Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 5, 2021

We are looking at ringing in 2021 with pleasure. How about you? Chances are you are ready to call this year last year, too. Although this year has been anything but usual, we typically look back at this time of year to review what we have learned. So, for better or worse, we shall do that for 2020 as well. The pandemic has presented an opportunity to participate in a forced-perspective taking exercise for all of us.

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Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Continue the training with me? Join me at De-escalation Academy. This tip is from my De-escalation Academy. In De-escalation Academy, your employees go from feeling overwhelmed and powerless when they have to give customers bad news, to feeling confident, firm, and in-control as they bring down the temperature in interactions and guide customers to next steps.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Power of the Handwritten Note. Personalizing the Customer Experience at Scale. Shep Hyken interviews David Wachs , Founder and CEO of Handwrytten. They discuss how personalized, handwritten notes can increase customer loyalty and improve the overall customer experience. Top Takeaways: If you send a personalized item to your customers, whether it’s a note or other gift, don’t put your logo on it.

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Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

My Get Angry Customers to Back Down De-escalation Academy is the most comprehensive training for bringing down the temperature in interactions, redirecting conversations, and getting angry customers to back down. “Get Angry Customers to Back Down” is the only training for customer service that not only shows your employees how to redirect verbal aggression and regain control of interactions – but how to get customers to accept their word as final.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 5, 2021

Welcome to 2021 and the January issue of Contact Center Pipeline. I hope the new year brings much health and happiness. This is an exciting month. We are introducing our new advisory board members in Susan’s article this month as they share their thoughts on what 2021 will bring for our contact centers. I look […].

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TechSee

JANUARY 5, 2021

2021. A new year. A new era in the COVID-19 pandemic. As the widespread vaccine rollout gets underway, businesses are grappling with many questions. While vaccine rollout policies are being handled by governments and will later be addressed by legal and HR, service leaders must wade through the uncertainty and consider the implications of the vaccine on their business.

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OrecX

JANUARY 5, 2021

It's the new year, and it's time to ramp up your collection of customer insight from your recorded conversations in order to garner competitive intelligence, identify at-risk customers, uncover workflow issues, discover underperforming agents and detect possible compliance infractions. All of this is possible with high quality audio recording. As the saying goes, garbage in garbage out.

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Eptica

JANUARY 5, 2021

Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Reviewing 2020 – our top blog posts from last year. Published on: January 05, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager As we move forward into 2021, now is the perfect time to review the past year, with all its disruption and challenges. We’ve chosen 8 of the top articles from our own and our parent company Enghouse Interactive’s blog to illustrate the trends and opportunities that 2

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 5, 2021

Quality is a key issue for customer services and contact centers are facing a serious problem between waiting times getting longer, agents having less time to process call requests, and more. Digital solutions are reversing this trend, and addressing the challenge of contact volume/customer experience. The post Call Center IVR: The Cornerstone of Digital Transformation appeared first on NobelBiz®.

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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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Strikedeck

JANUARY 5, 2021

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Nir Kalish talks about the importance of providing a well-rounded and excellent customer experience from start to finish. Nir believes that "relationships are the future of business.".

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ConvergeOne

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many vendors are pushing customers to move to subscription licensing models, so I thought it would be helpful to explore why subscription licensing is not only inevitable, but also very beneficial for everyone involved. A lot of it has to do with adopting more of the benefits of cloud—without having to adopt a full cloud infrastructure or prepare for your migration to the cloud.

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LiveVox

JANUARY 5, 2021

With the FCC’s June 30, 2021 deadline for STIR/SHAKEN implementation approaching faster than we all think, this new standard should be top of mind for operators of outbound call centers. To help, we’ve put together a new free eBook that breaks down what STIR/SHAKEN is, how the new rules impact you, and what you can […]. The post What Do You Need to Do About STIR/SHAKEN?

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 5, 2021

The disruption and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted virtually all businesses within all industries, of all sizes, and all around the world. The impact varies across all businesses depending on their unique dynamics; however, many contact centers were caught unprepared by the pandemic’s economic fallout and continuously struggled to adapt—with many still struggling to do so.

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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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Jon Arnold

JANUARY 5, 2021

Got a two-parter podcast update to share. Around this time, we do our BCStrategies looking back/looking ahead podcasts. Our 2020 review of the collaboration space is out, and you can access the podcast here on our portal. Not surprsingly, we had a strong turnout, so 12 of us had perspectives to share. Hope you give it a listen, and we’d love to get your feedback.

