Eckoh

MARCH 27, 2019

Everything’s on the up - call volumes, cost of call handling, maintaining, managing and training people, as well as customer expectations.

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ProProfs Blog

MARCH 27, 2019

The promise of a delightful customer support experience comes with the responsibility of actually delivering it consistently. Just buying and installing the latest customer support software onboard does not automatically mean that you will provide a great experience to your customers. There are various things that need to be taken into account besides the use of a support tool that will make or break the experience for a customer.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 27, 2019

You’re at your desk with a few minutes of downtime during a rare lull in your typically-hectic day. You have a meeting in five minutes, but you see a window of time cracked open juussst enough to peek at interactions. Read More. The post How In-Line Training and Coaching are the Ultimate Customer Experience Management Tools appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 27, 2019

The other day I was driving by a Chick-fil-A restaurant at lunchtime. I was blown away by how many people were in the drive-through lane. There had to be at least 20 cars. I thought to myself, “That’s a long line. You really have to love Chick-fil-A to brave that line at lunchtime.”. Then I noticed they had four people on the lot taking orders from the people in the drive-through.

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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.

Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 27, 2019

Customers want easy access to information—and they want it quick. They also have little patience for self-service options that can’t understand their needs or provide accurate answers to their questions. Chatbots increasingly provide a valuable 24/7 channel for simple transactions and communication, but how do you get customers to trust the technology and use it, […].

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Ansafone

MARCH 27, 2019

Social media has empowered consumers to seize control of the customer service experience. This is forcing companies to offer new ways of responding to queries about their products and services. Today’s online shoppers have many options for interacting with customer care agents. Such as through a company’s website, instant chat app or Facebook, Twitter and … Social Media Integration Transforms Customer Experiences Read More ».

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Jive

MARCH 27, 2019

While we all know that freelancers are on the rise , you might be surprised to find that the preference to hire remote employees is also on the rise. In fact, based on Upwork’s Future Workforce Report , hiring managers expect 38% of their full-time staff to be working remotely in the next decade. . Now, more than ever, businesses understand that great work can be done from anywhere —and they’re willing to live out this ideal.

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REVE Systems

MARCH 27, 2019

With the ongoing popularity of Mobile VoIP, it is estimated that the Mobile VoIP market will triple in size over the next four years. Many entrepreneurs are coming to this industry as the market is growing rapidly. If done properly, it can become a profitable business. To start your own VoIP business, there are few infrastructure requirements, apart from creating a sales/marketing infrastructure.

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Answer Dash

MARCH 27, 2019

(This article is originally published at ZDNe t) The Fourth Industrial Revolution has radically transformed the customer's expectations of companies, and customer service is transforming in kind to meet those expectations. A recent study found that 76 percent of customers feel that it's never been easier to take their business elsewhere. Acclaimed business author & the Chief Digital Evangelist of Salesforce Vala Afshar shares his credible views on the evolving trend of customer service secto

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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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Eptica

MARCH 27, 2019

Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Author: Taoufik Massoussi - Product Manager & Head of AI Three books that highlight the importance of the Voice of the Customer. Published on: March 27, 2019. Author: Taoufik Massoussi - Product Manager & Head of AI In a previous post, Olivier Njamfa reviewed his five favorite books on the subject of trust and the customer journey.

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Ameyo

MARCH 27, 2019

Actions speak louder than words. We have all heard of this saying. But it has never been truer as in the case of Customer Support Process. The success of a customer support process is dependent on measuring the right KPIs and getting relevant reports. Tracking these KPIs and analyzing these reports allows the supervisors to […]. The post How to Improve Ticketing Insights with Helpdesk Reports and Dashboards appeared first on Ameyo.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 27, 2019

Customer Success, at its core, helps customers achieve their goals by maximising the value from a product. Thus, increasing the retention rate, and creating potential opportunity for upsells / cross-sells too. It doesn’t matter how many customers you are signing up every month! What matters is that of the customers who had signed up, how many renewed their contracts.

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kommunicate

MARCH 27, 2019

Every aspect of your business has its own terminology. These terminologies facilitate better internal communication and also improves their customer communications. Additionally, this helps in a team and individual evaluation as well. In this post, we have listed the A-Z customer support terms and definitions. Average Problem Resolution Time Canned Responses Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) [.].

