Tue.May 04, 2021

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The Gig Economy is Paving the Way for Agile Customer Service

TechSee

The Gig Economy – Work On-Demand. In recent years, the world has been trending toward a gig-based economic format. A gig refers to when an independent worker is hired, often through a digital marketplace, to work on a short-term project or task on-demand, such as freelancers, independent contractors, and temporary hires. These gigs are often created to meet consumer demand via the real-time delivery of services.

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The digital customer experience is changing. Is your brand on board?

NICE inContact

In the business world, customer experience has long been the focus of many efforts. From marketing to lead generation, business operation, and even customer retention, brands know all too well that the customer is the one part of the equation that can make or break their business at the drop of a hat.

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What Will be Your Leadership Legacy?

Russel Lolacher

Legacy is a funny thing. It’s a term used more and more in organizations when executives or senior management are in their mid- to late career. Their bosses will ask, or they’ll ask themselves,… “What do you want your legacy to be?” But what does that even mean? As Merriam-Webster Dictionary states it: leg·?a·?cy | ?

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3 Ways Brands Can Use Agent Assist to Create Seamless CX

Conversocial

Bots have come a long way since their inception, but consumer trust still lags behind. In our State of CX Trends 2021 55% of consumers didn’t think bots could provide better CX and 54% have had a bad experience when interacting with a bot. The legacy of 2016’s ‘ Year of the Bot ’ was too many badly designed bots, mak ing “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” a far too regular occurrence.

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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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6 Experience Marketing strategies for healthcare practices

BirdEye

Technological advances have enabled quick and seamless experiences for consumers across different industries. eCommerce sites offer 1-click shopping and same-day delivery. Ride-hailing apps allow users to find reliable transport with just the click of a button. It’s an age of quick and seamless experiences all around — with one exception: healthcare.

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Prepare Early: Scaling Up Your Customer Care for Black Friday & Cyber Monday, 2021

Advantage Communications

As we move through 2021, two of the most exciting shopping days are ahead of us - Black Friday and Cyber Monday. While it may seem a little early to start planning your customer service strategy just yet, trust us, you can never be too prepared for the huge surge in online demand that Black Friday brings. And 2021 is expected to be bigger than ever.

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Give Customers the Effortless Engagements They Deserve with Upstream Works for Amazon Connect

Upstream Works

What do customers want when they interact with your contact center? They want to have options in how they choose to contact you with seamless escalations to personalized service. They want proactive service with agents who can predict upcoming issues. Customers want resolutions on the first contact. Give your customers all that and more with Upstream Works for Amazon.

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Don’t abandon your Chief Customer Officer

Zeisler Consulting

I was recently speaking with a friend who’s a Chief Customer Officer. She was in good spirits but nonetheless was lamenting a bit about her colleagues: “It’s like I feel I have to defend my existence sometimes,” she said. Oh, boy, have I been there. My career has included time within PMOs, BPM/BPI organizations, and of course CX. Some organizations approach these sorts of disciplines as nice-to-haves, often because it’s fashionable to put effort (or appear to do so) into these sorts of thin

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Top 6 Business Process Automation Tools In 2021

SurveySparrow

Picture this. . You went to your favorite coffee shop to get a cappuccino. You were waiting patiently when you heard a loud voice. “Where the hell is my order? I’ve waited for over 40 minutes for a goddamn cappuccino.”. It turns out the guy at the counter lost the paper on which he wrote this customer’s order. So, the order for cappuccino never went in, and this customer left the shop cursing them for the way they collected orders.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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What Consumers Purchased During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Oracle

Oracle’s New Consumer study examined aggregated, internal consumer packaged goods (CPG) purchase data, representing $762 billion in annual consumer spending, in an attempt to learn how spending and consumption changed during the Covid-19 pandemic. The report studied consumer shopping behaviors across generations and found that last year, consumers gave in to guilty pleasures, shopped online more, and tried new brands at unprecedented rates.

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Importing goods into the UK – all you need to know

Helen Dewdney

Logistics unlocked. Recently I wrote a post Buying from Europe? Import changes made it a whole lot more complicated and costlier! I found that complicated to get my head round and that was just for consumers! When it came to importing for businesses it was even more complicated! So I asked Lisa Grove to write a guest post! Questions about importing charges.

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The key to creative agreements is to make package agreements.

Wired and Dangerous

Impact: The 2020 Agreement expands the number of participating jurisdictions from the 2016 Agreement, which simplifies some aspects of administering pension regulation in Canada. Like its predecessor, the 2020 Agreement is intended to simplify the administration of annual statements and other documentation across jurisdictions. There remain challenges related to pension plans with members in Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador, the two jurisdictions who have not joined the 2020 Agreement, whi

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Why Has CX Become the Cornerstone of Customer’s Growth, Success, and Loyalty? In an Interview with Nate Brown, Chief Experience Officer at Officium Labs (Part1)

Strikedeck

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Nate Brown discusses why CX has become the cornerstone of a customer's growth, success, and loyalty. The post Why Has CX Become the Cornerstone of Customer’s Growth, Success, and Loyalty? In an Interview with Nate Brown, Chief Experience Officer at Officium Labs (Part1) first appeared on Strikedeck | Customer Success Platform.

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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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Want to move towards Great Problem Solving Acumen?

One Millimeter Mindset

Rate your problem solving acumen, on a 1-5 scale. Is it lousy, mediocre, meh, good, or great? For starters, are you satisfied, fulfilled, enthusiastic, and proud of how you solve problems? Next, how satisfied, fulfilled, enthusiastic, and proud is your team of your contributions to how they collectively solve problems? Finally, what do you clients feel about team process and deliverables?

