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Alexa? Nest? What’s the value in this tech?

MyCustomer Experience

Recent news articles are telling us that the world of voice assistants is struggling, with the latest industry murmurings involving Amazon’. 25th Jan 2023 By Phil Jordan AI & Automation Specialist/Head of.

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What the heck is Relative Attractiveness and why it matters? – Interview with Richard Hammond of Uncrowd

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Richard Hammond, co-founder and CEO of Uncrowd, the innovative enterprise SaaS experience analytics platform that helps organisations grow market share by revealing […] The post What the heck is Relative Attractiveness and why it matters? – Interview with Richard Hammond of Uncrowd first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Five best practices for effective employee coaching

Callminer

As we know, a happy employee is a productive employee, and part of that includes making sure they feel like they can successfully do their jobs. Read this blog for employee coaching strategies.

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iOS 14.5: The New Frontier of Ecommerce Retention

Retently

Gone are the days when you could drop-ship your way to success, customer experience and customer lifetime value becoming more immediate priorities. It’s still challenging to prove the value of that investment as opposed to customer acquisition; however, the game is clearly changing, prompting ecommerce brands to cherish their most valuable asset – customer loyalty.

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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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7 Contact Center Trends to Watch in 2023

Customer Think

Contact center leaders, your time is now. Customer service and customer experience analysts and thought leaders are suggesting that the contact center is “the next big tech frontier.” Investment in the contact center is increasingly—finally.

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5 Customer Experience Predictions for 2023  

Comm100

2023 looks to be a year of great change in customer experience (CX). With economic uncertainty ahead, some organizations are asking employees to make do with fewer resources, while others are increasing CX investment. This is all occurring against a backdrop of incredibly high CX expectations across industries and ever-developing technology. To help make sense of the year ahead and plan for the ever-shifting CX landscape, we’ve asked five experts in the field for their CX predictions for 2023. 1

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CX4Now: CX and Contact Center Trends to Watch, According to These Influencers

Fonolo

If you’ve been following the CX and contact center industries over the past few years, you know the landscape has drastically changed. The industry players are bigger and more intimidating, and the customers are more demanding. There’s so much industry news out there – where should you focus your attention? We asked nine influencers and leaders in the CX and contact center spaces to weigh in on the biggest trends for 2023.

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Customer journey orchestration made easy – Interview with Mark Smith of CSG

Customer Think

Today’s interview is with Mark Smith, who is Senior Vice President of Digital Experience at CSG and is a business leader with 25 years of global experience in Customer Experience Management, Real-Time Interaction Management, and Analytical CRM. M.

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Frontier Eliminates Their Customer Service

The DiJulius Group

We read about it every day. Companies are charging customers hidden fees. One company eliminates their customer service, another starts charging patients for messages in amounts that would make most consumers say “Ouch” not to mention “You’ve gotta be kidding me!” Unfortunately, this trend is affecting a wide variety of businesses across industries.

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Gainsight PX founder Mickey Alon on using your product as a vehicle for growth

Intercom, Inc.

Product-led growth (PLG) has been embraced by SaaS companies of all sizes as a scalable approach to growing a business, but it is especially appealing in times of economic uncertainty and soaring acquisition costs like we’re experiencing today. After all, if you can leverage your product to drive your organization’s growth, there’s no need to rely on an army of marketing and salespeople.

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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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In customer service, your people are not your most important assets.

Bill Quiseng

In retail customer service, your people are NOT your most important assets. In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins writes that “People are not your most important asset. The right people are.” Stephen Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, claims that success in any job is 20% knowledge and 80% interpersonal skills. Ultimately, success in retail customer service is all about interpersonal skills.

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Back To The Future: AI Transforms The Contact Center

Customer Think

As the world moves ever closer to a future in which artificial intelligence (AI) plays a more significant role, contact centers are at the forefront of this change. AI has the potential to dramatically improve customer service, eliminate repetitive tasks and help contact centers become more efficient. So how is AI transforming contact centers?

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A step-by-step guide for customer journey mapping success

CX Network

A guide to the steps required when implementing customer journey mapping

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Reinventing our wheel: The vision behind Intercom’s new Messenger

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we’ve reinvented different parts of our product many times over the years – most recently, our Messenger. This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. All products follow the same life cycle: development, growth, maturity, decline. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous. And, when products are in this phase, users can feel it: it’s the slow, clunky, dated experience you get when using previous-generation tech.

