February, 2014

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Frost & Sullivan Predicts Cloud-Based Contact Center Solutions to Accelerate in Australia

Callminer

New Frost & Sullivan research shows cloud-based contact center solutions in the Australian market are predicted to accelerate over the next five years.

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3 Words to Avoid for Better Customer Service Communication

Win the Customer

'Millions of words are used each day in customer service communication; three little ones have great power to destroy your customer service experience and should be avoided at all cost. Studies have shown that vocabulary is a good predictor of success. Those who a greater mastery of language and the ability to communicate have greater […].

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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

Customer Experience Matrix

'The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Other than Raab Associates’ own VEST report , we’ve seen surveys of active buyers from Software Advice , usage figures based on direct observation from Mintigo and Venture Beat (using Datanyze) , and another broad-based survey from Pepper Global and Holger Shulze.

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One Killer Way to Convince Executives that Customer Experience Data is Worth It

PeopleMetrics

'I''ve Got Customer Experience Data. What Now? So you are getting ready to update the C-Suite on your customer experience metrics. You’ve collected lots of customer experience data, you have a bunch of insights, perhaps you have a deck of beautiful slides, filled with graphs and tables and statistically significant differences. But your biggest challenge is in being able to influence this team of execs to take action on what you tell them.

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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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Witty Tweets Make an Impact

1 to 1

'Sunday''s Super Bowl XLVII had its fair share of memorable commercials, tugging at heartstrings and creating lasting impressions of the different brands. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Automate reminders to improve training participation

ProProfs

'With the ProProfs due date feature, you can now send e-mail notifications reminding all your participants about pending training courses they have yet to take. Sending bulk notifications is easy and can be done in a matter of minutes! Send reminders to ensure participants take necessary training. Applicable for the Training Maker, the due date feature helps users by keeping them up-to-date about their pending study material.

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9 Facts That Will Change What You Think of Customer Service [Infographic]

Win the Customer

'Customers wait 1 minute on hold before getting the run around from customer service, it''s not wonder they are always willing to switch to a competitor.

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New Raab VEST Report: B2B Marketing Automation Will Reach $1.2 Billion in 2014

Customer Experience Matrix

'I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. This is always a fun project because it gives me an overview of what all the vendors have been up to for the past six months. A few interesting trends stood out: revenue growth is accelerating.

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Even More Creative Ideas to Gain Executive Attention and Empathy for Customers

PeopleMetrics

'Those working as customer experience professionals are fighting to get attention from busy executives. How do we get executives to understand and care about the customer experience? In last week''s article, Creative Ideas to Gain Executive Attention and Empathy for Customers , we said that executives need to feel and truly understand who their customers are and what it is to be a customer of their company.

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Do Your Customers Love You?

1 to 1

'On ABC''s The Bachelor, the man of the hour typically splits his time between one-on-one dates and group dates. Each eligible lady eagerly anticipates the prospect of the one-on-one, as they logically prefer the intimacy of one day alone over sharing their potential love interest''s attention. Such dates allow the "couple" to build and strengthen their budding relationship, while group dates pander to the insecurities of every woman in the group.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

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.

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What is Customer Experience? [Infographic]

Win the Customer

'Simply put, customer experience is how your customers perceive their interaction with your organization.

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Why Customer Service is Hard to Perfect, But It Doesn’t Mean You Can Ignore It

Win the Customer

'Despite its importance, very few companies are actually able to perfect the art of providing truly excellent customer service.

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What is the Relationship Between Customer Service Quality and Market Share?

Win the Customer

'Is there a relationship between the size of a company and its ability to deliver quality customer service? What does it mean for business success?

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How Good Customer Service Works

Win the Customer

'Everyone uses customer service. Although it''s easy to be upset with the bad customer service, getting good customer service isn''t as easy as you think.

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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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When Customers Are Wrong, What Should Customer Service Do? Keep Serving Customers.

Win the Customer

'The customer is not always right, but proving the customer wrong doesn''t win the customer and will most likely cause you to lose future business.

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How to Host a Customer Service Intervention, and Why It Can Mean the Different to the Service Experience

Win the Customer

'If you know a business that is losing time, money, and customers to mismanagement of customer service, maybe it’s time to host an intervention.

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Great Customer Service Starts in the Staff Room

Win the Customer

'Internal customer service, or servicing those who service your customers is vital to any business progressing, properly functioning, and continuing to establish a patter of exceptional customer experiences. As companies focus intently on improving the level of customer service they offer to clients, the quality of internal interactions within the business can become overlooked.

