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Best Customer Experience Books of 2018 and What to Look Out for in 2019

eglobalis

Best Customer Experience Books of 2018 and What to Look Out for in 2019. The post Best Customer Experience Books of 2018 and What to Look Out for in 2019 appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Building Your Best Culture in 2019

CX Accelerator

When we are honest with ourselves, we all know culture is the linchpin for everything we do in the Contact Center. We have the very best and newest technology, hire the perfect “on-paper” resumes, and have the budget of King Tut, but without a healthy, positive working culture…these things are essentially meaningless. Naturally, an exceptional culture is the hardest thing to build, and equally as difficult to maintain.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

You might be familiar with Scott Brinker’s famous martech landscape slide. Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. By early 2018, Brinker had updated it with almost 2,000 more vendors — that’s nearly 7,000 marketing software companies fighting for the same buyers’ attention.

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Why Digital Channel Frustration Leads to Frustrated Calls Into the Call Center

Callminer

In our recent survey and report, The CallMiner Index which identifies in the UK and US the sectors that have the highest churn rates and reveals the reasons why consumers switch suppliers. One of the key observations from the reports are about consumers’ channel preferences. Our surveys discovered that consumers will use up to nine channels to contact a supplier to try and get the result they want.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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8 Key Stats to Prove Customer Experience Delivers ROI

Beyond Philosophy

James Carville, political commentator and media personality coined the phrase, “The economy, Stupid,” for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. Carville was talking to the team at the time to help them focus on the key messages for Clinton’s campaign. The slogan resurfaced in the 2008 campaign as “It’s the economy, stupid.”. I decided that for people working in Customer Experience, we needed a way to stay on message, too.

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Customer Centricity: 10 strategies to implement in 2019

Lumoa

Start 2019 with these 10 simple steps and build the fundamentals of your customer-centric culture. Nurture customer centricity in your company and lead your organization through the customer-centric transformation.

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Top 10 Posts on Brand Building Strategies of 2018

C3Centricity

A New Year tradition we started here at C3Centricity back in 2011, is to share our most popular brand building strategies and posts of the year. This gives everyone a chance to catch up on our best posts that they may have missed. This year has been a particularly successful year for C3Centricity, with many of our newest post getting the top scores globally.

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Building rapport: How storytelling helps you win over leads in live chat

Intercom, Inc.

In sales, the ability to connect with leads in real time can’t be understated. Exchanging just six messages over live chat makes a visitor 250% more likely to become a customer. But as powerful as live chat is, it has one challenge you also find in email and many other digital channels – if you can’t see or hear your leads, how do you quickly establish rapport with them?

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ICYMI: CallMiner Top 10 Stories of 2018

Callminer

CallMiner had amazing product news, awards and press in 2018 and in case you missed it, below are 10 highlights from the year!

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Are You Listening to Your Customers – Or Driving them Crazy?

Beyond Philosophy

Not too long ago, I had a minor outpatient procedure at a hospital. When I checked my email the next morning, there was a survey from the hospital. “What did you think of your anesthesiologist?”. My first thought was that I didn’t die during the procedure, so he must have done a fine job. I can’t say much more, since I only spoke to the guy for about 30 seconds.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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5 Fascinating CX Predictions to Inform Your 2019 CX Strategy

Fonolo

2018 has been a pivotal year for customer experience (CX). Industry wide, there is now a deeper understanding of CX as a multi-faceted, complex, incredibly important piece in the success (or failure) of any brand. With this in mind, we’ve rounded up the most important and fascinating CX predictions for 2019, and provided our own thoughts on what they mean and how they will impact businesses in future.

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What's Next for the CDP Industry?

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s been quite fascinating to watch the Customer Data Platform industry develop over the past few years. So far, we’ve seen two main trends emerge: extension of CDP product scope beyond the core of building the customer database itself and expansion into new industries. Both shed light on what we can expect to happen next. Product Scope CDP product scope has a more convoluted history than you might think.

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7 Trends in Customer Service to Watch in 2019

TeamSupport

Last year, we highlighted some of the key customer service trends to watch in 2018 and many of them came to fruition. The shift in perception of AI and automation was arguably the most significant. Once a thought of the distant future, many companies began adding these concepts to their workflows and roadmaps. Once again, for the third year in a row, here are 7 customer service trends to watch in 2019…. 1) B2B self-service will become more interactive – Thanks to an increase in on-demand video c

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Send better email: A deliverability analyst’s no-nonsense guide to avoiding the spam folder

Intercom, Inc.

Email is an important channel for acquiring, supporting and retaining users. However, if not done properly, you can damage your sending reputation, meaning users won’t get your emails at all ??. Ultimately, fewer emails arriving at their intended destination means fewer conversions for you. “We’ve spent the past few months working hard on improving the systems that ensure stable, consistent deliverability for our senders” We’ve spent the past few months working hard on improving the

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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CallMiner Employees Give Back Year Round

Callminer

As CallMiner continues to grow, we are committed to also growing our community support through charitable donations and volunteer activities.

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The Sad Truth About Utilities, Railroads and CX

Beyond Philosophy

Water and train companies in the U.K. have come under fire recently over their lousy customer service. What do these two seemingly-unrelated industries have in common? Both are monopolies, and a monopoly is almost always bad news for the customer. Water service to homes in the U.K. is provided by regional companies that each hold a monopoly on their own territory.

