Fri.Jul 22, 2016

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The Cost of a Bad Customer Experience for an ISP

InMoment XI

Telecom Dream Becomes Nightmare, But Has Happy Ending Recently, I needed to have a hard-wired Internet line installed at my house to be better able to work remotely. We already had service with this Internet Service Provider (ISP) but my wife had been involved with the original installation of the service. This time around, it.

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Avoiding burnout through games, scoreboards and empowerment in your contact center

Vonage

We all have our limits. Work takes a toll on us physically and mentally, and if pushed too far, we inevitably burnout. Even in the most positive settings, we only have so much we can give to our work week. And for many of us working in the world of contact centers, we give a lot. Luckily, companies are starting to notice employee workloads and other factors that lead to churn or efficiency collapse.

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5 Reasons Why Customers Can’t Find Your Company Online

Win the Customer

Without the proper website construction and marketing campaign, your business is going to remain lost online. There are several ways to increase your exposure, and most of the methods only require a little time and effort. Paycor notes that according to SCORE, only 51 percent of companies have a website. Assuming you have a website but you’re still not getting traffic, it likely has something to do with the way your website is setup and how you’re marketing to your customers.

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Guest Blog: Rebuilding the Foundations of Customer Support in the New World of Software as a Service

ShepHyken

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Boaz Amidor, shares four techniques that have striking, measurable results when it comes to the efficiency of the Customer Support Program of companies providing online and mobile customer support. It is no doubt that excellent customer support is crucial to success. – Shep Hyken. Not a word about Pokémon Go hysteria from this point on.

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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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5 Investment Considerations for Customer Success

Amity

If you are a SaaS company looking to invest in Customer Success, one of the most important considerations is the customer per Customer Success Manager (CSM) ratio – the number of customers a CSM can support while still remaining effective. This is often a delicate balance that will need to be baselined and readjusted over the first few years that your Customer Success team is in operation.

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What’s Next? Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Customer Experience

Avaya

Last month Google hosted its annual Google I/O conference and their new CEO Sundar Pichai delighted an audience of tech enthusiasts when he said, “We have this vision of a shift from mobile-first to an AI-first world over many years.” At Avaya, we couldn’t agree more. Don’t get me wrong: mobile-first has been and will continue to be a requirement for everything we do.

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Showing Advocate Marketing ROI: Insider Secrets from Two Successful B2B Marketers

Influitive

Like it or not, you’re in a constant competition with your colleagues—for budget. To win budget for your programs, you must show how they drive value for your business. So when it comes to advocate marketing, how do you show ROI? We held a video chat with Kevin Lau, Senior Marketing Manager of Customer Retention. The post Showing Advocate Marketing ROI: Insider Secrets from Two Successful B2B Marketers appeared first on Influitive.

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Genius Tips to Improve Your Customer Survey

InteractionMetrics

An Analyst Perspective on Customer Surveys: Customer surveys make up a multi-billion dollar industry, and many of us get at least one per day. But just because surveys are everywhere doesn’t mean they’re always good. At Interaction Metrics, we often find that companies assume they’re ready to launch their customer survey as soon as they’ve opened a SurveyMonkey account and pieced together a few questions.

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Leveraging Contact Center Technology to Help America’s Soldiers While Improving Performance and Saving Money

Avaya

To help government agencies improve the constituent experience while saving millions of dollars each year, our Avaya Government Solutions team is constantly conducting enterprise business analysis, based on Lean Six Sigma principle and a four-step process of discovery, benchmark, scope improvements. Using comprehensive metrics was critical to determining best deployment and savings for the Defense Health Agency (DHA) , a joint, integrated Combat Support Agency that enables the U.S.

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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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7 Ways to Deliver Excellent Omnichannel Support

Talkdesk

Customer service is evolving along with technological developments. Once relegated to elevator music and endless waiting, today clients can communicate with the same business via voice, text, video and more with omnichannel customer service. From telephone to email to social media to live chat, there are more ways than ever to provide excellent service to your clients.

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How to Make Money With Affiliate Marketing

LiveChat

Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular ways of making money online. It is about a relationship between three main parties: the affiliate (publisher), the merchant (advertiser), and the customer. Affiliates act as extended sales and marketing departments of the merchants and help the customers choose products. Affiliate marketing can provide you with a steady flow of income.

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6 ways to transform social customer service

Eptica

Date: Friday, July 22, 2016 6 ways to transform social customer service. Published on: July 22, 2016. Author: Neil Cox Social media has fundamentally changed the relationship between customers and brands , providing consumers with a mouthpiece to share their feedback with people across the world. The openness and simplicity of social media is therefore both a challenge and an opportunity for companies.

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How to Live Forever

Smith+co CX

As I read the ‘US Customer Experience Excellence Analysis’ released earlier by one of our respected competitors this month, I was inexorably drawn to a company that has dominated commercial performance in the face of ever-increasing competition by delivering an outstanding customer experience for over half a century. Climbing three places to second, sat Disney Destinations, just behind the financial giants USAA, and positioned well above any UK brand.

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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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Improving Customer Experience | CX Buzz of the Week (22nd July, 2016)

Customer Interactions

Lots of focus on social customer experience and service and how to win at it, in this week’s CX Buzz, with; Two pieces from Business2community.com; the 10 top customer service Skills infographic from Winthecustomer.com; The Customer Journey in a social media era from Brandquarterly.com; As well as a great advice from Entrepreneur.com on how to deal with a bad customer service conversation; How not to make your customer experience creepy from marketingmag.com.au.