February, 2016

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3 Critical Change Management Steps

Beyond Philosophy

Changing your culture is never an easy task. Your culture is the way it is because of the way the organization is. So if you are trying to change it, you are going to have challenges—especially if you forget these three essential steps. Incenting the behavior you want to see. Considering the Employee Experience. Remembering your people need your support.

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6 Customer Service Facts for Every Business

Steve DiGioia

you won't be successful without them. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. The world of business is fraught with a myriad of theories, quotes and snippets of information all designed to help wide-eyed junior entrepreneurs become successful. Then there are the wise sages who are paid handsomely to bestow others with their experience and long-held beliefs.

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Voice Analytics Technology

Callminer

Voice analytics technology may offer considerable business benefits, but many organizations simply don’t know much about it. Here’s a look 5 unknown facts about speech analytics.

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Rebuilding Supplier Trust – Lessons From Tesco

Peter Lavers

Supermarket giant Tesco has been ordered to make “significant changes” in the way it deals with suppliers after the Groceries Code Adjudicator found that the supermarket had deliberately delayed payments to boost its profits. CEO Dave Lewis accepted the report, apologised, and promised to “reenergise” supplier relationships. (Watch his response by clicking on the image, left).

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The Contact Center Manager’s Guide to AI

Step-by-step instructions on how to use AI for growth in your contact center Learn how AI can transform your contact center operations. In this ebook, dig into the different AI technologies, then see how each can help automate tasks, streamline service, and turn your contact center from a cost center to a profit house. Plus, we’ll give you practical tips on choosing the right AI tools, getting them up and running, and measuring their impact.

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Top 5 Posts in February

Contact Center Pipeline

The top blog posts in February ran the gamut from a look at the “plan it, prove it” concept to explain WFM to execs, insights about the value of NPS and the ways it is used in the contact center, non-financial motivators that can influence agent behaviors, a discussion about the potential that WFM teams […].

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Command Customer’s Attention: The Secrets Uncovered!

Beyond Philosophy

Everyone wants your Customers’ attention. These bids for attention surround us, in the form of advertisements to street signs to the clothes people wear or, in some cases, don’t wear! These ubiquitous pleas for attention can be overwhelming and crowd out your bid for your Customers’ attention. So it’s up to you to cut through the clutter and reach them.

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What’s The Difference Between a Customer and a Guest?

Steve DiGioia

there IS a difference? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. How do you treat the people that enter your place of business? What do you hope to gain from them? Are you more interested in providing value or to just fatten your wallet? Do you treat them as a $$$ sign or just a one-shot deal? Do you treat them as a burden because you will need to deal with their questions?

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How Collection Analytics Drives Improved Call Center Performance

Callminer

Contact centers face the constant challenge of maximizing payments while staying up to date with compliance rules and regulations. Here’s how collection analytics can help.

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5-Minute CEO Hack For Creating a Customer-Inspired Culture

AskNicely

How can the CEO of a major organization change the company culture in just five minutes a day? A few years ago, I found that I was asking myself the same question. I decided that, although I might not be able to change everything that was wrong with my company in five minutes, I could make things better for one person. I committed myself to personally responding to one customer each day.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

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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10 Common Retention Mistakes

Contact Center Pipeline

Some of the best lessons about customer service happen when you are the customer. In my case, I spent 20 years as a loyal client of a certain roadside assistance program. However, my new car purchase came with a subscription to a rival roadside assistance program. Despite that perk, I still considered staying with my […].

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5 Ways to Handle Unreasonable Customers

Customers That Stick

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Changing Customer Behavior with a Little Nudge

Beyond Philosophy

Do you nudge your customers? Most businesses do, whether they know it or not. A nudge propels a customer toward the behavior you want – whether it’s purchasing a product, signing up for a subscription or making a repeat visit to a retailer. The theory behind a nudge is that positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions can change people’s behavior at least as effectively as rules and instructions.

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What Was The Last WOW Customer Service Experience You Received?

Steve DiGioia

one that is still remembered years later. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. For me it happened about 4 years ago when I got a few days off and took my family to Hershey Park in Pennsylvania. We haven’t been there since my kids were little and now it’s time for THEM to drag ME on to the roller coasters. I’m dating myself since these new-fangled rides are no longer called “roller coasters.” They’re more like “roller flips-you around-unti

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Your Roadmap to Successful AI Implementations in the Contact Center

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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Ask the Experts: What Is Your Speech Analytics Definition?

Callminer

It’s helpful to review speech analytics definitions to determine the right solution for your business’ individual needs. Here’s what the experts have to say.

