CX Global Media

JULY 17, 2018

The contact center agent job is getting harder, talent is harder to attract, unemployment is down and the labor market is tight…all of this is causing a disruption in contact center pay. But not in the way you might be thinking. It’s the timing of pay that we are seeing dramatic increases in. Waiting every two weeks or until mid-month or end of the month just might become a thing of the past, just like a home land-line.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JULY 17, 2018

In the era of big data, leading contact centers are taking a hard look at their use of analytics. However, with the increasing tsunami of contact center data available at your fingertips, knowing which data-dots to connect in order to reveal the underlying business insights can be challenging at best. Instead of wasting time and […].

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CX Global Media

JULY 17, 2018

How would you describe your contact center supervisors? Ineffective? Uncertain? Overworked? Undertrained? Dream team? The fact is having high-performing contact center supervisors is no longer an optional extra for organizations, but even the best organizations don’t have time to figure all this stuff out. So we thought it was best to reveal to you how to build your very own contact center supervisor dream team.

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PeopleMetrics

JULY 17, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Listen Or Die by Sean McDade, PhD. As noted previously, the term VoC is frequently used to describe the measurement of the customer experience; so is the term customer experience management (CEM). A consulting firm mentioned in the introduction, Forrester , coined a third term: customer feedback management (CFM). In this book , you’ll see VoC more than any other term, though you can use each of these terms interchangeably.

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CX Global Media

JULY 17, 2018

How would you describe your contact center supervisors? Ineffective? Uncertain? Overworked? Undertrained? Dream team? The fact is having high-performing contact center supervisors is no longer an optional extra for organizations, but even the best organizations don’t have time to figure all this stuff out. So we thought it was best to reveal to you how to build your very own contact center supervisor dream team.

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TechSee

JULY 17, 2018

IVR technologies are limited without sight. Interactive voice response (IVR) is a technology that allows a computer to interact with customers through the use of voice and touch-tone telephone keypad. Today, IVR is a core technology well entrenched in call centers that has transcended way beyond its role as a simple customer routing system. . A range of emerging technologies have effectively transformed IVR from a frustrating customer waiting experience to an effective process with self service

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SharpenCX

JULY 17, 2018

If companies want to be successful in navigating today’s corporate terrain, we need to focus more on engineering the customer service experience. Customers expect every interaction is the best experience they’ll have with any given company. The challenge is, however, that even though it’s a priority, most companies are failing. A study from Bain & [.].

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Fonolo

JULY 17, 2018

In our business, we are privileged enough to watch as our clients go above and beyond in providing a great customer service by putting an end to long hold times via our call-back solutions. Of the many success stories we observe every day, we’re particularly excited to share this one, featuring First Service Credit Union (FSCU). Many lessons regarding upping the customer experience game can be gleaned from their successes.

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AskNicely

JULY 17, 2018

As a product team, you require a deep understanding of your customers’ complex problems. Without it, how do you know if you’re innovating in the right direction? Are you fixing real pain points, or are you spending time and money on features that might not actually matter to your customers? Collecting real-time feedback not only enables you to get a quick temperature-read on your customers, but it gives your team authentic, actionable insights that you can apply to your roadmap for quicker innov

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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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Method:CRM

JULY 17, 2018

[…]. The post 4 Ways to Increase Customer Engagement Through Email Marketing appeared first on Small business insight from the #1 QuickBooks CRM.

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Outsource Consultants

JULY 17, 2018

Does your company try to get customers to follow the ways of your world, or do you build your company to reflect and serve the world around you? An article by Camille Nicita discusses the idea that companies need to adopt a “survival of the fittest” approach to their business. This is accomplished by reacting to the environment of the culture and world around you and evolving.

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Connecting the Dots

JULY 17, 2018

CCMC ~. Customer Care Measurement & Consulting has partnered with Medallia, a leading customer experience software firm, to fortify its mission of ensuring companies receive substantial return on their customer experience investments. CCMC’s deep strategy and consulting experience, combined with Medallia’s industry-leading technology software, will offer clients an outstanding opportunity to become the best in class in customer experience.

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Outsource Consultants

JULY 17, 2018

Does your company opt for damage control over solutions? An article by Krysta Gahagen gives an example of a coffee shop that had a mechanical problem with their coffee maker. The shop put up signs informing customers that hot coffee would not be available that day. A solutions-based company would encourage their employees to be creative and offer solutions instead, like giving drink recommendations in lieu of the coffee maker being broken.

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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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Monet Software

JULY 17, 2018

Business goals are like destinations. The best way to achieve them is to determine the path forward that will be most effective. If you were driving toward an actual destination, you’d use a road map. For a contact center goal, you can do the same thing. Roadmapping is a process that refers to the actions that must be taken, the steps that execute those actions, and the resources needed to achieve those steps.

