September, 2016

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7 (More) Contact Center Operations

Callminer

A well-run call center is one where agents create meaningful relationships with customers. Take a look at CallMiner’s list of 7 call center best practices.

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Secrets For Breaking Bad Habits!

Beyond Philosophy

We all have habits. Some of them are good, and some, well, aren’t. But for good or ill, habits drive our behavior every day, and even more so when we are customers. In my latest book, The Intuitive Customer: 7 imperatives for moving your Customer Experience to the next level , Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University and I explore habits and their influence on how customers behave.

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Save Your Customer Service Team from Vampire Customers

Customers That Stick

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Forgotten Facts & Fantasies of Customer Delight

C3Centricity

If you follow me on social media, you’ll know that I’ve just returned from a three-week visit to Peru. I had the privilege of being the keynote speaker at IIEX-Latam in Lima and decided to take time off to visit the country after the conference. How glad I was that I took that decision, because I discovered that Peruvians are experts in customer delight!

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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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Consumer Reviews – Implementing Useful Business Changes

Win the Customer

Customer feedback and consumer reviews are very important aspects of any business activity. Traditionally, small retail businesses that keep a brick-and-mortar presence have been able to gather customer feedback immediately and on the spot. These days, however, large companies have many tools that can help them collect and analyze consumer reviews and feedback.

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Just because your customers say it isn’t important doesn’t make it so

Heart of the Customer

The intangibles matter. Don’t let bad research ruin your customer experience. Bad research can wreak havoc with your customer experience. It can lead you to ignore a critical moment of truth while working on something with less impact. In one journey map project, we were hired to extend a Big Research Company’s research. They had […]. The post Just because your customers say it isn’t important doesn’t make it so appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Shocking! Yahoo’s data breach

Beyond Philosophy

How we feel affects how we behave. Understanding the connection between our feelings and our decisions is an essential foundation for creating customer loyalty and retention. If you aren’t sure this is true, then ask yourself: would I open a Yahoo email account today? Yahoo is in the news all over the world. No longer because of their appointment of an up and coming CEO (that just happened to be female).

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3 Themes for National Customer Service Week 2016

Customers That Stick

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10 Silos Impact Customer Experience

ClearAction

10 Silos Impact Customer Experience Lynn Hunsaker. Does your business have a silo detective? This might be the highest-ROI effort of your customer experience council, chief customer officer, chief operating officer — or better yet, every employee. Things that don’t make sense in the way business is done can almost always be traced to silo-ization. And the pain of business silos is well-known to everyone, whether employee or customer.

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7 Tips for Success from Experienced Call Center Professionals

Fonolo

Operating a successful contact center is rarely a simple undertaking. As any customer support manager knows, there are a number of crucial factors that come into play when looking to succeed in the call center world. We often hear from call center managers who are trying to improve their call metrics with our solutions. But, we wanted to go one step further and pick the brains of some of the most successful contact center leaders for some tips on how to match their success.

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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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What is the Most Important Contact Center Metric?

Heart of the Customer

I presented at the ICMI CC Expo last month in Long Beach. It’s always a great conference, and I look forward to it each year. In the afternoon after my journey mapping workshop I attended a Justin Robbin’s session on metrics. Justin began by asking attendees the most important metric they tracked. Think about it […]. The post What is the Most Important Contact Center Metric?

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The proactive approach to customer complaints

Customer Bliss

Customer complaints are everywhere, and happen all the time. The word “complaints” is a bad word, yes — on the surface. But there’s power in customer complaints, just as there’s power in any feedback. Quickly, before we get to the action items on this post: think of your favorite brands. Consider brands that you love. You buy from them all the time.

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Bewildered? What Do Your Customers REALLY Want?

Beyond Philosophy

When you ask a person why they bought something, they can always tell you straightaway. It might not be the reason, but it’s the reason they give. Is the person lying? Except for rare exceptions (politicians, criminals, celebrities learning too late that Twitter and Booze don’t mix), not at all. Many times people don’t know the real reason they did something.

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How to Treat Customers: With Respect

Customers That Stick

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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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Leadership: 5 Keys to Succeeding With Leaders Who Crave Change

Kate Nasser

Have you ever worked with/for people who crave change? 5 keys to understanding & succeeding with them from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ |Leadership Teamwork Employee Engagement. The post Leadership: 5 Keys to Succeeding With Leaders Who Crave Change appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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15 Reasons Your Customers Don’t Like You (Infographic)

Provide Support

The key to any business success is building trust and establishing strong relationships with customers as those are the main factors that contribute to customer loyalty and generate more sales. Very often though, we unknowingly create barriers that discourage customers from doing business with us, sometimes simply because we don’t realize they exist.

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The CXPA and Heart of the Customer want your feedback (Last Chance!)

Heart of the Customer

Have you created journey maps? The Customer Experience Professionals Association and Heart of the Customer want to learn more about your experience! The survey is closing soon, so make sure to get your response in before it does! Whether you created the journey map for your own company or another, we’d love it if you […]. The post The CXPA and Heart of the Customer want your feedback (Last Chance!

