ShepHyken

JUNE 17, 2022

This week we feature an article by Devin Pickell, Growth Marketing Manager at Privy. He shares the five consumer trends organizations can use in their next campaigns and strategy. It’s difficult to stay on top of everything as a small business owner, especially in today’s fast-paced environment. So getting a competitive edge on what your consumers prefer can be extremely beneficial for your business. .

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. As companies embrace the digitization of customer support, the new standard is much more than a phone conversation with a call center representative or a visit from a field agent.

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Totango

JUNE 15, 2022

Right now, we are on the cusp of an economic downturn. Inflation and interest rates are soaring, the stock market is plummeting, and organizations are being forced to make some difficult decisions. All companies are going through the exercise of evaluating their investments, deciding what to cut and what to keep, what strategies to use, and simply, how to weather the storm.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 14, 2022

Earlier this year, the Harvard Business Review published 11 trends they believe will shape the workplace in 2022 and beyond. These trends acknowledge a key reality for many employers right now: as the U.S. economy approaches full employment, competition for employees is critical. At the same time, the labor market is in the midst of […].

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 16, 2022

As you might know, my podcast does an “I’m in a Pickle” feature where business people send in their business problems with customer strategy for our consult. I wanted to share this one with all of you because I realize many of you might have the same pickle. Today’s pickle is sent in from Christine Jones. Christine writes, “Our organization does not take complaints or our Voice of the Customer program seriously.

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Callminer

JUNE 13, 2022

Delivering exceptional customer experience is critical. This blog shares 25 expert quotes, with a wealth of valuable insights from the CX professionals who are driving value for their organizations.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 15, 2022

At a recent conference, I enjoyed an interview with a business owner who shared some of his customer service philosophies. His name is Jake, and he is a very smart guy. He taught several lessons that day, but the one that stood out was how he handles angry customers. Specifically, it was a lesson he called Don’t Smell the Milk. . Early in Jake’s career, he worked at a grocery store.

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Outsource Consultants

JUNE 15, 2022

Getting products into consumers’ hands is taking longer than in pre-COVID times. A combination of factors, including concerns with border crossing, labor shortages, and manufacturing slowdowns are wreaking havoc on the domestic supply chain and disrupting commerce across multiple industries. Contact center agents are on the front lines of this growing problem, answering customer inquiries and giving shipping updates.

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Eptica

JUNE 15, 2022

Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager What’s driving customer facing technology investment in local councils? Published on: June 15, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager What’s driving customer facing technology investment in local councils? Digital technology offers local councils enormous potential in how they serve their local communities.

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Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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Topdown

JUNE 13, 2022

Understanding that communication plays an integral role in our everyday lives aids in creating and executing on effective management strategies. Not only within a company, but this also is reflected in the way an organization communicates and interacts with their consumers and customers. Communication truly lays the foundation for any relationship. From there, trust is built, loyalty is developed, and other positives are able to stem, grow, and compound.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 13, 2022

Each week I read many 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. Sign Me Up! 10 Tips for Success with Subscription Business Models by Amanda Davis. (CustomerThink) Some of us are old enough to remember when subscriptions were limited to just sports clubs, newspapers, and magazines.

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AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 16, 2022

This post is co-written with Sowmya Manusani, Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Zendesk. Zendesk is a SaaS company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software for everyone, with simplicity as the foundation. It thrives on making over 170,000 companies worldwide serve their hundreds of millions of customers efficiently. The Machine Learning team at Zendcaesk is responsible for enhancing Customer Experience teams to achieve their best.

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McorpCX

JUNE 14, 2022

Fixing CX Potholes and Using Roadmaps for Your CX program: Insights from Forrester CX North America 2022. The presentations at Forrester CX North America 2022 , which took place June 7-9 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, were full of amazing insights and information. But as always, there were a few key takeaways that stood out for me.

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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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AnomalySquared

JUNE 15, 2022

Customer service experience is the customer's view of how a company treats them. It is what builds the thoughts and feelings a customer has towards a company, and drives behavior and loyalty. Improve your customer service through outsourcing.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 14, 2022

Building the Future of Service for the Next Generation of Customers. Trends That Will Affect Customer Service and Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Jonathan Shroyer, Chief Customer Experience Innovation Officer of Arise Virtual Solutions , a customer service outsourcing and consulting firm. He shares insights about the future of customer service and the power of customer experience in driving tremendous value for your business.

