Solvvy

JANUARY 21, 2020

Did you go see the new Star Wars movie over the holidays? If so, you may have looked up reviews on your computer, watched a preview on your iPad, purchased tickets on your mobile phone, and used SMS delivery to show them to the usher. . If so, this isn’t a unique customer experience. Today’s consumers are screen-shifters by nature, and it’s changed the customer journey to an omnichannel experience that incorporates many different devices and platforms. .

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Unymira

JANUARY 22, 2020

Knowledge management is a key ingredient of effective and successful customer service. But transforming information into knowledge is tough. As customer service needs steadily grow, many Salesforce Knowledge users find their specific contact center requirements outgrowing the tool’s features.

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TeamSupport

JANUARY 24, 2020

The concept of “customer churn”, or customers leaving a business, is something that keeps executives around the world awake at night. Especially in the B2B (business-to-business) industry, losing just one major customer can make or break a business. So, what can companies do to ensure churn rates remain as low as possible? Here are six tactics: 1) Focus on public-facing customer data – Are your customers talking about your business online for the world to see?

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 20, 2020

Sometimes people say no to sales offers out of habit. They have rules or expectations going into the interaction that preclude them from saying yes. There are ways to overcome these habits. The scientific name for it is Escalation of Commitment, but it is also the basis of many sales techniques, and it is an excellent way to get your customers to say yes. .

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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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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 21, 2020

Innovation is a requirement in most organizations. Without innovation, businesses will likely struggle to stay relevant and even survive. Most of us have a mandate (implied or explicit) to be innovative. To deliver on that mandate, you need to understand your organization and how it treats innovation. This is particularly true in a dynamic contact […].

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Interactions

JANUARY 23, 2020

This blog was written with help from Sheetal Sekhar. Conversational AI is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that refers to building a voice or text assistant that can engage in human-like dialogue, capture context, and provide intelligent responses. A common example of where Conversational AI is used is in personal virtual assistants such as Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, and Google Assistant.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 24, 2020

This week we feature an article by Brett Patrontasch, CEO of Shyft. Brett provides three insightful ways to help improve customer satisfaction and employee empowerment. Most retail businesses understand that the best service strategies won’t succeed if store-level employees don’t feel motivated. When given proper training, support, and encouragement, employees can make your business.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2020

“There are two kinds of people: Batteries Included and Batteries Not Included.”. That quote comes from Dan Sullivan, founder and president of the Strategic Coach program. If you’ve been following my work, you’ll probably recognize his name. I’ve learned a lot over the years by attending his workshops and coaching sessions. He recently released a book that included many of his quotable words of wisdom.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 21, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is improving all the time and slowly making its way into our offices, activities, and homes. The idea of AI holds a lot of promises such as savings in cost and time for businesses as well as supporting skilled professionals by effectively executing the mundane routine tasks. Artificial Intelligence has already been making an impression on the business industry with data collection for marketing and changing how people interreact with IT.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2020

Forrester predicted that one in four Customer Experience Professionals will lose their job in 2020. It is a bold prediction, and I agree with it. Why are so many Customer Experience professionals facing the ax this year? They have neglected to focus on return on investment for the initiatives they have implemented. . We discussed this problem in a recent podcast.

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TechSee

JANUARY 21, 2020

With days jam-packed with frustrated customers, confined to a cubicle and often on a low pay scale, it is inevitable that poor agent experience leads to reduced motivation and even burnout. In fact, the latest research shows that small-sized call centers (less than 50 seats) have an annual turnover rate of 17%, medium-sized contact centers witness a 37% attrition rate and large-sized operations lose 44% of their reps per year.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 23, 2020

In today’s highly dynamic digital economy, there is no set safeguard against uncertainty. We live in an era where a single tweet or photo can completely reshape a brand’s perception—for better or worse. And at the same time, businesses are striving to meet and exceed a moving goal post of customer preferences, influenced by a […].

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

To prepare for a recent business trip, I booked a roundtrip flight, hotel, and rental car. All done via Expedia, because it gives me one place to handle all travel arrangements, and provides a very nice app to remind me what I booked along with directions, phone numbers, and more. . As my trip progressed, I got email requests for feedback at each step.

