November, 2015

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Get Ready for Your Customer Journey Mapping Workshop!

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Alan Tunnicliffe Today's post is a modified version of a post I originally published on Touchpoint Dashboard's blog on June 15, 2015. You’ve got buy-in and commitment … all the right people in your company are on board to map your customers’ journeys. They realize the importance of walking in the customer’s shoes in order to understand the experience before they can fix it.

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How to Enrich Customer Interactions: 3 Actionable Tips

Callminer

Companies need to do more than meet customer expectations. Here’s a look at 3 ways to enrich customer interactions and drive customer engagement optimization.

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You Need Customer Service, No Matter How Good Your Experience

Customers That Stick

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What My Boss Taught Me about Leadership

Beyond Philosophy

Let me set the scene. My career was plateauing. I had done well, but things had started to get a bit stale. Then, I had a meeting/interview with Neil Hobbs. Neil would have the biggest impact on my professional life. Neil had a reputation of being a tough boss. He set high standards and expected people to achieve them. He didn’t suffer fools gladly.

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Why Tech-Forward Tax and Accounting Firms Have the Inside Track to the Future

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Sales Engineer Manager

Automating time-consuming manual tasks can save your firm hundreds of hours–and thousands of dollars. But it can also have longer-lasting benefits, like helping you attract and retain the next generation of CPAs, and we don’t need to tell you how important that is amid the current generational staffing crisis in the tax and accounting profession. You'll want to save your seat for this new webinar with industry expert Joe Wroblewski, where we'll explore how to: Maximize ROI with Cost-Effective Te

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How to Fix Bad Customer Service: The $54,000 Question

Win the Customer

Bad customer service experiences don’t just impact one customer. The costs of bad service compounds as poorly trained agents continue to make critical mistakes in the customer relationship. According to a new study by New York Times bestselling authors, Joseph Grenny and David Maxfield bad customer service experiences cost the average company $54,511 annually per employee.

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Robotic Automation in Contact Centers: a self-operating mechanism designed to mechanically follow a predetermined sequence of operations

Uniphore

In 1947, General Motors saw the benefit of reducing labor through automation and established a department to save energy and materials and improve process quality, accuracy and precision. The latter three themes - quality, accuracy and precision - constantly elude many contact center operations where processes can be horizontally and vertically complex and inevitably span multiple business applications.

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How a Company Reacts to a Crisis Says a Lot About its Customer Centricity

C3Centricity

In the UK, there was a recent, highly publicised “significant and sustained cyber-attack“ on the Telecom company Talk Talk’s website. According to the news as I write this, it seems that a fifteen (!!!) year old Irish lad and a 16-year-old Brit may be responsible. They might have been able to steal information such as [.]. The post How a Company Reacts to a Crisis Says a Lot About its Customer Centricity appeared first on C3Centricity.

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Negativity Bias and Customer Service

Customers That Stick

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Distraction is the Enemy of Productivity

Beyond Philosophy

In this series, professionals share their secrets to being more productive. Read the posts here , then write your own (use #ProductivityHacks in the body). Consistent productivity doesn’t happen by chance. Productive people have a secret to their productivity: Eliminate distractions. Were you hoping for something more complicated? It isn’t complicated.

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5 Most Critical Customer Service Myths #INFOGRAPHIC

Win the Customer

Continuing to innovate on service experience and improving service delivery requires organizations that are transparent about their service actions and get correct insight to what customers receive from service interactions. Successful organizations that enjoy great customer relationship and customer loyalty need to overcome the common customer service myths that prevent them from delivering the exceptional […].

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Predictive Marketing Vendors Look Beyond Lead Scores

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s clear that 2015 has been the breakout year for predictive analytics in marketing, with at least $242 million in new funding, compared with $366 million in all prior years combined. But is it possible that predictive is already approaching commodity status? You might think so based on the emergence of open source machine learning like H 2 0 and Google’s announcement today that is it releasing a open source version of its TensorFlow artificial intelligence engine.

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Ways to Make the Omnichannel Customer Support Experience Exciting.

Uniphore

Clients have huge expectations for accepting incredible encounters of shopping experience across all greater part of the channels they utilize. Giving clients problematic or even run-of-the-mill isn’t an alternative – if clients are unsatisfied or baffled with their omnichannel encounters, they'll escape. Read More.

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Clues to a Remarkable Brand Story

C3Centricity

Stories exist in all cultures. They have developed down through the ages as a means of transferring knowledge, long before books and now the web enabled their storage. Today’s information-rich world has made storytelling a required talent for CEOs and CMOs alike to develop. And websites and Fan pages now make it a necessary skill for [.]. The post Clues to a Remarkable Brand Story appeared first on C3Centricity.

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5 Millennial Traits to Improve Customer Service

Customers That Stick

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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You Readers Are So Pathetic

Beyond Philosophy

“Emotions are contagious. We’ve all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.”. Daniel Goleman, Author of Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ. If you read my rude title, you will be disappointed to discover that I don’t think you are pathetic, but a new scientific study proves being rude to someone is contagious.

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6 Customer Service Support Lines That Scream ‘Robot!’

Win the Customer

In today’s customer-centric world, empathy, efficiency and sincerity in customer communications is non-negotiable. We’ve heard them all – from, “Thank you for being a valued customer” to “I understand your frustration.” Traditional, scripted support lines are not only sound inhuman, but they tend to upset customers even further.In today’s customer-centric world, support should still carry […].