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How to Maintain a High Level of Customer Service During Peak Seasons

Fonolo

December has arrived, which means different things for different people. While many of us are gearing up to slow down and spend quality time with family and friends, retail companies are bracing themselves for the clamor and chaos of the holiday season. From Black Friday to Cyber Monday to Boxing Day, this season signals a momentous time when consumers across the globe are ready and willing to spend, spend, spend.

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The Reason Your Employees Can’t De-escalate

Myra Golden Media

Everybody thinks to train employees on the company’s applications and products and to give them basic phone skills. But very few people in customer service actually get the training they need to get an angry customer to back down, politely control conversations with ramblers and skillfully handle the customer who demands to speak with a supervisor. I want to talk to you about why your employees can’t seem to de-escalate intense interactions.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Your guide to a successful live chat support implementation

Intercom

Live chat is a powerful tool , but only when it’s used properly. If you want to support customers with live chat, you’ll need to make smart decisions about where it’s added to your site, how your customer service team will use it, and how it integrates with your other support processes. We’ve put together this guide to help you not only successfully implement live chat on your website, but also to offer the right kind of experience for your customers.

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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

Facebook’s mission statement has been examined everywhere from college business case studies to the hallowed halls of the United States Congress. It’s easy to connect the dots between mission and product when you consider the social media behemoth’s more than 2 billion worldwide users. But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup.

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How to Invite the Most Honest Customer Feedback: Partner Case Study

Callminer

Companies seem eager to know what we think about everything. But does it work? And do they get scientific data that helps them improve? Let's start at the beginning: the ask to take a survey.

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Why Customer Experience is Dying (And What To Do About It)

Beyond Philosophy

It seems from two recent surveys that despite all the money and resources that have been ploughed into improving Customers Experience, this is not having any effect? What will happen next is that CEO’s and the C-Suite will start to remove their support for these changes. What is the problem and what can be done about it? Who better to answer that than Colin Shaw with 17 years experience in the industry and many successful implementations that have driven a great return on investment.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

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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5 Reasons Why Your Employees Are Delivering Poor Service

The DiJulius Group

The next time you have a large group of your employees together, ask them this question: How many of you feel we provide a superior Customer experience? I have asked this question hundreds of times. When the audience is made up primarily of one company, nearly every hand in that audience proudly goes up. It. Read Full Article. The post 5 Reasons Why Your Employees Are Delivering Poor Service appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Most People Don’t Get That They Have Internal Customers

Myra Golden Media

I don’t think that most people get that there are only two functions in a company. You’re either serving customers, or you’re serving someone who serves customers. There aren’t any other roles in business, as far as I’m concerned. I want to talk to you about how to fulfill your responsibility of serving, particularly when it comes to your co-workers – your internal customers.

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Customer Service Inspiration from my Bookshelf

Customer Service Life

This article was originally posted on the ICMI Blog during National Customer Service Week on October 2, 2018. Click here to read the original post. Can we all acknowledge that customer service is a hard job? Whether we’re working at a great company with a great product and customer experience or we’re getting abused all day, every day supporting a flawed product, customer service is taxing work and requires regular appreciation and inspiration.

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Sujan Patel on scaling growth with chatbots

Intercom, Inc.

Just ask Sujan Patel, one of today’s most well-known experts in growth. Sujan has seen first-hand just how powerful chatbots can be – greater efficiency, accelerated sales cycles and better customer experiences. Sujan’s no stranger to finding the cutting edge in growth. As the co-founder of WebProfits , he’s led marketing strategy for the likes of Intuit, LinkedIn and Salesforce.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Why Digital Channel Frustration Leads to Frustrated Calls Into the Call Center

Callminer

The CallMiner Index reveals the reasons why consumers switch suppliers. One of the key observations from the reports are about consumers’ channel preferences. And the phone is still the go-to!

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Are You Making Intuitive Or Rational Decisions?

Beyond Philosophy

There are two key ways people make decisions: intuitvely or rationally. We discuss why this is important to designing your customer experience and how this can have a key effect on customer loyalty. We reveal how you can benchmark your organization’s performance against other companies to determine how you are doing in the new world of behavioural economics and customer experience.

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The Secrets to Growth. How to Get New Customers

C3Centricity

This shorter than usual post was inspired by a great question on Quora about how to get new clients. Although my original answer was for a web design company, most of my ideas are relevant whatever industry or profession you are in. I therefore wanted to share my answers to the question in the hope of being of help to businesses large or small. First let me say that if you’re struggling to grow, then you’re not alone!

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5 Things You Most Likely Didn’t Know About Listening Effectively In Retail Sales

Myra Golden Media

Poor listening often leads to customer frustration. When a retail employee merely hears a customer—instead of actively listening to them—they’re less able to determine precisely what that person needs. I designed my Listening class for LinkedIn Learning to help you avoid these kinds of miscommunications. Join me as I go over how important listening is in retail sales, and I share 5 things you most likely didn’t know about listening in retail sales.

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Case Study: Key Insights on Wait Times and Customer Service

Faster response times mean happier customers Are your customers on hold too long? Nearly half of consumers find hold times unacceptable, and a quarter will leave your brand because of it. Our latest report reveals how companies are affected by wait times and the impact on customer satisfaction. Read the report to get insights into the impact of long hold times and areas for opportunities.