Wed.Aug 25, 2021

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The Right Technology Solutions for Tech Support

CSM Magazine

Lance Rosenzweig, CEO, Support.com. Lance Rosenzweig, CEO at Support.com reveals how customer support services delivered by a global home-based workforce and supported by state of the art technology can provide customers with a better experience and easier access to human experts. Technology adoption is picking up speed. This acceleration extends across every sector, from workplace communications and collaboration tools to fintech products like cryptocurrencies and hardware wallets, and from hea

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Don’t Make Me Repeat My Story!

ShepHyken

I’m always frustrated when I call a customer support number that I’ve called before and have to retell my story. The same goes for when I’m transferred to another person. There is no need for this. . I recently posted that message to social media. My friend and fellow customer service and experience expert Jason Bradshaw responded that the same thing happens with online chat.

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Reinforcing Your Work-From-Home Team’s Cybersecurity Foundation

Contact Center Pipeline

Many organizations weathered the COVID-19 crisis by focusing first on the welfare and well-being of their employees. The quick shift from on-premise to work-from-home (WFH) last year helped to safeguard companies’ human asset. Yet in the scramble to ramp-up the distributed workforce, security measures often took a back seat to business continuity. Quick to capitalize […].

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5 Reasons Why You Need Gamification in Your Contact Centre Training

Call Design

If you’re a manager within a sizable workforce, you’ve likely heard of gamification. This new type of technology has completely revolutionised the way training and management is conducted throughout the professional careers of your agents. While gamification has only been around for a short time and used by large scale organisations, a growing wave of smaller workplaces appear to be adopting this technology in recent years.

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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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What is CCaaS? A Definition for the Busy Customer Service Leader

SharpenCX

Whether you’re new to the contact center world or you’ve been here for decades, there’s something we can all agree on: the acronyms are aplenty. From FCR to AHT and UCaaS to CCaaS, contact centers practically have an entire language of their own. It can be tough to keep up with the latest lingo and to decipher between doppelganger definitions that seem almost identical.

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How can you measure customer satisfaction?

ViiBE Blog

ViiBE Blog. How can you measure customer satisfaction? CRM , Customer experience. Automotive , Construction , Energy , Insurance , Retail , SMB , Transport. Natalia Barszcz. August 25, 2021. Share this article. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on whatsapp. Share on email. Contents. Share this article. Share on facebook. Share on twitter.

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Complete Guide to NPS: The Ultimate Question

ChurnZero

Assessing customer satisfaction is crucial and has become an important part of driving growth for a variety of businesses. A Net Promoter Score (NPS) ® is one popular way of measuring customer satisfaction in a way that’s easy to understand. It will help you set benchmarks to get a clear picture of your performance with your customers. Let’s start with the basics.

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What’s Missing from Your Customer Experience?

Working Solutions

Customer Experience (CX) is any type of interaction between customers and a business. That encompasses any touchpoint along the way, be it a customer service interaction, a website visit or social media post – and everything in between. Any sort of dealings with a company has an impact on the people who come into contact […].

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What is Workforce Management?

Babelforce

Workforce Management (WFM) is a set of business processes that contact centers use to ensure that staff can work in a cost-effective way. This includes forecasting contact volume, scheduling staff and analyzing performance. In other words, WFM involves studying the past, managing the present and predicting the future. Why does workforce management matter?

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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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What’s Missing from Your Customer Experience?

Working Solutions

Customer Experience (CX) is any type of interaction between customers and a business. That encompasses any touchpoint along the way, be it a customer service interaction, a website visit or social media post – and everything in between. Any sort of dealings with a company has an impact on the people who come into contact […].

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Company Wellness Solutions Expands Reach, Brings Wellness Relief to More Clients with AVOXI

Avoxi

Company Wellness Solutions Expands Reach, Brings Wellness Relief to More Clients with AVOXI Company Wellness Solutions has seen an uptick in revenue opportunities through AVOXI's expansive global coverage in hard-to-reach countries. Discover their success in expanding reach and services in new markets all from one centralized platform. Company Wellness Solutions, a leading South Africa-based wellness… The post Company Wellness Solutions Expands Reach, Brings Wellness Relief to More Client

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Enterprise Connect - Preview of My Speech Tech Update on No Jitter

Jon Arnold

The 2021 edition of Enterprise Connect is about a month away, and I’ll be presenting my annual update there on the state of AI and speech technology in the enterprise. Most of the attention for this corner of the tech world is focused on consumers and contact centers, but there are plenty of interesting use cases for enterprises right now, as well as on the horizon.

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Financial Services Firm Selects Edify for Cloud-native Contact Center and Unified Communications

Edify

Contact: Liz Cahill for Edify Labs. LCahill@edify.cx.

