ShepHyken

MARCH 26, 2019

AI shouldn’t replace humans; it’s meant to aid and augment both the employee and customer experiences. AI might be more useful to employees rather than customers. Social media has transformed how customers and businesses interact. You don’t have to go above and beyond to create an exceptional customer experience.

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Callminer

APRIL 30, 2020

The most successful companies have solutions in place for monitoring customer interactions and analyzing customer sentiment. For more information on improving the customer experience, download our white paper, Leveraging Emotion to Improve CX & Elevate Contact Center Performance. Be sure to apologize.

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Callminer

MAY 11, 2020

Ultimately, disgruntled employees can even have a negative impact on the customer experience , as unhappy employees are less likely to go the extra mile to ensure that your customers are satisfied. Meet Our Panel of Customer Service & Customer Experience Managers: Anh Trinh. Siawash Popal.

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ShepHyken

JULY 15, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Tom Hoffman shares a personal story that translates into a great lesson for the customer experience. We must always be looking for new and different ways to improve upon the customer experience. Shep Hyken. Hoffman, a graduate of St.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Several years ago, in worldwide customer service experience research conducted for a major high-tech client, to drive stronger downstream customer behavior, it was found that processes and customer interaction had to take service employees well beyond the basics of knowledge, efficiency, and friendliness.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 4, 2015

More than just a buzzword, ‘being human’, especially in brand-building and leveraging customer relationships, has become a buzz-phrase or buzz-concept. To understand customers, the effective enterprise needs to think in human, emotional terms. They market, and create experiences, within the branded vision.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

For information on improving the customer experience through the use of innovative AI technology, download our white paper, How AI Improves the Customer Experience. However, this diversification of customer service channels makes staying on top of communication more complex in practice.

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Callminer

JULY 30, 2020

No company wants to receive complaints about bad customer service, but even companies that strive to create exceptional customer service will occasionally disappoint a customer. Still, responding to complaints about bad customer service can be difficult, even for your best call center agents.

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CCNG

JANUARY 4, 2023

Elevating the Customer Experience (CX) is an obsession for the contact center industry, and rightly so. The experiences that customers have with your contact center condition the way they think about you as a supplier of goods and services and as a trusted part­ner in providing the things that they need and want in their lives.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 29, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 4 Actionable Customer Experience Statistics For 2020 by Daniel Newman. Of course, you knew that most buyers will pay more for a good service experience, but are you doing anything about it?

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ShepHyken

MARCH 31, 2018

Over the last few years, customer service has shifted from traditional phone support toward social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and others. Dan Gingiss started the Social Customer Care Track and interest has grown exponentially. Social Media Changes Customer Service. Even millions!

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

COVID-19 led to new realizations about how call centers need to operate, including a shift to remote work , system-wide stressors and important shifts in customer experience and service expectations among consumers. For instance, when they go from email support to calling the customer service team. “A

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ijgolding

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Followers of my blog will know that I am keen to share others perspectives on the subject of Customer Experience when the opportunity arises. ” The big question is HOW do you achieve it – how do you transform an organisation to become Customer Centric? I am delighted to be able to do just that in this post.

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Fonolo

MAY 31, 2018

In Top Gun , the 1986 classic, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell’s famous phrase effectively summed up the future of customer service (CS). Speed is arguably the most significant benchmark for every single customer service interaction today. Businesses can never be too fast to reply, react, or resolve an issue.

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Interactive Voice Response Customer Service Customer advocacy Benchmark 86

Inbenta

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Conversational AI solutions help businesses keep their customer service prompt, efficient and continuous, even at the busiest times. The following is an excerpt from our latest white paper, “ Peak Performance: Mastering Customer Service Spikes with AI. ” What makes a good customer experience?

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VocalCom

JUNE 16, 2020

The post [White Paper] Contact Centers of the Future: Creating Tomorrow’s Experience appeared first on Vocalcom Blog.

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Fonolo

MAY 24, 2018

After all, customer happiness and engagement are amongst the most significant drivers behind the image, culture, and success of an organization. In fact, 82% of consumers surveyed by Zendesk in their annual Benchmark Report said they stopped doing business with a company because of bad customer service from call centers.

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Fonolo

JUNE 14, 2018

It’s time to look at your customers as teammates rather than as opponents. It’s time to reboot your customer experience game. Here is the reality: A poor (or even worse, unmemorable) customer experience (CX) has led to a resounding “Game Over” for many businesses in the last few years. 2018 is game time.

