ShepHyken

APRIL 29, 2022

This week, we feature an article by David Meerman Scott adapted from the new 8th edition of The New Rules of Marketing and PR to be released on May 3, 2022. He shares how organizations can use data and AI-powered tools to benefit customers. As I write this, I’m using web-based artificial intelligence (AI) transcription software called Otter to help me turn recorded audio interviews into a text transcription.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 21, 2022

Marketers want to target specific customers to get them to buy their product or service. However, different customers want different things delivered in different ways—and for different reasons. So, with all these differences, how do you find the customers that want the same things and target them the same way? The answer is in customer segmentation, and we have five rules to share on how to segment properly.

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Callminer

APRIL 27, 2022

Detecting emotions is hard. It is hard for machines because it is hard for humans. Read this blog to learn why it is so hard and why the CallMiner platform is one of the leaders in the space.

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Steve DiGioia

APRIL 4, 2022

I was never rattled by an upset customer. Never hesitated to speak with them, never cowered in fear, and never pushed them off to a coworker. I looked forward to the opportunity to “make things right”. When the sh*t hit the fan, I always knew what to do. How can that be? Am I crazy and want to get into an argument with an angry customer ? Of course not.

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CX Accelerator

APRIL 1, 2022

I can remember it well. I was in charge of a contact center a few jobs ago and we were having our second outage in as many days. After service had been restored, I got a call from a customer. It just so happened to be from a customer to whom I had issued a service credit just a day earlier in hopes of restoring his confidence in our company. Hearing of his disappointment for the second day in a row, I fumbled around in my managerial bag of tricks for the right words to say along with the appropr

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ShepHyken

APRIL 13, 2022

“Find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” . This line has been credited to Confucius, Mark Twain, Mark Anthony and others. Anyone who finds what they love to do at work, either through a passion, hobby, interest, a random job they end up loving, or some defining moment is lucky. That makes me one of the lucky ones. Just out of college I started my career as a customer service expert.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 16, 2022

A lot of companies get customer segmentation wrong. Or they got it right, but they did it seven years ago. The fact is that if you have customer segments that were constructed before February 2020, you probably need to do it again. Things have changed dramatically over the past couple of years, and the customer behavior shared by your customer segments is one of them.

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TechSee

APRIL 17, 2022

“Good morning, you’ve reached Alice at Quality Insurance; how can I help you today?” You explain that you are following up on your insurance claim for damage to your vehicle that you submitted online using the insurer’s portal. Your experience will depend on the agent’s next few words. What will her response be to your request? “Please provide me with your policy information, claim number, date of filing and description of the damage.”.”. or. “Thanks for following up, Mr.

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Steve DiGioia

APRIL 28, 2022

Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Business stereotypes are preconceived notions that every customer has of your business. What do they expect when doing business with you? Are the expectations good or bad? What image or idea do you send to your customers? “The lines are always too long.” “The place is so outdated.” “Your salespeople only care about making the sale, whether the item is right

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CCNG

APRIL 27, 2022

?It was my first day of work as the Director of Operations for a contact center outsourcing company. I had been working about three hours when the CEO walked into my office and made a request that sent my head swirling. “Vicki, I am not going to be able to make payroll this week. I am wondering if you will hold onto your first paycheck and not cash it for about a week.

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Contact Center Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2022

The events of 2020 have shown us how everything can change practically overnight. Most people are now accepting that change will continue to happen. The ability to navigate and execute in an era of sustained change and disruption will then be the overarching contact center objective in 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift to […].

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ShepHyken

APRIL 20, 2022

There are many ways to deal with complaints or angry customers. I’ve written a number of articles on the different ways to do so, and today I want to add an excellent technique. . The idea is to say something that lets the customer know you understand the problem, you’re in sync with their concerns, and you empathize with their frustration, anger or whatever emotion they’re exhibiting.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 9, 2022

Organizations only pay lip service to CX, and now, we have the numbers to prove it. From Zendesk’s The Trends Report 2022 , you can see a clear dichotomy between what people say they will do and what they will actually do regarding CX. You should read the whole report, but for starters, here are some stats I was surprised to learn (or maybe not surprised as much as interested to see it in print): 73% of business leaders reported a direct link between customer service and business performan

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Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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Bill Quiseng

APRIL 1, 2022

QUI QUOTE: Nobody raves about a company that meets customer expectations. When you are working in customer service, you have been happy that your customers leave satisfied. You have sold them a product or service that meets their wants or needs. Or you solved their problem for them. You were happy because, in the end, you met their expectations and they were satisfied.

