April, 2017

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What is First Call Resolution? Benefits, Challenges, Examples, & Best Practices for Improving FCR

Callminer

Definition of First Call Resolution First-call resolution (FCR) is an important contact center metric and element of customer relationship management (CRM). The term is self-explanatory: a contact center’s ability to resolve customer problems, questions or needs the first time they call, with no follow-up required. FCR not only helps gauge customer satisfaction – the higher […].

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4 Technology Trends set to Improve Customer Experience in 2017

Uniphore

There's no denying the fact that customer service is critical to any business. As customers have more alternatives than ever, the businesses that win the battle of customer service gain a clear competitive advantage. That's why it's so important to understand how new technologies can help your company keep that competitive edge in order to best serve your customers and ultimately improve the efficiency of your business Here are four of the hottest technology trends ready to significantly improve

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5 Qualities of Great Customer Service Managers

Customers That Stick

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“Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word” – How To Apologize

Beyond Philosophy

Of course, we all make mistakes. Some of us make mistakes multiple times a day. Businesses need to be mindful of mistakes they make that impact their employees and customers. Company Apology Guidelines. A Company needs to have clear guidelines for handling a mishap and how to deliver an apology message. Also, someone in a Senior role needs to sound remorseful and express truthfulness when something wrong has occurred.

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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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5 CRM Features Your Company Needs To Recharge Customer Experience

Win the Customer

Customer relationship management software has become an essential sales tool for businesses. The global CRM market grew 12.3 percent from 2014 to 2015, from $23.4 billion to $26.3 billion , Gartner reported. By 2020, the market is expected to be worth $48.4 billion. As CRM use has grown more widespread, the number of CRM options available to businesses has proliferated.

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How to Turn Customers into Your Promoters

PeopleMetrics

Too many businesses put all their efforts towards optimizing their sales funnels and forget about what comes after a customer makes a purchase. The sale is the beginning of your customer relationship, not its culmination. Continuing to build the relationship can turn a customer from a one-time buyer to a true fan and promoter of your business. Promoters are more likely to share their positive opinions about your business, either by writing reviews or defending your company against criticism.

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The changing nature of the customer journey

Uniphore

In today’s omnichannel world, the customer journey is no longer a straight line from A to B, but rather a meandering path, encompassing multiple touchpoints. Read More.

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When Sales Does Service on Social with Phil Gerbyshak

Customers That Stick

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How To Lie Effectively!

Beyond Philosophy

Lying is a rotten thing to do. However, the more you do it, the less rotten it seems. Or at least that’s what a recent study about lying revealed. The researchers, including Dan Ariely , author and Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, wondered if your brain adapted to being deceitful. To find out, the research team put participants in an fMRI machine (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to see what happened when they lied.

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Unite the silos: The channel-by-channel curse

Customer Bliss

eConsultancy just put out a guide around customer experience best practices , some of which are detailed in this blog post. Two stats jumped out at me right away — and those two stats are indicative of problems that some CX teams are having. Good news, though: they are also indicative of opportunities for growth and revenue within your organization.

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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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Failing Your Customers Can Help You Serve Them Better

PeopleMetrics

Hey, we get it – nobody wants to fail. But the hard truth is that failure is a fact of life. We try, get knocked down, and pick ourselves up to try again. We hold the ‘dust yourself off and get back on the horse’ ethos as admirable. We teach it to our children, and encourage them to learn from their mistakes. And we try to do this ourselves, as well.

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41 Marketing and Sales Experts Reveal the Most Under-Utilized Way to Capture the Voice of the Customer and How to Better Leverage It

Callminer

To learn about the various methods for capturing the VoC that go overlooked by customer-facing organizations, we asked a panel of experts to weigh in.

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Mapping the Customer Service Journey

Uniphore

Once upon a time, price and quality were the essence of buying decisions, but today more and more people are choosing brands based on whether the overall customer experience meets their expectations, and the failure to do is leading customers to look for brands that will. As the Millennial generation has become the largest worldwide, it's now crucial that a brand’s customer service capabilities are ready to meet the needs of these customers and to provide the experience they expect.

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What Great Brands Do

Customers That Stick

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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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The Surprising Secret to Sales Growth

Beyond Philosophy

Every company has ups and downs, but what if yours has had a few quarters of disappointing revenue? You might be thinking it’s time for a big marketing investment, but where would you focus your energy? A. On rewarding regular customers with promotions to keep them coming back. B. On improving the customer’s experience at the time of purchase. C. On providing comparison shoppers with rational reasons to choose your product over another one.

