Monet Software

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

How to infuse contact center operations with empathy to improve interactions, customer satisfaction and CX. Empathy is critical in customer service, especially amidst COVID-19. Many customers are feeling frustrated, distracted and otherwise in need of some extra support. And new challenges—such as job loss affecting the ability to pay a bill or confusion about the technical demands of a child’s remote schooling—mean they’re contacting companies with a wide variety of pressing needs.

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Guru

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Jeffery is a guest contributor to the Guru blog from MoneyCrashers.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Call center agents deal with dozens of customers each day, each with a unique problem to solve. As the face of your business, they’re the ones who best understand the wants and needs of your consumer base. As a manager, it’s in your best interest to understand the types of individuals your team deals with on a daily basis. This allows you to coach and train your agents to provide the best customer experience possible, no matter what challenges come their way.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Human beings are magnificent at holding onto two contradictory beliefs in their minds. It’s a psychological phenomenon called Cognitive Dissonance, and it’s why we sometimes think that things are good when they are, in reality, bad. We discussed this phenomenon in a recent podcast and how we all do this. For example, I think the Luton Town Football Club is the best team in the world.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

We’ve all heard the expression surprise and delight. The intention is that we surprise our customers with better-than-expected service. The result is that they are delighted. But what happens when the intended surprise does not delight? That’s exactly what happened to my friend and fellow professional speaker, Beth Terry. She has a three-bedroom home.

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Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For contact center businesses, unexpected changes such as unplanned downtime, massive call volume increases, facility closures or other issues can wreak havoc on a team’s ability to service the customer. This can, in turn, have consequences for the brand(s) that contact center supports: 32% of consumers say they will walk away from a brand they […].

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Why What We Believe Is Sometimes Just Wrong! Many sports fans will tell you their team is the best. However, only one of the sports teams wins the championship and is definitively the best. Moreover, many organizations that never get close to the championship have fans who would say these teams are the best. For this last lot, the claim that their team is “the best” creates some serious conflict compared to reality.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Getting Inside Your Customer’s Imagination. Creating a Company with the Best Customer Experience Culture. Shep Hyken interviews Chip Bell , customer service keynote speaker and bestselling author. They discuss the 5 Secrets from his new book, Inside Your Customer’s Imagination , that can help organizations better understand their customers. Top Takeaways: Good customer service and experience principles can be applied in any relationship—professional or personal.

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Steve DiGioia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’ve always told my staff that I’m not perfect, I don’t know it all, and that I make mistakes. I too have a lot to learn. Is this a mindset of a weak manager? I don’t think so. Instead, the humble manager is realistic and open to suggestions. I used to love watching the faces of new employees when I tell them that I want to hear their thoughts and views of “how we do things here”.

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Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In the mad scramble to move more than 90% of our nation’s contact center agents to work at home, the focus was on technology—keeping our agents online, connected and maintaining service continuity. The next phase requires every supporting function to adjust their processes and technology to support and enable our employees as work-at-home moves from […].

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Right across the housing sector, tenants aren’t just seen as renters anymore – they are now considered clients. They want to communicate on their preferred channels, receiving personalized content and proactive services. This tenant-first philosophy applies to both the private and public housing sector and requires the creation of a new kind of digital tenant experience – everything from live chat and online knowledge resources to self-service portals.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

This week we feature an article by Steven Van Belleghem , author, entrepreneur and international keynote speaker. He provides tips and insight on the future of your business and your customers’ expectations. This is a turning point. The world is at a turning point. Not just because of COVID-19. The pandemic merely accelerated a number of trends that were already emerging.

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ProProfs Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“How do we get ardent customers for our brand?”. “From where do we start?”. If you find yourself sharing the same concern frequently, then you need to build a customer loyalty program. Before turning into global names, brands like Starbucks and Amazon might have faced the same challenge. But with the awesome customer loyalty programs in place, they’ve successfully ensured that customers return to their store to make a purchase and earn more points.

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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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Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Our workforce management (WFM) landscape is changing at breakneck speed. Many organizations are now 100% work-from-home or have a workforce divided between brick-and-mortar and virtual agents (82% are WFH since July 2020—Gartner). This presents entirely new challenges and opportunity for workforce managers. Workforce management professionals are still grappling with this epic change.

