Steve DiGioia

JUNE 11, 2018

…here’s 3 skills every customer service actor must have This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Ah, the life of a call center agent. A cushy job, right? You do nothing more than talk to customers on the phone and punch some information into a keypad. Sounds cool, sign me up! But wait a minute, there’s more…much more. You get to sit in a cramped cubicle wearing a scratchy headset and stare at a screen for 8 hours a day.

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360Connext

JUNE 13, 2018

Humans disappoint one another. We do it all the time. We disappoint when we don’t show up for someone’s big event. Or maybe we disappoint when we do show up at an intimate dinner party without an invitation. We disappoint each other by saying what we think or by not speaking up when we should. It’s tricky, this human experience of ours.

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Myra Golden Media

JUNE 12, 2018

One of the easiest ways to make your conversations with customers more conversational, and friendly, is to speak in complete sentences. It is so familiar to hear interactions like this: Last name? First name? Zip code? It’s undoubtedly efficient to ask customers questions in this manner. However, it’s not the friendliest approach. In this article, I’ll talk to you about instantly improving your ability to connect with customers and sound friendly by just speaking in complete sentences.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 15, 2018

Pricing is fundamental to your business. It also has an enormous influence on Customer Experience outcomes. You should understand Mental Accounting as it pertains to customer behavior before you set the price and before you ruin how your customers feel about your experience. This was a great topic of discussion in our recent podcast. So, What is Mental Accounting?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 13, 2018

What does a good customer experience look like at your company? What does good customer service look like? Ask everyone on your team and listen to the answers. Will they be the same, or different? It will be interesting to see if your team recognizes the difference between experience and service. Many people don’t understand the difference between customer experience and customer service, but does it really matter.

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TechSee

JUNE 12, 2018

Augmented Reality (AR) – the ability to overlay and share physical objects, spaces and images on a user’s view of the real world– is revolutionizing the customer experience. Through new mobile technology, AR has emerged as an innovative tool that allows brands an almost unlimited opportunity to interact three-dimensionally with consumers on their mobile devices.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 15, 2018

Why do customers tell you they will buy your service, but then don’t? Are they deliberately trying to trick organizations? Colin Shaw and Professor Ryan Hamilton discuss how you can you find out what customers really want. The post Why Don’t Customers Buy After They Say They Will? appeared first on.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 11, 2018

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. Delivering Remarkable Experiences Is How You Win More Customers by Sonia Thompson. (Entrepreneur) Equip your team to make a lasting impression.

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Callminer

JUNE 12, 2018

Customer Contact Week (CCW), June 18-22, 2018, is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever before and CallMiner is excited to be a part of multiple activities during the event including hosting a Master Class Workshop, a Meet the Customer event, and Demo Theater Presentations, as well as the always popular CallMiner Moscow Mule Reception! See our day-by-day schedule of events during CCW below.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 14, 2018

Audio solutions are an effective way to enhance mobility in an office communications network, delivering sophisticated capabilities such as adjustable noise cancellation and directional microphones that contribute to a more productive workplace. Trends like collaboration and mobility have become intrinsic to the modern office. However, as with any type of business technology, security is a […].

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HGS

JUNE 11, 2018

3 Ways Social Media Can Make (or Break) Your CX. By Scott Yates, HGS Operations Director. Are you taking your social media strategy as seriously as you should? Imagine you’re a Fortune 100 company spending millions on marketing to create and support your brand, but you don’t prioritize social media support. Your customers are driven to your social media pages—but once they get there, they don’t find 24x7 empathy-building communication or proud, positive brand representation, and a fast, solutio

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ShepHyken

JUNE 15, 2018

This week we feature an article by Ayush Chaudhary who writes about the social media customer support experience. Social customer service allows you to take the interactions with your customers to an even higher level. – Shep Hyken. If you’ve not been living in a cave, you’ve probably heard by now numerous projections about how chatbots are destined to take over customer support.

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Callminer

JUNE 12, 2018

Contact Center Week (CCW), June 18-22, 2018, is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever before and CallMiner is excited to be a part of multiple activities during the event including hosting a Master Class Workshop, a Meet the Customer event, and Demo Theater Presentations, as well as the always popular CallMiner Moscow Mule Reception! See our day-by-day schedule of events during CCW below.

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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

JUNE 13, 2018

I hit all of the vendor booths this year, collecting swag, seeing demos, playing cornhole and meeting the people behind the software. We asked the questions: “What makes your product different from the other ones out here?” and “What do you have going on that’s new and exciting this year?” Every year, there is usually […].

