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What is the role of customer experience in the telecoms industry entering 2023?

Lumoa

Recently, Lumoa held a webinar where customer experience (CX) experts talked about the role of customer experience in the telecoms industry entering 2023. In this live panel discussion, experts in the field discussed the challenges telcos are facing, the importance of integrating a CX Strategy into a business, and more. This blog will share some of the highlights of the webinar.

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The Best Customer Experience, Data and Design Books of 2022

eglobalis

The Best Customer Experience books 2002 list, Data and Design Readings of 2022, CX, experience design, cx strategy. The post The Best Customer Experience, Data and Design Books of 2022 appeared first on Eglobalis.

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The H.U.M.A.N.E approach to CX: Six steps for improving customer interactions with AI

Callminer

As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced and accessible, it is essential to employ both human service and automation in the contact center. Read on for steps to balance your CX approach.

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UK consumers say it’s good to talk but are contact centres really listening?

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by a Graeme Meikle, a Senior WFM Consultant and Project Manager for Calabrio. Despite a rise in digital interactions, the phone […]. The post UK consumers say it’s good to talk but are contact centres really listening? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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An Introduction to AI in Customer Service

Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption has risen dramatically in the customer service industry over the last few years. But many contact centers have yet to implement AI. In this eBook, we give an introduction to how customer service leaders are using AI to improve their customer experience.

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How service culture is built on everyday hero moments

Inside Customer Service

The original Shake Shack location is in New York City's Madison Square Park. The first time I visited, Al Roker was there. Roker was handing out samples of his new Roker Burger. It was a special burger he created with Shake Shack to raise money for No Kid Hungry , a nonprofit dedicated to ending childhood hunger. A Today Show crew was there to film the segment.

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5 Call Center Improvement Ideas to Boost Business

Fonolo

Whatever the size of your contact center, there will likely come a time when you notice your numbers slipping and employees losing steam while their productivity fizzles. In a world still managing pandemic burnout and fears around health and safety, it’s easy for processes to become disjointed and for management to stop pushing for growth. Sounds like a good time to shake things up!

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Five Ways to Make Customers Feel Special

Shep Hyken

An important goal of a good customer experience is to make the customer feel special. That special feeling can come in many different forms. I was reading an article about customer retention, and it prompted me to start a list of ways to make customers feel special, want to come back, and even want to share their experience with friends, family, and colleagues.

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Going from Greg to Benny: Building a Stronger Client Experience Model

The DiJulius Group

We had been consulting with one of the largest accounting firms in the world, guiding them in building a stronger client experience model. About a year into the CX project, there was still a small percentage of the accountants, including partners, who had not totally bought in. At one of our regional workshops, one of. Read Full Article. The post Going from Greg to Benny: Building a Stronger Client Experience Model appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Work it: A CX Moment with Upwork

Zendesk

With unemployment at a near 50-year low, many American companies have struggled to find highly skilled workers. Finding—and keeping—talent is an ongoing challenge for many businesses. And with the number of Americans who quit their jobs at a 20-year high, companies are increasingly relying on independent contractors from across the globe. Upwork is the world’s largest work marketplace where companies can find independent talent to grow their businesses, and independent talent can find work to gr

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The Essential Chatbot Success Metrics

Comm100

Chatbots have steadily grown in popularity to become a key component of customer service today. With an AI chatbot in place, organizations can resolve as much as 91% of chats without involving a human agent. With a bot handling most chats, this means organizations can increase support capacity without growing team size, while also delivering 4/7 availability to their customers.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Amazing Business Radio: Tim Hughes

Shep Hyken

Serve and Sell Your Customers with An Amazing Digital CX. Creating the Digital Experience That Builds Trust with Your Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Tim Hughes, co-Founder and CEO of DLA Ignite , and co-author of Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers. He shares how organizations can establish a strong digital brand identity, share knowledge, and create lasting relationships with their customers through social media platforms.

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Zonka Feedback Joins Global Startup Community at Web Summit 2022

Zonka Feedback

We are immensely excited to announce that Zonka Feedback will be coming to Web Summit 2022 and joining over 70,000 attendees in Lisbon, Portugal on 1 - 4 November. “The world’s premiere tech conference”, as described by Poitico will witness businesses that are redefining the tech world. It’s the biggest platform for the one making a dent in the tech world to meet, work together, collaborate & exchange ideas.

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How to scale a multilingual support team with AI

Zendesk

Multilingual support is a must when serving an international customer base: 75 percent of consumers from 29 countries say they’re more likely to purchase from the same brand again if customer care is in their language. That’s not only important for CX in general, but especially so in times when companies are tightening their belts and focusing on customer retention over acquisition: After all, wowing your existing customer base is 5x cheaper than acquiring new customers.

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Surfboard founder Natasha Ratanshi-Stein on riding the wave of planning software for support

Intercom

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. As a result, there usually comes an inflection point in the growth journey where the internal orchestration of tasks starts to feel a little out of sorts.

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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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FEAR! One of the greatest marketing motivators of human behavior

Beyond Philosophy

Neither of us is much of a runner. In fact, to get us to run with any kind of speed would require some motivation—like a tiger chasing us. That’s because fear is a powerful motivator. Fear is also a powerful tool for marketers to get customers or potential customers to care about something. So, why does fear motivate us so much? Safety is an important value for all of us.

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Ways to Measure Customer Service Performance

Zonka Feedback

There has been a massive shift in the way Customer Service functions in this day and age. For organizations, it’s not just about providing support to the customers and serving them in general but it is about retaining them for a long period of time and ensuring that they remain loyal. Why? Well, it’s no hidden fact that it is 5 times more expensive to get new customers than to retain existing ones.

