Certified Languages International

JANUARY 28, 2020

Implementing a VRI solution in a healthcare system can be hectic. You’re fielding questions from end users and trying to coordinate training schedules, all while managing expectations from key stakeholders. It’s enough, even under the best of circumstances, to spike your cortisol levels. But before you can even put your implementation strategy into action, there is a lot of careful consideration that must happen in the early stages of planning in order to avoid a headache later on.

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TELUS International

JANUARY 31, 2020

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Lumoa

JANUARY 30, 2020

We share best practices on how to prioritize customer experience initiatives. Due to limitations in resources, organizations have to prioritize which initiatives to spend their money on. You have to consider which initiatives have the most potential to impact customer effort for your priority customers.

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Monet Software

JANUARY 30, 2020

A sense of purpose enhances retention and performance–but how can it be instilled in the workforce? In the race to build a highly engaged workforce to deliver exceptional customer experiences, contact center leaders are asking some deep questions. That’s because employee engagement isn’t just that age-old survey topic: employee satisfaction. Turns out, being okay with the cafeteria menu, while tangentially linked to overall engagement, is not equivalent to being emotionally committed to a job.

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A high-quality customer experience creates loyal customers for years to come and makes for an easy win against businesses that are competing on other factors like price and quality. We partnered with ContactBabel to uncover the biggest hurdles businesses face when trying to improve CX and offer practical suggestions to overcome them.

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The Call Center School

JANUARY 29, 2020

Social Media has been adopted, by and large. Whether or not you’re an avid tweeter or adding to your Instagram story daily, it’s safe to say social media is here to stay. What does this mean for businesses? Well, most companies today have embraced social media platforms for marketing purposes, and that’s great! But, if your business fails to acknowledge social media as more than a promotional platform, you may really want to reconsider.

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TechSee

JANUARY 28, 2020

Black Friday is a day that retailers wait for all year, and 2019 was no different. Digital sales for the retail holiday increased nearly 20 percent last year, reaching $7.4 billion across the 4,500 retail websites tracked by Adobe Analytics. Consumers also found their way into brick-and-mortar locations much more often, with many having opted to buy online and pick up in-store (BOPIS).

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 27, 2020

In today’s competitive marketplace, it’s more important than ever that companies deliver amazing customer service. Focusing on customer experience just might be the single most critical investment a company can make. But as CX guru Shep Hyken notes, while 80% of CEOs think their companies deliver a great customer experience, only 8% of their customers agree.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 31, 2020

Q&A: How to Streamline Onboarding to Reduce Churn. Customer retention and churn prevention start at the beginning of a customer’s journey with your company – in onboarding. This crucial first interaction between your customer, your product, and your team establishes the groundwork that can jumpstart success or accelerate failure. A successful onboarding process enables your Customer Success team to set clear expectations, understand goals, deliver on promises, and build the foundation for a

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Metrics Customer retention Personalization Surveys 64

Ansafone

JANUARY 30, 2020

Businesses are always trying new ways to improve the customer service experience. One of the most successful ways is an Omni channel approach. This is a powerful way to cater to a customer’s specific needs while giving them the choice of how they wish to communicate. We’re going to break down why Omni channel service … Why Omni Channel Service is the Optimal Solution Read More » The post Why Omni Channel Service is the Optimal Solution appeared first on Ansafone Contact Centers.

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Workforce challenges are accelerating, and leaders must be prepared. According to Gartner, “Executives today face a volatile business environment, sustained talent shortages, rapid technological advancements and intense change fatigue in the workforce.” 1 In 9 Future of Work Trends for 2025, Gartner reveals nine critical workforce trends that will define 2025 – from AI’s impact on productivity to evolving leadership roles and talent shortages.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 31, 2020

This week we feature an article by Pem Brooke, Marketing Manager of SuperStaff. Pem discusses the importance of shifting customer service tactics in order to cater towards customers from each generation. Not many companies think about generational gaps and differences when it comes to dealing with their clients. Some brands think that dealing with customers with uniform responses and procedures increases their efficiency and effectivity—when, in fact, some customers may feel alienated if the sup

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Solvvy

JANUARY 27, 2020

When I began working as Director of Support for Handshake, a career community that connects students and employers, I thought my role would focus largely on hiring, managing a team, and improving workflow—but I’ve come to find out that modeling data and automating processes is just as important. And with everything we do, we need to leave room to improvise.

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Horizon CX

JANUARY 31, 2020

According to Wikipedia, the definition of a promise is a commitment by someone to do or not do something. As a noun, a promise means a declaration assuring that one will or will not do something. As a verb, it means to commit oneself by a promise to do or give. It can also mean a capacity for good, similar to a value that is to be realized in the near future.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 28, 2020

Although customer retention is cheaper than acquisition, it’s easier said than done. It takes a lot of commitment and dedication to get customers to stay loyal to your business. In this article, we are going to talk about how to use social media to attract and retain customers. Customers have multiple options at their disposal. Besides, the competition for customers is fierce these days than ever.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Customer Service Life

JANUARY 29, 2020

Image by DanaTentis from Pixabay. It’s amazing the customer service insights I gain from raising my kids. We recently moved to a new neighborhood and are thrilled to have multiple kids on our street, including some the same age as my oldest son. This means that our doorbell rings multiple times a day to see if he can play. Being a good introvert (like his dad), he’s often working on a project by himself and would be content to just do that.