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Callminer

APRIL 25, 2022

Contact centers are critical for customer experience, retention and acquisition strategies. But building and maintaining your own is a huge investment. Read this blog to learn the benefits of CCaaS.

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CCNG

APRIL 20, 2022

This King of Rock' n Roll quote may be the purest basis for considering any personal or business challenge. Honesty forms the bedrock from which all legitimate success derives, and customer contact organizations challenged with attracting and retaining personnel should obsessively seek and share truth to create a culture of trust that can elevate employee and customer experience along with business performance.?

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Myra Golden Media

APRIL 29, 2022

How closely are the employee and customer experience related? Very. Today, it’s becoming clear that you can’t have one without another. Happy, engaged employees help create great customer experiences that lead to greater customer engagement, satisfaction, and ongoing loyalty. Recently I sat down with Momentive, Inc to explore some of the challenges facing employees, how companies can create better employee experiences, and how doing so creates a much better customer experience.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 22, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Luke Jamieson, Regional Director at Centrical , the next-gen employee engagement and performance platform. He writes about the importance of engagement and employee experience to an organization’s productivity to business success. According to Gallup, highly engaged teams are 21% more productive. What’s the connection between engagement and productivity and how do you achieve this nexus?

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 28, 2022

On a recent podcast, one of our listeners contacted us with a Business Pickle with which he wanted our help. Peter Harvey is in a Business-to-Business (B2B) organization. Their offering does not have the lowest price, and they have no plans to lower it. However, their customers keep complaining. Peter wanted to know what we thought he should do. Since price is something that can seldom be low enough, I figured some of you face the same issues, and I would share our advice here with you.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 25, 2022

Expert guidance on how to tackle the first three months in your new CX leadership role, by Jeannie Walters.

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Callminer

APRIL 10, 2022

Improving service level in your call center means aligning your technology and actions with your objectives. Read this blog to understand where you currently stand, what's needed to improve and more.

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Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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CCNG

APRIL 13, 2022

??Efficiency, Productivity, Resourcefulness. ?At the end of the day, we’re always looking to make things in business run smoother and faster while maximizing throughput and potential revenue. Henry Ford demonstrated that an industrial line is at its best when the fewest, but most repeatable actions take place. We’ve taken this logic and applied it to every facet of our professional environments.

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Contact Center Pipeline

APRIL 12, 2022

You ask Siri if you need your umbrella, and she tells you it looks like rain. You ask Alexa to play some jazz, and Miles Davis flows out of the speaker. So, computers understand what we say now, right? But the answer isn’t so simple. Because to understand what we say, computers must solve two […].

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ShepHyken

APRIL 6, 2022

“Is customer service more important than price?” . That’s exactly what we asked more than 1,000 consumers in our customer service research. The response was that 58% said, “Yes.” And just to make sure, we asked a similar question later in the survey, “Would you pay more if you knew you would receive great customer service?” Once again, 58% said, “Yes.” .

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 30, 2022

A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. Experiments serve as the gold standard for determining causality. If we create them correctly, we know that an action we take makes something else happen and there isn’t any other explanation.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 11, 2022

Learn how to find the right customer experience job, thrive as a leader, and strategically plan for the future.

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Callminer

APRIL 6, 2022

All statisticians use Bayes’s theorem, even frequentists. What makes you a Bayesian is in how you interpret it. The CallMiner Research Lab breaks it down in this new blog.

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CCNG

APRIL 6, 2022

??I ?recently led a discussion for CCNG members that focused on Retaining your Number 1 Asset Through Leadership & Culture. Data has shown that leadership is the number one reason employees of all industries leave their positions. The number one reason they stay is organizational culture. We asked and discussed the question: "What are you doing as a company to set up training programs for those who want to lead (not all people want to), and truly pick the best person for the job based on the

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