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The 5 Rules of Behavioral Journey Mapping

Beyond Philosophy

We’ve recently trained some of our clients on journey mapping. During the process, I realized that there is a lot that people don’t know about it—and that they needed a few rules to help them make the most of the exercise. We discussed the problems with journey mapping in a recent podcast. Traditional journey mapping is what a customer is doing, but is missing a few things.

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How to Quantify the ROI of your Customer Experience Program

Satrix Solutions

When it comes to measuring the impact of your customer experience (CX) programs, many people would likely look to a Customer Satisfaction or loyalty metric, like Net Promoter Score. While improvements in your score would rightfully suggest that your investment in CX may be paying off, there are additional key performance indicators (KPIs) you should not overlook.

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4 Essential Contact Center Improvements In A Year of Uncertainty

NICE inContact

If you’re tasked with achieving more results with fewer resources, optimizing your contact center can deliver far-reaching results, having a streamlined ripple effect across your organization. SMBs and enterprises alike can overhaul their ROI with 4 approaches.

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Be Nice—It Doesn’t Cost You Anything

ShepHyken

What does it cost to be nice? Some would say, “Nothing.” When it comes to people interacting with people, that’s probably true. It’s a smile, a wave, a head nod or some other gesture. It’s a genuine “thank you” or another comment to share your appreciation for your customer. None of that has any cost associated with the idea of being nice. I’m in the process of writing a new book.

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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 Make Your Experience Easy and Gain Growth

Beyond Philosophy

Do you know what annoys me? When I go into an organization, and they say their goal is to delight customers at every moment of contact. Honestly, it sounds exhausting, for both the team and your customers. After all, how much joy do you need to buy paper towels? Another area exists to channel all that enthusiasm instead. There is a significant connection between successful Customer Experiences and the amount of effort they require from customers.

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What Do You Do With Deadwood Employees? – Tip #11

Steve DiGioia

Great employees are the heart and soul of any business, especially a successful one. Their efforts cannot be understated enough. But there are always one or two poor performers or “deadwood employees” – those who contribute little to the company’s success and at times undermine it. And they hang on year after year. They never seem to get fired and amass a laundry list of disciplinary actions with little substantive repercussions.

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What Executives Need To Know About Contact Center Compliance

Callminer

When it comes to managing a contact center, you should never take a risk in regards to regulatory compliance. Here is a look at eleven compliance acts that contact centers should be aware of.

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How To Make Your Experience Easy And Gain Growth

Beyond Philosophy

How to Make Your Experience Easy and Gain Growth. I hear things like this when I go into an organization: “We want to delight customers at every moment of contact.” I nod my head and smile, but secretly I think it sounds exhausting. Moreover, it is unnecessary in many parts of the experience. People many times do not want to be delighted; they want to be done already.

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Supporting Your Agents: Work From Loneliness

CCNG

The contact center industry has never experienced anything like the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. It has led to a rapid and global shift of moving contact center agents and supervisors to a work at home model. During May 2020, 5th Talent International delivered a survey to more than 4,000 agents and supervisors across 7 countries. The findings provide unexpected insight into the point of view of the work at home employee.

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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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Automation: The Contact Center’s Grocer

Contact Center Pipeline

In times of crisis, we often find heroes in the unlikeliest of places. The current COVID-19, or coronavirus, pandemic is no exception. The obvious heroes of the current crisis are, of course, the health care workers and first responders who are on the front lines caring for the sick and maintaining a brave demeanor in […].

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Guest Post: 5 Inevitable Tips That Can Ensure a Superb Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Rakshit Hirapara , a content marketer at PeddleWeb. He writes about the importance of ensuring a positive customer experience, especially during a world crisis. The customer experience (also referred to as CX) seems like a simple concept. However, it can be interpreted in several ways. Put simply; customer experience can be defined as thoughts and feelings that the consumer associates with the brand.

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How Live Chat Helps You Shape Customer Journey

ProProfs Blog

Imagine being in your customers’ shoes. You’ve landed on the website due to a certain search query and find the product you need. You add it to the cart and are ready to check out. But the moment you reach the checkout page, you realize that you don’t have an account and are requested to sign up now. As you click on the sign up process, you realize that the form is quite a journey in itself.

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Dealing with WFH Agent Loneliness

CCNG

The contact center industry has never experienced anything like the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. It has led to a rapid and global shift of moving contact center agents and supervisors to a work at home model. During May 2020, 5th Talent International delivered a survey to more than 4,000 agents and supervisors across 7 countries. The findings provide unexpected insight into the point of view of the work at home employee.

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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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The Four Most Important Skills for Leading Hybrid Teams

Contact Center Pipeline

The Covid-19 pandemic created significant shifts in how we work. As businesses scrambled to set up employees to work from home, there was little time to be proactive and consider future implications. As the new normal settles in, some contact centers employees have a choice to work from home or at the office. Leading a […].

