Fri.Feb 25, 2022

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Guest Post: The Shocking Percentage of Customers Who’d Leave Your Business Due to Bad Service – and What You Can Do About It

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Janine Hunt, Client Partnership Director at Kura , a company that provides customer service solutions by outsourcing contact center services and software solutions. She shares how customer service is the deciding factor to your customer’s loyalty to your business. According to Forbes, 96% of customers would leave your business if you deliver a bad customer experience. .

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How to Ensure Exceptional Customer Service on Every Call

Contact Center Pipeline

I have had the pleasure of staying in touch with Trey Briggs, President of BCI over the past several years as he has continued to refine his agent training. Today, I am highlighting his company’s unique training and performance management product that ensures service excellence in every call. Q. What makes BCI unique to the […].

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2022 Product Roadmap

Totango

Have you seen what Totango is working on? We wrapped up 2021 with a few game changing innovations and are excited to get on the road again with another exciting year of new features. . In 2022, we’re upping our game on customer engagement, creating more team collaboration experiences, connecting Totango to more of the tools you use everyday, and supporting your organizational changes and evolution.

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The Top 6 Customer Service Trends Defining Business Success in 2022

Advantage Communications

Businesses have experienced some significant changes in how they operate and communicate with their customers over the past couple of years. The pandemic has been the driver of reduced operating hours, a surge in online sales and workforce interruptions.

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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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Writing Excellent Customer Service Emails: Tips & Templates

Help Scout

Here are the best tips, tricks, and templates to use to improve your team’s processes for writing exceptional customer service emails.

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Tips to Turning Your Contact Center into a Revenue Machine

Avoxi

Tips to Turning Your Contact Center into a Revenue Machine It was an exciting couple of days for AVOXI at BINA's virtual 2022 Contact Center Summit. While we got to share the value in cloud technology for remote teams, we also got to hear from others on their ideas for creating a harmonious and profitable… The post Tips to Turning Your Contact Center into a Revenue Machine appeared first on AVOXI.

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Why is customer service getting worse?

Interactions

“Customer service isn’t what it used to be.”. Have you ever heard someone say this? Or maybe you’ve muttered it yourself after failing to resolve an annoying issue with a brand over the phone. . It’s funny how despite technology advancing, the way that customers feel about service has somehow gotten worse. . But we can’t be too surprised. As companies have become larger, there is less ability to take care of each individual customer.

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What Stands Between Salespeople and Achieving Their Sales Goals?

Integrity Solutions

How would your salespeople grade themselves when it comes to the key dimensions of sales success? Namely, their ability to clearly set (and hit) their sales goals. In our sales training programs , we always ask participants to do a little self-reflection and assess how well they believe they embody the four traits of high producers : goal clarity, achievement drive, emotional intelligence and social skills.

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Webinar Q&A Recap: Nurturing Employee Success in Customer Success

Education Services Group

Speakers: Perry Monaco , Head of SMB & Scaled Customer Success at LinkedIn & Jim Mercer , Global Head of Customer Success at Zoom. Our Vice President of Customer Success, Peter Armaly, stepped in as guest host for this month’s Customer Success Unlocked Webinar to lead the conversation on Nurturing Employee Success in Customer Success. Zoom’s Jim Mercer and LinkedIn’s Perry Monaco answered some complex and nuanced questions on how to navigate employee success in the crazy and

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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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Contact Center Technology: 5 Ways to Increase Adoption and Improve Customer Service

Vistio

Technology is a game-changer for customer service. But a recent study by Vistio found that one of the most challenging aspects of managing a contact center’s existing technology tools is getting agents to adopt and use the new tools. In the current atmosphere—where some agents are working remotely, some are in a physical office, or there is a hybrid environment—it’s crucial that all agents use the same tools and use them correctly to deliver a fast, efficient, and consistent customer experience.

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7 Must-Have Shopify App Plugins + Why You Actually Need Them

kommunicate

Last Updated on February 25, 2022 Which is the right app for my Shopify store? This question has probably been on the top of your head if you’re a Shopify Merchant, thanks to the hundreds of apps available on the Shopify store. Shopify has been delighting its user’s thanks to its sleek, modern interface, a [.]. The post 7 Must-Have Shopify App Plugins + Why You Actually Need Them appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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How is CRM Used in Call Centers? A Call Center Software Guide

Babelforce

In this post: What does CRM stand for? Isn’t CRM the business practice or the software? What does CRM stand for? CRM is short for “Customer Relationship Management”. It’s a piece of call center software that CX teams use to manage information about their customers. There are two main reasons that businesses need this: First, businesses need a straightforward way to view their customer data.

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How to get C-Suite Leaders to buy-in to Customer Success Software

CustomerSuccessBox

Have you been stuck with inherited sales tools that weren’t designed with the Customer Success Manager (CSM) in mind? Customer Success (CS) teams are going through a difficult transition in the subscription economy developing out of the ill-fitting garments that never offered them the right fit and trust in their ability to take ownership of their part in the customer relationship.

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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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Teaching Analytical Reading

Help Scout

Advice on getting your customer service staff interested in writing more help documents and creating space for them to do so.

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A Game Plan for FSI’s and Credit Unions

Enghouse Interactive

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Help Scout’s Conversation Corner on Experience This!

Help Scout

Links, images, and further reading related to the Conversation Corner segment on the Experience This podcast in 2022.

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Feb 25 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Mahwah, NJ, US Organization: Radware As a Director of Customer Success, you will lead, coach, mentor Professional services engineers and TAMs. Ensure successful deployment of products purchased by customers thru Radware professional services. Lead and grow Radware’s Managed security services business in North America.

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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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Q&A recap: the startup’s guide to Customer Success

ChurnZero

Startups in today’s environment have the challenge of meeting rising customer expectations while trying to determine product-market fit and a path for growth and probability. By investing in Customer Success from the start, startups can build loyal and engaged customers who ultimately become brand advocates. Jennifer Chiang author of “The Startup’s Guide to Customer Success,” joined us to share how Customer Success can help you as you scale your startup.

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Revenue Backlog: How to Define, Calculate, and Help Your SaaS Business?

SmartKarrot

The ultimate stake of a SaaS business lies in the number of successful subscriptions it can generate in time. The amount of revenue generated by each subscription can sometimes become quite difficult to gauge. This is where revenue backlog occurs in a SaaS business. Several SaaS businesses are not huge fans of tracking the revenue generated by each subscription.

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How a unified agent desktop empowers your advisors and better engages customers

Eptica

Date: Friday, February 25, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How a unified agent desktop empowers your advisors and better engages customers. Published on: February 25, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager As contact centres evolve, agents are increasingly required to log into multiple technology systems while interacting with customers.

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Chief Customer Officer: A Direct Competition to Chief Marketing Officer or a Resourceful Ally

SmartKarrot

This is undoubtedly the age of the customer. Being customer-driven and data-driven is important. A purchase decision is determined by customers- they will look at a positive experience over anything else. Customer experience is now a priority for any company. This is why more businesses are appointing Chief Customer officers to focus on customers. As per Gartner , 90% of companies now have a CCO with customer experience and success as the core responsibility.

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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!