Regular readers of my blog know that being a customer experience specialist does not protect me from encountering lacklustre, frustrating and sometimes embarrassing experiences as a customer of the organisations I interact with. I regularly blog about my suffering with various airlines, restaurants, retailers and care hire businesses in the sincere hope that those organisations are listening! MORE
Callminer
JULY 5, 2018
When it comes to improving efficiency, many call centers choose to record phone calls and track average handle time , and first call resolution rates. The less effort required on every call should lead to agents being able to assist more customers. Call center efficiency actually results from the agents’ drive, motivation, and their overall well-being.
HGS
JULY 5, 2018
How Digital Transformation Is Reshaping Every Industry. By James Waite, HGS Head of Marketing, Europe. How many industries can you name that have been completely reshaped by a market entrant tearing up the rules? There’s, of course, the smartphone industry. Back in the 1990s, the biggest mobile phone company in the world reshaped how mobile phones were used.
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Contact Center Pipeline
JULY 5, 2018
Most companies—and contact centers—have traditionally operated on the principle that the rules of the workplace always outweigh the needs of employees. Few companies have managed to break away from that model, but those that do generally find that partnering with employees to meet business objectives leads to a much more satisfying work environment and greater […].
Fonolo
JULY 5, 2018
What does the future hold for customer service? A common theme in answer to this question is, “Improvements in automation and self-service will erode the importance for call centers.” That theme gets reinforced every time you read an announcement from a company touting success of a new automation project. It also gets strengthened by the marketing efforts of all the vendors selling self-serve technology.
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ijgolding
JULY 5, 2018
Regular readers of my blog know that being a customer experience specialist does not protect me from encountering lacklustre, frustrating and sometimes embarrassing experiences as a customer of the organisations I interact with. I regularly blog about my suffering with various airlines, restaurants, retailers and care hire businesses in the sincere hope that those organisations are listening!
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Outsource Consultants
JULY 5, 2018
Gerry Brown discusses phone apps in his article , specifically how challenging it can be to connect directly with a customer service agent through live chat or phone call. Millions of people are looking for a seamless customer experience, so it’s confusing to think about why so many apps and other products and services aren’t meeting their customers an omnichannel approach.
Toister Performance Solutions
JULY 5, 2018
The exact words the restaurant manager used were, "I'm not arguing with you." Funny, because arguing was exactly what he was doing. My wife and I were celebrating the wrap of filming for my latest training video at a nice steakhouse. Both of our first steaks were overdone and the manager had offered to prepare us new ones. Sally's steak was prepared correctly the second time, but my replacement was very rare, even though I had ordered medium rare.
CX Journey
JULY 5, 2018
Image courtesy of Pixabay I originally wrote today's post for Logi Analytics. It appeared on their blog on December 14, 2017. Data is just data until you do something with it, right?! That statement has plagued companies for a long time. For a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that they just don’t know what to do with the data. In December 2017, I hosted a webinar with Logi Analytics titled 5 Steps to Making Data Actionable , in which I shared tips on moving beyond data for the sake
Solvvy
JULY 5, 2018
The post How Atlassian Used Automation to Build a $4 Billion Company with More Than 100,000 Customers appeared first on Solvvy.
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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
Playvox
JULY 5, 2018
No matter what sector you are in, excellent customer service seems to have become the norm. Thanks to millennial‘s who expect a seamless customer service experience every time, companies have had to think outside the box to impress and delight customers that want more than just a good deal.
Ameyo
JULY 5, 2018
Customer experience thought leader, Shep Hyken has very accurately said, “Recognize that every interaction you have is an opportunity to make a positive impact on others.” This quote mirrors the underlying business requirement to have seamless customer-focused interactions at each stage of a buyer’s journey. Customer interaction management (CIM) is simply defined as the process an organization follows to handle all the interactions with its customers.
Jon Arnold
JULY 5, 2018
Big topic, and lots to discuss. That's what we covered in our current BCStrategies podcast. It's on the long side - about 50 minutes - but AI is kind of like that. There's so much to learn and so many perspectives, and hopefully you'll find this a good listen. This time around, fellow Torontonian/US-expat Kevin Kieller led the group, and the download can now be accessed here on our portal.
Kristina Evey
JULY 5, 2018
Episode 4 – It’s All About the Money. Focus on CX to Grow Profits. Shownotes: Money and profits – not bad words. CX is now recognized as the tipping point. in 2014, 89% of companies planned to use CX as their primary competition platform by 2016. It’s 2018 now… that means that 89% of companies are aware of CX, what it is, and are trying to use it as the tipping point to gain customers.
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.
Customers That Stick
JULY 5, 2018
Let’s just say it right here at the start — dealing with difficult customers stinks. Having provided customer service training to thousands upon thousands of people at all levels of organizations, I’ve learned that there is one thing every person who works with customers wants to know: how to successfully navigate difficult customer service situations and customers.
Kristina Evey
JULY 5, 2018
Episode 4 – It’s All About the Money. Focus on CX to Grow Profits. Shownotes: Money and profits – not bad words. CX is now recognized as the tipping point. in 2014, 89% of companies planned to use CX as their primary competition platform by 2016. It’s 2018 now… that means that 89% of companies are aware of CX, what it is, and are trying to use it as the tipping point to gain customers.
Solvvy
JULY 5, 2018
Back in 2002, Atlassian launched their first product, Jira. At the time, they didn’t make a lot of waves. The company was tiny and their product was one of many in a fairly crowded market. Two years later, when they unveiled Confluence, they were still a relatively obscure company that was only starting to gain international attention. But over the course of 15 years, they have become one of the largest–and fastest growing–software companies in the world.
Education Services Group
JULY 5, 2018
Newsflash: Most Sales and Customer Success (CS) professionals can’t read minds. Okay – that’s probably not surprising. But it seems to be a common assumption when there is no defined strategy for handing off a customer from Sales to CS. Nailing this hand-off is critical to ensuring the customer experience is positive from the start. When you get it right, your customer (and your team) reach desired outcomes faster.
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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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