December, 2015

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FCR – One call, that’s all

Callminer

Industry experts have long estimated that 25 cents of every dollar spent by a call center goes toward fixing issues that weren’t properly addressed during the customer’s initial call.

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11 Rules For An Outstanding Customer Service Training Program

Shaun Belding

A skilled customer service provider can compensate for a myriad of process and policy failures. One single person, with no customer service training or customer service skills can have catastrophic implications in a world where global word-of-mouth is a mouse-click away. Whatever you do, don't leave a customer service training program to chance.

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What’s the #1 Way to Improve Customer Service? #INFOGRAPHIC

Win the Customer

Research from Forrester has found that 80% of companies want to use customer service to differentiate themselves from the competition. So if every organization wants their customer service to be the best it can be, how do those who really stand out from the competition actually do it? Rather than just rehashing the same old suggestions that anyone can find online, we turned to the customer service experts to help answer that most critical question: What’s the #1 way to really improve custo

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Why the Customer Experience Doesn’t Create Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

People don’t choose your product or service because of the experience they had; they choose it because of the experience they remember—and these two are not the same thing! Creating a great memory of your experience in your Customer’s mind is critical to creating Customer Loyalty. Consider this quote from Professor Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize Winning Economist: “There is a big difference between an experience and the memory of an experience.”.

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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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How to start using Social Media for Customer Service

Bill Quiseng

This week’s post is written by Ravi Shukle. In my posts, I provide advice to improve face to face customer interactions. But today’s customers are expecting service on-line and on the social media channels that they use. One of the great benefits of social media is connecting with people who we would otherwise not meet. Since I certainly am not an expert on how to use social media for customer service, I reached out halfway around the world to someone who is, Ravi.

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4 Questions You’re Afraid to Ask About Omnichannel (& Research-Based Answers to Help You Make Decisions)

Uniphore

Omnichannel - the phrase everyone throws around, the business model few know how to implement. Confused? We’ve got your back. Here are 4 answers to questions too many executives are afraid to ask out loud. Read More.

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Our Customer Service Podcast: One Year In

Customers That Stick

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3 Key Soft Skills Every Call Center Agent Must Have

Win the Customer

Metrics and statistics can’t measure the personality of employees, their ability to relate with callers, or the value they bring to an interaction. Concrete customer feedback metrics, KPIs and CRM systems can be considered as the ‘science’ behind call centers, but the soft skills of call center agents are considered as the art. Metrics and statistics can’t measure the personality of employees, their ability to relate with callers, or the value they bring to an interaction.

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The Evolving Chief Customer Officer: Identifying Value, Authority, Scope, Responsibilities, and Strategic Direction Within the Enterprise

Beyond Philosophy

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC, is Thought Leadership Principal for Beyond Philosophy. In the past decade, we’ve seen the number of companies with an individual in the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) – nicely defined by Wikipedia as “the executive responsible for the total relationship with an organization’s customers” – grow from under 100 to thousands today.

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10 Tips for Preventing Customer Complaints this Year

Fonolo

Updated June 2020. In 2013 , CCMC and NOVA1 Contact Centers conducted a “Customer Rage Study” which found that customer problem rates have increased by five percentage points over 2011 (50% vs. 45%). And unfortunately, that trend has continued over the last few years. The 2017 Customer Rage Study found that 56% of respondents had a serious problem with a product or service in the last year — a 6% increase from 2013.

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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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Do You Need a Chief Customer Officer?

Customer Bliss

A Chief Customer Officer is successful when he or she can simplify how the organization works together to achieve customer-driven growth, engage the leadership team and connect the work to a return on investment. Sustainable transformation will only occur when this work goes beyond project plans and status updates, and is grounded in caring about customers’ lives.

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What Is wrap up time in the call center?

Callminer

What is wrap up time in the call center – and why is it important for driving efficiency and improving the customer experience? Take a look in CallMiner’s latest blog post.

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Don’t Let Conformity Stifle Ideas

Customers That Stick

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5 Steps for Hiring Exceptional Customer Service Agents

Win the Customer

There’s an immense difference between aspiring to deliver exceptional customer service and actually delivering winning customer service. The right team can make the biggest difference in exceptional service experiences. Every time I review customer submitted feedback, I always look for key terms that establish patters for successful customer service interactions or potential negative trends in customers’ experience.

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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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5 Points: What it Takes to Write a Book

Beyond Philosophy

Creativity is essential to business today, particularly when the things that differentiate all of us from our competition decrease each year. A creative approach to business, to art, and to life will serve any individual well moving forward. I have written five books to date and will soon deliver number six. It occurred to me that I have learned a few things writing these books.

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Customer Experience Best Practices: How to Retrain Your Customers

PeopleMetrics

If you work in a company that takes its longevity seriously, there’s a high likelihood you’ll find yourself face-to-face with the notion of retraining your customers. The notion usually arrives at an interesting transition point. Future business goals are clear, the business is thinking tactically about how to achieve them, and the business wants to keep its current customer base.

