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Harness Service Agent Feedback to Successfully Reopen Your Business

GetFeedback

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How to Choose a Customer Engagement Model

Totango

Dynamic customer engagement is key to building strong relationships with your customers. Customer engagement connects your customers with your company, through both personal and digital communications. By maximizing this communication , you can strengthen your customer relationship and increase customer loyalty. Executing the right type of customer engagement for the right type of customer means you can demonstrate value quickly and promote lasting growth that benefits both your customer and you

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Working in Harmony with your Product Team

Strikedeck

Kristen gives practical advice on ways to build a stronger program with your product team.

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Do You Do a Good Job? – Tip #18

Steve DiGioia

Businesses all over this country are littered with the remnants of employees who do a good job. But what about those employees who go above and beyond? There is nothing that impresses a boss more than an employee who takes the initiative. The initiative to do more than he or she is asked for. Example: The initiative to plan ahead, look at the “big picture”, and take the steps needed to make the department or business more efficient, and improve on the existing way things are done.

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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 Ways to Reimagine Customer Experience in the Time of COVID-19

GetFeedback

A look into the new-normal customer and how to meet their evolving expectations.

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Why B2B Needs to Transform Customer Experience to Remain Competitive in the Age of Digital

CXS

Covid-19 has changed our lives in many ways, one thing remains constant during this time, “change”. Many organizations paused and had to re-imagine how they will conduct business moving forward. One framework I’m always reminded of is VUCA (Volatility, uncertainty, … The post Why B2B Needs to Transform Customer Experience to Remain Competitive in the Age of Digital appeared first on CX 2020.

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Call center cost reduction strategies

TechSee

Contact centers are always looking for ways to reduce costs. This is particularly true during periods of uncertainty and economic downturn, when call center cost savings contribute to business continuity. Since most of a contact center’s operating costs are related to staffing, the easiest and quickest ways of tightening the belt are to cut headcount or shut down live support channels.

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Customer Service Surveys: What to ask?

GetFeedback

Learn how to build customer service surveys and create an exceptional customer experience that will help your business thrive.

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Customer Service: Both Simple and Complex, but Definitely Worth Celebrating

NICE inContact

October 5-9 is National Customer Service Week and we are joining the celebration—the joys, the challenges, the endless rewards of customer service done right. To us, this year’s theme, Ignite a CX Celebration, seems especially relevant—and to be honest, a little poignant, because it recognizes that the customer experience in 2020 has been like no other.

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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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How Well Do You Know What You Really Want?

Beyond Philosophy

When we try to forecast our preferences going forward, we often get it wrong. It’s a bias we all share called Naïve Diversification Bias. It happens a lot when we are making decisions now about some form of future consumption, and it can lead to feelings of dissatisfaction with our purchases. Naïve Diversification bias happens a lot at the supermarket.

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Does CX Apply in Healthcare, Manufacturing, & other Professional/B2B Industries?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

“I Know Customer Experience is Important, But…” When I speak to groups or host our webinar series, the Weekly Win , I hear one thing over and over again. “I get it. Customer experience is important. BUT… my business is… B2B. Healthcare. Professional Services. Manufacturing. …So we can’t really do this or think about it in the ways you want us to.” I understand.

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Announcing The Winner of the C3 2020 Analytics Awards Program!

Calabrio

Key customer insights—or the lack thereof—can make or break a business in today’s harrowing world. That’s why the right analytics platform, applied the right way to the right data, is so critical to contact center leaders right now. So for the second year in a row, we recognized at our C3 online event — and awarded with cold, hard cash! —the organization that best used Calabrio Analytics to turn contact center data into actionable insights and tangible results.

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Seeing the Bigger: Picture Using Salesforce CRM Data to Reveal New Insights that Improve Contact Center Performance

NICE inContact

Your CRM, like Salesforce, helps you manage your customer relationships. CRMs create comprehensive profiles for your existing customers and prospects that can help you serve them better and improve your sales opportunities.

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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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Becoming Alida: Q&A with Senior Director of Brand, Kristin Dorsey

Alida

Q&A with Senior Director of Brand, Kristin Dorsey.

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How Well Do You Know What You Really Want?

Beyond Philosophy

How Well Do You Know What You Really Want? Have you ever bought a book you thought you should read and then didn’t read it? Did you ever buy a variety of yogurt flavors and then throw out some of them after they expired because you never wanted that flavor when it was time to eat yogurt? We do these things because we often overestimate how much variety we want in the future.

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Announcing Three Finalists for the C3 2020 Analytics Awards Program!

Calabrio

Key customer insights—or the lack thereof—can make or break a business in today’s harrowing world. That’s why the right analytics platform, applied the right way to the right data, is so critical to contact center leaders right now. So for the second year in a row, we’ll recognize at our upcoming C3 online event — and award with cold, hard cash! —the organization that best uses Calabrio Analytics to turn contact center data into actionable insights and tangible results.