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Three Low Cost Ways to Improve Customer Service

Bill Quiseng

Recently in a LinkedIn group, one of the members asked the following question: “The global economy is slowing down, but you’ve been asked to do the impossible: Control costs AND improve customer service experience. How can you do it?” While I commented within the group, LinkedIn limited the space allowed for the response so I wanted to elaborate here.

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Quick Tip: Promote Agents with the Right Qualities

Contact Center Pipeline

While many top-performing contact center agents desire opportunities for growth and development, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re cut out to be supervisors or coaches. Even so, in many centers promotions are still based on performance. Putting in place a more stringent selection process for supervisors or team leads can help to identify those top […].

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5 Ways to Make Marketing More Strategic

ClearAction

5 Ways to Make Marketing More Strategic Lynn Hunsaker. As Marketing departments take a bigger role in customer experience management, a more holistic perspective allows your company rise to the top of the field. Supporting the entire customer lifecycle, for example, is a goal that most Marketing organizations still grapple with. Everyone acknowledges that customer retention is more cost-effective than acquisition, yet Marketing tends to put the majority of its resources in awareness-building and

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

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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Industry Secrets Leaked – Predicting Customer Behavior!

Beyond Philosophy

Imagine the power of being able to predict your Customers’ behavior. It would mean that you can design an experience that plays into this behavior and creates an excellent Customer Experience that drives $$$ for you. However, reliably predicting your Customers’ behavior is going to be difficult even under the best of circumstances. Often, organizations stymie themselves by making bad assumptions about what is motivating their Customers preferences and choices.

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Speak to Me as a Person and Don’t Read a Script

Steve DiGioia

I'm flesh and blood but you're a robot! This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Too many businesses continue to offer a workplace that leaves no room for the employee’s personality to come through. They’re not robots, you know… They must recite a script written by someone that sits in an office far removed from the customer or by someone that, for years, hasn’t been “on the front lines” with the customers.

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Using call center analytics to generate revenue

Callminer

When utilized effectively, call center analytics can have a big impact on a company’s bottom line.

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What the Gainesville Police Officer Teaches Us About Customer Service

Customers That Stick

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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The (Near) Death of WFM

Contact Center Pipeline

If your livelihood depends on the sales or service of WFM technology, calm down. Despite the title of this article, your occupation is safe. WFM systems are valuable tools and will continue to play an important role in contact centers well into the future. In fact, given the strategy to branch out and serve related […].

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How Does Technology Impact the Customer Experience?

Win the Customer

To innovate and get ahead of competitors and market trends, it’s critical for customer experience leaders to continually evaluate their vision of customer experience and perceive potential technologies that could accelerate the ability to deliver exceptional service experiences. At a recent Opticon conference, Mary Hamilton, Managing Director of Accenture Technology Labs , described the near future where our offerings could be enhanced by sensors, supported by data, and automated to deliv

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Secrets Revealed: Pricing that Makes Customers Buy

Beyond Philosophy

Conventional wisdom says that a product priced at $99.99 will seem less expensive than a product priced at $100. Researchers have also found that a precise price, like $99.37, is more believable and appears to offer a greater value than a round price like $100. Based on this, you might conclude that round prices – the ones that end in zeros – are always a bad idea.

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And You Wonder Why Business is Bad

Steve DiGioia

doesn't the buck stop with you? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. We hire those we expect to help us get better. We want them to be the front line of our business. We put our trust in their efforts to do what is “right” for our customers. But then we fail them … The problems start right at the “orientation phase” Who takes the new employee and immerses them in the “culture of the business”?

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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CallMiner CTO, Jeff Gallino, Shares Insights on Achieving ROI with Interaction Analytics

Callminer

At a recent event in London, CallMiner CTO, Jeff Gallino, shared advice on how best to achieve ROI from Interaction Analytics. He also shared his insights in an interview with CallCentreHelper. Gallino cited three areas to focus on to realize ROI from Interaction Analytics. Compliance – Mitigating risk by analyzing every interaction. This will allow […].

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The 7 Essential Differences Between Simply Responding to Customers and Providing True Customer Service

C3Centricity

A longer post than usual this week, but one that will make you smile, if not laugh out loud! It describes one recent personal example of disinterested client support, from which I have drawn seven learnings for everyone wanting to deliver true customer service. I can’t understand why any organisation would still have trouble offering [.]. The post The 7 Essential Differences Between Simply Responding to Customers and Providing True Customer Service appeared first on C3Centricity.

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Smart Technology Decisions in a Changing Market

Contact Center Pipeline

As companies make decisions about sourcing for new contact center technology, a crucial question to answer is whether to pursue “best-of-breed” (BoB) solutions or solutions that are part of a “suite.” Acquisition, innovation and expansion among technology vendors has made sourcing distinctions increasingly complex. With IT departments facing resource constraints and contact center operations desiring […].