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.
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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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 […].
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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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. ” .
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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?
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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CX leaders are in a gold rush for AI, lured by the promise of cost savings and a revolution in service delivery. But simply deploying AI in your contact center isn't a magic bullet. There are hidden dangers that can derail your AI dreams. Recent incidents, such as the missteps of an AI chatbot deployed by Air Canada, have underscored the complexities and risks involved in leveraging AI in customer-facing roles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions
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!
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 […].
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.
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.
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.
TechSee
JUNE 23, 2020
Customer experience (CX) is a space where innovative AI applications are being deployed at a rapid rate to deliver effortless, multi-sensory journeys across a range of voice, video and text modalities, apps, and other digital touchpoints. This emerging approach is known as multiexperience (MX). MX gives customers a greater degree of choice over how they interact with a brand.
Contact Center Pipeline
JUNE 18, 2020
The contact center industry is seeing a growing need to improve operational efficiencies, enable increased flexibility and agent versatility, and deliver vastly enhanced customer experiences. As such, contact center execs are asking themselves, “Can we meet these goals with the communications solution we already have in place?” Moving to the Cloud—When, Not If With the […].
Steve DiGioia
JUNE 8, 2020
Give it away, give it away, give it away, now! No, I’m not talking about the song from the Red Hot Chili Peppers – even though that song is cool. I’m talking about how the butchers and bakers used to run their businesses years ago. I remember as a kid going to the store with my Mom. The baker always had a cookie for the little ones and the butcher was happy to hand out some fresh sliced ham or turkey.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Call Design
JUNE 29, 2020
Contact centres are the frontline of your customer service operation, which means that your contact centre must be operating at optimum capacity at all times. The management of your contact centre is an essential element to operating successfully and providing your customers with the very best customer service. The success of your contact centre relies on the strength of your agents and management teams.
Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 6, 2020
Have you ever picked a line at the store only to realize that you chose the longest, most slowly moving line? Have you ever waited forever to receive a shipment and then felt like they owed you an explanation for what could possibly take that long? Have you ever had such a great time laughing and talking in line with other people that you didn’t even notice how long you waited?
ShepHyken
JUNE 3, 2020
This is one of those unbelievable customer service stories that borders on the ridiculous. I actually thought I was in the middle of a Seinfeld episode—or maybe there was a hidden camera hoping to get a crazy reaction to the interaction I’m about to share with you. I was at an airport and wanted some breakfast. There was just one person ahead of me in line.
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