August, 2017

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Top Customer Experience Podcasts: 50 Must-Listen Podcasts on Customer Experience from Industry Experts and Influencers

Callminer

We’ve rounded up 50 of the top customer experience podcasts so you can spend more time listening to industry thought leaders and less time searching.

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The Customer Experience Manager

Uniphore

Who wants to be a customer experience manager? A relatively new job title in the customer service space, customer experience manager is more than just a fancy title – it is the glue that holds the customer service center together. Read More.

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Secrets Revealed! How to Thrive in an Uncertain World

Beyond Philosophy

By nature, I’m an organized person. I like things clear and orderly, laid out in black and white. So, some years ago, as a new senior manager, I asked my boss to explain what my responsibilities would be after a company reorganization. I wanted to know, with absolute certainty. But my boss just looked at me and said, “Colin, in a senior position you need to deal with ambiguity.”.

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Candidate experience is also customer experience

Customer Bliss

I have said this over the years, and recently, several of my podcast guests have also discussed it: there is an ever-increasing need to think of employees as customers as well, i.e. internal customers. Retention rates in major companies have been dropping for years, for a variety of reasons: more flexible work options, people pursuing their own ventures or teaming with startups, bad management, etc.

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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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3 Examples of How to Easily WOW Customers

Customers That Stick

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5 Ways to Engage Your Front-Line Staff

Taylor Reach Group

By: Peg Ayers, MBA, CCXP. The Front Line. Customer Experience. Employee Engagement. Profitability. What’s the largest single influence on all of these things in your business? Chances are, it’s your frontline associates. The people who are dealing directly with your customers. The folks who are making decisions about how they do their work, what they do and don’t do for your customers, how much they help each other, what processes they follow and which ones they don’t.

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RPA vs BPM what is the difference

Uniphore

Keeping it in the family. RPA and BPM display a lot of similarities, and as such are often confused with one another. They are certainly members of the same family, though they could not ever be called identical twins. Read More.

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Why Cash Is No Longer King!

Beyond Philosophy

A Canadian food chain Iq Food Co. is like most of the others. It has an assortment of food choices ranging from snacks to meals and even coffee and tea. But if you want to buy anything at their soon-to-be eleven locations, your money is no good there—quite literally. Iq Food Co. does not take cash. The restaurant’s founder Alan Bekerman said it was one less thing to think about when he made the decision back in February 2016.

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Marketing on the Net: 5 Web Advertising Tricks for the Modern Business

Win the Customer

In today’s world, more and more small business owners are realizing that they need to develop substantive, savvy online marketing strategies. In addition to optimizing conversion rates, taking this course of action can make the brand more influential and cutting edge. Below you’ll find just five of many strategies you can implement to make your web-based efforts sophisticated and successful: Pay-Per-Click Advertising.

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Why Self-Confidence Matters in Customer Service

Customers That Stick

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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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6 Secrets for Boosting Customer Satisfaction in the Contact Center

Fonolo

We’ve been chatting a lot about customer satisfaction (CSat) recently, but for very good reason; measuring the degree to which your product / service meets customer expectations is critical to the success of your brand, regardless of the vertical or size. In our most recent whitepaper, we provide a playbook for contact centers to use as a guide to improving customer satisfaction.

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Streamlining Contact Center Processes for More Effective Use of Human Resources

Callminer

Finding ways to streamline contact center processes is the best way to effectively increase efficiency and make better use of resources.

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5 trends in the Call Center

Uniphore

5 Technological Trends in the Call Center. What are the new technologies being deployed in the contact centers? Several key trends are currently dominating the landscape, and have already started to infiltrate the industry even well before this year. Read More.

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What Type of Employee Are You? Room For Improvement?

Beyond Philosophy

How committed are you to your present employer? Are you wild about what you do or simply content in your position? Do you hate your job or are you ambivalent? It’s an important set of questions to consider. How you feel about where you work has a lot of influence on the job you are doing there. This concept becomes even more crucial when you become a manager and assess your team—especially as it pertains to how they work with or on behalf of customers.

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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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More evidence that customer experience is about emotions

Customer Bliss

Some interesting, if not surprising, news from the customer experience world recently. Forrester recently released their US 2017 Customer Experience Index , which goes through data from 120,000 online consumers to rank 300 brands across 21 industries. Forrester is a very-vetted research brand, but it’s important to understand the ecosystem here.

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Amazing Customer Service with Shep Hyken

Customers That Stick

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5 Useful Quotes from Experienced Customer Service Leaders

Fonolo

Whether you’re a customer service director, manager, or representative, reading a few good words of wisdom always seems to help inspire your next course of action. Especially when those words are from veteran leaders, who have said some amazing things about how to interact with your customers, and how to motivate you and your team to succeed. Let’s take a moment to read through our picks of the 5 most useful quotes for customer service professionals: 1.

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The Importance of Contact Center Efficiency and Customer Experience as Energy Pricing Faces Scrutiny

Callminer

With energy prices rising, the UK government recently announced an independent review into the total cost of electricity and factors that could be driving up the cost.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Positive Effects of Digital Disruption

Uniphore

Turning disruption into opportunity. One of today’s major buzzwords is ‘digital disruption’, which sounds scary, but in fact offers many opportunities for contact centers to improve their service levels. Read More.

