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Tips for Transforming to a Customer-Centric Company Culture

ECXO

SHARE ARTICLE. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on email. Share on whatsapp. Tips for Transforming to a Customer-Centric Company Culture. I have been asked a lot what it means in practice to be customer-centric and how to get everyone on board in the company? Customer-centricity can’t be achieved overnight – it requires dedicated commitment from everyone in the organization as well as shifting mindsets and behaviors.

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Trajectory matters more than state

Intercom, Inc.

When you analyze your company, it’s easy to look at everything in its current state. What’s our biggest problem today ? What’s our best asset today ? That perspective is not so useful, however, when planning for where you want to be tomorrow. It’s not about where you are, it’s about where you’re headed, and how fast you’re getting there. Long-term thinking is hard for a very simple reason: every company is in a race against the clock.

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8 Things I Learned From My Dad

The Belding Group

Father's Day is a great time to reflect on how much of a difference we can make in the lives of those around us. Whether you are a parent, a friend, a teacher, a leader, a service provider or just a casual acquaintance, you have the opportunity every day to make a difference in someone's life. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.

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How to Train and Onboard (Work From Home) Contact Center Agents in 2021

Uniphore

How to Train and Onboard (Work From Home) Contact Center Agents in 2021. How do you make every agent sell to and serve your customers just like your very best agents? How do you shorten the learning curve in the contact center and retain more agents when 91% of agents are likely to quit in 2021? These are the questions that keep customer operations leaders up at night — especially as modern customers rely heavily on contact centers and expect more from each interaction.

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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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What is the difference between a mission, vision, and values?

Inside Customer Service

Employees are often confused about mission, vision, and value statements. Here are just a few of the questions I'm frequently asked: What's the difference? What are they for? Do we even need them all? These questions came up a lot while I was doing research for The Service Culture Handbook and The Guaranteed Customer Experience. They’ve also come up while training thousands of employees on mission, vision, and values.

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How Intercom is preparing for a return to the office

Intercom, Inc.

As vaccination efforts soar and lockdowns ease, people are slowly leaving home and getting back to the office. But what can we do to make this transition as smooth as possible? It’s been a while since, almost overnight, we had to pack our things and start working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But now, almost a year and a half later, the time has come to start thinking about returning to the office.

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3 Ways to Boost FCR and Reduce Customer Churn With AI & RPA

Uniphore

3 Ways to Boost FCR and Reduce Customer Churn With AI & RPA. Get It Right The First Time - Every Time. Few KPIs have a bigger influence on the customer experience than First Call Resolution (FCR). When customers call in with an issue, they expect it to be solved then and there. Calls that are unresolved, require multiple contact points or—worst of all—are dropped can frustrate customers to the point of no return.

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5 Incentives for Call Center Agent Engagement

Fonolo

Keeping your staff motivated and satisfied in their work is vital to contact center performance. Studies show that agent engagement is linked to increased profitability, better employee performance, employee retention, and employee empowerment. But agent engagement isn’t just about making your employees happy. Its true power lies in making your team feel involved, enthusiastic, and committed to their work and workplace.

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046: The Relationship Economy (Part 1)

The DiJulius Group

On this week’s podcast, it is Jess Pischel, Customer Experience Consultant for The DiJulius Group and Dean of the Customer eXperience Executive Academy who interviews John DiJulius on his latest book The Relationship Economy: Building Stronger Customer Connections in the Digital Age. This is part 1 of 2 episodes. You will learn: Today’s illiterate are.

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Choose your battles wisely – Conflict Resolution Training for Managers

Myra Golden Media

For Jack Cooper University , I produced a ten week conflict resolution training. Jack Cooper’s managers are ready to preempt escalations and manage conflict. Here’s our week eight video training. I loved every minute of this interactive training project! Download the cheat sheet I talk about in the video. Learn about my customized 30-minute video training for your team, shot from my broadcast studio in Tulsa.

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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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What Is Call Center Life | How Poor EX Hurts CX

Uniphore

Call Center Life. High Stress. High Stakes. It's All In A Day's Work. Your Call Center Is a Glass House. You’re listening to your customers on social media—and taking steps to improve their experience—but what about your customer service employees? Online, they’re screaming. From toxic interactions to unrealistic expectations, unhappy agents have made a glass house out of call center life.

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Why Call Center Agent Engagement Matters

Fonolo

The numbers are in, and the truth is out: the American workforce is pretty underwhelmed these days. Only 30% of American workforce says they’re engaged and inspired at work, with the other 70% identifying as ‘disengaged’ employees who do the bare minimum. For call center managers, this disparity is a big cause for concern. Call center managers who can’t discern an engaged call center employee from one who has their foot firmly out the door are at a big disadvantage.

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Stop Networking and Start Building Social Capital

The DiJulius Group

The trusted connections one has built up over time are known as “social capital.” It acts as a human library of resources we can access anytime to gain or share information, knowledge, advice, and introductions. Social capital is a result of long-term, continuous relationship-building and one of the most powerful resources a person can have. Read Full Article.

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10 Inspirational Customer Experience Examples

Help Scout

We’ve all read those great customer experience stories that make us feel awed and admiring, but some of those stand-out examples can be misleading. While they certainly jerk at the emotions and evoke a sense of wonder for the brand, they usually end up drawing attention because they are so far outside of the norm. They aren’t the typical conditions under which the company does business.

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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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10 Agent Superpowers That Reduce AHT and Boost NPS

Uniphore

10 Agent Assist Superpowers That Reduce AHT and Boost NPS on Day 1. ??? You probably already think enough about Average Handle Time, or AHT for short. Maybe even a little too much. AHT is the average length of time it takes an agent to complete a call. While this is an important metric for internal operating costs — shaving 10 or 20 seconds per call across thousands of interactions can add up to significant savings — managers often get in trouble by thinking of it as an end-all-be-all.