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Customer Experience Includes Everything, But Authentic CX Will “Do” Nothing

Sampson Lee

Let’s face the realities: 1. CEOs scarcely spare enough attention for CX initiatives. 2. CX budgets won’t be adequate as companies’ resources are limited. 3. VOC is usually disregarded and rarely converted into purposeful actions. You won’t be able to change the status quo with Conventional CX. But with Authentic CX you can. Let me […].

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Making Customer Centricity a Reality

Peter Lavers

I am delighted to announce that I will be participating in the next Customer Attuned Online Panel Discussion. Our subject for discussion will be Customer Centricity. Our panel will discuss their companies’ own customer experience and customer management strategies, what customer centricity means in a B2B environment, the mutual benefits, and how it might help us reorient our businesses to the emerging post-pandemic customer landscape.

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Must Haves For The Best Outbound Contact Center

Magellan Solutions

What is outbound call center ? An outbound call center is a function that makes outgoing calls to: Customers. Prospects. Other businesses. It originates with a sales or support representative dialing a third party’s telephone number. . But an outbound call center can only fulfill its purpose when it’s efficient and effective. Must haves for an outgoing call center.

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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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Video: Uplight’s EV Advisor

Uplight

According to IEA, electric vehicle (EV) car registrations increased in 2020 by 41%, despite overall car sales decreasing by 6%. And with a growing number of incentives to purchase EVs alongside car manufacturers broadening their EV car portfolios, this number will continue to grow–creating an opportunity for energy providers to help customers select the right Read More.

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New Study Finds the Vast Majority of CX and VoC Programs Fail to Respond to Customer Feedback

SurveyGizmo

Survey of Customer Insights and CX Strategy Leaders Reveals That Despite Major CX Investments Only 24% Believe Customer Feedback is Effectively Addressed. LOUISVILLE, CO, May 4, 2021 – Alchemer, formerly SurveyGizmo, today announced the results of a new study conducted by Forrester Consulting to determine the effectiveness of Customer Experience (CX) and Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs.

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Atlas Highlights - May 2021

Lithium

Hello, to all of our Atlas members! The event for digital leaders is back! This September, you'll hear from leading global brands about creating winning digital-first strategies to deliver amazing customer experiences. Khoros Engage has it all – dynamic general sessions, thought-provoking breakout discussions, practical tips, and virtual networking.

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Increase The ROI On Your Marketing Campaign With These Six Tips

CSM Magazine

Digital marketing is on a continuous rise. So are the customers’ expectations regarding the personalization of digital interactions aimed at their needs. Ninety-eight percent of marketing officials are now merging traditional marketing efforts with digital tactics to meet these expectations. These include online advertisements, social media marketing, and blogging, to name a few.

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The State of Customer Onboarding 2024

Building lasting customer relationships has always been top-of-mind for businesses. However, in the last decade, organizations have recognized that the customer journey beyond the initial sale is as critical as the sale itself. Customer onboarding, or the customer’s first impression of you, is critical to forging lasting relationships and long-term success.

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Your End-of-Quarter Checklist to Set Customers Up for Success Next Quarter

ClientSuccess

If you’re like most CSMs, it can sometimes feel as though months – even years – of working with a customer account can go by in a flash. One minute it’s January, and in the blink of an eye, it’s October. While this kind of fast-paced work sometimes means that no significant issues have occurred (thank goodness!), it can also mean that extensive conversations and milestones can pass without pause. .

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5 Things To Do Before Hiring a Customer Service Supervisor

CSM Magazine

Every public-facing business needs a customer service support team, and every customer service support team needs a Customer Service Supervisor. . The role of a Customer Service Supervisor is to oversee a team of Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) who are tasked with the job of interfacing with the public, answering their questions, supplying detailed product information, handling complaints, and processing orders.

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What is first call resolution?

ViiBE Blog

Customer support has taken on new importance as customer interactions have moved away from physical stores to a digital marketplace. Customers expect the same level of service as in person, so it is crucial to measure your call center’s overall performance as well as your individual agents. Key performance indicators (KPIs) like AHT , NPS and FCR are vital to measuring this performance.

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Connect Assist Launch First Sign Contact Centre Service

CSM Magazine

The specialist contact centre provider Connect Assist has launched Sign Assist; UK’s first one-to-one signing service delivered by deaf native British Sign Language (BSL) users. This is to ensure that those Deaf people who use BSL as their first language can have direct conversations when calling for a service or to speak to an organisation. The outsourced contact centre has recruited a team of Deaf advisors, as well as a bi-lingual Team Leader to run the new department.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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What’s Wrong With Quick-Fix Products For Digital Accessibility

Forrester's Customer Insights

Let’s get straight to the point: There’s no quick fix for making your digital experiences accessible. That’s true even if your approach to accessibility is narrowly focused on being compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the laws in your region of the world. Many companies I speak with these days are tempted […].

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CX job vacancy of the week: John Lewis

MyCustomer

CLooking for your next step in the world of customer experience? Every week, MyCustomer scours the internet to find the latest CX job. 4th May 2021. By Neil Davey Managing editor.

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Solve Customer Mysteries With Quantitative And Qualitative Investigation

Forrester's Customer Insights

Most companies fall short of cracking the mystery of their customers because of a siloed approach to customer understanding. Discover how to break through by uniting quantitative and qualitative research methods.