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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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105: What I Wish My Parents Knew

The DiJulius Group

On this episode of The Customer Service Revolution, Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius of The DiJulius Group talks with Jason Reid. Jason is a serial entrepreneur, author, ironman athlete, and, most of all, a great family man. In 2018, life couldn’t get much better until he and his wife received the devasting news that their. Read Full Article The post 105: What I Wish My Parents Knew appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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5 Trends for Customer Loyalty and Engagement in 2023

Customer Think

From inflation to recession worries, 2022 has certainly kept marketers on their toes trying to keep up with the mood of consumers. The past few years taught us that we can’t predict the future. However, we can make educated guesses about the trends that are most likely to affect loyalty and customer relationship management (CRM).

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How to foster and “open door button” culture in CX

Steven Van Belleghem

Two ways to react to the same type of situation I want to illustrate with two incidents in everyone’s “favorite” places in international travel, which can really teach people a lot about customer experience and empathy: customs and security. A couple of months ago, I found myself in a German airport, having flown in from Thailand and on my way to a connecting flight to home.

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How to Create a Winning Customer Advisory Board

Experience Investigators

Customer advisory boards (also known as CABs) can be a powerful tool for unlocking the potential of your relationships with customers. While CABs can be an effective way to engage customers in a meaningful dialogue about your company’s products and services, gain valuable insights into customer needs, and develop strategies for improving customer experience, that doesn’t happy automatically.

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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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Contact Center Work From Home vs Hybrid Work and the Return to Office Struggle

CSAT.AI

There’s a lot of talk around the work from home and return to office debate. What’s fueling it and where it’s happening is part of the discussion. But does this debate apply to the contact center work from home model? The WFH and Hybrid Work Issue It’s true that the pandemic forced a hard work from home model on most businesses and their employees.

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If you’re explaining, you’re losing

Customer Think

The late actor (who also did some other things) Ronald Reagan had a saying: “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.” Now, when it comes to popular politics, what he meant by that was that it’s important to keep your arguments simple: Th.

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Building a best-in-class VOC program with T-Mobile

CX Network

Why brands need to consider both the rational and emotional when seeking to action customer feedback

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Understanding Customer Health Score: 6 Metrics To Track

ClientSuccess

Listening Vectors by Vecteezy Customer success health scoring is one of the most valuable activities SaaS organizations can undertake to evaluate and improve customer engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty. Understanding a customer’s health will let you examine any account at any given time and understand where the relationship is. What is a Customer Health Score?

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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.

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In hospitality, your people are NOT your most important assets.

Bill Quiseng

In hospitality, your people are NOT your most important assets. In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins writes that “People are not your most important asset. The right people are.” Stephen Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, claims that success in any job is 20% knowledge and 80% interpersonal skills. Ultimately, success in hospitality is all about interpersonal skills.

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CX and the world of work: 2023 predictions

Customer Think

The way we work has completely changed in the past few years. In 2023, this will remain the case as the hybrid working model continues to be adopted by more companies.

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How the Minnesota Twins has changed fan experiences forever

CX Network

Discover how augmented reality is helping the Minnesota Twins to engage fans like never before and how the brand is going to capitalize financially

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7 key strategic questions essential for gaining growth in 2023

Beyond Philosophy

It’s a new year so we decided we needed an update. A few years ago, we gave you some rules for gaining growth. But times have changed, and so the rules need to change, too. Therefore, we took another pass at the questions that can help your organization gain growth in 2023. In some ways, these are more like provocations than questions. However, we aren’t picking a fight.

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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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Enough is enough! I will NEVER shop at Lidl again

The Customer Service Blog

Okay, that's it. Enough is enough. I am never going to do my shopping at Lidl ever again. Regular readers of this blog will know that I've had numerous problems with Lidl over the years, mainly to do with being overcharged. But if you read my most recent article about them, you’ll know about the incredibly rare occasion when they actually UNDER charged me, and I dishonestly decided not to tell them!

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Streets, Roads, Stroads and Leadership Effectiveness

Customer Think

I was listening to a podcast episode on 99% Invisible hosted by the inimitable Roman Mars and they were talking about Stroads, which piqued my curiousity. So, today, we will explore this topic but from a leadership lens. Before we go ahead, I t.

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Streamlining patient journey for a more efficient lab

Qmatic

Running a lab can be overwhelming. From checking in patients, collecting specimens, running analyses, and relaying results to patients and providers, it is easy to lose sight of a critical component - the overall patient experience.

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The Seven Key Strategic Questions Essential for Gaining Growth in 2023

Beyond Philosophy

It’s time for an update. A few years ago, we went over some of the essential questions for your clients. However, in reviewing that content, I realized I was in sore need of an update. Therefore, we will discuss the seven key strategic questions updated for the new year. Before we get started, you should know that typically, people don’t know the answer when I ask these questions, which is why I ask them.

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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.