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• How Retailers Will Leverage AI to Improve Profits in 2025
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Meeting aggressive revenue growth goals and addressing declining customer loyalty has led many retailers to look for ways to scale and improve user engagement at scale. Understanding how much to invest in each individual customer is a constant challenge, which may be why it has led many retailers to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize how they conduct experiments and uncover untapped revenue.

• Upskilling Customer Service Teams for AI-Driven Support
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Contact centers worldwide face a paradigm shift as AI and automation tools overhaul daily operations in myriad ways. With the potential of these tools largely untapped, there’s an increasingly urgent need for leaders to prepare their teams for the best ways to adapt to this new reality.

• Building a True Multilingual Contact Center with GenAI
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  There’s nothing more frustrating for a customer than a communication breakdown. The good news is that this is swiftly becoming a thing of the past, thanks to significant advancements in genAI technology.

• Multimodal customer service is the CX strategy of the future, today
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Businesses that master seamless multimodal communication will define the future of customer service by delivering more efficient, channel-flexible interactions.

• Minimizing Friction in Customer Service: Tips for Smoother, More Efficient Interactions
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  In customer service, "friction" refers to the obstacles and inefficiencies that hinder effective interactions between businesses and their customers. When friction occurs, it can manifest as long wait times, confusing processes, or unhelpful customer service representatives, ultimately leading to dissatisfaction and diminished loyalty.

• The Role of Tangible Rewards in a Digital Customer Service World
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  In recent years, how organizations interact with their customers has undergone a seismic shift towards digital platforms. However, as we embrace this digital transformation, it's crucial to remember the importance of maintaining a personal touch—a facet that can significantly enhance customer loyalty and satisfaction.

• Why Genuine Real-Time Automation Must Come Before AI in Contact Centers
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  This article will guide contact center leaders through the strategic importance of genuine real-time automation—i.e., the instant availability and actionability of freshly generated data—and offer actionable steps to implement it effectively as a foundational step before investing in AI.

• Turn Busy Shoppers into Loyal Advocates with These Smart Strategies
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  This article dives deep into actionable tactics that will enable you to build and maintain a dedicated customer base.

• How To Win Big In Home Services With Call Tracking Tech
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Sophisticated call tracking technology can help home services businesses gain a competitive edge in a fast-paced, highly competitive industry by revealing deeper customer insights, optimizing sales processes and driving sustainable growth.

• From Team Building to Customer Loyalty: The Hidden Connection
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Good teamwork can directly and indirectly impact the potential for customers to return to your business. After all, when staff work together on customers' problems, there are chances for efficient and effective solutions.

• Innovative Strategies to Enhance Customer Relations
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  In the competitive business landscape, it’s more vital than ever to nurture strong customer relationships.  Businesses must adapt to evolving consumer expectations and constant technological advancements to remain competitive. By supporting innovative cutting-edge strategies, companies can elevate customer satisfaction, boost loyalty, and drive long-term growth.

• Safeguarding Your Success: Best Practices to Protect Customer Data in Your Business
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  When launching your new business, one of the most crucial steps you can take is to ensure the security of your customer data. This responsibility not only protects your clients but also fortifies your business’s credibility and compliance.

• Data Breach Recovery Strategies for CRM Systems
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Odds are, you’ll be dealing with an attempt at a cyberattack – sooner rather than later. Half of small businesses have been targeted by cyberattacks. Protecting against cyber threats and data breaches is just standard good practice; common sense for any successful business that wishes to continue remaining so.

• The Role of Chatbot Development in Enhancing Customer Service Efficiency
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In this digital era, businesses are seeking innovative advancements to improve customer service efficiency. One such innovation is integrating chatbots into customer support service. With benefits involving faster response and low cost, you can elevate the customer experience and make your business more productive.

• The Role of KYC in Protecting Customers’ Financial Security
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Know Your Customer (KYC) is a critical process employed by financial institutions to verify the identity of their clients.This process ensures that businesses, especially those in the financial sector, can accurately identify and understand their customers, thereby preventing illegal activities such as money laundering and fraud.

• How AI Can Reduce Friction Across the Customer Journey
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  We can improve areas of customer friction with artificial intelligence (AI). The key is to apply AI intelligently throughout the customer journey, and that requires a strong foundation in CX (customer experience) principles as well as a deep understanding of the technology.

• Improving Response Times: The Role of Operations Management Software in Customer Support
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  By leveraging operations management software, organizations can tackle the challenges of managing response times more efficiently and improve their overall customer service performance.

• Peer Learning Networks: Enhancing Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration in Customer Service Training Programs
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Establishing a peer learning network can significantly enhance the productivity and performance of your customer service team.

• Improving Customer Journeys in the Food and Beverage Industry
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  In a highly competitive industry, refining and delivering high-quality customer experiences may be the differentiator that sets you apart from the competition.

