CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

As recognised recently by McKinsey , a gig customer service or ‘GigCX’ model “could give customer care the horsepower and flexibility it needs for today’s increasingly volatile markets.” In light of this, there are three important trends that will be indispensable to customer service.

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Natalie Petouhof

MARCH 3, 2016

Tweet Enterprise Connect 2016 is a leading conference and exhibition for enterprise communications and collaboration in North America. It is being held March 7-9th, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Genesys, a market leader in omni-channel customer experience (CX) and contact center solutions, will be particpating in the event.

Enterprise 40

Enterprise Customer Experience Contact Center Analytics 40

Vcaretec

JUNE 6, 2022

And it’s the top-tier retailers who understand these customer care trends who will be finding huge revenue numbers under the tree this year. Let’s break down the 4 biggest trends in retail spending as it relates to holiday customer care. Customer satisfaction numbers must remain high, even as shopping volumes increase.

Customer Care 97

Customer Care Customer Support Customer Service Sales 97

HGS

AUGUST 3, 2016

Companies can undertake better inventory management with wider sales access to inventory. Additionally, customers are provided faster information about product availability. Hosting data on cloud infrastructure can lead to better customer experiences, with faster and more accurate updates about product availability.

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Vcaretec

JUNE 6, 2022

Let’s meet our Customer Care experts: vcare-expert-shep-hyken Shep Hyken : Customer service speaker and bestselling author, Shep’s focus is on delivering amazing customer service, customer engagement, managing the customer experience, and creating customer loyalty.

outsourcing 52

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Knoah

MAY 26, 2017

The end of summer often means big sales for a variety of retailers. 2016 should be no different. E-commerce should play a significant part in these sales. “Modern customers like to be informed.” “Modern customers like to be informed.” between 2015 and 2016. percent growth.

Customer Care 48

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Fonolo

MARCH 25, 2019

While it was outside the top 100 search terms on gartner.com in January 2016, it was ranked #7 by May of the following year. This is also evident in the customer service space, where interest in popular AI tools (like chatbots) has grown. VPs & Directors of Customer Experience. The Panelists. Tobias Goebel. Frank Schneider.

Engineering 70

Engineering Contact Center Chatbots Education 70

DMG Consulting

MAY 25, 2018

million in 2016 to$1,655.3 Quality assurance (QA)/quality management (QM) was the top-selling WFO application in 2017, a sit was in 2016. between 2016 and 2017, after having grown by 11.4% million in 2017. This revenue growth came primarily from 5 vendors: NICE, Verint, Calabrio, Aspect and Genesys. in the prior 12 months.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 27, 2017

However, to keep up with your competition, using messaging to interact with your customers should no longer be on your wish-list. If you work for an SMB, have someone from inside sales or marketing handle a live chat on your company’s website during business hours. It’s a must-have. Live Chat or Chat Bots. Real-Time Support.

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Technology Customer Service Management CRM 232

Vonage

AUGUST 15, 2016

A customer’s experience lives long beyond the purchase. Customers experience several touch-points with your company after the sale – from checking information on the website, viewing ads, reading articles, comparing brand experiences with peers, friends or influencers to contacting customer service. Simon Says volunteer!

Self service 69

Self service Contact Center Surveys Sales 69

Win the Customer

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

By pushing for the sale in all your Facebook posts and tweets, you end up ignoring many of your customers. How about being a bit more personal and actually communicating with your customers? Remember when customers were limited to using the telephone if they wanted to contact businesses? Conclusion.

Customer Service 145

Customer Service Airlines Marketing Banking 145

DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million between the first half of 2016 and 2017. This decrease follows a similar pattern in the 12 months between the first half of 2016 and 2015, where total company GAAP revenue for contact center WFO suite providers decreased by $5.9 Total company GAAP revenue for the vendors that offer a contact center WFO suite dropped by 5.2%

Consulting 48

Consulting Consulting Marketing Gamification 48

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In July of 2016, inContact conducted a survey of more than 500 Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to gather insights about their workplace environment, motivators and challenges. This deep dive study provides a glimpse into working on the front lines of the customer service industry.

