Tue.Feb 15, 2022

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Guest blog: On-Demand Economy – How to Pivot Customer Service Practices to Give Consumers What They Want

Comm100

The modern global consumer is impatient, specific about their needs, and more than willing to jump ship to go to another brand if you fail to impress them immediately. It’s all the product of the on-demand economy, which has come to dominate across industries and has forced organizations to rethink the way they do business and provide customer service.

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The Top 3 “Blended Experiences” Retail Consumers & Employees Expect This Year

InMoment XI

In 2022, modern retailers will face many challenges as the industry continues to recover from the global pandemic. During the unpredictable lockdown, retail brands were forced to transform their in-person experiences to digital ones. And now, according to our most recent EX & CX Retail Trends research, both customers and employees expect a blended experience.

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Accessibility in Customer Service – How Comm100 Live Chat Meets Government Requirements

Comm100

Governments around the world continue to introduce legislation that ensures services are accessible by everyone. This has led public organizations to offer new kinds of services while adjusting existing ones. For organizations providing public-facing services, accessibility legislation could mean a need to expand the tools that are available to customers.

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5 Effective Strategies for Building Customer Loyalty

Alida

Every business wants loyal customers. As it’s less costly to keep existing customers than to acquire new ones, increasing the value of your existing customers is a great way to drive growth and maintain profit margins.

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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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Kustomer Joins Meta to Evolve Digital Customer Service

Kustomer

Today I’m pleased to announce our mission to reimagine customer service for consumers has become even stronger — we are officially part of Meta! A World of Change. The Kustomer journey began back in 2015 when the world was a very different place. Since then, almost every aspect of the way we shop, sell, and connect has been transformed. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) businesses and digital-first brands are thriving.

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NobelBiz partners with Balto to bring real-time AI guidance to its omnichannel ecosystem

NobelBiz

By integrating with Balto, NobelBiz OMNI+ users can make use of the real-time guidance for contact centers to optimize the client-agent interactions, boost conversion and overall KPIs. The post NobelBiz partners with Balto to bring real-time AI guidance to its omnichannel ecosystem appeared first on NobelBiz®.

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Don’t offer customer service training. Develop your people with customer service education.

Bill Quiseng

Don’t offer customer service training. Training is finite, usually only one to several days. Training is one-way, “I know everything, you know nothing” instruction. Training is the how and what of service. Training is what employees do to develop the business. In the end, training is for a job. And the job of employees is to serve to satisfy the customer.

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Amazing Business Radio: Adrian Swinscoe

ShepHyken

Experience Leadership. What it Takes to Deliver Great Experiences at All Levels. Shep Hyken interviews Adrian Swinscoe, CX thought leader, Forbes contributor, speaker, and best-selling author of Punk CX and Punk XL.?They discuss what experience leadership means to the individual, the team, the organization, the customers, and beyond. Top Takeaways: It’s no longer sufficient just to talk about customer experience in isolation.

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5 Steps to An Effective Customer Success Interview Process

ClientSuccess

Scaling and growing an internal team can be all-consuming and often daunting for many CSM teams. While customer success leaders, HR representatives, and other key stakeholders are often involved in the hiring process at every step of the way, the structure of your organization could warrant additional team members from different departments being involved in the hiring process.

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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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Can Outsourcing Companies Help With Manufacturing Demands?

Helpware

No matter the sector, outsourcing has the power to help businesses through some of the most difficult industry demands. Indeed, statistics reveal that outsourcing as a solution is being prioritized on a global scale.

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Inactive Subscribers – When it is Time to “Have the Talk”

SAP Customer Experience

More than just a number A large distribution list is meaningless, without useable data; if the later is not true about every customer on this list, it is time to reassess the relationship. Re-inventing “the talk” I have seen a lot of blogs arguing whether there is a valid use-case.

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Why NPS Isn't Enough

Cyara

Are You Ready for the Future of CX Metrics? When it arrived nearly 20 years ago, the Net Promoter Score (NPS) was revolutionary in its simplicity. It offered a clear, succinct and straightforward way to measure customer experience (CX). Gathering data was easy, and it required very little on the part of customers. Because of its simplicity, the NPS has become a foundational metric for measuring CX.

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Asda listens and takes action

Helen Dewdney

Supermarket giant responds to consumer activist Jack Monroe’s campaign. In a spectacular move, the activist and campaigner Jack Monroe got Asda listening and taking action. Less than a month after tweeting that supermarkets needed to make their cheaper products more available, the supermarket giant has responded positively. On Twitter on 12 February 2022, she announced that Asda had reduced prices and made the cheaper products available in all its stores.

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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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New Live Sessions: SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement Onboarding

SAP Customer Experience

On behalf of the SAP CX Product Learning CoE team, I am excited to announce the upcoming SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement Onboarding Live sessions. This 3-day series of interactive sessions guides learners through use cases for using SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement for segmentation, personalization and marketing campaign execution. The sessions.

