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5 Reasons Call Center Agents Aren’t Learning Enough in Remote Training

ScreenSteps Call Center

Have you noticed that your virtual trainings haven't gone quite as well as your classroom trainings did? Reps quit out of the blue after the first week. No one's interacting (except for that ONE who always chimes in before anybody else can contribute).

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User Experience in Customer Success Platform Planning

Education Services Group

Customer Success platforms are transforming the way internal and customer-facing teams work efficiently and produce exceptional customer experiences. If the time has come to introduce a Customer Success tool into your tech stack , taking an initial approach to understand the user experiences of your Customer Success team is critical. An internal discovery phase with CS tool users serves as an integral step when introducing this new tool to your organization.

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How to end the conflict between marketing and customer service

Toister Performance Solutions

Some feuds are timeless. You have the Capulets and Montagues. The Hatfields and McCoys. And of course, there's marketing and customer service. What's their beef? I talked to both departments to get their sides of the story. The answers revealed a fundamental problem that plagues many companies. Here’s what they had to say. What does marketing want from customer service?

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An Empowerment Lesson From the Ritz-Carlton

ShepHyken

If you’ve been following my work, you know I’m a huge fan of the Ritz-Carlton. I was recently on a Zoom presentation with Horst Schulze , first president and co-founder of the Ritz-Carlton chain. When Horst speaks, I listen and take lots of notes. One of the questions he was asked had to do with empowerment, specifically about the $2,000 the Ladies and Gentlemen – what Ritz-Carlton calls its employees – are allowed to spend to ensure a guest has a great experience.

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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 to De-escalate in Chat and Email

Myra Golden Media

We kicked off De-escalation Academy yesterday, and a student asked a question that I think is important for us to discuss here. His question was: “Our team is working 99% by email, will we able to apply everything that we learn here and translate it into a purely written environment? Any advice is appreciated.” Customers escalate in chat and email interactions intensely!

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Vital for 2021 – Digital Nudging Will Revolutionize Your CX

Beyond Philosophy

As we all interact more online than we ever have before, digital experiences are becoming an essential part of your CX. Like a physical experience, digital experiences should center around customers and focus on what they want so you can get what you want, customer-driven growth. However, there is also nothing wrong with giving people a little Digital Nudge in the right direction.

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Guest Post: How to Effectively Monitor Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Thomas Fordham, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at TAP London. H e shares different strategies to help your business monitor and measure customer satisfaction. Customer experience is crucial for businesses looking to retain existing customers and attract new ones. But monitoring it is sometimes easier said than done.

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Action Changes Things: Make it Happen in 2021

CCNG

At the recent CCNG Fireside Live Chat held in December I had the opportunity to provide my reflection on 2020 and what I predict will happen in 2021 alongside two other industry colleagues, Poly and Avtex. I want to share where we need to laser focus our attention in 2021: Voice channel Phone calls continue to be the primary choice of contact especially during the pandemic and I don’t foresee the trend of having a human-to-human conversation changing anytime soon.

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Celebrating Tony Hsieh's Contribution to CX

CX Accelerator

by Jeremy Watkin and Community. The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

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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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Vital for 2021

Beyond Philosophy

Ep 169 Vital for 2021 – Digital Nudging Will Revolutionize Your CX. Whether you realize it or not—and even if you don’t know what they are—you use Digital Nudges in your online experience today. Digital Nudges are the interactions you have with customers online in your experience that inspire their actions. Every online experience has them, but not all of them are deliberate.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 11, 2021

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. How to Measure Your Customer Experience Maturity by Sharon Florentine. (CMSWire) A customer experience (CX) maturity assessment is a great way for an organization to understand where it is on its path to customer-centricity and identify where further interventions mig

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312: Jim Loehr – Character Development in CX

CX Global Media

Sean Ryan was put in charge of an engineering team that had more experience than he had been alive. He wanted them to be more focused on the customer, but he could not possibly dictate any decision to them because they were more experienced than he was. Not really knowing what he could bring to the table, Sean tried to figure out what value that he could bring to the team, and he realized that if he could create space for them from the bureaucracy within the company, then they would be able to p

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Legal and Regulatory Developments in 2020—and What to Expect in 2021

Contact Center Pipeline

Think about this. 2020 has (thankfully) come to an end, but the rapid and largely unrestrained spread of COVID-19 has upended our normal way of life and caused tremendous economic losses. On top of that, we just completed a bitterly contested presidential election. While all this was happening, important things were happening on the legislative […].

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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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Make Your World Revolve Around The Customer – Tip #24

Steve DiGioia

Customers need to know that you have their best interests at heart. As business owners or managers, we get too bogged down with the day-to-day machinations of business and forget the ultimate goal; to satisfy our customer’s needs. We forget what Peter Drucker famously said that the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. We focus more on payroll than the proper staffing needed to service our customers.

