Eptica

JANUARY 15, 2021

Date: Friday, January 15, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager 5 ways to get your contact centre fit for 2021. Published on: January 15, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager The ongoing pandemic makes it difficult to predict the near-future. However, one thing is clear – consumers will continue to demand the highest standards of customer service, whatever channel they use to make contact with you.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 15, 2021

This week we feature an article from Thomas Fordham, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at TAP London. H e shares different strategies to help your business monitor and measure customer satisfaction. Customer experience is crucial for businesses looking to retain existing customers and attract new ones. But monitoring it is sometimes easier said than done.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 15, 2021

As we all interact more online than we ever have before, digital experiences are becoming an essential part of your CX. Like a physical experience, digital experiences should center around customers and focus on what they want so you can get what you want, customer-driven growth. However, there is also nothing wrong with giving people a little Digital Nudge in the right direction.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 15, 2021

Steve Bederman joins the Customer Service Academy Podcast - hosted by Tony Johnson - to talk about the different ways in which you can build trust and energy in a virtual call center, plus a host of many more interesting and highly educational insights on running a contact center in general. The post Trust & Energy in Your Virtual Call Center | With Steve Bederman appeared first on NobelBiz®.

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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.

aircall

JANUARY 15, 2021

Whenever there’s a system problem, you can put the days of placing a panicky call to your IT department behind you when you implement a VoIP phone system. Big system problems cost your company time and money. What’s more, technical problems affect your vendors and customers as well. When your system is down, your employees can’t fulfill their responsibilities either.

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Jon Arnold

JANUARY 15, 2021

My latest guest post looks at the nature of presence, and its role in collaboration. If everyone is using the same platform, it’s not problematic, but the reality is that most of us work across multiple platforms, and presence doesn’t natively tie across them. This undermines the utility of presence, and by extension, the utility of UC. That’s the space NextPlane plays in, and hopefully this post will help UC decision-makers better recognize the problem set, and think differently about it.

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Helpware

JANUARY 15, 2021

Customer care is a lasting method of keeping a client safe. Customer care is one step ahead of traditional customer support by developing a special relationship. Although it does not involve the whole Point A to Point B customer journey, it is made up of a chain of interactions. Therefore, it is a process of giving specialized, useful, expert help until the client's expectations are met.

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Jon Arnold

JANUARY 15, 2021

Our last BCStrategies podcast reviewed our parting thoughts on 2020 , and now it’s time to look ahead to the year in front of us. The collaboration space sure was a moving target last year, and we expect more of the same in 2021. The pandemic is still shaping the world of work, and both vendors and buyers are trying to make the right bets - can workers still be productive from home, will they want to come back to the office, how can businesses adapt to these changes?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 15, 2021

Looking back at our Customer Success predictions for 2020 , I can’t help but wonder if our CEO, You Mon Tsang, was gazing into his own crystal ball. Before the pandemic hit, You Mon predicted that Customer Success would undergo its first pressure test. “Be prepared,” he forewarned. Though there were other external factors driving this prediction, You Mon was right on the money.

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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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Helpware

JANUARY 15, 2021

Customer care is a lasting method of keeping a client safe. Customer care is one step ahead of traditional customer support by developing a special relationship. Although it does not involve the whole Point A to Point B customer journey , it is made up of a chain of interactions. Therefore , it is a process of giving specialized , useful , expert help until the client's expectations are met.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Herb Kelleher, co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, once said, “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” He makes a great point. Developing strategies shouldn’t be an overly academic or formal exercise, with the result being a plan that’s really not put to use. In this video, I’ll discuss five common pitfalls when developing strategies.

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Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 15, 2021

Thanks to COVID-19, 2020 was a challenging year for everyone. The pandemic led to enormous additional pressure on customer service, in two main areas: Firstly, customer needs changed dramatically. Use of digital channels increased exponentially, and consumers wanted greater reassurance and support from the organisations they dealt with. Secondly, lockdowns meant that contact centres had to switch to working remotely, leading to a greater burden on customer service teams as they adjusted to a ver

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Zappix

JANUARY 15, 2021

Self-service has firmly planted itself at the core of contact center digital transformation projects. Streamlining repetitive or cumbersome activities improves the customer experience, and impacts the employee experience. Across customer experience.

