March, 2016

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7 Call Center Best Practices from Industry Experts

Callminer

It goes without saying there is no one-size-fits-all solution for how to run an efficient call center. While solutions such as speech analytics technology, agent scorecards, and social monitoring can help to improve agent performance and provide for a better customer experience, the fact of the matter is that each individual call center will need […].

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Nancy Friedman: 7 Steps to Satisfied Customers

Bill Quiseng

This week’s blog post is contributed by a very special guest, actually more like a guest star, Nancy Friedman , better known as “The Telephone Doctor.” The author of the recently published book, Customer Service (finally) Defined – Ideas, Tips, techniques & Skills You Can Use Now and Forever , and eight other books, Nancy is simply one of the best keynote speakers on customer service.

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Imagine if Every Company had a Chief Customer Officer

Beyond Philosophy

In this series, professionals debate the state – and future – of their industry. Read more here , then write your own #MyIndustry post). It’s not as lonely at the top as it once was. Where the standard C-Suite many years ago was a triumvirate of power shared between the CEO, the COO, and the CFO, today there are CIOs and CMOs, too. Now, I propose they make a little more room for the latest addition to the leadership: The Chief Customer Officer (CCO).

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Creating a “Heart-Wired” organization – an interview with Chrisie Scott, VP Marketing at Meridian Health

Heart of the Customer

While all customer experience strategies are important, healthcare brings it to a whole new level. Patient experience, and the potential for harm, amps up the significance of customer experience principles, creating literally life-changing outcomes. That’s why I really enjoyed working with Chrisie Scott, VP Marketing at Meridian Health, a leading and still growing integrated health […].

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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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To WOW Customers, Listen and Care

Customers That Stick

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Unexpected User Experience Behavioral Trends Making Waves

Win the Customer

The rapid migration from the web and PCs to mobile devices in the last decade surprised everyone. As smartphones rapidly became more advanced, users were soon realizing that their phones could be their primary window to the online world. People can now be in touch and up to date through their phone, receiving news, keeping up with social media and even watching their favorite shows.

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Use of Live Chat or Social Media for Customer Service: One More Way to Make or Break Your Brand!

Bill Quiseng

In 2011, An American Express survey found that Americans tell an average of 9 people about good experiences and 16 people about poor experiences. Today, just five years later, people may still tell an average of 9 people about good experiences, but if they have a bad experience, they can now tell the entire world via social media. We have all seen the word “viral” tagged to a personal story about bad customer service more often than a good one.

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Get Personal, It’s Business!

Beyond Philosophy

There is an old saying that goes, “It’s not personal; it’s just business.” This statement is complete rubbish. I think business is personal, especially when you are trying to build a relationship with your customers. Zig Ziglar, author and renowned speaker, said, “If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.

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People First: Omnichannel for Customers AND Agents

Uniphore

In December, I had 100+ interactions with 2 different airlines as I tried to track 5 pieces of family luggage that had gone missing during an international trip. As I told my story, over and over again, oh how I wished that the airlines and agents involved had a sense of my customer journey and were able to pick up from the last call and not start all over.

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8 Customer Experience Quotes You Need To Know

Customer Bliss

In the course of working with different companies throughout my career, I’ve found that leaders focused on serving customers’ lives as a way to grow their business often begin with an uncommon attitude. This attitude, in turn, leads to uncommon behaviors that build beloved companies. In the process, when these leaders speak and give interviews, they produce some amazing customer experience quotes.

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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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How Video Marketing Impacts the Online Customer Experience

Win the Customer

As a consumer, it is a priority for you to have as much information at your disposal before you make a purchase. Buying online has limitations, as you can’t physically see and feel the product you’re browsing. Online shopping never gets old. It’s a great distraction, and no matter what you need (or want), you can find it online. Ebay, Amazon, ASOS, Ali Express – they all exemplify websites that we have grown to depend upon.

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Exploring gamification for health care payment collections

Callminer

Gamified payment collection would be a great fit for many health care providers.

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Customer Loyalty: Winning Hearts and Minds

Customers That Stick

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How to Win Customers’ Trust Without Spending a Dime

Beyond Philosophy

It’s an old adage but it’s true: people like to do business with those they know, like and trust. Businesses spend a lot of money and energy chasing that trust through marketing campaigns and slogans. Insurer State Farm advertises that it’s “like a good neighbor,” while one of my local car dealerships runs newspaper ads that say “doing business with integrity for over 59 years!”.

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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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Beginners Guide To Tin Can API

ProProfs

In the last couple of years, the Tin Can API has emerged as a buzzword in the arena of authoring tools, learning management systems, and content development. Also known by the name of Experience API, or xAPI, Tin Can is a special program interface with the ability to deliver and truly measure learning experiences beyond what was previously possible.