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13 top tips for saving on your landline, mobile & broadband

Helen Dewdney

Millions missing out on broadband savings. Today 15/02/22 Ofcom announced that “Millions of families under pressure from the rising cost of living could each save £144 on their annual broadband bills.” Ofcom’s latest report on the affordability of communications services found that only 55,000 homes have taken advantage of discounted broadband packages available although an estimated 4.2 million households are entitled to receive them.

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Living journey maps bring your customers' happiness to life

Quadient

Living journey maps bring your customers' happiness to life. Andrea Haughton. Tue, 02/15/2022 - 14:17. A properly executed living customer journey map is a valuable and versatile tool. But you can’t create an effective journey map without interacting with your customers, because the map is representative of the interactions they have with your brand, from their perspective.

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How Krispy Kreme Pivoted To A Digital Strategy

Blake Morgan

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Walking into a Krispy Kreme store hits all the senses—the smell of fresh donuts, watching the donuts come off the line, and the taste and feel of fresh donuts. . But modern customers crave convenience, especially during a pandemic. How do you translate that same in-store experience to a digital strategy? . Dave Skena, Krispy Kreme CMO , said that the move to digital and changing customer expectations show how CX has broadened.

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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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How water utilities can leverage State Revolving Funds

West Monroe

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) has allocated nearly $44 billion over the next five years to be distributed to states through the existing State Revolving Funds (SRF). The Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) and the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) both have a proven track record for facilitating the use of federal money for water infrastructure projects in local communities and are funded on an annual basis for over a decade.

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Counting the 'Emotion' Factor in CX

Maru Group

By CIO Applications Europe | February 15, 2022. Uncovering deeper insights is critical in driving continuous improvement in customer experience. Maru is delighted to be chosen as one of the top 5 Customer Experience Management Solution Providers in U.K. for 2022. Maru is an industry leader, providing technology and expertise to help businesses better understand and improve the experiences their customers are having.

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What “ResTech” Means for the Insights Industry

2020 Research

What “ResTech” Means for the Insights Industry. Author: Isaac Rogers , CIO. Like most industries, we love a good buzzword to help describe emerging trends or concepts within our world. One of the latest terms to enter our collective lexicon is “ResTech,” a term used to identify all the technology and automation solutions that exist to serve the market research industry.

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Collecting Feedback with Thumbs Up/Down Surveys

Zonka Feedback

Every business must know whether its customers like or dislike its products and services. For this purpose, Customer Feedback surveys are used, but the response rate of all survey channels on average is around 30%. The most common reason is that people are so busy nowadays that they don’t want to spend much time filling out lengthy surveys.

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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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How water utilities can leverage State Revolving Funds

West Monroe

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) has allocated nearly $44 billion over the next five years to be distributed to states through the existing State Revolving Funds (SRF). The Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) and the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) both have a proven track record for facilitating the use of federal money for water infrastructure projects in local communities and are funded on an annual basis for over a decade.

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Why Do Call Centers Have High Turnover (and What Can We Do About It)

Stella Connect

It’s no secret that call centers have high turnover. In fact, research shows that the average annual attrition rate for contact center agents ranges between 30 to 45%—an astonishing 2X the average annual employee churn rate for all other types of jobs in the U.S. The real question is: Why do call centers have high turnover and what can leaders do about it?

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Making virtual care more meaningful and better coordinated for health systems and employees

West Monroe

West Monroe, alongside Marathon Health , recently participated in a webinar hosted by Healthcare Dive. Together, we discussed how to make virtual care more meaningful and better coordinated for health systems and employees. Below is an overview of the webinar. Webinar overview: If you weren’t offering virtual care pre-pandemic, you had to pivot quickly and make telehealth a key piece of your delivery model.

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What “ResTech” Means for the Insights Industry

2020 Research

What “ResTech” Means for the Insights Industry. Author: Isaac Rogers , CIO. Like most industries, we love a good buzzword to help describe emerging trends or concepts within our world. One of the latest terms to enter our collective lexicon is “ResTech,” a term used to identify all the technology and automation solutions that exist to serve the market research industry.

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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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10 Ways Casinos Can Give Great Customer Service Around the World

CSM Magazine

Customer service is one of the most important aspects of any business. If you don’t have good customer service, you will lose customers in no time. This is especially true for online casinos. Many people are hesitant to try out a casino because they are afraid that they won’t be able to get help if they need it. In this article, we will discuss 10 ways that online casinos can give great customer service!

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Worried about retaining employees? Embrace a home-based approach

Think Customers

There’s no question: the increase in employer vaccine mandates – or “no jab, no job” policies – is a hot-button issue with strong opinions on both sides. But feelings about mandates aside, employees’ hesitancy to get vaccinated against COVID-19 presents a huge challenge for many brands, making an already-tough labor situation even more difficult. Even without a vaccine mandate, employers face major hurdles when it comes to luring workers back to in-person work.

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What Managers Should Know About Agent Performance Metrics

NobelBiz

The KPIs that are appropriate for your organization will serve as your compass. A compass that provides your managers with direct visibility into your data, and particularly into the performance of your team. In this article, we will examine the most critical agent performance indicators and how to manage them in contact centers. The post What Managers Should Know About Agent Performance Metrics appeared first on NobelBiz®.

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