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A treat for your team: New integrations

Zendesk

Here are the newest integrations from Zendesk to help your team provide top-quality experiences. Shopify Premium for Zendesk. Shopify Premium for Zendesk (Support) is the powerhouse app retailers have been waiting for, loaded with industry-leading tools to turn your customer service team into SuperAgents. Allow agents to instantly view customers’ order history as soon as they open a ticket.

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10 Techniques to Motivate Call Center Agents

Fonolo

Working in a call center can be extremely rewarding, especially for those who enjoy customer service and sales. But it’s up to management to promote call center motivation and create a work environment where their agents can gain a sense of satisfaction from their work. It’s easy to say, “I’ll just hire someone who is self-motivated.” But even agents with strong work ethics are susceptible to burnout over time.

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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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CX and EX KPI Trends: How Inflation and the Great Resignation have Changed Customer Service Metrics

CSAT.AI

Times, they are always a-changing. No longer silently taking poor treatment, employees and customers pushed back: employees via the Great Resignation, and customers with changing brand loyalty. Inflation in the US is at a decade high on the heels of two challenging years. These events inspired a shift in key CX and EX KPI trends as companies struggle to manage shifting expectations on both sides.

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21 Important Customer Service Survey Questions to Ask

Zonka Feedback

The effectiveness and value of your product or service in the marketplace are defined by the kind of experience you are giving to your customers. That’s why good Customer Service is key to a successful business. No matter how good of a product or service you offer, one bad customer experience could mean losing them forever.

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Product News – November 2022

Lumoa

Lumoa Product News for November 2022 Conversational Analytics now ignores “junk” Did you know you can put entire conversations into Lumoa, such as those that happen in support emails, chat threads, or phone calls? Then, Lumoa can analyze that conversation to give you key highlights: Deep issue analysis – Lumoa can tell you what the most common issue is among all conversations Advanced AI – Lumoa will ignore non relevant parts of the conversation, such as “hell

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FEAR! One of the Greatest Marketing Motivators of Human Behavior

Beyond Philosophy

Fear is a powerful motivator for what we do. It is also a powerful tool for marketing. So, with Halloween coming up, we decided we would dive deeper into why this is and why it works to get people to do things. Some of the reasons might, well, scare you. Okay, they probably won’t scare you but will surprise you. See, we were tricking you. Wasn’t that a treat?

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The Future of Customer Engagement: How AI is Reshaping Contact Centers

51% of contact center leaders have already integrated AI into customer interactions. Those leveraging AI for conversation analysis are seeing faster resolution times, improved customer satisfaction, and reduced agent burnout. Ready to learn more about how AI is transforming the contact center landscape? Download our full report to discover key trends, implementation strategies, and the most critical KPIs for measuring AI success in contact centers.

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Becoming an Unforgettable Customer-Centric Company

Doing CX Right

Author & 5 Time Chief Customer Experience Officer, Jeanne Bliss, explains how to be an unforgettable brand that customers continue to buy from and rave about to others. The post Becoming an Unforgettable Customer-Centric Company appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Examples of giving Positive Feedback to Employees

Zonka Feedback

Employee feedback has the ability to strengthen the bond between you and your team when given thoughtfully and sympathetically. But I assume you already know that since you're looking for " positive feedback examples.".

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Ready to Boost Customer Retention? 3 Tips That Can Help! 

ClientSuccess

Over the years, customer success manager roles have expanded to include many different responsibilities. Bridging the gap between customers and a product team is critical, from managing customer implementations to ongoing account maintenance. But customer satisfaction is another side to the CSM role that has become increasingly important over the last few years.

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6 tips for designing customer journeys that deliver value at scale

Totango

In order to achieve step-change growth, you need to deliver value to your customers at scale—and across their entire journey with your company. Sounds simple in concept, but where do you start? . That’s the question that Sumo Logic Chief Customer Officer Dione Hedgpeth and Totango President & COO Jamie Bertasi discussed during their session at the TSIA World: ENVISION conference.

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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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Improving Customer Experience in Banking: 7 Promising Trends

PeopleMetrics

Customers evaluate the businesses they interact with everyday on a variety of factors, including price, quality, and the overall customer experience. Creating a positive customer experience (CX) is for all types of businesses, including essential services like banking. Picture this: a customer who just bought a new high-end phone might get annoyed navigating a website they feel has a poor online shopping experience.

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We’ve got mail: Introducing Intercom email features to complement your customer support strategy

Intercom

In 2022, there are countless ways to reach your customers. . Despite all of these leaps forward, email remains a constant in customer communications. Almost all businesses still use email to acquire, engage, and support their customers – but a simple email is no longer enough. As the number of emails landing in customer inboxes grows, so do customer expectations. .

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Guest Post: 6 Ways BPOs Can Boost Customer Experience

Shep Hyken

This week, we feature an article by Baphira Wahlang Shylla, a digital marketer at Knowmax , a SaaS company that provides knowledge management solutions for various industries that are seeking to improve their customer service metrics. She shares how BPOs can enhance your customer experience. With rapidly evolving technology in today’s digital age, the BPO industry is bombarded with opportunities to improve customer experience (CX) in ways unthinkable a few decades earlier.

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Why CX Champions must continue raising the bar on excellent customer service

Zendesk

Even the highest-performing service organizations need to know where they stand among their competitors and how they can continue raising the bar to retain their status as leaders. You can find answers in the 2022 CX Accelerator report , where CX organizations are categorized according to our CX maturity model scale and rank as Starters , Emergers , Risers , and CX Champions.

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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.