HelpCrunch
AUGUST 20, 2020
Satisfied clients who don’t have questions left after chatting with a support agent can only exist in your dreams (or not?). Everyone has a different temper, background, and needs. Believe it or not, customer service [ … ]. The post How to Deal with Angry Customers: 8 Need-to-Know Tactics appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 19, 2020
The idiom “Open the Door” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “to make something easier.” Who isn’t interested in making something easier? Think back on the past couple of years and the push toward improving the customer experience. This has put a lot of value on making things easy for consumers. Which Door Will It Be? […].
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TechSee
AUGUST 19, 2020
In the age of social distancing, is contact the new dirty word? With COVID-19 on everyone’s mind, it certainly seems that way. The new normal has companies seeking alternative methods of serving their customers without direct person-to-person contact. Known as “contactless service,” this new model is emerging as the goal of many of the world’s leading enterprises.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 20, 2020
How we share information is affected by the medium that we use to communicate it. We can see this concept manifest in customer reviews and advertising response behavior. The technology through which customers write reviews and interact with your organization influences the content produced and information shared. . We discussed the findings of the interface of technology and human beings with Professor Shiri Melumad on a recent podcast.
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ShepHyken
AUGUST 21, 2020
This week we feature an article by Ricardo Saltz Gulko, managing director and co-founder of Eglobalis. He shares 5 habits of companies that went through dramatic transformation and still managed to improve the customer experience. Over the last few months, most businesses have had the opportunity to reconsider processes, products, and people. For some, it has been a monumental and frustrating struggle, while others have been able to plan and execute deep changes that have improved adoption, sati
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Myra Golden Media
AUGUST 21, 2020
COVID-19 is making customers more hostile, and you need a strategy for quickly containing the situation and de-escalating the interaction. The 3R Method is battleground tested and easy to use – ideal for when you have to give bad news, enforce a mask requirement, or get an angry customer to calm down and listen to you. When you use these steps in your next challenging conversation with a customer, you’ll be more assertive and in control of the interaction.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 21, 2020
How we share information is affected by the medium that we use to communicate it. We can see this concept manifest in customer reviews and advertising response behavior. The technology through which customers write reviews and interact with your organization influences the content produced and information shared. We discussed the findings of the interface of technology and human beings with Professor Shiri Melumad on a recent podcast.
ShepHyken
AUGUST 19, 2020
What is a professional? Is it the opposite of an amateur? In the sports world, professional athletes are paid, while amateurs are not. In my business, the title “professional keynote speaker” implies that I’m paid to speak in front of audiences. So, does being a professional simply mean you’re paid to do whatever it is you are doing? I’ll answer that with a resounding, “No!
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 18, 2020
COVID-19 has impacted everyone’s lives in so many ways. As we all learn to navigate our way through this global crisis, there are increasing demands on our contact center agents as well as the leaders who support them. When you put your people and your customers at the center of your process and technology decisions, […].
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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
Customercount
AUGUST 20, 2020
View or download the presentation by Lisa Kobek from CustomerCount® on why resorts should be focusing on owner engagement with feedback tools at this difficult time for the hospitality sector. The post Engaging owners through feedback tools appeared first on CustomerCount.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 15, 2020
Did you know that if you were to write a Customer Experience review on your mobile phone, it would be more emotional than if you did it on your computer? Did you also know you are more likely to tell me your email and or home address and your substance abuse history if I ask you on your mobile? You might be thinking that this can’t be true. However, recent findings by Professor Shiri Melumad, assistant professor of marketing for the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania suggest
ShepHyken
AUGUST 18, 2020
Customer Service and Community Support. How to Use Customer Experience as a Brand Identity. Shep Hyken interviews Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey , founders of Barefoot Wine. They discuss how Michael and Bonnie built a successful wine business from the ground up by focusing on customer service and experience. Top Takeaways: Creating a good customer experience requires doing research.
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 20, 2020
There’s a lot of talk about the values-based consumer today—the preference for brands that do business in ethically positive ways or take a stand on moral issues. Winning over these consumers takes more than launching a Save-the-Whales drive or sending a team to the annual charity 5k. Today’s consumers look for companies that demonstrate exemplary […].
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.
CCNG
AUGUST 21, 2020
During a recent member town hall Pam Plyler of The Northridge Group led a discussion around the changes and successes contact center leaders have shared with her as they decide how to return to customer support operations. What as learned in the first half of the year that will drive how companies structure contact center and customer care going forward?