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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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Call Experts

MARCH 27, 2019

Is competition intense in your industry? Are you struggling to succeed? Is it stressing you out? Well! Your company's journey needs enthusiasm when it comes to challenges and work ethic. Even after weeks, months and years of ups and downs, you must work hard and leave a good impression on customers around the world. Here we are going to discuss a few tips to grow your audience and lead more traffic to your business.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 27, 2019

At Interactions EMEA 201 9 , NICE’s flagship annual customer conference in London, you’ll have a premium tiered seat to incredible educational opportunities that will reveal the latest tools and solutions you need to improve and scale your business. Join us at The O2 Cineworld for over 25 sessions and 6 inspiring and innovative breakout tracks and deep dive into Workforce Optimisation best practices, Employee Engagement, Voice of the Customer, Analytics, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, C

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ForeSee

MARCH 27, 2019

What’s behind the “buy online, pick-up in store” (BOPIS) surge in retail? ForeSee’s Jeff Sylvester helped explain the trend for a recent Reuters story.

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Bright Pattern

MARCH 27, 2019

Digital Disruption Affecting the Customer Experience. Millennials, larger than the Baby Boomer generation, are shaping the customer experiences of today and have the highest expectations when it comes to customer service. Omnipresent across their social networks, connected 24x7 through multiple devices they demand instant and individualised experiences with relevant answers.

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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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CX Journey

MARCH 27, 2019

Image courtesy of Pixabay Do employees believe in the core values? Do they even know their company's core values? Core values are the fundamental beliefs of an organization; they guide executives and employees in identifying which behaviors and actions are right and which are wrong. Everything you do must be aligned with your core values, and core values should be integrated into everything you do.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 27, 2019

Last week, some of the Salt Lake City Talkdesk team had the opportunity to prepare and serve lunch at the Ronald McDonald House in Salt Lake City, Utah. We had a blast making a variety of cuisine, from kid-friendly grilled cheeses (that were popular with the adults, too!) to teriyaki chicken bowls. While the food was good, the feeling in the Ronald McDonald House cafeteria was even better.

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ChaseData

MARCH 27, 2019

Phew—that was one of the longer calls you’ve taken in recent memory. You worked with that customer for what seemed like an hour. Thank goodness they weren’t too upset when they called, but their problem was certainly unusual and convoluted. It took quite a bit of explanation to understand what was going on, and you had to involve one or two other colleagues to get things figured out.

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VHT

MARCH 27, 2019

We’ve all experienced bad customer service at some point. This could have been online, in person or over the phone. So why do some industries fall short of our service expectations much more often than others? And why are customers more loyal to certain industries? Aspect’s 2018 Consumer Experience Index showed that customers are more likely to be loyal to companies that do business online as well as those that are in the travel industry.

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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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TeleDirect

MARCH 27, 2019

Here’s the thing about call centers – you can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them. But you’re definitely worse off without one. Let us explain. Call centers demand attention to detail, constant customer communication, and ever-evolving tools, resources, and applications. For many companies, the considerable strain on limited resources is impossible to square with the seemingly unlimited demands for 24/7 communication, outreach strategies, and marketing initiatives.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 27, 2019

If contact center queues are any indication, consumers have needs. They have needs, darn it! Vastly diverse, wildly specific needs that must be met before they even become customers. Just look at the rise of user-generated content, which has given way to sites like Trip Advisor and Yelp—customers want to know all the details in advance of any kind of purchase.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2019

A good customer service team is fundamental. You can sell the best products at unbeatable prices. You can secure celebrity endorsements and push your advertising worldwide. But if your customers can’t get the support they need when they need it, you could end up undoing your hard work when word spreads.

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Unymira

MARCH 27, 2019

Most companies are transforming their customer service strategies from voice to digital but still don’t have it all figured out.

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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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Eckoh

MARCH 27, 2019

Everything’s on the up - call volumes, cost of call handling, maintaining, managing and training people, as well as customer expectations. Never has the incentive to automate as many calls as possible, and as efficiently as possible, been as great as it is today. While businesses want to focus on differentiating themselves through customer experience, they also need to consider the economics of their contact center.

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Whitepages Pro

MARCH 27, 2019

Download the latest PSD2 Tracker here: [link]. PSD2, or the Revised Payment Service Directive, is an EU Directive to regulate payment services and payment service providers throughout the European Union and European Economic Area. To help merchants and payment service providers prepare, Whitepages Pro has collaborated with PYMNTS.com to produce the PSD2 tracker, updated each month to reflect the latest news and stories.

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Customercount

MARCH 27, 2019

How the voice of the customer can help you improve business processes, compliance and overall customer experience at your call center By Carlos A. Marchi-Cuevas, CECP, CME I have dedicated my entire sales & marketing career to one thing: … Continue reading → The post Listen Up! You can actually hear them. appeared first on CustomerCount.

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