• The Secret Weapon: Design an Unforgettable Customer Experience
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In today's hyper-competitive market, where options abound and brand loyalty is a fickle beast, CX has become the secret weapon for businesses of all sizes.

• Customer Service in Crisis: Maintaining Excellence During Challenging Times
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Customer service plays a key role in your business’s success. Without effective communication and complaint resolution, your consumers will quickly turn to competitors who are better equipped to handle their questions, queries, and concerns.

• Training, Coaching, and Employee Engagement Virtual Conference - Transforming Your Workforce in 2024
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Are you looking to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to workforce development? Do you want to optimize your team's performance and foster a culture of employee engagement in your organization? Then look no further than the Training,

• Perfecting the Return Experience From First Contact to Resolution
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Customer service is a critical touchpoint that can strengthen or strain the customer relationship. Call centers have a unique duty to find the right balance to protect a company from fraud while resolving customers’ return requests satisfactorily.

• Green Tech Meets Customer Service: Solar Energy Companies Revolutionizing Support
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  With more consumers patronizing businesses with eco-friendly products, it’s an ideal time for solar energy companies to integrate sustainable practices and processes with outstanding customer service.

• Drive Business Success with Customer Intent
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Understanding and acting upon customer intent is the cornerstone of successful business strategies in today's competitive landscape. By delving into customers' motives and desires, businesses can tailor their offerings, enhance customer experiences, and drive growth.

• Leveraging Personalization at Every Stage of the Customer Journey
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In today’s increasingly data-driven landscape, the most effective and savvy customer happiness teams should leverage available tools—especially personalization tools—throughout the customer journey, not just at the acquisition stage.

• DMG Consulting 2024 Workforce Management for the Enterprise in the Digital Era Report
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  The Workforce Management for the Enterprise in the Digital Era report provides an in-depth analysis of the contact center WFM market, the competitive landscape, vendors, product suites, technology, and innovation.

• Transforming Customer Service: Uniting Learning Initiatives with Team Alignment
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Although the digital era has made our lives easier by automating tasks, it has also created a demand for unprecedented levels of customer service. Companies must take a more holistic approach that integrates continuous learning initiatives with cohesive team strategies.

• Empower to Elevate: Transforming Agent Autonomy with Next-Gen Self-Service Solutions
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  This article delves into how next-gen self-service technologies are empowering customer service agents, fostering an environment where they can thrive, innovate, and deliver unmatched service.

• How Credit Data API Integration Reshapes Customer Service Dynamics
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Source Pexels Providing great customer service remains crucial for business success. Studies consistently show that customers value excellent service, with a majority willing to repurchase from companies that deliver it and likely to

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Leveraging Customer Insights to Drive Business Success
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  More and more these days, businesses of all sizes are relying on big data to guide their decision making. One of the things that is instrumental in guiding company decision making is customer feedback. There are a variety of ways that this can be collected, and also different ways that companies can use it in creating business plans.

• Introduction to BPO: A Comprehensive Guide to Outsourcing Business Processes
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In today's globalized economy, businesses are constantly seeking ways to streamline operations, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. One strategy that has gained significant traction in recent years is Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).

• AI is the Tailwind for 2024 Contact Center Technology Investments
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  On an annual basis, DMG Consulting conducts a worldwide survey of enterprise, customer experience (CX), contact center, and customer service executives and managers to ask about their top business priorities and technology investment plans for the following year. The survey we conducted in December 2023 captured this information for 2024.

• The Power of Agility: How Small Tech Startups Drive Innovation in CRM
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  The digitalization of so many industries has completely transformed customer service. Now, companies can provide more seamless and effortless customer experiences that drive engagement through personalization.

• Positioning Your Enterprise for 2024—and Beyond
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  At Enterprise Connect 2024, the event’s mission has always been to help you position your enterprise for what’s next—whether that’s an imminent technology migration or need for strategic positioning on a potentially revolutionary technology like AI.

• Unique Insights to Elevate Your Customer Experience Game
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Elevating your customer experience game doesn’t have to involve a lot of guesswork or trial and error. You can adopt strategies and insights from various disciplines and industries to create significant improvements in customer service and satisfaction.

• Investing in Satisfaction: The Financial Impact of Superior Customer Service
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  To achieve growth and profitability in today’s extremely competitive landscape, businesses keep their eyes peeled for creative innovations and opportunities. Sure, we can go the traditional route of expansion and cost-cutting strategies, but there may be one simple and obvious aspect that we’re overlooking—customer service.

• Enhancing Small Business Success: Tools to Boost Customer Satisfaction and Efficiency
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In today's digital age, small businesses have access to a plethora of tools and software that can significantly impact their operations. By harnessing both free and paid services, these businesses can improve customer satisfaction, increase online engagement, and streamline their day-to-day activities. In this article we explore essential software and services that can help small businesses thrive in a competitive landscape.