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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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Tethr

JANUARY 24, 2020

You settle down for the night, planning to finally watch that HBO film you recorded weeks ago. The kids are in bed, the popcorn is popped and you have arranged yourself on the couch in a way that says “no, I don’t plan on moving for the next two hours.” You hit the ‘recordings’ button on your remote, only to find that every single one of your recorded episodes and movies have vanished from the DVR.

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TELUS International

JANUARY 21, 2020

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 19, 2020

We do research called an Emotional Signature ® that examines the Customer Experience from a subconscious psychological perspective. Therefore, by definition, you get a different viewpoint after you undertake it for your organization. . However, in our global Customer Experience consultancy, whenever we present our findings to an organization, you usually get at least one person that tries to bend the results to meet their agenda.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2020

Well, it’s that time of year again. Even if you are not the most social person in your office, this tends to be the time where most of the company get together and hopefully, have a good time. Of course, definitions of good times vary between individuals. Suffice to say, it’s the extreme definitions that we are today going to focus on and specifically, the things that you really shouldn’t be doing as Christmas party season comes around.

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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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Totango

JANUARY 21, 2020

The success of an enterprise depends more than ever on the Customer Success (CS) team. A CS team’s primary purpose is to build, maintain, and optimize lasting customer relationships by helping them fulfill and even exceed their own business goals. The stronger that connection is, the more likely your customers will be to not only remain customers, but also recommend your company to others.

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REVE Chat Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

Most of the businesses focus on innovations and fail to align their brand with customer needs. Businesses that are customer centric focus on identifying customer needs to build the best suitable products and services to create great value for customers. You can not persuade anyone to buy what you’re offering unless you understand what your customer needs. .

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 21, 2020

Excellent Service in an Experience Economy. How to Create an Experience That Wins Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Jim Gilmore. They discuss the new edition of The Experience Economy: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money , which Jim co-authored with Joseph Pine. Top Takeaways: The economy has evolved over time from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy, then to a service economy and finally to an experience economy, where the experience a customer has is the most valuable com

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Secret of Pricing. Academia has a problem with names. They are not always, well, intuitive. Hyperbolic Discounting is an excellent example of a pertinent business area disguised in a difficult-to-interpret label. Hyperbolic Discounting does not mean what you might think. If you take a look at the words in the name, you probably imagine it means embellished markdowns.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2020

In 2016, I spoke at a customer conference and the topic was, “Contact Center 2020.” At the time, 2020 seemed like it was forever away, and I had carte blanche to forecast whatever I wanted to about the potential state of the contact center in 2020. I opened the session with a brief clip from […].

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Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 20, 2020

I saw this written on a resume the other day. One of her past job duties was “ Joyfully greeted guests “ My first reaction was, “What kind of B.S. is that to write? You must be padding your resume ‘cause you can’t be that good. Then I started to think… How does one joyfully greet a guest (customer)? I ran a scenario through my mind of someone browsing through rack after rack of clothes when a store employee pounces over and says “Hey, good afternoon.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 20, 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. Customer Effort Score or Customer Satisfaction? by Martin Powton. (CustomerThink) Customer Effort Score is a popular metric used to measure customer service satisfaction using one single question.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 21, 2020

How AI will Change CX for the Future. Customer loyalty is what most businesses want. The more your customers buy from you, the more you improve your bottom line, not only in increased sales but also in decreased customer acquisition costs. Improving your Customer Experience to foster customer loyalty is often an expense that senior management can get behind.

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Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.

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Callminer

JANUARY 19, 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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Convoso

JANUARY 23, 2020

We just got back from a dynamic industry trade show in Denver, Lead Generation World. The conference proved an amazing opportunity to network with both new and familiar faces. Together, we learned more about the challenges and solutions taking place in the changing lead gen industry. And, we appreciated the chance to share our own experience and perspectives on a panel discussion, “The Three Efficiencies That Drive Call Center Performance. and How to Improve Them,” moderated by LeadsCouncil Exec

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Victor Midgley

JANUARY 18, 2020

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