Beyond Philosophy
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
How we feel affects how we behave. Understanding the connection between our feelings and our decisions is an essential foundation for creating customer loyalty and retention. If you aren’t sure this is true, then ask yourself: would I open a Yahoo email account today? Yahoo is in the news all over the world. No longer because of their appointment of an up and coming CEO (that just happened to be female).
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
QUICK REMINDER: Don’t forget about National Customer Service Week , October 3-7, 2016. For more information about the week check out these resources. Everyone wants to WOW their customers. They think that customer delight comes from going above-and-beyond or delivering an over-the-top customer service experience. I’ve always preached that the most amazing companies will occasionally deliver the above-and-beyond customer experience.
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Callminer
SEPTEMBER 25, 2016
A well-run call center is one where agents create meaningful relationships with customers. Take a look at CallMiner’s list of 7 call center best practices.
Steve DiGioia
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Customers appreciate your positive attitude. They prefer to buy from those they like and those that have their best interest at heart. Here’s a post adapted from my book that shows it works in the restaurant industry. Assume the sale. This is one of those phrases that is drilled into the head of any good salesperson.
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Beyond Philosophy
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
We all have habits. Some of them are good, and some, well, aren’t. But for good or ill, habits drive our behavior every day, and even more so when we are customers. In my latest book, The Intuitive Customer: 7 imperatives for moving your Customer Experience to the next level , Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University and I explore habits and their influence on how customers behave.
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Callminer
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
There is no denying that an efficient call center is one where agents address customer concerns in a prompt and thorough manner, creating meaningful relationships with customers at each and every point of interaction. But, the question is: What does it take to establish a well-organized and efficient call center? Earlier this year, we brought […].
Customers That Stick
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
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Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Take a look at our top five blog posts for the month to see which topics your fellow contact center professionals were most interested in—tips on how to hire the right service staff; insights on using customer analytics to unlock customer experience; managing dysfunction in the contact center; the impact of on-hold music on your […].
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online 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. Contact Center Satisfaction Negatively Impacting the Customer Experience by Andrew Berger. (Telecompetitor) Contact center satisfaction has worsened over the last two years despite investments in new customer engagement channels, according to new market research released by BoldChat.
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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
Peter Lavers
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Andrew Hargreaves, Director of Customer Experience, Marketing and UCAS Media at UCAS, spoke to the third forum of The Customer Council in September in Cape Town on the subject of “Lighting a CX fire in the heart of others”. The forum was hosted by Sanlam Investments and facilitated by Peter Lavers, and here are some key nuggets from the session: The CX Leader has got to be someone with enough power and willing to play the “customer card”.
Win the Customer
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Customer feedback and consumer reviews are very important aspects of any business activity. Traditionally, small retail businesses that keep a brick-and-mortar presence have been able to gather customer feedback immediately and on the spot. These days, however, large companies have many tools that can help them collect and analyze consumer reviews and feedback.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Departmental silos will stop a customer service initiative dead in its tracks. Silos also throw wrenches into daily service delivery goals when the contact center is unaware of projects and activities in other areas of the company, or cannot get other functions to respond to requests in a timely manner. Knowledge is power, which gives […].
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague from Down Under, Warwick Merry, writes about an experience he had that demonstrates why a business must have the systems and processes in place to take care of new and existing customers. If you cannot take care of the customer, it doesn’t pay to advertise! – Shep Hyken . So many businesses are hemorrhaging money and they don’t even know it.
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.
Fonolo
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
Operating a successful contact center is rarely a simple undertaking. As any customer support manager knows, there are a number of crucial factors that come into play when looking to succeed in the call center world. We often hear from call center managers who are trying to improve their call metrics with our solutions. But, we wanted to go one step further and pick the brains of some of the most successful contact center leaders for some tips on how to match their success.
Amity
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Customer Success is a relatively nascent term, having emerged as a more critical role with the shift in focus towards customer engagement and satisfaction by SaaS companies. Given Customer Success is still in early days, there is not necessarily a set of “best practices” for how to compensate your Customer Success team. A lot of the literature available today offers helpful suggestions, but often carries a disclaimer to the effect of “results may vary” While it’s tr
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
Kathleen Peterson is Chief Vision Officer for PowerHouse Consulting. Kathleen shares her insights on contact center strategies that help promote and elevate our “power” within our organizations. She explains our opportunities, our “currency” we collect in our centers, why we are an asset and how we have the right to have a seat at the […].
