Tue.Oct 19, 2021

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3 Commonly Neglected Micromoments in Your Customer’s Journey

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”. – Robert Collier. What are Micromoments? In any customer journey, there are countless small efforts. These include efforts from the company serving the customer and effort from the customer themself. . After all, the customer journey is really the journey of a relationship. The customer might be buying a product, but they’re also engaging with the brand in a thousand small ways.

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A Winning Combination: Unstructured & Structured Data Analytics in Today’s Customer Experience Environment

InMoment XI

Over the last few weeks, there have been several announcements from large tech players in the world of VoC (voice of customer) and CX (customer experience). My name is Melanie Disse and I have over 10 years of industry experience—most recently in a VoC role at Mercury New Zealand. I thought I’d spend a moment explaining what these announcements mean for those of us who are VoC, CX and Customer Insights professionals.

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Technology is only the first step. Here are 5 secrets to building a customer-centric organization

NICE inContact

Creating a customer-centric contact center can create some significant, disruptive changes for your employees. Leading them to the end state requires a thoughtful and organized approach. Download our new eBook, Change Management Blueprint for Contact Center Digital Transformation, for expert advice about change management best practices.

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A Winning Combination: Unstructured & Structured Data Analytics in Today’s Customer Experience Environment

InMoment XI

Over the last few weeks, there have been several announcements from large tech players in the world of VoC (voice of customer) and CX (customer experience). My name is Melanie Disse and I have over 10 years of industry experience—most recently in a VoC role at Mercury New Zealand. I thought I’d spend a moment explaining what these announcements mean for those of us who are VoC, CX and Customer Insights professionals.

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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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How to Reduce Returns: 8 Tried & True Tactics

TechSee

Product returns are a costly proposition for the vast majority of manufacturers and retailers. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), consumers returned an estimated $428 billion in merchandise – approximately 10.6% of total U.S. retail sales – in 2020. Managing these product returns takes a significant bite out of a company’s bottom line.

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27 Helpful Customer Support Tools and Resources

Help Scout

To get the most out of your customer service team, they need access to the right support tools and resources. Here are 27 to consider.

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Annual G20 Scorecard: The link between COVID-19 response and research subject diversity

Clarivate

Our latest Global Research Report from the Institute for Scientific Information examines G20 member countries’ research performance and includes a special analysis of their COVID-19 research. Each year we report our Annual G20 Scorecard as a prelude to the G20 Summit – a two-day gathering of the world’s major economies, set this year in Rome, Italy on October 30-31.

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Patient Engagement vs Patient Experience

Zonka Feedback

Words like patient experience and patient engagement may have been casually flung around and even used interchangeably in the healthcare industry. But it is now more important than ever to know what they mean. Understanding these concepts will help you take your first step to building excellent patient experiences and ensuring patient satisfaction. Let’s discuss this in a little more detail.

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Rethinking the Quarterly Business Review (QBR)

ChurnZero

Rethinking the Quarterly Business Review (QBR). A relic from the days of old-school account management, the quarterly business review (QBR) is a classic — although not timeless — practice. In today’s always-connected, data-enriched landscape, the QBR feels misplaced, and even ineffective. Although the quarterly business review purpose — to strategize and realign on customer goals — remains important, the somewhat inflexible timing of the QBR doesn’t speak to a new focus on driving continuous cus

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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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Engineering software to speed up the pandemic response

Clarivate

Xavi Moreno joined Clarivate well into the pandemic, where his technology skillset would soon make a difference in fighting the virus. Get the full story. Xavi Moreno, Python Developer, Barcelona, Spain. Xavi Moreno took a roundabout path to working on products designed to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout childhood, the Barcelonian software engineer had wanted to be an eye doctor, so that he might one day treat people like his uncle, who had lost his vision.

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Call Center Shrinkage : Strategies and Tools for Decision-makers

NobelBiz

Assume your contact centers employs 500 agents to answer incoming requests from your clients. Exactly how many of your company's 500 employees are working? If the number of agents available to handle calls falls below the number of agents on break, meetings/training, on after-call work (ACW), absent, sick etc., then a call center efficiency loss has already occurred.

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Start From the Top to Create a Customer-First Mindset

Kustomer

The customer experience. We all know its importance. Without happy customers, our businesses would fail. And our customers won’t be happy without a good customer experience. What creates truly “stand out” brands is an exceptional experience, where customer effort is low, and surprise and delight are high. This means no hurdles to jump through. A consistent experience no matter how or where they interact with a brand.

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Embrace Digital Channels to Drive Transformation

Upstream Works

The term “digital channels” has become core to the contact center lexicon recently, and for good reason. Much of this pertains to how the adoption of relatively new communication channels is impacting the customer experience (CX) landscape, and contact center leaders need to respond. The starting point is to understand what this term actually involves, and how these channels are being used.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Noa Danon

ShepHyken

Creating Personalized Experiences at Scale. Personalization and Creativity in Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Noa Danon, Co-Founder and CEO of EverAfter. She has extensive experience leading Product and User Experience teams. They discuss how organizational businesses can ensure customer renewals and expansion by creating personalized customer experiences.

