Callminer
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Contact centers face the constant challenge of maximizing payments while staying up to date with compliance rules and regulations. Here’s how collection analytics can help.
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Changing your culture is never an easy task. Your culture is the way it is because of the way the organization is. So if you are trying to change it, you are going to have challenges—especially if you forget these three essential steps. Incenting the behavior you want to see. Considering the Employee Experience. Remembering your people need your support.
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Heart of the Customer
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Guest post by Brooke Cade. The way we communicate with each other has changed. Digital marketing and social media has transformed our world, the way we gather information and how we engage with each other. Because of this, businesses have had to reevaluate the way they communicate and market to their customers. Millennials are a […]. The post How To Build Stronger Customer Relationships & Why It Matters appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
Customers That Stick
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
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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.
Bill Quiseng
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
This was originally published as a guest post on Shep Hyken’s customer service blog. . There are only two ways to make a profit in business. One way is to increase sales. The other is to reduce costs. Companies have relied on technology to reeduce one of the most expensive costs in any business – human labor. Banks have replaced tellers with ATM’s, direct deposit and internet banking.
Uniphore
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Ventana Research shows that organizations now support up to 17 channels of interaction with their customers! Get this complimentary Q&A with Richard Snow of Ventana Research as he discusses the challenges organizations are facing with omnichannel engagement and how to overcome them. Read More.
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Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
Everyone wants your Customers’ attention. These bids for attention surround us, in the form of advertisements to street signs to the clothes people wear or, in some cases, don’t wear! These ubiquitous pleas for attention can be overwhelming and crowd out your bid for your Customers’ attention. So it’s up to you to cut through the clutter and reach them.
ClearAction
FEBRUARY 27, 2016
5 Ways to Make Marketing More Strategic Lynn Hunsaker. As Marketing departments take a bigger role in customer experience management, a more holistic perspective allows your company rise to the top of the field. Supporting the entire customer lifecycle, for example, is a goal that most Marketing organizations still grapple with. Everyone acknowledges that customer retention is more cost-effective than acquisition, yet Marketing tends to put the majority of its resources in awareness-building and
Customers That Stick
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
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Win the Customer
FEBRUARY 13, 2016
To innovate and get ahead of competitors and market trends, it’s critical for customer experience leaders to continually evaluate their vision of customer experience and perceive potential technologies that could accelerate the ability to deliver exceptional service experiences. At a recent Opticon conference, Mary Hamilton, Managing Director of Accenture Technology Labs , described the near future where our offerings could be enhanced by sensors, supported by data, and automated to deliv
Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón
Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.
Customer Bliss
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
There has been much talk in recent years about a C-Suite role for head of customer experience, or CCO — Chief Customer Officer. Even B2B brands, which traditionally focuses on sales rather than organic customer growth, are starting to adopt this head of customer experience role in droves. But how does someone become a head of customer experience?
Callminer
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
When utilized effectively, call center analytics can have a big impact on a company’s bottom line.
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Do you nudge your customers? Most businesses do, whether they know it or not. A nudge propels a customer toward the behavior you want – whether it’s purchasing a product, signing up for a subscription or making a repeat visit to a retailer. The theory behind a nudge is that positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions can change people’s behavior at least as effectively as rules and instructions.
Bill Quiseng
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
Recently in a LinkedIn group, one of the members asked the following question: “The global economy is slowing down, but you’ve been asked to do the impossible: Control costs AND improve customer service experience. How can you do it?” While I commented within the group, LinkedIn limited the space allowed for the response so I wanted to elaborate here.
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.
Customer Experience Matrix
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
I’ll be speaking next month at the MarTech conference on How Machine Intelligence Will Really Change Marketing. This required assembling a list of marketing systems using machine intelligence, which pretty much inevitably led to the logoscape below. I wasn’t initially enthusiastic about the idea – could there by anything less original?—but have found the result surprisingly useful.
C3Centricity
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
A longer post than usual this week, but one that will make you smile, if not laugh out loud! It describes one recent personal example of disinterested client support, from which I have drawn seven learnings for everyone wanting to deliver true customer service. I can’t understand why any organisation would still have trouble offering [.]. The post The 7 Essential Differences Between Simply Responding to Customers and Providing True Customer Service appeared first on C3Centricity.
