bold360 Blog

APRIL 13, 2020

As the COVID-19 global pandemic continues, customer experience (CX) is experiencing a double-whammy. On the customer side, there’s a higher volume of need and more urgency around getting those needs met fast. Uncertainty and anxiety have catalyzed a flood of customer questions and calls into service centers. Today’s stressed customers don’t want to wait in long queues or get stuck in automated systems that are overloaded and overwhelmed.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 9, 2020

Organizations use lots of incentives to encourage specific behaviors. The idea is that people will change behavior because of the monetary element of incentives. However, these incentives could be doing a lot more than that, which can have beautiful or terrible effects on your customer-driven growth. Ph.D. student Alicea “Allie” Lieberman from the University of California, San Diego, was a guest on our podcast recently to discuss incentives.

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Lumoa

APRIL 13, 2020

What is voice feedback? With modern technologies available today, such as speech-to-text and artificial intelligence it’s possible to automatically generate insights from calls. In this article, we'll explain what voice feedback is and how to generate customer insights from it.

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UJET

APRIL 16, 2020

With more and more support agents either currently working from home or transitioning into a remote environment, a customer support organization leveraging cloud contact center software can provide laptops to remote agents or have agents access the platform through an installed application or internet browser on their own computer. Regardless of which system is used, it’s important that remote agents are following security tenets to keep customer data and company information secure as well as pr

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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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360Connext

APRIL 28, 2020

Trust is a critical part of any relationship. We build relationships when we trust the other party, and when we’ve built enough trust with them. Little moments can build or break down trust quickly. Has this ever happened to you? You make a new friend, enjoy their company, and then the red flags begin appearing: She’s quick to say “I’ll call you tomorrow!

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TechSee

APRIL 28, 2020

The average U.S. household currently contains 11 connected devices , and as that number grows in the coming years, driven largely by the rollout of 5G, the challenge for enterprises is twofold. On the one hand, they need to deliver the products and services consumers want in multiple formats. On the other, they have to find ways to tailor them to get the best out of each platform, without compromising on their messaging or brand values.

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Myra Golden Media

APRIL 2, 2020

In 1999 everybody was worried about Y2K. Will our computers boot up? Can we pay our employees? Will cars start? Do we have enough toilet paper? I managed a global call center during the Y2K fear, and my company spent a full twelve months contingency planning for everything that could potentially fail when the calendar flipped over to the new millennium.

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 17, 2020

Customers always have so many options in the market to choose their desired product or service. But what about the business owners? “Do they get the opportunity to choose as well?”. No, they obviously don’t. If anything, you have a specific target audience who finds your services relevant. Just in case they aren’t satisfied, they can opt for any of your competitors in the market.

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Fonolo

APRIL 20, 2020

At the risk of blowing our own trumpet, we’ve been hammering on about the necessity of preparing to handle call spikes for years now. No matter what you do as a contact center manager, there’s always going to be something you didn’t prepare for. It could be a freak weather event. Or it could be a sweeping pandemic that sends half the world’s population into quarantine.

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Serenova

APRIL 13, 2020

Now that your contact center agents are safely working from home, it’s time to focus on the business of managing and coaching to ensure productivity. Motivating agents and helping them stay productive is possible—and critical—during this crisis and for long-term success once it’s behind us. Keeping agents motivated to do well despite the stress and distractions of new routines, processes, challenges—and life—takes effort.

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Tethr

APRIL 20, 2020

If you’re a CX professional fearful of losing your job to artificial intelligence, you aren’t alone. It’s a common belief that emerging tech is coming to steal the jobs of humans—particularly those in the CX field. But what if we told you that AI is more of a helpful CX companion than an unwelcome intruder? AI isn’t the enemy. While AI will displace some CX jobs, it’s more likely to change how CX workers do their jobs.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 8, 2020

I could have titled this article “Box of Donuts Research,” but you would have no idea what that means. I’ll explain in a moment. There are plenty of ways to get feedback. You can survey customers over the phone, via email, in focus groups and more. You can get objective and subjective feedback. You can use tools such as Net Promoter Score and Customer Effort Score.

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Topdown

APRIL 20, 2020

Originally developed to help companies streamline, if not to altogether automate, transactional printing, CCM ( customer communication management ) has matured over the nearly 40 years since its inception. Today, the shift in automated communications continues from print to digital channels. This transition is no longer being driven by cost-saving initiatives cloaked in environmental stewardship, but rather by CX (customer experience) strategy and technology, data and analytics evaluation, and m

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Totango

APRIL 24, 2020

In customer retention, every engagement counts. There is no final effort in the days and weeks leading up to an anniversary that can overcome a poor relationship in the months prior. Rather, customer retention for SaaS enterprises is a result of the customer experience. It is an outcome based on an emotional reaction and connection to the performance of a supplier and the value a customer experiences through using that enterprise’s product.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 23, 2020

We have a mirror that has been resting against the wall in our garage for the last five years. I want to give it away, but my wife Lorraine keeps saying, “No, we’ll sell that. It’s a nice mirror.”. It is a lovely mirror. But we aren’t going to get that much for it. Still, there it sits. Lorraine is demonstrating how the Endowment Effect works.

