Tue.Nov 02, 2021

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Creating Customer Personas: Solutions to 4 Common Challenges

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Creating customer personas is an important part of any customer journey mapping exercise or really any customer experience management program. But what are they, really? How are they created? And how can you overcome the obstacles that tend to keep organizations from creating truly great, useful personas? That’s what we’ll tackle today. What is a Customer Persona?

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Conversation is the currency of the enterprise

Uniphore

By: Annie Weckesser, CMO The best enterprises don’t run on data – they run on conversations. Today, the most successful businesses are the ones that have the best and most effective conversations with their customers, partners and employees. And these conversations are happening everywhere. The average person has 27 P2P conversations every day, lasting 10 minutes each. 1 There are 65 billion conversations on WhatsApp alone.

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Cold Calling: How to Avoid Mistakes that Drive Your Customers Away?

NobelBiz

When done correctly, Cold Calling has the potential to be a wonderful strategy for quickly qualifying leads and increasing sales or lead creation. If your contact center lacks the proper technologies and strategies, this approach can be a time-consuming and difficult task for your daily operations. In this article we explore the common mistakes in Cold Calling and the solutions to tackle them.

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Customer experience matters!

NICE inContact

In today's experience economy, businesses can't leave CX to chance. Companies need to align every aspect of the business on the customer experience. For contact centers, this includes getting agents on board by explaining why customer experience matters and providing the technology agents need to be successful. But you can do even more to meet your CX goals by focusing on every aspect of the agent employment life cycle, beginning with the hiring process.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, 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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How to Transform an Angry Customer into Brand Evangelist

The DiJulius Group

Are you feeling the pressure of high customer demands? Customer service is on the decline, and now is the time to stand out. To differentiate yourself from the competition, you must anticipate your service defects and put protocols in place to make it right. Are your team members trained and equipped to handle challenging customer. Read Full Article.

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Amazing Business Radio: Colin Shaw

ShepHyken

Customer Experience Is Science. Creating Proactive Customer Experiences. Shep Hyken interviews Colin Shaw, co-host of the Intuitive Customer podcast and the Founder & CEO of Beyond Philosophy LLC , a customer experience consulting company that has been recognized by the Financial Times as ‘one of the leading management consultancies for the last three years in a row.?

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Finding Your Power to Win: Lessons From Sugar Ray Leonard

Cyara

The principles that drive success are universal. Whether you strive for greatness as an athlete or in your business, it takes discipline, determination, and a certain amount of fearlessness to achieve your goals. Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard knows something about what it takes to succeed. With 36 wins, only three losses and one draw, world titles in five weight divisions, and an Olympic gold medal, Leonard is one of the most decorated athletes of the 20th century.

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5 Shopping Trends and What They Mean to Your Contact Center

Playvox

News outlets are reporting that this year’s holiday buying season is expected to start earlier than ever. But given the level of uncertainty experienced in the last 18 months – ever-changing pandemic guidance, more workers voluntarily resigning from jobs, many of us still working remotely – what impact will this have on customer behavior and buying habits as we close out 2021?

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Inside Uplight’s Employee Resource Groups for Parents

Uplight

Our Parents of Uplight Employee Resource Group (ERG) is a community that serves as an accessible resource for supporting parents and their allies in raising the next generation. The groups’ objectives include influencing and advocating for how Uplight can become a destination employer for parents, attracting and retaining employees who are parents/prospective parents, educating employees Read More.

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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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Customer Marketing: Part 1 – Advocacy

ClientSuccess

While CSMs are often tied up in the day-to-day implementation and project plan of managing customers, a few long-term initiatives also require additional attention. Customer marketing is one of these initiatives. While most customer marketing programs are a cross-function of CSMs and marketing teams, many marketing departments will look to CSMs for direction and guidance when selecting and working with customers directly.

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How Social Media and Online Reviews are Key Aspects of the Customer Experience

ReviewTrackers

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West Monroe - Untitled Article

West Monroe

In West Monroe’s final Quarterly Executive Poll of 2021 , most respondents (75%) said they feel optimistic about the U.S. economic recovery, while the rest feel bearish. We took a deeper dive into that data—and found stark contrasts between the bulls and bears on: how hard they’re working to solve talent shortages. where their organization is in developing their hybrid work models. what, if any, actions their companies are taking on sustainability.

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3 Initial Questions Before Choosing A Customer Support Outsourcing Service

Magellan Solutions

What makes the best customer support outsourcing service. We know how important it is to find the right partner, especially for SMEs. Magellan Solutions currently is one of the strongest and most diversified when it comes to having a global presence for almost two decades. Being in the business of customer support outsourcing for small business , we guarantee that we have mastered ways for you to stay close to your customers and be in control of your brand.

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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 ways to retain a $100 million customer portfolio

CustomerSuccessBox

Christoph Janz, a SaaS enthusiast, and a Venture Capitalist had published a brilliant article way back in 2014. It was about the “ 5 ways to build a $100 million business ”.It was meant for SaaS companies. The key takeaway was to get to $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue. finding customer acquisition channels that are highly scalable, repeatable, and profitable. .

