Eptica

APRIL 25, 2019

Date: Thursday, April 25, 2019 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Marketing Manager 5 top priorities for today’s contact centers. Published on: April 25, 2019. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Marketing Manager The last 25 years have seen the rise of contact centers, both within organizations and in the public mind. Demonstrating this growth, 2019 sees industry association the CCMA celebrate a quarter century of success , supporting the sector as it has grown dramatically.

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SharpenCX

APRIL 25, 2019

Losing your employees is an emotional and taxing experience for you and the rest of your agents. You might feel like you’ve failed an important team member, and agent morale dips from all the people who make an exit. It’s. Read More. The post Sick and Tired of Turnover? Stop Losing Agents in your Contact Center through Employer Engagement appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software.

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Transparent BPO

APRIL 25, 2019

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 25, 2019

Brands have already begun using facial recognition technology in their Customer Experience. Walmart and KFC use facial recognition technology. Passengers on Delta check in for flights in the Atlanta airport using facial recognition. Even my phone password is my face. Technology also exists that captures customers’ authentic emotion measurement using facial recognition software.

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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.

CX Accelerator

APRIL 25, 2019

This Sunday 4/28 is National Superhero Day! We know from our own community that the network of CX superheroes is boundless! Customer experience can be a difficult job, an ambiguous job, and sometimes a thankless job. Nevertheless, we show up with passion and drive to fight the battles against a whole variety of villains.such as the points of tension in the journey, a lack of CX strategy, the leader that doesn’t believe in investing in the contact center and so many more.

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Vonage

APRIL 25, 2019

Social media teams – both marketing and customer service – often sit by themselves in organizations, likely because management doesn’t quite know what to do with them. But this is a mistake. Integrating with the core business ensures that the social media team is engaged with other business units to share and act upon customer feedback. Customer experience and social media are part of a “continuous cycle” whereby they each feed the other.

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

Running an eCommerce business is all about surviving the competition and sustaining a steady upward growth in revenue generation. To run a successful eCommerce operation today, you need a lot more besides a competent eCommerce platform, a good range of products, a great shipping service, and some straightforward business policies. You must be willing to invest in some additional tools to ensure your business sustains against intense competition.

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Fonolo

APRIL 25, 2019

It’s not often that you get to hear exceptional and positive customer service accounts, so today we bring you five that will shock you – but in the best of ways. With each one of these encounters, one can see how brands can foster and forge loyalty with their customers. The individuals in the following stories were so moved by their experiences that they felt compelled to share them with the vast digital world, and of course with their family and friends.

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

Customer feedback has become an essential aspect to ensure success for all business organizations. Major market players understood this a long time ago and have made customer feedback an integral part of their business. Further, customer surveys have played a crucial part in data collection since their inception and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future.

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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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Bright Pattern

APRIL 25, 2019

Last week I wrote part 1 of this three-part series on CX trends. The blog series covers top items that were discussed in our annual CX trends webinar. Click here to view the webinar on-demand. The webinar featured industry expects from TTEC, The Pace of Service, and Bright Pattern. In part 1 , we discussed omnichannel and today we will talk about utilizing digital channels like mobile channels, bots , augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR).

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

How do you grow your business? How do you ensure its continued success? Well, one answer to that question is to make more sales, and no doubt that is important, another answer to that is customer retention. And what exactly is customer retention? Well, to put it simply, it’s the ability of a company to.? No points for guessing, retain customers.

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Nuance

APRIL 25, 2019

When speaking to a Communications Service Providers (CSPs) or a Multi-System Operator (MSO), when they discuss the topic of voice, they are typically referring to an actual voice call. Voice messaging like voicemail may also fall into this category but for the most part it is connecting two or more parties on a voice call. […] The post Voice is alive and well appeared first on What’s next.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 25, 2019

Working to improve your customer service has always been important, but in today’s highly competitive business environment it’s more essential.

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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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Toister Performance Solutions

APRIL 25, 2019

Training videos are increasing in popularity. Platforms like LinkedIn Learning have become vital sources of content for learning job-related skills. There's good reason for this: Videos cost far less than hiring a trainer. It's far more convenient. Video can be more effective than live training. That last one is a bit of a surprise to most customer service leaders I talk to.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 25, 2019

A Fresh Approach to Contact Center WFM You can learn a lot by listening to your customers, and this is something Talkdesk seems to be very good at. The company has been building their cloud-native, AI-infused contact center story, first quietly, but now loudly, and Talkdesk was impossible to miss at Enterprise Connect 2019. With contact center being such a strong theme at the conference, this was a great opportunity to raise their profile, and the announcement of Workforce Management was likely

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GetFeedback

APRIL 25, 2019

The marketing world is moving at a breathtaking pace. Having creative solutions isn’t remotely enough to attract new customers and.

