September, 2015

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3 Ways Speech Analytics Can Improve Call Center Compliance

Callminer

Speech analytics plays a pivotal role in driving call center compliance. Take a look at how.

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3 Things Great Companies Do for Customers

Beyond Philosophy

According to trendwatching.com, the feelings a Customer has when they are getting excellent Customer service are the same as the feelings they have when they feel love. I couldn’t agree more. Most excellent Customer Experiences leave Customers feeling valued and important, or, in other words, feeling the love. There are three things that great companies that have excellent Customer Experiences do in common to make Customers feel the love.

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In Customer Service, Is Ordinary Now Extraordinary?

Customers That Stick

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In customer service, your people are NOT your most important asset.

Bill Quiseng

In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins writes that “People are not your most important asset. The right people are.”. Customer service is all about building relationships – relationships with superiors, direct reports, vendors and customers. Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, claims that success in any job is 20% knowledge and 80% interpersonal skills.

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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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4 Ways to Improve the Retail Job Training Experience

Win the Customer

Onboarding retail staff can be overwhelming, especially with grand openings and seasonal hiring. The retail turnover rate in the U.S. is currently at 55.71%. For the 3rd quarter last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 897 thousand jobs were gained in retail, while 905 thousand were lost. That amount of turnover is enough […].

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Waiting On Hold A Minute Too Long

Uniphore

“I was asked, ‘Could you hold a moment?’ After 9 minutes and no service I gave up and hung up ”, complained a customer on a Yahoo forum way back in 2008, and she’s not the only one, especially with the rise of social media. No one likes to be put on hold. Read More.

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The Big Mistake Most Organizations Make with Employee Engagement

Beyond Philosophy

It seems most organizations have a Customer Experience program and an increasing number have started Employee Engagement programs. The issue for me is these are not combined nor complimentary, which is a huge mistake. Why? Because the experience you give your Customers is the same experience you should give your employees. It’s not only good for employee engagement, but it can mean your Customers are more satisfied with you—and how much they spend with your brand.

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5 Customer Service Lessons from American Ninja Warrior

Customers That Stick

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Ways to Deal with Negative Online Customer Reviews

Return Customer

If you put yourself out there as a business, you better prepare for dealing with dissatisfied customers. Since consumers have developed a habit of checking online reviews before purchasing a product, it’s in your best interest to learn how to handle negative reviews. If you do it right, you can actually gain a lot – recovering from a mistake sometimes helps brands to develop stronger relationships with customers.

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Emotional Intelligence in Customer Experience Leadership

PeopleMetrics

In a past job, my superiors were excited about what they called the “elephant-and-rider metaphor.” It comes from psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s 2006 book, The Happiness Hypothesis , and it compares your emotional, automatic mental processes to an elephant—lumbering, inflexible, and massive. And your rational mind? That’s a tiny human riding atop the elephant—well-intentioned, nimble, holding the reins and the illusion of control.

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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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Marketers, Do You Know Everything You Should? From the 5Ps to the 7Qs.

C3Centricity

Marketing is a great profession. I’ve worked in or with marketing teams for most of my career. From the outside, they are seen as the department that comes in late, parties every night and gets to talk about advertising at conferences in exotic places. For those in operations or finance, they don’t seem to be that [.]. The post Marketers, Do You Know Everything You Should?

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Put an End to Customer Frustration and Build Real Loyalty

Heart of the Customer

I was talking with a call center manager who made a startling comment: “We have some problems with our website. But we deliberately don’t fix them. That way, our customers call us and we can fix their problems and delight them.” Wow. This was one of those situations where I wasn’t really sure how to […]. The post Put an End to Customer Frustration and Build Real Loyalty appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Seven Ways to Engage Your Customers Using Social Media

Beyond Philosophy

Social Media can level the playing field. It’s the equalizer between small and big businesses. Even solo entrepreneurial businesses can create a global presence using social media. With a strong website, optimized with the right words and phrases, a small business can make a big presence. Another benefit to social media is cost. Actually it’s the lack of cost.

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Don’t Forget the Connection in Interconnection

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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5 Keys to Customer Experience for the Future

ClearAction

5 Keys to Customer Experience for the Future. I have a dream that in the future we'll look back and say "Remember how hard it was to be a customer back in the 2010s? Thank goodness it's so much easier now!" This dream stems from acknowledgement that it's all too often a bit rough to select, buy, or use a solution in our lives and businesses.

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Amazon's Workplace Woes, and Leading Customer-Centric Cultures

PeopleMetrics

In case you missed it, The New York Times recently published a tell-all exposé about Amazon’s corporate culture. The short of it: Amazon is a competitive, punishing, often-cruel workplace. People cry at their desks, sometimes past midnight. And worse things happen too. Jeff Bezos sent a message to staff , asking them to read the Times article, saying he didn’t “recognize this Amazon,” and he hoped they didn’t either.