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Digital storytelling: The unabashed power in CX

Customer Bliss

Digital storytelling is crucial in customer experience. Before we get deep into digital storytelling and how to maximize your processes around it, let’s briefly set up why storytelling as a whole — and especially digital storytelling — is important in the current business climate. The importance of digital storytelling. Here’s a Wharton interview with Carmine Gallo , the author of a book called The Storyteller’s Secret.

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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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Unbelievable Violation By World Renowned Bank – Record Fines!

Beyond Philosophy

Q: What has two Million phony accounts, 5,300 fired employees, a fine of $185 million and a retiring leader enjoying $124 million in stock and options after retirement? A: Wells Fargo Bank, the latest bank to suffer the scrutiny of the truth and forced to answer for taking advantage of its customers’ trust. Carrie Tolstedt , unit leader of Wells Fargo’s community banking division, is set to retire at the end of this year after 27 years of service.

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Break Down Barriers to a Great Customer Experience

CX Journey

Image courtesy of real ramona Is your organization suffering from silo-itis? If you answered that question with a "yes," you're absolutely, 110% not alone. Unless your company was intentionally built from the ground up to not function in silos - and you're lucky, and unique, if it was - then silos are an issue for you and for your customers. We all know how detrimental silos can be not only to the customer experience but also to an organization.

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Top 30 Customer Service Books Every Team Needs to Read

Comm100

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles W. Eliot. Sometimes we learn important customer service skills through training, or through years of hard-earned experience. But other times we can take the wisdom someone else has so carefully researched, developed, and discovered by reading a book in your free time.

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Are Journey Maps Dangerous?

Kerry Bodine

Journey maps help you take a more holistic view of what your customers experience as they do business with your organization. But just how holistic is that view, anyway? I recently got the following questions from a client, I’ll call him Bob, who was concerned that his company’s journey mapping efforts might still be too siloed for effective decision making and prioritization of customer experience improvement initiatives.

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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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Customer Service Tips. The Secret of the Right Greeting

Provide Support

Customer Service Tips. The first impression comes after the first greeting. Your customers like to be liked and to feel they are important. The first greeting may become a decisive factor for your website visitors to stay and continue purchasing or to leave. It tells customers who you are and how you feel and what kind of service to expect from you.

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Voice of the customer: Your 4-point action plan

Customer Bliss

Customer experience work has been evolving for years, and it’s now on the radar of more execs than ever before. As such, you have a lot of thought leaders out there up-selling voice of the customer plans. Sometimes these voice of the customer approaches are great, but sometimes they’re put together by people who have never done boots on the ground CX work — and then they tend to be flawed.

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4 Powerful Rules to Create Employee and Customer Word-of-Mouth Programs That Work

Beyond Philosophy

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. For any offline or online social word-of-mouth initiative to be impactful with key stakeholders, financially and otherwise, there must first be full realization of what it can and can’t do, and what it is and what it isn’t. Based on broad WOM program experience with b2b and b2c clients around the world, I’ve developed four general ‘rules’ for accomplishing this: 1.

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Leadership Inspiration: Leaders, How Do You Stay Inspired?

Kate Nasser

Leadership Inspiration: With so much focus on metrics how can leaders keep themselves & others inspired? Insight fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post Leadership Inspiration: Leaders, How Do You Stay Inspired? appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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What Is Customer Churn Rate and How You Can Reduce It Fast

Comm100

Is your customer churn rate burning a hole in your retention plan? If so, you’re not alone. When it comes down to it, most companies are losing far too many customers. According to this article by Frederick F. Reichheld in the Harvard Business Review, the average company loses about half its customers in a fiver-year period. Half. Can you imagine how much revenue you lose when 50% of your customers walk out the door?

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Weak Signals and Boiling Frogs

CX Journey

Image courtesy of jronaldlee How do you recognize the weak signals in your business? Have you heard the story about the boiling frog? As told in Wikipedia , it goes like this: If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, it will float there quite placidly.

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3 Ways in Which Online Support Determines Your Company’s Credibility

Provide Support

3 Ways Online Support Determines Your Company’s Credibility. If you are a startup, earning customer trust is so important to get those first few clients and get things rolling. However, even if you are a well established business, continuously maintaining customer trust and meeting customer expectations is as important for keeping existing relationships as for making new clients.

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Serial CCO Tips for How/Why to Take a CCO Role, With Tish Whitcraft – CB20

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Tish Whitcraft is what we call a serial Chief Customer Officer, or CCO. She has held a version of this role in over four technology driven and internet companies, including Yahoo, MySpace, and OpenX. In our conversation, Tish walks us through her expanded version of the CCO Role. In her mind (“in her humble opinion”), it’s a mix of the newly-established CCO role and the long-tenured COO, or Chief Operating Officer, role.

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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.