• 3 Customer Experience Trends to Look Out for in 2024
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  As 2024 unfolds, the emerging trends in the customer experience space point to a continued reliance on AI. However, they also show businesses looking to improve AI’s effectiveness by deploying it in more focused and refined ways.

• Mastering the Art of Customer Retention
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Customer retention requires effort and scrutiny. It is crucial to create a strong, lasting bond between your customer and the service/product you provide. We’ll guide you through effective customer retention practices and examine how customer retention is the life force of your business.

• New Data Shows How Business Leaders Think Gen AI will Change Contact Centers
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  As the hype around generative AI – and AI in general – rapidly approaches the one-year mark, many businesses still aren’t quite sure what to make of it.

• 2023-2024 Enterprise Workforce Engagement Management Product and Market Report - DMG Consulting Research
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is influencing and changing how companies interact with their customers and employees. While we’re still in the initial stages of applying AI, it’s already demonstrating its contributions to improving the customer and employee experience (CX and EX).

• Secure Communication Practices For Customer Support Teams
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Secure communication practices are essential for customer support teams, who are often the first line of defense against security breaches.

• How Prioritizing Employee Well-Being Elevates Customer Service Excellence
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Customer service must be a top priority if a business wants repeat customers and loyal brand advocates. Because customer service matters so much to business success, it’s essential to take great care of the people responsible for it.
  The relationship between employee health and well-being and how well customers are served is undeniable.

• Mastering the Art of Streamlined Customer Engagement
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Streamlined customer experience processes facilitate exceptional customer interactions. When a business can handle customer service issues with ease, set up a seamless purchasing process, ensure customers get the best use out of products, and manage other customer touchpoints well, consumer loyalty and profitability are the result.

• How to Bring Employees Together for the Holidays – Even If They’re Far Apart
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  With the holiday season quickly approaching, many organizations are scratching their heads in regard to how to best bring their teams together despite vast distances separating many of them.

• Strategic Solutions: Overcoming Common Challenges in Customer Service Process Improvement
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Providing an excellent customer experience is imperative for all consumer-facing businesses. If your customers aren’t having their needs met in a pleasant and efficient manner, they can very easily go elsewhere.

• 3 Reasons to Involve Customers in the AI Product Development Process
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  There’s an all out race across the technology industry today to introduce AI-driven products and integrate generative AI into existing products following OpenAI unveiling ChatGPT last year.

• Maximizing User Experience Through Social Media Listening
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Many companies don’t know how customers experience their websites, products, and services. Fortunately, it’s not hard to listen to the market — you just need to take advantage of the massive public forum we all know as social media.

• 6 Ways Digital Transformation Improves Customer Experience
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The use of digital technology by an organisation to digitise non-digital products, services, or operations is known as digital transformation. Its implementation goal is to add value through innovation, reinvention, customer experience, and efficiency.

• Transforming Customer Feedback into Business Growth
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  When you collect genuine customer feedback, you have access to a pool of information that has a direct impact on the success of your business. However, collecting feedback is only part of the equation.

• The Future of Healthcare Customer Support: AI, Chatbots, and Virtual Assistants
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The healthcare landscape is undergoing a significant transformation. On the brink of this revolution are technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and virtual assistants. These digital tools are reshaping customer support by offering streamlined services, enhanced reporting analytics, and personalized patient interactions.

• How Technology is Redefining the Connection between Businesses and Consumers
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  The world of customer relations is constantly changing. New tech gives businesses better insights into consumer behavior and shifting preferences redefine the way marketers approach potential clients.

• Crafting Authentic Customer Experiences: Uniting AI, Virtual Agents, and Live Agents
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In the age of rapid digital transformation, businesses find themselves in a race to provide customers with seamless experiences that transcend the boundaries of traditional support methods.

• Elevating Customer Service: Workforce Optimization and Self-Sufficiency in Business Operations
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  No matter what industry you are in, customers are likely to be your direct source of income. This makes great customer service a clear priority. There are few business ladders that aren’t keenly aware of how a poor consumer experience can escalate to reputational damage.

• Leveraging CRM Analytics for Data-Driven Decision Making
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Customer relationship management (CRM) analytics are invaluable to businesses. You can collect, process, and analyze data on customer behaviors, preferences, and challenges to help you gain insight into your customers and their wants. This helps you create products and content that inspire repeat purchases and long-term relationships with your brand.

• Revolutionizing Customer Service is pivotal in today's digital world
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The ACSI discovered that from 2010 to 2019, an astonishing 70 percent of companies tracked witnessed either declining or stagnant customer satisfaction scores. However, the situation has taken an even more alarming turn in recent years. Since 2019, the average American customer's discontent has reached unprecedented levels, hitting a staggering 17-year low by mid-2022.

• Why Enterprises Need to Turn to their Contact Centres to Gain Valuable Customer Insights
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Contact centres have long been viewed as cost centres, dedicated to managing customer queries, complaints, and issues. However, a paradigm shift is now underway, and – in truth - has been for quite some time.

