Fri.May 25, 2018

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Latest Trend That’s Killing Customer’s Trust

Beyond Philosophy

Recently, Lorraine and I re-evaluated some of our long-term subscriptions – like cable TV, magazines and travel insurance. If you’re like us, once you sign on for something, you tend to renew without thinking much about it. Who on earth would want to deal with a new cable company or shop for insurance every year? You might expect to be rewarded for this long-term loyalty.

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Guest Blog: 5 Keys to Building Sustainable Customer Relationships

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Matt Nolan who shares five keys to building more compelling, sustainable customer relationships. – Shep Hyken. Customer retention used to be considered just a “service problem.” That’s before the service world went digital, and the old ways of doing business became almost shameful, which happened practically overnight.

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How to Avoid Customer Defection

Beyond Philosophy

All too often organizations suddenly see customers leave and have no idea this was going to happen. Colin Shaw and Professor Ryan Hamilton discuss how can you tell when a customer is going to leave you…and what can you do about it. The post How to Avoid Customer Defection appeared first on.

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A Bridge Connecting Parents, Students & Teachers [Testimonial]

FreshGrade

Christopher Yuen, Principal at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, in Kamloops, British Columbia (OLPH), recently shared his experience of using FreshGrade on both a professional and personal basis. How FreshGrade Improves Ownership and Parent Engagement. In education, there are always areas of improvement to track students’ learning effectively, detect barriers to academic success, and provide assistance as early as possible.

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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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How We Reached 100,000 Unique Views a Month on LiveChat Blog

LiveChat

4 years ago, I was given the challenge to write my first article for the LiveChat Blog. The subject of the post was supposed to be about customer service. I dug a little to come up with something worth reading. What came to my mind was that customers behave like kids sometimes. You know, they don’t like hearing the word “no,” they scream and shout, sometimes they make scenes.

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Step Out of the Customer Success Silo and into the Light of Education Services

Education Services Group

Let’s be honest. If it were possible to just make one sale, stop there and have a “forever customer,” everyone would be a Customer Success (CS) pro. That isn’t quite our reality though. The CS reality is a lot more complex, nuanced and ultimately scientific. It requires relationship building, thoroughly understanding customer needs, advocating for their wants, and helping every customer — not just the largest — flourish in ways they never could alone.

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DMG Consulting Releases 2018 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report

DMG Consulting

DMG Consulting Releases 2018 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report. 5/23/2018. New-gen solutions are the future of this mature sector. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 15th annual Contact Center Workforce Optimization (WFO) Market Share.

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Qualtrics Data Connector

Stratifyd

How Stratifyd works with Qualtrics. Stratifyd's qualtrics integration allows a user to quickly find a Qualtrics survey, then select which textual question you want to run an analysis around. Running analyses based on multiple questions and surveys has never been easier! Helps try to improve Qualtrics exporting function by attaching question's to the field.

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GDPR is a reality. What now?

Altitude

So, it is a reality. May 25 came. G DPR took effect. Most of the organizations databases shrunk immensely (unless these organizations were really thorough and did a great job during years cleaning their email lists and only keeping those with consent). All people realized how many organizations had their data and used this occasion to massively and passively unsubscribe from a huge number of lists.

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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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Outlook Data Connector

Stratifyd

How Stratifyd works with Outlook. The Outlook integration will pull down emails from a Outlook account for deep insights into a users email. Combine alerts and re-occuring analysis to look for red flags from an Outlook account. Outlook provides perfectly cleaned email texts to help narrow down analyses to the real content. Create queries from Outlook search to pull down the specific emails based on a search.

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8 Lead Nurturing Email Alternatives Worth Exploring

LiveChat

Lead nurturing is commonly associated with email outreach. However, long gone are the days when sending emails was the only way to reach out to your leads directly. Today there are roughly 269 billion emails sent every day, making your lead nurturing email just another drop in the ocean. While we can’t argue that sending personalized and timely emails is still important, we must understand that there are more effective alternatives to lead nurturing.

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Gmail Data Connector

Stratifyd

How Stratifyd works with Gmail. The Gmail integration will pull down emails from a Gmail account for deep insights into a users email. Combine alerts and re-occuring analysis to look for red flags from a Gmail account. Stratifyd will help clean up the text from email since there can be lots of garbage. Create queries from Gmail search to pull down the specific emails based on a search.

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10 Causes of Inaccurate Forecasts (and How to Avoid Them)

Brad Cleveland Blog

Accurate workload forecasting is critical to contact center success. Recruiting, hiring, staffing and scheduling—virtually everything that goes into optimizing resources depends on having a good estimate of the work that will come your way. Recently, I was reminded of an … Continue reading → The post 10 Causes of Inaccurate Forecasts (and How to Avoid Them) appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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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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10 Causes of Inaccurate Forecasts (and How to Avoid Them)

Brad Cleveland Blog

Accurate workload forecasting is critical to contact center success. Recruiting, hiring, staffing and scheduling—virtually everything that goes into optimizing resources depends on having a good estimate of the work that will come your way. Recently, I was reminded of an article I wrote that was published on icmi.com “10 Causes of Inaccurate Forecasts (and How to Avoid Them)”.

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10 Causes of Inaccurate Forecasts (and How to Avoid Them)

Brad Cleveland Blog

Accurate workload forecasting is critical to contact center success. Recruiting, hiring, staffing and scheduling—virtually everything that goes into optimizing resources depends on having a good estimate of the work that will come your way. Recently, I was reminded of an article I wrote that was published on icmi.com “10 Causes of Inaccurate Forecasts (and How to Avoid Them)”.