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Customer Guru

JUNE 12, 2018

A startup, a new emerging business model aiming to reach great heights in the marketplace with respect to any particular product or service, needs to create and retain customers. For any startup to succeed, what matters most is loyal customers. A loyal customer is one who enjoys the relationship with the company and loves its products and services. He not only uses the products himself but also recommends them to his family and friends.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 12, 2018

Tools of the Trade: Learn the Tools Needed to Make a Great Customer Support Center. Discover the best tools and software to provide a great customer experience. Shep Hyken sits down with Jackie Gonzalez, Vice President of Operations at PATLive to discuss the best tools and methods for a customer support organization. ? ? ?. Top Takeaways: First, some background on PATLive.

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GetFeedback

JUNE 12, 2018

Today’s buyers expect personalized, 1:1 experiences tailored to their wants and needs. They’re inundated by marketing messages through digital ads, social media, and email, so only the most relevant campaigns capture their attention. The rest are at best ignored and at worst blocked. To cut through the noise, marketers need to know more about the people they’re marketing to.

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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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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 12, 2018

This year’s SWPP conference was so fun—three days of binging on workforce management sessions makes us WFMers return home feeling motivated, retrained and happy. I hit as many sessions and vendors as I could, and heard some interesting things going on: 1. During the session titled, “My Button Says Less than 200 Agents: Challenges and […].

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Fonolo

JUNE 14, 2018

2018 is game time. It’s time to look at your customers as teammates rather than as opponents. It’s time to reboot your customer experience game. And: It’s time for you to win. Here is the reality: A poor (or even worse, unmemorable) customer experience (CX) has led to a resounding “Game Over” for many businesses in the last few years. In 2018, becoming a winning company with a devoted fan base is no easy feat.

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Amity

JUNE 11, 2018

If you are a SaaS company looking to invest in Customer Success, one of the most important considerations is the customer per Customer Success Manager (CSM) ratio – the number of customers a CSM can support while still remaining effective. This is often a delicate balance that will need to be baselined and readjusted over the first few years that your Customer Success team is in operation.

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Envision

JUNE 14, 2018

Is your Quality Monitoring program the right fit for the Knowledge Workers in your contact center? With advances in technology, previously disparate teams of Knowledge Workers are now often working together as part of a contact center that was traditionally comprised of the Task Worker.

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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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BlueOcean

JUNE 12, 2018

Contact center implementation is an art and a science, and over 24 years in business, we’ve learned exactly what it takes to make the smoothest transition possible. Every milestone and every moving part is integral to a controlled acceleration towards a seamless transition that results in a positive customer experience. On top of that, the implementation phase – where collaboration is key – is what sets the tone for the duration of your strategic partnership.

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Ansafone

JUNE 14, 2018

Contact Center Agents with Accurate Information Provide Better Outcomes Your contact center works hard for you. Their agents desire to give you the very best. When they succeed, you succeed. But did you know you play a key part in this? It’s true. Your contact center uses the information you provide to them to serve … Keep Your Contact Center Up-to-date on Your Business Read More ».

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Toister Performance Solutions

JUNE 14, 2018

The International Customer Management Institute (ICMI) held its annual Global Contact Center Awards party this past May. Gopher Sport won the 2018 award for Best Small Contact Center. (Contact centers with fewer than 75 agents are eligible.) It specializes in selling sports equipment to schools for physical education and athletic programs and prides itself on friendly service.

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Aspect

JUNE 15, 2018

Last week, Google held its annual developer conference, announcing a host of new software plans. With almost every aspect including artificial intelligence (AI), the search company proved its commitment to becoming the world’s biggest AI company, but according to the Financial Times, it also offered ‘ an ominous glimpse of the robot future.’. Google demonstrated a product called Duplex – a human-sounding robot that can fulfil basic tasks such as phoning a restaurant to book a table and having an

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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.

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Cyara

JUNE 12, 2018

I founded McIntosh & Associates to help businesses improve their customer experience by improving the performance of their contact center. We apply a data-driven approach to identify opportunities for improving contact center performance, and customer satisfaction. One of the thorniest issues we encounter is voice quality. It’s obvious that good voice quality is an important factor in delivering a great customer experience.

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Jive

JUNE 13, 2018

In the last decade, the Internet and mobile devices have dramatic shifted the way business is conducted. And it seems like year after year, newer and better technologies are continuously being introduced. Each new technology promises to ensure more efficient communication between customers, partners, and colleagues. Needless to say, the importance of keeping up with the latest business communication trends are more important than ever.

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Mindtouch

JUNE 15, 2018

For anyone creating knowledge content, customer support agents likely represent a large part of the audience. Support agents need information to progress through onboarding, assist customers, and learn how to support new products or services. Unfortunately, the content we work so hard to create doesn’t always find its way into the support agent experience.

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