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Nicereply

JANUARY 31, 2020

Goals are a great way to add meaning to your workday and give yourself a destination to work towards. Odds are good that at some point in time, you’ve looked up from your desk and thought … what next? Working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week without goals is a sure-fire recipe for burnout. Why are we here? Other than the paycheck, why do I sit here and answer tickets?

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 29, 2020

Today I share with you a fable. Once upon a time a great genie paid a short visit to the town of Businessland, where he happened upon three entrepreneurs, each of whom wanted to open an ice cream shop. The great genie offered to grant each of them a wish, but only if that wish would absolutely guarantee the success of their venture. The first entrepreneur said, “I wish for the best tasting ice cream in all of Businessland.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 29, 2020

Contact Center Pipeline’s SPONSOR WALL OF FAME Company name Customer Contact Strategies CEO/Founder Michele Rowan When founded 2009 Describe your company We help companies design/expand their work-at-home programs for contact centers via custom consulting, public workshops and conferences. What is your background in the industry? 20+ years of contact center leadership experience and 10+ years […].

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This comprehensive report explores the evolving landscape of customer and business expectations, with five key trends that will help you understand your customers and stay ahead of the competition. Discover how your peers are implementing AI to improve customer experience with granular insights into their CX investments and specific AI use cases. For the first time, customers prefer digital channels when interacting with a business.

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Callminer

JANUARY 26, 2020

In this post, we discuss customer empathy and why it’s crucial for a positive customer experience, as well as tips for how you can start building and deepening customer empathy in every interaction.

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ProProfs Blog

JANUARY 30, 2020

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates. Elaborating on this maxim, I would also like to add that unhappy customers can ruin the brand value in minutes. It takes less than a minute for an angry customer to post their bitter experiences online. Type, type, click, and the damage is done! And we all know, what goes online, reaches everyone and hampers the brand image as well.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 28, 2020

Employees Matter. Care for Your Employees and They Will Care for Their Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Bob Chapman. They discuss his leadership philosophies and approach to creating a “truly human” culture of caring. Top Takeaways: You don’t need to have an out-of-the-ordinary or “exceptional” background to do exceptional things in business and your life.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

When invited to compile this list of customer service trends for 2020, naturally the first thing I did was look back at all of the predictions made the previous year. The influence of AI in the contact center was strongly touted, but in 2020 (after a number of false starts), artificial intelligence will finally start […].

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Peter Lavers

JANUARY 30, 2020

Sincere congratulations to one of our associates, Mark Hollyoake , for successfully completing and passing his Doctorate, analysing and proving the constituents of business to business (B2B) Trust. He undertook his Doctorate at Southampton University, focusing on Trust as a dynamic within B2B customer and intermediary relationships. Mark has put his heart and soul into achieving this, and it confirms him as a top thought leader in the subject - as well as being a long-established expert in B2B C

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ProProfs Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Do you think customers today will take the pain to stand in a queue to resolve a query or ask a question? Obviously they won’t. . The current digitally dominant world has reduced the wait time to seconds , and no one wants to resort to old school methods of communicating with their favorite brands. When they can get everything they want in a jiffy, from wherever they are, the question of walking to a store or calling the support staff only to wait for hours, doesn’t arise.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 27, 2020

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. Leveraging Trends to Drive Business Success through Customer Experience by Joseph Michelli. (The Michelli Experience) I see my job as curating much of that research and sharing it with you in this context and also helping my clients leverage that knowledge through too

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 30, 2020

The start of the new year is always filled with predictions about which technologies, practices or strategies you need to keep on your radar. It’s also the type of information that holds great appeal for contact center professionals who pushed four of our recent industry forecast editorials to the top of our most-read blog posts […].

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Discover a new approach to reducing contact center attrition with our in-depth eBook. After analyzing 20+ academic studies, we highlight overlooked causes like lack of leadership trust, emotional labor, and job shock, and introduce the Attrition Velocity metric to better understand attrition's real cost. Our guide doesn't stop at diagnosis; it offers actionable strategies and tools to address these issues head-on.

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Inbenta

JANUARY 30, 2020

The tourism industry, an ever-changing sector. The face of tourism has evolved a lot in the past decades. Today’s travelers no longer go to their local travel agent in order to book their trips, they are more and more connected and digitally savvy, doing all their research online. As shown in a study conducted by Expedia, people end up visiting 38 websites on average while planning their travels and increasingly look for personalized offers and travel plans.

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 30, 2020

In this One Win Book Review, we take a look at Finish by Jon Acuff. Check out the video below to hear Adam’s one win that you can take away from Finish to improve your organization’s customer experience and customer service. [link]. About Finish. FROM THE PUBLISHER: From New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff, a book for those who want relief from always starting and never being done.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 31, 2020

This week we feature an article by Pem Brooke, Marketing Manager of SuperStaff. Pem discusses the importance of shifting customer service tactics in order to cater towards customers from each generation. Not many companies think about generational gaps and differences when it comes to dealing with their clients. Some brands think that dealing with customers with uniform responses and procedures increases their efficiency and effectivity—when, in fact, some customers may feel alienated if the sup

Customer Service 206

Customer Service Entertainment Marketing Customer Support 206