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Don’t Let Scripts Ruin a Great Customer Experience

Heart of the Customer

Last week I had a computer problem that required me to contact technical support. I was sure I would have to send my computer in, but they were able to quickly solve my problem. So why was I so annoyed? And why does this matter to you? I started with phone support, but after hearing […]. The post Don’t Let Scripts Ruin a Great Customer Experience appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Customer Experience for the Future: Outside-In Beyond Skin-Deep

ClearAction

Customer Experience for the Future: Outside-In Beyond Skin-Deep. "Outside-in" is a popular term in the customer experience field. It refers to the importance of customers' inputs as a guiding light for the inner workings of an enterprise. In the quest for "outside-in" most companies have voice of the customer programs, loyalty programs, and high-touch service.

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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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How to Improve the Customer Experience: 3 Tech Questions

PeopleMetrics

When thinking about the customer experience, it’s smart to imagine it as a series of interactions. A series of tiptoe steps, taken by an individual customer, through your customer-facing people and technologies. If you think about the many ways a given customer can tiptoe through your experience, you might realize that a key element is consistency. Which is why new technologies can seem so promising.

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Leadership Reawakening: People Not Processes Create & Innovate

Kate Nasser

Leaders, is your organization process driven. Even addicted to process? Launch a leadership reawakening. Ignite and engage employee innovation this way. People, not process, create and innovate! The post Leadership Reawakening: People Not Processes Create & Innovate appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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The Truths All Bosses Know About Being the Boss

Beyond Philosophy

In this series, professionals share how they embrace the entrepreneurial mindset. See the stories here , then write your own (use #BetheBoss in the post). I was a senior executive with 3,500 people reporting to me globally. I had worked my way up and found my place in corporate life. I had it all: a big expense account, a big budget, and a big salary.

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4 Critical Ways to Speed up Customer Service Experience

Win the Customer

Efficient customer service is essential to all businesses. Streamlining processes and functions could make or break your relations with your clients. In businesses across all industries, your customers are your lifeline. Without customers and their continued support, your business will not be able to flourish and take off. This is why it is imperative that you […].

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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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Proof That CX Pays

Heart of the Customer

As a customer experience professional, you know CX pays. How could it not? Customer experience leads to loyalty – so if your customer experience is poor, you have to spend an inordinate amount of time replacing the customers you’re losing. You understand this, and you understand the ideas and practices that underlie CX and all […]. The post Proof That CX Pays appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Teradata Plans to Sell Its $200 Million Marketing Application Business. Any Takers?

Customer Experience Matrix

Teradata today announced it plans to sell its Marketing Applications business. I’ll drop the usual analyst pose of omniscience to admit I didn’t see this coming. It’s only three weeks since Teradata expanded its marketing suite by buying a new Data Management Platform – a move I felt made great sense. They also briefed me at that time on a slew of updates to their other marketing products, demonstrating continued forward movement.

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Gaining Leadership Commitment is Your First CX Competency Milestone

Customer Bliss

Your work will be successful when you take a stair-stepped approach to gaining leadership clarity and commitment to the CX competency framework. As you embed the five competencies, over time, what your company stands for will shift. Starting with the lives of customers and employees will drive decision-making and elevate how your company is perceived.

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Customer Service People Skills Timing: How to Sharpen Yours

Kate Nasser

How is your customer service people skills timing? Improve it with these 4 steps fr The People Skills Coach™, The post Customer Service People Skills Timing: How to Sharpen Yours appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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Kate Spade Revamps Retail Experiences to Deliver Brand Values

Beyond Philosophy

Kate Spade New York has their hand in many types of luxury items these days, from handbags to clothing to fragrance to stationery. Their website claims the brand has 175 shops internationally. Something else they have? A great new retail strategy. Consumers for the luxury brand can look forward to a change in their experience. According to Business Insider, the new experience is called a “guest journey” and the sales associate is now their “muse.”.

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From Millennial to Alpha: Adapting for the Next-Generation Customer

Win the Customer

Millennials and Alphas are beginning enter into they period buying power. From boomers to alphas, the changing customer base signals the need for business owners to adapt and implement new marketing strategies. Over the last century, statisticians and researchers have organized age groups into cohorts that seem to carry buying and value trends. In population and workforce representation, […].

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8 Reasons Why You Need a Live Chat Script

Comm100

Would you accuse a play of being bad just because the actors used a script? Of course not. The same should apply to a quality customer service chat. Sure, it’s a little different from theater–you are responding to a customer’s immediate questions and needs, and not just providing entertainment. But a successful live chat script is like a play with a choose-your-own-adventure twist.

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How to Choose the Best Customer Support Options for your Ecommerce Website

Provide Support

Customer Service Channels. When starting an online business your main concern is the communication channels your customers will use to get in touch with your team. Personalized and prompt customer service gives you an edge over the bigger and more well-known competition. No matter how user friendly your ecommerce website and shopping cart are, your customers may want to contact you with some questions or just to ensure your business is “alive” and they will not be deceived.

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Future-Proof Your Firm: Smarter Tech for Stronger Returns & Simpler Workflows

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Senior Sales Engineer

Is your tech stack working for you—or are you working for it ? 🤖 In today’s world of automation and AI, technology should simplify workflows—not add complexity. Seamless integration and interconnectivity are key to maximizing productivity, optimizing workflows, and improving collaboration. Join expert Joe Wroblewski for a practical and insightful session on how you can build a smarter, more connected tech stack that drives efficiency and long-term success!