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Bill Quiseng

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” Charlie “Tremendous” Jones. Intent on learning how to “Deliver The World’s Best Customer Experience”, I have read more books by Chip R. Bell than any other author. Several of his 24 customer service books that I highly recommend include “Kaleidoscope: Delivering Innovative Service That Sparkles,” “Sprinkles: Creating Aweso

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

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. Winning means losing in the game of customer retention by Linda O’Grady. (CMO) All too often retention is a blanket goal.

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Joe Rawlinson

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Do you have a hobby that you cannot wait to get home to after work? Is there a way to monetize it and turn it into a profitable business? These are questions that many people ponder as they make their way home from another dull day at the office. If you think that there is a possibility that you could turn your hobby into a business, it might be time to stop daydreaming about it and make your vision a reality.

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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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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

By Steve Offsey The goal of customer journey orchestration is to improve journey outcomes by enabling the most relevant interactions in the context of each customer’s goals and their overall experience. Customer journey orchestration enables enterprises to engage prospects and customers at optimal points along their journeys, in real time and through the most effective channels.

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GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A comprehensive guide to delivering great digital user experiences and measuring your success.

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Outsource Consultants

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

It’s not up for debate—the 2020 election season is upon us, and November 3rd will be here before you know it. So what does your political call center procurement plan look like? You need to secure a quality outbound calling partner before it’s too late. That’s because political campaign telemarketing has become a nearly universal feature of campaign strategy for more than a generation.

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Due to the pandemic, 2020 has been the year where many organizations have transitioned to a work-from-home (WFH) model to ensure employee safety. In addition, businesses worldwide have experienced drastic fluctuations in customer demand, as COVID-19 brought uncertainty to a lot of industries. In some cases, organizations saw themselves dealing with more calls while transitioning to a WFH practice.

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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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Nicereply

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While you definitely deserve a reward after completing a task, sometimes the reward can come before. While trying to write this article, and with its deadline looming in the horizon, I looked at the status of an order I placed a couple of days ago, I chatted to a friend about her new leggings, I searched for flights for my next trip, and I peeked at my Instagram notifications (big mistake – Instagram is the equivalent of a black hole).

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

by Bruce Wedderburn. Virtual selling has changed the way that customers are choosing- or not choosing- to interact with salespeople, often in significant ways. While the fundamentals of selling aren’t different in a virtual setting, the dynamics are, and many salespeople are struggling to adapt. Businesses often struggle to make big changes, but as we learned earlier in the year, sometimes they literally have no choice.

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Toister Performance Solutions

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Email remains a strong customer service channel despite its age. The convenience is perfect for non-urgent issues. You quickly type out your message, send it, and then go on with your day until you get a response. Email is good for companies, too. Employees can serve far more customers per hour than on live channels such as phone or chat, while also avoiding the potential for public scrutiny that comes with social media.

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Acquire BPO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Acquire BPO’s domestic growth, service innovation and corporate responsibility were recognised at the 17th Annual International Business Awards® today—its fifth consecutive year in the winner’s circle. We won the Silver Stevie Award for the Company of the Year – Large category and the Bronze Stevie Award for Most Valuable Corporate Response in the COVID-19 Response category.

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Inbenta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The “Future of Customer Service” podcast features interviews of Customer Support and Service leaders to understand how things work, best practices, and the future of support. Hear their perspective on challenges and opportunities. The podcast is specifically designed for Directors, Vice Presidents, CEOs, Support Leaders, Support Engineers and Chief Customer Officers.

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Lumoa

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Do you remember punch cards? They were often a staple of sandwich shops and ice cream parlors. After so many visits, you would be the lucky recipient of a free item. What a thrill it was to present your fully punched card, then immediately start on the next. Simpler times, right? Measuring customer loyalty these days is a little more complex. Long gone are the days of punch cards.

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Spearline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Latency is the time taken from when one person speaks to when the other person hears. There are many factors that can affect this time and the complexity of today's enterprise networks make it a challenge. When a customer service call suffers a poor connection due to latency, considerable customer effort may be required, whereas when a connection is of good quality, complete relaxation is possible.

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