Mon.Oct 05, 2020

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How Better Customer Relationship Management Can Increase ROI

ClientSuccess

If you are a customer success team leader or a CSM, you spend your days establishing and nurturing customer relationships, so obviously you realize how important they are to the ongoing success of your organization. But do you also have a good idea on the ROI they can ‘deliver’ to your team? What is customer ROI? When a new customer first comes onboard with an organization, the CSM will map out the customer lifecycle journey that highlights areas of growth potential within an account.

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24 AI Professionals & Ethics Experts Reveal the Most Overlooked Obstacles for Companies When It Comes to AI Ethics/AI Bias (and How to Overcome Them)

Callminer

Read this article to learn the most overlooked obstacles for organizations when it comes to AI ethics and AI bias.

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Customer Service Team Appreciation 2020

Contact Center Pipeline

This has been a grueling year—a marathon of fear, uncertainty and constant course-corrections. Throughout it all, frontline customer service staff across industries have stepped up to help companies and brands maintain a positive, reassuring presence for their customers. Admittedly, at this point, company leaders, employees and customers are feeling the strain associated with a prolonged […].

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Free Soft Skills Training: Best Practices: Customer Service Representatives

Myra Golden Media

I’m so excited to kick off Customer Service Week with a free soft skills training course! I’ve partnered with Genesys to position Customer Service Representatives to deliver the best possible customer experience and redirect interactions with challenging customers. Take the free training here! Complete all modules my 30-minute course and get your certificate!

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of October 5, 2020

ShepHyken

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. Forever-Changed Buying Patterns Mean Rethinking Customer Loyalty by Mary Jo Yafchak. (Street Fight) The new consumer buying trends — and the business measures put in place to adapt to them — will likely become a permanent fixture even as the economy enters a recovery

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How to Combat Shopping Cart Abandonment

GetFeedback

The common reasons online shoppers abandon their carts and how to overcome them.

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Let’s Ignite a Customer Service Celebration!

TeamSupport

As many companies are aware, in 1992 the U.S. Congress declared the first full week in October “ National Customer Service Week.” It is now an event celebrated worldwide. It is a week many companies use to say thanks, encourage, express gratitude, and show their appreciation for their customer service employees. This year’s theme is particularly significant, Ignite a CX Celebration !

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Election Support and Resources for Non-English Speakers

Certified Languages International

The upcoming 2020 presidential election is on a lot of people’s minds. More than 6 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, this election is like no other, with new concerns about safety and accessibility. And a recent CalMatters article about thousands of Arabic-speaking Californians who will need translated ballots got us thinking more about how hard it is to navigate elections for anyone not fluent in English. .

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Virtual learning and development deepens company culture

TELUS International

The age of virtual learning is here. Discover why investing in virtual learning and development is critical to business continuity and healthy employee engagement.

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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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5 Proactive Activities Leaders Can Do to Position Their Inbound Call Center for Ongoing Success

NICE inContact

Call center leaders can't hide behind bluster. The performance data doesn't let them. Everything about an inbound call center - from expenditures to service levels to customer satisfaction - can be measured and those results reflect directly on the leaders. It's pretty clear when a customer service manager is or isn't producing results. Just look at the KPIs.

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AVOXI Hits the Mark Where Others Fall Short

Avoxi

The Challenge Kenneth Copeland Ministries Colombia found themselves relying on a contact center solution that was no longer fitting their business needs in the LATAM region. With a growing international audience, KCM Colombia needed an intuitive, cloud-based contact center platform with reliable VoIP and CRM integration technology to establish streamlined communication channels, particularly with their… The post AVOXI Hits the Mark Where Others Fall Short appeared first on AVOXI.

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Considering Live Chat Outsource? Here are three reasons you should do it

Vcaretec

Live chat support has grown in popularity over the past few years. Websites in nearly every industry now offer quick and easy live chat options. Live chat support can function in one of two ways. The first option functions like this; a user lands on your site and after a few seconds, a lie chat window opens automatically and an automated message asks the user if they need anything.

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Customer Service and Experience Summit USA 2020 – Free Pass

CSM Magazine

Customer Service & Experience USA 2020 (November 17-18th) brings together an unrivalled list of senior customer service leaders from the world’s most powerful and innovative brands. Join 5000+ customer care professionals online for a virtual event that is purpose-built to propel your business into the future of customer service. In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we are bringing our most senior line-up yet.

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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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Two Thumbs Up for Customer Service Week

Creative Virtual

By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing. Happy Customer Service Week! Today we kick off the annual week-long international celebration of the importance of customer service, the people who deliver that service and the impact it has on successful business practices. 2020 has brought new customer service challenges for companies and altered the way customers engage with businesses, perhaps forever.

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Leading with Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic

CSM Magazine

The Coronavirus brings new and unique challenges to organizations in every industry in all parts of the world. People are working in a time of tremendous uncertainty and stress. If you’re a leader in this unfolding drama, there is no clear view of the direction or duration of the crisis. The health of people near you may be threatened. Government restrictions and actions shift daily.

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Brand Move Roundup – October 5, 2020

C Space

The Brand Move Roundup – October 5, 2020. We’re tracking the notable brand moves & highlighting the companies who are tackling this challenge successfully. Tweet. In early March we began reporting daily on how brands were dealing with Covid-19. But it’s become clear that the current climate is one of near-perpetual disruption, so we decided to keep on telling the stories of inspiring brand leadership and strategy amid the latest crises in an anxious world.

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50 Persistence Quotes That Inspire and Motivate

CSM Magazine

It has been said, “When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” Brought to you by Rick Conlow, here are fifty Persistence quotations for difficult times. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them”.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

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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5 Reasons Why your Field Service Performance Metrics should include Customer Effort Score

TechSee

In 2019, before the world had ever heard of COVID-19, a Research Report by Field Service News showed that field service organizations were already transitioning to a more customer-centric model. 65% of FS organizations identified customer satisfaction as either equal to or higher in importance than operational efficiency. This focus on customer satisfaction has led companies to shift their measures of success as well. 91% of companies surveyed stated that NPS or another alternative CSAT KPI was

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How Customers Can Get Compensated for Mesothelioma

CSM Magazine

Over the years, a number employees and customers have been affected by exposure to asbestos, whether it be from working with the substance or using products made from it. Some of these people have gone on to develop a disease called mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is an aggressive and incurable form of cancer. It occurs in the mesothelium, which is a layer of tissue that covers most of the internal organs.

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3 Ways to Maximize the Value of Open-Ended Responses from Customer Surveys

Satrix Solutions

In my previous article on verbatim feedback, we explored some of the ways you can organize and systematically analyze open-ended feedback collected from your B2B customer surveys. Whether you leverage a text-analytics tool or read and code all free form responses manually, maximizing the value derived from this rich insight depends on what you do next.

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Customer Service Week: A Time to Celebrate Customers and Employees!

CSM Magazine

It’s that time of the year again, the leaves are changing from green to gold to red, there’s a chill in the air and it’s time to celebrate… it’s Customer Service Week! Traditionally Customer Service Week, held the first full week of October each year, has been the time to highlight and celebrate the great work employees do to take care of their customers.

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Contact Center Dialers Demystified

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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4 Warning Signs Your Perfect CX Plan Won’t Succeed

Skybridge

Plans are funny things. You can’t expect to achieve aggressive goals without one. But honestly, you can’t expect to achieve them even when you do have one. Not even a great one. Yet too often, we human beings fall into the same old trap. We set lofty goals, we “commit” to them, we voice them clearly, loudly, and repeatedly to everyone within earshot – only to admit defeat some time later.