ClearAction

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Customer Experience is More Than Transactional: Is Your Marketing Value Longitudinal? Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience is not limited to an interaction. Cumulative perceptions, interactions, circumstances and judgments add up over time to form “customer experience” for each of our prospects, customers, partners, suppliers, and stakeholders. This means customer experience is longitudinal, i.e. developed across a long period of time.

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OctopusTech

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There are close to over 6500 languages spoken in the world we live in. The cultural diversity between each nation that speaks these languages as well as nations like India that have several languages within the same country is something to be appreciated. In the business world, while we may not need to know every language used in the world, knowing the languages your customers or potential customers speak can only be an advantage.

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Contact Center Pipeline

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

My first taste of customer experience (or what we referred to at the time as customer service) was in a bar. I was behind it, and I was really good. It takes a combination of personality, skill, savvy and charisma, and a strong knowledge of drinks, to be successful in this role. You also need […].

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

This week we feature an article by Riley Panko, a Senior Content Developer & Marketer at Clutch. She emphasizes the need for human interaction over the phone in a world of automated response systems. In the age of chatbots, contact forms, and phone menus, consumers still seek human interaction when communicating with a business and will grow frustrated if that interaction is delayed or not allowed.

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Nicereply

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

If you can find someone that has worked down on the ground in a coffee, retail or food service, you can rest assured that they have the first grounding bits to be truly excellent at support. Almost every person that I talk to that has created a career out of supporting customers started off as a waiter, barista, or retail employee. I am no different.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Obtaining useful metrics on daily operations in your call center can help to improve many aspects of your business. However, there is quite a bit more to making effective use of call center metrics than merely amassing data and generating reports. When properly harnessed, call center metrics open the door to precise monitoring of growth over time. They can be used to design a powerful development plan for your team members, denote areas of daily operations in which you are losing money, and more

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Totango

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The rise of the recurring revenue business model has placed the customer in control of their business partnerships. Customer value is now achieved over repeated cycles of renewal, and the customer can walk away whenever they see fit. Now more than ever, SaaS organizations have to work hard to help their customers succeed and keep them satisfied. By paying attention to a few key customer success factors designed to help you thrive in today’s digital conditions, you can shape your entire enterpris

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Steve DiGioia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Bigfoot. The elusive missing link between humans and apes. But what does he have to do with customer service? Well, plenty. There are many similarities between the creature and the service many of us dish-out to our customers. That’s why I call it, Bigfoot customer service. Let’s get into it. Rumors. There have been rumors of Bigfoot since the story first appeared in the Humboldt Times in 1958.

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Inbenta

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Self-service and customer relations: provide autonomy to your customers. According to a Zendesk study, the main reasons for customer dissatisfaction are the multiplication of online contributors (57%) and a resolution time that is too long for 46% of respondents. A customer who fails to find an immediate solution to his problem will put an end to his journey and can even end up doing business with your competitors.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

How you present information often influences your audience to perceive it differently. In marketing, sometimes how you present the facts takes advantage of the information in a way that shouldn’t matter when you think about it rationally. Nonetheless, it does, and done right can yield positive customer-driven growth. We discussed Framing Effects in a recent podcast.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

What if you only had one customer left to do business with? Maybe this was the last customer on earth? Norman Beck—my friend and faithful reader of The Shepard Letter —and I were talking about this idea and he shared another way of looking at it. In his words, “It’s like the last gas station you’ll see for miles as you enter the desert. Maybe you stop and make sure you have a full tank of gas.

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CX Accelerator

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

By Jeremy Watkin My nieces and nephews have recently either entered college or are actively applying to universities, and I was struck with a thought. If one of them came to me and asked, “Uncle Jeremy, I’d sure love to follow in your footsteps and pursue a career in customer experience (CX). What major should I choose?”. While there are more and more schools offering degrees in customer experience or customer experience management, what if their school of choice does not?

