Tue.Feb 07, 2017

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Amazing Business Radio: Jeremy Watkin

ShepHyken

Jeremy Watkin on How Listening to Your Customer Service Reps Can Give You a Competitive Advantage. Do you realize there is a hidden gem in your customer service department? Shep Hyken speaks with Jeremy Watkin to discuss the strategies you can use to mine that hidden gem, which can give your organization a competitive advantage. But first… Shep Hyken discusses the power of the customer satisfaction survey.

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How to Stop Customer Service Stress from Ruining Your Day

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Over the past twenty years, an overwhelming amount of studies have conclusively demonstrated that work-related stress negatively affects a growing number of people. Customer service stress is no exception. Every day, customer service industry workers must juggle demands and complaints of varying degrees of complexity, all in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

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4 Reasons Love Letters Make Your Customers Swoon

Russel Lolacher

What better way to show your customers you care than with a love letter. And it doesn’t just have to be for Valentine’s Day. Oh hello Valentine’s Day. That day when lovers demonstrate their affection with gifts, words of love or events to mark the occasion…or all three. Depending on what you’re into. Well customers also like to feel.

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Revenue-Based Metrics Can’t Buy You Customer Success

Mindtouch

One of the most difficult parts of any business is quantifying success and failure. The rise of Customer Success , first in SaaS companies but quickly expanding into traditional industries, indicates a renewed focus on this problem from the point-of-view of the customer (based on the name alone, right?). Customer Success, according to Wikipedia, is the department at a company whose goal is: maximizing the value that customers generate from the solutions they acquired from the vendor by making th

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The 2023 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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Five Ways Hotels Can Build a Successful Digital Strategy for Improving Guest Experience

Avaya

If research has shown us anything, it’s that companies across virtually every sector are realigning around digitization. So much so that 80% of companies identify digital transformation as their top strategic priority, and nearly half of CIOs plan to spend 50% or more of their time in digital activities by 2021 (compared to 13% currently). Overall, IDC expects spending on digital transformation to surpass $2 trillion by 2019.

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NPS measures success, enables us to practice what we preach

Robert Davis

By Larry Hunt , Vice President and Practice Leader. At Robert C. Davis and Associates (RCDA), not only do we help our clients implement and measure continuous improvement plans, we strive as a company to continuously improve our performance. On January 26, 2017, we conducted an NPS survey to determine our impact on our client. The survey was a three-question anonymous survey of our client’s contact center site leadership about RCDA’s performance in our support of 10 sites.

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Six customer service mistakes you probably don’t know you’re making (and how to fix them)

Vonage

It’s natural to always be on the lookout for ways to improve customer service at your organisation – but, sometimes, we’re so busy looking elsewhere that we don’t recognise what’s right under our own noses. How else can you explain these common customer service mistakes, which are so ubiquitous that many businesses don’t even know they’re doing anything wrong?

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Industry Spotlight: Healthcare Insurance Member Experience

Clarabridge

With all the uncertainty swirling around health insurance coverage in the United States, we thought it was time to look at what consumers think about the service they get from their healthcare insurance providers. What does customer feedback tell us about the healthcare insurance member experience? The news is not good. In this report from industry expert Bruce Temkin, we find that health plan providers are missing the mark when it comes to customer experience.

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Start Planning Your Contact Center SMS Strategy

Talkdesk

A phone is a device built for one purpose: communication. But the scope of communications is more broad than it’s ever been. The smart phones in our pockets and purses are not just devices to transfer voices across the miles anymore. These multi-purpose computers can do that, but they also email, pay bills, book services, browse the internet and much more.

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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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Industry Spotlight: Healthcare Insurance Member Experience

Clarabridge

With all the uncertainty swirling around health insurance coverage in the United States, we thought it was time to look at what consumers think about the service they get from their healthcare insurance providers. What does customer feedback tell us about the healthcare insurance member experience? The news is not good. In this report from industry expert Bruce Temkin, we find that health plan providers are missing the mark when it comes to customer experience.

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What’s in Store at the Verint Engage Global Customer Conference?

Verint

These days, organizations across all industries need to make good use of their time and resources—and discover ways to strengthen customer relationships. Verint customers have the opportunity to do all three in sunny Orlando, Florida, May 22-25 at the Verint Engage Global Customer Conference.

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The Truth About Objectives for Abandonment

Brad Cleveland Blog

The post The Truth About Objectives for Abandonment appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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A Tool For Positive Change: Five Tips for Building a Customer Journey Map

Verint

Building a great journey map is not easy. In our experience, the best approach is to make the initial investment in a holistic map and its supporting customer data, and then drill down to solve transactional issues in the next phase.

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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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The Truth About Objectives for Abandonment

Brad Cleveland Blog

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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Scheduling with WFM

Contact Center Pipeline

Workforce management (WFM) technology has developed alongside the contact center, coming a long way from the single-channel scheduling tool it once was. WFM helps people-intensive organizations plan and efficiently schedule their workforce to improve customer service as well as better meet the needs of employees. Like any tool, however, if not used correctly, it can […].

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The Truth About Objectives for Abandonment

Brad Cleveland Blog