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Totango

JUNE 15, 2022

What do you do if your job responsibilities include managing every revenue-generating function in your organization and driving predictable growth – and then the world is suddenly thrust into an unpredictable and unstable economic downturn? If you’re a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) today, your initial answer may be to panic. But don’t! While the uncertainty that comes along with rising interest rates and a falling stock market can be scary, there is a silver lining: your current customer bas

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Lumoa

JUNE 17, 2022

Lumoa Product News for June 2022 Share Dashboards directly with other users! Ever been in a situation where needed to give someone else your cards? Maybe a VIP is joining Lumoa, and you want them to start off with a tailored Dashboard? Now you can!: Copy any Private Dashboard to get a sharable link Links given to teammates make a Shared Dashboard in their account NEW Lock icon to indicate a Private Dashboard, and new People Icon to indicate a Shared Dashboard (as seen below) Learn more

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

Onboarding sets the tone for a customer’s entire lifecycle. It is here, that the seeds of renewal are sown. Every onboarding task, meeting, communication, and training must serve a single purpose—and that is to get the customer to realize value. But how do you know if your onboarding tactics are working? How do you know if the targets you’ve set are overly ambitious or not big enough?

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Call Experts

JUNE 16, 2022

You may be asking yourself, “Why do I need after-hours answering service support for my business?” . After-hours support can help you provide a better customer experience and increase your customer base. You may also want to consider the advantages of offering live support round the clock to your customers. Read on to discover why you need after-hours answering service support, why you may be able to benefit from it, and how you can get live support 24 hours a day when you partner wi

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Nicereply

JUNE 13, 2022

Welcome to the next episode of Support Talks! Let’s discuss a new phenomenon of remote work & future trends. Scott Markovits , Head of Support & Customer Success at CloudApp , has been working remotely for 10 years and lauds the way it has changed and improved his life. We sat down together to chat about this and the future of work and support to help bring ideas for your teams to remain competitive and address the concerns of our new working models.

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Infinity

JUNE 13, 2022

Businesses investing in Infinity to learn more about what’s happening on their customer journey, and how to improve it, receive a huge time-to-value boost from our latest offering. They pack a punch, but what are they? Our Conversation Analytics suite enables you to automatically spot every time an individual word or phrase is mentioned on a call, with customisable parameters.

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Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 14, 2022

This is a guest blog contributed by Stephanie Neale, CEO of Blind Zebra , a sales and client success training company for B2B pros. It’s a Tuesday morning. You’ve grabbed your coffee and opened your inbox. The first subject line you see is “Cancellation.” It’s from one of your top accounts. [Cue the shoulder slump and exasperated “ugh.”]. Once the initial frustration wears off, your mind begins to play back all your interactions with the customer.

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Momentum Telecom

JUNE 17, 2022

In the coming year, voice technology is going to take its place with team collaboration tools as it supports increasingly important areas of business management and communications. As the hybrid workforce becomes ever more entrenched, employees will find that they can leverage messaging, video conferencing, and voice communications to optimize their workflow.

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IdeasUnlimited

JUNE 16, 2022

Introduction. With a record number of IT startups springing up all over the world, the demand for delivering high quality technical support for customers is also rising simultaneously. BPO and business support providers are stepping up to fulfill the demand and it’s becoming easier than ever for both SMBs and enterprises to outsource their tech support services.

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Kapta Customer Success

JUNE 13, 2022

Account Managers need a unique set of tools to provide the right level of service and proactive management to key accounts. While general customer accounts may make up the vast majority of your total accounts, your organization's key accounts can provide up to 33% of your organization's total sales revenue.

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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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Toister Performance Solutions

JUNE 16, 2022

"I want them to be more proactive." The vice president was talking about his company's customer service team. His primary concern was customer retention. He worried that employees were too transactional and didn't work hard enough to retain customers. He shared a number of examples. Customer service reps didn't always see the big picture. They often failed to ask probing questions or use adequate listening skills.

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Vistio

JUNE 14, 2022

Hiring and retaining contact center agents is harder than ever. Higher call volumes and customer expectations are leading to even higher agent stress. And with remote work and demand for agents and workers of all kinds also rising, it’s easy for top talent to move on—to other contact centers or other industries. To survive in today’s competitive job market and keep ahead of attrition, contact centers have to find ways to train agents faster and keep them longer.

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kommunicate

JUNE 15, 2022

Last Updated on June 15, 2022 In case you are not aware, collecting and trading sneakers is a big-time hobby in the US and several other parts of the world. It all began in the 1980s when hip-hop and basketball were reigning supreme. The release of Air Jordan in 1985 perhaps led to the mushrooming [.]. The post Top 6 Shopify Bots Conquering the Sneaker Bot Industry [2022] appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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