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Fonolo

JUNE 20, 2018

More and more, a way of standing out from the crowd and winning over customers is by ensuring a top-notch, personal experience from start to finish. Customer experience (CX) continues to be one of the top competitive differentiators this year, and as a result, can no longer be ignored. Being memorable. Ready Player One?

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

A Focus on Customer Experience Strategies. How would you feel if 45% of your customers switched to a competitor who charged more for an equivalent product, simply because of a better customer experience ? Contact center leaders understand the value of the customer experience, and in 2017 they stepped up their game.

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Jon Arnold

MAY 31, 2023

While it may be a necessary evil for customer “service”, there’s also an opportunity for contact centers and brands to use that time in a more constructive, engaging fashion. Annoying music can certainly make the experience even worse, but imagine providing content that customers would actually want to hear while on-hold.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As always, we keep watch of trends and issues pertinent to contact centers, continuously shifting due to technological advancements; mergers and acquisitions in the SaaS space; the realigning of customer service and experience priorities on the part of brands; and more. Going forward, what will these trends be?

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Callminer

MAY 27, 2020

By aggregating data from the various channels that a customer has used to contact the company, contact centers can create more detailed customer profiles. These enhanced customer profiles open the door to a wide variety of improvements in predictive support which often help to better the customer experience (CX).

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TechSee

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Are you part of the 80% of enterprises that feel their current customer service systems do not meet their future needs? To enhance customer satisfaction, more and more companies are transforming into an omnichannel contact center – providing a frictionless customer service experience across multiple touchpoints.

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Contact Center Enterprise Technology Customer Care 143

Callminer

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Hiring the right contact center agents is important, but ongoing agent training and performance management are crucial for customer satisfaction and the success of your business as a whole. If you’re looking for ways to boost your agents’ performance, check out our white paper, Using Gamification to Improve Contact Center Performance.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Customer Effort Score (CES) tallies up the overall difficulty customers had in using your services. Customer Experience. The metrics covered above can work well in this area, too, but the pair below are uniquely well-suited to revealing the details of your callers’ experiences with your company.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In our previous blog, we explored how visual service and AI technologies are redefining customer experience (CX) across various industries. The fusion of financial and environmental gains through TechSee’s visual intelligence solutions is revolutionizing the way businesses operate and engage with customers.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Further, malicious callers can manipulate customer service agents and automated systems to change account information, transfer money and more. Luckily, there are ways to spot inbound call fraud in real time, allowing agents to take back control over customers’ security without jeopardizing the overall customer experience.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

Verizon and PCI Pal release joint white paper with Servadus addressing contact centre best practices in the wake of PCI DSS 4.0 The white paper, Keep Calm and Simplify – Contact centre best practices in the era of PCI DSS 4.0 , also looks at best practices and emerging technologies that will shape the payment security industry.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 18, 2018

Three years ago Gartner reported that by 2018, more than 50% of organizations would implement significant changes in their efforts to improve the customer experience. In other words, the battle for delivering the best experience was predicted to become even fiercer. White Paper: 9 Critical Contact Center Trends for 2018.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Which customer service blog posts helped to shape the last decade for you? . When we look back at the customer support industry in 2010, we see a very different beast to the one we work in today. Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020. Customer Think.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

While customer vulnerability isn’t new, it’s time companies take action to identify vulnerable customers and implement solutions to better equip company representatives and customer service agents to interact with customers experiencing vulnerability. Jeanine Duval. Jeanine Duval is the co-founder at Edelwyn. “It’s

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Callminer

MARCH 12, 2020

Download our white paper, Sitel + CallMiner Survey: Preventing Fraud and Preserving CX with AI , to learn more about the importance of data security for compliance within the call center environment.

Call Center 182

Call Center Analytics Best practices Government 182

Callminer

MARCH 6, 2020

Managers play an integral role in ensuring high quality customer service, from hiring and training call center agents to monitoring performance, keeping tabs on vital call center metrics and keeping agents motivated every day. From my point of view, the most useful customer service interview question for managers is…”.

Management 207

Management Customer Service Consulting Consulting 207

Callminer

APRIL 20, 2020

For more information on how artificial intelligence can help your company overcome new obstacles, take a look at our white paper, How AI Improves the Customer Experience. ” – Derek Gallimore, The strong future of outsourcing: White Paper , OutsourceAccelerator.

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