Etech GS
APRIL 30, 2019
Contacting a company in the hopes of resolving an issue only to receive less-than-impressive service is likely a scenario you’ve personally encountered at least once in your lifetime. It should come as no surprise that negative customer experience with a company’s contact center poses a huge threat to the consumer’s loyalty to that product or brand.
VocalCom
APRIL 29, 2019
When designing great customer experiences, every brand should think about its self-service. As much as customers appreciate agents who help solve their problems, many prefer to resolve simple issues themselves. Gartner states that 81% of customers attempt to find solutions on their own before contacting an agent. Here are five rules for creating self-service options that truly benefit your customers.
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Calltools
MAY 1, 2019
The success of any business depends on effective communication and a good rapport between your customers and your staff. What does a relationship built on good rapport look like? It means that your staff and your customers have an agreement and mutual understanding. It implies that they have a sense empathy for each other that makes communication seamless and effortless.
ShepHyken
MAY 1, 2019
I’ve talked and written about the differences between customer service and the customer experience, also known as CX. Customer service is typically what transpires between people throughout the buying process or when there is a problem. That’s part of the customer experience, but there is much more to CX than service. It’s the entire journey, from the moment a customer thinks about doing business to any and every interaction point, whether it’s in person, on a digital channel, or with the produc
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Beyond Philosophy
APRIL 28, 2019
What Customer Emotions Drive the Most Value. 15 years ago, in Munich, I was asked a question I couldn’t answer when presenting to an insurance company. The person asking understood what I was saying about evoking the proper emotions in a Customer Experience. No, he wanted to know how much money he would get back by investing in my idea. I didn’t know.
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Call Center Weekly
MAY 2, 2019
By Kathryn Frankson Ok, ok so we still need leadership. But, as someone who just wrapped an Experienced Manager training I'm now convinced that we actually need more management. Even typing that feels a bit underwhelming because management conjures up thoughts of scheduling, status reports and approving PTO; however, when done right management is truly the catalyst for achieving business outcomes.
ShepHyken
APRIL 30, 2019
Customer Obsession. Subscribing to the Customer Relationship to Win in Business. Shep Hyken interviews Patrick Campbell. They discuss subscription models, company culture, hiring right, and becoming “customer-obsessed.”. In Shep’s opening monologue, he talks about innovative ways to use a subscription model to enhance your business. The Interview with Patrick Campbell: Any and every company should consider implementing a subscription model.
Beyond Philosophy
MAY 3, 2019
Why Are Insignificant Things So Significant? Have you ever had the feeling that something about a buying experience didn’t feel right? Chances are if you did, you didn’t buy the product or service. Most times, how a purchase feels is a driver for our customer behavior. This episode of The Intuitive Customer explores why insignificant things are so significant.
Myra Golden Media
APRIL 29, 2019
Last week I shared my 3-Step De-escalation strategy at a Salesforce Trailblazers conference in Minneapolis. You know you’re creating value in a presentation when people start taking photos of your slides, Q & A is endless, and when your Twitter feed is aflutter with comments, compliments, and questions. I gave the audience my 3-Step De-escalation Strategy: Recognize, Reframe, Resolve.
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Contact Center Pipeline
MAY 1, 2019
Hoarding data has been the standard practice for most businesses for years. Whether it’s customer data, email, survey data, presentations, reports, zip files, log files, call recordings, employee information, old versions of documents, account information—companies have stockpiled vast amounts of information. Gartner defines this as dark data—“the information that organizations collect, process and store during […].
ShepHyken
APRIL 29, 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. Your Most Important Business Success Metric? Customer Loyalty! by Chad Storlie. (Franchising.com) Marketers are besieged with metrics.
ProProfs Blog
APRIL 30, 2019
We at ProProfs bring to our readers a thought-provoking conversation we had with Shep Hyken , the Customer Service and Experience Expert. He is the Chief Amazement Officer of Shepard Presentations. A bestselling author featured on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, he has been inducted into the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement in the speaking profession.
TechSee
APRIL 30, 2019
How can a company achieve a good Customer Effort Score? Well, let’s look at things from the consumer’s perspective. Kevin and Beth are planning their honeymoon to Hawaii and need to choose a travel insurance provider. They call Company A and wait on hold for seven minutes before speaking with a customer service representative. They explain the reason for their call and are transferred to the appropriate department (on hold for another four minutes).
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Contact Center Pipeline
MAY 3, 2019
Contact centers are complex. Just look at the range of topics we cover in our May issue of Contact Center Pipeline. There are so many gears in motion to keep all the wheels turning to satisfy all the stake holders in and out of our organizations. I hope you can find a way to make […].
