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Words Matter in the CX Profession

Horizon CX

I first wrote and published this blog topic back in July of 2015. That was nearly six years ago and, with recent events revealing racial inequities along with an increase in anti-Asian and other hate crimes, I thought it was time to bring this topic once again to the forefront as it seems to be a precursor to what we commonly refer to these days as microaggressions which eventually can lead to more insidious actions of violence.

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At Least Grumpy Old Guys Know What Great Customer Service Is

Steve DiGioia

As I’ve gotten older, I better understand why many “old folks” (speaking from the viewpoint of me as a kid) got so grumpy. They’re tired of dealing with years of B.S. from so many people and have had enough of it. They just want to live their lives in peace and will no longer accept subpar work or attitudes. Me too. During our young adult years, we’re still concerned about “fitting in” and finding our place in “work world” – which is either far different from or eerily similar to “school world”.

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Lessons from 10 Years Working in Public Service Social Customer Care

Russel Lolacher

Time flies, and my decade in the public service at the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure has certainly attested to that. Ten years of leading a provincial government team in web services and social customer care has been a challenging and rewarding experience. Oh, it’s been amazing. Our scope of work has grown from those early days to not only include leading our ever growing social customer care program and web development and maintenance but also in leading the business of

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Think Big, Act Bigger A Practical Guide for Small Business Call Center AI and Analytics

NICE inContact

This is the third article in a four-part series designed to help small call centers choose the right software to enable them to thrive and compete. The first article focused on cloud call center software as a growth enabler, the second was all about building customer loyalty, and now we'll discuss how to use modern technology to compete more effectively and take performance to the next level.

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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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Virtual Journey Mapping Bootcamp: May 2021

Kerry Bodine

Hard-hitting content. Sessions that fit into your workday. Our two-part virtual bootcamp delivers a practical primer on journey mapping that you can immediately put into action for your organization. Part 1: Introduction to Journey Mapping. This introduction will help you build a solid understanding of the journey mapping methodology and how you can apply it to specific business challenges.

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Discover the Actual Number of People You Can Effectively Manage

Beyond Philosophy

Let’s imagine that you’re an account manager with 200 customers. If you know that 80 percent of your revenue comes from 20 percent of those customers, what do you think happens to the other 80 percent that only accounts for 20 percent of the revenue? Yep, you guessed right, not much. However, the reason not much happens with these accounts could be influenced by the biological amount of bandwidth you have for maintaining relationships.

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How to Engage Contact Center Agents in a Hybrid Workforce Model

NICE inContact

A hybrid workforce model isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Agents are loving the flexibility and comfort it offers. But like anything, it comes with its own unique challenges as you try to keep employees engaged in their positions. If you’re unsure of where to start, the six pillars of a hybrid contact center workforce engagement strategy listed above would be a great place to start.

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Group Nine Captures a 360-Degree View of Digital Audiences

Alida

Group Nine Media is a leading digital media company with many highly visible, category-leading brands in its portfolio, which include Thrillist , The Dodo , NowThis , POPSUGAR , and Seeker. Group Nine’s digital media portfolio extends across written, video, and audio content, reaching more than 145 million audience members every month. With a family of digital brands aimed at younger consumers—millennials and Gen Z making up 70% of its audience—Group Nine continually strives to stay on the cutti

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Amazing Business Radio: Jeff Toister

ShepHyken

An Amazing Customer Experience, Guaranteed . How to Get Customers to Gain Trust and Confidence in Your Brand. Shep Hyken interviews Jeff Toister , a customer service author, consultant, and trainer. They discuss how making or breaking promises effects the customer experience. . Top Takeaways: . Broken p romises to your customers can be either implicit or explicit depending on the situation or marketing strategy. .

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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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Become a Storyminer

Storyminers

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How to offer great IT Support for WFH Staff with visual assistance (6 examples)

TechSee

Today more and more companies are recognizing the benefits of allowing their employees to work from home (WFH), or more accurately, work from anywhere (WFA) that best suits their lifestyle. In fact, Global Workplace Analytics estimates that 25-30% of the workforce will be working from home multiple days a week by the end of 2021. While remote working is considered a win-win for companies and their staff, a WFH model makes an IT professional’s job more complicated.

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Change These 6 Fundamentals to Improve Your Digital Transformation and Supply Chain Experience

eglobalis

Change These 6 Fundamentals to Improve Your Digital Transformation and Supply Chain Experience customerexperience supply chain experience. The post Change These 6 Fundamentals to Improve Your Digital Transformation and Supply Chain Experience appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Guest Post: Customer Service Telephone Skills – Master Your Art of Conversation with Clients

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Vihar Naik a writer for CallHippo , a cloud-based Intelligent virtual phone system for business & enterprise. He writes about skills everyone should have to communicate effectively with clients. Did you know 90% of Americans consider customer service as the key factor when deciding whether to do business with a company?

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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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Supercharging Your Tech Stack with Totango: Streamline Your Workflows

Totango

In this blog series, we discuss different Totango integrations that help to harness the powers of all of your technology platforms into one dynamic system. The Totango API provides a full customer 360 view and helps improve your team’s efficiency so you can take your customer success to the next level. . This article explores Totango’s workflow integrations including Segment and Zapier, but these are just a few of the ways you can automate and streamline your workflows with Totango.

