November, 2022

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Building a Great CX Team

CX Accelerator

Collaboration with Ben Motteram and Nate Brown To transform an organization into one that is more customer centric is a complex task that requires many different skills. Customer experience is multi-disciplinary. Those who succeed in the profession do so because they possess a number of different skills or are part of a team comprised specialists in each skill.

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CX 101: What Is a Cluster Analysis? 

InMoment XI

Math and numbers are the ultimate in ‘exact science.’ When we work within the confines of mathematics, we can expect absolute precision in our results. In data analysis terms, this can be a real advantage, giving us clear, definite numbers on which to base future decisions. Unfortunately, sometimes the real world being represented by the data is anything but exact.

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Customer Experience Management in The Metaverse

IntouchInsight

You’ve probably heard people talking about the metaverse over the past year. From Facebook rebranding as Meta to Taco Bell hosting a virtual reality wedding — there's been no shortage of news. Brands are already juggling a variety of in-person and digital channels so adding yet another one to the list may seem like a headache. But the metaverse presents more opportunities than obstacles.

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Customer Experience Management for Any Budget

IntouchInsight

If you’re reading this, we can assume you know the importance of customer experience in driving brand growth and revenue. But today, it's easy to suffer from opportunity overload when deciding how to improve your customer experience programs. When presented with a variety of products, services, and partners the only real limitations are time and budget.

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The State of Customer Experience 2023 Report: Part 2

JUST RELEASED! The Northridge Group’s State of CX 2023 Part II research report reveals that nearly half of consumers surveyed had knowingly spoken to a customer service associate working from home—and almost 75% of those respondents felt the associate's location did not impact the service or experience. So why do more than ⅓ of business leaders want contact center associates back in the office?

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Holiday Customer Service and Why Sometimes the Best Gifts Cost Nothing

Call Experts

Investing in a holiday customer service plan is essential to growing your business. 52% of consumers say they have made an additional purchase from a company after a positive customer service experience. But, managing all of the moving parts of your business can feel overwhelming, especially with the onset of the winter season. Managing your customer demands with the needs of your workforce can be easy when you partner with an experienced team like Call Experts.

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Top 5 Higher Education Customer Service Trends for 2023

Comm100

Colleges and universities often find themselves pulled between tradition and innovation. Since the COVID-19 pandemic first forced an experiment in remote learning, student support has also been caught been traditional phone offerings and new digital channels. Now, as we look to the future of customer service in higher education, we see that institutions are expanding on the progress of remote learning tools with new channels for student services.

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Cleaning a Toilet vs. Calling Customer Support: 3 Factors Impacting the Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Shep Hyken, a well-known customer service consultant, recently shared that 42% of people would rather clean a toilet than call customer support. This statistic actually didn’t surprise me given how often support experiences leave much to be desired. . This got me thinking: Why is that the case when none of us would claim to enjoy cleaning a toilet!?

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Five Ways to Make Customers Feel Special

ShepHyken

An important goal of a good customer experience is to make the customer feel special. That special feeling can come in many different forms. I was reading an article about customer retention, and it prompted me to start a list of ways to make customers feel special, want to come back, and even want to share their experience with friends, family, and colleagues.

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Stability AI builds foundation models on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

We’re thrilled to announce that Stability AI has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to power its state-of-the-art AI models for image, language, audio, video, and 3D content generation. Stability AI is a community-driven, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) company developing breakthrough technologies. With Amazon SageMaker , Stability AI will build AI models on compute clusters with thousands of GPU or AWS Trainium chips, reducing training time and cost by 58%.

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How Government Services Can Provide Better Citizen Satisfaction & Experience

Attention government agencies and BPO partners! CXperts is your go-to solution for improving citizen experience. Our omnichannel and digital contact center solutions are designed to supply superior CX, reducing costs and maximizing efficiency. Plus, we are a Minority Owned Business (MBE). With our certifications, we are the perfect partner to help government agencies meet their CX goals and fulfill federal deal requirements.

