Customer Experience Matters
APRIL 19, 2018
You’ve likely heard the news about a Starbucks in Philadelphia where two African-American men were arrested for not leaving the store. They were denied access to the bathroom and asked to leave because they had not purchased anything. I’ve been guilty of doing that same thing, but luckily no one has called the police to have me removed. I applaud Starbucks’ swift and robust response to the situation.
Call Center Weekly
APRIL 19, 2018
By Maurice Helm I understand from experience the life of a call center representative. Prior to moving into leadership, I started on the phones and as rewarding as that can be, there on the front-line taking ownership of issues and concerns and bringing resolution to them, without a doubt it is also a tough job. On top of fighting burnout and redundancy, team members have to try and prove themselves in an effort to grow their careers beyond the phone, sometimes in environments where there is no
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Aspect
APRIL 17, 2018
I’m lucky enough to live in a warm part of the country. Thanks to a certain mouse, is a convention and meeting mecca. This time of year is especially popular for companies in the Midwest who are in the midst of a never-ending winter. A few weeks ago, my sister had a meeting in town, so she added a few extra days to her trip for a visit. When my sister checked in at the airport for her outbound flight she discovered an issue with her frequent traveler number, A.K.A.
ShepHyken
APRIL 18, 2018
Lately, I’ve been asked about loyalty programs. Any company can create a loyalty program. But, there is some confusion around what exactly a loyalty program is. A Wikipedia definition of a loyalty program summed it up well: Loyalty programs are structured marketing strategies designed by merchants to encourage customers to continue to shop at or use the services of businesses associated with each program.
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Beyond Philosophy
APRIL 14, 2018
Why are you getting so many complaints? What are the hidden reasons customers complain? How can you identify what the hidden reasons are and reduce the number of complaints you receive? The post Why Am I Getting So Many Customer Complaints? appeared first on.
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Call Center Weekly
APRIL 17, 2018
By Dan MacDougall Contact center metrics are developed to measure operational performance (e.g. Calls Answered Live, Escalation Rate, First Contact Resolution, and Call Volume). They are useful to identify and drive areas of continuous improvement in staffing requirements, training opportunities, agent to agent consistency, and mean time to resolve to mention a few.
Customer Guru
APRIL 17, 2018
With the competition in the markets intensifying, it has become increasingly tough for a brand to differentiate itself from its competitors. However, there is a solution to this conundrum too. According to a study by Walker, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator by 2020. Further, a research conducted by Forrester demonstrates that 72% of the businesses considered improving customer experience as their priority.
Beyond Philosophy
APRIL 20, 2018
Once customers move from planning to implementation, they pass across a metaphorical Rubicon. People justify their thinking and it is then difficult to change their decisions. How do you recognize this and what can you do? The post The Rubicon Model and How To Use It To Your Advantage appeared first on.
Callminer
APRIL 19, 2018
This post will help you zero-in on those technologies and best practices proven to produce Customer Experience results.
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.
Contact Center Pipeline
APRIL 19, 2018
What qualifies an excellent customer service experience? We are all consumers who need a little help once in a while, so you would think that this is an easy question to answer—that there are some largely apparent and agreed-upon factors. A timely response, a friendly representative, and of course getting the problem solved in the […].
Lumoa
APRIL 17, 2018
We have been talking a lot about how important it is to take actions on customer feedback. Customer feedback is the essential unlimited source for development and inspiration for the whole company. As mentioned by Lincoln Murphy, " You can focus on adoption, retention, expansion, or advocacy; or you can focus on the customers' desired outcome and get all of those things.
Beyond Philosophy
APRIL 17, 2018
Facebook is a glimpse into the future for most businesses. Colin Shaw and Professor Ryan Hamilton discuss the recent controversy and the implications. What can we learn from the Facebook scandal? What are they doing with data? What action should we be taking? The post Facebook mistakes: What can we learn? appeared first on.
Toister Performance Solutions
APRIL 17, 2018
Email is a critical customer service channel. A 2017 study from inContact revealed that just 43 percent of customers were highly satisfied with their most recent email customer service interaction. Those who were happy cited speed as a top delighter. The average company takes 12 hours and 10 minutes to respond to an email, according to a 2018 study from SuperOffice.
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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.
Contact Center Pipeline
APRIL 18, 2018
What do NASCAR drivers Kyle Busch, Martin Truex, Jr., and Jimmie Johnson have in common? Each driver qualified for the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. They’ve each seen their share of the winner’s circle. But most importantly, they rely on a strong pit crew to cross the finish line. Your contact center might not […].