CSM Magazine
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
In the quest to improve the customer experience and customer loyalty, it is helpful to consider the ‘cultural habits’ of successful service organizations, such as: Disney, Apple, Southwest Airlines, Wegmans, Nordstrom, and Amazon. Their cultural habits are not merely lip service; it’s how they do business. Habit #1: Delivering a great customer experience is a way of doing business – it’s not just a program.
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!
ijgolding
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Although I have spent a long time working with clients in the customer experience sector, I think it’s vital that we continually challenge the way we listen to and understand our customers. Over the last few decades, as the power of the computer has increased and we can gather more and more data about customers, often without their knowing, we have become more seduced by numbers rather than words.
Topdown
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
What do you think of when you hear the term “ customer communications management ”? Most people think of letters, statements, privacy notices, and other documents and correspondence that traditionally have been produced in large batches and mailed to customers en masse. Many people now include digital versions of those communications in their understanding of CCM, too.
Avaya
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
The night of her husband’s death, Alison Vroome did everything she knew to be right. She grabbed her phone, called 911 and told the operator her address. Then she repeated her address a second, third and fourth time. The call went to a different North Carolina county; the operator couldn’t understand her address. It was more than 10 minutes into the 911 call before paramedics arrived.
CSM Magazine
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
It’s not rocket science that offering a good level of customer service can have a positive effect on the way customers view your business. The same goes if you deliver poor or substandard service on a consistent basis – your customers will become annoyed and it could lead to them taking their custom elsewhere. With customer service taking place on more and more public channels than ever before (an estimated 67% of consumers are using channels like Twitter and Facebook for customer service)
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.
ijgolding
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
I have been in the world of work since 1995. Akin to bringing up children, it is quite amazing how time flies!! When I left University all those years ago, I had little idea where my path of employment was going to take me. Today, as the master of my own destiny (a business owner), I often look back at my years as an employee with a real mixture of emotions.
Topdown
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
In an article for Forbes entitled “ Habituation and the Risk to Customer Experience ,” Adrian Swinscoe ( @adrianswinscoe ) relates the story of how a TED Talk by Tony Fadell ( @tfadell ), originator of the iPod and the Nest thermostat, got him thinking about the process of habituation and its effects – both positive and negative – on customer experience.
Avaya
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
The city of the future is a Smart City, emboldened by technology that folds in government, industry, and consumers. For this to happen, it needs a strong foundation—an infrastructure that can withstand heavy traffic, particularly during times of crisis. At Avaya, we’re partnering with 22 Capital Partners to prototype the Smart City platform in the Gramercy District in the Washington, D.C. area. 22 Capital Partners approached us as they were looking for a partner with distinctive technical knowle
ClearAction
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Advancing Customer Experience Expertise in CX Month optimizecx. Customers are the lifeblood of everyone’s food on the table. No matter what your income source is, it’s fueled by customers. That’s why October is one of my favorite months. It’s a time when customer experience professionals take extraordinary care to thank customers — and employees who make a difference in customer experience (CX).
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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.
ForeSee
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
The basic definition of a “benchmark” is a standard or point of reference to which something can be compared. The way it relates to customer experience isn’t much different; ForeSee’s. The post Understanding the power of ForeSee benchmarks appeared first on ForeSee.
Topdown
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
The J.D. Power 2016 U.S. Home Insurance Study SM was released on September 19, 2016. According to Valerie Monet, director of the insurance practice at J.D. Power, who was quoted in the company’s press release , the study showed that rates remain relatively stable, so “ insurers have shifted their competitive focus to improving communication, process efficiency , and being easier to work with as a way to solidify and grow their business.
Avaya
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
This case study shares the steps taken by Avaya to reduce a sizeable telecom bill by 50%. The methods are trending tactics used by a wide range of organizations, and in combination have proven to produce especially favorable results. Keeping in mind that most IT operation budgets are flat, cost savings of this size can give your organization a greater opportunity to invest in innovation.
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