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Reduce Agent Turnover with Better Omni-Channel Support

Unymira

When it comes to customer service, the conversation often revolves around new technologies that will help improve your Key Performance Indicators such as Net Promoter Score, First Call Resolution Rate, and more.

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Why the concept of "The Power of One" is important to your contact center

The Call Center School

How one agent can make a substantial difference. Research has shown that the main reason customers choose not to return is not because of pricing or product issues. Most customers don't return due to poor service. Your frontline agents can make all the difference. They can give every single customer a reason to return. Sound like a lot of power? Well, it is.

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What is the True Cost of Losing a Customer?

Advantage Communications

Smart business owners will know that satisfying each and every customer is essential for the long-term success of your business. However, while one negative experience may seem small compared to all of your good customer experiences , the effects of losing one customer is probably far greater than you’d expect.

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How to Engage Your Millennial and Gen Z Contact Center Agents

Serenova

Every generation comes with its own preferences and habits. Millennials and Gen Z are no different. For years, contact center agents were largely run by Baby Boomer and Gen X agents. Accordingly, processes were created to best suit them. However, as many contact center managers know, those same processes may not work for their Millennial (born between 1981 and 1996) and Gen Z (born in 1997 and later) counterparts.

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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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Creating Actionable Insights from Irrational Humans

Beyond Philosophy

Whenever I talk about Customer Experience with audiences, I begin by explaining that customers do not buy things rationally. Customers buy things emotionally and then justify the purchase with logic. Irrationality and data don’t mix. However, there are ways that people’s irrational behavior reveals a rational pattern in the data. Let’s take a look at actionable insights about people’s irrational behavior as customers and the importance of the human touch in a digital transformation.

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?CallMiner Named Top 10 Contact Centre Software and Technology for 3rd Year in a Row

Callminer

We’re delighted that CallMiner has been named by Call Centre Helper as one of the Top 10 providers of Contact Centre Software and Technology for the third year running with Eureka Coach.

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How AI is Reducing Handle Time and Improving the Customer Experience in 2019

Contact Center Pipeline

It’s a well-known fact that customers hate to wait. In a recent survey on consumer attitudes, researchers discovered that 35% of the respondents stopped doing business with some of their favorite brands after just one episode of waiting too long for a customer service agent to resolve their issue. In light of these facts, it’s […].

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Why Too Much Choice is a Bad Thing

Beyond Philosophy

People like choices. They just don’t like choosing, at least not when there are too many options. However, if you give people the option of shopping where there are only two options or where there is a wide selection, people will nearly always choose to shop where there are many choices. Then, when they get there, they can’t make a decision and feel frustrated and disappointed about it.

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Guest Blog: How to Get the Most from Seasonal Customer Service Employees

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Joel Gottesman who shares tips to ensure that seasonal employees provide an excellent customer experience. This past season, retailers hired more than 575,000 seasonal employees to help manage the holiday rush. Macy’s planned to hire 80,000 seasonal workers, while Target promised roughly 120,000 seasonal jobs. Many of these employees were tasked with challenging customer-facing positions.

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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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Gamification and Analytics Drive Better Agent Engagement and Performance

Callminer

Using analytics and gamification is an effective way to encourage successful agent engagement with the right incentives to measure, monitor, and promote the KPI’s vital to your company’s success.

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Future of Contact Centers Survey: Tell Us What You Think

Contact Center Pipeline

Consumer expectations are higher than ever. To build a customer experience that will meet those expectations, organizations need to “know them better,” “help them faster,” and “wow them everywhere.” Many companies have elevated CX to the top of the priority list, and along with it, the contact center. Top organizations are integrating new tools and […].

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Why Too Much Choice is a Bad Thing

Beyond Philosophy

People like choices. They just don’t like choosing, at least not when there are too many options. However, if you give people the option of shopping where there are only two options or where there is a wide selection, people will nearly always choose to shop where there are many choices. Then, when they get there, they can’t make a decision and feel frustrated and disappointed about it.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of April 8, 2019

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. To Provide the Best Customer Experience, Be Proactive by Frank Konkel. (NextGov) “Be where your customers are” and other helpful tips from customer experience professionals.

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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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What Customers Want and Expect from your Call Center

Fonolo

Certain commentators in the customer service space have been predicting the death of the call center. While it’s true that channel preferences are shifting, it would be incorrect to conclude that the voice channel will be buying the farm anytime soon. In fact, as we’ve argued before, phone calls are still essential to the success of customer service.

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Beware Healthcare… Your Access Center May Be at Risk!

Contact Center Pipeline

Contact centers are among the fastest-growing segment in the healthcare industry. Since the 1990s, hospitals have been consolidating and forming “systems.” These systems have also been absorbing physician private practices and centralizing functions. It is relatively painless to centralize finance, billing and IT from an “emotional” perspective. The bigger challenge comes when front office tasks […].

