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How to bring employees together for the holidays – Even if they’re far apart

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Cindy Mielke, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Tango. Maintaining a sense of unity and company culture in remote and hybrid […] The post How to bring employees together for the holidays – Even if they’re far apart first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Customer service is a performance art. Are you Oscar-worthy?

Bill Quiseng

QUI QUESTION: Customer service is a performance art. Are you Oscar-worthy? Movie actors like Sandra Bullock, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Dwayne Johnson, and Keanu Reeves act to be happy, sad, scared, scary, or angry. Yet, we, as the audience, believe they are genuinely real. The actors may “act their part”, but they are so good that we, as the audience, believe they are real.

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Podcasting Power: Elevating Brands & Speakers

Doing CX Right

Why does podcasting matter? Award-winning podcaster, Stacy Sherman, highlights its role to amplify speakers, boost brands, and enrich customer engagement. The post Podcasting Power: Elevating Brands & Speakers appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Putting People First: the path to Customer Centricity, essay

Customer Think

A few years ago, Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America, was interviewed as he discussed their new Customer Focus initiative: prioritizing Customer Centricity over revenue by putting their customers first. He said something like, ‘The money will come. Let’s take care of the customer!

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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 Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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How to bring employees together for the holidays – Even if they’re far apart

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Cindy Mielke, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Tango. Maintaining a sense of unity and company culture in remote and hybrid […] The post How to bring employees together for the holidays – Even if they’re far apart first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Uncover the Secret to Driving Brand Value With This Powerful Framework!

Beyond Philosophy

A listener, Irene Beard, is starting her own company. She’s always believed in a strong brand, but how can she plan what people take away from her brand? Since we discussed this on a recent podcast, and I thought many of you might have the same problem, I thought I would also share our insight on this topic here. Before we get into that, I thought I would mention that Beard contacted us as part of our “I’m in a pickle!

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Happiness in Customer Experience: A Competitive Advantage

Lumoa

Success in customer experience (CX) can be represented by numbers. A high Net Promoter Score (NPS), a large number of new customers in a month, or fewer unsatisfactory customer service request conclusions, are just some of the metrics we use to measure an effective customer experience. But in this pursuit of numbers, we mustn’t lose sight of what truly drives customer experience: Happiness.

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[Experience Action Podcast] CX Pulse Check 2

Experience Investigators

Are you ready for another CX Pulse Check? Join Jeannie and Paige, as they talk about what’s happening right now in Customer Experience (CX). What if you could tap into the secrets of how top retailers are adapting to the transforming world of customer behavior? Imagine the insights you could gain if you knew how these businesses are enticing customers with exciting new offerings like curbside delivery, sample boxes, and impulse purchases.

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The Game-Changer: Why Omnichannel Comms is Critical for Gaming

Comm100

In the fast-paced, high-stakes world of the gaming industry, the phrase “adapt or perish” couldn’t be more relevant. As player preferences evolve and competition intensifies, gaming companies must leverage every technological advantage at their disposal. One area where the industry has witnessed a dramatic transformation is in player support and communication.

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Unleash the power of this framework to drive brand success!

Beyond Philosophy

Poor Irene Beard. She is in a pickle, and she needs our help. A strong believer in brand, Beard is starting a new company and asked us for help getting people to take away what she wants them to about her company’s brand. Beard’s question brings up some interesting concepts regarding brands, their origins, their evolution, and their existence for organizations today.

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The Pragmatic Path to Composability: Creating Efficient Commerce Systems

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.

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Customer Expectations: The Complete Guide

Fonolo

Companies place a great deal of importance on meeting customer expectations. According to Forrester, nearly 95% of leaders say that providing a good customer experience is a top strategic priority, and 75% want to use customer experience as a competitive advantage. But it’s a big, crowded marketplace out there, full of consumers who want different things at different times on different channels.

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Response Time: Vol. 16

Intercom

You satisfy your customers, but can you satisfy our curiosity? With Rahel Kunkel, Operations Lead at Ostrom. Please tell us a little bit about your company and what you do there. Ostrom is driving the green energy transition in Germany by making renewable energy accessible and inclusive. We created a seamless, multilingual energy management platform to help consumers effortlessly switch, track, and reduce their electricity consumption.

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Benefits of cloud migration

Qmatic

In recent years, many organizations have worked on their digital transformation and migration to the cloud. If there was hesitation before, the global pandemic pushed many organizations to accelerate their cloud adoption. With the rapid changes in customer expectations and technology, using cloud solutions looks like the obvious choice. Aside from that, there are other benefits of moving to the cloud.

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A Great Way to Get Your Employees to Connect with Customers

The DiJulius Group

The FORD Monthly Allowance Benson Kearley IFG (BKIFG), headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is not your typical insurance agency, because Stephen Kearley is not your typical company president. BKIFG is obsessed with providing a world-class experience to both customers and employees, and it is paying huge dividends with exponential growth. BKIFG created an amazing incentive to.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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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The Secret to AI is the Key to Better Sales Calls

Customer Think

In early 2023, sales professionals worldwide logged into ChatGPT for the first time with the expectation that they’d never have to write sales messaging themselves again.