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Turn Your Dashboards Up to 11

Heart of the Customer

Does it take you five hours to update your customer health dashboard, only to have three people barely glance at it? Worse yet, did someone else send out an Excel report that everyone read instead, even though you have a dashboard for their use? In other words, is your dashboard on mute? Read below for […]. The post Turn Your Dashboards Up to 11 appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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CX for SaaS

Zeisler Consulting

I’ve done some work with some folks in the software as a service (SaaS) space and have lots of colleagues and friends who are also working there. Whenever I talk with them about Customer Experience, I always chuckle when the conversation turns to the Voice of the Customer. Often when I think about SaaS organizations trying to get visibility into their VoC, I’m amazed by how overly complicated they make it out to be.

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Avoid Customer Confusion

ShepHyken

Today’s customers are smarter than ever. They know how to buy. The digital/online world has given customers the power to research products, read reviews, and compare prices. Often, customers have made up their minds about what they are going to buy before they ever leave their home or office. They are armed with knowledge and information, ready to talk to the salesperson and buy what they came for.

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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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Customer Acquisition Using Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Business | Conversocial

Conversocial

Customer engagement now happens beyond the contact center. 2020's Digital Reckoning means customer expectations have changed for online interactions with their favorite brands. As demand for better digital experiences grows, it provides the chance to add more feathers to a brand’s bow when it comes to customer engagement. Rather than being purely reactive to customer queries, it’s now possible to use private messaging channels for proactive CX, particularly when it comes to customer acquisition.

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Why Knowing the History of Your Customer Is the Key to Success

Kustomer

When it comes to building a successful customer service organization, you always want to start with defining your business outcomes. So the first question becomes: what do you want to achieve? Is it increased customer loyalty? Increased revenue? Incremental customer growth? Without understanding your ultimate end goal, knowing a customer’s history may seem unnecessary.

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How to Optimize Reputational Risk Management in Banks

ReviewTrackers

Bank Reputation Risk Management. Reputation is one of the most valuable assets that a bank can have. It’s also the most fragile one. After all, reputation is the key to building public and consumer trust. A great reputation can set a bank apart from its competitors. Negative reputation, meanwhile, can drive away potential clients and increase customer churn.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of April 5, 2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Balancing Humanization and Digitization: 3 Key Customer Service Trends by Jordy Leiser. (TotalRetail) Customer service will continue to be a key differentiator in 2021 and beyond, and it’s therefore vital that brands meet the rising expectations of their customers.

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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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Happy National Pet Day (and Month!) from Talkdesk

Talkdesk

Woof! . This is Caramel, and I am here to end your contact center dog days. I have been at Talkdesk for a year now, where I observed and learned (and took the occasional nap). I now feel ready to share some tips with you humans. Because I’m a dog, I know how to manage stress and not take life too seriously. Put simply: dogs have work/life balance down. .

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Q&A: Surviving Stress in Customer Success

ChurnZero

Customer Success is fueled by customer interaction. Working with people and building relationships brings us joy, fulfillment, and satisfaction – but also stress and exhaustion when navigating difficult conversations, personalities, or past experiences. The good news is that you aren’t powerless to the effects of stress. Finding ways to effectively cope with job stress benefits both your professional and personal life.

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The 7 steps to a lead-driving Google My Business profile

BirdEye

Google My Business has become pivotal to generating leads online. The overwhelming impact that Google has made on how consumers search, select and buy can’t be overstated. Even with the economy now reopening and vaccines rolling out, consumer behavior has been permanently altered. 79% of consumers have stated they’re unlikely to return to their old ways of purchasing, because they have acclimated to their new digital lifestyles.

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Spring Has Sprung! Check Out Vanilla’s New Community Updates

Vanilla Forums

Explore Vanilla’s Latest Community Updates. Spring is here, and with the change of season comes a big release announcement! Explore Vanilla's newest community updates from the past few months, including major enhancements to Integrations, Theming, Search, and more. There’s a lot to unpack, so let’s begin!

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How Personalized Customer Experiences Drive Retail Growth and Revenue

Speaker: Shaunna Bruton - Associate Director of Product Strategy at Orium | Sam Panzer - Director of Industry Strategy at Talon.One | Frank Passantino - Director of Product Management at Bloomreach

More and more, customers are expecting a better personalized CX. But can retailers actually deliver? Data from McKinsey shows that companies that excel in personalization increase their revenue by 40%, but despite these numbers, retailers struggle to implement customer personalization strategies. So what are the potential solutions? Join us to gain a better understanding of the current retail landscape and learn what you can do to translate personalization strategies into practical implementatio

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Discover the Actual Number of People You Can Effectively Manage

Beyond Philosophy

Throughout human history, it seems that around 150 is the number of meaningful relationships any human can maintain. Oxford University’s anthropology professor Robin Dunbar discovered this number by studying monkey groups and extrapolating that number to match the human brain’s capacity. Understanding why this is can help you optimize your ability to manage your team, your business, and even your social media feed.

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How to Drive Customer Acquisition Using Apple Business Chat and Google Business Messaging | Conversocial

Conversocial

With iOS and Android, Apple and Google dominate the mobile operating system market, with a nearly 100% global share. If brands are looking for a way to reach new customers, going through the native apps available on virtually every smartphone in the world is a pretty good starting point.

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Why Customer Success Should Care About Review Sites And Which Ones To Focus On

ChurnZero

If you’ve ever been a part of the decision-making process for purchasing software for your team, then you know, it is imperative that you do your due diligence before signing on the dotted line. In order to feel confident about your buying decision you might do many things to vet the solution including testing out a free trial, speaking to references, looking at comparison reports and last but not least looking at multiple customer reviews. .