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Customer Experience Planning Questions for a Brighter Future

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Listen to this article. There are times when it’s important to pause, calibrate, and plan for what’s next. The end of the calendar year is a great time for this, but there are others: The end of your fiscal year. As you wrap one quarter and prepare for the next. Before budgeting season. Any time changes demand you assess and adjust your goals, strategy, and tactics.

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Vanilla 2020 Feature Roundup: A Year in Review

Vanilla Forums

Hello and welcome to the end of 2020! It’s been quite the year here at Vanilla, and despite all the twists and turns, it hasn’t slowed our teams down. Most recently, we wrapped up our Conversations event in November, which showcased over 35 speakers across the industry and gave us a chance to highlight all the functionality that’s been added to Vanilla over the past year.

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Reinventing the Holidays: Christmas 2020

Maru Group

It’s no surprise to anyone that Christmas is going to feel a little different this year. That’s why we’re pleased to continue our Reinventing the Holidays series focusing on the central question of what does the 2020 holiday season hold for consumers and brands alike? With so many risks, and so many parts of our lives transformed by COVID-19, how can we still make the biggest shopping holiday of the year feel special?

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Customer Success Team Spotlight: Criteria Corp

ChurnZero

Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team (and a few furry friends). Criteria Corp is a leading provider of professionally developed pre-employment screening. Across their suite of aptitude, personality, and skills tests, the group helps organizations make better talent decisions. Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team is primarily based in Los Angeles, but includes team members across the US (Chicago, Denver.).

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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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Just arrived: Delighted’s Google Sheets, Airtable, and Pipedrive integrations by Zapier

delighted

It’s no secret that capturing feedback from clients, employees, and potential customers is essential for building a foundation in experience management. But, organizing and standardizing team processes around feedback data can seem daunting, especially if it’s a manual process. That’s why we’re excited to announce three key integrations available to you today!

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The Link Between Coaching Skills For Sales Leaders and Sales Coaching Maturity

Integrity Solutions

Effective sales coaching yields results, and sales leaders intuitively seem to understand this. So where’s the disconnect? Why isn’t everyone putting their energy and attention behind something they know will deliver results? You don’t have to look far to find another article or blog post talking about the importance of coaching in the workplace. Productivity, retention, engagement, adaptability and performance are just a few of the benefits coaching has been shown to deliver.

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Achieving Success Amidst Unprecedented Times

Strikedeck

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Mary Poppen talks about managing customer expectations. How do we support customers amid this global pandemic and the lessons it teaches us?

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Everyone Is An Internal Client Of Everyone Else. Who Are Yours?

One Millimeter Mindset

If everyone is an internal client of everyone else in your organization, then who are your customers? Each time I ask this question at speaking engagements , workshops or coaching sessions , attendees engage in a flurry of activity. First, they create top-of-mind lists of internal clientele they serve. Next, we conduct the forensic portion of this exercise.

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Amazing Business Radio: Gabriele Masili

ShepHyken

Know Your Customers. The Digital, Personalized Customer Experience of the Future. Shep Hyken interviews Gabriele Masili , Global VP and Chief Technology Officer of Customer Experience & Success at Microsoft. They discuss strategies for building a successful, digital customer experience without sacrificing the human connection. Top Takeaways: Customer success and customer support are related, but different.

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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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Learn About Mental Health And Stress Among Call Center Employees

NobelBiz

What is really a mental health issue? How does it manifest itself at work? And what are the consequences in a call center? To better understand this problem, which is unfortunately still taboo, and to provide answers that will help support employees and owners. The post Learn About Mental Health And Stress Among Call Center Employees appeared first on NobelBiz®.

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CRM Selection Checklist: How to Find the Right Customer Engagement Solution for You

iPerceptions

Looking for a customer engagement CRM solution, or looking to switch to a new one? Here are some ideas to help get your research started. The post CRM Selection Checklist: How to Find the Right Customer Engagement Solution for You appeared first on Astute.

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Virtual and Hybrid Event Tech Trends For Better Attendee Experiences

CXApp

Like it or not, the world is a different place now than it was even just a half a year ago. Everyone, and every business, has been affected.

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IoT Solutions Power Safe, Speedy and Cold COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery

Forrester's Customer Insights

What do you do when you absolutely must get your vaccine to the destination on time and keep it very, very cold? Advances in Internet of Things technologies are make it possible to monitor temperatures of vaccine shipments in transit. On December 11, 2020 the US Food and Drug Administration gave its stamp of approval […].

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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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Top 4 Questions About De-escalation Academy Answered

Myra Golden

Last week I told you about De-escalation Academy, and immediately I got a ton of questions. You might have questions, too. So, I’m sharing the top four questions that I answered for new students last week. What is the total time commitment for the Academy? The total classroom training time is 75 minutes, spread out over four days. I build your employees’ confidence and guide them through getting angry customers to back down in short segments (no more than five minutes per piece).

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Christmas spending intentions highlight two faces of the pandemic

Perceptive

Christmas has always been an important time of year for Kiwi consumers—and the businesses they buy from. However, 2020 has seen the mindset and behaviour of many New Zealanders shift. Over the last nine months, nesting has come to the fore as people sought to improve the comfort and functionality of their homes. We’ve seen a resurgence to buy local , and a normalisation of flexible working brought on by necessity.