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Totango

APRIL 25, 2019

Leaders of customer success convened at beautiful Carneros Resort in Napa Valley last week for Totango’s inaugural invite-only Global Executive Forum, the first event of its 2019 Customer Success Summit Conference. . With an amazing NPS score of 87.5, the event impressively delivered on the high bar of excellence with a world-class venue, high quality presentations, meaningful conversations and fun, social interactions.

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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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ChaseData

APRIL 25, 2019

When many people imagine the modern contact center, they imagine numerous computers and other technology alight with information. This is certainly a reality of the industry – and it’s also a perfect metaphor for the many leads that must be handled by the staff of these centers. The information that flashes across these screens can seem unmanageable if that staff doesn’t know how to manage it – and your facility’s call center leads can quickly become unmanageable and useless to you without prope

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Guru

APRIL 25, 2019

How do you define a solid sales pitch? When something works more often than it doesn’t, we usually consider it baked. It’s easy to keep using what you know, but what if there’s a better pitch out there? What’s the best way to discover the kind of information you don’t even know you’re missing? In the end, what kind of sales knowledge do you actually need to become a more effective sales rep?

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Kristina Evey

APRIL 25, 2019

Should we get rid of Annual Performance Reviews? My answer is Yes. Yes, to the traditional method anyway. Let me … Read More Should we get rid of Annual Performance Reviews? The post Should we get rid of Annual Performance Reviews? appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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Working Solutions

APRIL 25, 2019

Think that the customer experience (CX) offered by your business doesn’t matter? Think again: “Seven in 10 U.S. consumers say they’ve spent more money to do business with a company that delivers great service,” according to American Express’ Raymond Joabar. The fact is, any business that takes its future seriously should always focus on how […].

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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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JivoChat

APRIL 25, 2019

JivoChat has an exciting announcement! Jivo is proud to announce that we’re part of a progressive time in social media-run advertising spaces: we’re recognized as a business messenger tool on The Facebook Solutions Explorer Directory. The Facebook Solutions Explorer Directory is an interactive directory of marketing solution providers and partners that let advertisers search for their best marketing options to find advice and the best way to help build themselves.

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Natalie Petouhof

APRIL 25, 2019

Tweet. What Is a Chatbot and How Is It Changing Customer Experience? Technically speaking, a chatbot (derived from “chat robot”) is a computer program that simulates human conversation, either via voice or text communication. Today, such programs can be customized and used in a variety of ways. These include: Chatbots […]. Click here to view original web page at www.salesforce.com.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 25, 2019

There are some individuals who are very effective when it comes to making complaints. They appear to instinctively know how to explain their problem, what to see and how to get refunds, apologies, or other positive outcomes. Other individuals discover that they appear to end up yelling in frustration on the phone. So, what does the first group of people do that the second group doesn’t?

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Natalie Petouhof

APRIL 25, 2019

Tweet. What Is a Chatbot and How Is It Changing Customer Experience? Technically speaking, a chatbot (derived from “chat robot”) is a computer program that simulates human conversation, either via voice or text communication. Today, such programs can be customized and used in a variety of ways. These include: Chatbots […]. Click here to view original web page at www.salesforce.com.

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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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CSM Magazine

APRIL 25, 2019

If you want to deliver the best service to your customers, it’s important to first fully understand their expectations. Customer demands have changed significantly over the years. If your business doesn’t keep up, you’re going to end up getting left behind as your customers head over to your competitors. Here, we’ll look at some of the way’s customer demands are changing, and what your business can do to keep up.

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Spearline

APRIL 25, 2019

Caller ID in the Contact Centre. Whether your carrier partners are delivering customer calls to your center, or enabling your agents to reach out to your customers across international networks, consistent and accurate presentation of CLI is something your business needs. What happens when your customer calls you, but there is no call-back number? What happens when you call back but your CLI is not presented correctly?

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Unymira

APRIL 25, 2019

You’ve determined a new knowledge base is necessary for your organization. So naturally, you want to start the vetting process and go about selecting some potential vendors. But with most solutions, it’s hard to know where to get started if you aren’t familiar with the field.

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