Tue.Apr 09, 2019

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Who Owns Customer Success?

Strikedeck

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How to Communicate Performance Campaign Results and Take Positive Action

Playvox

A well-planned, well-executed performance campaign has the power to transform your call center or customer service department.

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3 Best Practices to Engage Your Frontline Employees

InMoment XI

Identifying the Problems Your Customers Encounter, Is Only Half the Battle Knowing how to resolve them, however, is what really matters. Many companies, while committed to improving the customer experience, are not where they want to be with their Voice of the Customer (VoC) initiative. In particular, the frontline managers and employees who directly shape.

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When Employee Engagement Goes Wrong

CSM Magazine

Companies who truly want to build an engaged workforce must look at employee connection and involvement. We all have been part of an ’employee engagement’ initiative, whether an individual program or a full-fledged organizational imperative. Many times, these programs become a flash-in-the-pan, not truly geared towards building a healthy organizational culture, but a reaction to when employees are disengaging and attrition numbers are up.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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What is Call Quality Monitoring?

NICE inContact

“This call may be used for quality or training purposes…” Have you ever wondered about that notification when you call a business? While it’s easy to disregard, it reveals a common business practice: Call Quality Monitoring – a practice contact centers use to review and evaluate the quality of their agents’ interactions with customers. While call monitoring may be performed live at times, it isn’t feasible when there are large volumes of calls.

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Amazing Business Radio: Jeff Nicholson

ShepHyken

Service Utopia with Guest Jeff Nicholson. Crafting a Frictionless Service Experience for Employees and Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Jeff Nicholson. They discuss self-service, points of friction and effort, and Jeff’s newest whitepaper, “ Achieving Digital Customer Service Transformation.”. The Interview with Jeff Nicholson: Practically every industry is experiencing a shift to self-service.

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Astea & Baxter Planning Partner to Deliver Integrated FSM & Service Parts Planning

Alliance by IFS

The integrated solution will offer large, complex service organizations managing parts in multi-echelon logistics networks a cohesive approach to field service management and service parts planning. HORSHAM, PA (April 9, 2019) — Astea International Inc., a leading global provider of field service management and mobility solutions , announced today a partnership to integrate Baxter Planning’s service parts planning software into the Astea Alliance Enterprise™ field service management and mobility

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ReviewTrackers Now Available on Zapier for Easier Integrations

ReviewTrackers

Using ReviewTrackers for your business just got easier. We’re happy to announce that ReviewTrackers is now available on Zapier ! The new partnership means that you can connect ReviewTrackers to the thousands of apps listed on Zapier, automate tasks without needing a developer, and save valuable time when generating, gathering, and responding to customer reviews.

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How to Calculate and Improve Your Customer Retention Rate

Totango

Customer retention is the lifeblood of any savvy enterprise. It’s the only way to be successful in this customer-centered economy and ensure scalable long-term revenue. To retain customers, companies must make the customer experience better and ensure customers never stop seeing value from their product or service. As such, you will need to keep a close eye on your customers as they progress along the customer journey to avoid churn and gather the data needed to calculate your retention ra

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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Live Chat Features, Benefits & Pricing: Understanding Why CS Experts Emphasis its Use

ProProfs Chat

How does it feel when your customers compliment the business for providing instant support? It feels great, isn’t it? However, connecting with customers in real-time can be a challenge through existing communication media such as emails and phone calls. That’s where live chat software comes to your rescue. What is Live Chat Software? A live chat software is a service platform that helps organizations provide instant customer support and information.

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9 In-App Messaging Examples That Boost User Engagement

Gainsight

In-app messages are popping up everywhere and SaaS products are no exception. In-app engagements is a highly effective way to increase user retention and engagement. In fact, products that use in-app engagements see a 3x boost in engagement and a 4x increase in conversions. An in-app engagement can take many forms such as a guide, survey, or notification.

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3 New Customer Onboarding Best Practices

CSM Practice

In the customer success era, on-boarding customers goes above and beyond adhering to a certain scope of work in a timely manner. Check out these three new best practices you can implement to turn your on-boarding process to become an essential part of your overall customer success strategy: 1) S ???????????? ???????????????????? – agreement on how does success looks like at the end of on-boarding and how are they going to measure the impact (sometimes we use leading indicators to facilitat

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What is the True Cost of Losing a Customer?

Advantage Communications

Smart business owners will know that satisfying each and every customer is essential for the long-term success of your business. However, while one negative experience may seem small compared to all of your good customer experiences , the effects of losing one customer is probably far greater than you’d expect.

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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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How to Wave Goodbye to Survey Fatigue: A Guide to Boosting Response Rates

Confirmit

How many times this week have you been invited to provide feedback by a company from which you’ve recently purchased? There have been a few, haven’t there? I’ve had one about buying shoes. Another about why I didn’t buy tickets to an event. And one that was so badly rendered on my mobile that I honestly don’t know what it was about.

