March, 2014

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3 Steps to Establish Customer-Centric Call Centers in 2014

Callminer

With customer experience management more important than ever, customer satisfaction has become an area of focus. Here’s a look at 3 best practices to establish call center customer-centricity.

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6 Ways to Make Customers Fall In Love With You Over and Over Again [INFOGRAPHIC]

Win the Customer

'When you fall in love you gladly go the extra mile for that special someone every time. Everything you do, are, and want to be is what will make that special person truly happy.

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How To Disappoint Customers on Social Media: A Cautionary Twitter Tale

PeopleMetrics

'Last week we wrote about a bank that has exceptional customer service in our post “ How to Amaze Banking Customers: A Simple Story ” This week we are going to focus on a story that happened right in @PeopleMetrics Twitter feed. I had read an interesting article on Barclays Kenya ''s refocused customer experience efforts. So naturally, I pulled up Twitter and fired off a tweet at the bank, curious to know what their customer experience efforts were behind the scenes.

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IBM May Buy Silverpop: B2B Marketing Automation and B2C Email Would Be Great Fit

Customer Experience Matrix

'The InterWebs were buzzing this morning with an Atlanta Business Chronicle article reporting that IBM is negotiating to buy Silverpop. My only reaction was, What the heck took so long? The other enterprise-level B2C email vendors ( ExactTarget , Responsys ) have already been bought at wondrously high prices, and every B2B marketing automation vendor I talk to tells me that potential investors are approaching them constantly.

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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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Use Coupons To Increase Your Quiz Sales By 83%

ProProfs

'With thousands of educators actively using ProProfs Store to sell their quizzes, ProProfs has become the ideal online destination to buy quizzes on all kinds of topics from college tests like SAT to professional courses such as CISCO and many more. Taking our online store a step further we have introduced “Coupons” to help you improve your quiz sales and reach out to a larger learner base.

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Five Lessons Your Business Can Learn from This Year's Oscar Winners

1 to 1

'Last night the stars came out for Hollywood''s biggest night. From Jennifer Lawrence''s stumble on the Red Carpet, Jared Leto''s poised, tear-jerking speech dedicated to his mother, or 20 Feet From Stardom singer Dorothy Love singing a rousing rendition of a gospel song during her acceptance speech, the 86th Academy Awards, didn''t disappoint. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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How Important Is Customer Service in Customer Experience? It’s Everything. [INFOGRAPHIC]

Win the Customer

'83% of online customers need customer service help in order to complete a purchase. Is your experience meeting customer needs?

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How To Amaze Banking Customers: A Simple Story

PeopleMetrics

'So, last week I woke up to $867.35 missing from my bank account. $138.63 spent at a gas station in Spain. I don’t own a car. And I’m not in Spain. $73.65 on cigarettes in Texas. I don’t smoke either, and I’m definitely not in Texas. I fished my phone out of my purse and frantically called Simple’s customer service line while racing towards the morning bus.

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Marketing Automation Dissatisfaction: Are Users Buying the Wrong Systems?

Customer Experience Matrix

'I took a preliminary peek at the results of the marketing automation deployment survey that VentureBeat and I have been fielding for the past few weeks. There are some hints of really interesting insights, but we don’t have enough responses yet to publish. Like the sheriff in Blazing Saddles who held himself hostage, I''m writing this to encourage more people to complete the survey so we can release it.

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Create amazing customized quizzes that match your theme colors

ProProfs

'Whether you’re planning a wedding or revamping your room, selecting a particular theme or color is sure to sweeten the experience and enhance the final look. The same is also true when it comes to ‘designing’ your quizzes. So are you looking to match colors in your quiz with your website? With ProProfs Hex code support in Themes you can now do that!

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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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Social Media Powers Sales

1 to 1

'Social media has undoubtedly become one of the main means of communication. And with so many people active on social channels, it''s not surprising that organizations have been using social for marketing and selling purposes. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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25 Influential Call Center Twitter Profiles to Follow

Callminer

Due to today’s rapidly evolving digital environment, the traditional contact center model is changing, because both the business behind it and the customers in front of it are changing. Indeed, predictions for the future of the call center include increased focus on the customer experience, omnichannel contact, mobile customer care, migration to the cloud, and […].

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4 Tried and True Customer Service Strategies for New Call Center Managers

Win the Customer

'How do you make your customers stay with you for the long haul? Through the magic of customer service. These 4 tips make sure you''re sticking to what works.

