JustCall

JUNE 30, 2020

Achieving sales goals demands a lot of hard work. Besides training your sales reps to prospect and close deals, you also need to ensure that your sales team is on the right track. For this, you need to look at your sales performance. Regular sales reporting will help you a great deal in tracking your progress. In this blog, we will share how to make a sales report and also look at some sales report templates you can put to use.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2020

We do a lot of waiting in our lives. We wait to get on a plane, for our drink at a coffee shop, and on the phone to talk to “the next available representative.” Sometimes we don’t mind waiting at all; sometimes we mind very much. Your customers likely wait in your experience, too, and that may or may not be creating negative feelings about your experience.

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Callminer

JUNE 18, 2020

Employee departures can be tough to handle in the fast-paced environment of a call center. However, even in agent turnover , opportunities to improve your organization’s efficiency and profitability abound. Exit interviews allow lost talent to tell you what went wrong and what aspects of your call center’s operations could stand to be updated.

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Wowdesk Blog

JUNE 4, 2020

Dealing with customers is not something that you can take for granted. If you want to win more clients and customers, you have to attend to their concerns and offer timely and professional-grade solutions. . Email support is an indispensable channel of customer service for quite some time. Support executives connect with customers over emails and help them with their product/service issues. .

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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 4, 2020

Sitting on the front lines of the contact center, agents are the personification of your brand. They provide the human-to-human connection that makes lasting impressions and supports more engaging customer experiences (CX). But, while CX continues to play an outsized role as a competitive differentiator, best-in-class contact centers are increasingly replicating the same type of […].

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 22, 2020

In my recent post, “ 3 Reasons Why We Let Businesses Take Us For Granted ”, I asked these questions, “Do we not value ourselves enough as a customer to expect the best or at least average service? But what about indifferent service? Why is it acceptable? In today’s post, I expand on one of those reasons: “low price shoppers”. Here’s my story…. While shopping, you see a brightly colored cell phone sticking out of the back pocket of an employee or your waiter has a pack of cigarettes in his front

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GetFeedback

JUNE 14, 2020

Designing a customer experience that seamlessly incorporates the machines from our daily lives.

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Lumoa

JUNE 8, 2020

eCommerce customer experience is vital for online businesses that want to ensure a smooth online experience for their customers. We share 4 ways to boost your eCommerce customer experience that will increase customer loyalty and satisfaction.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 5, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed businesses to dodge bullets and the global economy is in dire straits. While the number of positive cases increases, the negative scenarios keep piling up. . Charles Darwin’s famous quote on species evolution stands true for today’s volatile business world- “ It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. ” .

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Inbenta

JUNE 2, 2020

1. Set a goal for your chatbot. As obvious as it may seem, this is the number one chatbot best practice to keep in mind when starting to design a conversational agent. You can create a bot for almost anything nowadays, so setting a clear goal for yours and outlining what it’s supposed to do, right from the beginning, will prevent you from getting carried away.

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Customer Experience Matters

JUNE 4, 2020

The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others have sparked a renewed outrage against racial inequality around the world, leading many organizations to consider changes to how they operate. That’s great, but I’ve seen too many of these situations create an immediate response with no lasting change. I don’t have answers for solving deep injustices in broader society, but I want to apply what I’ve learned to help organizations become more inclusive and diverse.

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Tethr

JUNE 9, 2020

Every interaction plays a part in a customer’s perception of your organization. Establishing the best possible customer experience means your agents must know best practices regarding how to build rapport with both customers and prospects over the phone. Rapport building starts with the first interaction and is an ongoing initiative. As the relationship blossoms, so should the rapport with the client.

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Call Design

JUNE 22, 2020

Contact centre changes are never an easy venture, but it’s crucial to embrace an opportunity for change. While the world is slowly returning to normal after a global pandemic, now is the time to identify how your contact centre can be improved. For some organisations, there may be an influx of calls from customers asking about your services. Your team will need to be ready, so it’s essential to streamline your operations to address the needs of your customers and provide the touchpoi

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ShepHyken

JUNE 17, 2020

I have an idea about renewals. Most people think that a renewal applies to some type of subscription. You renew your subscription to a magazine, a maintenance contract or a software program. But what if renewal had a broader meaning? What if renewal simply meant that the customer comes back—again and again? While repeat business may not be as steady as a subscription renewal, it can still be tracked in a similar way.