Contact Center 82

Contact Center Call Center Customer Care Surveys 82

NobelBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

The “touchpoints” with the firm or brand, which define the customer journey, determine how customers connect with a brand or company through various channels. Techniques are emerging to better satisfy customer expectations before, during, and after the purchase/use, whether it’s before, during, or after the purchase/use.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Contact Center CRM Customer centricity 52

CX Global Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Regardless of how lost you feel now, join Joachim “Joe” Rogers, Senior Director of Customer Care Center for Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Joachim “Joe” Rogers is Senior Director – Customer Care Center for Coca-Cola Bottling Co. His area provided investment guidance and customer service to customers worldwide.

Employee engagement 45

Employee engagement Contact Center Morale Coaching 45

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Processes that lead to customer and employee errors often cause half of all dissatisfaction and sales and marketing processes account for one third of all dissatisfaction. Employees are placed in the role of giving customers unpleasant news about rejected claims and non-warranty repairs. About the Author.

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Journey mapping Consulting Consulting Surveys 61

DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

billion (excluding carrier revenue) as of the end of 2016. The cloud has become the dominant sales model for contact center infrastructure solutions, ACDs, dialers, IVRs and more,” said Donna Fluss, President of DMG Consulting LLC. This represents only 11.4% DMG predicts that the number of seats will grow by 22% in 2017, 22.5%

Consulting 48

Consulting Consulting Contact Center Marketing 48

Natalie Petouhof

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Using the Marketing Cloud to Increase Conversion, Targeting, Relevancy… Using Customer Service Cloud to Service Customers Reactively, Proactively and Drive Marketing. Using the Customer Experience Cloud To Drive Awesome Customer Experiences. February 8, 2016 application process begins.

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience Customer Service Enterprise Big data 40

VHT

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The business lowered costs while maintaining superior customer experience (CX). Social Media Customer Care. Social media has traditionally been managed by marketing and sales, but once customers establish a relationship with the business via these channels, they want to get service and support there as well.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Gamification Employee engagement Chatbots 48

airespring

APRIL 16, 2018

At the same time as the mega-carriers enjoy economies of scale, reduce operating expenses and redundancy, expand their direct sales initiatives, increase their stock price and squeeze margins, your level of service is likely diminished, and your costs may even increase. We work to suit our partners’ and customers’ needs.

Telecommunications 48

Telecommunications Healthcare Enterprise Engineering 48

airespring

APRIL 16, 2018

At the same time as the mega-carriers enjoy economies of scale, reduce operating expenses and redundancy, expand their direct sales initiatives, increase their stock price and squeeze margins, your level of service is likely diminished, and your costs may even increase. We work to suit our partners’ and customers’ needs.

Telecommunications 48

Telecommunications Healthcare Enterprise Engineering 48

Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

These businesses strive to identify what their customers want, and do their utmost to fulfill their needs, wants and requirements with the products and services that they offer. These businesses also excel in customer-care and after-sales service. Your system needs to be equipped with the needed technology and tools.

Call Center 56

Call Center Customer Support Customer centricity Contact Center 56

CallSource Insights

JUNE 28, 2019

And while it may or not be surprising for dealerships, millennials (people born between 1981 and 1997) are making up a bigger customer-base than you may have previously thought. Seriously – AutoRaptor reports that as of April 2016, millennials are the largest living generation in America. The answer, of course, can be found online.

Automotive 49

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ClearAction

MAY 18, 2017

Most VoC managers grapple with those at the expense of VoC’s purpose, according to ClearAction’s 5-year benchmarking of B2B customer experience practices. Empower your employees to immediately pass along customers’ comments. Some of the juiciest insights are shared by customers informally with your employees.

Feedback 54

Feedback Surveys Benchmark Analytics 54

GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Prospects are interacting with your website, trial, onboarding materials, and inside sales team. They’ve most recently interacted with your sales team, moved through your purchase process, and implemented your product or service. Everyone with CRM access can see the scores, including sales and support teams.

