then launch my Snap-in with a RESTful web services call from Google Postman. Continue with the advanced series: Part 1: Error Processing and Boundary Events.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Onboard Your Customers

Amity

Saas Tattler Issue 93 - The Right and Wrong Ways to Onboard Your Customers. Onboarding, onboarding… everyone in SaaS knows this is a vital step. What a better way to ensure your customer values your service than to start off the relationship on the right foot? Because there is so much to say about the right and wrong ways to do it, we’ve dedicated this week’s SaaS Tattler to customer onboarding.

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Why I fired Orbitz

Customer Enthusiast

I will apologize in advance for the detailed account that follows of an Orbitz service failure. It’s my preference to avoid long, drawn out accounts of customer service stories – whether chronicling heroic triumphs or abysmal failures. Let’s face it: we all have plenty of experience with both. And while the details of our stories may differ, the emotions experienced are eerily similar.

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For the outsourcing newbie: How to outsource a customer service call center?

Magellan Solutions

Outsourcing has been utilized by many businesses around the world for over a decade now, but some business owners still have wavering opinions as well as basic questions about this. So let’s start from the basic. How to outsource a customer service call center? First, determine what type(s) of customer service you want to outsource and what are your requirements for that.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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Common Problems Faced when Scaling Personalization – Part 1

Blueshift

In this series, we cover the common pitfalls all marketers face at some point when scaling personalization in their triggered marketing. From emails to mobile push notifications to SMS to display retargeting, the common platforms used today to market across channels begin to lose efficacy when organizations try to personalize their communications to an ever […].

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Three Types of Valuable Business Intelligence You Should Collect In Your Call Center

COPC

Your call center is one of the best windows into the customer experience. Customers gift your company bits of information with every interaction. When your call center gathers and analyzes this rich data, you are able to turn it into valuable business intelligence. This information can be leveraged by many parts of your organization to improve the customer experience and increase brand loyalty.

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Contact Centre Week Europe Launches in 2017

CSM Magazine

After more than a decade as the USA’s leading customer service and contact event, CCW (Customer Contact Week) is coming to Europe in 2017 for the first time ever. Now Europe will be able to experience CCW, the main destination where customer care, service and experience professionals unite to learn, be inspired and make long lasting relationships. CCW Europe will take place on 20th – 22nd March 2017, in London to invigorate and prepare delegates to make immediate improvements to their contact ce

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4 Obstacles to Customer Experience Excellence

Customer Interactions

Mastering These Gives You a Direct Line to Satisfaction

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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4 Things Every Supervisor Should Be Doing to Address Unacceptable Employee Performance

Myra Golden

I had to take my daughter’s phone from her last week. I don’t like that I had to do that, but I had a responsibility to take her phone. We have a rule in our house. Having a smartphone is a privilege and certain actions can result in a phone being taken away. One of those actions is a grade of a C or lower. My daughter’s Pre-AP Algebra 2 grade dropped to a 77%.

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Make a Mouse: The Power of a Culture of Customer Experience Excellence {Infographic}

Michelli Experience

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4 Things Every Supervisor Should Be Doing to Address Unacceptable Employee Performance

Myra Golden

I had to take my daughter’s phone from her last week. I don’t like that I had to do that, but I had a responsibility to take her phone. We have a rule in our house. Having a smartphone is a privilege and certain actions can result in a phone being taken away. One of those actions is a grade of a C or lower. My daughter’s Pre-AP Algebra 2 grade dropped to a 77%.

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Are you serving your customers or smothering them?

Vonage

The customer/company relationship is just that, a relationship. It’s one that is difficult to maintain and carries high expectations. On one hand, customers want to feel that they have a close, unique, real relationship with your brand. While on the other, they want to hold onto their independence and avoid feeling smothered. 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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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: David Nisbet, 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.