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Nicereply

JUNE 16, 2020

There will always be room for improvement. So, keep iterating and stay curious. The bigger the investment you make, the larger the return will be. Even before we were all asked to stay at home and save lives, it was expected that online shopping – and other non-retail purchasing – would grow as much as 14% this year. That increase represents about 20 billion dollars in additional spending.

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Toister Performance Solutions

JUNE 18, 2020

Advertising disclosure: This blog participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. "I'm sure he's stealing," said the manager. "But I can't fire him." I was working for a parking management company at the time, and visiting with the manager of a busy hospital location.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

It’s not just great communication skills that make a customer support operator great at their job. 62% of customers say that a representative’s knowledge and resourcefulness play a key role in creating a good experience. That means being consistent at learning and acquiring knowledge can help you shape a customer’s journey better. But, where to start?

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C3Centricity

JUNE 25, 2020

We all know that customer centricity is essential; even more so these days with the lockdown in most countries due to the pandemic. Now more than ever, businesses need to put their customers clearly at the heart of their organisation. But I know that many struggle, even in more normal times, to be customer centric. They just don’t know where to start.

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HelpCrunch

JUNE 22, 2020

Modern consumers take an interest in advanced product features, how you sell them, and what happens after they buy stuff. They’re the driving force for brands today with a much greater impact than ever. 54% [ … ]. The post How to Build Better Customer Relations: 7 Insightful Tips appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 25, 2020

Customer Memories are a fascinating subject. In many ways, they are what your Customer Experience is, at least from the customers’ perspective, which we also discussed on a recent podcast. They are certainly the most critical element of your customer loyalty. However, these are big ideas about memory, and the purpose of my newsletter today is not to wax philosophical about how incredible and impactful memories are.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 24, 2020

Get ready to do a little math. While not my typical lesson, this is very important. It’s about customer retention—which can lead to customer loyalty. Loyal customers are important to all businesses regardless of industry or size—large, small, B2B or B2C. Most businesses know their numbers, but do they know the right numbers? It’s easy to measure customer satisfaction at different levels.

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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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CX Accelerator

JUNE 8, 2020

Author: Jeremy Watkin. Surveys are a great way to listen to the voice of the customer, so don’t misconstrue the title of this article as being “anti-survey.” Problems occur, however, when surveys become the only way we listen to customers — especially when you consider that a good survey response rate is in the realm of 20-30%. That means you never hear from 70-80% of customers.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 30, 2020

More contact center leaders have begun to turn their thoughts from crisis mode to planning for next steps. Operating during a pandemic has underscored the value of frontline staff, what works and doesn’t work for contact center operations in the near- and long-term, as well as how the agent’s role is evolving. Also, Pipeline readers […].

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 25, 2020

Regardless of your business, and no matter how hard you try to do the best for them, there will be situations where you have an upset customer who is dissatisfied with your product or service. Day in and day out, we must strive to provide the optimal experience for each customer interaction. But is this realistic? When things don’t go as planned, our customers become upset and we have failed in their eyes.

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Myra Golden Media

JUNE 23, 2020

I was just on my YouTube channel reading comments. Andrea’s comment made me put down my cup of tea – “I am struggling. Sometimes I get cursed out five or six times back to back. I’m starting to sound like a robot. ” Like many customer service professionals, Andrea is experiencing what I now call the “COVID-19 Effect.” Customers are on edge about their money, whether to wear a mask or not, and from cabin fever.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 4, 2020

In our last issue of Why Customers Buy, we discussed how doing things differently than your competition could be the most reliable path to success for your brand. Today, we are going to discuss in more detail why this works and what you can do to implement these surprising ideas that don’t make sense to encourage the success of your brand. Before we get into that, let me remind you that this issue is based on a conversation we had on our podcast recently with advertising legend Rory Sutherlan

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ShepHyken

JUNE 10, 2020

Sometimes a little creativity and extra effort can make a big difference in the customer experience. One of our followers, David Turk, shared an article from a recent issue of the New York Times about how a server at an upscale restaurant “astonished” a guest with an amazing display of customer service. The short version of the story is that a woman went to dinner at one of the finest restaurants in New York.

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Callminer

JUNE 4, 2020

Customer satisfaction is your top priority. As you work toward boosting satisfaction while reducing average handle time, cost reductions will follow.

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