Fri.Jul 02, 2021

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Guest Post: Here Are The Do’s & Don’ts of Social Media Customer Service

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Devin Pickell, Growth Marketer at Nextiva. He writes about the do’s and don’ts of social media customer service. We already know more brands are using social media as a customer service channel for answering FAQs, customer complaints, and general support questions. . While social media is a great channel for facilitating customer inquiries, there is a right and a wrong way to use the channel.

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Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our July 2021 Issue

Contact Center Pipeline

We cover a wide variety of topics this month in our July issue. In today’s center, culture is more important than ever, given our variety of workplace choices and varied in-person staff options. Culture is always challenging and now more so. Susan discusses creating a supportive culture for the mixed-model work environment in this month’s […].

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How customer service needs to embrace change in housing associations

Eptica

Date: Thursday, July 1, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How customer service needs to embrace change in housing associations. Published on: July 01, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager From the rise of multichannel to the evolving regulatory landscape and the shift towards hybrid working triggered by the pandemic, customer service in housing associations is continually changing.

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Personalized Experiences are Trending into Every Aspect of CX

Cyara

It has been well over a year since COVID-19 arrived and began making an impact on the business world. Employees experienced the difficulties of working from home while sharing the home with online learners and endless efforts to keep the entire family operating peacefully. Consumers found out how easy it is to have store shelves cleared of basic necessities that were never an issue when 40 hours of every week was spent at an office.

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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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June Writing Roundup

Jon Arnold

June was a busy month with virtual events and client work, along with early signs that the fall will be very busy as live events resume. Already, I have one live event to travel to almost every week through early November - geez. Still managed to get some writing done, though, and here’s my June digest. For more on what’s keeping me busy, next week my July newsletter and podcast both come out.

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July 4th Brings a More Liberated Workforce

Working Solutions

The descriptors for the economic engines driving work today range far and wide. Let’s rattle them off—1,2,3. First, there’s the creator economy geared toward an inventor’s offering to a specific audience. Second comes the YOLO economy, as in you only live once, where self-fulfillment is fueled by passion. And, of course, third is the gig […].

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Integration week: It’s a wrap

inSided

Integration Week here at inSided is coming to a close. Let’s take a look at what we’ve learned this week and remind ourselves why it's important to have an integration strategy for your community in the first place. On Monday , we kicked off the week by talking about why having an integration strategy is so important. To jog your memory, an integration strategy prevents you from having a reactionary approach to building out your tech stack and buying tools that might not serve you well.

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Insite Managed Solutions - Untitled Article

Insite Managed Solutions

Insite Opens New Cape Coral Headquarters Ribbon cutting event marks start of new era. CAPE CORAL, FL 6/29/21- Insite Managed Solutions, a global consulting firm specializing in improving corporate efficiencies while enhancing customer experience, has opened its newly remodeled office building in downtown Cape Coral. "We recruit a large number of our [.].

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Benefits of Outsourced Call Center Answering Services

CSM Magazine

Why You Need to Outsource Call Center Answering Services. There are many reasons why you might want to outsource to the call center market. You may be new to outsourcing and wondering how exactly this service can help you. This short guide can help. In 2021, the Telemarketing & Call Centers sector in the USA would have a market share of around 24.2 billion dollars, as determined by sales.

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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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What is a Customer Success Manager?

CustomerSuccessBox

What is a Customer Success Manager? Customer Success Manager (CSM) is a customer facing role whose goal is to ensure value delivery to their customers. CSMs guide their customers to the desired outcomes and maximize derived value from the purchased product or service. They act as catalyst for customer retention. . How are customer success managers measured?

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What We Can Learn from Japanese Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Japan arguably has the most polished customer service in all the world, so it is worthwhile for any customer service professional to carefully consider why Japan has such world-class service. One key reason is the Japanese culture. “Omotenashi,” which translates as “hospitality,” is a part of everyday life in Japan. But omotenashi means so much more than hospitality.

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Insite Opens New Cape Coral Headquarters

Insite Managed Solutions

Insite Opens New Cape Coral Headquarters Ribbon cutting event marks start of new era. CAPE CORAL, FL 6/29/21- Insite Managed Solutions, a global consulting firm specializing in improving corporate efficiencies while enhancing customer experience, has opened its newly remodeled office building in downtown Cape Coral. "We recruit a large number of our [.].

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Improve Your Customer Service with These Rules

CSM Magazine

Providing a reliable customer support service can help your business to grow even bigger. Many businesses focus more on inviting more and more new customers that they forget that they have to provide assistance to the existing customers. Whether you are running an online business or a brick-and-mortar, unsatisfied customers are a sensitive issue. Thus, maintaining supportive and easy-to-reach customer service is essential for any business.

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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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Interpretation services – Grupo Noa

Grupo Noa

What is meant by interpretation services? Interpreting services are the provision of spoken or signed language communication by a professional interpreter to convey a message from the language of the original speaker or writer, into the language of the listener. Interpreter services are one of the most wanted services in 2020 and are expected to continue the trend in 2021 including both video and audio interpretation services.

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Self-service without good knowledge management is not possible

Knowmax

Self-service without good knowledge management is not possible.

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How to Hire the Right People Quickly with Accurate and Actionable Data

CCNG

In a fast-paced industry like contact centers, it is important to hire quickly without sacrificing accuracy. I recently spoke with David Hadobas of CCNG to discuss this important topic. Our discussion centered around how an automated communication screening process empowers recruiters to focus their time on qualified talent, saving the recruiters hours—and often days—to screen for omnichannel bilingual talent.

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7 Advantages Of Having An Omnichannel Ready Knowledge Base

Knowmax

7 Advantages Of Having An Omnichannel Ready Knowledge Base.

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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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Jul 02 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: San Diego, CA, US Organization: Lytx, Inc. As a Director of Customer Success, you will develop and lead a functional strategic plan to support top-level objectives. Proactively communicate through a regular cadence of department meetings, 1:1 meetings, and cross-functional project meetings. Build operational scale and efficiencies through process creation and optimization and implementation of tools to help drive efficiencies, maximize productivity and

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How to overcome customer service challenges in banking?

Knowmax

How to overcome customer service challenges in banking?

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Net Revenue Retention vs. Gross Revenue Retention: Explained

ChurnZero

Choosing between Net Revenue Retention (NRR) and Gross Revenue Retention (GRR) as your north-star growth metric isn’t an either-or question. SaaS companies must be cognizant of and weigh the implications brought about by a sole focus on these metrics when assessing the performance of and building strategies for Customer Success. In this article, you’ll learn: Differences between Net Revenue Retention, Gross Revenue Retention, and Customer Retention with definitions and examples.

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Getting ready for clearing customer service with the cloud

Enghouse Interactive

While the pandemic has impacted the whole of society, young people have been particularly affected. For example, this year’s A level students have seen their exams cancelled and replaced by alternative assessment models, while many have missed substantial parts of their schooling over the past 18 months. And for those looking to go on to higher education, they probably haven’t had the chance to visit universities and colleges in person due to lockdowns.

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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!

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How to Backup Your Gmail and Open MBOX Files

CSM Magazine

Backing up emails always makes sense, as valuable data must be protected. In case someone takes over your account, the damage will be minimized. If you are going to leave your job, you can save everything you created and take it with you. If a disaster strikes, a backup will prevent a mental breakdown. Follow our tips to download the data easily. The backup will give you a file with an MBOX extension.