Win the Customer
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Gartner reports that failure to respond to customer service requests on social media may result in a 15% churn rate, which can mean millions lost. If your customers come to you via social media seeking support, not responding in a timely manner can greatly impact your bottom line. The hard part is that social media never sleeps. When customer service phone lines aren’t operating, consumers with problems may message brands on networks such as Facebook or Twitter in hopes of reaching a repre
Callminer
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
Voice analytics technology may offer considerable business benefits, but many organizations simply don’t know much about it. Here’s a look 5 unknown facts about speech analytics.
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
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Imagine the power of being able to predict your Customers’ behavior. It would mean that you can design an experience that plays into this behavior and creates an excellent Customer Experience that drives $$$ for you. However, reliably predicting your Customers’ behavior is going to be difficult even under the best of circumstances. Often, organizations stymie themselves by making bad assumptions about what is motivating their Customers preferences and choices.
Provide Support
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
10 Do’s and Don’ts of Excellent Customer Service. These days, the phrases “go above and beyond for the best customer service experience”, “the customer is always right” and “the customer is king” have become one of the most cliched and repeated in marketing. Business owners, marketing directors and managers across-the-board keep on being focused on delivering over-the-top customer service experience.
PeopleMetrics
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
Improvement is a relative concept. To improve, a thing must be measurably better than it once was. For example, this morning, I felt fatigued. And a coffee (or seven) improved my energy level so much I can now bench press a Honda Odyssey. It's nice to experience such clarity in cause and effect: my taking an action (i.e., drinking coffee) led to an improvement (i.e., a minivan-chucking amount of energy).
Customer Experience Matrix
FEBRUARY 21, 2016
One of the highlights of last week’s Content2Conversion conference was a keynote by the always-stimulating Tim Riesterer of Corporate Visions , who argued that an effective sales presentation should (1) start with an unfamiliar factoid that shows why change is essential (a concept similar to the CEB "challenger sale") (2) show that you have a solution and (c) contrast your solution with other approaches to clarify how it's different and better.
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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.
Win the Customer
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Did you know that that delivering customer happiness is one of the easiest parts of working in support? And that the greatest challenge for customer support professionals is tackling burnout? Kayako have recently surveyed a cross-section of customer support professionals to discover what motivates, excites and challenges them about their jobs and what challenges they face in 2016.
Callminer
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
At a recent event in London, CallMiner CTO, Jeff Gallino, shared advice on how best to achieve ROI from Interaction Analytics. He also shared his insights in an interview with CallCentreHelper. Gallino cited three areas to focus on to realize ROI from Interaction Analytics. Compliance – Mitigating risk by analyzing every interaction. This will allow […].
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Conventional wisdom says that a product priced at $99.99 will seem less expensive than a product priced at $100. Researchers have also found that a precise price, like $99.37, is more believable and appears to offer a greater value than a round price like $100. Based on this, you might conclude that round prices – the ones that end in zeros – are always a bad idea.
Customer Bliss
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
How does your organization utilize the journey map? As the framework to consistently drive company focus that lines up your customer listening, improvement, and planning efforts? Or are the silos still promoting their internal processes as a “journey”? Lesley Mottla was part of the management team that developed Zipcar’s award-winning customer experience and technologies.
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.
Kate Nasser
FEBRUARY 20, 2016
Truly memorable customer experience is not transaction; it is great interaction. The People Skills Coach™ shares memorable exp at Delta Calgary South Hotel and tips to all hotel leaders & reps on doing the same thing! The post Memorable Customer Experience: Far Deeper Than a Smile | #CX appeared first on KateNasser.com.
Customer Experience Matrix
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
It's a little more than a year since I collaborated with BlueConic on a marketing technology maturity model. They've been busy improving their product, in particular by adding a set of templates for prebuilt marketing programs, which they call "blueprints". Users first select a goal, such as "decrease bounce rates". They are then led through a sequence of tasks to collect the necessary customer data; assemble the data into profiles; segment customers using the profiles; and deliver the messages
Win the Customer
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Though it may have risen from some horrible business dealings, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) did create transparency regulations that have become part of the corporate culture. As a result, business transparency has taken root, spreading its canopy to cover more than just financial reporting. Its newest seed, brand transparency, is linked to revenue, loyalty and company longevity.
Fonolo
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
There’s a quote that many managers — across industries — live by. You may have heard it: You can’t manage what you don’t measure. There’s no question that benchmarking and measurement are important if you want to improve anything in your contact center, but you still have to be careful about how you approach it. Some call center benchmarks are a waste of time and resources, at best.
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