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10 Keys to More Meaningful Customer Service Teamwork

Win the Customer

'Having to work in a team, and developing better customer service teamwork is one of the fundamental keys to a consistent customer experience.

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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 Factors to Consider Before Picking an Outbound Call Center Service

Win the Customer

'Many businesses use outbound call center services in order to keep up with customer needs while still delivering an exceptional customer service experience.

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Accessibility Can Be a Key to Customer Satisfaction in 2014

Win the Customer

'Can your customer reach you when they have questions or concern to ensure customer satisfaction in their greatest time of need? When one thinks of providing a great customer experience, it’s easy to visualize some of the more common aspects of customer service – employees with customer friendly attitudes, giving the customer their money’s worth […].

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Simple Ways Employees and Employers Benefit From BYOD Policy

Win the Customer

'87 percent of companies currently allow employees to bring their own devices to work. Have we finally overcome the fear of BYOD by seeing its real benefits?

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Customer Satisfaction With Retail Is At An All Time High, Even With Online Sales Growing

Win the Customer

'Customer satisfaction with brick and mortar retailers is at an all time high, up now three years in a row. Has retail finally figured out customer experience?

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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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Genius and LoopFuse Are Acquired; Leadsius Picks Up the Freemium Banner

Customer Experience Matrix

'The past week has seen two acquisition announcements in the B2B marketing automation space: LoopFuse by SalesFUSION and LeadRocket/Genius by CallidusCloud , which owns LeadFormix. Both of the acquired vendors had bright prospects at one time but fell by the wayside. Interestingly, both pursued a “freemium” strategy of offering their system for free to users with small databases.

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Why Your Customers Still Like Mobile Credit Payments

Win the Customer

'Don''t be surprised if customers ask about the security behind your credit card transactions. Educate them on why paying with a card is convenient and secure for both of you.

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Creative Ideas to Gain Executive Attention and Empathy for Customers

PeopleMetrics

'Customer Experience professionals often face a daunting task: getting executives to truly care about the customer experience. While executives often talk about customer experience and its importance to the business, sometimes their actions indicate that they do not identify with customers the way the Cx team does. With competing priorities around revenue growth, operational efficiencies, and innovation, customers are often an afterthought on the executive agenda.

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Oracle Buys BlueKai and Puts Marketing Databases In the Spotlight

Customer Experience Matrix

'Oracle announced this morning that it is buying BlueKai , a leading Data Management Platform (DMP) technology vendor and operator of one of the largest data marketplaces. Since I just wrote last Friday about how DMPs integrate with marketing automation to unify customer treatments in Web advertising and direct channels, I’m tempted to just point you to that post for an explanation of how this works and why it matters.

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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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Moving Forward With E-commerce Trends of 2014, Customer Experience is Everything

Win the Customer

'Mobile has been essential to engage with customers, but it takes more than a mobile contact channel for a complete customer experience and to make the sale. And customers expect there to be more.

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Comcast/Time Warner Merger – Ready For More Bad Customer Service?

Win the Customer

'When two of the worse customer service providers merge, can the result ever be better customer service?

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Bizo and DemandBase Lead B2B Marketing Automation to Web Advertising and Beyond

Customer Experience Matrix

'I had a fascinating chat earlier this week with a client who described his vision for using DemandBase to tailor messages to Web site visitors from target accounts, using Bizo to further tailor messages to individuals by title, using all this data to synch inbound and outbound campaigns in Eloqua , and eventually driving everything with predictive model scores from a tool like Lattice Engines.

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Building an Effective Content Strategy for Customer Engagement

1 to 1

'Marketing leaders know that providing customers and prospects with relevant content that''s easy to access and appealing is a great way to drive engagement. Many marketers are finding success using programmatic marketing to intelligently provide the right content to the right customers and prospects. A recent study conducted by RadiumOne demonstrates the importance of understanding the type of content that resonates most with specific customer groups.

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Case Study: Key Insights on Wait Times and Customer Service

Faster response times mean happier customers Are your customers on hold too long? Nearly half of consumers find hold times unacceptable, and a quarter will leave your brand because of it. Our latest report reveals how companies are affected by wait times and the impact on customer satisfaction. Read the report to get insights into the impact of long hold times and areas for opportunities.