Fonolo

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

However, customer service professionals need more than smarts to be successful — especially when working in a contact center. Why EQ is Important for Customer Support Agents. If EQ is a strong indicator of a person’s ability to succeed in the workplace, it’s even more true for customer service professionals.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Picture this: your customer experience (CX) team has gone through your customers’ feedback, identified regular pain points in the customer journey, and found solutions to reduce friction and retain more customers. However, they did this several months ago and suddenly customer retention is starting to dip down again.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 23, 2021

The Customer Love Formula. How to Make Your Customers Love Doing Business with You. Shep Hyken interviews Howard Tiersky, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance. They discuss how valuable customer love is to succeed in an ever-changing world of business.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 25, 2017

Shep interviews Scott Moorehead, co-author of Build A Culture of Good: Unleash Results by Letting Your Employees Bring Their Soul to Work , who discovered that it is possible, as he went through a process that reignited passion and loyalty in his employees. Our willingness to give back to the community may be our best measure of our success.

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Totango

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Knowing how to get customer feedback can be tricky. First, there is the challenge of getting customers to share feedback. Customers who are upset will often spread their displeasure to others without ever telling you, while those who are satisfied may keep it to themselves. After a customer support issue has been resolved.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 27, 2022

Asking these call center interview questions will help you find the best agents to help the organization excel. Good contact center managers instinctively know this, especially since 95% of a manager’s success resides in selecting the right people. Practical and Skill-Based Call Center Interview Questions.

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delighted

AUGUST 16, 2021

All businesses rely on customer loyalty for brand recognition and revenue growth. How often they come back to purchase products and services, how dedicated they are to your brand, and whether they are happy with the customer service matters to the success of your company. Voice of the Customer: A definition.

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Toister Performance Solutions

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Advertising disclosure: This blog participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon and affiliated sites. You don't need to be convinced that customer loyalty is important. How do you get customers to keep coming back?

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Toister Performance Solutions

APRIL 15, 2021

To my greater surprise, she expertly diagnosed and resolved the problem without first insisting on asking me 50 irrelevant questions. In customer service, we take this definition a bit further. Empathy means understanding the negative emotions your customer is experiencing and taking action to help them feel better.

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Voiptime

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In this issue about hiring successful call center managers, you'll discover: 1. Hint: these are extremely powerful devices for hiring 2. What essential skill do you need to look for in your future sales or customer service manager?; How to properly organize the sequence of the interviewing process? And many more!

Call Center 40

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delighted

APRIL 27, 2021

For many product managers, customer feedback is the key to making a product successful. This is why carefully structuring and selecting the product survey questions you ask your customers is so important. These surveys should be carefully crafted without any leading questions. The best product survey questions.

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Toister Performance Solutions

MAY 11, 2023

You've sent your team through customer service training. But you face a nagging question. I've repeatedly used them to demonstrate the impact of customer service training to executives. Why evaluate customer service training? I hear these three questions most often: Does the training program work?

Customer Service 88

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Totango

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Knowing how to get customer feedback can be tricky. First, there is the challenge of getting customers to share feedback. Customers who are upset will often spread their displeasure to others without ever telling you, while those who are satisfied may keep it to themselves. After a customer support issue has been resolved.

Feedback 71

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CSM Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

How Deel brings customer support team in-house and elevates customer experience. As Global Head of Support and Services, I lead our growing customer experience team and have had the privilege of witnessing first-hand the explosive growth of the company – e.g. from $57M ARR to 295M ARR within a year!

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Help Scout

APRIL 27, 2021

Long-time customer service professional Mat “Patto” Patterson answers readers’ most challenging customer support delivery, leadership, and career questions. If you have a question you’d love Patto to answer, send it to editorial@helpscout.com. What sort of questions will they need to answer? How do you help?”

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delighted

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Haven’t surveyed your employees before or feel unsure about how to ask the right questions? According to Gallup, businesses with highly engaged employees double their odds of business success and see a 23% uptick in profitability. Check out our guide to employee satisfaction survey questions. Increasing employee performance.

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Toister Performance Solutions

APRIL 1, 2021

Hiring managers are increasingly using asynchronous video interviews to screen job applicants. These are one-way interviews where candidates are given a short time to record their answers to pre-set interview questions. One-way video interviews might be turning away top talent. It's very impersonal."

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ProProfs Blog

JANUARY 30, 2022

Think of the time when you wished to know how many repeat customers you have or what percentage of customers buy items with a value exceeding $1000. . Answers to questions like ‘ How much ’, ‘ How many ’, ‘ What percentage ’, and ‘ How often ’ are what constitutes quantitative data. Number of questions in a test paper.