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Forbes: Good Weather Improves Customer Experience, But Is It Enough? 

Happy or Not

Heikki Väänänen | Founder, Exec. VP of Growth. Customer Experience (CX) Day took place this year on October 5th and provided a platform for my latest Forbes article, in which I look at the ways in which CX impacts the success of a business. . Knowing what makes your customers satisfied and what does not is crucial to winning them over, and keeping them loyal over the years.

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7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages

Playvox

If you’re a contact center professional, you’re probably feeling the pain of agent staffing shortages. Due to the pandemic, we’re experiencing an unusual dynamic in the labor market right now. The U.S. unemployment rate was 5.4% in July 2021 , higher than pre-pandemic levels, yet the news is full of stories about businesses of all sizes across industries having difficulty finding employees.

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Looking to improve customer experience? Sell more!

Customer Enthusiast

Last week, I received a report from a colleague, John Goodman, Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement & Consulting (CCMC) that was based on a 2021 Customer Delight Study conducted by CCMC. There was a section in the report titled Monetary Delighters that detailed the benefits of cross-selling to customers, offering a good value for … Continue reading "Looking to improve customer experience?

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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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Berthe Morisot’s Early Life and Education

Esteban Kolsky

Morisot was born in Bourges, France, into an affluent bourgeois family. Her father, Edmé Tiburce Morisot, was the prefect of the department of Cher. He also studied architecture at École des Beaux Arts. Her mother, Marie-Joséphine-Cornélie Thomas, was the great-niece of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime.

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Breaking Down Customer Churn Reasons (Quadrant of Churn)

ClientSuccess

While CSMs put their heart and souls into their customer relationships, there will always be instances of customer churn. As a voice for your customers in your organization, it falls to you to understand why this churn occurred, if there was anything you or the team could have done to prevent this churn from happening, and document how to catch these kinds of risks in the future.

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Morisot’s Importance in the Impressionist Movement

Esteban Kolsky

Berthe Morisot, “Woman Impressionist,” Emerges from the Margins. Morisot is a visual poet of womanhood like perhaps no other painter before or since, with a comprehension of female experience that is at least equal in force to the combined delectations of women by her male peers. Peter Schjeldahl.

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Gearing up for Another Successful Holiday Season

SAP Customer Experience

With the holiday season rapidly approaching, SAP is completing preparatory initiatives to ensure successful sales events for all participating SAP Commerce Cloud customers. SAP understands the importance of these events, and as a result, does everything possible to provide end-users with smooth, stable, and satisfactory shopping experiences throughout the season.

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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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Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist

Esteban Kolsky

Janelle Montgomery : Morisot was a respected member of a cohort of painters we know as “the Impressionists,” and yet her work is very rarely studied, or even exhibited even today. How did you go about choosing the works for this show and organizing them into the exhibition, and what does it tell us not only about Morisot, but also about the Impressionists?

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SAP PartnerEdge Sell Gold/Silver (former VAR Delivered Support Partner) not able to submit incidents?  Let's find out why!  

SAP Customer Experience

If you are an SAP PartnerEdge Sell Gold/Silver (former VAR Delivered Support Partner) or an end customer of SAP and having issues creating an incident here are some checks that can quickly resolve the issue.

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Berthe’s daughter, Julie Manet

Esteban Kolsky

Playing in the Sand. Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895). Throughout her lifetime, Berthe created many paintings of her daughter, Julie Manet. She painted Julie during many periods of her daughter’s life, up until Marisot’s death in 1895. Paintings of Julie sometimes caught her in the act of playing as a child, portraits, and even a painting of her playing violin.

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The Creative INSIDE of SAP: Creative Insights Help The Best-Run Businesses, Run Better

SAP Customer Experience

The last few years have become an inflection point in the way we engage with customers and the demand for producing on-brand, professional-grade content at scale is now the gold standard. As we continue to push forward in the months ahead, fulfilling all these content needs will require a whirlwind.

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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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Call Center Staffing: How Many Agents Do You Need?

Stella Connect

Fast-growing companies with ambitious customer service goals and limited resources may find call center staffing tricky — what’s the magic number of agents you need to meet demand and service customers effectively ? Consider what could occur if you have too many or too few agents. Call center staffing with too many agents unnecessarily drives up overhead costs that fall short of demand, and having too few agents makes it far too difficult for your service team to keep up with customers.

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What’s New in eGain 21

eGain Blogs

Gartner and Forrester consistently rate our solution #1 in knowledge-powered customer engagement. With eGain 21, we have raised the bar yet again! In eGain 21, we’ve organized our customer engagement solution into three logical hubs: Conversation Hub to connect , Knowledge Hub to better solve , and. Analytics Hub to better optimize customer engagement.

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Prevent attrition with Machine Learning churn prediction

Beyond the Arc

Churn, or the “rate of customer attrition in a company”1 can dramatically affect a business’s bottom line. It costs between 5% to 25% more to acquire a new customer than to retain an existing one. And increasing retention rates by 5% can dramatically increase revenue – anywhere from 25% to 95%.2 That’s why so [.]. The post Prevent attrition with Machine Learning churn prediction appeared first on Beyond the Arc.

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