ShepHyken
MAY 1, 2019
Not long ago, I wrote an article that featured Todd Hopkins, CEO of Office Pride, and his concept of core values being a decision filter. I had the chance to interview him for Amazing Business Radio and he dropped another big concept on us that’s worth bringing to our followers. He talked about an agreement he makes with all his new customers and employees, an upfront agreement tied to future communication.
GetFeedback
APRIL 29, 2019
Text message (SMS) surveys are a great solution for gathering feedback from customers who are on the go. In fact, 90% of SMS messages are read in the first 3 minutes and 82% of people say they open every text message they receive. Not only does SMS have a high engagement rate, but according to a study conducted by the University of Michigan , people are more likely to give accurate feedback over text.
Fonolo
MAY 1, 2019
News broke last week that Mitel is proposing an all-stock buy-out of Avaya. The week prior, rumors were circulating that Avaya was engaging bankers to find a buyer. This is the latest twist in a long, zig-zagging road for the company. It’s only been 16 months since they emerged from bankruptcy. There’s a tasty irony to an Avaya-Mitel merger. Avaya’s core call center business was the result of an acquisition of Nortel assets, following the latter’s bankruptcy in 2009.
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Contact Center Pipeline
APRIL 30, 2019
April is automation month. While that’s not an actual observance, automation-related topics definitely piqued the interest of our readers this month. Our recent chatbot series took the top two spots with advice from industry experts on how to use chatbots to improve the customer experience and how to select a solution that is the best […].
TeamSupport
MAY 3, 2019
Feedback matters in the customer-centric era of business we work in. Whether it’s a customer telling your CEO that an agent did a great job or giving them a “negative” face after a chat session, there are many ways companies can receive feedback about their business. One method that has increased in popularity over the years is ratings on third-party sites.
GetFeedback
MAY 2, 2019
Customer experience is not a new concept. We heard by now that the battleground for business growth lies in your ability to provide a better customer experience than any of your competitors. According to the CX Network’s Global CX report , more than 60% of the organizations surveyed planned to have established or advanced CX practices by the end of 2018.
CSM Magazine
MAY 1, 2019
It is often the small details that customers notice and remember more than the product they purchased. Pay attention to the little things and your customers will love you even more. The dinner meeting is off to a good start. You reserved the executive meeting room in your restaurant on your property. You know the one: dark wood-grained conference table, plush high-back chairs, and sleek, modern art adorn the walls.
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Concentrix
APRIL 29, 2019
2019 People’s Choice for IVR/Visual IVR and AI/Machine Learning Solutions “The voters turned out in droves to tell us which companies they think deserve to be honored in the People’s Choice Awards. They chose a worthy group of winners at the forefront of the industry. Congratulations to the 2019 People’s Choice Awards winners.” Theresa Cramer, The post Concentrix Honored with Two Speech Technology Magazine Awards appeared first on Concentrix.
OctopusTech
APRIL 30, 2019
Ecommerce platforms essentially assist online businesses and shoppers in managing a myriad of functions such as inventory, creation of accounts, wish lists, maintenance of order histories and assessing margins. While the involvement of a solution provider such as Pay Pal may suffice a smaller ecommerce portal, growing businesses that keep innovation as their benchmark, and introduce newer products everyday may need a more robust support.
SharpenCX
APRIL 30, 2019
What do you call a fiercely loyal grocery shopper who only shops at Wegmans? A Wegmaniac. That’s right – Wegmans’ customers love the Rochester, N.Y. chain so much, they’ve given themselves a nickname. And, one even re-upped a football contract. Read More. The post How the Best Brands in the World Blend Workforce Engagement and a People-First Mission to Keep Employees (Call Center Agents Included) appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software.
CSM Magazine
MAY 2, 2019
A well-planned and maintained knowledge management system is the cornerstone of a successful customer experience strategy. No matter how great your product or service may be, customer experience can make or break your business: Modest improvements to customer experience can generate up to $775 million over three years for a company. 70% of consumers say they will continue to support companies that give them great customer experience.
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Nexmo
MAY 2, 2019
After you’ve chosen a solution that will help your business meets its goals, all that stands between you and those desired results is implementation. Depending on the solution you choose and the provider’s commitment to customer onboarding, that implementation can range from a seamless deployment path to a painful process mired in complexity and missed expectations.
Nicereply
MAY 2, 2019
It is every company’s responsibility to realize the difference that well-trained CS can make to its bottom line: financially, and reputation-wise. In today’s competitive global economy, companies have to be run like a tight ship and make sure that they are doing all they can, in the best way possible, to stay in business and be ahead of the competition.
Liveops
MAY 3, 2019
Insurers are creating products for the gig economy but are they tapping it for talent? With two-thirds of working Americans anticipated to take part in the gig economy in less than 10 years, the uber-traditional industry of insurance is making inroads into this paradigm. In the gig economy, there are all kinds of challenges in navigating liabilities and industry giants are assessing how to respond.
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