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Why contact centres are choosing the cloud for adding new functionality

Eptica

Date: Thursday, November 24, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Why contact centres are choosing the cloud for adding new functionality. Published on: November 24, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Increasingly contact centres are migrating to the cloud for the ability it gives them to deploy new technology, faster and with greater ease.

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Work-from-Anywhere (WFA) Is the New Reality; Investing in PCI Compliance in Your Contact-Center Is the Smartest Move of 2023

Interactions

Over the last three years, Covid has transformed the contact-center industry into a work-from-anywhere (WFA) world. Millions of agents now work outside the traditional walls of a care center. . It’s a win for business cost efficiencies and worker flexibility. But it opens a can of worms for meeting compliance requirements and it impacts millions of care agents supporting hundreds of thousands of businesses. .

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The Essential Chatbot Success Metrics

Comm100

Chatbots have steadily grown in popularity to become a key component of customer service today. With an AI chatbot in place, organizations can resolve as much as 91% of chats without involving a human agent. With a bot handling most chats, this means organizations can increase support capacity without growing team size, while also delivering 4/7 availability to their customers.

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Your Top 3 ROI Questions, Answered

InMoment XI

Imagine if you were still operating your business in the same way you were in 2019. Total nightmare, right? Your customer experience (CX) program, like your business, needs to be able to grow and evolve to prove a return on investment. If you’re like the majority of CX practitioners (CX Network’s “Global State of CX” report shows that it is the second highest concern for CX practitioners), you likely have quite a few ROI questions.

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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Don’t Forget What Got You to the Dance?

ShepHyken

A restaurant took its most popular item off the menu. It had been on there a long time, and the owner decided it was time to make a change, even though it was his guests’ favorite dish. . A company changed its invoicing terms. It wanted to tighten its terms to get paid sooner, with larger penalties for late payment. . A retail store changed its return policy.

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Highly Cited Researchers 2022: Using deeper qualitative analysis to help spot research misconduct

Clarivate

Today we reveal our annual list of Highly Cited Researchers. This year we recognize 6,938 scientists and social scientists who demonstrate significant and broad influence among their peers in their chosen field or fields of research. The exceptional individuals designated Highly Cited Researchers 2022 have published multiple highly cited papers, ranking in the top 1% by citations for field and year over the last decade.

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10 top tips for a winning customer service knowledge management system

Eptica

Date: Friday, November 18, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager 10 top tips for a winning customer service knowledge management system. Published on: November 18, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Using knowledge effectively is key to driving excellence in customer service, particularly as queries become increasingly complex and information changes ever faster.

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Transfer learning for TensorFlow text classification models in Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon SageMaker provides a suite of built-in algorithms , pre-trained models , and pre-built solution templates to help data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners get started training and deploying ML models quickly. You can use these algorithms and models for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They can process various types of input data, including tabular, image, and text.

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Improve Contact Center Outcomes with Key Insights

Contact center leaders are skilled at balancing competing day-to-day priorities. They help others make informed business decisions, all while working to keep agents and customers engaged in positive experiences. Rapid access to the most relevant and actionable information is critical to managing agents, supervisors, and communicating with executive leadership to improve efficiencies and business outcomes.

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A Complete Guide to Omnichannel Customer Service

Comm100

A Complete Guide to Omnichannel Customer Service. The state of customer service is always changing, and brands must keep up. While offering just phone or email support was once accepted, consumers today expect far more. Customers now use an average of nine different channels to connect with companies, and they expect the support they receive on these channels to be fast, convenient and personalized.

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What Labor Shortage? Use Robots

The DiJulius Group

Today the U.S. has 3.4 million fewer workers participating in the job market compared to before the pandemic. Businesses have tried numerous strategies to cope with the lack of human labor—everything from reducing their operating hours to raising wages, to offering four-day work weeks. But recently they have hit upon a new strategy, one that. Read Full Article.

