Beyond Philosophy
MAY 31, 2017
Find out what Google knows and your Customers won’t tell you: Economists hate surveys. They don’t trust them because people lie in surveys. Economists prefer to look at what people do instead, which, as we know, is what people are incented to do. Understanding these truths is critical to the work of an economist, and it is also vital to moving your Customer Experience to the next level.
ShepHyken
MAY 29, 2017
Each week I read a number of customer service and experience articles from various online 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. How good is your company’s internal customer experience? by Nicolas Maechler. (McKinsey & Company) To excel with customers, frontline employees need high-level service from core support functions.
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Contact Center Pipeline
MAY 30, 2017
When trying to meet and improve service level agreements, reviewing agents’ performance and providing adequate training is imperative for success. Unfortunately, making time for agent training doesn’t always seem possible. Contact centers are notorious for being extremely busy and agent time is closely monitored to ensure that customers’ calls are promptly answered.
CX Global Media
JUNE 1, 2017
Hiring the best contact center agent is getting more complex with each passing year. As more interaction channels enter the contact center, the interactions agents need to support are more challenging and require higher skill sets. To obtain higher skilled candidates, contact centers must focus on the candidate experience. Watch Tim Kennedy of Shaker with Jim Rembach on Contact Center Candidate Experience.
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Beyond Philosophy
MAY 29, 2017
The latest news – Graco is recalling more than 25,000 car seats that might not adequately restrain children during a crash! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Wednesday that the webbing in the car seat failed to meet Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. Surely this would be an absolute minimum requirement. This will no doubt cause great concern and worry among parents who believe they have invested in a safe and reliable product to keep their child safe.
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Contact Center Pipeline
JUNE 2, 2017
I attended the ICMI Conference and Expo in Orlando, Fla., last week. It was a great event. I got to talk about ChatBots and OmniChannel, outsourcing in Granada and customer satisfaction surveys. I had a great demo from Gladly. If you haven’t seen their product, you really need to check it out. It is one […].
Joe Rawlinson
MAY 31, 2017
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto coined the idea that 80 percent of results come from 20 percent of the action. The Pareto principle may date back to the 1800s, but it’s still relevant for the consumer marketplace today. Take a look at your most loyal customers. Forbes reports that most businesses find 20 percent of their most loyal customers actually make up 80 percent of their sales.
Customer Service Life
MAY 31, 2017
Jenny and I had the privilege and honor of presenting at the 2017 ICMI Contact Center Conference last week in Orlando, Florida. In this episode you’ll hear a brief summary of our presentations, and if you stay to the very end, you’ll be treated to an original song that Jenny shared in her session. You’ll also learn about the worst trouble we’ve ever gotten ourselves into.
ShepHyken
MAY 31, 2017
I’m often asked, “How many people in an organization does it take to create a culture focused on Customer Amazement?” The short answer is: all of them. But, the process has to start somewhere. Usually it’s at the top with leadership. But sometimes it can come from someone inside the organization at a different level. I refer to that person as The Force Within.
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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
Contact Center Pipeline
MAY 31, 2017
Despite a lot of industry conference activity in May (or possibly because of), Pipeline readers found the time to read about contact center cost management, balanced decision-making, workforce management, remote access solutions and virtual training models. The following were our most popular posts in May. Driving Margins by Minimizing Contact Center Costs Understanding your contact […].
CustomerGauge
JUNE 1, 2017
Over the last half-decade the customer experience and Net Promoter Score® industry trends has changed as we know it. Customers have become increasingly empowered with technology and now demand a highly personalized and frictionless customer experience that meets their needs and expectations. In order to keep customer satisfaction and loyalty to a high standard, NPS® has […].
360Connext
JUNE 1, 2017
In many ways, customer experience is still a new phenomenon. Ok that’s not really accurate, of course. Your customers have experiences with you, and judge their relationship with your brand based on how they feel about those experiences, whether you want them to or not. But the idea of investing in creating powerful, meaningful and delightful experiences is still a relatively new idea.
ShepHyken
JUNE 2, 2017
This week we feature an article by Matt Nolan who talks about what a great customer service experience really is. We can learn a lot when we look at what companies around the world are doing to adopt new service models. – Shep Hyken. As customer service professionals, we have a hard time agreeing on what a “great customer experience” really is, and what’s truly possible.
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.
Kayako
JUNE 1, 2017
Over the past few years, all hands support has been touted as the pinnacle of cross-company customer service collaboration. And yet, it’s still undervalued as a tool for minimizing barriers between businesses and their customers. But all hands support has its issues too. While the expected benefits of an all hands approach are many, the notion that everyone in a company should participate in answering customer service is idealistic and naive.