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Custom Payment Options Enhance Customer Experience

Win the Customer

Customers are demanding more options and flexibility, so it’s wise for businesses to find multiple payment options that work for them and their customers to deliver complete customer experiences. Customers want and need flexible payment options. A 2013 UPS study of e-commerce sites found that offering a variety of payment options is the second-most important […].

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Exemplary Customer Service: It’s All About the Journey

Heart of the Customer

“The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer” – Peter Drucker Sometimes, it seems that companies focus exclusively on the first half of this equation. Sales to new customers are exciting, and resources are appropriately targeted to land new customers. Look at the continual offers coming from TV service and internet […]. The post Exemplary Customer Service: It’s All About the Journey appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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Key Learning from 15 Years of Net Promoter Stats

Beyond Philosophy

Did you know Netflix’s Net Promoter Score (NPS) is higher than the cable companies? It is, and it is one of the reasons we see growth in Netflix and continued dissatisfaction with cable companies. I love Netflix. It is simple. You can start and stop it when you want. My recent experiences with my cable company have been the complete opposite. This poor Customer Experience is one reason I now use Netflix more than my cable company.

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5 Ways to Create Positive Customer Service Phrases

Comm100

If you work in customer service, then you know that words are incredibly powerful. According to psychologists Mark Waldman and Andrew Newberg, words are so powerful, in fact, that even just the sight of a negative word like “no” can release dozens of stress-producing hormones in your brain. But the right words also have the power to create happy, life-long customers.

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Toxic Leadership Behaviors: Replace These 5 to Attract & Keep Top Talent

Kate Nasser

Replace these toxic leadership behaviors that repel talented employees. What other behaviors do you think leaders should eliminate? Checklist from The People Skills Coach™. The post Toxic Leadership Behaviors: Replace These 5 to Attract & Keep Top Talent appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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10 Barriers to Outstanding Customer Service

Provide Support

10 Barriers to Outstanding Customer Service. Rumi, the ancient Sufi mystic and poet, used to write: “If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill, let yourself fall ill”. I like this quote. In my understanding, it means that in order to experience true health, which is our natural state, we need to undergo a certain cleaning. We need to remove things which don’t belong to the natural state, which become barriers to our experiencing it.

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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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Expand Customer Listening with Your Customer’s Unaided Feedback

Customer Bliss

Unaided feedback provides real-time trending on customer issues as they are occurring. Unaided feedback is the constant flow of comments, insights and issues your customers and partners volunteer to you. Unaided feedback also includes looking inside your data to understand customer behaviors across the stages of their experience, to identify trends, opportunities and customer at-risk experiences.

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Aiming for the Hearts of their Customers: Interviews with CX Professionals

Heart of the Customer

Over the course of this blog I’ve interviewed a number of Customer Experience executives, working every day to improve their experience to increase loyalty. Customer Experience is still an emerging field, and these interviews gave me a great chance to hear others’ perspectives on the field, what it’s doing right, and where we can improve […].

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3 Dangers of Employing Smart People

Beyond Philosophy

Why we do what we do is a fascinating science. The brain has interesting ways to interpret the world around us and spur us into action. Knowing the brain drives our behavior, you would think those with high intelligence would have the upper hand in making good decisions. Studies have shown, however, this is not the case. In many ways, intelligence can lead smart people to make dumb decisions, creating problems for their managers.

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Winning Customer Loyalty with Empathy

CX Journey

Image courtesy of InMoment Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Brooke Cade of InMoment. With social media taking over, it is no surprise to see more companies turning toward these digital platforms to connect with customers. Today, successful businesses are utilizing social media not only to build their brand and build strong relationships, but to foster customer relations and provide people with the best service.

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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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Leadership Emotion Radar: 12 Employee Emotional Needs to Honor

Kate Nasser

Leadership Emotion Radar: Leaders especially analytic & technical ones must remember to honor these employee emotional needs. Fr The People Skills Coach™. The post Leadership Emotion Radar: 12 Employee Emotional Needs to Honor appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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How Social Media Is Affecting Customer Service (Infographic)

Provide Support

Social Media in Customer Service. Complaining customers are, unfortunately, an inevitable fact of business life. The way you respond to and handle their complaints will determine whether your customers share on social media how terrible your company is or will remain happily loyal to your brand. Today social media channels are used not only for chatting with friends, they have also become a powerful source of sharing experiences and complaining about products or services.

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Name the Stages of Your Customer Journey

Customer Bliss

When you take on journey mapping, make your first action gaining agreement on the names of the stages of your customer journey. This is very important. It’s the beginning of shifting from thinking silos to thinking about what customers are trying to achieve as a result of their interaction with you. It’s helpful to think about every stage as a complete experience.

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Top 8 Reasons Why Your Customer Service May Be Failing

The DiJulius Group

The top 8 reasons why your Customer service may be failing 1. Lack of Executive Sponsorship – It is a proven fact that any big initiative, project, or revolution has to have the support of the senior leadership team. Otherwise it will be considered flavor-of-the-month or management-by-bestseller. The senior leadership team has to provide […].

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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.