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Holiday Customer Service and Why Sometimes the Best Gifts Cost Nothing

Call Experts

Investing in a holiday customer service plan is essential to growing your business. 52% of consumers say they have made an additional purchase from a company after a positive customer service experience. But, managing all of the moving parts of your business can feel overwhelming, especially with the onset of the winter season. Managing your customer demands with the needs of your workforce can be easy when you partner with an experienced team like Call Experts.

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Call Center Compliance + Remote Agents: Steps To Be Successful

AnomalySquared

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Tips On How To Maximize Your Call Center ROI

MiaRec

In today's business world, it is more important than ever to make sure that you are getting the most out of your investment in contact center intelligence. By measuring and maximizing the return on investment on your contact center in general and your Conversational Analytics solution specifically, you can ensure that your call center is as efficient and effective as possible, which can lead to increased sales, happier customers, and more efficient operations.

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How Do I Make Customer Success More Personal?

ClientSuccess

Customer success managers have their work cut out for them when it comes to retaining and growing customers. It takes a lot of hard work to draw customers into your company in the first place, so you must work to keep those customers more than satisfied once they decide to work with you. One way to ensure your customers stay with you is to add a personal touch to customer success.

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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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7 Tips to Improve the Customer Experience and Reduce Costs

CCNG

When most business leaders hear the term “improve customer experience,” many immediately think of investment … new systems, more customer service agents, etc. With the right approach, improved customer experience can also dramatically reduce operating costs. Here are seven tips for creating an outstanding experience while simultaneously increasing ROI. 1.

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Improving Customer Support with Mobile Screen Mirroring

TechSee

Whether you are a ridesharing leader supporting millions of global drivers and riders or a mobile carrier troubleshooting connectivity issues, fast and convenient mobile support is mission-critical. However, providing customer support for issues that occur on smartphones is very challenging. In this post, we will explore the challenges of mobile software support, and how mobile mirroring is bringing visual clarity to support agents and end-users alike, delivering faster, more efficient, and effe

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How to Improve Customer Service – A Complete Guide of Tools, Tech & Tips

Comm100

How to Improve Customer Service. A Complete Guide of Tools, Tech & Tips. We all know that customer service is important, but just how instrumental it is to success of a company might surprise you. A massive 91% of customers agree that a positive customer service experience makes them more likely to make another purchase. What’s more, 90% of Americans use customer service to decide whether or not to do business with a company.

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Boosting Agent Efficiency with Modern Channels & Automation Technology

Contact Center Pipeline

An increasing number of organizations now have limited resources and staff at their disposal due to consequences of the current macroeconomic climate. When you pair that with mounting support inquiries, it’s clear that many businesses are facing an efficiency mandate in order to survive. Businesses and consumers alike have new expectations of CX in the […].

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In an increasingly MAD world here are 5 rules for managing uncertainty

Beyond Philosophy

A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. As if the world isn’t crazy enough—with the war in Ukraine, the cost-of-living crisis, the looming threat of recession, and the ostensible beginnings of catastrophic climate change— we learned a flesh-eating bacterium (Vibrio vulnificus) is running rampant in Flori

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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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Don’t Let a Process Get In the Way of Making Smart – Even Common Sense – Decisions

ShepHyken

Here is another customer service horror story about a woman who was so fixated on a process that it almost cost her “customer” his life. . My friend Jerry went to the emergency room of his local hospital. He was in excruciating pain. Something in his abdominal area was not right. He truly felt like he was going to die. . Doubled over in pain, he limped through the waiting room to the registration desk and begged to see a doctor.

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Tips & strategies to improve frontline agent experience

Callminer

Agents play a significant role in customer satisfaction. Read this blog for tips and best practices to improve frontline agent experience, including effective onboarding, ongoing training and more.

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Disruptive Disruptors Disrupting

Contact Center Pipeline

I know, I know. Last time you heard from me, in my January 2022 column in this magazine, I told you I was retiring. And I did. For the most part. I’ve found retirement to be quite liberating. There are no more Saddletree Research clients and I have no more contracted projects left to do. […].

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In an Increasingly MAD World, Here Are 5 Rules for Managing Uncertainty

Beyond Philosophy

The world is crazy. There’s a war in Ukraine. The UK has a cost-of-living crisis as energy prices are rising, and loads of people are moving into fuel poverty. There’s inflation, strikes, and the looming threat of a recession and catastrophic climate change. The current environment I describe is very stressful, with many things you cannot control, which makes a few things on the path forward uncertain.

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 11-14-2022

ShepHyken

Each week, I read many 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. Partnering in Complex Times: Turning to the Experts for Best-In-Class Customer Experience by Harvard Business Review. (Harvard Business Review) Years ago, in the legacy, on-premises world of siloed call centers, in-house CX management was much simpler.

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8 Knowledge Management Benefits That Tip The Scale for Businesses

HelpCrunch

Let me flash a little discovery of mine. Did you know that the human brain can process 11 billion bits of information every second? That’s quite impressive! From here, I would like to simulate a [ … ]. The post 8 Knowledge Management Benefits That Tip The Scale for Businesses appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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Routing Right

Contact Center Pipeline

The French writer and editor, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, created this wonderful phrase “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” which roughly translates to “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” I sometimes feel that way about contact centers. The core challenge of providing excellent customer service and enabling sales while managing […].