• 5 Often Overlooked Ways to Use AI to Improve Your Customer Service
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Are you looking for new ways to optimize your company’s customer service department? You may not even realize it, but artificial intelligence may be the key ingredient missing from various customer service initiatives. While you may have already implemented an AI chatbot on your website to answer visitors’ questions (which expedites the buyer journey), there are many other ways AI can improve your customer service.

• Enhancing Your Employee’s Experience and Gaining Customer Service Success
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Going above and beyond for customers is the cornerstone approach for any customer service-based business, but many business owners may not realize that enhancing their employees’ experience can help ensure an enhanced customer experience.

• Employees Motivation and Recognition and Its Influence on Customer Satisfaction
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Employee motivation and recognition is an important factor in any successful business. It can not only increase productivity but also create a positive customer experience, leading to long-term customer satisfaction.

• The Science of Phone Calls: How Voice Analytics Can Boost Conversions
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Failing to understand customers' demands and preferences directly hampers customer service and leads to customer dissatisfaction. And customer dissatisfaction negatively affects business sales. So, what tools can you employ to ensure better customer engagement with the company? One effective solution is to employ Voice analytics.

• 8 Ways to Use ChatGPT to Grow Your Business this Summer
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  There’s no doubt that ChatGPT has been one of the hottest topics in the business world ever since OpenAI launched it at the end of November. Enterprises are now excitedly researching how they can use this powerful text-generating AI chatbot to automate tasks, streamline operations, and amplify work output. There has also been a lot of buzz over whether ChatGPT’s ability to write comprehensive content might cause many people to lose their jobs.

• 6 Customer Service Trends to Lookout for in 2023
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The customer service industry is constantly evolving and looking for the best way to serve customers efficiently. With customer experience becoming more critical to today's business, new technologies are emerging to help customer service stay ahead of the latest trends.

• From Wants to Needs: Anticipating and Meeting Customer Expectations in a Changing World
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In this blog, we will explore strategies to effectively anticipate and meet customer expectations in a changing world, enabling your business to thrive and succeed.

• The Role of Digital Marketing in Enhancing Customer Experience
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, digital marketing has emerged as a game-changer for businesses. It has not only expanded their reach but also revolutionized the way they interact with customers. By leveraging the power of digital marketing, businesses can enhance the customer experience, paving the way for long-term success.

• Why it is Important for Customer Service to Embrace New Working Models
  — Presented By: Limitless
  

  By Roger Beadle, CEO and Co Founder of Limitless According to a recent study, almost 18% of customer service managers are returning to pre pandemic methods, such as physical contact centers, which is a step backwards. Although 49% recognised the

• Top 10 Trends In Customer Relationship Management System
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In this article, we will explore the top 10 trends in CRM that are set to shape the industry in the years to come.

• How to Supercharge Your CX with AI in 2023 and Beyond
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  By leveraging AI in CX, businesses can take a proactive approach to meet changing customer needs and preferences rather than a reactive one.

• How AI Can Help Build Trust with Consumers
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In today's fast-paced, technology-driven world, trust is a valuable commodity for businesses. As consumers become increasingly discerning, companies must find innovative ways to foster trust and build lasting relationships with their customers. One of the most promising avenues for achieving this is Artificial Intelligence (AI).

• Elevate Customer Experience with Workforce Management and Omnichannel Engagement
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Providing exceptional customer experience is essential for business success in today's competitive marketplace. By integrating workforce management and omnichannel engagement, businesses can elevate their customer experience from good to great.

• Unleashing the Power of Geospatial Technology for Stellar Customer Service and Support
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In the era of ever-evolving customer expectations, businesses must strive to provide exceptional customer service and support to stay ahead in the competitive landscape. Geospatial technology and mapping tools have emerged as game-changer for businesses seeking to improve their customer service and support operations.

• Future Proofing Call and Contact Centers
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  While call centers are still big business in the US — with over 285,000 agents employed in 2021 — contact centers are becoming increasingly popular. For example, over a third of consumers would rather contact a company's customer service via social media rather than by phone.

• Maximizing Efficiency and Customer Satisfaction: Tips for Exceptional Support Across All Channels
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  For businesses to succeed, it is critical to learn how to take your customer support from good to great.

• Investment Priorities in 2023 - Balancing Customer Experience, Employee Engagement, and Operating Costs
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  2023 promises to be a critical year for investment priorities, and businesses must plan their strategies accordingly. By attending the webcast on Investment Priorities in 2023 - Balancing Customer Experience, Employee Engagement, and Operating Costs, businesses can gain valuable insights into these investment priorities and how to balance them to achieve long-term success.

• How Generative AI is Reshaping the Customer Experience
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  From creating engaging content to powering unprecedented chat experiences to ushering in a new era of support automation, generative AI promises new ways for businesses to meet shifting customer expectations.

