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What Can the Mandalorian Teach You About Your Customer Service?

Steve DiGioia

The Mandalorian. The blockbuster hit on the Disney Channel. A keen and faithful observer can see many takeaways that relate to the way we offer service. I’ve already written about Bigfoot Customer Service and Landscaper Customer Service. Those two articles highlight the unique aspects of service the two groups offer and how they hurt or help our service efforts.

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What is a Likert scale and how to use it

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Everything you need to know about using a Likert scale, from advantages to best practices and examples.

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Using Integrations In Customer Experience

Lumoa

Customer experience integrations help you to automate your customer experience. The logic of this type of integration is the same as any other type of integration you can do with other tools. For example, you probably have integrated your CRM with your helpdesk already to get a better view of your customers so you can be even more efficient when solving their issues.

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Did 2020 Reveal the future of Public Sector Contact Centers?

NICE inContact

Now that 2021 is upon us and there is a faintly visible conclusion to the pandemic, the question remains – will public sector contact centers revert to the models they had relied on prior to COVID-19? The answer is unequivocally NO. Regardless of how the adoption of new flexible models in the contact center arrived (and yes, the speed with which it was done amid the pandemic was a painful way to do it) the reality is, it’s done.

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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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14 ways to provide great customer service

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Follow these steps to provide an excellent customer service experience.

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14 ways to provide great customer service

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Follow these steps to provide an excellent customer service experience.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 15, 2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. The do’s and don’ts for creating a customer service knowledge base by TechGenyz. (TechGenyz) In this post, we will be exploring the benefits of a customer service knowledge base and what you should and should not when building a customer knowledge base for

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Is This One of the Most Important Jobs in Business Today?

Beyond Philosophy

Behavioral Science is a growing field in business. It applies to everything and everything we do. We hosted two interesting guests on a recent podcast that might have one of the most important new business jobs today. Today, we will take a closer look at what they do and what they wish everyone understood about behavioral economics in business today.

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What Self-Service Rate Can You Expect from Artificial Intelligence?

Inbenta

Even though there is no “real” benchmark for automated self-service solutions, we’re going to try to give you some indications of the kind of results you can realistically expect from such solutions. But first, what is customer self-service? Customer self-service is a solution or a set of solutions that enables web users to access information or even perform some simple tasks autonomously, without requiring the assistance of a customer service representative.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

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? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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5 Essential Options in Automated Telemarketing Software

NobelBiz

Performance and results are vital factors for today's outbound call centers. Therefore, it is important to choose the right technology that will boost your capabilities. What are the basics of a good choice? The post 5 Essential Options in Automated Telemarketing Software appeared first on NobelBiz®.

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PK team members honored with Sitecore MVP award for 2021

PK

PK, a Sitecore Certified Platinum Partner, is excited to announce that four of its team members, Ozell McBride, Rashmy Patwari, Madhu Anbalagan and Jeff Cram, have been named Sitecore Most […]. The post PK team members honored with Sitecore MVP award for 2021 appeared first on PK.

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5 revolutionary trends in patient experience for healthcare contact centers

Talkdesk

Healthcare providers are at a pivotal moment to reimagine the patient experience. We talked to almost 700 patients and more than 170 patient experience (PX) professionals to understand the changing dynamics of PX in healthcare. We heard the same thing over and over: patients expect more out of their experience with healthcare providers and the stakes are rising to meet that expectation.

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Your CX program guide to survey sample size, margin of error, confidence intervals, and more

delighted

When you start setting up a customer experience program, one of the first things you’ll consider is how many customer surveys to send out. This handy guide by Sean Mancillas, the head of our Customer Concierge Team, navigates you through statistics concepts like survey sample size and margin of error, equipping you to ballpark the survey and response volumes you’ll need for a best practice CX program.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

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? With customer experience automation, organizations can leverage AI and automation to make it faster and cheaper to provide a superior customer experience acro

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Meal Kits Show The Way For Breakthrough Innovation Opportunities In The Food Category

Maru Group

Meal Kits exploded onto the American food scene in 2012 with the launch of Blue Apron , HelloFresh , and Plated , followed by Home Chef a year later. By 2019, the North American market for meal kits had slowly but steadily grown to an estimated 1.7 billion dollars, although companies struggled with profitability and retaining customers. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, interest in meal kits increased as people found themselves at home, staring into the cupboard, searching for inspiration.

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Seven staff personas that obstruct CX transformation - and how to deal with them

MyCustomer

Engagement 7 staff personas that obstruct CX & how to respond.

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Customer Health Score Industry Trends

CSM Practice

Takeaways from CSM Practice Customer Success Health Score Survey Results. In Q4 of 2020, CSM Practice synthesized its survey results from close to 200 of US-Based SAAS companies. The purpose of the survey was to assess the validity of common industry assumptions on customer health scores. It also sought to understand the major trends of customer health scores.