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Puzzel Extends Partnership with PCI Pal’s Omnichannel Payment Portfolio

CSM Magazine

PCI Pal , the global provider of cloud-based secure payment solutions, has today announced that the leading European Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) provider, Puzzel, has extended its reseller partnership agreement to include PCI Pal’s Digital and IVR payment security solutions to its portfolio. Having originally joined PCI Pal’s partnership program in 2018, Puzzel incorporated the flagship PCI Pal Agent Assist solution into its overall contact centre portfolio to offer a PCI compliance

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Clarivate colleagues all in with INTA

Clarivate

Industry engagement is key to our customer commitment, and we’re proud that 11 Clarivate colleagues have joined INTA committees. Join us at the Annual Meeting. At Clarivate, our mission is to provide solutions to accelerate the lifecycle of innovation. One way we help clients protect and commercialize their ideas is by partnering with the International Trademark Association (INTA) to further our mutual goals.

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Leading community platform inSided partners with Clocktower Advisors

inSided

Clocktower Advisors is now partnering with inSided, a leading Customer Success community platform, to help customers improve retention, increase customer advocacy, and drive growth.

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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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Atlas Highlights - November 2021

Lithium

? Khoros Autumn Innovation Release. So much has changed in the last year. And we’ve been hard at work to change with the rapidly evolving world — especially for the contact center. With this year's Autumn Innovation Release , we’ve made it more painless than ever to build AI-powered chatbots, connect with your peers, create simple and secure interactions, and ultimately build trust with your customers and prospects.

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The Effective way to Sales, Customer Success, and Implementation Handoff

CustomerSuccessBox

You have successfully closed a big deal and you take a huge sigh of relief. But this is not the stage to take the gas off the pedal as adoption is the key to retaining your client. A seamless handoff from sales to customer success to implementation is necessary to deliver the promised early value. This is crucial to make your customer’s experience easier.

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Complete Shutter Doors Boost Productivity by 20% with BigChange

CSM Magazine

Industrial doors company Complete Shutter Services has doubled its business and boosted productivity by 20 per cent since implementing field service management software from BigChange. Providing a complete job management platform, BigChange cloud-based office software synchronises with a rugged tablets used by field operatives to provide real-time 24/7 visibility of every job nationwide.

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Predictions 2022: Banks Will Double Down On Innovation

Forrester's Customer Insights

To compete and survive in an increasingly unpredictable, post-pandemic world, banks will invest heavily in technology, talent, and sustainability in the coming year.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Automation today: Q&A featuring Forrester’s Leslie Joseph

PK

I recently hosted a webinar with Workato featuring guest speaker, Forrester’s Leslie Joseph, on the new automation fabric, where we discussed how automation is evolving. With automation technologies like RPA, […]. The post Automation today: Q&A featuring Forrester’s Leslie Joseph appeared first on PK.

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Your Return-To-Office Strategy Depends Upon A Well-Defined Vaccination Policy

Forrester's Customer Insights

The future of work happens in a world of continuous change, with multiple shocks repeatedly challenging leaders to adapt. The pandemic is no exception: What leaders of US companies thought about COVID-19 in May 2021 was upended by a cluster of new, disruptive pandemic developments by midsummer. By September, US companies with 100-plus employees received news […].

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Forrester recognizes PK for its global digital experience services

PK

Every great experience starts with people. Seeking a better digital experience provider? Get complimentary access to Forrester’s “Now Tech: Global Digital Experience Services, Q4 2021” report and learn why PK […]. The post Forrester recognizes PK for its global digital experience services appeared first on PK.

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Five Findings From Forrester’s Review Of Six US Banks’ Mobile Sites

Forrester's Customer Insights

Each year, my colleague Andrew Hogan and I review mobile websites of top US banks to understand how effectively banks are meeting customers’ expectations, when it comes to finding, researching, and applying for a checking account. We review functionality and observe users as they try to complete their tasks. In this year’s report, we evaluated […].

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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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Nov 02 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: San Angelo, TX, US Organization: Tekmetric As a Head of Customer Success, you will implement resolution procedures for any customer concerns and ensure the area is staffed and trained to handle questions from customers. Manages customer service objectives and continuously monitors procedures to ensure these are met by staff.

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Three Vendors Lead In Our Third Forrester Wave™ Evaluation On Unified Endpoint Management

Forrester's Customer Insights

Today, we released The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2021. This is the third year we’ve published our unified endpoint management (UEM) Forrester Wave (see our past reports from 2018 and 2019), and this year, we looked at the top 11 vendors in the market and evaluated them across 24 criteria. Organizations looking to […].

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5 Digital Customer Experience Examples in Banking Sector that Every Customer Success Manager Should See

SmartKarrot

Customer-centric strategies, which were once only used by prominent B2B consumer players like Amazon and Google, are now drawing major changes in B2B digital customer experience landscape, especially in the banking sector. Today’s customers are looking for personalized interactions, simplistic banking processes, and access to accounts with the help of modern-day technology.

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