GetFeedback

AUGUST 3, 2020

How to run a successful employee experience (EX) program that also empowers teams to provide better CX and improve the bottom line.

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TechSee

AUGUST 6, 2020

As a sophisticated IT department, you’ve done everything right. When COVID-19 hit, you pivoted to support work from home, considering employees’ every need during the pandemic. You painstakingly assessed which new remote customer support tools were needed, strategically shifted budgets, thoroughly researched vendors, carefully evaluated the tools, made the decision, and finally rolled out the solution.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the age of social media backlash and call-out culture, customer perception has become more important than ever to a brand’s success. The current COVID crisis is already impacting customer perceptions of brands. Although it’s almost impossible to completely control what people think about your organization, improving customer perception of your brand is entirely possible.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 5, 2020

What gets in the way of creating a great customer service experience for you and/or your organization? Is it a process that is clunky, inconvenient and difficult for the customer? Is it people who aren’t properly trained or don’t have the right people skills? It’s easy to ask yourself these questions and self-diagnose your organization, but have you ever asked your people?

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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.

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 1, 2020

The 5 Rules for Behavioral Journey Mapping. A lot of Behavioral Economics can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. What Are The Five Rules? We were training customers with journey mapping recently when it became apparent that people didn’t understand what journey mapping could do for them.

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Steve DiGioia

AUGUST 6, 2020

Many times, we managers think we have all the answers, that we know it all, and our way is the one correct way to do things. After all, we’re management, and our ideas are always better. But that’s not the case. The employees who do the job each day usually have a better understanding of what works and how to perform the task than the boss who sits in the office thinking up policies and procedures.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 7, 2020

This week we feature an article by Kritagya Pandey , a content writer at CallCenterHosting. She shares tips and tricks on how to create a Disney-like customer service experience. Delivering excellent customer service is an art. This era belongs to creating valuable and stellar experiences for the customers. And good customer service is defined as taking that extra step for the customers without being asked.

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Contact Center Pipeline

AUGUST 6, 2020

In this final installment of our three-part series on COVID-19’s impact on contact centers, our panel discusses how the rapid move to adopt or expand automated solutions will effect agent training and development in the new work environment, as well as which AI-powered support tools can add the most value for employees and customers during […].

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Callminer

AUGUST 3, 2020

Learn more about the meaning of the term ‘eDiscovery’ as well as the current legal and procedural landscape that surrounds it.

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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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Steve DiGioia

AUGUST 3, 2020

Snow. As far and wide as your eye can see. Thanks to the wind, in some places, it’s as high as your hip. Small patches of dry brown grass peek out from the high ridges and icicles hang from places I’ve never noticed. Then I see it. Meat. I had a conversation with someone the other day about the “ most memorable situations ” we’ve had during our career and quickly, one stood out.

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Peter Lavers

AUGUST 7, 2020

Our friend and colleague Dr Mark Hollyoake completed his doctorate in 2020 on the hot topic of trust within B2B relationships, and interviewed Peter Lavers as part of a series of tea break chats. The discussion covered the situation mid-pandemic and also what’s going to be important for business recovery and business reengineering. Please click here to watch their chat.

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Contact Center Pipeline

AUGUST 4, 2020

It’s summertime here in Annapolis, Md. It wasn’t that long ago that we talked of vacations, pool time and kids going back to school as our summer days were drawing to a close. Fast Forward to August 2020, and we are talking about state travel restrictions, how we are going to manage work and our […].

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The Northridge Group

AUGUST 6, 2020

Are your customer service agents offering empathy during the Global Health Crisis? Sympathy and empathy are behaviors that are often used interchangeably although they are quite different. While sympathy is feeling “for” a person, empathy is feeling “with” a person. This can make all the difference when trying to connect with a customer, especially during a global health crisis or any other difficult situation.

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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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UJET

AUGUST 5, 2020

After over 10 years in the software startup scene and a great start at UJET in its San Francisco headquarters for a year and a half, I had the opportunity to move to Europe. Now after being in Munich for almost two years, I’ve had time to reflect on the benefits, drawbacks, and lessons learned about working remotely while living abroad. While I could go on and on about personal growth, many of the same lessons and insights I’ve gained personally have also benefited me professionally.