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3 Ideas to Help Customer Service Employees Work Through Burnout

Myra Golden Media

The twentieth of May marks 16 years that I’ve been in business for myself, doing the things I’ve dreamt about, the things I love – training, writing, designing curriculum. I love where I am and what I do; yet recently I have experienced burnout. Guilt was my first response to burnout. How dare I feel bored, dis-interested and un-creative. So many people would be happy to be where I am; I should be grateful.

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Making Sense of Customer Experience Metrics

PeopleMetrics

There was a time that businesses relied on anonymous, aggregated customer feedback as the sole input for their customer strategies. And that time is quickly fading away, along with once-common practices like writing checks to pay monthly bills and physically signing mortgage application documents. Technology has created a new age. It has driven innovation in banking, and it has tranformed how businesses can ask for, and act on, customer feedback.

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6 Steps to Improve Your Customer Satisfaction Surveys

Callminer

Good surveys produce good data, and good data reflects experiences your customers actually have with the company. Good data shows where you need to improve.

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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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The Gift of Negative Customer Feedback

Uniphore

Every company loves positive feedback, but the truth is it’s the negative feedback that really drives the company’s long-term success. How so? Just like any real and important relationship, only when customers complain, do companies truly discover, and hopefully solve, customer problems as they arise. Read More.

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Leaning Into Customer Loyalty with Adrian Swinscoe

Customers That Stick

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Revealed: New Trends on Pricing

Beyond Philosophy

A new Kibo study called the “ Consumer Trends Report, 2017 Edition ” reveals that 76% of respondents research prices on a product they want to buy, up 10% from the year previous. Moreover, 68% said price is the biggest reasons they shop where they do. These numbers would lead one to believe that price is still king in Customer Experience, but one would be wrong.

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Let Domino’s (Yes, Domino’s) Inspire Your Customer Experience

Heart of the Customer

I’m a huge pizza fan. It’s a major character flaw, and hasn’t helped me in my goal to lose a little of this middle-aged weight. I normally get the expensive pizza from a local chain. But when the kids are home, I’m more likely to look for a less-expensive alternative. And Domino’s fits the bill. […]. The post Let Domino’s (Yes, Domino’s) Inspire Your Customer Experience 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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Vice President of Southwest Airlines Inflight Operations, with Sonya LaCore – CB45

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Southwest Airlines has an industry-standard approach to promoting people from within. Sonya LaCore actually began as a flight attendant, rose through many levels of service leadership with in-flight crews, and today is the leader of all in-flight operations. This conversation is about that journey, her calling to serve, and more. About Sonya.

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What is First Call Resolution? Benefits, Challenges, Examples, & Best Practices for Improving FCR

Callminer

Definition of First Call Resolution. First-call resolution (FCR) is an important contact center metric and element of customer relationship management (CRM). The term is self-explanatory: a contact center’s ability to resolve customer problems, questions or needs the first time they call , with no follow-up required. FCR not only helps gauge customer satisfaction – the higher your first-call resolution rate, the more satisfied your customers tend to be – and, as a result, drive customer loyalty

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Leveraging technology to personalize the customer experience

Uniphore

Treating customers as individuals is not as hard as it may seem, provided you implement the right technologies into your center to enable such personalization. Read More.

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10 Lessons from 200 Customer Service Podcast Episodes

Customers That Stick

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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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New Technology Dramatically Helps CX

Beyond Philosophy

Theme parks aren’t really my cup of tea, partly because I don’t see the point of buying a $100 ticket so I can spend half my day sweating in long lines. Surely there are places that will let me stand in line for free! Universal Orlando seems to have heard me, or the tens of thousands of other people who say that standing in a two-hour line isn’t their idea of a good time.

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A Recipe for Consistent Customer Service: 5 Key Ingredients

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on CustomerThink in my monthly advisor column on March 9, 2017. Click here to read the original. . A customer contacted support because she dropped her beloved Winston and he could no longer stand on his own. She and the support agent discussed various options like fitting him with a peg leg, but ultimately decided that it was best to replace Winston — at no additional charge to the customer.

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Easy peasy ways to apply social learning for effective online learning

ProProfs

When it comes to learning in general, maintaining social learning has always been an important part of adopting new information and transforming it into long-term knowledge. In simple words, social presence refers to all the knowledge a person accumulates by watching other people’s behavior. That’s exactly where its importance lies: If someone realizes the benefits or the consequences of some actions based on other people’s examples, we can say that he/she learnt something new through social pre

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The 10 Commandments of Customer Experience

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Castles, Capes & Clones I originally wrote today's post for Clicktools. It was published on their blog on June 7, 2016. I've made slight modifications. Are you following the 10 Commandments of Customer Experiences? Or is it time for a confession? In May 2016, I spoke at CallidusCloud Connections (C3); if you've never been to this event, be sure to check it out this year!

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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.