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A Happy Employee Equals Happy Customers, So Stop Treating Call Center Agents Like Trash

Win the Customer

'One of the most valuable assets a company owns is its employees, and ensuring their happiness can be one of the most challenging aspects facing any business.

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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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Hire Your Way To A World-Class Customer Experience, One Agent at a Time

Win the Customer

'Organizations that "get" customer experience and are known for their excellent customer service, realize that it''s more about the people you assemble to serve than the processes you have in place.

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Fire, Ready, Aim Customer Service Will Always Fail. Great Experience Requires Preparation.

Win the Customer

'Without consistency in your service execution, one-off customer experiences can cause confusion and foster disappointment in your customers. Creating the framework for consistent excellence in service is key to long term customer delight.

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3 Simple Ways To Upgrade Your Call Center Experience and Win the Customer

Win the Customer

'With the growing number of channels by which customers can now contact businesses, call centers must adapt their strategy and structure to leave room for coordination, collaboration, and enhance the customer experience.

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The Human Psychology of Customer Service and Why You Have to Master It to Win Customers

Win the Customer

'Customers are living, breathing, feeling individuals who need care, attention, and meaning when it comes to the experience we create for them in our customer service offerings.

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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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The ‘11-4’ Syndrome – What Every Service Company Should Banish to Win Customer Loyalty

Win the Customer

'By taking into consideration all the variables such as employee skills, preferences, location, and assets needed, service businesses can increase their first time fix rates almost overnight.

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How to Benefit from Real Time Data to Enhance Customer Service and Win New Customers

Win the Customer

'Information is accessible at the click of a button, and customers are loath to be placed on hold. Studies have emerged that now endorse the significance of real-time data as it affects the customer service experience.

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When is Customer Experience Bad for Business? When Technology Gets In the Way of Service.

Win the Customer

'If Apple designed a phone based on cell phone users of the early 2000''s we''d all be rocking Motorola Razrs and no one would have heard of the iPhone.

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The Worst Customer Service Email Subject Lines Ever. And How To Avoid Bad Email Service.

Win the Customer

'Successful email subject lines are eye-catching, attention-grabbing and tempting. But there are also annoying, boring, careless, lazy, desperate, or worst of all, deceiving subject lines that give all other hardworking subject lines a bad rap.

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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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The Most Important Question Customer Service Isn’t Asking and Why It Means Everything to Customers

Win the Customer

'Working together with a customer, means being concerned about how you’re helping the customer succeed in getting what they need. This should always take precedence over workflows and metrics.

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How to Win Over Skeptical Customers in a Skeptical Age of Informed Online Customers

Win the Customer

'Aggressive advertisements created a digital era where users were skeptical to the point that they rejected anything that felt like an advertisement. Even companies that attempt to run honest online marketing campaigns feel the cynicism.

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Repetition is Key to Consistent Customer Experience. Keep Serving, Even When You’re Not Perfect.

Win the Customer

'By repetition, good customer service actions become habits and eventually natural behavior. With effective training and consistent practice, great customer experience can be part of our natural behavior in any customer interaction.

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Design Customer Experience Like Pixar If You Want to Win the Hearts of Customers

Win the Customer

'The idea that everybody deserves quality is a fundamental Pixar concept. The experience creates positive emotional connections with every customer.

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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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7 Tips for Reducing Field Service Costs and Enhance Customer Experience That Actually Work

Win the Customer

'With software companies providing innovative solutions to enable smarter decision-making and more efficient resource allocation, a truly lean enterprise is within reach that leaves more time and resources to take care of customers.

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Sucking is the First Step to Being Sorta Good at Customer Service

Win the Customer

'Getting to the point where customer service is good, or even great takes a long, long time. No matter who you are and how much experience you have, you''re going to suck at first.

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Learn from Apple, Don’t Rush Technology to Fix the Call Center, Get the Experience Right

Win the Customer

'Apple knows who they are, understand the needs of their customers, and they have a clear vision for the customer experience they want their customers to have. They stick with their plan and execute it to perfection time and time again.

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5 Ways to Grow Your Business by Emulating the Big Boys and Treating Your Customers Right

Win the Customer

'In most cases, great customer service starts with a clear philosophy and a commitment to creating something exceptional. Make sure you know what makes you unique, and have a guiding idea that governs all levels of your organization.

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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.