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Outsource Consultants

AUGUST 3, 2020

The travel industry has seen an otherwise busy vacation season stifled by the global COVID pandemic. And now that many customers are primed (and overdue) for some R&R, consumer expectations across the travel industry have never been higher. . So what does that mean for your call center operations? In short, traveling customers will have even more *cough* baggage *cough* to handle than before. .

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 5, 2020

We’re excited to announce a brand new user interface (UI) thoughtfully designed with our customers in mind.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

Cisco Webex Contact Center CCaaS honored for improving customer service technology and customer experience. Award Winner Second Year in a Row. I’m excited to announce that Webex Contact Center was among the 2020 Contact Center Technology Award winners, presented by CUSTOMER Magazine this month. This award honors vendors that have embraced technology as a key tool for customer service excellence and distinguish their success as innovators, thought leaders, and market movers in the contact c

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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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HelpCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2020

Delivering great customer service should be the focus of any business that wants to be in the limelight. Unfortunately, it’s not always the case. You can still meet those brands that don’t invest in their [ … ]. The post 9 Customer Service Horror Stories That will Make Your Blood Turn to Ice appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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TELUS International

AUGUST 4, 2020

When it comes to finding the right QA and testing solution for your business, one size certainly doesn’t fit all. Answering these key questions can help determine which solution is right for you.

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Calabrio

AUGUST 4, 2020

Workforce managers need a better process to communicate with agents about events impacting their schedule. This could be everything from intraday events—such as working overtime or voluntary time off—to notifying employees about weather related events such as snowstorms that would impact their ability to safely come to work. With mobile use only increasing, managers and employees should be able to access their schedule information when and how they want from the palm of their hand.

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pindrop

AUGUST 3, 2020

Fraudulent activity in the IVR has become a tool for more sophisticated fraudsters and scammers to gain sensitive data that puts contact centers and financial institutions at risk. Fraudsters often use Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems to mine information, which they subsequently leverage to commit fraud at various other touchpoints downstream.

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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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Hero Digital

AUGUST 5, 2020

What was once expected to be a multi-year process has now taken place in months or even weeks. And now that customers have made the transition, many say they may never visit a bank branch again. If we project this trend forward into the future, banks will need to find new ways to remain relevant to their customers, even as customers come to believe they need banks less.

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Totango

AUGUST 5, 2020

Customer engagement, while always a vital piece of the puzzle of success, has never been more important than it has become since the pandemic. The use of telecommunication has dramatically increased since the COVID-19 outbreak began, and people are spending more time on their digital devices while waiting for life to return to normal. . This alone should be reason enough to take a second look at your digital engagement efforts.

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Calabrio

AUGUST 7, 2020

Calabrio is a company that has thrived through strategic partnerships. Whether long-term partnerships like Cisco or Avaya , or newer collaborations with Amazon Connect , Twilio or UJET , we deliver value to customers by making the connection between their on-prem or cloud contact center to our leading workforce engagement management platform. We see our services through the lenses of openness and flexibility — we want to work with what you have, not the other way around.

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pindrop

AUGUST 3, 2020

On a quiet Friday afternoon a family member of mine, who will remain anonymous for my own protection, received an email from a man from Australia claiming to be a long lost brother. Since her father had recently passed away, a new familial connection can seem like a very pleasant prospect. The moment I heard this, my disbelief began immediately. In my line of work, unexpected good news from the internet usually means fraud is about to happen.

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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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Talkdesk

AUGUST 7, 2020

It’s no secret that organizations must rely on great customer experience (CX) as a competitive advantage to take their businesses to the next level. Adapting to rapidly-evolving customer demands creates sustainable customer loyalty — the recipe for long-lasting business success. With the arrival of the coronavirus (COVID-19), business priorities have shifted to focus solely on the safety of employees and customers, deploying a work-from-home (WFH) and social distancing model on a global sc

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 3, 2020

Interview with Nicole Sult, senior director of customer experience at Lippert Components—the world’s leading supplier of high-quality RV products—about her career in the customer experience space.

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Ameyo

AUGUST 5, 2020

Being a trusted customer engagement software provider, Ameyo believes that businesses should focus on easing customer engagement journeys while also ensuring hassle-free customer interactions. This is utmost important. In order to maintain a high customer satisfaction rate, you should not forget to consistently improve the way you carry out your business operations to resolve your … Excel Customer Support With Ameyo: New Product Updates Read More » The post Excel Customer Support With

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