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Live Chat Features, Benefits & Pricing: Understanding Why CS Experts Emphasis its Use

ProProfs Blog

How does it feel when your customers compliment the business for providing instant support? It feels great, isn’t it? However, connecting with customers in real-time can be a challenge through existing communication media such as emails and phone calls. That’s where live chat software comes to your rescue. What is Live Chat Software? A live chat software is a service platform that helps organizations provide instant customer support and information.

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Amazing Business Radio: Jeff Nicholson

ShepHyken

Service Utopia with Guest Jeff Nicholson. Crafting a Frictionless Service Experience for Employees and Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Jeff Nicholson. They discuss self-service, points of friction and effort, and Jeff’s newest whitepaper, “ Achieving Digital Customer Service Transformation.”. The Interview with Jeff Nicholson: Practically every industry is experiencing a shift to self-service.

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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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To Respond or Not Respond to Customer Feedback – That is the CX Question

Kristina Evey

Customer Experience is based on customer feedback and engagement. With the presence of review sites such as Yelp, TripAdvisor, and … Read More To Respond or Not Respond to Customer Feedback – That is the CX Question. The post To Respond or Not Respond to Customer Feedback – That is the CX Question appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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Pizza Party Contest: We Have a Winner!

Contact Center Pipeline

Thanks to all of you for participating in our 10th Anniversary Pizza Party Contest. We were blown away with the number of responses received! I guess everyone really does love a pizza party! The winner of the party is: The Costa Del Mar contact center in Daytona Beach, FL. Heather Bissell, Director of Customer Experience […].

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What is a Good NPS Score?

GetFeedback

The question of what is a good NPS score is popular among brands who value customer experience. A Net Promoter Score, or NPS, has become a necessary customer experience metric. In fact, an estimated 65% of companies track NPS scores , making it the most coveted customer experience metric measured by companies. Your NPS score is based on customers responding to one question: “How likely are you to recommend us to a friend or colleague?”.

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Contact Center and CRM: A Galactic Merging

Fonolo

Contact center software and CRM software have been on a slow collision course for decades. It’s not hard to understand why: They both deal with customer communication so the boundary was destined to get blurry. Now that both worlds are increasingly cloud-based, the collision is accelerating. How can we make this more concrete? How can we figure out how far along the process is?

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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How do your clients view you today?

Integrity Solutions

Clients may not currently view you as a partner, and that’s because success in the past didn’t depend on it. But clients’ expectations have changed, with the choice being evolve or risk being left behind. By Donna Horrigan. Over the past few years, CPAs have seen a dramatic change in the way they run their businesses, particularly as evolving technologies reshape traditional accounting.

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Most Challenging Callers

Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor. While working on a call center consulting engagement with one of the largest garbage companies in the country we encountered what was likely the most difficult customer I have ever experienced. We were working in a mid- sized call center and discussing their customers. The company serviced urban, suburban and rural customers in the city and many of the surrounding towns.

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Most Efficient Ways to Manage Contact Center Solutions

Ansafone

Efficiently managing contact center solutions is the only way to achieve your goal of balancing low costs-per-call with delivering valuable customer experiences during every interaction. Call center efficiency refers to the ratio of how well agents support customers in relation to the total amount of energy they expend completing the tasks. Operating an efficient contact … Most Efficient Ways to Manage Contact Center Solutions Read More ».

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3 Proven Ways to Baby-Proof your Contact Center

Fonolo

It’s imperative in a time of high competition and demand that your contact center is in optimal condition. Much like ensuring that our young are safe from harm’s way, yet still have the freedom to explore and grow, contact center leadership must ensure that their departments are safe-guarded while still maintaining the capability to grow internally and externally both in service and in excellence.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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6 Deep Audience Research Methods to Improve Your Targeting

GetFeedback

Buyer personas are often created on instinct instead of data. And let’s be honest, that doesn’t improve the customer experience. In some cases, buyer personas limit you to targeting one or two types of people, ignoring the different stages of the buyer cycle entirely. In fact, 60-70% of B2B marketers admit they don’t understand their buyers, which is exactly what buyer personas are designed to do.

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Critical Factors to Outbound Lead Generation Success, Part 3: Contact Strategy

Transparent BPO

In the two previous posts in this series, I talked about the need to hire the right agents for the outbound role, train them well, and prepare them to deliver the right messaging to your prospects — all critical elements to generating strong conversion rates. To run a successful outbound lead gen or sales acquisition […] The post Critical Factors to Outbound Lead Generation Success, Part 3: Contact Strategy appeared first on Transparent BPO.

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The Complete Guide to Improving Your Customer Success Health Score

Totango

An illuminated “check engine” light is scary because it doesn’t offer any solution. There could be any number of reasons why that little beacon has been lit. For many, “check engine” may as well just say “car broken”—and that’s terrifying. The lesson is that our early warning systems are only as valuable as the responses they trigger. This is certainly true of the customer success health scores used to monitor the status of customers.

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