Callminer

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Throughout 2020, many new trends arose and call center solutions continued to evolve to meet fresh challenges in the space. COVID-19 led to new realizations about how call centers need to operate, including a shift to remote work , system-wide stressors and important shifts in customer experience and service expectations among consumers. It’s critical that organizations proactively stay ahead of these changes and work to take on top of changing industry standards.

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Technology Technology E-commerce Contact Center 376

Futurelab

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In 2019, I wrote about this marketing phenomenon that I kept hearing about, that customers are in control, that they have all the power. I never felt like that was right. In that post, I wrote: Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) co-creation customer experience design thinking innovation Facebook Like. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. At least, that’s Annette Franz ‘ s two cents on the matter. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc. With three decades of experience under her belt, she has learned a thing or two about helping companies build customer-centric businesses.

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Customer Experience CX Start-ups Close the Loop 211

Inside Customer Service

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Ugly babies are my customer service kryptonite. No, not actual human babies. An "ugly baby" is a metaphor for an idea, project, product, or anything else that someone is really proud of, but isn't terrific. For example, a lot of people send me the customer experience vision statements their companies create. It's an honor because vision statements are my thing.

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Construction Start-ups Customer Service Customer Experience Management 163

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Read this blog to learn about the 25 top trends for 2021 in call center technology.

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Technology Technology 385

Futurelab

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I’ve written about inside out thinking and behavior a few times, but today’s focus on inside out is a little different. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience culture employee experience customer-centric culture leadership Facebook Like. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Experience 246

Fonolo

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

When you first start a business, everything is on you – from accounting to customer service to sales. However, as you grow your business, you can’t focus on everything internally. This is especially the case with customer service and customer care. Outsourcing customer service can potentially save your business money while allowing you to focus on other areas of the business.

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Social Media Customer Service Start-ups Innovation 134

The DiJulius Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

5 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1) Customer Service Feature Story The Six Components of a Customer’s Experience In order to create brand loyalty and customer evangelists, you must 1) operate at a high level in six distinct areas of business and 2) constantly evaluate your company’s customer service across each category, Read Full Article.

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Customer Service Customer Experience 128

Futurelab

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Back in late 2015, I wrote an article titled Work Harder or Smarter? in which I offered up some ways to help employees work more efficiently – ultimately, to work smarter. The last item on the list was automation. Fast forward five plus years, and automation is likely at the top of the list now for a lot of companies! But for many, the term “automation” brings chills, with visions of job losses and customer frustration.

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Customer Experience 130

PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

PeopleMetrics Experience Management Platform Roadmap Preview. Learn about the latest changes to PeopleMetrics and how they affect your team. This is a special look at what’s coming soon and what’s recently launched. We highlight: Features we added in 2020. The new features we're adding this year. New and soon-to-be-released features focused on alert notifications, dashboard reports and survey health.

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker

Brands used to look for a commerce platform that could do everything. But over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, so they added, and added, and added— and now it's essential that these vendors work well together. That’s composable, and it’s important to get it right. Customers and your board expect you to be in new channels and to adapt quickly to market change.

Customer Experience

Zendesk

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It goes without saying that today’s customer service tools are not one-size-fits-all. Different communication channels— messaging apps, phone, email, and live chat –offer different benefits to the company and to the customer. When it comes to offering fast responses, live chat and the phone are the most obvious options. Both channels are synchronous, which means that customers can ask a question and receive an immediate response, and saw a surge in users last year.

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Omnichannel Social Media Customer Expectations AI 105

Fonolo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

This blog is for contact center industry newbies. It’s a quick rundown of call centers and how contact center technology has developed over the last 70 years. What does call center technology mean? Call center technology refers to a vast range of software and hardware used to run the modern call center. That includes the front-end software that call center agents use to respond to serve customers and find answers.

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Technology Technology Contact Center Start-ups 96

Steven Van Belleghem

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Behind the brand. Founded in 2008, Behind the Brand with Bryan Elliott is a show about innovators, entrepreneurs and the stories behind their success. Though this channel has a broader scope than mere CX, you’ll find many talks there with top marketing gurus like Gary Vaynerchuck, Brian Solis and Seth Godin. Here’s for instance an interview with Marty Neumeier, an American author and speaker who’s specialized in the topics of brand, design, innovation, creativity and the brand gap (which is also

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CX Customer Experience Social Media Innovation 98

Dealing With Humans

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Here’s a great “what if” for you. What if your guests and clients walked in with a video screen over their head, highlighting in some way, both good, and bad points in their life and worldly travels? What if you could see some things that made them the humans they are? Would you treat them differently? Would you treat them with either more, or in some cases, less compassion?

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Customer Service 97

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In 1998, Joe Pine (@joepine), co-founder of Strategic Horizons, LLP, wrote a book along with Jim Gilmore called The Experience Economy. When I read this book, I thought, “Bloody hell! This is it!” I was working at British Telecom at the time, so I showed it to my boss. He had a similar reaction and set me on the route of improving the Customer Experience , and the rest is history.

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Gaming Sports Management Consulting Retail 78

Astute

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Employee engagement surveys can help you discover how to boost employee satisfaction and retention. Here are some questions and tips to consider. The post Employee Engagement Survey Questions and Tips All HR Leaders Must Know appeared first on Astute.

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Contact Center 90

Steven Van Belleghem

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Through social media, the company stumbled upon a father looking for a replacement of a limited edition Tommee Tippee sippy cup for his son, Ben, who has severe autism. The sippy cup was the only one Ben would drink from and so the father created a hashtag #cupsforBen. The result was a viral tweet, amassing thousands of likes, retweets and shoutouts, which of course caught the company’s attention.