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Amazing Business Radio: Tim Hughes

ShepHyken

Serve and Sell Your Customers with An Amazing Digital CX. Creating the Digital Experience That Builds Trust with Your Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Tim Hughes, co-Founder and CEO of DLA Ignite , and co-author of Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers. He shares how organizations can establish a strong digital brand identity, share knowledge, and create lasting relationships with their customers through social media platforms.

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Gen Z Mobile Marketing: 7 Tips to Capture Interest and Drive Engagement

Optimove

Gen Z today comprises around one-third of the world’s population. Born between 1997 and 2012 and raised alongside Internet technology since the very beginning of their lives – they hold in their hands (literally, ninety-eight percent own a smartphone) an estimated annual purchasing power of $143 billion. As ever-increasing numbers of this generation complete higher education and take their first steps into the workforce, mobile marketers without a robust Gen Z-focused strategy won’t make it.

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The Hidden Costs of Poor Customer Onboarding

Churn starts within the first 30 days of customers purchasing a product. A lot of it comes down to the first impression customers get through the onboarding process. A poor experience can result in losing current and future customers, and unnecessary overhead. It’s important to know what a poor onboarding experience looks like, the associated hidden costs, and how to build a top-tier onboarding experience for your customers so you can avoid losing hard-earned revenue.

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What Did We Learn to Improve CX? – The Daniel Group 2022 Client Conference

Daniel Group

What Did We Learn to Improve CX? – The Daniel Group 2022 Client Conference. Our annual conference theme, Dollars & Sense, suggests the two primary foci of our conference: 1.) how does better CX improve business outcomes and 2.) how to use CX metrics most effectively. First, we want to share some of what we learned to improve CX. Then, over the coming months, we will present more in-depth discussions of the significant conference components to help you improve your CX program.

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Generate images from text with the stable diffusion model on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning

In December 2020, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker JumpStart , a capability of Amazon SageMaker that helps you quickly and easily get started with machine learning (ML). JumpStart provides one-click fine-tuning and deployment of a wide variety of pre-trained models across popular ML tasks, as well as a selection of end-to-end solutions that solve common business problems.

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Top 5 Customer Service Trends to Expect in 2023

Comm100

The customer service world continues to develop, and each new year can mean a sea change in changing consumer expectations. As new customer service trends arrive, service that was once considered exemplary might no longer meet the growing customer demand. To help you prepare for the year ahead, in this article we’ll look at the key customer service trends of 2023 and how you can deliver on your consumers’ support expectations. 1.

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Three lessons I’ve learned building a Customer Success team from different backgrounds

ChurnZero

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts. At the time, I was a sales engineer, and my job was to close deals and move on to the next prospect.

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The Ultimate CX Solution: Combining Software + Service

In today's competitive business landscape, customer experience (CX) has emerged as a critical differentiator. Companies are increasingly investing in CX services to optimize customer satisfaction, drive customer loyalty, and ultimately, enhance their bottom line. Traditionally, businesses have had to choose between a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) approach or a full-service model, where an agency handles the entire CX program.

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Don’t Let a Process Get In the Way of Making Smart – Even Common Sense – Decisions

ShepHyken

Here is another customer service horror story about a woman who was so fixated on a process that it almost cost her “customer” his life. . My friend Jerry went to the emergency room of his local hospital. He was in excruciating pain. Something in his abdominal area was not right. He truly felt like he was going to die. . Doubled over in pain, he limped through the waiting room to the registration desk and begged to see a doctor.

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Creating Inclusive Experiences for People With Different Abilities

Doing CX Right

Is your organization unintentionally creating barriers to inclusivity for those that are differently abled? Learn what you can do to create better experiences from CX Professionals and from a woman who's endured 80+ surgeries. The post Creating Inclusive Experiences for People With Different Abilities appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Creating Connection to Improve Work Culture with Chris Hsiung

Russel Lolacher

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with speaker and Police Chief of the Mountain View Police Department Chris Hsiung on how communication and creating connection within an organization can improve workplace culture. A few reasons why he is awesome – He’s a speaker and writer on engagement, and the Police Chief of the Mountain View Police Department, rising through their ranks over the last 20 years.

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