Steve DiGioia
AUGUST 20, 2020
For decades, stress was viewed as bad and damaging. Then we began to see the power of resilience as an accelerator in our lives. Whether you are coping with adversity, bouncing back from setbacks, or leading through uncertainty, these experiences can make you stronger. When you rise to a challenge, you reveal your hidden abilities, strengthen your capacity to suffer through setbacks and build character.
ShepHyken
AUGUST 17, 2020
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. Customer Experience Emerges As A Critical Strategy For Small And Medium Sized Businesses by Maria Morais. (Forbes) In its report, “Digital, Resilient, and Experience-Driven,” the global economic consultancy and thought leadership firm found that 53% of top performers
ClearAction
AUGUST 19, 2020
Customer Experience Indexes: Modern Thinking Lynn Hunsaker. Why are customer experience indexes powerful? To paint a concise picture of growth strength. An index is like an executive summary of your voice of the customer research. It says: overall, our propensity to grow is increasing or decreasing. One size does not fit all. There are many types of customer experience indexes, and they each communicate something specific, based on certain assumptions, with greatest usefulness to one or more gr
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!
CCNG
AUGUST 18, 2020
Kathryn Jackson recently talked with CCNG members during a Town Hall working through new challenges associated with COVID changes shifting to remote workers. Kathryn shares three best practices in supporting agents working either remotely or on-premise in the healthcare contact center operations of her client. These best practices focus on – Knowledge – how to best transfer and share knowledge with these agents Communication – how they leverage tools to effectively communicate regularly with age
Call Design
AUGUST 18, 2020
With the digitalisation of the customer journey, businesses need to implement an entirely digital customer service experience. With an increase in channels for customers and brands to interact, your company has an incredible opportunity to meet your customer where they are with exactly what they need. An omnichannel customer experience will allow your brand to leverage the preferred platforms of your audience to provide a better customer service experience.
The Northridge Group
AUGUST 19, 2020
At The Northridge Group, we frequently come to the aid of companies with struggling contact centers, but what about the ones already doing a pretty good job? Let’s say you have a secure process in place, your wait times are acceptable, and you’re meeting many industry standards. An organization like this may question whether it’s worth seeking guidance to take their call center to the next level.
GetFeedback
AUGUST 15, 2020
A look into how the way we're wired impacts employees' perception of work and satisfaction.
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.
Taylor Reach Group
AUGUST 20, 2020
by Patricia Ballantyne. When we packed up our offices to work from home in March, many thought it would only last a few months until it was safe to return to an office space. Today, it seems pretty clear that many companies have adopted this new working model for the foreseeable future. Some will allow their employees to ‘Work-From-Home’ permanently, others ‘indefinitely’ or if the employee chooses to do so.
Ansafone
AUGUST 15, 2020
Being in customer service is an art of balancing multiple skillsets all at once. A great customer service department starts with highly-skilled customer service agents. When a person is working in customer service, a variety of skills are required to respond correctly and handle difficult issues with grace and excellent people skills. While having a … Acquire These Top 7 Customer Service Skills Read More ».
Totango
AUGUST 21, 2020
In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform. It was a great must watch panel discussion that provides many insights into SAP’s journey to becoming the largest Customer Success implementation world-wide.
GetFeedback
AUGUST 19, 2020
This report examines how COVID-19 has affected the ecommerce industry and the customer experience space.
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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.
Tethr
AUGUST 18, 2020
There is no such thing as placing too much emphasis on the customer experience. But are you committed to securing the resources to do so? As brands battle for the largest share of customer minds and wallets, it’s clear that appeasing the customer’s entire journey is the best way to stay competitive in a world where a company’s reputation and reviews are but an internet search away.
Outsource Consultants
AUGUST 18, 2020
Saint Louis Park, MN, August 18, 2020 – Inc. Magazine recently published its 2020 Inc. 5000 list, a ranking of the fastest-growing companies in the United States. Call center advisory firm Outsource Consultants, LLC appears on the list for the second year in a row at #1751 overall and #169 in the Midwest, due to an impressive 244% 3-year growth rate.
TELUS International
AUGUST 17, 2020
Telemedicine has grown exponentially during COVID-19. Here are five digital transformation and CX lessons we can glean from its meteoric rise.
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