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Highlights of Customer Experience Strategy Advice

ClearAction

Highlights of Customer Experience Strategy Advice. Over the past year, I’ve written quite a bit about customer experience management strategy, including a six-part series about keys to success in the future. Shared vision, strategic planning, and governance are rarely discussed in customer experience literature. Collaboration, teamwork, and involvement of multiple functional areas in taking action on customer insights must be well-thought-out and institutionalized across your company for l

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What Are the Benefits of Interaction Analytics in the Contact Center? [Resource Guide]

Callminer

Interaction analytics unlocks valuable information hidden in interactions between contact centers and customers. Learn more in CallMiner’s latest resource guide.

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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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Rate the Reliability of Employee Support

Customer Bliss

After you’ve completed rating reliability of your customer experience , rate the reliability of support that employees receive across the customer journey. Ask the group to go stage by stage of your customer journey and determine how reliable the employee support is in delivering a one-company customer experience. Is the support for employees: Always reliable – support is managed across the channels, countries, and silos.

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How to Make Customer Experience a Cross-Organizational Initiative

Win the Customer

The key to customer experience success is in utilizing technology that ensures CX levels are high, while meeting strategic operational goals. Customer experience is increasingly being spoken of as a cross-company initiative. But each department in an organization has their own KPI’s to consider. While Sales need numbers, Finance are looking at the bottom line and Legal are over protective about regulations, customer experience is often not at the top of the agenda beyond the Marketing departmen

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The Meteoric Rise Of Content As A Driver of Buyer Behavior, Especially Rich Video: What Does It Mean For Marketers?

Beyond Philosophy

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC, is Thought Leadership Principal for Beyond Philosophy. As they are gathering information to help in day-to-day brand decision-making, consumers want, crave, desire, seek, and value content from marketers – as long as it is reasonably altruistic, informative and objective, and minimizes the ‘look of sponsorship’ and the three most readily identifiable sales ‘P’s’: push, pitch, and puff.

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A Cold Night, Hot Soup…and Great Customer Service!

InteractionMetrics

Not too long ago, while checking into a hotel on a damp San Francisco night, the front desk clerk noticed my sniffling and asked if I wanted chicken soup. “That’d be great,” I replied, assuming it was just a sympathetic comment and not an actual offer. I was therefore quite surprised when, only a few minutes later, there was a knock on my door and a server brought in a steaming bowl of soup.

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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 Experience for the Future — Key #5: Momentum Drives Company Growth

ClearAction

Customer Experience for the Future — Key #5: Momentum Drives Company Growth. Growth requires fuel. New customers and returning customers are the fuel of company growth. You can invest in inorganic growth : programs and technologies that entice renewals and evangelism. Or you can invest in organic growth : processes, products and culture that make your company irresistible.

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Our Top Ten Customer Experience Blogs of 2015

PeopleMetrics

Legend has it that in a damp, craggy cave, an ancient hunter-gatherer created the first list-based Web article. In keeping with millennia of human tradition, let’s look back at our top ten blog posts from 2015. I sincerely hope you've enjoyed following along as much as we've enjoyed writing for you. Keep an eye out for new posts in the new year! Without further ado, here's number 10: Starting off this list is a post for those who are confused about how to measure customer experience improvement.

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The Future of CX

Heart of the Customer

The CXPA’s CX Experts all collaborated to predict what CX will be like next year, and the article they came up with is a great read to get us all excited about the future of CX in 2016. Attached is a PDF of the article—check it out! Read the PDF here. The post The Future of CX appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Why Should You Automate Your Customer Relationship Process

Win the Customer

An effective CRM system can help a business maximize the value of their customers through improving every aspect of the customer relationship. Many businesses wonder if they should invest more into customer relationship development and the systems and tools that enable greater automation of relationship management in the contact center. While too much automation can lead to lack of personalization, the right balance between effective software tools and careful consideration from real customer ag

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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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‘Top 50 Marketing Thought Leader’ Reveals Latest Trend

Beyond Philosophy

Wouldn’t it be great if you could truly predict Customer’s behavior. Well you can! Welcome to the world of behavioral economics. I have recently been included in Brand Quarterly’s ‘Top 50 Marketing Thought Leaders over 50’ and they asked me an interesting question: “What do I think the next industry trends would be for the year?” I thought I would expand on my thoughts here and give a better explanation.

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Do You Need a Chief Customer Officer?

Customer Bliss

A Chief Customer Officer is successful when he or she can simplify how the organization works together to achieve customer-driven growth, engage the leadership team and connect the work to a return on investment. Sustainable transformation will only occur when this work goes beyond project plans and status updates, and is grounded in caring about customers’ lives.

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The Window to the Soul of Your Organization

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Of Shadows and Light Your frontline staff is the window to the soul of your organization. Have you ever thought of them in that manner? They truly are that window. They provide a glimpse into the organization and all its inner workings: your culture , your workplace environment, your employee experience , your customer experience, and more.

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Business-to-Business Customer Experience Advice Highlights

ClearAction

Business-to-Business Customer Experience Advice Highlights. Business-to-business customer experience management has certain complexities and advantages that need to be well understood by practitioners and vendors alike. All too often, it is assumed that B2B needs to be doing the same thing that B2C companies are doing, or that B2B companies are way behind B2C.

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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.