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of August 10, 2020

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 Increase Customer Loyalty: 5 Customer Retention Strategies by Christopher Hutchens. (SmartBug) In this blog, we look at five customer retention strategies that you can implement to deliver more value to your customers and increase customer loyalty.

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Getting Started with a Customer Success Program at Lucid

Totango

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Stephanie Comardelle, Vice President of Customer Experience, Success, and Solutions at Lucid to discuss what it takes to implement a stakeholder engagement plan at a time when there is so much going on as well as how they are managing their new customer success program. . Lucid bridges the gap between global questions and human answers by connecting buyers and sellers in one central location for survey sample groups.

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I get no respect!

Taylor Reach Group

By Turaj Seyrafiaan. In the past 25 years I have visited hundreds of contact centers and have spoken to many contact center directors. Beside all the typical operational issues, one subject comes up frequently; contact center management feeling that the rest of the organization does not appreciate what the contact center does. In fact, one manager half-jokingly said: “ We get no respect ”!

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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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The Central Role of Computer Vision in Multiexperience

TechSee

The ongoing quest to enhance customer experience has birthed a new buzzword: multiexperience (MX). This emerging trend has companies seeking to provide their customers with seamless, native experiences on any channel or device, via voice, video, or text. Gartner has placed MX among the top technology trends of 2020, predicting that by 2023 , more than 25% of large enterprises’ mobile apps, progressive web apps and conversational apps will be built or run through an MX development platform and th

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J.D. Power and Tethr collaborate to fuel customer experience insights

Tethr

At Tethr, we talk to CX and customer service leaders every day who are working to close the gap between their desired customer experience and the actual experience they deliver to their customers. With capabilities like the Tethr Effort Index and the Agent Impact Score , we’ve worked to enable AI and machine learning algorithms to listen to every customer conversation at scale and identify the drivers of both poor and exceptional experiences and how agents are helping or hurting the experience.

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Customer Service vs. Customer Experience: What is the Difference

Lumoa

Customer service and customer experience are vital for long-term business success. Customer service is an important piece of your overall customer experience, and customer experience is the key driver of customer loyalty.

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Concentrix Releases Advanced Biometrics Solution for Secure Work-at-Home Environment

Concentrix

Concentrix, a leading global Customer Experience Solutions Company, today announced SecureCX™, the CX BPO industry’s newest Work-at-Home platform. The post Concentrix Releases Advanced Biometrics Solution for Secure Work-at-Home Environment appeared first on Concentrix.

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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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Expand Customer Base and Revenue with Customer Service Expertise for DTH

OctopusTech

Today, the way television networks and live-streaming options are enabling a wide range of content; the responsibility of cable and network providers is turning out to be more crucial. However, the credibility of any major brand or network operator begins with effective customer experience. If your services are not streamlined or the customer queries are not handled successfully on time then they might switch to other options available in the market.

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Reasons Why Law Firms Are Outsourcing Customer Service

Ansafone

One of the growing necessities of legal practices is outsourcing customer service. The reasons are plentiful and beneficial for any legal practice looking to scale and utilize their time wisely. Running a legal practice is a complex and ever-changing task that requires staff to multitask and manage multiple roles. As businesses seek to reduce stress … Reasons Why Law Firms Are Outsourcing Customer Service Read More ».

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Using Slack Connect to Collaborate Efficiently Outside of Our Organization

Guru

If you use Slack as much as we do, then you know how powerful it is for collaborating with your coworkers. Since its launch in 2013, Slack has become the central nervous system of company communication and collaboration. For many teams, bouncing between internal Slack conversations, customer emails, vendor calls, and partner meetings, it can be difficult to stay focused with all the context switching.

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If your frontline isn’t empowered, your customers feel it.

Tethr

Your frontline employees set the stage for the customer experience. After all, they’re the first impression of what your company is all about. Frontline employees are constantly observing how your customers interact with your offerings, so they are much better sources of information than conventional research. When you fail to engage and empower them, you are missing out on opportunities for customer experience improvements, product upgrades and tons of valuable insights.

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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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4 Unique Career Paths in Customer Experience

Nicereply

Remember: these are just four roles that represent the larger pool of opportunities out there. If you’re a person that loves helping, finding a career in customer support can feel like a dream come true. But what do you do after you’ve been working in the queue for years and don’t necessarily want to be a manager, or an individual technical contributor?

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Introducing SecureCX™

Concentrix

Step up your work at home security game and take things to the next level. The post Introducing SecureCX™ appeared first on Concentrix.

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Trusted Election Info: Register to Vote & Read a Poll Like a Pro

Guru

This year at Guru, we’ve broadened our mandate to connect people who have questions with trusted answers. And because there’s a ton of honest confusion and misinformation surrounding the 2020 election, we’re here to help in the way we know best: by putting together resources from verified sources and subject matter experts to clarify things!

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