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Fonolo

APRIL 27, 2020

Now, more than ever, your call center agents need your support. According to remote work strategist Laurel Farrer , it typically takes six to 12 weeks for a smooth transition from on-site to remote work — that’s under normal circumstances. But the pandemic has forced a transition to remote working virtually overnight. And for many customer support departments, that has been whilst under a relentless onslaught of customer inquiries.

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Nicereply

APRIL 3, 2020

Tough conversations are a part of life and in business, it’s no different. But tough customer conversations can be just that – tough. In customer service, you’re bound to come across a difficult situation or two. People have bad days, get confused, and things go wrong. Angry, difficult and dissatisfied customers aren’t necessarily a reflection on how well your business is run (because people are, well, people).

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Totango

APRIL 28, 2020

Change is one of the few constants in life, especially in business. Enterprises that are able to adapt to change will be able to withstand not only the small fluctuations of everyday operations, but also sudden major disruptions. A global pandemic is but one possibility here; natural disasters and other crises may pull the rug out from under your organization’s feet at any time.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 26, 2020

We surveyed 180 CX professionals to dig into challenges, opportunities, and the state of CX teams.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 15, 2020

The other day I was talking to my friend and fellow customer experience (CX) expert, Dan Gingiss. He shared how he’s seen businesses take something that is either really boring or very serious—or both—and make them entertaining. He gave a great example. In a legal agreement—like the agreements we accept online when we sign up for Spotify or Netflix—there is usually a lot of “fine print.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 30, 2020

We here at Beyond Philosophy want to start by saying we hope you and your family are safe. These times are unprecedented, and no one is sure what to expect. We feel it, and we know you are feeling it, too. We are, as they say, in this together. We discussed how these times affect our behavior on a recent podcast , and not just as customers. Some of the human behavior in this crisis is wonderfully uplifting and inspiring, and some of it is jaw-droppingly bad.

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Contact Center Pipeline

APRIL 24, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold, we’re all being impacted in various ways, many of them pretty dramatic. Everyone is feeling more than a little fear and anxiety about the future. If you’re a business leader, lots of people are looking to you for guidance—and you have a responsibility to help those around you cope […].

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Myra Golden Media

APRIL 23, 2020

It’s not unlike having your firstborn away at college. Your child is in the dorm and on her own. For eighteen years, you’ve prepared her for adulthood. But you worry. Is she making friends? Will she be safe at parties and with alcohol? Can she juggle classwork with fun? Is she eating healthy? Your employees are on their own at home. If a remote employee’s next phone call is from an angry, irate customer, can they handle it?

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Callminer

APRIL 20, 2020

Business Process Outsourcing has come quite a long way in the last few years, allowing companies to achieve unheard of levels of sophistication in their market offerings without adding the strain of a vast assortment of new disciplines onto their internal teams. In this article, we discuss BPO as a flexible tool for businesses to use and many helpful tips for doing so.

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CX Accelerator

APRIL 1, 2020

Let’s face it, leadership in CX has never been a walk in the park. At the beginning of the year we saw some mixed predictions from Forrester that one in four CX professionals would lose their jobs whilst, in the same breath, stating that the number of CX execs would swell by 25%. What’s driving this paradoxical shift? Accountability. If you find yourself as a survivor of the cull or a newly empowered exec then here’s the brave new world in which we now reside: The Good News: The uphill battle to

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ShepHyken

APRIL 22, 2020

“Detail is no detail.”. I’m not sure where I heard this first. I even did a Google search and couldn’t find it. Maybe I made it up. If I did, this is what I meant by it: details are important. They must be purposeful. Some of the “little things” that seemingly don’t matter can actually be very important. An example of this comes right out of my recently released book, the updated and revised version of The Cult of the Customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 2, 2020

Apple has an excellent experience. We could all learn a lot from how they approach business as usual to facilitate customer-driven growth. Why do I like Apple’s experience? Before I answer, I should have my guitar. I am just kidding. No one wants that. What we do want is to know how to facilitate customer-driven growth. Apple is an excellent example of how to do this.

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Contact Center Pipeline

APRIL 9, 2020

As a kid, I enjoyed leafing through my dad’s copies of Popular Mechanics. One of my favorite columns was entitled, “Things I Wish Someone Would Invent.” This always included some outlandish ideas, but occasionally readers suggested simple ideas that solved real problems. Any of you who have watched “Shark Tank” probably also have been taken […].

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