Kayako

AUGUST 12, 2022

The lockdowns and aftermath of the 2020 global pandemic spiked growth in e-commerce sales as brick-and-mortar stores and restaurants closed their doors. Meetings and classrooms shifted to Zoom almost overnight. The pandemic pushed late adopters into new ways of shopping and interacting. Today even as people are returning to stores, the share of purchasing due to eCommerce continues to increase steadily. eMarketer estimates that by 2024 almost 20% of total retail sales will be via eCommerce, and

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Nicereply

AUGUST 10, 2022

To give the best customer experience, you need to ensure that your writing skills are spot on. As a business, you’re probably well aware that the days where customers call up to communicate with your business is are slowly disappearing. Instead, customers are much more likely to fill out a contact form, talk through a live chat system or write you an email.

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MiaRec

AUGUST 12, 2022

Do you know what your customers are saying about you? Do they feel like you are providing the best possible customer experience you can? Or are your customers about to jump ship to a competitor or tell their friends and family about a bad experience they had with your company?

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 11, 2022

I posted on LinkedIn recently that the world is going mad (or crazy, depending on which side of the pond you read this). I did it to see if I was becoming a grumpy old man or if others had noticed this too. It turns out I am not alone in my assessment. Many of my followers weighed in with their own experiences that tell a truth that is hard to swallow, the world has changed for good, but it’s not good for customers.

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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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Callminer

AUGUST 10, 2022

In the modern healthcare industry, quality patient experiences are more important than ever. Continue reading to discover 101 statistics on patient experience, satisfaction, billing, and more.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week we feature an article by Soumya Juttukonda, a content developer & digital media strategist at Knowmax , an AI enterprise knowledge base solution to enhance customer service. She shares how you can reduce customer support tickets and enhance customer experience. The last thing you want in your business is to face an increased number of customer support tickets. .

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Contact Center Pipeline

AUGUST 11, 2022

The focus of conversations about customer experiences (CXs) has generally been on the consumer, namely business-to-consumer (B2C) or B2C CX. But the B2C experiences are, to a considerable extent, driven by the business-to-business (B2B) customer experiences (B2B CX). Ones that occur in long and complex supply chains that include retailers, wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers, resource extraction, […].

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Callminer

AUGUST 8, 2022

Organizations need to support customers and provide an exceptional omnichannel customer experience across every stage of their journey. This blog explores 25 ways to do that and earn customer loyalty.

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Steve DiGioia

AUGUST 8, 2022

That’s a pretty harsh statement, I know. But hear me out… Chris can’t seem to get along with Susan. Kevin always comes in late. Derrick, well, he’s just a poor performer. And, Donna, seems to make everything about race, harassment, or favoritism. Face it, you’ve got a dismal group of employees. They’re bad and many need to go.

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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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ShepHyken

AUGUST 10, 2022

We’ve all experienced it. We’ve called the customer support line, and a pre-recorded message answers stating, “Press one for this, two for that, etc., etc. Well, it happened to me again – the third time this week – and this is how it went down. . I listened to the prompts. I was at number four, thinking this one might be it, but I wasn’t 100% sure, so I kept listening.

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Contact Center Pipeline

AUGUST 10, 2022

This past year’s holiday shopping season and ensuing post-holiday calls to customer service were among the most challenging that contact centers have ever endured. A recent Gallup poll showed that 60% of shoppers were unable to get a product because of the supply chain shortage—an issue that usually ended up with customers speaking with contact […].

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Avoxi

AUGUST 9, 2022

Is a Cloud PBX or On-Premise More Secure? The growing number of cyber-attacks targeting businesses across the globe is landing IT leaders in the hot seat, forcing them to rethink and restructure their security strategy. Geo-political climates, macroeconomic trends and poor cybersecurity posture have created the perfect playgrounds for hackers. With organizations victimized in every… The post Is a Cloud PBX or On-Premise More Secure?

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Totango

AUGUST 9, 2022

B2B customer segmentation gives you the power to customize your service and even personalize it for individual clients. This yields superior customer satisfaction, translating into higher revenue for your business. This article will give you six best practices for optimizing your B2B customer segmentation. What Is B2B Customer Segmentation? B2B customer segmentation is a method of dividing business clients into categories based on selected characteristics.

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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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ShepHyken

AUGUST 9, 2022

Customer Support Vs Customer Success. Building Customer Relationships After the Deal is Closed. Shep Hyken interviews Sam Cummings, award-winning Customer Success Manager, Data Scientist, and co-founder of Data Plant. He shares how companies can empower their teams to provide value, create great experiences, and build customer relationships. Top Takeaways: What is the difference between customer support and customer success?