Avaya
MAY 31, 2017
Change is bound to happen whether you enable it or not, whether you are ready for it or not. It will just happen. The question is: When change happens, are you making the most of the opportunities that result? Consider the customer engagement or contact center industry as it’s commonly known. What’s driving tremendous change is digital transformation.
CSM Magazine
MAY 30, 2017
Customer service is not just about how a representative reacts to an individual customer; it’s about how a company as a whole reacts to its customers on a long term, sustainable basis. “Sustainability” defines a process that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely. Most recently, the term has been applied to energy production that involves renewable resources or does not harm the environment and thus, is sustainable.
Influitive
MAY 29, 2017
When you’re looking for ways to improve your branding and reach with consumers, some of your most important assets are (literally) sitting right in front of you: your employee ambassadors. In some shape or form, all employees have interactions with customers, be it directly (sales and customer service reps) or indirectly (developers, fulfillment workers, and.
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!
Taylor Reach Group
MAY 30, 2017
By: Colin Taylor. . It seems there is no shortage of experts and pundits weighing in on what they see as the trends that will impact the Call Center/ Contact Center industry. Though many of the prognosticators may have the timing off, many of these trends will eventually impact on the center, but maybe not today, tomorrow or even in my lifetime, but sometime. .
Teresa Allen
JUNE 1, 2017
Customer service failures have captured the headlines in 2017. As such, companies are becoming ever more aware of how their brand reputation is linked to individual customer service encounters! As a consumer, how can you take advantage of this customer focus? Here are 5 ways to become a customer service expert consumer: 1. Know your rights. Whether you are flying on an airplane or buying groceries, there are certain implied and government regulated consumer rights.
Amity
JUNE 1, 2017
Operationalizing a High Volume Onboarding Team. How to do it scalably and efficiently while achieving near 100% Customer Satisfaction and lowering time to desired outcome. If you’ve spent any time in SAAS Customer Success, you’ll understand that one of the most important aspects of adopting a new software product is the onboarding and training period.
Kayako
MAY 30, 2017
You’ve read all the classic books on customer service— Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, and more. But now you don’t need to spend hours reading another book, unless you’d like that. Thanks to the rise of TED talks, there are troves of great videos on YouTube where you can learn tips in just 15 minutes.
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.
Toister Performance Solutions
JUNE 1, 2017
I often get calls from customer service leaders who want to do some training for their team, but face a few challenges: Budgets are limited. It's an operational nightmare to get everyone scheduled into a class. A single workshop won't produce sustainable results. That's why I'm experimenting with a series of training plans that take a novel approach.
Teresa Allen
JUNE 1, 2017
Customer service failures have captured the headlines in 2017. As such, companies are becoming ever more aware of how their brand reputation is linked to individual customer service encounters! As a consumer, how can you take advantage of this customer focus? Here are 5 ways to become a customer service expert consumer: 1. Know your rights. Whether you are flying on an airplane or buying groceries, there are certain implied and government regulated consumer rights.
Topdown
JUNE 1, 2017
We'll be exhibiting June 4-7 at the IASA 2017 Annual Educational Conference and Business Show in Orlando, Florida. Our focus will be on how INTOUCH ® , our new cloud-based Customer Communication Management (CCM) solution, improves both the customer experience and the employee experience in the insurance industry.
Provide Support
JUNE 1, 2017
5 Tips for Effective Leadership in Customer Service. Customer service team success is most significantly influenced by service-focused culture that starts at the top and works its way throughout the company. In today’s highly competitive marketplace, the most popular businesses attribute a large part of their success to having a customer service mindset that has the power to build a strong brand image and product differentiation.
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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.
Calabrio
JUNE 1, 2017
It’s no secret that smart businesses are prioritizing customer needs above all else, and putting the customer first is imperative for them to compete. Consumers have high expectations for a great experience no matter where they interact with brands, therefore businesses are now forced to stop thinking about loyalty in terms of brand name and start thinking of it in terms of experience.
CSM Magazine
MAY 29, 2017
You may have great products but you can still have customer service problems caused by equipment failures or human error. While you can’t control external events, you can control what you say to upset customers. Certain phrases will serve to either diffuse or inflame. Here are my top ten worst things to say to unhappy customers (from least offensive to worst), along with tips for regaining trust. 10.
Customer Experience Matters
MAY 30, 2017
Temkin Group has found that the only path to sustainable customer experience differentiation is to build a customer-centric culture. How? By mastering Four Customer Experience Core Competencies. This video provides an overview of one of those competencies, Customer Connectedness, where the goal is to infuse customer insight across the organization. Here Are Four Strategies For Customer Connectedness: Filed under: […].
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