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The Secret Weapon for Building Great Customer Relationships

ClientSuccess

As a customer success professional in 2021, you understand the critical importance of strong, lasting customer relationships. Customer-centric service has emerged as one of the leading contributors to account renewals, recurring revenue, and upsells for SaaS-based organizations. . In addition to your vast toolkit of customer success solutions, tools, and resources, there is one secret weapon to include to build strong customer relationships: customer-first service.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

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.

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SMUD Gives LMI Customers Free Products with the Giveaway Hub

Uplight

During a pandemic, low-to-moderate income (LMI) customers need more help than ever. But utility Marketplaces aren’t the first place they turn, especially when paying a bill is a much higher priority than purchasing a pricey smart thermostat. The solution? Offer free, energy saving products on a utility Marketplace page just for LMI customers. Eligibility checks Read More.

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Adopt Three Practices To Boost Resiliency For Customer Service

Forrester's Customer Insights

The COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed the need for change in customer service organizations – changes in the ways we work, we hire new talent, we invest in new technology, and in the way we practice risk management. We are all aware of the operational holes that were exposed when contact centers moved agents home in […].

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5 Essential Options in Automated Telemarketing Software

NobelBiz

Technology has played a key role in creating new solutions, opportunities, and successes for contact centers, especially outbound campaigns. However, choosing the right technology that will fit your business and your business objectives is not as simple as that. From this perspective, here are 5 important points to check when choosing your automated telemarketing software.

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Meal Kits Show The Way For Breakthrough Innovation Opportunities In The Food Category

Maru Group

By Liz Miller, Vice President of Business Development | February 15, 2021. Meal Kits exploded onto the American food scene in 2012 with the launch of Blue Apron , HelloFresh , and Plated , followed by Home Chef a year later. By 2019, the North American market for meal kits had slowly but steadily grown to an estimated 1.7 billion dollars, although companies struggled with profitability and retaining customers.

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Customer Experience Myths Guidebook

A CX myth is something widely believed or implemented that is based on “how we’ve always done it” thinking, rather than delivering truly innovative customer experiences. What CX myths are holding organizations back from top-level customer experience performance? What can companies do to find solid ground and move forward successfully? In this guidebook, we answer those questions and more as we explore three key myths and two strategies that you can use to replace them.

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When BPO & Healthcare Industries Collide Through Doctors Answering Service

Magellan Solutions

Commonly offered physician answering service in the Philippines. Physicians Answering Service understands your office needs because we have our own. We give you live operator service during business hours. It is available for call overflow or after-hours, 24/7 call monitoring. . The healthcare industry matters the most in these times. And we, as a company serving the people, guarantee quality service for: Doctor’s Offices.

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The Key to Product Led Growth? Lose the Friction!

Wootric CX Blog

In the world of SaaS, we have entered the era of Product Led Growth (PLG) , where the product rules. PLG empowers your product team to lead customer acquisition and retention and take ownership of your customer’s journey. With great power comes great responsibility. It’s not enough for your product to address a clear customer need in a way no other product can match.

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Real Estate Purchasing is Affordable. A Myth or the Reality?

CSM Magazine

A home may be one of the most important and most expensive purchases a person may make in their lives. But this doesn’t exactly mean it isn’t affordable. There are many ways that will allow you to get more bang for your buck when it comes to an affordable home. Whether you’ve thought of reaching out to an advisor mortgage or going on a solo mission, rest assured that you’ll be able to make it.

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CRM Hack: Going from Basic Segmentation to Personalization

Optimove

A well-known axiom in marketing is that – the more personalized, the better. And even though achieving personalization at scale is pretty hard if you don’t possess the right technology, there’s still a lot you can do to. Of course, to get going, it all depends on the data you have. This is where you begin to segment your audience. But going from having segments/target groups, to actually personalize your marketing strategy, requires a few additional steps.

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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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The Importance of a Personal Statement for Business Management CV

CSM Magazine

You likely have an idea of how to write a good CV. Your education, employment history, and academic qualifications are easy to put together because all you need to look at are the dates, the specs of your previous jobs , and what you have managed to achieve in recent years. The personal statement tends to be a tricky component of your CV. Thankfully, this guide is going to help you craft a winning personal statement.

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Patience Tarley

GlowTouch

Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Meet Patience Tarley, one of our Contact Center Representatives. Tanya Bussey has been in customer service since she was 18 and can’t imagine doing anything else. “I’ve always loved customer service! I really like interacting with the customer.”. Since July 2020, Tanya has been one of our Louisville Contact Center Customer Service Representatives.

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Updated! CXU’s NPS is +81

CX University

Driving improvement is a relentless commitment. Become a CXS TM or CCXP! Our programs prepare you for both. CX University offers training in Customer Experience and proudly serves corporations and customers in over 60 countries. We practice what we preach, and we are also relentlessly restless! We are driven by a feeling that things are just not good enough.

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