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5 Ways to Ensure Your Support Organization is Ready for the Holiday Rush

TechSee

The holiday season is a busy time for every team, but the unsung heroes of the holiday season are without a doubt the service organization. While everyone else is spending time with family and friends, service teams are hard at work making sure their customer’s holiday plans aren’t interrupted by long wait times or service disruptions. Especially in the consumer sector, demand for service grows as customers begin setting up and using their new purchases and holiday presents.

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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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Guest Post: Why B2B Business Needs Dedicated Customer Support

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Kateryna Boiko, Marketing Director at Mobilunity , an organization that provides dedicated digital marketing and development teams to companies worldwide. She shares the benefits of having dedicated customer support in B2B organizations. Any company needs to become a part of B2B or “business-to-business,” where legal entities establish trading relationships with each other.

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Call Center Management: The Best Questions to Ask During a Performance Review

Fonolo

Ah, performance reviews. They’re a staple of almost every workplace, and call centers are no exception. In fact, these engagements are an essential part of running a successful customer service operation. Why? Agent performance directly impacts the caller’s experience. If your agents aren’t satisfied in their daily work, or they’re not doing their job properly, it can spell disaster down the road.

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10 top tips for a winning customer service knowledge management system

Eptica

Date: Friday, November 18, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager 10 top tips for a winning customer service knowledge management system. Published on: November 18, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Using knowledge effectively is key to driving excellence in customer service, particularly as queries become increasingly complex and information changes ever faster.

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Tech Team Stories: An Inside Look at My First Aircall Hackathon Experience

aircall

Ever since I joined Aircall, it has been a rollercoaster ride. One of my most memorable experiences so far was when I got the opportunity to be a part of a virtual hackathon experience during my first month at Aircall. Hackathons are an exciting time in an engineering team’s life. The surreal energy encourages innovation, collaboration, and team bonding.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Tony Sternberg

ShepHyken

Creating a Good Customer Offboarding Experience . How Companies Can Provide Outstanding CX From Sign-Up to Cancellation . Shep Hyken interviews Tony Sternberg, CEO and co-founder at ProsperStack , a platform that helps companies reduce customer churn and increase their lifetime value. He shares how companies can differentiate themselves by providing an excellent customer experience from the beginning to the end of their journey. . .

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Using Cloud Communications to Tackle eCommerce Customer Pain Points

Avoxi

Using Cloud Communications to Tackle eCommerce Customer Pain Points The global eCommerce industry is expected to reach $5 trillion by the end of 2022. And while there’s more money than ever to be made from eCommerce sales, there are also more challenges for brands to remain competitive. Supply chain issues, inflation, rising competition– there are… The post Using Cloud Communications to Tackle eCommerce Customer Pain Points appeared first on AVOXI.

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How to hold customer service employees accountable

Toister Performance Solutions

Accountability is difficult. Some managers want to avoid a confrontation. Others struggle with timing in a fast-paced environment. For a few managers, accountability discussions feel like the first step towards inevitably losing an employee. Have you tried replacing someone right now? It's hard. A LinkedIn post asked managers to share what they find most difficult about holding customer service employees accountable.

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Evolution of Customer Experience in E-Commerce 2023

Lumoa

The evolution of customer experience in e-commerce has grown exponentially since the pandemic making customer experience more important than ever. Customers search for easy shopping solutions on clear, engaging websites. In the past two years, we’ve seen a massive surge in online shopping, from tech products to fashion items. E-commerce sales are now projected to reach $7.4 trillion by 2025.

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Reimagining CX: How to Implement Effective AI-Driven Transformations

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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How Customer Success can get a bigger piece of the budget pie with Jeff Heckler

ChurnZero

As a Customer Success leader, do you find yourself watering down your budgetary requests? It can be intimidating to ask for what you need, especially in the face of a recession. You might worry about coming off as demanding, or incompetent at making do with what you already have. And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential.

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Rising Support Demand Reduces Revenue – State of Support Part 1

TeamSupport

Support demand is rapidly and continuously increasing and few businesses are prepared to address the rising needs of their customers. According to TeamSupport’s State of Support report for 2022 , overall support demand is rising at an average rate of 11%. That means your support team is getting more emails, more requests, more everything. Chances are that your support team is already getting hammered by the sheer volume of customer issues, not to mention the potential for complexity.

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What Are You Thinking? How Executive Perception of the Contact Center Makes or Breaks Success

Balto

Blair Pleasant President & Principal Analyst, COMMfusion LLC. The direction of a company is largely determined by the vision of the executive suite. Look no further than the recent Twitter takeover by Elon Musk to see how much — and how quickly — leadership can pivot a company’s trajectory. Contact centers are no different. Whether executives view their contact center as a profit center or a cost sink ultimately determines how much investment, or divestment, happens there.