Mon.Feb 13, 2017

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Good Tipper Or Scrooge – What Are You?

Beyond Philosophy

Some people love to tip and others do, but begrudgingly. However, it appears that nowadays everyone is expecting a tip even if they are just serving you at the checkout! When you see a tip jar by the cash register what do you think? To me, the tip jar says “I deserve a tip”. But it says quite a bit more, too, and none of it good about your Customer Experience.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 13, 2017

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online 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. The Customer is Always Right by Richard Shapiro. (TCFCR) “The customer is always right” is a mantra urging service staff to give high priority to customer satisfaction.

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3 Ways to Support and Engage Your Employees

CustomerGauge

In any pursuit to transform customer experience, there is one important element to always consider: employee experience. CX transformation isn’t something that happens overnight or behind a closed-door discussion. Employing a customer-first focus means cross-company change at every level, including the individual employee level. Many organizations have embraced the philosophy that happy customers rely on […].

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Using Customer Journey Maps: Dirty Secrets and Wasted Opportunities

360Connext

Customer journey mapping is having a moment. Using customer journey maps is becoming almost (almost!) commonplace. Organizations see how beneficial mapping the customer experience is. It’s a way to understand the experience your customers are having so you can improve those confusing, frustrating or neglected parts on the journey. But there is a dirty little secret about using customer journey maps.

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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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Why Aircall and HubSpot Have Teamed up to Serve Sales People

aircall

Sales calls are a necessity for every business. Yet, over the past 20 years the sales process has evolved a great deal and sales people were forced to adapt. Every type of organization has suffered the impact from SMBs to large companies or sales consultants. How sales has changed in the past years. For one, sales cycle are getting longer. With a fair amount of information and feedback available for them, clients and prospects tend to take their time before buying.

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The Customer Service Vision Statement

Customer Centric Support

I know what you may be thinking. Yet another meaningless corporate raw-raw statement that will be forgotten in a week!? I’m with you. Two years ago, I would have been in the same state of mind – but before you do your best Judge Judy eye roll and surf on, I challenge you to give the Customer Service Vision Statement a chance. There are few things this remarkably simple that pack such a huge ROI potential for our teams.

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Using Customer Journey Maps: Dirty Secrets and Wasted Opportunities

360Connext

Customer journey mapping is having a moment. Using customer journey maps is becoming almost (almost!) commonplace. Organizations see how beneficial mapping the customer experience is. It’s a way to understand the experience your customers are having so you can improve those confusing, frustrating or neglected parts on the journey. But there is a dirty little secret about using customer journey maps.

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The Truth About Churn: Getting Dumped By Your Customer

Amity

SaaS Tattler Issue 100 - The Truth About Churn: Getting Dumped By Your Customer. This valentine’s day, our thoughts go out to all of those failed relationships. Everything always seems to start so right, from first date to honeymoon, you always think that this one’s the one, the one customer that will reciprocate all of the care and attention you’ve given them by becoming a forceful advocate.

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5 ways speech analytics can plug your customer service intelligence gap

Vonage

In 1971 a study famously concluded that only 7% of communication is verbal. However, this often-quoted statistic not only undermines the effectiveness of spoken communications but the comprehensive nature of the research itself. The piece’s author – Professor Mehrabian of UCLA – found that 55% of communication is about body language. He also reasoned that 38% is about the way people speak rather than the words used.

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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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Jacada Visual IVR is the Vendor Agnostic Instant App Equivalent

Uniphore

Android Instant apps are all the buzz in the tech industry news, lately. The promise is very appealing. Who actually enjoys being forced to visit the Play Store and install an app before getting to the content they are after? Android users will soon have instant access to the entirety of a mobile applications content, without the annoying blockades and buzzkill of having to download the full application.

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10 Traits to Prioritize When Filling Call Center Jobs

Talkdesk

As a company grows and expands its user base, it’s inevitable that the support team will need to add new members. Filling those call center jobs with the right people is extremely important in terms of maintaining a positive work environment and improving relationships with new and existing customers. At Talkdesk , we know our call center agents will often communicate with other call center employees, so we make it a priority to staff the team with the best of the best.

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Jacada Visual IVR is the Vendor Agnostic Instant App Equivalent

Uniphore

Android Instant apps are all the buzz in the tech industry news, lately. The promise is very appealing. Who actually enjoys being forced to visit the Play Store and install an app before getting to the content they are after? Android users will soon have instant access to the entirety of a mobile applications content, without the annoying blockades and buzzkill of having to download the full application.

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Connected, Contextual, Consistent—Intelligent Customer Service

Verint

I recently shared my thoughts with the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) about how a connected, contextual and consistent approach to customer service helps customers do business efficiently—and then get back to their busy lives. Moreover, employees benefit too, because a central set of cross-channel tools gives them the unified customer history, joined up processes and consistent answers they need.

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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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How Contact Centers Can Create Frictionless Touchpoints with Data

Emicen Contact Centers

To improve customer experience, contact centers must reduce customer effort. They must create customer touchpoints—interactions with the brand—that are entirely frictionless. Omnichannel technology, which enables customers to communicate with brands through their preferred channels, is an important digital step toward reducing friction and improving customer experience.

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2017: Transforming Government Perspectives

Verint

Toward the end of 2016 I had the opportunity to hear the perspectives of many people who worked at city, state and national government and who participated in the first few Citizen2020 'Conversations Workshops.'. Our most recent workshop was held in San Francisco just a few weeks after Donald Trump was elected President.