• How to Keep Customers Happy When Economic Uncertainty Reigns
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Throughout the last few years, we’ve experienced record inflation, spotty supply chains, and overworked and stressed employees. So, what can your business do to alleviate those frustrations? How can you keep moving forward and finding success in the midst of economic uncertainty while keeping your customers happy?

• Navigating the Digital Landscape: The Evolution of Contact Center Goals and Investments
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Today, more than ever, we are faced with critical decisions about where to invest our customer engagement and customer service resources. As we move forward in a rapidly evolving digital landscape, it is imperative that we prioritize our goals to meet the needs of our customers and employees.

• Top 10 Metrics That You Need To Measure In A Call Center
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The entire efficiency of customer service teams is evaluated using call center metrics. Metrics are used in many elements of call centers to assess performance, agent productivity, and other actions that improve customer happiness. Customer service managers track key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine how successfully and efficiently a call center solution accomplishes organizational objectives.

• Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of AI-Driven Customer Strategies
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming the new frontier in the customer experience landscape. Companies are increasingly turning to AI-powered solutions to improve customer service, automate repetitive tasks, and gain insights into customer behavior. However, simply adding AI to your solutions stack is not enough to succeed. It takes a thoughtful, considered approach to leverage AI's full potential.

• How Focusing on Customer Experience Can Help Grow a Small Business
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  While small companies have always had to give 110% just to survive, the business world has become more difficult as of late. With employee shortages, inflation, and increasing competition, you must stand out. While a good product and an online presence can help, you also need to provide an excellent customer experience.

• How to Improve Customer Service Quality and Keep Your Customers Happy
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  According to recent studies, customer service quality is a key factor that influences customers' decisions to remain loyal to a brand or switch to a competitor. Therefore, it's essential for companies to prioritize customer service and take proactive measures to improve it.

• Optimizing Customer Engagement: How Mobile Device Management Can Help
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Today's workplaces have been transformed by the widespread adoption of mobile devices. With the explosion in the popularity of smartphones and tablets, businesses have a powerful opportunity to increase customer engagement and streamline their operations. However, this requires careful management of these mobile devices and associated applications to ensure that they are secure and properly managed.

• How AI & Automation are already delivering enhanced Contact Centre Advisor Performance
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  ChatGPT takes your input and then builds on it with additional, coherent text based on its library of accumulated writing. In doing this it has provided a simple yet effective insight into the immense potential power of AI and Automation - so it’s hardly surprising that it has been the fastest-growing consumer application in history.

• Essential Features for a Bot that Delivers Impressive Customer Experience (CX)
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  A bot can be a valuable addition to your customer experience (CX) strategy, but only if it has the necessary features and capabilities. There are some key things to consider when evaluating whether your bot has what it takes for impressive CX.

• Making Your Contact Centre Data Work
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  We’re finding that one of the biggest CX challenges that our clients face is working out exactly how to capture, organise and act on the potentially billions of data points that are generated as a result of different customer journeys.

• How Healthcare Industries Can Improve From Negative Customer Experiences
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  The advent of digital innovations that have recently propelled the healthcare industry forward and customer experiences are changing.

• CX and Contact Center Priorities and Technology Investments for 2023
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  Each year, DMG Consulting surveys our international customer base of enterprise, contact center, and IT leaders and asks them to share their customer experience (CX) and contact center goals, as well as related technology investment priorities for the upcoming year.

• How to Avoid Customer Desperation and Have a Winning CX Strategy
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Without realizing it, brands have designed customer experience (CX) journeys that have trained their customers to make drastic claims or take desperate measures in order to get proper support from customer service departments.It’s time for brands to reevaluate how they’re servicing their customers.

• Employee Retention Strategies: 11 Tips You Can Use in 2023
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Managing your employees successfully can seem quite challenging if you are constantly struggling with employees leaving your company. Here are eleven tips to help you retain employees.

• Worried about VoIP security?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Office architecture has been changing for three years. Meetings have become Zoom calls, a quick phone call an email, and an email an instant message. As the office landline becomes replaced with internet-based alternatives like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), some businesses are questioning — is it secure?

• How to Choose your Battles in UX
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  It seems simple: If you want to positively affect your company’s bottom line, build products your customers need or want. But balancing what’s best for your customer and company can be tricky.

• Serving Time or Time to Serve
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Most small business owners genuinely feel like they are imprisoned in their business, chained to the metaphorical wheel of day-to-day drudgery. But it didn’t start out this way. Most small business owners love the product or service they deliver so much that they decided to have a crack at delivering it in their own business.

• Customer Satisfaction Starts from Within
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Keeping customers happy has always been important, but with constantly evolving expectations, it’s increasingly becoming a challenge. The premise behind ensuring customer satisfaction hasn’t faltered — a prompt, complete service delivery on the first try. But the reality of how to meet this expectation has changed.