Surveys 60

Surveys CRM Feedback Sales 60

COPC

AUGUST 4, 2016

I found this article in CRM magazine, Inbound and Outbound Converge in the New Contact Center , to be an interesting one because it discusses some of the changes in our industry that are being made possible by process and technology, but with an eye to improving the customer experience. Inbound and Outbound Converge in the New Contact Center.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center CRM Average Handle Time Multichannel 40

Kayako

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

For instance, Chick-Fil-A’s customer service is so noteworthy it spawned countless memes and is one of the keys to them generating more revenue per restaurant than any other fast food chain in the U.S. The brands mentioned above aren’t just shaping the customer service experience for their customers.

Banking 48

Banking Marketing Customer Service Customer centricity 48

Comm100

AUGUST 23, 2018

In a way, each whipped the customer service industry into a frenzy when they came about, prompting the sale of products that would help companies remain relevant by establishing more and more ways of communicating with customers. Organic Mobile Experiences Blur Channel Lines. According to eMarketer, in the United States, 23.4

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Chatbots Customer centricity Customer Care 40

Taylor Reach Group

JUNE 6, 2017

You may or may not have reviewed Comm100’s 2016 Livechat Benchmark Report. John has been contributing to the success of the company with his extensive knowledge on sales, marketing and service operations within the Contact Center including strategic planning and day-to-day operations. Garry Schultz – Senior Consultant - Ottawa.

Contact Center 55

Contact Center Consulting Consulting Healthcare 55

Taylor Reach Group

JUNE 20, 2017

What they are doing is using that dead, in-between time to respond to other customers. This can be great when it works, but even as the 2016 Live Chat Benchmark Report states, agents are handling more chats as time continues – what you’re doing is placing a demand on that agent. Garry Schultz – Senior Consultant - Ottawa.

Contact Center 62

Contact Center Consulting Consulting Healthcare 62

Kayako

DECEMBER 31, 2015

But there’s still a way to go, and for customer support to really thrive it needs the backing of the board – just like marketing and sales departments. Come back soon for our prediction on 2016, or sign up for the blog and we’ll send it straight to your inbox. The best of customer experience.

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Customer Support Self service Multi-channel support SaaS 35

Comm100

AUGUST 11, 2016

As our 2016 Live Chat Benchmark shows, good service isn’t always the fastest. Sometimes taking your time can make a huge difference in terms of quality—it gives you time to identify true customer needs and pain points. In order to negotiate with customers, you should: Gain common ground. What do you do the most often?

Customer Service 43

Customer Service Scripts Sales Benchmark 43

C3Centricity

JULY 30, 2018

However, in recent years, there has been a lot of talk about the importance of employees, some even suggesting that they are more important than customers! I discussed this in detail in a post a couple of months ago, called ” Customers Care About Products & Value, Not Employees.

Marketing 48

Marketing Customer centricity Advertising Benchmark 48

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 3, 2016

(Provide Support) The key to any business success is building trust and establishing strong relationships with customers as those are the main factors that contribute to customer loyalty and generate more sales. For information on The Customer Focus™ customer service training programs go to www.thecustomerfocus.com.

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Airlines Customer Service Customer retention Education 310

ShepHyken

AUGUST 29, 2016

My Comment: Customers want an easy and frictionless experience, especially when they have to connect with a company’s call or support center. In this short article, Mike Cannova, the director of Advance Customer Care for ShoreTel, shares five important strategies and processes to create a better customer experience.

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aircall

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For sales and support teams, this means a heightened pressure to operate efficiently and better track performance; two tasks that have historically presented a significant challenge. In fact, our “Putting Your Customer First” Study found that 87% of respondents ranked the phone as the communication channel that provides the best experience.

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CRM Wait times Consulting Consulting 62

Natalie Petouhof

MAY 9, 2016

Often times companies don’t realize they are taking themselves out of the running when a customer sees (in forums, ratings, review sites, social media…) that the company is not responding, doesn’t show it cares and isn’t there to work with the customer to make things right.

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