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Use these metrics to design a powerful development plan for your contact center agents, find areas of operations in which you are losing money, and more.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Discover This Powerful Marketing Technique to Gain Growth. How you present information has a significant effect on how your customers perceive the message. It’s no secret; it’s why there are marketing departments. However, what is fascinating is that when we present information, we can take advantage of things that shouldn’t matter when you think about them rationally, but that do matter quite a bit when it comes to customer-driven growth.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The Voice of the Customer. Creating WOW Moments by Simply Being Human. Shep Hyken interviews Stacy Sherman. They discuss strategies for improving CX throughout every level of an organization. Top Takeaways: It’s important to consider and optimize CX across the board, but especially within three key areas: digital channels and e-commerce, sales and the frontline, and especially new product development.

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Contact Center Pipeline

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Welcome to the February issue of Contact Center Pipeline. I’ve always thought of February as a fun month with the opportunity to show some love! The best way to show your agents some love… recognize and support them. The best way to show your customers some love… provide an amazing customer experience! Our February issue […].

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CX Accelerator

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

By Jeremy Watkin My nieces and nephews have recently either entered college or are actively applying to universities, and I was struck with a thought. If one of them came to me and asked, “Uncle Jeremy, I’d sure love to follow in your footsteps and pursue a career in customer experience (CX). What major should I choose?”. While there are more and more schools offering degrees in customer experience or customer experience management, what if their school of choice does not?

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Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Discover This Powerful Marketing Technique to Gain Growth. How you present information has a significant effect on how your customers perceive the message. It’s no secret; it’s why there are marketing departments. However, what is fascinating is that when we present information, we can take advantage of things that shouldn’t matter when you think about them rationally, but that do matter quite a bit when it comes to customer-driven growth.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 3, 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. 6 Hot Customer Loyalty Trends Emerging in 2020 by Brad Davis. (Digital Doughnut) As someone whose job it is to keep a watchful eye on what’s happening in customer loyalty, I’ve compiled this list of essential trends to keep in mind this year.

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Contact Center Pipeline

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In the August 2019 issue of Contact Center Pipeline, I wrote a column entitled, “Robocalls? Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Harmonica Player.” If you’re curious about what being a harmonica player has to do with robocalls, I suggest you read the column. In a nutshell, the subject of that particular column was a pending […].

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ProProfs Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Everyone says that customer support used to be easy. Now, note the past tense in that. For an 18th century blacksmith, the questions and concerns from customers were pretty simple. Solutions came easily too. At least it was obvious that customers would simply walk to the store whenever they needed support. . And then came the technological avalanche – postal service, phone, email, live chat, social media.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Contact center attrition rates are notoriously high. According to research conducted by The Quality Assurance & Training Connection (QATC), the average annual turnover rate for agents in US contact centers ranges between 30 and 45 percent, which is more than double the average for all occupations. This results not only in high costs for recruiting and training new agents – $7,500 per employee – but also the loss of knowledge when experienced staff leave.

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Taylor Reach Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

By Peg Ayers. Measuring Customer Experience is important, right? We need to know how customers feel about their interactions with us. We can’t improve what we don’t measure. But what are we doing with the data we gather? And is gathering, analyzing and reporting on that data truly improving the customer experience? I regularly receive surveys from our regional healthcare provider, owner of all local hospitals and many medical offices.

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Interactions

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

What is the Peak-End Rule? Barbara Frederickson and Danie Kahneman conducted a research based study in 1993 that proved that the human memory is, in fact, imperfect. They discovered that humans don’t actually recall events in their entirety, but rather the snapshots of the most intense moments become a memory. They discovered this by submerging participants hands in freezing water for 60 seconds.

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ProProfs Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

What is the most dreadful thing during customer interactions? Being in a situation where you have to say No to the customer- Isn’t it? . There are times, and really often too, that a customer comes to you with a request that is just not possible for you to fulfill. Like, imagine your company has a return policy that doesn’t allow you to take return requests after 15 days of purchase.

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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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Tethr

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The quality of service your organization delivers depends on the skills of your employees. But in today’s bustling work environment, supervisors are struggling to find the time needed to effectively coach staff for continual performance improvement. Coaching is more important than ever before in today’s call center environment, as calls continue to increase in complexity.

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Use our interactive calculator to measure your Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) and its impact on ROI.

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Customers That Stick

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

What are the worst customer service job responsibilities? I’m not sure this question actually hits the reality of customer service very well. . I don’t necessarily think there’s a particular responsibility that stands out as bad, maybe documenting customer interactions. That can be tedious. In customer service, it’s less about the responsibilities than the situations.

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