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ProProfs Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

Customer support has become the topmost goal for any business. No company can afford to ignore the growing significance of customer support in times of today. Your competitors go from post to pillar to get hold of your customers. Check out her insights into customer support. How to create a customer-centric business?

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Satrix Solutions

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Have you ever thought about how your customer’s experience is tightly intertwined with the health of your brand? Each experience with your product or service can have an impact on how your brand is perceived overall. 2) What does that mean to your company? Think of these questions as a three-legged stool.

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Satrix Solutions

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

If like me , you’re in a Customer Experience (CX), Customer Success, or Research-related role, I imagine you have. The fact is, nearly every company asks their customers, prospects, and/or employees for some kind of input or feedback. 2) Questions are included that are ambiguous or unnecessary.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Agents are the key to a successful call center—that’s no secret. People management is a big part of running a successful call center, including managing employee absences, both scheduled and unscheduled. Remember what we said about agents being the key to a successful call center? Customer satisfaction (CSat).

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

He shares the process of conducting consumer research and how to implement your findings into the customer experience. Whole Foods understands what drives their customers’ purchase behavior. Their customers go to Whole Foods for organic grocery items and not a whole lot else, which allows them to own their niche. Most likely no.

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

We at ProProfs bring to our readers a thought-provoking conversation we had with Shep Hyken , the Customer Service and Experience Expert. Shep Hyken offers valuable insights into the customer support domain and how to create a customer-centric culture in your organization. Only then can you drive customer experience.

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Interaction Metrics

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Your CEO has come to embrace customer success! And you’ve been tapped to lead a customer experience team. Do you need a lengthy class or book on customer experience principles? Getting Your Team on Board But first, how important is the customer experience? As for the customer journey? 65% of U.S.

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Maru Group

JANUARY 31, 2023

Unfortunately, rolling out the same question sets using the same data-gathering methods can lead to incomplete or flawed data, painting a skewed picture of what employees want and need. These insights require an effective, agile survey process and platform to be successful.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The success of your call center agents depends heavily on your ability to lead them to that success. Consider asking yourself these questions: 1. Be sure they feel comfortable reaching out for assistance if they have questions. Customer satisfaction (CSat) score. How to Set Team Customer Service Goals.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 3, 2023

Surveys are one of the most useful tools out there for gathering quick feedback from customers, and understanding what motivates them. Here we’ll discuss some best practices for designing effective surveys – everything from creating questions that elicit actionable responses, to logic-checking your data to ensure accuracy.

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Global Response

MARCH 25, 2024

Excellent customer service aims to anticipate and meet needs before customers are even aware of them. And the best way to do that is to start with a customer journey map. What is customer journey mapping? Customer journey mapping is a visual representation of every experience customers have with you.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It’s important for your business to understand your customers. You need to know how they use your products or services and what they expect from you. Using a customer needs analysis and setting up a feedback loop are the key ways to make this happen. In This Article: What is Voice of Customer(VoC) and Why Is It Important?

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ProProfs Blog

MARCH 27, 2019

The promise of a delightful customer support experience comes with the responsibility of actually delivering it consistently. Just buying and installing the latest customer support software onboard does not automatically mean that you will provide a great experience to your customers.

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delighted

APRIL 13, 2022

And, understanding that difference can make a large impact on how you analyze the success of a product, service update, or overall company performance. Any data that can fall neatly into a numerical system or rating – number of customers, dates of purchases, revenue, Net Promoter Score (NPS) , etc.

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OctopusTech

JUNE 17, 2022

When you think about working on a customer feedback strategy, there are tons of possibilities by which you can easily get overwhelmed. With a large number of customers and different methods to connect with their feedback, it’s hard to find where to start with. What do you mean by customer feedback?

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 25, 2022

Customer advisory boards (CABs) can be a powerful tool in your organization's arsenal. They can help you better guide your customer experience strategy , prepare for product launches, learn more about your audience—essentially any goal or initiative that would benefit from direct customer insight. How do they work?

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

With access to fewer resources and generally leaner teams, small businesses need to be more creative and tactful in their approach to customer service. Armed with those insights and learnings, you should be able to get started on — or refine — your own customer service program to start delivering consistently exceptional support.

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Nicereply

AUGUST 3, 2021

If your business is growing fast, then your customer service ticket volume is, too. At some point, the inquiries and questions from customers can be too much to handle internally. How can you be sure you’re putting your customers in good hands? Good customer support requires top-notch training.

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