ShepHyken

AUGUST 24, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various 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. Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Your Customer Service? by Mitul Makadia. (Business2Community) By transforming customer service interactions, AI-powered digital solutions are prepared to improve every aspect of your business including online customer experience, lo

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Lumoa

AUGUST 24, 2020

What is customer engagement, how do you measure it, and most importantly how do you improve it? Learn everything you have to know about customer engagement. Feed generated with FetchRSS

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ConvergeOne

AUGUST 24, 2020

It’s an irrefutable truth: COVID-19 has quickly changed the modern workplace. At the onset of the pandemic, many businesses rushed to put temporary solutions in place to protect their employees and keep up their operations. Because these solutions were only meant to be short-term, they are now starting to show their weaknesses and concerns around their reliability and security are beginning to arise.

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TeamSupport

AUGUST 24, 2020

Reports. We all have to run them, and read them, and receive them, or submit them, and definitely explain them. But sometimes we get so caught up in the actions surrounding reports that we neglect to actually understand them. As a customer service professional, you have all sorts of data at your fingertips. From time to first response to hourly ticket totals to the number of chat sessions per day and everything in between, a good customer service system can provide you with the metrics needed to

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Tethr

AUGUST 24, 2020

Data scientists are tired of being bogged down by your organization’s lower-value tasks. They didn’t know they signed up to be your go-to reporting person, your call center database expert and at everyone’s beck and call for even the simplest of questions about data. They got into data science to solve complex problems with machine learning algorithms that can make a huge impact on your business.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 24, 2020

With consumers expecting to engage on their terms, in a way that’s easy and efficient, the flexibility and convenience of digital channels are an essential offering. For many organisations, this means making the business case for going digital to organisational leadership.

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Andrew Mcfarland

AUGUST 24, 2020

Have you ever been in the situation with a customer where your own teammates monopolize the “discussion” and turn it into a monologue? Clearly they believe they have value to add. But they’re making a mistake if they think talking.

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Nuance

AUGUST 24, 2020

As commercially available smart speakers and voice assistants have become more common in our homes and offices, people have grown accustomed to speaking to technology to record a thought or perform a simple task—check the weather, turn on the TV, or make a call. In a clinical setting, it may be just as easy to [.] The post The difference between ambient clinical intelligence and ambition appeared first on What’s next.

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Hello Customer

AUGUST 24, 2020

Luminus is part of the EDF Group and is the second-largest energy supplier on the Belgian market. They serve 1.8 million domestic and professional customers and rely on great customer experience to attain their goal of becoming the preferred energy supplier in Belgium. The heat is on because in 2007 the government liberalized the market making it a price-driven and competitive environment.

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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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inmoment

AUGUST 24, 2020

Unanticipated costs can quickly become the bane of any business project, customer experience (CX) or otherwise, if they’re not carefully considered before pens have been put to paper. It’s thus imperative for CX practitioners who want to pitch their programs to anticipate and prepare for unexpected costs as much as possible. We’ve listed the three most effective considerations that practitioners can use to anticipate and avoid unexpected experience program costs: Vendor Scalability.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 24, 2020

Much confusion reigns about the role of billing in IP PBX software , especially when you use it in multi-branch operations or provide IP PBX as a service to business customers and to resellers and retailers down the chain. In such instances, you will find it difficult to keep track of all individual customers through a third party billing solution. Plus, your retailers are likely to face the same situation and so will your enterprise customers with multiple branch locations when it comes to acco

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Wowdesk Blog

AUGUST 24, 2020

Customer service is an integral part of your company that directly impacts your growth and success. . As per facts, a lot of people look for product/service alternatives if they find substandard or unsatisfactory customer support. This means, if your support staff is lousy or untrained, you are losing the clients that could have offered a lot of revenue for your company. .

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bold360 Blog

AUGUST 24, 2020

In this episode of CXNext: Live, we chat with Diamond Nurse , whose online retail company has seen a pandemic-driven surge in recent months. Diamond is Senior Brand Manager at Filters Fast , an online retailer that sells both air and water filters. Since COVID-19 is a respiratory virus, and since air filtration is recommended by the CDC to help mitigate the spread of the virus indoors, it’s no surprise that Filters Fast has witnessed a spike in outreach to its call center.

