Fri.May 14, 2021

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Protecting Customers From Harm Is A Crucial Part Of Your Financial Wellbeing Strategy

Forrester's Customer Insights

On May 4, the UK government launched a new “Breathing Space” scheme in England and Wales. This debt respite scheme gives people struggling with debt problems a 60-day period of legal protection during which all interests and charges on their debt will be frozen while they receive professional debt advice. No enforcement action will be […].

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How AI Impacts Contact Center Agents

NICE inContact

Change management is part of every successful technology transformation effort. You can nail the technical implementation, but if the people using the new capabilities aren't on board, your project will struggle out the gate.

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The Best Customer Experience Needs the Best Agent Experience – Expert Commentary

Comm100

Ten years ago, it wouldn’t have been uncommon to see people switch off merely at the sound of ‘customer experience’ in conversation. Once considered an ephemeral buzzword that would fade away, these same organizations now boast of their CX-first culture that puts customer experience at the forefront of everything they do. The reason for such a rapid and overwhelming change of heart is simple and unsurprising.

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Customer Story: Brain.fm

Help Scout

When you provide a tool that your customers rely on to achieve their daily goals, a common guiding value is a user-first mentality. But what does this actually mean? For Brain.fm, this means achieving as much visibility into and consistency of customer success as possible. Brain.fm was founded in 2003 by Adam Hewett with the goal of helping people focus, relax, and sleep by way of neuroscience-backed functional music.

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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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GOL Airlines Launches New Features for its Virtual Assistant with Inbenta

Inbenta

WhatsApp chatbot and check-in. GOL, a brasilian airlines who has been a customer of Inbenta since 2016 , has launched new features to enhance the capabilities of GAL, the airline’s virtual assistant, on WhatsApp. Still unprecedented in the segment, the platform was launched at the end of last year. Until then, WhatsApp was only used as a pilot channel, used by customers to ask questions to human agents, without any bot involved.

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Customer Success Operations: Top Takeaways from ChurnZero Virtual RYG

ChurnZero

How to Define, Measure, and Advocate for Customer Success Operations. Have you ever wondered: What’s the difference between Customer Success Management and Operations? When should I add Customer Success Operations and how do I advocate for the role? What goals, metrics, and tools does Customer Success Operations use? If so (like the rest of the Customer Success world), then this article is for you.

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Successfully embracing AI for customer service

Eptica

Date: Friday, May 14, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Successfully embracing AI for customer service. Published on: May 14, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How can artificial intelligence help deliver a better customer experience and how far down the path to AI has the industry travelled? What will be the impact on agents and customers?

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Customer Retention Metrics: The Metrics That Matter

Totango

Customer retention is the keystone in any customer success strategy. There are many different types of customer retention metrics that one can track. Which customer retention metrics have the biggest impact on your business? Here are five of the most important ones and how to calculate them. Customer Retention Rate. Your most fundamental key performance indicator for tracking and managing retention is your customer retention rate (CRR).

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How It Feels to Have to Carry Out a Mask Policy

Myra Golden

Q “I work in public transportation, and we still have strict mask requirements. I’ve had customers snatch the complimentary mask out of my hand and throw it on the floor. A woman flipped me off and said something profane. Many customers don’t acknowledge me when I politely tell them to wear a mask. What advice can you give me for enforcing a mask requirement while getting the respect I deserve?”.

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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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5 Key Takeaways from the 2021 Forrester B2B Summit

Influitive

Another year, another successful Forrester B2B Summit in the books! Influitive was proud to sponsor this live virtual experience and connect with marketers, customer experience experts, and analysts worldwide.

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What is a Content Generator?

DemandJump

Finding a niche within an ever-expanding digital landscape isn’t easy. As more businesses put resources into their digital content marketing efforts, many marketers face a constantly changing battlefield where content is king.

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Guiding Insurance Customers to Success On Screen

SaleMove

P&C Insurers are setting themselves apart by meeting customers where they are: On Screen. The post Guiding Insurance Customers to Success On Screen appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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The Best Support For Outbound Telemarketing Is CRM

Magellan Solutions

The best support for telemarketing services is CRM. Historically, telemarketing is a marketing strategy. It is being used by businesses to introduce products or services to customers. They do this over the telephone, internet, or fax. They can increase productivity and elicit immediate feedback from prospects. This direct interaction allows for questions, customer feedback, and addressing any disadvantages. .

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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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New: Smileys, Stars, Thumbs and more!

Feedb

Up until now the Net Promoter Score in a scale of 1 to 10 has been the only rating style available in Feedb. Also, the question asked has always been the same: “How likely are you to recommend Company X to a friend or colleague?” With our new release you can now edit the feedback question to make it as unique as your business and also pick between many different rating styles including: smileys, stars, thumbs and the existing Net Promoter Score scale.

