Tue.Aug 13, 2024

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CX Titans: Samsung & Apple’s Rivalry and Collaboration for Excellence

eglobalis

Rivalry and Collaboration: How the Titans Samsung & Apple Set the New CX Standard of Excellence Introduction In the dynamic and highly competitive world of consumer electronics, two giants consistently stand out: Samsung and Apple. Both brands have set benchmarks in innovation, design, and customer experience (CX), often drawing comparisons. Despite their rivalry, there is an underlying synergy in their approaches, where each brand’s strengths and weaknesses drive the other to improve.

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[Experience Action Podcast] So Many Improvements! Where to Start?

Experience Investigators

How do you prioritize customer experience improvements in a way that truly makes an impact? Discover the answer as an insightful question from Allison Shapira (www.linkedin.com/in/allisonshapira/) sets the stage for an engaging exploration into aligning customer experience enhancements with your organization’s core goals. By mapping out the customer journey, we uncover the pain points and opportunities that matter most, using a combination of customer feedback and operational data to guide

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Spotlight on CS Ops: Supercharging Customer Success with Data-Driven Strategies

Totango

“If you invest in the post-sale, and you have somebody that can focus just on the digital journey, you’re going to keep more customers, and you’re going to expand them, because they’re going to have a better experience.” – Katie Yagodnik, Director, Customer Success Operations and Digital Programs, Totango + Catalyst Customer success operations (CS Ops) can be the “wizard” behind the scenes of your customer-centric strategy.

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How to Use Customer Kindness to Make Hard Jobs Suck Less

Customer Think

Josh had only been a waiter for two weeks and tonight was going exceptionally poorly. He was overwhelmed with managing orders and feared the repercussions for his long-term job prospects. That evening, a family had arrived to celebrate their grandmother’s 82nd birthday.

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An Introduction to AI in Customer Service

Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption has risen dramatically in the customer service industry over the last few years. But many contact centers have yet to implement AI. In this eBook, we give an introduction to how customer service leaders are using AI to improve their customer experience.

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Streamlining customer renewals: Empower customer success managers to accelerate growth

Totango

“We hit 115% of our target across Totango + Catalyst in Q1 on our expansion number, and that was largely due to the CSMs and the focus they put in along with the work that we’re doing with our account executives. The partnership that we have is working.” Customer renewals are the lifeblood of any subscription-based business, directly impacting your company’s revenue, growth, and long-term success.

Sales 101
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How to prove your CX program delivers results

CX Network

CX Network asks the experts how to demonstrate the value of CX to peers and business leaders

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How GenAI and Conversation Intelligence Can Be Used to Uncover Blind Spots in Your CX Organization

Execs In The Know

We all know those hidden corners in your rearview mirror just out of sight can often be the most dangerous when driving. Similarly, if left unchecked, blind spots in your customer service organization can drive customers away and lead to low NPS scores and high churn rates. Uncovering and addressing these CX blind spots is crucial; it allows you to navigate your business with a clearer view, making sure your customers have a smooth experience across every stage of the buying journey.

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Benefits and Outcomes of Using AI in the Contact Center

Customer Think

I originally wrote today’s post for GoTo as a follow-up to our June 26, 2024, webinar. It appeared on their site on July 9, 2024. To get access to this webinar on-demand and to hear more about the topics I write about in this post, be sure to listen to/watch the webinar on demand.

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Yes No Survey Questions: How to Ask, What to Ask, and Why They Work

SurveySensum

Who said simple is boring and ineffective? To gather actionable insights and create data-driven action plan, you don’t need to create long survey designs with too many questions that might frustrate your customers and cause them to leave halfway. If you want to keep things simple for your respondents and for yourself, go with a yes-no survey question – they are quick, straightforward, and easy for respondents to answer.

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Mastering Trade Show Booth Engagement with Six Proven Strategies

Customer Think

While trade show booths can be expensive to plan for and set up, they present the opportunity to showcase your brand and garner onsite sales conversions through customer engagement. More engagement or visitors to your booth opens the door to higher conversion rates. To reach those higher rates, your booth’s offerings should entice attendees.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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The Future Is Bright for the CCaaS Sector

DMG Consulting

The Future Is Bright for the CCaaS Sector View this article on the publisher’s website The contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) sector remains one of the fastest-growing in the contact center technology market, a trend DMG Consulting expects to continue for the next few years. An influential driver of this sector’s growth is the expanding footprint of these platforms, which increasingly include many workforce engagement management (WEM) applications and intelligent virtual agent (IVA)/conve

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Why Localization Is Now Taking Center Stage in Business Strategy

Customer Think

Over the next three years, more than three-quarters (79 percent) of business leaders expect the roles of translation and localization to evolve within their business strategies. That’s according to a recent global survey conducted by Censuswide for Phrase, involving 2,000 business leaders.

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Bringing Shrinkage Under Control

DMG Consulting

Bringing Shrinkage Under Control August 2024 Shrinkage measures the percentage of time agents who are scheduled to handle a forecasted activity are unavailable to perform this task. This key performance indicator (KPI) takes into account all activities that prevent an agent from performing the job for which they are scheduled. It’s important to measure and track shrinkage because it negatively impact’s a contact center’s ability to meet its service level commitments.

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What is Missing in Customer Experience Today?

Customer Think

Customer Experience is failing. According to Forrester, US Consumer Perceptions of CX quality are at an historic low. Post-COVID the quality of customer experience eroded every year across the three Forrester categories: effectiveness, ease, and emotion. That means organizations operate inefficiently, underutilize technology, and fail to invest in frontline leadership training.

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The Future of Customer Engagement: How AI is Reshaping Contact Centers

51% of contact center leaders have already integrated AI into customer interactions. Those leveraging AI for conversation analysis are seeing faster resolution times, improved customer satisfaction, and reduced agent burnout. Ready to learn more about how AI is transforming the contact center landscape? Download our full report to discover key trends, implementation strategies, and the most critical KPIs for measuring AI success in contact centers.

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Transforming International Engagement: How The Swedish Institute Mastered CRM with SugarCRM

SugarCRM

What we'll Cover: The Swedish Institute (SI), a public agency, works to build interest and trust in Sweden globally. SI shares information about Sweden abroad and analyses how other countries perceive it. They also facilitate international exchanges and partnerships to increase awareness of Sweden and build strong relationships with individuals, organisations, and other countries.

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Insider Secrets: What Tradespeople Won’t Tell You and How to Deal with Them

Customer Think

Listen to the podcast: I’ve undertaken a kitchen renovation, and the Customer Experience the various tradespeople provide leaves much to be desired. After this project, it’s not hard to imagine why tradespeople have the poor reputation tradespeople do.