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Contact Center Pipeline

AUGUST 9, 2022

A call comes into my line at 5:50 pm, just 10 minutes before the call center closes, I do my greeting, and the caller requests to change his grandmother’s health plan selection. Assuming that he is an authorized representative on file, I request the caller verify the necessary HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) […].

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Spearline

AUGUST 12, 2022

Over the last number of years DEI has been the feature of many blogs, articles and white papers. But how does this actually impact how we attract, hire and retain employees? In this blog I will set out to explain what this is and how it impacts our hiring here at Spearline. D: Diversity refers to the representation of different people in an organisation.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 12, 2022

This is it. The moment you’ve been waiting for. Can we get a drumroll, please? We’re thrilled to announce our speaker and session agenda for BIG RYG 2022, the Customer Success leadership summit in Washington, D.C. on October 12-13, 2022. This two-day event features a unique program of hands-on 90-minute workshops, panel discussions, keynote addresses, and breakout sessions led by an incredible lineup of industry veterans and trailblazers.

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One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Quality Contact Solutions

AUGUST 9, 2022

Today I received a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize. Like most of us do, I declined the call. Thirty seconds later, my phone chimed, indicating I had a new voicemail. While listening to the message, I let out an audible “ughhhhhhh” as it was an important call I had been waiting on. The frustration! Why should my frustration matter to you?

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Fonolo

AUGUST 11, 2022

Virtual call-backs have singlehandedly revolutionized the call center customer experience over the last few years. You might be reading this and thinking about the type of call-backs that happen in the film industry where casting directors search for the perfect actor to fill a role. They share the same name, but film industry call-backs are quite different from the ones that improve the customer satisfaction (CSat) scores in the contact center.

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Joe Rawlinson

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to a survey, 68% of marketers say social media helped them generate more leads. The figure highlights how effective generating leads from social media can be with the right strategies. The big question becomes, what are the best tactics to generate leads from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms to support your social media marketing efforts?

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delighted

AUGUST 10, 2022

Every business wants loyal and satisfied customers. The reality? Every business loses once-loyal and no-longer-satisfied customers for one reason or another. Customer churn is an inevitable part of running a company – but by measuring it, understanding it, and taking action to improve it, you can turn lost customers into opportunities. And by collecting customer experience data, you can also learn to anticipate when customers are thinking of leaving and work to proactively repair the relationshi

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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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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 11, 2022

Fraudulent activities severely impact many industries, such as e-commerce, social media, and financial services. Frauds could cause a significant loss for businesses and consumers. American consumers reported losing more than $5.8 billion to frauds in 2021, up more than 70% over 2020. Many techniques have been used to detect fraudsters—rule-based filters, anomaly detection, and machine learning (ML) models, to name a few.

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Playvox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Chat is a powerful tool for business growth, allowing businesses to communicate directly with their customers. It means you can quickly and easily offer customer support, engage with users, and use it for lead generation. Chat lets agents communicate directly with customers, as well as track and solve questions and issues. It can build a valuable bank of data to inform business decisions moving forward, based on information that comes directly from users.

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Comm100

AUGUST 10, 2022

You might already know that you can automate a high portion of common support questions with chatbot software , but it can do so much more. Just like any new technology that disrupts an established industry, the benefits of chatbots are far-reaching. With unlimited capacity and availability, chatbot benefits go well beyond adding a little automation. .

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Helpware

AUGUST 9, 2022

Customers are the lifeblood of every business. For a business to survive, it needs customers. However, few businesses understand that it is much better to focus on customer retention rather than customer acquisition. Because of this, precious time and resources are wasted on drawing in new customers who aren’t in it for the long haul. This is why businesses need to focus on customer lifetime value.

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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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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 10, 2022

In the agriculture sector, the problem of identifying and counting the amount of fruit on trees plays an important role in crop estimation. The concept of renting and leasing a tree is becoming popular, where a tree owner leases the tree every year before the harvest based on the estimated fruit yeild. The common practice of manually counting fruit is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process.

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Playvox

AUGUST 8, 2022

In spring 2021, roughly one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented change occurred in the workplace. There was a mass exodus. Quit rates skyrocketed as workers gave notice and set out to find greater satisfaction in their livelihoods, pursue higher wages, and discover their true professional purpose. In April 2021, a record 4 million Americans quit their jobs.

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Comm100

AUGUST 8, 2022

Customer service is an always changing landscape. While many aspects of providing excellent customer service have held true over decades, the reality is that customer expectations have grown and shifted with technology. As consumers have adapted to digital technologies for communication in their personal lives, their preference for digital communication channels has crept into the customer service space.

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