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What is customer relationship management (CRM)?

CX Network

We explain the strategies, processes and tech associated with customer relationship management

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Over 300,000 reasons to celebrate!

The Customer Service Blog

It's time to celebrate! This month, The Customer Service Blog hit the amazing milestone of 300,000 readers! Official figures confirm that on 25th October 2023 we had 302,340 readers. This includes around 55,000 people in the UK and around 86,000 people in the USA. So far in 2023 we have acquired just over 50,000 new readers across Europe and in places further afield such as Hong Kong (where we now have around 29,000 readers) and Germany (where we have around 20,000 readers).

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Transforming customer service: The impact of AI

Zendesk

Artificial intelligence is transforming customer service by taking on simple, repetitive tasks and freeing up human agents for higher value work. Generative AI promises to push this transformation even further, with early iterations offering huge opportunities for customer-facing enterprises. But these technologies also carry risks. To explore how advances in technology will and already are changing the way that customers interact with businesses, Economist Impact convened a roundtable discussio

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Optimize the Experience with Negative Personas

Customer Think

Customer understanding is a critical piece of designing and delivering a great customer experience. Employee understanding is just as important to designing and delivering a great employee experience. That understanding work includes three important tools: (1) feedback and data, (2) personas, and (3) journey maps.

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Build a Social Proof Machine: Consistently Generate Real Advocates at Scale

SixteenVentures

As a Head of Customer Success, you’ve heard the benefits of advocacy. You get that it’s somehow the golden ticket—a game-changer that’s supposed to turn the business flywheel faster than ever. But somehow, the magic hasn’t happened for you. Your advocacy program is more of a flicker than a flame, and you’re wondering if the […] The post Build a Social Proof Machine: Consistently Generate Real Advocates at Scale appeared first on Customer-centric Growth by Linc

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How to Create & Send SMS Surveys to Maximize Responses

Zonka Feedback

In a world where attention spans are shorter than that of a goldfish (3 seconds), reaching your audience and grabbing their attention is the key to unlocking valuable insights.

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5 facts to help you stay cybersecurity savvy

Zendesk

Cybersecurity is constantly in a state of flux. Threat intelligence analysts discover new ways to improve threat detection, and within months bad actors use the very same technology to circumvent monitoring and defense capabilities. However, each security incident is an opportunity to not only learn more about the changing threat landscape, but also to better understand potential vulnerabilities and how to strategically level up your defenses.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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The Power of Revenue Operations and Intelligence

Customer Think

Companies don’t hire sales reps because they have core competencies of administrative work and manually updating prospect lists. So why, when sales is under tremendous pressure to win new business, fend off competitors and grow existing customer revenue, do some companies burden their teams with time-killers like outdated tools and legacy processes?

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CX job of the week: Nourish Care

MyCustomer Experience

Looking for your next step in the world of customer experience? Every week, MyCustomer scours the internet to find the latest CX job.

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Data Collection Forms: Examples, Types, Tools & More for Strategic Decision Making

Zonka Feedback

Data collection is the most important aspect of running a successful business in current times. Accurate data can offer valuable insights, facilitate informed decision-making, and enable ongoing progress monitoring.

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Revolutionizing sales with data: Atrium’s success with co-founder Pete Kazanjy

Zendesk

Atrium offers an AI sales management solution that helps sales organizations become more data-driven and efficient. It does so by continuously monitoring sales teams’ performance and alerting sales leaders and managers about any issues, so they can be addressed early. Pete Kazanjy, co-founder of Atrium, shares his tips on how to build a successful business and discusses how he formed a 35,000-member sales community by creating top-tier content.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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?

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Why Automation is an Essential Customer Experience Tool

Customer Think

In today’s tech-centric environment, automation is no longer standing on the sidelines, hoping to be a part of the conversation. Instead, automation is the subject and main character of every conversation in business and marketing.

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How to Turn Negative Reviews into Positive Reviews: 13 Strategies

SurveySensum

In today’s digital landscape, where your online reputation has the power to determine your B2B business’s fate, customer feedback stands as the cornerstone of your success. And when we say customer feedback, we mean every facet of it – not just the good but also the criticisms. So, if you find yourself nervously nibbling your nails when faced with negative feedback, don’t, because those negative reviews aren’t the enemies they may seem.

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9 Best Nicereply Alternatives & Competitors

Zonka Feedback

Nicereply is a well-known customer experience platform that is mainly designed to collect customer feedback in an effortless way. The platform enables businesses to improve support teams' performances and help them fix the issues.

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Outreach’s Manny Medina on why you should stay close to your customers

Zendesk

When sales software company Outreach began in 2014, three people were making the amount of sales a team of 20 would. Today, the company has 1,000 employees worldwide and over 5,000 customers. In this episode, co-founder and CEO Manny Medina discusses how Outreach used customer feedback to improve offerings, the secret to expansion, and why he encourages employees to be high performers in and outside of the office.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

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.