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Why AI and Human-Centred Design Should Be the Priorities for Restarting CX Programs

MyCustomer

Engagement What should be the priorities for restarting CX

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10 Top Tips for Avoiding Complaints and Managing Them

Helen Dewdney

The Complaining Cow’s Ten Top Tips for the Complained Against! Search well and you can find lots of help in improving your customer service and experience, sales etc.

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3 Ways Restaurants Can Deliver Superior Service + Continue To Evolve the Customer Experience

SMG CX

As we enter into a new phase of the pandemic—one of colder temperatures, a potential third wave, and the added threat of cold + flu season—businesses relying on outside service will once again have to adjust operational procedures. Industry Trends Data Science Brand Research

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Interview with CX Ambassador Matthew Phillip

GetFeedback

Interview with Matthew Phillip, Marketing Automation Manager at Mylo, a Lockton company, the insurtech leader revolutionizing insurance shopping, about his career in the customer experience space.

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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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Customer Care Outsourcing Amidst Uncertainty: A Pandemic Resource [eBook]

BlueOcean

When the world turned upside down in February and March of 2020, no one could have guessed what was ahead. Many of us hit the pause button with the assumption things would return to normal soon. Soon never happened, and so we are left with the question of when and how to get back to business as usual. For companies who outsource (or are thinking about outsourcing) their customer care, there is simultaneously a large degree of uncertainty and urgency.

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How to optimize customer service costs with visual assistance

TechSee

The discussion around how to reduce customer service costs is not a new one. For decades, service organizations have been proposing innovative ways to cut operational costs in customer service: Let employees bring their own coffee? ??. Eliminate evening and weekend hours? Limit call times to 3 minutes each? Slash the number of technicians per shift?

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How to deliver the best mobile user experience

GetFeedback

Five key elements to delivering the best mobile UX and how to use customer feedback to optimize the experience.

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Customer Experience Lessons from 2020: Experts Chime In

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

We’re headed into the final weeks of one of the strangest years: A global pandemic shifted how we worked, socialized, interacted and communicated. Our needs changed to reflect these new realities. Parents juggled working from home with supporting their children’s education. Families dealt with loss and illness. And leaders had to navigate all these changes as they happened, in very real-time ways.

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NICE inContact Recognized by Master Referral Partners with Performance Awards

NICE inContact

Having an extensive network of active partners—and being a partner to other companies—is a critical driver of business success for NICE inContact, as well as for our partners. The company was recently recognized by three Master Referral Partners for our significant contributions to the respective partnerships—and to growing sales—for each.

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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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The 5 Rules for Designing a Great Digital Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Digital experiences are a crucial part of your Customer Experience , especially during the pandemic. Some organizations are excelling, while others could use some work. No matter where you fall on that spectrum, we have some essential considerations for designing your digital experience in the form of 5 rules. On a recent podcast about these 5 rules, I shared a recent digital experience that was definitely on the “could use some work” side of the spectrum.

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How to measure the 5 dimensions of service quality

GetFeedback

Using the five dimensions of service quality and knowing how to measure them accurately can help you find actionable ways to improve your customer experience and delight your customers.

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Why Businesses are Choosing White-Label Live Chat

Comm100

If you want to offer good customer service, live chat is no longer a ‘nice to have’. Customers expect instant responses to their problems, and with real-time live chat, a company of any size can deliver. In today’s digital-first world, live chat has become the most popular digital communication channel. 46% of customers prefer live chat compared to just 29% for email.

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NICE inContact CX Transformation Benchmark 2020: How the Coronavirus Shaped Customer Expectations

NICE inContact

The annual Consumer Wave of the NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark Study dove deep into how the pandemic has shaped the way customers are interacting with contact centers. The study polled more than 2,500 individuals in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada during September 2020 – specifically consumers who had communicated with a company through a customer service experience in the last three months.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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The Mike Moment

ShepHyken

We’ve all heard the old adage: “It’s better to give than to receive.” That’s what customer service people do. They give and give and give. They help solve problems and resolve complaints. What they get in return—hopefully—is a nice thank you, which, when you think about it, is fairly insignificant , though appreciated, for the work they do. Yes, they are paid for the job they do, but the people who are amazing at this role aren’t doing it just for the money.

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How to manage customer service during COVID-19 holiday season

GetFeedback

Simplifying CX YouTube series episode on how to manage customer service during COVID-19 holiday season.

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Cyara Partners with Splunk to Help Resolve CX Issues Up to 10x Faster

Cyara

Organizations are constantly looking to improve their customer experience (CX). While the contact center has always played a key role in this, since we’ve been in this global pandemic, the contact center has become the place where consumers interact with organizations. And contact centers depend on complex technology to deliver that great CX. Technology which, from time to time, fails – resulting in issues such as outages, poor voice quality, prompting errors, dropped calls and delays.

