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Developing a CX Program of Work

CX Accelerator

An original piece from Ben Motteram. As a CX manager, there comes a time when you have to start implementing changes within your organisation to help you to meet and exceed your customers’ expectations. These are the initiatives that are going to ensure you reach the goals you’ve defined in your CX strategy. This is where the rubber hits the road in CX management.

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Reading list: Advice for customer retention

Intercom, Inc.

We continue our series of posts looking back through the Inside Intercom archive with a selection of some of our most popular posts on customer retention. This has long been one of the most popular topics on Inside Intercom, and over the years we have examined retention from a number of different perspectives – from measuring net dollar retention to understanding activity churn; from cohort analysis to re-engagement messaging strategies. “Retaining customers will be more important for surv

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How To Create a Seamless Brand Experience

Uniphore

It’s become clear that the contact center needs to offer customers a better experience. Customer expectations for help and support have increased dramatically, Gartner noted in 2019. And it didn't matter what industry -- expectations were high across the board. More people today demand always-on support. They expect customer service to be available across all digital channels.

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Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: What You Need to Know

Callminer

Here's everything you need to know about the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and what it means to both collectors and debtors.

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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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Developing a CX Program of Work

CX Accelerator

An original piece from Ben Motteram. As a CX manager, there comes a time when you have to start implementing changes within your organisation to help you to meet and exceed your customers’ expectations. These are the initiatives that are going to ensure you reach the goals you’ve defined in your CX strategy. This is where the rubber hits the road in CX management.

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Leading your support team through a crisis

Intercom, Inc.

“A team takes its tone from its leader,” says our Global Director of Customer Support Kaitlin Pettersen. When an unprecedented crisis like COVID-19 hits how do you provide your team with the guidance they need? Your support team is likely experiencing an array of unprecedented stressors right now, like tackling high conversation volumes, resolving stressed-out customers’ issues, and abruptly transitioning to working remotely.

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What is the FDCPA Fair Debt Collection Practices Act? Definition,Tips,Best Practices,and Compliance Challenges of the FDCPA

Callminer

Here's everything you need to know about the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and what it means to both collectors and debtors.

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What is voice feedback and how can you generate customer insights from it?

Lumoa

What is voice feedback? With modern technologies available today, such as speech-to-text and artificial intelligence it’s possible to automatically generate insights from calls. In this article, we'll explain what voice feedback is and how to generate customer insights from it.

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Surveys in the Time of Pandemic

Heart of the Customer

I’ve been posting weekly videos on LinkedIn with advice on what CX professionals can do during this unsettling time. During Week 2 of the pandemic, I received a survey request that I felt was ill-conceived. The email –entitled “We’d love to hear your thoughts!” – had your standard “based on your current level of happiness […]. The post Surveys in the Time of Pandemic appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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COVID-19 Makes Journey Mapping More Important Than Ever. Here’s How to Build One.

Experience Investigators

If you have a journey map, I hope you are using it. COVID-19 and the ongoing fallout from it — remote teams, changing budgets, new family dynamics — are competing for your attention, but don’t let your journey map collect dust right now. It’s one of the most useful tools you have in your customer experience toolbox at this moment.

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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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In this Pandemic, Move How You Listen to Customers—From ASKING to UNDERSTANDING

Customer Bliss

I want to talk about listening, and especially listening to your customers right now. Recently, I’ve received some questions including: Do you stop your surveys? How do you listen? So I want to share my thoughts on six key ways in which we should continue to listen to and communicate with our customers—and our teams. 1. Shift from Validating to Understanding.

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PRESS RELEASE: Free Customer Service Training for Small Businesses Affected by COVID-19

The DiJulius Group

The DiJulius Group, one of the world’s leading authorities on customer service and customer experience, is giving small businesses, that have been affected by the quarantine, free customer service training for all their employees. The DiJulius Group works with companies like The Ritz-Carlton, Lexus, Starbucks, Nordstrom, Chick-fil-a, Nestle, Marriott Hotel, PWC, Celebrity Cruises, Progressive Insurance, Read Full Article.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on SaaS Companies

ClientSuccess

Over the past few weeks, members of the global workforce have been asked to stop going into offices and work from home. With no end in sight, companies of all shapes and sizes are being forced to re-think both how they deliver goods and services to customers as well as they manage their staff. Whether you employ thousands of team members across multiple countries or less than a hundred in a single office, it is impossible to think that a global crisis like COVID-19 will pass by without making so

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Contact Centers: Prepare for Post-Pandemic Shocks Now

Fonolo

At the moment, many call centers are faced with a torrent of unexpected demand. At Fonolo, we are watching our customers cope in real-time with this demand, with vary degrees of success. For our banking customers, demand is related to payment deferrals, emergency loans, etc. For our partners in the travel and hospitality sectors, it’s floods of cancellations and rescheduling.

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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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7 Mistakes Organizations Make When Trying To Gain Growth

Beyond Philosophy

I don’t know if it’s age talking here, but it probably is. Life becomes a lot clearer as you go on. I am at the point where I feel comfortable telling you what I think. In this episode of The Intuitive Customer, I am going to tell you about seven mistakes organizations make while trying to gain growth in revenue or market share. The post 7 Mistakes Organizations Make When Trying To Gain Growth appeared first on CX Consulting.