TechSee
APRIL 17, 2018
With all the AI hype in 2017, the customer service industry expected smart machines to truly transform the customer experience. However, while AI has not yet become the answer to all our customer service challenges, the technology is moving forward at a rapid pace, and is en route to achieving the level of impact previously predicted. AI and its enabling methodologies — Machine Learning, Deep Learning and its applications, NLP, computer vision and speech recognition — are the focus o
The Northridge Group
APRIL 16, 2018
It is every customer experience business leader’s worst nightmare; a customer service representative engaged poorly with a customer, who then recorded the encounter and made it public. In today’s digital landscape, going viral can literally boost or doom your business in a matter of hours. How can companies proactively mitigate their risk to these viral situations in an omni-channel world where customers can reach out via chat, email, phone, or even social media?
UJET
APRIL 19, 2018
Until recently, it was assumed that technology would replace people in customer support. Now it's clear that technology alone isn't enough. Modern customers want the organizations they work with to be their advocates, to be accountable and proactive when it comes to their needs and goals. Customers want their experience with a brand to be personalized and intimate.
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.
Contact Center Pipeline
APRIL 17, 2018
In September 2007, Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Professor Randy Pausch was diagnosed with liver cancer. For those of you who have never seen “The Last Lecture,” I encourage you to watch it on YouTube. Plan to spend a little more than an hour watching. Professor Pausch delivered an inspiring lecture focused on three parts—his […].
Fonolo
APRIL 17, 2018
In the wide world of call center metrics, “service level” has always held a special place. It gives the industry a universally understood way to talk about how quickly calls are answered by agents. Its origins go back over 5 decades, to the earliest days of call centers. The longevity of service level is astonishing when one considers the enormous changes that have occurred in customer service technology over the last few decades.
Amity
APRIL 20, 2018
While it might sound straightforward, a Quarterly Business Reviews’ purpose is to investigate, more than simply just reviewing the past quarter. You need to focus on the key metrics that deserve to be expanded on and identify the ones to keep short and simple. The end goal of a QBR is to deepen the relationship and solidify it. As easy as it is to grasp the concept of a successful QBR, in practice, a lot of us still miss the mark.
Kayako
APRIL 18, 2018
The online services that we use today are generally very reliable. When you want to watch something on Netflix or YouTube, you can be sure that 99% of the time, the service will be accessible. However, it is inevitable that something will go wrong at some point. When it does, it pays to have a competent and responsive support center to handle troubleshooting.
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C3Centricity
APRIL 17, 2018
Everyone is talking about customer first strategies and why they are important. However walking the talk is a different matter! An interesting article on NewMR by Ray Poynter prompted this post. He spoke about the differences between customer focus and customer centricity and the often times confusion between the two terms. That is why I tend to speak about customer first rather than customer centricity these days.
Fonolo
APRIL 19, 2018
You may think that watching movies and television shows is something you do for sheer amusement – providing little educational value. Well, think again! I know I recently spoke about the importance of reading vs. watching television in my latest blog on the top customer experience books , but let’s not completely underestimate the power of the tube.
Liveops
APRIL 17, 2018
Learn three ways to limit your risk. All areas of your organization are susceptible to external security threats such as advanced persistent threats (APT) or malware, which allow an unauthorized person or program to gain access to your network. They might even maintain that connection—undetected—for a long period of time. But when it comes to internal threats, your brick and mortar contact centers are actually one of the riskiest areas of your enterprise.
Nexmo
APRIL 17, 2018
As part of our Voice API offering, Nexmo allows you to record parts (or all) of a call and fetch the audio once the call has completed. Today, we’re happy to announce a new enhancement to this functionality: split recording. Split recording makes common tasks such as call transcription even easier. When split recording is […]. The post Dual Channel Transcription with Split Recording appeared first on Nexmo.
Speaker: Steve Pappas, Chief Strategist, Startup and Early Stage Growth Advisor, Keynote Speaker, CX Podcaster
As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.
GetFeedback
APRIL 19, 2018
We talk about great survey design a lot, but besides being modern and mobile-friendly, what else can you do to keep respondents tuned in? Here are 5 survey tips that help improve response rates. Survey Tip #1: Embed questions into emails. Distributing surveys via email is a highly effective way to collect feedback. Companies usually just include a link to their survey in the body of an email, but there’s a better way to grab people’s attention.
Comm100
APRIL 17, 2018
One often overlooked aspect of customer service is sourcing customer feedback. What many managers don’t understand is that customers are often willing to give feedback to brands they have done business with and some, in fact, are eager to do so! Many companies do not take advantage of this and end up missing out on a chance to understand what their customers really want.
Amity
APRIL 16, 2018
Deciding how much of your product roadmap - if any - to show your customers can be an area of uncertainty. Your product roadmap is your company’s high-level and strategic goals documented, along with an execution strategy that communicates how you plan on getting there. Your product roadmap is relevant for anyone concerned with where your product is headed: the team, the board, and… the customer.
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