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Gartner Names NICE inContact a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service

NICE inContact

NICE inContact has achieved the highest overall position for its ability to execute in the just released Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS). NICE inContact has been placed as a Leader every year since this Magic Quadrant’s publication starting six years ago.

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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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Veteran’s Day – Innovative Service and the Rules of Combat

Wired and Dangerous

This week we celebrate Veterans Day. We deeply thank all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country! We also thank those who served for their service. We both had the distinct honor and privilege to serve our country. Chip is a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran. Several years ago Logan Graves posted the “Rules of Combat” out on his website.

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Delivering impactful results from your Voice of the Customer programme

Eptica

Date: Friday, November 13, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Delivering impactful results from your Voice of the Customer programme. Published on: November 13, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Understanding changing customer needs is vital if companies are to increase engagement, satisfaction and long-term revenues.

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Retaining Clients leverages an Innovative Customer Retention Strategy

One Millimeter Mindset

Are you creating an innovative customer retention strategy for what is new and next? (And nowhere near to whatever has been normal.). Consider that retaining yesterday’s clients just may not be the primary focus of this strategy, either. Because the clients who helped you get to where you were yesterday may not have the capacity for innovative transitions.

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Time for a New Engine? 4 Ways Modern ACDs Are Driving Today's Contact Centers

NICE inContact

An ACD is essential contact center technology. Without an ACD, the operation would be in disarray, which is why it is indispensable for every contact center. However, ACD capabilities vary widely across vendors, meaning just because a call center uses an ACD doesn't mean they are reaping all the benefits that the best ACDs can provide. Learn the capabilities of industry-leading ACDs and how those capabilities positively impact operations and customer experience (CX).

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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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Why a Customer Success Plan Is the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Customer Relationship

Totango

A key component of creating customer success is working with your customer to identify and organize mutual goals into a standardized customer success plan. Outcome success plans focus on capturing mutual objectives, documenting the steps toward achieving them, and sharing information between both clients and your own internal teams—driving interconnectivity and displaying progress through one easily accessed live portal.

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Cloud adoption as a strategic decision in digital transformation

Talkdesk

Organizations worldwide are now waking up to the advantages of moving to the cloud as a strategic decision, not only to keep businesses up and running, but also to boost performance, cut costs and enhance customer experience (CX). For years, contact centers have run on-premises infrastructure, battling the difficulties of scaling operations or updating systems and tools whenever customer demands shift.

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Customer Transformation: Loyalty & Sentiment Are Your Challenges Ahead

eglobalis

Customer Transformation: Loyalty & Sentiment Are Your Challenges Ahead , People-centric enterprises will certainly have an advantage – not just today, but also down the road – when it comes to the memories they instilled in employees and customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Customer Transformation: Loyalty & Sentiment Are Your Challenges Ahead appeared first on Eglobalis.

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How to Reduce the #1 Cause of Anxiety

The DiJulius Group

4 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1) Feature Story How to Reduce the #1 Cause of Anxiety For most people uncertainty triggers high extremes of anxiety. As human beings, we like predictability in our lives. That is why we check the five-day forecast, so we know how to dress. That is why. Read Full Article. The post How to Reduce the #1 Cause of Anxiety appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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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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An introduction to the Principles of Good CX

Zeisler Consulting

I wouldn’t be a self-serving, self-promoting consultant if I didn’t have a few frameworks to show you, so at the risk of shaming myself and losing my membership card, here’s another one. Over the course of five articles, I’ll get into each of them, but here I’ll lay out what I term the Principles of Good CX. We’ll start with Getting It Right, or GIR.

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5 Skills Needed to Excel In Healthcare Sales Today

Integrity Solutions

The important skills that contribute to sales success are constant, regardless of disruptive external events, but they’ll need to be sharpened and tailored to the changing healthcare environment. Healthcare sales has gone through a number of rocky transitions and disruptions over the past decade. But 2020 has been at a whole other level. As we make our way to the end of this incredibly tumultuous and challenging year, sales teams in pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical device and diagnostic compani

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The journey to great begins with gratitude

Talkdesk

November marked the beginning of the fourth quarter in Talkdesk’s fiscal year. I usually transition to a new quarter focused on what we must accomplish and the action plans to make it all happen. However, as I look toward the end of what has undoubtedly been one of the hardest years of our lives, it’s gratitude that now consumes my thoughts. . In 2021, Talkdesk will celebrate its 10-year anniversary.