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In the News: 3 Stories That Give Insight to Improving Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

You might not realize it but the failure of the European Super League in soccer, the pros and cons of vaccine passports, and a brand that took a political stand and paid the price for it all have something in common. These things are part of three news stories that can provide insight into improving your Customer Experience. So how do they provide insight?

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4 Marketing Strategies to expand your CX Strategy

SurveySensum

Give customers a positive customer experience and they will buy more. They will remain loyal. Your revenues will skyrocket. You must have heard this countless times. But, what no one talks about is, how to deliver that positive customer experience? A customer experience strategy is what helps you deliver delightful customer experiences to the customers. .

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Customer Experience vs. Customer Success: Explained

Help Scout

Many want to draw strict boundaries around customer experience and customer success, but I find it much more satisfying to live inside the spectrum rather than at the edges. I see customer experience and customer success as flavors inside the same ice cream parlor of treating the customer well. If you’re doing it right, you’re delivering a great experience that helps them successfully use your product or service.

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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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Revealing Change Makers’ Secrets

Heart of the Customer

As regular readers have probably noticed, I’ve been referencing the massive research project we undertook last year often in recent blog posts, especially while sharing learnings. Today I want to take you behind the curtain and describe the impetus for the project, explain some of the methodology, and tell you about my motivation and goals. […].

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What is Customer Health Score?

Totango

What is a Customer Health Score? . A customer’s health score can be composed of all the information the company has about the customer, from all probes, people, and systems, past and current. A customer health score takes multiple dimensions of customer data metrics and classifies them into a single representation of green, yellow, or red. Companies measure customer health to speed up and scale communication, prioritization, decision making, and forecasting of their customer success operat

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3 ways community forums benefit businesses

Zendesk

People love to gather in groups and discuss the topics they’re most interested in, whether it’s in person or online. That’s why so many consumers turn to community forums when they need information or support from their favorite brands. These online platforms are where users can come to ask questions, enter into debates, share knowledge, and discuss topics of common interest.

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Why Financial Brands Should put Conversational CX at the Heart of Their Customer Engagement Strategy

Conversocial

Modern banking is a very different beast to what was the norm 15-20 years ago. Since the mid 1990s the total number of brick and mortar branches in the UK has fallen by 28% and it’s a similar story in the US, with 12,000 closing between 2010 - 2019. A shift towards using digital services has seen less need for the ‘high street branch’ and has changed customer expectations across the world, part of a wider change in consumer habits that has been accelerated over the past 15 months. 50% of consume

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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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HoduCC Gartner Digital Markets May 2021

Hodusoft

HoduCC makes it to Gartner’s Category Leaders & FrontRunners List. There is nothing more rewarding than knowing that you are truly serving your customers well. HoduCC – the Call & Contact Center software by HoduSoft has been named as Category Leader and FrontRunner for call recording software in the latest list published by Gartner Digital Markets Report.

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Four cool CX stories you probably didn’t know yet (episode 10)

Steven Van Belleghem

The company hosts “experience-a-thons” that give front-line employees the chance to test new products and provide honest feedback. The idea is that employees can point out potential issues and offer fresh perspectives. After test driving a car, potential Tesla customers are sent a link so they can configure their car and learn about pricing. Instead of wasting time with unnecessary sales pitches, Tesla gives customers the information to make their own decisions.

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Customer expectations have changed. Here’s how to keep up.

Zendesk

What customers want and what they get might not always align, but the stakes are getting higher for any business that falls short. 80 percent of customers say they’d switch to a competitor after more than one bad experience. And that’s a number that should have most companies paying attention. Why? Customer expectations have shifted considerably over the past year.

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Execs In The Know Announces “Leading With Impact” — A New Initiative For Positive Change

Execs In The Know

PHOENIX, Ariz., June 15, 2021 — Global customer experience (CX) industry leader Execs In The Know is pleased to announce the launch of a new, altruistic-minded initiative for its vast community of CX leaders and practitioners, as well as the wider industry. The initiative is called Leading with Impact. Leading with Impact goes beyond the boardroom with the goal of projecting time, resources, and attention to the issues that matter most to our community members, as well as their friends, family,

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.

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What Is Customer Segmentation? Definitions, Uses and Success Tips

Totango

What is customer segmentation ? It’s a key principle for doing business in a digital environment, but many companies don’t apply it effectively. Here we’ll discuss what it means, different ways you can do it, and how to leverage technology to apply it effectively. We’ll discuss the subtle shade of difference between customer segmentation and audience segmentation, two terms with some overlap that are often used interchangeably.

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Stop Making This BIG Pricing Mistake

BeyondPhilosophy

What tactics do you use in your pricing strategy? There are various ways, such as running promos like “buy one, get one free,” or branding it into your customers’ minds like “everyday low prices.” Some coupons discount 20% off any item in the store or offer subscription discounts versus buying one-time that you submit at the online checkout.

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Messaging best practices for better customer service

Zendesk

Forty-two percent of people worldwide have a smartphone, and 87 percent of smartphone owners use messaging. Let those numbers sink in for a minute. Customers overwhelmingly want to interact with businesses on the same messaging channels they use in their personal lives. They’re also looking to connect with brands through live chat on their web and mobile apps.

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So Long Onboarding Kickoff, It’s All About the Partnership From Now On

ClientSuccess

Kristi Faltorusso. If you’re in SaaS, you understand the importance of Customer and User Onboarding to ensure your customers are set up to succeed in using your product and services. But, when we start with Onboarding, we miss a HUGE opportunity. Think about a perfect world, where you and your customer are aligned on goals, expectations, roles and responsibilities as well as the overarching success criteria.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.