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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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Xaqt

JANUARY 15, 2021

Paul Stockford of Saddletree Research, a leading analyst firm in the Contact Center industry, published today a Research Brief covering Xaqt's AI powered Vaccination Communication and Scheduling automation platform. The original Brief may be downloaded here. Please contact Chris Crosby at chris@xaqt.com for questions or further commentary. Xaqt Deploys AI-Based COVID Vaccination Solution Summary On December 22, 2020, Xaqt, of Chicago, IL, launched a contact center solution specifically designed

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CustomerSuccessBox

JANUARY 15, 2021

2020 was no normal year. It’s in the COVID lockdowns, economical challenges, anxiety distress, and whatnot. In all of this chaos. Customer Success was holding the fort. You kept the economical flywheel of your SaaS businesses going all through. This year also offered a unique opportunity to work with so many Customer Success leaders and learn from them as to what was working and what is not working for them.

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A Better Answer

JANUARY 15, 2021

Ah, the start of a new year.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Herb Kelleher, co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, once said, “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” He makes a great point. Developing strategies shouldn’t be an overly academic or formal exercise, with the result being a … Continue reading → The post Customer Service Strategy: Avoid Common Pitfalls appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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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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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 15, 2021

A healthy Customer Success and Product team relationship is essential for high performing, high growth companies. When these functions aren’t aligned–you lose. Most software companies can point to areas of coordination between Success and Product and this is an excellent starting point. But for the sake of your long-term success–aim higher.

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ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Often being seen as more important than the price of the product, customer experience reigns supreme. By creating a personalized support experience, co-browsing dramatically increases consumer satisfaction. Additionally, co-browsing helps streamline KPIs thus decreasing costs. What exactly is co-browsing? Co-browsing is a virtual engagement customer support tool for contact centers and sales teams.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 15, 2021

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Community Brands As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will build, manage, support, and monitor the team within the organization. Manage team development, cultivate individual talents, and build strong relationships that facilitate team success. Drive change initiatives as required to improve efficiencies and execute on business commitments.

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ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Often being seen as more important than the price of the product, customer experience reigns supreme. By creating a personalized support experience, co-browsing dramatically increases consumer satisfaction. Additionally, co-browsing helps streamline KPIs thus decreasing costs. What exactly is co-browsing? Co-browsing is a virtual engagement customer support tool for contact centers and sales teams.

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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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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 15, 2021

Large software companies who want to create a lasting value are measured against the Rule of 40. The rule of 40 is an easy way to understand how to balance profitability and growth. The rule of 40 says that the combined profit margin and growth rate should exceed 40 percent. If your company is generating a profit of 19 percent, the company should grow at 21 %.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2021

Applying analytics to pinpoint customer relevancy. The value of positive customer experience continues to grow. The 2019 Gartner Customer Experience Management Survey found that 86% of respondents say they will compete based on customer experience (CX) two years from now. The challenge for CX leaders is to build a multichannel communication strategy to reach customers either in a way they want or via channels they prefer.

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Education Services Group

JANUARY 15, 2021

Customer Success platforms are transforming the way internal and customer-facing teams work efficiently and produce exceptional customer experiences. If the time has come to introduce a Customer Success tool into your tech stack , taking an initial approach to understand the user experiences of your Customer Success team is critical. An internal discovery phase with CS tool users serves as an integral step when introducing this new tool to your organization.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 15, 2021

After writing on Customer Experience for different business functions, we realized a need to discuss Customer Experience as a holistic strategy that applies to the whole organization at large. From an internal viewpoint of an organization, there are multiple stakeholders interacting with the same customer. There are various touchpoints a customer makes with an organization in their entire customer journey.

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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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