Nextiva

OCTOBER 8, 2019

We all know bad customers are unpleasant to deal with. The consequences of bad customers can reach into other aspects of your business, too. They contribute to churn when they don’t listen to you and don’t realize value from your offering. They take up more than their share of resources in terms of time and […]. The post 10 Ways to Identify (and Lose) Bad Customers appeared first on Business VoIP, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing Content - Nextiva Blog.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The traditional contact center – with agents in cubicles following scripts and rushing to meet individual KPIs – will soon be a thing of the past. Modern customer-centric operations are increasingly defined by a collaborative contact center culture, with agents working together to respond to customer requests more efficiently by drawing on shared knowledge and experience.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 3, 2019

There are many characteristics that successful call center representatives share, some being more important than others. Additionally, there are some characteristics that will be more important based on the needs and functions of a particular call center, although many traits are universal to all who work in a call center setting. Things like showing up on time, willingness to learn, and a generally good attitude are things all call center reps should possess.

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CrazyCall

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Over 111 new businesses open each hour. At the same time, about 97 businesses close. In today’s highly competitive business world, communication plays a crucial role: organizations need to communicate with their clients regularly. Because great communication is what makes your clients happy and provides you to growth, development and makes you stay ahead of your competitors.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first days and weeks are so critical when it comes to employee engagement and helping the employees buy in to the mission of their new company. Imagine the employee that shows up to a new job, is ushered to an office where they sit alone for hours poring over paperwork, waits a week for IT to set them up with a computer, and goes hours without meaningful human interaction with colleagues.

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Strikedeck

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Christina Wong, (Director of Customer Success and Support at Badger Maps), talks about achieving measurable results through authentic , genuine engagements with customers.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A friend of mine recently told me about their bad experience at a restaurant. The server was very nice and extremely apologetic about the problems that happened throughout the evening—but there were still problems. The food took a long time to get to the table. When it got there, it wasn’t prepared properly. On the next attempt, the food came out uncooked.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

A practical guide to Customer decision making. When the Nobel-prize winning economist professor Daniel Kahneman wrote his book Thinking Fast and Slow , he introduced the concept that we had two ways of thinking about things. He named them System 1 and System 2. The two systems work together to help us make decisions about things. When we applied these concepts to decision-making in Customer Experience for our book, The Intuitive Customer, we renamed them.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 28, 2019

At LISTEN, experience our most complete and advanced AI track to date with an AI-centric keynote and four dedicated AI sessions ranging from moderate to expert level.

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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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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Whether you know it or not, a battle rages in the universe between companies with incredible customer experiences and everyone else. Furthermore, so many companies are paying lip service to great customer experience but not walking the walk. You are looking to hire one Avenger from the Marvel Cinematic Universe who will build the best CX program in all of the universe.

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Contact Center Pipeline

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Everyone is talking about it—promising it, claiming it and marketing it. But what is the customer experience really? Is it a mystery, a myth, a mission or simply magic? Considering the fact that we are bombarded by customer experience rhetoric, one might imagine that there is tremendous clarity around exactly what it is. Right? No, […].

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Steve DiGioia

OCTOBER 28, 2019

If you’re having a bad experience in a restaurant and decide to never return, do you tell the manager? Or do you just leave and commit to never going back? If your clothes are seldom ready when promised by your dry cleaner, do you tell him why you’ve decided to go elsewhere? Or do you just find another cleaner? If the company you purchased a product from makes it difficult to return it without you jumping through hoops, do you make a complaint or vow to never buy from them again?

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 4, 2019

This week we feature an article by Dwayne Charrington who writes about how to engage your customers in personalized, meaningful, and relevant ways. What is most important for any business today? Customers, employees, lead generation, or profit. Well, the best answer is customer engagement. No business can survive without engaging its customers. These are not only customers but brand loyals.

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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.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The latest thing I am into is Airbnb. Airbnb properties have character, at least the ones that we chose. I like that when we use Airbnb, we stay places where we wouldn’t typically. I find Airbnb fascinating because it is an organization that is disrupting the hospitality industry. I wondered what the secret was to their success. After all, let’s face it, having a business predicated on the idea that people would let strangers stay in their home sounds like a doomed venture.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s no secret that customer churn is costing businesses huge amounts. Here's how to identify actionable insights to reduce employee and customer churn.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 7, 2019

More and more companies are realizing the importance of formalizing and strategizing the customer experience. However, many are unsure where to start, which leads to a common question, “How do you build a customer experience strategy?” This article will help you understand what a CX strategy is and how to build one by adapting the philosopher Vanilla Ice’s famous words, “.

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Contact Center Pipeline

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Customer experience (CX) is the new marketing battlefront.” These are not the words of me, Stephen Pappas. That’s Gartner talking. That’s right—the research and advisory leader is advising you to raise your CX game. They lay out the trend in their key findings article: “More than two-thirds of marketers responsible for CX say their companies […].

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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!

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Myra Golden Media

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Two employees were chatting at the register. Both looked up when I crossed the threshold, taking in my Afro blossom, but rather than speak to me, nod or smile, they merely fell back into their banter. Floored by the blatant dismissal dis, yet urgently needing a black dress, I made my way to the Ponte sheath black dress I’d seen on the chain’s website.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When I was a kid, my father taught me about being on time and why it is important. There were two times he gave me the “show up on time” lesson—neither of which I’ll ever forget. Before I get to the story and the lesson, let me give you some insight into my personality. I’m a people-pleaser. I like to make everyone happy. Maybe that’s the reason I’m so focused on creating amazing experiences for my clients and my clients’ customers—and, of course, everyone else.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Unless you serve robots exclusively, your customers are humans. Human feelings influence our actions and drive customer behavior. Therefore, you must design a Customer Experience that makes your customers feel a way that drives value for your organization. In our global Customer Experience consultancy, we have said for nearly 20 years that customer’s emotions account for over half of the outcome in any Customer Experience.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Some of the most successful call center representatives share some important and valuable characteristics to look for when hiring call center talent.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There aren’t many professional career paths more rewarding than Customer Experience (CX). Life as a CX professional is never dull, always changing, incredibly challenging, and so fulfilling. It takes blood, sweat, tears, and heck of a lot of time and dedication to drive meaningful CX improvements and to energize a team to keep the progress going. It’s one of the many reasons why CX Accelerator exists.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The days of long-term customer brand loyalty to brands are over. Today, consumer stickiness is far more dependent upon people’s specific experiences and the level of service they receive. Some turnover must always be expected – that’s the nature of competition, after all – but a high churn rate due to substandard customer service is unacceptable, and often entirely avoidable.

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Contact Center Pipeline

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Consider this scenario: “Lisa” has landed a new role leading a customer experience (CX) program. As a first-time CX practitioner, Lisa decides that her first order of business should be to identify the quick wins, so she begins to tackle customer problems already well known within the organization. Motivated by the introduction of a new […].

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. The One Customer Experience Management Tool That Every CX Leader Must Use by Denise Lee Yohn. (Forbes) CX leaders can use a CX Maturity Model to assess the current state of CX in their organization, diagnose where improvements should be focused, and guide the evolutio

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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.

Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

What is the Secret of Airbnb? I would never be an Airbnb host. Having a stranger staying in my house doesn’t fit with my personality. That said, there are a lot of people that would do it. Airbnb has over seven million listings in 100,000 cities worldwide and reported revenues of $1 Billion (with a b) in the second quarter of this year. They are so successful; they have plans to become publicly traded in 2020.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Speech analytics is a complex industry, but our women employees make it look easy. Don’t miss the opportunity to meet and network at LISTEN 2019.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 26, 2019

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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