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3 Reasons Why Customer Experience Management is So Powerful

PeopleMetrics

The other night, I tried to explain to my wife how the turbochargers in my car work. About two minutes in, her eyes were glazed over so much it looked like she had cataracts. Which brings me to my point: Some things can seem complicated. Perhaps unsurprisingly, customer experience comes to mind as an example. Many business elements can affect the overall experience a company provides.

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Why Your Digital Platform Needs ‘Real’ Human Customer Experience

Win the Customer

Not so long ago, I was a complete rookie to the blogging world. When I started to benchmark hosting sites, I felt lost. You know the feeling when you have to choose between many options but you don’t have all the knowledge and understanding to make a sound decision? Horrible. But I had no choice. I needed to select a hosting site to start my blogging adventure.

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Maintaining compliance in inbound customer service call centers

Callminer

Compliance doesn’t just happen – call centers need to deploy the right tools and strategies.

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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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Interview: GetApp’s Top 25 Customer Service Apps

Customers That Stick

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The Secret to Rewarding Customer Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

When Starbucks recently announced changes to its rewards program, Twitter users lashed out at the coffee giant. They complained that the new program, which will award points based on the amount of money spent (rather than on the number of visits to Starbucks) will penalize regular customers who buy only small items, like a brewed coffee. Some vowed to defect to Dunkin’ Donuts.

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3 Leading Companies’ Method for Listening to Customers

Customer Bliss

In order to understand how customer-focused companies design processes for listening to customers, we need to start by thinking about the three types of listening: Unaided or volunteer listening. Aided listening. Experiential listening. You can learn about the different types of listening in virtually any of my books , but here’s a breakdown for those just coming into these concepts: Unaided or volunteer listening: This refers to companies who optimize feedback customers give as they inte

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An Inside Look at the Customer Experience Strategy of Mercedes-Benz

PeopleMetrics

Joseph A. Michelli’s recent book, Driven to Delight , is centered on the customer-centric transformation and ongoing customer experience strategy at Mercedes-Benz USA. After reading the book, I had a few questions about some of the content and strategies Joseph covered. And here’s what resulted from the exchange. George Jacob: Joseph, what compelled you to write about the customer experience transformation at Mercedes-Benz USA?

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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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Are Smart Things Really Smart?

C3Centricity

Last week I wrote a long post on “The 7 Essential Differences Between Simply Responding to Customers and Providing True Customer Service“ So this week I wanted to write a shorter thought piece on a topic getting a lot of airtime these days; that of smart things, the IoT or the Internet of Things. We [.]. The post Are Smart Things Really Smart?

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What Are the Best Contact Center KPIs for Your Operation?

Callminer

In order to drive a better customer experience, call centers must have the proper KPIs in place. CallMiner has outlined some of the best metrics to help guide your organization. Learn more.

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Best Practices for Protecting Customer Data in Service

Win the Customer

As the threat of being breached increases, it becomes more imperative for companies to take precautions to protect their customers and their business. Home Depot has agreed to pay $19.5 million as compensation for a 2014 consumer data breach that affected over 50 million cardholders, including $13 million in reimbursement and $6.5 million for identity protection services.

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Stop Making These Mistakes with Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

There is a hidden experience every Customer has with you. If you haven’t uncovered what it is, then you are probably making a huge mistake with your Customer Experience. Chances are, you are making more than one. Don’t feel bad. When it comes to having a great Customer Experience, all organizations have made mistakes. It’s normal for this to happen.

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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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How To Boost Customer Desire vs Tolerance Of Your Experience

Customer Bliss

Customer desire is an emotion, and emotions can bond you with your customer. Companies that understand the powerful emotional pull of customer desire obsess about getting to know their customers and learning their desires. (And sometimes those desires can be simple. Go back to listening to customers and learn how achievable customer desire may be.).

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People Skills: Responding to Disrespect With Dignity | #PeopleSkills

Kate Nasser

When you must interact amid disrespect, how can you respond w/ dignity? 7 key insights fr The People Skills Coach™. | Leadership | Morale | Career. The post People Skills: Responding to Disrespect With Dignity | #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Creating a Culture of Empowerment: Letting Your Employees Help Your Customers

Heart of the Customer

Guest Post by Scott Carlson On a recent trip to a local bookstore I was having trouble finding a particular title. Not seeing any nearby store associates, I walked to the centrally-located Help Desk hoping to find some assistance. Unfortunately the Help Desk was not staffed and there were already two customers queued up ahead […]. The post Creating a Culture of Empowerment: Letting Your Employees Help Your Customers appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Three most important factors for contact center success

Callminer

For any contact center to thrive, its decision-makers need to have the right priorities.

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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.