Mon.Apr 25, 2022

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What is Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)?

Callminer

Contact centers are critical for customer experience, retention and acquisition strategies. But building and maintaining your own is a huge investment. Read this blog to learn the benefits of CCaaS.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 4-25-2022

ShepHyken

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. Consumers Prefer Traffic Jams Over a Bad Customer Experience by Retail Customer Experience. (Retail Customer Experience) More than half, 60%, of consumers would rather sit in a traffic jam than have a poor customer experience, according to a Telus International survey.

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A Breakthrough in Point Correspondence: Mitigating “Outliers”

TechSee

Ever wonder how the human brain can compute distance? How far away is the highway exit, when exactly to step off the escalator, the exact position of the lips you want to kiss? This essential capability is known as depth perception. When both eyes focus on an object, the difference between the visual images that each eye perceives due to its unique angle – known as retinal disparity – is the phenomenon that allows the human brain to compute depth perception.

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New job in customer experience? Do this on the first 90 days

GetFeedback

Expert guidance on how to tackle the first three months in your new CX leadership role, by Jeannie Walters.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Product Update: 5-star Rating Scale for CSAT surveys

Nicereply

Use the new 5-star CSAT and boost your customer feedback surveys to the next level. We are very excited to share with you one of our biggest news! Empower your customer experience with a popular 5-star rating scale and enjoy all advantages it delivers. Why should you use a 5-star rating scale? A 5-star survey is one of the most popular ways to gather customer feedback.

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Training Solutions That Can Improve Your Customer Service Management Style

CSM Magazine

Managing a customer service team takes dedication, hard work, and the right skill set. If you want to further develop your customer service management style, there are training solutions out there that can improve your talents and create a better working environment. This article looks at some of the best training solutions in more detail. Mental Health Training.

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Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting a CS Platform: Not Being Able to Create Inspiring Journeys

Totango

Selecting the right customer success platform for your organization can be challenging. To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. In this article, we’ll look at the mistake of choosing a platform that doesn’t allow you to create inspiring customer journeys.

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What is First Call Resolution? Tips To Improve FCR

OctopusTech

Have you ever contacted a company’s customer support and they couldn’t deal with your problem and provide a proper solution only on the first call itself? This is an example of a company that fails to meet the expectations of customers during their first call resolution. Most businesses can’t afford to under-deliver solutions to customers during the first call resolution as it is equated to poor customer service and experience.

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100 Integrations and Counting: Celebrating Our Partner Ecosystem

aircall

At Aircall, we’ve had a lot to celebrate these past few months. From the launch of our new Microsoft Teams integration to reaching 100+ integrations on the Aircall App Marketplace, we’re continuing to grow, connect, and demonstrate the power of conversation with our integrations. . To commemorate this milestone, we want to raise a glass to the most valuable contributors to the Aircall app ecosystem: our partners.

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The Verint Experience Index: Retail

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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Helping Customers Understand Their Credit Score and How You Check It

CSM Magazine

Your credit score is one of the most important aspects of your financial life, and nowadays, it’s easier than ever to check your score. However, most customers hold several misconceptions about credit that may damage their score or make them unwilling to use credit at all. How to Help Your Customers Understand Credit. There are several aspects of credit that your customers must learn to use their financial products correctly.

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La culture cash, en quoi ça consiste ?

Quadient

La culture cash, en quoi ça consiste ? Ludovic Georges. Mon, 04/25/2022 - 11:21. Bonjour, Une entreprise bénéficiaire avec un carnet de commandes rempli peut trébucher à tout moment lorsque sa trésorerie est déficitaire. Factures impayées, dépenses mal hiérarchisées, organisation déficiente : les raisons sont nombreuses pour expliquer un manque de liquidités et un décalage problématique entre décaissements et encaissements.

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How Website Design for Law Firms Can Grow Your Business

CSM Magazine

Nowadays it is difficult to imagine a company that does not have a website. But it is not enough just to have it, it must be fast, convenient, and attractive. This is especially important for law firms, as this is a rather complex profile that is not so easy to understand. A well-designed website can help potential clients as well as build their trust in you and your professionalism.

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B2B Marketing Attribution: the ultimate guide

Infinity

Customer journeys are never as simple as going from A to B. When it comes to B2B purchase decisions, it can look more like A to C, then a pit-stop at X, than R. With so many stakeholders invested in purchase decisions such as gatekeepers, end users and the all-important decision maker, how can you efficiently attribute conversions? Multi-touch marketing attribution can help.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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Who Are the Top Employers in Charlotte?

CSM Magazine

The Charlotte area is quite large and diverse. Charlotte is known for many things in its history, including its large business hub of successful and popular businesses that are what makes up that hub. You might be looking for a job in those successful businesses, but what are the top employers in the Charlotte area? The top employers in Charlotte include Bank Of America, Wells Fargo, and Duke Energy.

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Apr 25 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: New York, United States (Hybrid) Organization: Fireblocks As a Director of Customer Success, you will hire, grow and develop a regional customer success group. Define operational metrics for the group, and measure the Effectiveness of Customer Success. Drive employee engagement and a high-performance culture within the teams, ensuring effective performance management, coaching, and development of the teams, and creating an environment where people can

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How to Protect Your Customers’ Data From Cyber Attacks

CSM Magazine

These days, many small business owners use digital tools to manage virtually every aspect of their company, including key pieces of customer data. While these digital tools make it much easier and more convenient to manage your business, they can also leave you vulnerable to cyber attacks if you don’t have the proper security measures in place. Today’s consumers know this, and they are more concerned than ever about the safety of their personal data.

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How Does Customer Health Score Management Improve Customer Success in SaaS??

SmartKarrot

For a B2B SaaS company, a customer may churn anytime, but the premonition and signs would have been there from some time before. This prediction and positioning can happen correctly with the customer health score metric in place. A customer health score predicts whether the customer will stay with the company or churn. The customer health score is a leading metric that helps you understand what your customer is doing and if they could possibly churn.

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

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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Webinar recap: How Casper unlocks Promoter referral revenue

delighted

This post is presented by Casper, Friendbuy, Tremendous, and Delighted. In this in-depth session, our very own Head of Product Management, Sean Mancillas, joined Casper’s Senior Director of Customer Marketing & CRM, James DeStefano, Friendbuy’s Head of Partnerships, Samantha Samuels, Tremendous’ CEO, Nick Baum, to go through the nuts and bolts of building a referral program and provide best practice guidance on how you can set yours up for success.

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Top 10 Traits of Emotionally Intelligent Leaders?

SmartKarrot

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to recognize, understand and handle emotions. People equipped with the power of emotional intelligence can handle their emotions as well as others. Thus, we consider emotional intelligence (EQ) one of the most desirable traits for a leader. A leader with high emotional intelligence can handle their teams in crisis and success as well.

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Navigating CX and EX During the Great Resignation

CSM Magazine

Creating a great customer experience starts with understanding and improving the employee experience. Here’s how companies can navigate these challenges during the Great Resignation. The Great Resignation has launched employee experience into the spotlight: a record 4.5 million Americans left their job in November 2021, breaking the previous record, which was made only two months earlier in September 2021.

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What is RCS Messaging? A Complete Guide

LiveVox

Though it’s made up of many features most of us already use without a second thought, RCS messaging is pretty revolutionary in its capabilities and implications for messaging as we know it. An upgrade from traditional SMS messaging, RCS enables users to send rich media like videos and GIFs, react to messages, view read receipts, and more. The post What is RCS Messaging?

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

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!