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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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Complete Guide to NPS: The Ultimate Question

ChurnZero

Assessing customer satisfaction is crucial and has become an important part of driving growth for a variety of businesses. A Net Promoter Score (NPS) ® is one popular way of measuring customer satisfaction in a way that’s easy to understand. It will help you set benchmarks to get a clear picture of your performance with your customers. Let’s start with the basics.

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Data Breaches and Customer Privacy: Can Your QA Scorecards Create Stronger Security?

LiveVox

Protecting customers’ privacy needs to be a top priority for every company in 2021. Living in this digital age means that it’s easier than ever to hack systems and steal someone’s information. Contact centers, especially, are constantly handling sensitive customer information. Most customers assume that their information is being handled with care, but even in […].

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Top SaaS Conferences in the year 2021-22

CustomerSuccessBox

SaaStr Annual 2021. Virtual: September 28-29, 2021. SaaStr 2021 gives you an opportunity to join 10,000+ Cloud and SaaS Founders, VC, and Execs. The 7th SaaStr Annual conference includes 3 full days, 100’s of workshops, and 1000s of Mentoring sessions, all to help you scale faster. Expect over 100 executives from companies like Slack, Zoom, Intercom, and Stripe—plus 25+ AMAs with top industry experts, 100+ workshops, happy hours, and lots more.

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Setting up Your Developer Marketing Team for Success

Influitive

There’s no question that developer marketing and relations requires a unique and multi-faceted strategy just as B2B or B2C customer marketing would. But what strategies and tactics make the most sense to start with and what metrics matter most for measuring success? Last month at Developer Marketing Summit, Mike Stowe, Director of Developer Marketing at […].

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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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How to Call the USA from Australia?

JustCall

Do you want to reach out to your customers in the US? Or want to call or text your American friends from Australia? No matter whom you are dialing up from Australia to the US, there is a set of steps you need to follow. With this quick, handy guide you will understand how to call the US sitting in Australia. So, let's begin by looking at a few things you should know when calling the US from Australia.

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Aug 25 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Vice President, Customer Success (Health Plans) Location: Remote, United States Organization: Castlight Health As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will develop our go-to-market segmentation, operations, and numerous business improvement initiatives that support and enable a singular customer success approach and expansion into multiple health plan markets.

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Playvox Workforce Engagement Management Now Available for Dialpad

Playvox

As in-person interactions with customers have largely been suspended during the pandemic, customer experience centers have evolved from simply offering reactive support to providing proactive customer engagement. More than just a cost center, modern customer experience organizations are now responsible for support, as well as customer acquisition, retention, cross-selling, and upselling.

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How to Obtain an LEI

CSM Magazine

The Global LEI System’s “Local Operating Units” (LOUs) issue LEIs. How to obtain an LEI? The registration form must be completed and sent to the service provider by legal organizations (further the LOU, Registration Agent, or any LEI service provider). ROC authorities who require the use of a common identifier accept LEIs issued by pre-LOUs that have been endorsed by the ROC or recognized by the Global LEI Foundation (see LEI Uses).

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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!

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Playvox Workforce Engagement Management Now Available for Dialpad

Playvox

As in-person interactions with customers have largely been suspended during the pandemic, customer experience centers have evolved from simply offering reactive support to providing proactive customer engagement. More than just a cost center, modern customer experience organizations are now responsible for support, as well as customer acquisition, retention, cross-selling, and upselling.

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Top 7 reasons why Customer Success Fails?

CustomerSuccessBox

With a greater understanding of post-sales functions, many of the SaaS Businesses have already started implementing Customer Success as a dedicated functionality to run their Business. However, one of the challenges of building a customer success team in a SaaS organization is that most have still not acknowledged that Customer Success is a distinct discipline, with entirely different goals and metrics than Sales, Support, and Service and hence often Customer Success fails.

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Increase Customer Satisfaction Scores with Knowledge Management

CSM Magazine

Customer satisfaction can be defined as how happy customers are with a company’s products, services, and capabilities. Learn how a Knowledge Management system can help keep your customers satisfied. The Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) has become one of the the defining data points to evaluate consumer experience and brand growth. While the marketing, pre-sales, and sales processes add to customer satisfaction, customer service heavily influences CSAT scores.

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SaaS Monitoring: Benefits, Best Practices, Tools

SmartKarrot

It is always wiser to review, observe and monitor your operational workflow. Whether it is a manual or an automatic management workflow, you must keep a tab on the performance of the servers, apps, sites and other related infrastructure. And that is why we are proud to present this blog on SaaS monitoring that will walk you through the best of benefits, best practices, and tools that one can avail from SaaS monitoring.

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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