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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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Wowdesk Blog

AUGUST 24, 2020

Moving forward with technology, more and more businesses are opting for customer support software to satisfy the need of efficient customer service delivery. However, there are still few who believe that their current system is good enough for them. . Usually, this system is nothing more than a simple email account through which customers can communicate.

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NobelBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

A new report unveils just how much how social media affects customer support and how consumers are gravitating towards their preferred platforms in order to interact with the brands they need support from. It's a huge shift in the industry - are you ready? The post 80% of Customers Engage with Brands on Social Media. What Are You Waiting for? appeared first on NobelBiz®.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

Sooner or later, everyone needs the help of a plumber. However, whether you’ll be someone whose daily planner is filled with scheduled appointments or not, depends on a variety of things. One of the most important factors to influence the success of your business is good customer service. This is the backbone of your company. After all, no matter how skilled you are at what you do, if you’re not seen as relabel or efficient, don’t expect to be called back to the same household again.

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CSM Practice

AUGUST 24, 2020

Our latest Customer Success Executives Roundtable was brilliantly led by Liz McChrystal, Ph.D., Vice President of Revenue Enablement at Accent Technologies. During the session, Liz highlighted the tremendous impact of creating and leveraging the Customer Maturity Scoring Mode l has had the expansion selling as well as new business deals. Liz McChrystal is well versed in leading account management, business process analysis, process adoption, relationship building, and client service functions.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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Merchants

AUGUST 24, 2020

By definition, Quality Management (QM) ensures that an organisation’s product or service is consistently managed against a standard that assures the organisation of meeting customer expectations.

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Global Response

AUGUST 24, 2020

When a company experiences rapid growth, the current practices it has in place may not be enough to accommodate the additional workflow. At this point, considerations must be made in regard to more. The post Analyzing the Benefits of an Omnichannel Contact Call Center appeared first on Global Response.

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Topdown

AUGUST 24, 2020

A new emerging metric amongst marketers and business leaders cites customer experience as the new competitive differentiator—Google that phrase and you’ll be amazed at the results. What separates the leaders from the stragglers is the strength of their strategy and the emphasis on measuring their execution. The leaders bake metrics into their approach from the outset: it’s a key element to their overall business strategy and not seen as an afterthought that they bolt on later.

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Language I/O

AUGUST 24, 2020

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Speaker: Steve Pappas, Chief Strategist, Startup and Early Stage Growth Advisor, Keynote Speaker, CX Podcaster

As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 24, 2020

Role: Customer Success Manager Location: Remote, US Organization: Workstream As a CSM at workstream, You will play the key role in customer success team. Work closely with sales, customer success, product, and engineering teams and ensure all are aligned to make sure the customers are successful. You will responsible for the onboarding of new clients.

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NobelBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

A new report determined that American consumers overwhelmingly approve of interacting with brands over social media. Voice is becoming just a fraction of the responsibilities of a contact center. More and more customers now prefer to resolve basic customer support requests over social channels. And it makes sense, doesn’t it? Back in December we saw just how much phone call spam American consumers receive and then we saw just how bad that got during the pandemic.

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Acquire BPO

AUGUST 24, 2020

Archives. Assess your Finance department's pain points, build a team of finance professionals and re-engineer processes with Acquire BPO's dedicated Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Accounting & Finance. Get this brochure. Fill out the details below to download. First name. Last name. Company name. Country. Country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Be

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Acquire BPO

AUGUST 24, 2020

Archives. Learn how Acquire BPO's dedicated Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Accounting & Finance helped cloud bookkeeper Books365 achieve double-digit growth and deliver consistent, high quality service at a fraction of the cost. Get this brochure. Fill out the details below to download. First name. Last name. Company name. Country. Country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbado

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Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.

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Acquire BPO

AUGUST 24, 2020

Archives. See how Acquire BPO helped telecommunications provider Yomojo leverage automation to design a customised chatbot to improve service levels. Get this brochure. Fill out the details below to download. First name. Last name. Company name. Country. Country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Bot

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