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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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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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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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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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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Accessibility is Key to Customer Satisfaction in 2014

Comm100

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 and promptly resolving any concerns or issues. These are all important; however, with the customer experience playing field being leveled by new technology and the almighty Internet, it’s important to focus on another key aspect – Accessibility.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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5 Tips for a Winning Crowdsourcing Strategy

1 to 1

'The value of employees goes beyond their day-to-day job. Because they have a good insight into the company where they work, employees are perfectly positioned to come up with ideas that can revolutionize an organization. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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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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Don't Forget the Little People

1 to 1

'Though I typically avoid the BuzzFeed click bait that clutters Facebook and Twitter, every now and then a post will stand out, building enough intrigue to make me bite. Just the other day, my friend linked to one such post entitled LEGO Just Got Told Off By A 7-Year-Old Girl. (I tend to gravitate toward stories about today''s youth as I am often mistaken for one.

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Busted: 7 Ludicrous Myths About Customer Trust

1 to 1

'Thanks to Wikileaks, NSA revelations, and a host of questionable policies, it''s no wonder that trust in government is at an all-time low. What I find interesting is that business leaders don''t fare much better than their government counterparts in key areas, according to the 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer. So, I set out to understand why and what I found was unanticipated.

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What's Your Retail Survival Plan for 2014?

1 to 1

'The U.S. Census Bureau reports that January retail numbers are down, 4 percent from the month before. Despite the assumption that winter weather may be to blame retailers must start thinking strategically about how to continue to attract consumers into their brick and mortar locations. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Welcome, Governments, to the Age of the Customer

1 to 1

'For those who--despite the healthcare.gov customer experience debacle--remain unconvinced that the Age of the Customer applies to governments, the Sochi Olympics should do the trick. Both customer experience (CX) disasters have highlighted a hard lesson for governments: The same technologies that empower customers in the private sector also allow the people to control the public narrative.

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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.