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Exposed: How To Measure Your Customer’s Loyalty and CX

Beyond Philosophy

Many organizations measure their Customer Experience (CX) in the wrong way. Chances are, you are too. So, what is it? How are you inadvertently thwarting your efforts to improve your CX? It is how you measure it and it’s one of the fundamental failures of many CX programs. Measuring is a critical part of any effort to quantify progress (or failures) when you have a goal of improving your CX.

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What I did in my first year leading Customer Experience, with Tom McCann – CB62

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Tom is the Principle, Head of Member Experience at Aon Hewitt. While he’s been in customer-facing roles for about 25 years, he’s only been at Aon Hewitt since mid-2016. (Immediately prior, he was a Senior Customer Experience Analyst for Forrester.) Because he’s been in his role about 12 months, most of this conversation is focused on what he set out to accomplish in the first year — and what he thinks the next 6-12 months will look like.

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Customers + Bad Math = Worse Strategy 

Heart of the Customer

There’s something that always bugged me about how people present their customer scores – whether satisfaction, NPS, Customer Effort, or anything else. There are really two primary approaches to this reporting: Give an average (4.65 out of 5, for example) Give the % of top box (5 out of 5, 9 or 10 out of […]. The post Customers + Bad Math = Worse Strategy appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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How Your Mobile App Can Eliminate Customer Service Disasters

Fonolo

In case you’ve been living on an island in Tahiti, with no communication to the outside world, you may not know how important mobile apps have become. In that case, let’s recap. Mobile apps are software applications designed to run on smartphones , tablets and other mobile devices. They dominate the time spent on mobile devices by 74% compared to mobile time spent on the web.

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Do You Have Trouble De-escalating Angry Customers? If So, Try This.

Myra Golden Media

Four minutes into the call and I could see I was heading for trouble. The customer was a storyteller and a rambler. Plus, she was mad. She’d already spoken to an employee in the field and to one of my employees at the corporate office. Now the call had come to me. I got the call literally just as I was picking up my book to head to the park to enjoy a quick lunch and hopefully a couple of chapters of my novel.

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Why Do Customers Keep Calling their Bank Call Center

Uniphore

Why Do Customers Keep Calling their Bank Call Center? Who is more likely to contact their bank's call center - Baby Boomers or Millennials? The answer may not be what you would expect. Read More.

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Remarkable! What Invisible Influence Controls Your Behavior?

Beyond Philosophy

Why did you buy the shirt you are wearing today? What about the car you drive, how did you choose it? Why did you go with the financial advisor you did? If “because I felt like it” wasn’t the answer to each of these questions, you are missing the biggest reason that you did these things at all —and the reason you do almost anything for that matter. It isn’t your fault you got it wrong, however.

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How to Easily Navigate Crypto Accounting in the Web3 Era

Speaker: Aaron Jacob, VP of Accounting Solutions & Reagan Cook, GTM Lead

Are you struggling to navigate the complexities and challenges that come with crypto accounting? 🤔 This new webinar will cover everything businesses need to know to get started with crypto accounting after incorporating crypto into their business models! Industry experts Aaron Jacob and Reagan Cook of TaxBit will thoroughly explore the prevalent operational hurdles encountered by accounting teams when interacting with crypto on the books, and detail how software solutions can effectively

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CX Design Thinking in the Travel Industry, With Annette Höher-Bäuerle – CB64

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Annette Höher-Bäuerle went from being internal legal counsel at the Thomas Cook Group to leading all of Customer Experience globally. Her skills and long tenure with the company led her to use agile design thinking to prove and implement changes in the customer experience — to gain traction and drive real sustainable improvement.

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How to Nurture Customers During the Long Growth Stage

Totango

After new customers are fully onboarded, they move along the customer journey into the growth stage (nurture or adoption stage). For most recurring revenue companies, this stage is the longest. Looking at the representation below, customers typically spend 30 days in the new or onboarding stage, 30 days in the renewal stage, and the remaining time or 305 days of the year, in the growth stage.

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5 Things Only Your Customers Can Teach You

Fonolo

There are many different ways of learning how to grow your business or providing better service to your customers. Some companies use industry reports and trends, others bring in an expert to help, and some rely on mimicking competitors as a way to succeed. What’s funny is that with all the resources we have at hand, our customers can actually be the most insightful.

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How is Your Knowledge Centered? 8 Tips for Effective Knowledge Management

Taylor Reach Group

By: Peter Elliot. Many modern organizations are knowledge centered. Where would your business be without knowledge of your products and processes spread across all the departments who need it? Effective knowledge management across an enterprise can lead to improved efficiency and satisfied customers. Many organizations seek to manage their knowledge by consolidating it where possible in a knowledge-base (KB).

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7 Essential Criteria for Choosing the Right Payments Partner

Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

In this webinar, Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, will dive into the 7 must-have criteria for evaluating payments partners, helping you maximize both efficiency and the long-term value of your investment. From assessing technology capabilities to leveraging business development opportunities, this session will give you a clear, actionable strategy to select the right partner for scaling your business.