• The Importance of a Safety Net and How Small Business Owners Can Create One
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Having a financial safety net is imperative for all businesses regardless of size or industry, especially in today’s turbulent economic environment. A safety net acts as a buffer to help your business survive economic downturns and unforeseen circumstances, which could create serious financial problems.

• The new normal: the ‘phygital’ customer experience
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Phygital experience is defined as a combination of physical and digital experiences that are seamlessly integrated. This hybrid approach to living and working has been a game-changer with more businesses, educational institutions, and organizations moving towards digital platforms.

• 3 Simple Ways Your Customer Service Can Exceed Even Lofty Expectations
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Quality customer service isn't just about providing a quick fix to an emerging problem. It's about building a lasting relationship and reassuring customers that no matter what issues arise, you'll be there to support them

• How Virtual Events Increase Customer Engagement
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The restrictions of the previous years have necessitated organizations and industries to shift how they organize their campaigns and activities. Virtual events have become a necessary tool for boosting customer engagement in today's digital age.

• Top Tips to Improving Conversion Rate in Your Business
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In an increasingly competitive eCommerce world, there are some dos and don’ts when it comes to encouraging customers to buy from your business. This act is called a conversion, and it’s just about the most important metric you’ll need to watch as you plan on building your business and increasing revenue.

• How To Improve Customer Service At Every Customer Touchpoint
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Customer service is essential in a business's success or decline, and each customer interaction will be a positive or negative experience. A positive customer service experience will likely increase repeat business and strengthen customer loyalty.

• Optimization Tips for Customer Engagement Channels
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Every business understands the importance of building an audience. However, understanding and engaging with that audience might be even more essential for growth and longevity. Optimizing your customer engagement channel strategy can make a big difference in how interested your target audience is in your business — and how much they interact with you.

• How Can CRM Implementation Boost Employee Engagement
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Employee engagement involves job satisfaction, growth, and the quality of employee output. While pay raises are undoubtedly essential, these three elements directly impact your business's success. Luckily, they are easy to achieve if you have the right tools to support you.

• The Best Customer Service Software Platforms
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Are you looking to make your customer service operations more efficient? As businesses compete in increasingly competitive markets and the need to provide top-notch customer experience grows, it’s essential to have an effective strategy in place.

• How Mastering Non-Verbal Communication Improves Customer Service
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  This article takes an indepth look at how mastering non-verbal communication can benefit your company, as well as offer advice on how to improve the non-verbal communication skills of your customer service representatives (CSRs).

• The Relationship Between Employee Wellbeing And Customer Service
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Now more than ever, companies have taken a more serious approach to employee well-being. Expanding beyond just the physical, employee well-being encompasses all aspects of human life – physical, emotional, social, financial, and community. Employee well-being represents an individual's experiences, what they value, and how their life is going.

• How To Create A Customer Journey Map Step-By-Step
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  A customer journey map is exactly what you think it is – a diagram representing the flow of a customer’s engagement with a company.

• 10 Useful Customer Service Techniques that Will Make Customers Love You
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  If you want to keep your customers happy and loyal, you need to invest in good customer service techniques. Let’s look at the top ten customer service techniques that will make your customers feel loved and appreciated.

• 7 Common Mistakes To Avoid In Your Customer Satisfaction Surveys
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In this blog post, we'll explore seven common mistakes businesses make when administering customer satisfaction surveys, and how to avoid them.

• Why Do Small Businesses and Startups Need Cyber Security Policies?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Cyber insurance policies are high risk, so the stakes are high. The system should be backed up with information that works and is smart.

• How Customer Experience & Marketing Goes Side By Side?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Businesses and organizations—public and private—across all industries and regions are focusing intensely on customer experience (CX). Why would taking the voice of the customer seriously have such a significant impact?

• Happy Employees, Happy Customers
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Renaud Charvet, CEO of business telephony provider Ringover, explains how the right business technology can enhance employee satisfaction and improve customer experience.

• The Future of the Contact Center
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Forget call centers, contact centers are the future. Data driven, multi-channel contact centers elevate the customer experience

• It’s Time to Re-Frame Our Thinking Around Conversational AI...
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Technology no longer needs to be a barrier when it comes to deploying conversational AI. Speech recognition keeps getting stronger and stronger, indeed we’re now at the stage where we can synthesise speech to sound almost indistinguishable from human.

• How To Provide the Best Possible Experience to Older Customers
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  The goal of many businesses is to increase customer satisfaction across the board. It is essential that your staff treats every customer with the same level of respect and that every person who walks in the door or clicks on your website is able to get the same service and attention as the next individual.

• Need a CRM strategy? Here’s how you create one
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  To encourage upsells, cross-sells, repeat business and a positive CX, businesses should nurture customer relationships through a tailored customer relationship management, or CRM, strategy.

• Contact centre calls: A premium service without the premium experience
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In a world of changing customer service expectations, consumers are measuring brands more than ever before. And, from messaging apps to website chatbots, they have plenty of touchpoints to interact with.