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The Top Strategy for Reddit Powered by Social Analytics

NetBase

Understanding how to market on Reddit is key to capturing some of the most active online participants available. That means they likely know their way around online and (assuming they have a solid ‘karma’ count on Reddit), corresponding credibility on the highly trafficked platform. What is this ‘karma’ and is this really a place for brands? We’ll get to that (karma), and – yes, if you’re ready to invest some time and follow the rules!

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Trends, Business, and the Future of Sports

Avaya

Sports marketing, sponsorship, fan engagement, player tech, these are all things that have come on heavy in recent years. Previously, sports were simply about the main media networks, the prime times, the most popular sports, and the players. But now… the business of sports has grown infinitely and means so much more. Sports are more exciting than ever with the attention being paid to fan engagement.

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All the laws and regulations you need to make a complaint about almost anything

Helen Dewdney

Complain easily using consumer laws! There are various laws which protect you against shoddy goods and services. All sorts! Here are the main ones. Goods and Services. Consumer Rights Act 2015 – the most comprehensive useful law to cover you for most issues with products and services. Consumer Rights Act 2015 digital content the extra cover. The Consumer Rights Directive 2013 – these laws cover you for purchases in the EU.

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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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Starkey Hearing Technologies Wins Manufacturing Leadership Award through an Effective Customer Journey Mapping Program

Clarivate

CFN Customer, Starkey Hearing Technologies, has been recognized as a leader in the manufacturing industry by the National Association of Manufacturers because of their operational excellence. . Starkey is committed to understanding their customers’ experiences and acting to constantly improve the interactions that matter most to their customers. They knew they needed a way to identify what mattered most to their customers and a way to drive their own focus and actions to improve those customer i

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5 Customer Service Lessons From the Mall of America

CSM Magazine

Rick Conlow gained some key lessons from a customer service survey conducted at the Mall of America. As I held a customer service seminar at the Mall of America, I had the idea to rate the mall’s stores to gain key customer service lessons. I had 45 participants, they were game, so I gave them the assignment to evaluate three different stores each over an extended lunch break.

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Maru Group harmonises advisory insights businesses under the Maru/Matchbox brand

Maru Group

Maru Group, the technology-enabled mark research and customer insights company, has announced the alignment of Maru/edr to the group’s wider advisory insights brand, Maru/Matchbox. Follow the recent announcement of Maru/Moto – the group’s Latin American business – becoming part of the professional services brand, Maru/edr will also align to become Maru/Matchbox.

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The Technical Debt Myth

Help Scout

Technical debt has become a widespread metaphor used to communicate the need for refactoring code — and it’s one that fills developers with feelings of dread. Ward Cunningham, one of the signatories of the popular Agile Manifesto who coined the term, compared it to financial liabilities — once engineering shortcuts are taken to release a product feature, debt is incurred and interest is paid in the form of a decrease in team productivity.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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Stay Mobile with Live Chat Operator Console for iOS

Provide Support

Provide support is glad to announce the release of the live chat operator console for iOS. This version allows you stay connected with your customers on the go and handle chat requests if you are not at your computer. The app lets you stay flexible and always online in your live chat. This way you will not miss chat requests and will be able to assist your customers during your coffee break.

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Smarter Demos: The Smart Shopping Cart

Oracle

SmarterCX presents the Smarter Demos series , a 2-minutes-or-less look at some of the most innovative CX technologies and how they work. With lots of everyday devices going smart in recent years, why not add the shopping cart to the list? In this 8th video on the Smarter Demos series, we take a look at some of the latest in omnichannel retail technology.

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20 online review stats to know in 2019

Qualtrics

In 2019, you can’t afford to ignore online reviews. From restaurants to computer software, consumers flock to online review sites like Yelp, Google Maps, and TripAdvisor to give them advice. In fact, online reviews influence the purchase decisions for 93% of consumers. Online reviews create social proof, increase consumer trust, and they give you a direct line to consumers.

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Bringing Owned Facebook and Instagram Data to Brandwatch’s Vizia Platform

Brandwatch CX

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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The Forrester Wave: Loyalty Technology Platforms, Q2 2019 Is Now Live

Forrester's Customer Insights

I’m excited to share that our evaluation of loyalty technology providers — The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Technology Platforms, Q2 2019 — is now live. In our 28-criterion evaluation, we identified the top 13 loyalty technology vendors – Aimia, Annex Cloud, Brierley+Partners, Cheetah Digital, Clutch, Collinson, Comarch, CrowdTwist, Epsilon, ICF Next, Kobie, Merkle/HelloWorld, and SessionM – […].

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Karalyn Smith, Chief People Officer at Sephora: On the ordinary moments that make the difference

Qualtrics

Hear from Karalyn Smith , Chief People Officer at Sephora, about how they’re inspiring fearlessness, making ordinary moments count, adopting inclusive mindsets, and more. Over to Karalyn! On how she got into HR: HR is not just about compliance; it’s about shaping an experience for people. I was a business consultant, and my now-mentor asked me to be her HR business partner.

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Analyst Problems: Learning The Lingo When Researching Unfamiliar Communities

Brandwatch CX

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