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Nicereply

JANUARY 5, 2021

Take the time to make sure your support team is happy and have the resources they need to do their job. Customer support never stops and it still should be on your priority list for the next year. It’s not just about spending the most money on support but making the most of the resources you have available to you. While delivering outstanding customer support is no doubt challenging, it’s an essential part of attracting and retaining customers.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 5, 2021

The digitalization of customer service is a key issue identified by many companies to retain new clients. Today, it is vital to offer accurate services while maintaining a simple and fluid customer experience. In other words, brands need to do better for less, while ensuring the same level of quality care. The first step starts with call center IVR, a classical system that automatically picks up customers, uses pre-recorded voice messages and broadcasts menus in which they can navigate.

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Skybridge

JANUARY 5, 2021

The next normal may be a ways off. In the meantime, here are three trends that will likely influence how customers connect with brands. “Leaders who identified how to quickly pivot … not only saw new sustainable paths to profitability but also increased brand value.” That’s how Jason Edelboim recently described a key defining feature of brands who survived and thrived in 2020 – and are poised to apply the lessons they learned to a profitable 2021.

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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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Acquire BPO

JANUARY 5, 2021

Despite a crazy 2020, we ended the year on a high note with virtual parties for our teams in the Philippines and the Dominican Republic. Themed #AcquireGoodVibes, the events featured special performances by Filipino celebrities Bamboo, Jessica Sanchez and Xian Lim, as well as Dominican artist Kiko El Crazy. One lucky employee in the Philippines and the Dominican Republic were randomly selected to win record-breaking grand prize cash giveaways of 1,000,000 (in local currencies).

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2021

Customers should never feel uncomfortable and out of place at your business; instead, they should be immediately put at ease when they walk through the door. Invest in a few comfortable chairs if your customers typically have to wait to see someone. Provide products such as a UV sanitizer to address any concerns you customers may have regarding the sanitation of your premises.

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inSided

JANUARY 5, 2021

In Episode 9 of The inSide Scoop, we talk to Rav Dhaliwal who describes himself as a “recovering software executive” with over 20 years of management and executive leadership experience in enterprise software. Let's see what Rav has to say about CS constantly being at risk of becoming the ‘everything department’. Don't want to listen this time? We've got you—check out the handy transcript of this interview below.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 5, 2021

By Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO. Happy New Year! We all know how tough things have been, and indeed continue to be, with a lot of uncertainty still. And the festive period was very different for everyone. But a new year brings new hope, and we can see the dawn of the vaccines rising above the horizon. I’m sure 2021 will be remembered as the year that we defeated this awful pandemic.

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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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Chip Bell

JANUARY 5, 2021

It is a grocery store clerk mantra I typically hear as my groceries are being scanned and bagged. And, I am tired of it. I want to be surprised—tickled pink by what I found I was not looking for. Don’t give me mundane, functionally accurate, and “good enough.” Make my heart race, my mouth water, and my sight filled with eye candy that I never would have anticipated.

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Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 5, 2021

It’s an understatement to say that 2020 was a year of huge change everywhere. Due to the pandemic we’ve seen major shifts in the contact centre, with existing trends such as remote working accelerating and customer needs changing dramatically. In this post, we highlight some of the key developments of last year in a review of our top blogs from 2020. 1.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2021

The evolving field of Customer Success owes its origin and rapid rise to a passionate community of pioneers, proponents, and practitioners. Here’s our Top 50 Customer Success Influencers list celebrating those frontiersmen and women pushing the boundaries and making Customer Success the force that it is today. This list has been compiled by the editorial team at SmartKarrot taking into account overall influence in the form of original insights, industry contributions, community engagement, follo

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Expivia

JANUARY 5, 2021

We have been pretty selective with the guests we interview for the Geek podcast & Blog. This guest next guest will be offering some great insights on customer experience and what new tools and strategies we can use in the future. We will also peer into some of the “behind the scenes” of what it is like to run a large retail/sales operation. With us today we have Jimmy Budnik, the VP of Customer Care and CRP at Overstock.com.

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Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2021

Role: VP, Global Customer Experience Location: San Antonio, TX, US Organization: Tech Data As a VP of Global Customer Experience, you will build and lead the customer experience strategy and oversee operational excellence for all CX projects to ensure alignment with corporate strategy. Lead and direct daily operational support to CX projects including any execution outside of Tech Data, such as third-party support, customer survey oversight, customer data analysis oversight, etc.

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VirtualPBX

JANUARY 5, 2021

Experienced businesses know that January, February, and March often arrive alongside a downturn in sales because they follow the largest spending season of the year. Paradoxically, this “post-holiday lull” may present an excellent time for a business’s call log history to take center stage. The Inside Retail news site notes that reading the market and putting the right strategies in place can help businesses weather this seasonal downturn.

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JustCall

JANUARY 5, 2021

Call center agents' performance is directly proportional to the customer experience. With call center metrics, you can identify your strengths and weaknesses and take stock of how your agents are faring. But, which contact center metrics and KPIs should you focus on? In this blog, we will help you identify which metrics matter the most. Call Center Metrics.

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