• 3 Reasons to Update Your Customer Service Infrastructure
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Learn ways in which you can invest money in creating a better customer experience for your target audience.

• How Social Media Scammers Can Damage Your Company's Reputation and What To Do About It
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  If your company uses social media to advertise your services and connect with clients, you will need to ensure that it is secure. You owe it to your customers to do what is right to protect them, their data, and their money. However, scammers have other ideas, and if you let them have their way, then they could put your customers in a bad place, and your company could be on the hook.

• Customer support: Why brands need to think beyond conversational AI
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  With inflation skyrocketing and recessions looming, businesses are looking to tighten budgets and reduce overhead costs. In light of this, support and service organisations are typically asked to become more efficient with fewer resources. As a result, companies of all industries and sizes are looking to automate more of their customer support functions.

• Are Virtual Assistants Part of Your Workforce?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The global market for Intelligent Virtual Assistants, by 2027, is set to have a 6x increase on 2021 numbers. Driving this anticipated growth are the tangible customer service and operational efficiency benefits achievable through the deployment of AI-enabled Intelligent Virtual Assistants.

• How Healthcare Customer Service Can Be Improved Upon
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Dealing with employee shortages requires healthcare customer service to be at its best. Patients have to be kept up to date and clear communication is required to ensure that everyone has access to the care they need.

• Top Customer Service Trends to Follow in 2023
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  If you are working in the customer service industry, then you know that it is essential to keep up with the latest trends to keep your customers happy.

• Performance Coaching Drives Agent Engagement
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  This white paper explains performance coaching and provides a list of KPIs that should be used by customer service, sales, and collections contact centers as the foundation of their programs.

• 5 Ways To Elevate Customer Experiences In E-Commerce
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  E-commerce has taken the retail world by storm. While global giants like Amazon dominate the global retail landscape, millions of more e-commerce platforms are servicing different niches and countries. It is predicted that e-commerce sales will take up 24.5% of all global retail sales by 2025! It calls for e-commerce platforms to prepare themselves to enjoy the maximum remunerations of this global jump.

• How to Consistently Match Customer Expectations
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The expectations of your customers rarely stay the same. Be it cost, the quality of the product or service you offer, a combination of cost and quality, or the precise functions that your product or service offers, the desires of your customers are continually evolving.

• What They Say When They Think You’re Not Listening
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  GlassesUSA, when it comes to customer service, you get whatever is worse than F.

• How to Manage Customer Expectations with Proactive CX
  — Presented By: NICE CXone
  

  The customer service journey can be frustrating and time-consuming when a customer must do the work to get results, but hen CX is proactive, customer needs are anticipated, and consumers are guided to the optimal result faster and more efficiently.

• How Often Should You Seek Customer Feedback – The Short Answer is Always!
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Outstanding customer experience (CX) begins with knowing what customers need and want – as well as their habits, preferences and aspirations.

• Why Customer Reviews Increase Sales
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  With the meteoric rise in online shopping, businesses large and small have had to devise new ways to reach customers and engage with them. According to statistics, 93% of shoppers read reviews and consider them before purchasing a product.

• 7 Ways To Improve Your Writing Skills And Make Customers Happy
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Writing skills are particularly important when you are communicating with your customers. Hence, here are the seven ways to improve your writing skills and make customers happy.

• 7 Tips to Improve Agent Experience in a Call Center
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Customer and agent experience go hand-in-hand towards ensuring a great customer experience.

• CX Asia APAC Report 2022
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  WHAT'S NEXT FOR CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE IN APAC?   According to World Economic Forum (WEF), Asia Pacific is home to over 55% of consumers globally. This means Asia holds vast opportunities for brands, and we must constantly enhance the experiences we

• Voice needs to be part of the digital CX - not the legacy annoyance
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  During the early days of the pandemic when people clearly needed re-assurance. And with businesses and stores largely closed, the contact centre quickly became the new frontline for customer engagement.

• How AI Gets to the Root of the Customer Feedback Loop
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Top digital brands are tapping artificial intelligence (AI) to help them stay ahead of the customer curve to improve satisfaction, cut support costs/complaints/issues and get more from their customer data.

• There’s a looming recession. Can GigCX help businesses?
  — Presented By: Limitless
  

  Now is the time to prepare customer service plans for a potential recession. The most agile leaders will look at ways to optimize the resources they have, while searching for avenues that provide a lower cost to serve.

• Customer Service Email Etiquette: 10 Golden Rules You Need to Follow
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Writing customer service emails can be more challenging than you may expect. Here are 10 rules you must follow if you want your customer service emails to achieve their purpose.

• Under-The-Radar Strategies to Improve Customer Service
  — Presented By: Calabrio
  

  Customer service is complex. In fact, the complexity of customer interactions is considered the second most pressing customer service challenge by agents. Lean into an easy, personalized and smart approach to complex challenges to improve your CX offering.