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Guiding Insurance Customers to Success On Screen

SaleMove

How P&C Insurers are Differentiating Themselves in in the Marketplace. There is no doubt that the pandemic changed businesses far and wide. Social distancing, quarantines and remote work have impacted consumer expectations and how businesses deliver goods and services. This includes the insurance industry: many have grappled with the desire to deliver impeccable and uninterrupted customer service while their teams work remotely.

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How do you treat your VIPs (Very Important Players)?

5CA

It’s good business, in every sense, to look after your VIPs. Good for them, rewarding them for their customer loyalty and advocacy, and good for your repeat revenues and bottom line. But just how do you do it?

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5 Tools Small Law Firms Need to Improve Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

Customer experience might sound like marketing speak to a profession that has traditionally relied on in-person relationship management and word-of-mouth reputation for business development, but that attitude is out of date. The legal profession is undergoing enormous change thanks to digital transformation and automation and there are a number of important tools that small law firms need if they want to compete on customer experience (and they should).

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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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Watch: CRM Hack on Using Real Time to Improve Conversion and our Weekly B2CRM News Update

Optimove

PostFunnel Insider is Optimove’s series of CRM know-how, tips, news, and analysis videos. This time, we got the weekly news update, and a CRM Hack on using real time to improve conversion. All previous weekly shows All our videos on Optimove’s Youtube channel. B2CRM News: Some consumer stats from Snapchat, and Mother’s Day sensitivity.

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Why 72% of Companies are Tired of Old School Call Center Philippines?

Magellan Solutions

Amidst the pandemic, entrepreneurs are looking to ditch their traditional call center partner. The pandemic has affected each and every business in the world. Imagine, big firms, like Berkshire Hathaway , despite being profitable, laid off 13,000 plus workers during the first six months of the pandemic. Companies such as Walmart, Oracle, Citigroup, Salesforce, Cisco Systems and PayPal are also affected by the virus.

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Did the Review Economy Kill Surveys?

Ann Michaels and Associates

With the rise of reviews online and social media, many companies have opted out of sending their clients surveys altogether. The thinking is they don’t need them since they are hearing from their customers on a regular basis online. However, is this a good strategy? Do surveys still play an important role? Let’s start by taking a closer look at the Review Economy.

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How do you treat your VIPs (Very Important Players)?

5CA

The post How do you treat your VIPs (Very Important Players)? appeared first on 5CA.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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Announcing the Forrester Wave: Endpoint Security Software as a Service, Q2 2021

Forrester's Customer Insights

I am excited to announce The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security Software As A Service, Q2 2021. Although Forrester has previously published other endpoint security Waves, this is the first Endpoint Security Software Wave that exclusively focused on SaaS-delivered products and functions. As more security admin and employees shifted to work from home in 2020, organizations […].

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Transforming the work experience at Qualtrics

Qualtrics

This past year our kitchens became conference rooms, bedrooms became classrooms, and all of us had to throw out the playbook on how—and where—we do our work. At Qualtrics, when the pandemic sent employees home, we went from 25 offices to more than 3,000 “home offices” overnight. We asked everyone to dig deep, act like owners, and focus on our customers as we took the business to new heights—all while working remote.

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The Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack Is A (Another) Call For Zero Trust And Resilience In Industrial Companies

Forrester's Customer Insights

On Friday, May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline safely shut down its pipeline operations due to a ransomware incident in their corporate network. Colonial Pipeline transports 45 percent of the fuel along the East Coast of the United States through 5,500 miles of pipeline. To mitigate the disruption of Colonial Pipeline, the US government allowed a […].

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Transforming the work experience at Qualtrics

Qualtrics

This past year our kitchens became conference rooms, bedrooms became classrooms, and all of us had to throw out the playbook on how—and where—we do our work. At Qualtrics, when the pandemic sent employees home, we went from 25 offices to more than 3,000 “home offices” overnight. We asked everyone to dig deep, act like owners, and focus on our customers as we took the business to new heights—all while working remote.

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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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These agreements also have common points.

Wired and Dangerous

Besides being an environmentally friendly option, an online tenancy agreement allows Landlords to write up their own contracts on their own terms, cutting out the middleman. This may bring different advantages such as flexibility, professionalism, and convenience. For tenancy terms up to three years, the tenancy agreement doesnt have to be executed as a deed.

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Guest Post: 5 Rules for a Great Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Ashwini Dave, a digital marketing expert at Acquire , a conversational customer experience software platform. She shares five rules that businesses should follow to create a great customer experience. If you think brands can get away with a shoddy, below-average customer experience and put the blame on COVID-19, consider this: “Post-COVID, 59% of consumers care more about customer experience when they decide what company to support or buy from” In

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The customer journey is changing. Is your marketing team adapting?

BirdEye

The sheer number of digital touchpoints that are now available to consumers today means there’s no sure-fire way to know precisely how people discover your products — or what they’ll do next. A customer can discover your business through review sites, social media, or search engines. Thousands of touchpoints could be used in multiple combinations to create hundreds of unique consumer journeys, all for the same, single product.