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Amazing Business Radio: Dennis Wakabayashi

ShepHyken

The New, Better Customer Experience. How to Drive a Customer-Centric Culture. Shep Hyken interviews Dennis Wakabayashi , the VP of CX Solutions Delivery for RR Donnelley. They discuss strategies for creating customer-centricity by improving the employee and customer experiences. Top Takeaways: There are two halves to customer centricity. One is the great leaders of CX, who are inspirational catalysts for creating customer-centric culture.

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Boost Agent Satisfaction in Your Contact Center with These 9 Inclusive Practices

Fonolo

Fostering an inclusive work environment is essential if you want a high-performing contact center team. If you haven’t been paying attention, agent attrition has continued to rise, according to our State of the Contact Center 2020 report. And high turnover rates won’t just hit you in the wallet — it also impacts morale, which will affect any new hires.

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8Ă—8 and Aryaka: Bringing the World Closer, Together

Contact Center Pipeline

Introducing your power team to enhance cloud communications and contact center performance across SD-WAN. 8×8 and Aryaka cloud-based services deliver the flexibility, simplicity, and scalability of the SaaS cloud consumption model, and Aryaka’s global footprint offers a perfect foundation for 8Ă—8’s UCaaS and CCaaS offerings to achieve peak global performance.

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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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Teach smart devices to see what you see: Why TechSee is one of the best R&D companies to work for

TechSee

If you’ve ever been tempted to smash your wireless router or take a bat to your smart thermostat out of sheer frustration, then you already have a pretty good idea of why we do what we do at TechSee. Never heard of TechSee? That’s ok, we may be a relatively new startup (founded in 2015) but we are really starting to make a splash, so expect to hear more about us going forward.

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Dive Into 2021 with an Eye on the Future of the Contact Center Industry

Aspect

2020 was a difficult year for enterprise organizations across the globe, one that also forced digital transformation at an unprecedented rate – the contact center industry was not spared this shift. Our industry has never experienced a global pandemic and subsequent multi-market meltdown as a plausible scenario. But as the markets have recently indicated, there is optimism as recovery is looming on the horizon.

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Virtual Hold Competitors: An Overview

Fonolo

This blog will give you a brief overview of all the virtual hold competitors. Virtual Hold is the name of VHT’s original virtual queuing software. Virtual Hold Technology is the grandad of virtual queuing and helped pioneer virtual queue management for the call center. Genesys Virtual Hold Competitor. Genesys Virtual Queuing. Genesys virtual queuing is called Virtual Queuing, one of the original competitors to VHT’s Virtual Hold product.

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Woe Is Me… How About You?

Contact Center Pipeline

Woe is me” is defined as “an overdramatic, often comical way to express sadness or disappointment at an unfair situation.” Well, there you have it… the definition describes quite well what many of us are currently feeling. I don’t know about you, but “woe is me.” I’m kind of sick of all the “COVID” offers […].

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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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After UK Coronavirus Lockdown #3, Will Remote Contactless Customer Support be Here to Stay?

TechSee

With the number of new daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK exceeding 60,000, the country has officially entered its third national Coronavirus lockdown. Having recognised the need to provide customers with alternative support options over the last 9 months when on-site assistance was not feasible, more and more companies are turning to contactless service as a way to help their customers without stepping foot into their homes.

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7 Commonly Accepted Customer Service Standards to Live Up To

HelpCrunch

These questions might pop up in your head from time to time: What is thought to be good customer service? How can I be sure that my team is fully armed with the necessary tools? [ … ]. The post 7 Commonly Accepted Customer Service Standards to Live Up To appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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Different Ways to Communicate with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Voiance

Approximately one million people in the US are functionally deaf, and 6 million people report that they are hard of hearing. How they prefer to communicate depends on their education, the age they became Deaf, and the severity of their deafness.

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Concentrix Kicks off the New Year with More Innovation Awards!

Concentrix

The Business Intelligence Group Recognized Concentrix Lingualab with a BIG Innovation Award for Product of the Year. The post Concentrix Kicks off the New Year with More Innovation Awards! appeared first on Concentrix.

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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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Leveraging Robotic Process Automation to Drive Improved Healthcare

TELUS International

Learn more about how robotic process automation (RPA) can be used in healthcare to drive better health outcomes and patient experiences (PX).

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23 customer service tips to provide great experiences

GetFeedback

Top tips to provide better service that’ll benefit your business and your customers.

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How to Scale the Customer Renewal Process Effectively

CSM Practice

“It costs five times as much to acquire new customers than it does to keep existing ones” is a saying that only begins to scratch the surface of why renewals are so important. In the SaaS world, where revenue generation and business growth depends on the customer’s decision to renew, the customer renewal process demands even more attention. Despite the obvious advantages of mastering and scaling the renewal process as SaaS companies grow, renewals still pose a big challenge for most.

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