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UJET

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In the most recent G2 2021 Contact Center Operations Software Report , UJET has once again been named a Leader in contact center operations. Based on actual product user reviews, G2 reports that UJET consistently receives the highest satisfaction ratings in the industry, beating out major players such as Talkdesk, Genesys, NICE inContact, and Five9. . *99% rate UJET with 4-or-5 stars (out of 5). *97% satisfaction rate for Ease of Use. *97% satisfaction rate for Ease of Setup. *97% satisfaction r

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Contact Center Start-ups Customer Service Customer Experience 72

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Way back in 1998, I read a book by Joe Pine (@joepine), co-founder of Strategic Horizons, LLP, and Jim Gilmore called The Experience Economy. I was gobsmacked by it. I dashed down the hall to my boss at British Telecom. He read it and had a similar reaction to mine. The next thing I knew, he put me in charge of improving the Customer Experience for our company, and the rest is history.

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Sports Management Consulting Customer Experience CX 78

TeamSupport

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

That’s according to the Customer Success Association who tells us that being able to prove your worth in both directions is the most crucial aspect of determining success. Monitoring the return on investment (ROI) for the customer is therefore a vital capability, and in the other direction, driving recurring revenues for your company. The CSA advises that Value Management functionality should also include: Deep churn analysis and reporting , Tracking and reporting on up-sell and cross-sell poten

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Zonka Feedback

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

While communicating with customers to gather feedback has always being an important aspect of any business, the way to communicate with the customers have been typically changed since last year due to the ongoing pandemic. This was the time when all the entities of society had to adapt to the evolving situations due to COVID 19.

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UJET

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In the most recent G2 2021 Contact Center Operations Software Report , UJET has once again been named a Leader in contact center operations. Based on actual product user reviews, G2 reports that UJET consistently receives the highest satisfaction ratings in the industry, beating out major players such as Talkdesk, Genesys, NICE inContact, and Five9. . *99% rate UJET with 4-or-5 stars (out of 5). *97% satisfaction rate for Ease of Use. *97% satisfaction rate for Ease of Setup. *97% satisfaction r

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Kerry Bodine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

If you’re looking for customer experience or service design inspiration, look no further. We’ve just announced our ten 2020 Service Design Award finalists. (And no, that’s not a typo… Covid through a wrench into our annual awards schedule.). The Finalists. Commercial Work. CX Transformation For Hearing Care by Smart Design in the USA. Future Of Facilitation: Digital Blueprinting On A Global Scale by Xero in Australia.

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Non-Profits CX Transformation Government Engineering 71

Totango

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What comes to mind when you think of the term “game changer”? With the recent Super Bowl, perhaps your mind drifts to NFL quarterback Tom Brady. As a little-known, sixth-round draft pick out of the University of Michigan, it’s safe to say no one expected much out of Brady in the NFL. However, by his second season in the league, Brady became the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots and led his team to their first Super Bowl title.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Looking at the foundational or required skills of any CSM, ‘good listener’ is going to be on the list. Customers – especially those working with a SaaS vendor – are known to be extremely vocal about many things, good and bad alike. While good CSMs can listen to customers and get things done, great CSMs understand on a deep level what a customer is actually asking for and work with the customer to move forward.

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Start-ups 65

The DiJulius Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The DiJulius Group’s Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius and Senior Customer Experience Consultant Dave Murray talk about the legacy of Tony Hsieh, the man who built Zappos into a customer experience powerhouse. Hsieh pioneered so many revolutionizing customer experiences used in all industries today. What you will learn: How Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, took.

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Customer Experience 60

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

Technology

Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The headlines are glowing: “ Texans Needed Food and Comfort After a Brutal Storm. As Usual, They Found It at H-E-B. ” –The New York Times. “ Opinion: Why H-E-B comes through in a crisis when Texas government doesn’t. ” –The Houston Chronicle. “ Texans are raving about H-E-B as the beloved grocery chain provides food and comfort amid a nightmarish storm. ” –Business Insider.

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Government 59

Comm100

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

92% of Canadians are concerned about their personal privacy, and 45% think businesses don’t respect their privacy rights. We live in an increasingly privacy-conscious world, and it’s no wonder. With technology and data so key to our lives, it’s almost impossible to keep tabs on who has our data and what it’s being used for. For any business to thrive, they need their customers to trust them, and to do this, they need to prove that they take personal privacy seriously.

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Transportation Social Media Compliance Technology 59

UJET

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In the most recent G2 2021 Contact Center Operations Software Report , UJET has once again been named a Leader in contact center operations. Based on actual product user reviews, G2 reports that UJET consistently receives the highest satisfaction ratings in the industry, beating out major players such as Talkdesk, Genesys, NICE inContact, and Five9. . *99% rate UJET with 4-or-5 stars (out of 5). *97% satisfaction rate for Ease of Use. *97% satisfaction rate for Ease of Setup. *97% satisfaction r

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Contact Center Start-ups Customer Service Customer Experience 56

Zendesk

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Sales emails need eye-catching subject lines, engaging introductions, and customized messages that speak directly to the reader. That’s why we’ve compiled 24 email templates that cover every sales pipeline stage, from prospecting to closing. Each template can be easily copied and adapted to suit the specific contact you’re trying to convert. In this eBook, you’ll get insight into: Prospecting emails.

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Sales 52

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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