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Learn About Mental Health And Stress Among Call Center Employees

NobelBiz

What is really a mental health issue? How does it manifest itself at work? And what are the consequences in a call center? To better understand this problem, which is unfortunately still taboo, and to provide answers that will help support employees and owners. We will look in-depth at this issue and what strategies can be adopted by contact centers.

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Top 5 Factors Driving Employee Satisfaction

SurveySparrow

The phrase Employee Satisfaction is used to denote how satisfied employees are with their work environment. How satisfied employees are with their jobs plays a key role in their overall well being. Satisfied employees tend to be more productive, boosts up the team morale and are more likely to come up with innovative ideas. In short, Employee satisfaction is an important metric that indicates the overall health of an organization.

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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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2020 Confirmit ACE Awards Series: NHBC

Confirmit

NHBC is the leading warranty and insurance provider for new homes in the UK. NHBC run the only award scheme in the UK that recognizes the contribution a site manager makes to a development, called ‘Pride in the Job’ In this video, Matthew Ross, NHBC, share how they use Confirmit to drive their industry-leading award scheme. 2020 ACE Award winners in the Digital Success category.

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Security Notification: SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack

Bold360

This post originally appeared on our LogMeIn blog. —. Yesterday , SolarWinds , a widely used security and IT management tool , issued a security advisory notifying customers of a cyberattack to their systems that inserted a vulnerability within the SolarWinds® Orion® Platform software builds for versions? 2019.4 HF 5? and ?2020.2? with no hotfix installed ?

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3 components every employee engagement program needs to drive meaningful change to your customer experience + bottom line

SMG CX

Prioritizing the employee experience (EX) has never been more critical. From employees’ heightened standards of a safe + healthy work environment to the continuous need for improved diversity, equity, + inclusion (DEI) efforts, organizations must work harder to understand what matters most to employees and create the kind of employee-centric culture that wins their loyalty.

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Remote Workforce Management – From Survive to Thrive in 3 Easy Steps

CSM Magazine

Richard Pinnington of Calabrio discusses how workforce management means so much more in challenging times. . “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” these immortal words are probably as true today as they were when Charles Dickens wrote a “A Tale of Two Cities” nearly 200 years ago. Certainly, at Calabrio we have seen how COVID-19 has triggered extreme opportunities and challenges for contact centres.

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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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Alchemer Earns ISO 27001 Certification

SurveyGizmo

Alchemer drives customer-centric transformation while safeguarding customer data. Louisville, Colorado, December 15, 2020 — Alchemer, one of the world’s leading customer experience (CX) and voice-of-the-customer (VoC) platform providers, today announced that it has earned ISO 27001 certification from NSF International. “Properly managing customer information and ensuring data privacy is critically important to our customers,” said, David Roberts, CEO of Alchemer.

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The Future Of Documents: Content Creation Is Ripe For Its Own Digital Disruption

Forrester's Customer Insights

I remember the first time I saw a Google Doc. It was sometime in 2008, and people interested in collaboration and “Enterprise 2.0” on Twitter were circulating a link to a list of like-minded tech professionals. I clicked on the link, and my jaw dropped. The document looked like it was alive. There were about […].

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Shared Call Center Solutions Creating Momentum for SMEs

Grupo Noa

Ideally, a firm that does not receive an excessive high volume of calls should go for shared call center route. It is not only effective and influential but faster in operation too. According to Walker statistics, 81% of the customers view customer care service as the necessary determinant of a firm’s long-term success. The biggest advantage of outsourcing shared customer service center is its less formality and easier availability.

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Three Sales Methodology Trends We Can All Get Behind

Forrester's Customer Insights

This progress from methodology vendors is encouraging for sales leaders, sales enablement teams, and for the vendors themselves.

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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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Lead Generation Is the Lifeline of Call Center Services

Grupo Noa

Lead generation is the most vital element of call center services. An entrepreneur does not have enough time to meet all clients personally and explain them about the company’s newly launched products and applicable after-sale-service. Wow, marketing survey quoted that 52% will not interact with a brand due to band mobile experience. That is when the lead generation services , and appointment setting functions of call centers assume primary importance.

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Do You Have A Future Fit Learning Culture?

Forrester's Customer Insights

Change is the new normal. From global pandemics to disruptive innovation and beyond, every organization is in a constant state of reinvention, and static learning models just aren’t keeping up. The old model of learning and earning has been disrupted, leaving businesses holding the bag on continuous upskilling as higher education struggles to reinvent itself. […].

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Air Senegal Launches their Teranga Programme in partnership with LoyaltyPlus

LoyaltyPlus

Centurion, South Africa, 15 th December 2020. Air Senegal the fast growing West African long-haul and regional airline, launches its Teranga Frequent Flyer Programme in partnership with solution provider LoyaltyPlus. With ambitions to connect the world to Senegal and West Africa, through the Dakar hub, the Teranga Programme marks a significant step towards that goal for Air Senegal.