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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of August 5, 2019

ShepHyken

7 Critical CRM Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2019 by Zachary Totah. SelectHub) CRM is a competitive, growing space. Everyone talks about providing best-in-class customer experiences, about CRM strategies and solutions, and about the vital role CRM plays in catapulting companies forward as marketplace demands intensify.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of August 12, 2019

ShepHyken

Calculating the ROI of CX: Complete Guide 2019 [Includes Spreadsheets] by Alyona Medelyan. 10 customer experience lessons from a CRM pioneer and trailblazer by Vala Afshar. The post 5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of August 12, 2019 appeared first on Shep Hyken. Well, that’s a bold (overtly general) statement.

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How to improve you call center customer experience strategy for 2019?

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2019 will be a critical year for call center customer experience strategy: either they will finally move the needle or risk elimination. To deliver value in 2019, call center leaders must select a CX initiative that can immediately demonstrate ROI. The post How to improve you call center customer experience strategy for 2019?

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Top Themes from Think 2019

Peter Lavers

What were the key themes coming out of my coverage of February’s IBM’s showcase global conference Think 2019 in San Francisco? I was delighted to be invited by IBM Watson to Think 2019 in my role as an IBM Futurist. Disregarding the obvious IBM and sector-related hashtags (#Think2019 appeared in them all!), DataScience.

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Guest Post: Is Your Customer Journey Aligned with Brand Expectations? If Not, It Could Be Costing You Sales

ShepHyken

One way to align these two things is by providing omnichannel engagement or employing a contact center CRM. . What is a contact center CRM? . A contact center CRM is a customer relationship management system that’s designed specifically for contact centers. Some of the benefits of using a contact center CRM include:  .

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Contact Center and CRM: A Galactic Merging

Fonolo

Contact center software and CRM software have been on a slow collision course for decades. Well, it would be great to look at how companies were paying for the whole “customer service” apparatus and see which share is going to CRM companies versus call center companies. He said “The CRM vendors have won the battle of the desktop.

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2019 State of CX Report from The Northridge Group

Peter Lavers

I was recently asked by The Northridge Group to review their 2019 State of Customer Service Experience report. 68% of consumers experience a long wait time to reach an agent while 64% say they experience difficulty when trying to navigate a company’s website.