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From Ideas to Product Features How Customers Shape Our Product Roadmap

NICE inContact

No matter how much QA and UAT are built into our process, end users out in the real world will inevitably find things we missed or see better ways to perform functions, so we take a lot of interest in the feedback that comes through this channel. In fact, it's so important to us that we created a special forum within our Customer Community, called IdeaConneXion, to gather user-generated ideas and foster collaboration between users and product owners.

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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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Retailers and E-commerce Sectors Experience a Rise in Customer Service Inquiries

CXS

Springtime 2020, the world sees a collapse in its economy affecting a variety of businesses. Several regions took part in lockdowns to keep its patrons and employees safe. And while “flattening the curve” hugely impacted these businesses, there was a … The post Retailers and E-commerce Sectors Experience a Rise in Customer Service Inquiries appeared first on CX 2020.

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Key to profitability - how UK customer experience is changing over the long-term

Eptica

Date: Friday, October 2, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Key to profitability - how UK customer experience is changing over the long-term. Published on: October 02, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager While customer service and contact centres have been dramatically impacted by the pandemic, longer-term trends are also reshaping the industry based on changes in customer demand and how companies operate.

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Customer Service Week: A Time to Celebrate Customers AND Employees

ShepHyken

It’s my favorite time of year… the leaves change from green to gold to red, there’s a chill in the air and the holidays are right around the corner. And of course, one of my favorite “holidays” is National Customer Service Week , which happens the first full week of October each year. This year it’s October 5-9. Traditionally, Customer Service Week has been the time to highlight and celebrate the great work employees do to take care of their customers.

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Customer Retention During Economic Downturns: What’s Top of Mind for Your Customers?

Totango

The unpredictability of an economic downturn, such as the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, can introduce uncertainty into the relationship between you and your customer. Sudden and unexpected external forces beyond the control of either of you can also lead to unanticipated customer behavior. During difficult times, it is especially important to understand what is going on inside your customer’s mind, as well as what is going on inside their business.

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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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What the “New Normal” Will Look Like in the World of CX

Kustomer

While at times 2020 can feel like a real-life “Black Mirror” episode, it did force many CX teams to transform at lightspeed, re-evaluating how they got their work done and what a successful customer service interaction looked like. According to research conducted by Kustomer in April 2020, 79% of customer service organizations reported that COVID-19 had impacted them significantly.

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The value of certifications

Zeisler Consulting

I once had a mentor whose cubicle walls were covered in certificates and evidence of completion of training and qualification. People considered him a bit of an egotist and obsessed with certifications. Credentialism is a thing, after all. But I asked him once about all his accreditations. He said, “Some people say, ‘Sure, well you’re just good at taking tests,’ and I say, ‘Yea, I am, I guess.

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Does Your Customer Journey Have Too Many Hoops?

Wired and Dangerous

I once had a wonderful colleague whom I worked with as a co-facilitator of workshops with senior leaders. He was a very bright and confident presenter who could lead a spirited discussion with the most challenging participant. He also loved to tell stories. . His stories were typically long and detailed. But, he never learned an important storytelling principle: enchanting participants to join him on a long, detailed fable only works if the story’s punch line is insightful or compelling en

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How to Improve Sales by Investing in a Pre-sales Survey

SurveySparrow

You would think that the best sales strategy for a good sales team is to get people talking. If only you could contact your lead, you could convert them. However, a lot depends on how primed a customer is to be converted. The talk-first strategy often leads to inefficient sales. Thankfully, there is an easy way to increase efficiency and supercharge your sales: a pre-sales questionnaire. .

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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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5 Tip to Create a Valuable Q&A Community

Vanilla Forums

“How to unclog a kitchen sink”. “How to clean a gutter”. “How to do a Windsor knot”. Each and every one of us has a problem in our lives we need a solution for, and what better place to turn to than Google? Search engines provide us with instant fixes in the privacy of our own homes. It’s no wonder then, that the most popular search queries begin with those two magical words: “how to”.

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BirdEye continues to lead in the CX space, winning 100+ G2 badges for the 11th time

BirdEye

Fall is back, and BirdEye is springing forward into more awards. For the 11th consecutive quarter, G2 Crowd recognized BirdEye as a leader in customer experience management with 120 awards in 10 categories. In the G2 Fall 2020 awards listing, we received praise as the overall leader in online reputation management, local SEO, enterprise feedback management, local listing management, live chat, local marketing, mobile marketing, and SMS marketing.

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What is Intelligent Routing? 6 Big Benefits It Offers Your Business

Bold360

Every customer expects fast and accurate service. But too often customers who contact a business are put in a queue where they must “wait for the next available agent.” If the customer’s issue can’t be resolved by the first available agent, the service team transfers the customer around like a hot potato until the “right” agent can be found to mercifully resolve the issue.