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7 LinkedIn Learning Classes That Will Inspire You

Myra Golden Media

We’ve suspended our onsite workshops, but if you have a LinkedIn Learning subscription, you can take Myra’s most popular customer service classes online. Head on over to LinkedIn Learning and start training with Myra now!

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Security Checklist for Remote Customer Support Agents

UJET

With more and more support agents either currently working from home or transitioning into a remote environment, a customer support organization leveraging cloud contact center software can provide laptops to remote agents or have agents access the platform through an installed application or internet browser on their own computer. Regardless of which system is used, it’s important that remote agents are following security tenets to keep customer data and company information secure as well as pr

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How to Train, Support, and Coach Customer Service Agents

Fonolo

There’s always a script — a basic list of questions or responses to customers who have issues. Managers and business owners spend countless hours analyzing data and/or speaking with customers to be able to produce at least that: a script. But how effective is it? Whether it’s for existing products or new features, there are times when you have to teach your employees new skills that will help them fulfill their responsibilities.

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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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Uplifting Service Ranked #1 Worlds Top Customer Service Development Program 2020

Uplifting Service

We are pleased to announce that Uplifting Service: The Proven Path to Unleashing Unbelievable! has been named the World’s Top Customer Service Development Program in 2020 by the GlobalGurus.org. We sincerely thank all Uplifting Service Leaders and Champions, our own Uplifting Service team, and all supporters who made this happen. You bring this program to life around the world.

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A world without traffic jams?

Steven Van Belleghem

In a few weeks/months from now the world will have this first Covid-19 outbreak more or less under control (hopefully). People will go back to work and there is a big chance that traffic jams will return like they were never gone. Maybe some people will even enjoy being in them again. Back to the old normal. That would be such a missed opportunity! This is a unique moment in time to solve the traffic jam issue.

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Be the Leader You are Meant to Be—Even from Your Living Room, Part 1

TeamSupport

“Right now, you as leaders have only one option: Lead your way out of this challenge.” That’s what Mike Caracalas , leadership coach, executive consultant, and author of Ten Strategies to Get Better Results with People advises. He’s right. But leading in the best of times is difficult, and while many of the best leadership qualities and practices must apply these days more than ever, leaders must quickly adapt to an ongoing, very complex way of getting work done.

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What is Voice Feedback and How can You Generate Customer Insights From it?

Lumoa

”Calls may be recorded for training and monitoring purposes”. This is a common pre-recorded message that I think we have all heard once or twice when calling a customer service department. Some firms receive over 10 000 hours of calls per day and it would take several years for one person to listen to and transcribe those calls. Having a person listening to every call and transcribing them isn’t really an effective strategy.

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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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6 Ways To Capitalize On Customer Loyalty

The DiJulius Group

Now is the time to take your customer experience to a completely different level. In the BQ (Before Quarantine) era, the majority of business models were high tech and no touch. As a result of social distancing, we now long for a sense of community, belonging, and purpose, in a world in which people actually. Read Full Article. The post 6 Ways To Capitalize On Customer Loyalty appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Gracious Giving: Publix Super Markets Offers Rent Relief to Tenants

Customer Bliss

In each episode of the Daily Dose of OPTIMISM! , I want to share acts of goodness that will drive and will earn both human and financial prosperity, as we work our way out of this. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. Today’s “Daily Dose” comes from Publix Super Markets , the beloved chain in the Southeast of the United States.

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Security Checklist for Remote Customer Support Agents

UJET

With more and more support agents either currently working from home or transitioning into a remote environment, a customer support organization leveraging cloud contact center software can provide laptops to remote agents or have agents access the platform through an installed application or internet browser on their own computer. Regardless of which system is used, it’s important that remote agents are following security tenets to keep customer data and company information secure as well as pr

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Five Brilliant Ideas to Boost your Insight Development

C3Centricity

Insights are the pot of gold that many businesses dream of but rarely find. Why is that? Are you one of them? If so then I have some practical ideas on how you can get much, much better at insight development. #1. Insights don’t come from a single market research study. Management often thinks that insight is “just another word for market research”.

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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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6 B2B Customer Segmentation Best Practices

Totango

The digital transformation of business has finally given enterprises the power to deliver on the potential of B2B customer segmentation. While most of us associate the digital leap to subscription and third-party software services with customer empowerment, those same tech advances make it easier than ever to provide personalized care in a targeted, scalable manner.

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DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report

DMG Consulting

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. 4/8/2020. New-gen WFM takes staffing and service optimization to the next level. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report.

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Be the Leader You are Meant to Be—Even from Your Living Room, Part 2

TeamSupport

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced Mike Caracalas , leadership coach, executive consultant, and author of Ten Strategies to Get Better Results with People , who says that “Right now, you as leaders have only one option: Lead your way out of this challenge.”. We continue our chat with Mike, talking about how to keep things fresh as the weeks go on and how to reacclimate to working “together” in the literal sense when our workplace doors open back up.

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CX and Insight in Challenging Times: Key Questions Explored

Confirmit

In challenging times, the role of customer experience and insight becomes more important than ever. Businesses need to understand the needs of both customers and employees in order to react effectively. Trust is as the heart of the customer relationship and CX and insight teams must build that trust. Download. In this white paper, we explore three key areas that businesses need to consider as they identify the way through the current environment: How do we support our team members?

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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.