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Toister Performance Solutions

JULY 17, 2018

One question I'm often asked is what hiring assessments do I recommend for screening customer service employees. I'm always cautious about these, as some assessment vendors seem like the modern-day equivalent of a snake oil salesperson. "It will cure anything," they say, even though it actually won't. It can be hard to tell the difference between a good and bad assessment.

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Monet Software

JULY 17, 2018

What goes into the perfect contact center agent greeting? After five minutes on hold, the agent could say anything and the customer would be grateful. But your business is better than that. You use workforce management to create accurate forecasts and schedules, so there are always enough agents on the floor to answer calls promptly. But now the real work begins.

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Connecting the Dots

JULY 17, 2018

CCMC ~. Customer Care Measurement & Consulting has partnered with Medallia, a leading customer experience software firm, to fortify its mission of ensuring companies receive substantial return on their customer experience investments. CCMC’s deep strategy and consulting experience, combined with Medallia’s industry-leading technology software, will offer clients an outstanding opportunity to become the best in class in customer experience.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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Customer Experience Matters

JULY 17, 2018

Emotion is one of the three components of a customer’s experience (along with success and effort), so it’s a fundamental element for companies to track. In this post, I examine the eight annual Temkin Emotion Ratings for U.S. companies. It’s one of the components of the overall Temkin Experience Ratings, the open standard CX metric.

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ThriveableBiz

JULY 17, 2018

The common thread in Bridging The Gap Between Marketing & Market Research, is 'Humanising' Research.If you missed my earlier article on it, you can check it out here.Making it a warm, friendly, even fun experience, so participants feel comfortable sharing their time, opinions and feelings with you.Of course, data collection has to be an organised, […].

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Bright Pattern

JULY 17, 2018

Recently, in my discussions with several customer service customers and prospects, I noticed that even though each conversation was about a specific issue, many of them were ultimately about being able to communicate with customers in context.

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Avaya

JULY 17, 2018

While #GetToKnowYourCustomersDay has become a Twitter phenomenon, customer appreciation is an everyday thing here at Avaya. We are highly focused not only on our customers, but our customer’s customer, because improving the customer experience for companies and organizations around the world is what we do every day. Increasingly, customers are virtual to businesses rather than a physical presence, which makes it critical to match technology with the best customer experiences.

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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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COPC

JULY 17, 2018

In our periodic blog series, Ask the Experts, we ask COPC Inc. experts questions about specific areas for improving operational performance in call centers, customer experience (CX) operations, vendor management organizations, and procurement. . In this edition of?Ask the Experts, we discussed change management with Judi Brenstein, COPC Inc. vice president.

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Livepro

JULY 17, 2018

livepro’s third annual Customer Experience Knowledge Management Forums are back in 2018 bigger and better than ever before. This year with 4 locations, a jam packed agenda that features nationwide KM Awards and 2 Keynote Speakers in each state – they’re fast becoming the premiere events for Knowledge Management and Customer Experience.

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ForeSee

JULY 17, 2018

Back in December, ForeSee released its 13th annual Retail FXI report, highlighting companies providing the best customer experience in the industry. One of the report’s most compelling features is the. The post The Customer Journey: Detours and Waypoints on the Path to Purchase appeared first on ForeSee.

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Relay Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Regardless of the oxymoronic, tongue-in-cheek nature of this quote, the Hall of Fame catcher made. The post The Evolution Of Customer Experience: 30 Eye-Popping Stats on Satisfaction, Retention, and Loyalty appeared first on Relay.

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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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CSM Magazine

JULY 17, 2018

Live chat is a way for your business to engage with your website visitors. You can use live chat software to initiate conversation with first-time website visitors, interact with returning customers, and support your existing users in real-time. Using live chat software for your website is like giving your customers a way to talk to your business through WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or other social media channels.

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Natalie Petouhof

JULY 17, 2018

Tweet Acquiring customers is a prerequisite for business success. How efficiently you do it can make or break your business. In fact, customer acquisition cost is one of the metrics that can determine whether your business succeeds or fails, says KISSmetrics cofounder Neil Patel. Essentially, how much you spend on acquiring customers through marketing compared to the lifetime value of your customers determines whether or not your business stays profitable, as well as how profitable your business

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ShepHyken

JULY 17, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Combined with Human Intelligence; the Future of Business Transformation. What can you do to help create an effortless customer experience? Shep Hyken sits down with Jim Iyoob, the Chief Customer Officer at E-Tech Global Services , to discuss the balance between AI and human interaction and how to deliver a convenient and effortless customer experience. ?.

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