Win the Customer

APRIL 6, 2017

Customer relationship management software has become an essential sales tool for businesses. percent from 2014 to 2015, from $23.4 But no matter which CRM solution you use, a few features are essential in today’s sales environment. In today’s sales environment, mobile capability is essential for an effective CRM tool.

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CRM Customer Experience Social media contact Sales 108

ShepHyken

JUNE 2, 2017

As customer service professionals, we have a hard time agreeing on what a “great customer experience” really is, and what’s truly possible. We hear stories about companies doing amazing things, but those sound disconnected from reality, given our own experience – they read like fairy tales. Shep Hyken.

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Wireless Banking Analytics Call Center 189

Call Center Weekly

APRIL 25, 2018

EVERY customer contact is a retention opportunity!" Train your agents to look for ways to improve customer experience on every interaction. For instance, suggest automatic renewals, so customers avoid service interruptions. Offer paperless billing to save the environment and make record keeping easier for customers.

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contact center associations Customer retention Contact Center Sales 43

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

As many marketing and public relations consultants, academics, economists, and business writers have observed, today we’re living in a reputation economy, where trust and customer experience – even more than product or service features – are coin of the realm, as real as legal tender. In January, 33% of U.S.

Banking 199

Banking Consulting Consulting Advertising 199

HGS

OCTOBER 30, 2014

What trends are you seeing in the world of customer service? Interacting with our customers we see two major shifts in providing a great customer experience. Don’t customers want to talk to “a real person”? Thu, 10/30/2014 - 19:59. Customer Experience. customer satisfaction.

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Telecommunications Airlines Self service CRM 130

CX Journey

JUNE 9, 2015

Image courtesy of Unsplash I originally wrote today's blog for LiveNinja; it appeared on their blog on November 24, 2014. I spend a lot of time talking to prospects and clients about how to sell the value of focusing on delivering a great customer experience to their company leaders. What, then, is customer experience ?

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Customer Experience Customer Service Call Center Sales 88

Contact Center Pipeline

MAY 18, 2017

Although the brand is a worldwide leader in TV sales, until recently, it remained relatively unknown in the United States. In 2014, TCL’s leadership team made a commitment to change that. If you are unfamiliar with TCL (The Creative Life), you probably won’t be for long. Their goal: To become the No. 3 TV brand […].

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Average Handle Time Sales Agent Empowerment Customer advocacy 124

Eptica

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 The widening UK customer experience gap. The rise of social media and increasingly demanding customers has changed all of this. The balance of power has changed – your brand is what your customers say it is, rather than how you define it within your organization. These are: 1.

Customer Experience 83

Customer Experience Multichannel Advertising Contact Center 83

Callminer

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

While gamification , call scoring and other strategies can help improve contact center agent performance, the first step is identifying the common behaviors that leave customers unsatisfied, frustrated and angry. A study from 2014 found that most people were not willing to stay on hold for longer than 13 minutes. Natalya Bucuy.

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Contact Center Call Center Gamification Wait times 345

Customers That Stick

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Welcome to the Monthly Mash, a mashup of tools, tales and tips on customer service and the customer experience from around the blogosphere. VOLUME 36: October 2014. Thoughts on the Customer: The Omnipresent Customer. The Month in Customer Service Blogging. ” Plus a great way to act on it.

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Construction Customer effort Customer Experience Customer Service 147

Cisco - Contact Center

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In this webinar, you’ll hear from Omar and Sheila on five essential elements that contact centers need to deliver to compete in this experience economy: The ability for customers to connect when they want, how they want. End-to-end visibility on customer experience interactions with your business. Learn More.

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Contact Center Transportation Customer Experience Wireless 87

Customer Guru

APRIL 5, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Journey mapping Banking 92

TechSee

DECEMBER 12, 2017

To enhance customer satisfaction, more and more companies are transforming into an omnichannel contact center – providing a frictionless customer service experience across multiple touchpoints. According to technology giant Cisco, video will account for 80% of all Internet traffic by 2019, up from 64% in 2014.

