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Customer Experience Sells with Arun Shastri

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This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more: Why is including sales important in the overall plan for customer experience? How can sales and customer service teams work together to make customers happier?

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Let’s Play 20 Customer Experience (CX) Questions – Part One

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Luke Jamieson, a customer experience (CX) thought leader in Australia, asked me to answer 20 customer experience questions in a lightning round style for one of his projects. EVERY interaction your customers experience. Thats sales and service combined! Lets play 20 Questions. Five words are not easy!)

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Guest Post: How SaaS Companies Can Use Customer Experience to Drive Sales

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This week we feature an article by Noa Danon, co-founder and CEO of EverAfter, a company that helps build lasting relationships with customers and partners using data and content. She writes about how companies can keep their customers happy while looking for opportunities to sell more. SaaS has changed the traditional sales rules.

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The Link Between Sales and Customer Experience

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Customer service and customer experience (CX) are more than what happens after the sale. It actually begins long before a customer ever makes a purchase. Then, there’s the experience during the sales process and what happens after the sale, which could include a typical customer support call and more.

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The 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index

Verint is named an Exemplary Leader in the 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index by Ventana Research. In the complex ecosystem of CX tools developed for disparate use cases, metrics, and processes, Verint ranked as Exemplary through thorough analysis of product and customer experience in the Index.

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How to Care More About the Customer Than the Sale

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It seems that most of the companies that customers love to do business with have something in common. They focus more on the customer than they do the sale. Sure, they want to make the sale, add more revenue and get higher ratings. But when they focus on the customer’s needs, the rest seems to fall into place.

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Five Lessons On How To Personalize the Customer Experience

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Finding ways to do so outside of the normal process, where you endear yourself to your customers, is a great opportunity. This was the perfect time to engage with the customer. The message from BarkBox wasn’t about making a sale. The post Five Lessons On How To Personalize the Customer Experience appeared first on Shep Hyken.

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

Complete the form to download the white paper to learn more about real-world, practical GenAI-enabled applications that can improve customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX), while increasing sales and reducing costs.

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The Top 3 Ways to Forecast for Your Contact Center

Download our ebook to learn how to reduce overstaffing and understaffing, lower customer wait times and improve the customer experience with proper forecasting. It can be difficult to schedule the right amount of agents at the right time.

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Executive Report: The Customer Data Too Often Overlooked by the C-Suite

A recent Calabrio research study of more than 1,000 C-Suite executives has revealed leaders are missing a key data stream – voice of the customer data. Download the report to learn how executives can find and use VoC data to make more informed business decisions.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Linking & Networking for a Better Agent Experience

Speaker: Jeremy Watkin, Director of Customer Experience at FCR

If you're a contact center leader you've undoubtedly been inundated with sales people trying to get you to hop on the chatbot bandwagon. Tune in for some practical tips for improving agent engagement, reducing attrition, and improving your overall customer experience. But is this the best place to burn our operational calories?

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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Using Customer Reviews, Advocacy, and Referrals in Your Journey Map

Speaker: Jeremy Boudinet, Marketing Manager, Nextiva

Making a customer want to advocate for your brand takes passion, personalization, and gratitude: all things that can be gracefully elicited throughout the customer journey map. The best customer experiences go beyond the sale. In this webinar, you will learn: The importance of customer appreciation.

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5 Ways to Engage Employees for Immediate Impact

Speaker: Vicki Brackett, Author and COO of Sinousia

To provide a better customer experience, build brand loyalty and increase your revenue and bottom line, keeping your employees engaged is critical. The most important asset of any call center are the employees. This can be hard to do. Even when you feel like you have this nailed down, your tactics could become stale.