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Contact Center Enterprise Technology Customer Care 143

Amity

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Launched in 2014, Typeform has already reached over 1.5 Amity decided to sit down with David Apple , Director of Customer Success at Typeform, to learn about the structure and culture of Customer Success in this fast-growing startup, and to find out how it has evolved since its beginning 3 years ago. I got lucky!

Education 129

Education Metrics Accountability Sales 129

ClearAction

JULY 3, 2017

Customer Experience Transformation Through Proactive Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Employee engagement drives transformational changes that enable you to have quality in everything you do,” explained Carolyn Muise, Vice President of Total Customer Experience (TCE) at EMC. Give them tools to be effective executive sponsors.

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Customer Experience Government Engineering Finance 66

Customers That Stick

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Remember, Black Friday and Cyber Monday still account for only a small percentage of holiday sales. How will you inform customers of changing store hours? A final thought: We are releasing a research report on consumer attitudes towards holiday shopping next week, the The Holiday Shopping Experience: Customer’s Viewpoint 2014.

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Customer Service Accountability Customer Experience Sales 124

ProProfs Blog

JANUARY 30, 2020

Successful Customer Engagement. Benefits of Customer Engagement. Customer Engagement Challenges. Customer Engagement Expectations. Mobile Customer Engagement. Impact of Customer Engagement On Sales. Personalized Customer Engagement. Impact of Customer Engagement.

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B2B Banking Personalization Employee engagement 204

ijgolding

AUGUST 13, 2014

The number of Bookstores physically present on UK high streets have fallen to less than 1000 in 2014 – down over a third in the last ten years. During the same period, sales of ‘ebooks’ rose 134%. Borders were trying to offer their customers more than just the product. You would find it hard to disagree with the statement.

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Customer centricity Customer Experience Sales Marketing 86

HGS

AUGUST 3, 2016

Companies can undertake better inventory management with wider sales access to inventory. Additionally, customers are provided faster information about product availability. Hosting data on cloud infrastructure can lead to better customer experiences, with faster and more accurate updates about product availability.

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Vonage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Silos may be a great way to store grain, but if you apply this idea to the organization of people, it can damage customer experience. What is avoidable, however, is “silo mentality,” in which departments are isolated, proprietary, and competitive, and which can have a negative impact on customer experience.

Customer Experience 69

Customer Experience Finance Consulting Consulting 69

ProProfs Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Customer Loyalty B2B Statistics. Social Media & Customer Loyalty. Hard to Attain Customer Loyalty. Customer Loyalty Through Customer Satisfaction. Customer Loyalty Program Improving Sales. Mobile Customer Loyalty. Customer Loyalty Brands. Customer Service Loyalty.

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Customer retention Sales B2B Marketing 164

Vonage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

People come first: The customer-focused company knows the value of its employees and puts them first, creating a culture of happy, engaged, fulfilled workers who naturally deliver a better customer experience. The customers are happy, too, and they continue to come back.

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Education Customer Service Personalization Customer Experience 110

Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 9, 2015

A company’s business model must move post-sales care to a more mature level. This evolution requires a different mindset and approach to customer lifetime value. Four Areas Needed to Master Customer Success Management. [1] Companies who believe in customer experience build CSM organizations.

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Sales Management Analytics Marketing 61

Vonage

MAY 11, 2016

However, despite our best efforts, we were failing our customers; we were constrained by our system solutions. Since deployment our sales average order value has increased by a fantastic 30 percent. First contact resolution is 87% and NPS 91%. How to future-proof your contact center technology and find your competitive advantage.

Customer Experience 31

Customer Experience Technology Contact Center Sales 31

Joe Rawlinson

AUGUST 9, 2017

The 2017 IBM Consumer Experience Index (CEI) Study says only 3.4 percent of brands are delivering leading-edge customer experience , while 33.5 percent are lagging or falling behind today’s customer service trends. Live chat is another technology you can use to improve customer experience.

Customer Service 104

Customer Service virtual call center Self service Analytics 104

aircall

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The right cloud-based phone system for your customer support team can make or break a sale. With plenty of Justcall alternatives available on the market, finding the ideal cloud-based phone system for your customer support team can be quite a time-consuming process. Keep an eye on how your customer support team is doing.

Sales 62

Sales CRM Interactive Voice Response Coaching 62

Vonage

JULY 27, 2015

An example of where we’ve helped to create a scalable customer service team for a customer is PhotoBox. Its business is extremely seasonal – with 50% of sales occurring in eight weeks of the year. Related Posts Improve customer satisfaction by personalizing service. The sales profession in the year 2050.

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Technology outsourcing Enterprise Sales 125

aircall

MARCH 19, 2021

For some businesses, they use this customer data to gain unique insights to improve things like sales performance or the customer experience. Customer data gives you a holistic understanding of your customer journey and lets you know which parts of your processes work, and which need improvement.

Sales 62

Sales CRM Marketing Best practices 62

Win the Customer

JUNE 7, 2016

According to data reported by the Selz Blog , ecommerce sales are expected to increase to $491.5 billion by the year 2018, compared to 2014 when online sales totaled $304.1 Customers shop online because it’s convenient. Just because your business is online doesn’t mean you can push your customer service to the wayside.

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Engineering Sales Metrics Surveys 90

Kayako

JANUARY 5, 2017

In the customer service trends handbook published by Microsoft , “90% of consumers say they expect consistency and continuity from a brand across channels.”. Yet, relatively few contact centers have focused on providing a consistent customer experience. Omni-channel strategy creates a single view of the customer.

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CX Journey

AUGUST 16, 2017

It's been a year or more since I've written about the ROI of customer experience. Always good to revisit this topic because it is such a hot one for customer experience professionals. The net-net of it all: we know that it's important to invest in customer experience, today more than ever. Jim Rohn.

Customer Experience 56

Customer Experience Airlines Benchmark Consulting 56

Answer Dash

JANUARY 9, 2019

(This article is first published at Forbes ) Before we get into my fifth annual piece on customer experience predictions, let me introduce myself to new readers. I started writing about customer experience for Forbes in 2014, simply because I thought it was interesting–I was fascinated by human behavior and by the idea of a brand.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Chatbots Technology 82

Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. Listen to customers: It is terribly easy to become too busy to stay connected to your customers, especially in a growing company.

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Customer Service Customer centricity Chief Customer Officer Metrics 139

Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This year, one of the customer experience (CX) predictions for 2023 falling into that category is that ‘Personalization will get More Personal’. In a nutshell, individualizing the experience is taking standard personalization one step further in order to create a unique – but not creepy! engagement with the customer.

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Personalization Virtual Agent Chatbots Self service 105

inmoment

JUNE 1, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, the role of customer experience is at a crucial tipping point. Since the pandemic transcended into Australia/New Zealand in early 2020, InMoment’s APAC Sales Director Simon Benns has seen an interesting shift toward an empathy economy. Market Disruption has Exposed the Need for Experience Improvement.

Customer Experience 69

Customer Experience Surveys Analytics Feedback 69

Eptica

JANUARY 8, 2016

Date: Friday, January 8, 2016 5 customer experience lessons from the 2015 Holiday Shopping season. In total, online sales grew by 20% between Black Friday and Christmas Eve. 33% of shoppers bought using their smartphones over the Thanksgiving/Black Friday period , with sales up 70% from 2014.

Customer Experience 49

Customer Experience Multichannel Self service Contact Center 49

Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

These women and their motivating stories are testimonials to why we need more women in Customer Experience. Sue Duris – Director of Marketing and Customer Experience, M4 Communications, Inc. Read how Kanika built one of the most customer-centric Private Jet and Helicopter companies in India. Don’t believe us?

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Customer centricity Education Finance Benchmark 113