• General Rules: How to Communicate With Your Customer?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Communicating with customers appropriately can be very important for success. Customers need to feel heard and understood when dealing with businesses.

• The Key Differences Between CX and UX
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  This article will tell you what customer experience and user experience are, give some key differences between them, and also a list of ideas you can put into practice if you want to make sure your company gets the most of a great customer experience.

• Determining Which Customer Experience Trends Your Company Should Invest In (+2Ls)
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  There are various customer experience trends to choose from, which makes your decision to invest in particular ones even trickier. Many companies invest in every trend without ensuring they’re a good fit for their customers and business direction.

• 5 Simple Small Business Tips for Surviving Inflation
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Inflation severely impacts businesses and consumers alike. Companies across industries are finding it hard to maintain operations while consumer spending power has taken a dramatic hit. But that doesn’t mean your small business has to accept failure. You can start taking steps today that position you to brave the waves and come out stronger than ever. And CrmXchange has given you five tips for doing just that!

• 7 Ways for Providing Social Media Customer Service
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  As more people started being active on social networks, brands followed. This resulted in transfer of communication that brands have with their customers from emails and calls to social media.

• Why You Need Business Process Management to Make Your Business Run Like a Well-Oiled Machine
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Suppose your current business processes could do with a bit of improvement. The solution could involve implementing business process management to streamline your operations, processes, and systems. To this end, why you should invest in business technology?

• Is the Customer Always Right?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The phrase "the customer is always right" is often used to justify giving the customer what they want, even if it's not what's best for them. However, this isn't always the best course of action.In some cases, it's necessary to explain to the customer why their request isn't possible or why it would be detrimental to their interests.

• How to Boost CX with Next-Gen Knowledge Management
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The customer experience can be defined as each customer interaction with your company, from browsing your website to contacting customer service to receiving the purchased product or service. Everything you do impacts your customers' perceptions and their decision to return or not. Thus, providing a positive customer experience is critical to your success.

• 7 Contact Center Predictions for 2023 and Beyond
  — Presented By: 8x8
  

  Since the start of the decade, customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) have done a collective 180°. Organizations with a cloud first, digital first mindset have quickly leaped ahead,

• CRM Focus: How It Propels Your Business Forward
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Customer relationship management (CRM) plays a key role in a business's success. It allows a company to build relationships with customers. The result: CRM drives customer loyalty and retention.

• How To Write Your Own Customer Service Code Of Conduct
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Companies in all industries want to maintain a sense of organization within themselves. This is why most businesses have a code of conduct for the way employees have to behave in the workplace.

• 2 Out of 3 Agents Want to Change Their Script
  — Presented By: Balto
  

  At their best, call scripts provide agents with a way to guide their call in a consistent and clear way to achieve optimal call outcomes. Scripts or talk tracks are meant to provide avenues for agents to respond to objections

• Best Practices for Securing the Cloud
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The cloud provides benefits to today’s businesses, especially in the post-pandemic world where more employees are working from home. Whether a business has all employees in the office, is trying out a hybrid model, or is completely virtual, the cloud makes it possible for employees to work. When storing data in the cloud, however, it must be secure. Businesses can use the following best practices to start securing the cloud and preventing hacks or other attacks that can compromise vital data.

• Choosing the Right Contact Center Solution for Your CX Strategy
  — Presented By: 8x8
  

  Navigating a sea of options    Choosing the right contact center (CC) infrastructure for your business can be tough. The process can be time consuming and somewhat daunting as you look upon an array of options that all seem alike.

• How to Improve Contact Center Interactions for Agents and Customers
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Tips to Delivering More Delight and Value in Every Interaction

• Virtual Assistant Hacks 101: How To Become An Expert Online Support Agent?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Without any doubt, online support agents are a key factor in the growth of any company in terms of sales. According to stats, 86% of the customers do not purchase due to poor online support experience, which costs more than $62 billion annually to various companies. This is the reason that online support is critical and being a support agent is a busy yet interesting job. If you are looking for some tips to become an expert online support agent, this article is surely for you.

• Using Data Analytics in Business Operations
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Many businesses today run on data. It helps businesses understand their customers better, streamline operations, and improve advertising and product quality. The advantages of data to your business are plenty. However, you cannot access these benefits without proper data analytics and processes.

• 4 Things Your Business Needs To Focus On For CX
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  There is no better moment for a business owner to focus on improving the client experience than now. You're likely to lose consumers and eventually go out of business if you don't.

• How is Customer Relationship Management Helpful For Business?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Customer relationship management (CRM) involves all the strategies, activities, and technologies businesses use to manage their interactions with potential and current customers. With CRM, companies can build a strong relationship with customers, which leads to brand loyalty and increases customer retention. However, both are factors affecting a company's revenue, making CRM a vital management strategy to help businesses maximize their profits.

• 12 Best Tips for Effective Contact Center Management
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Effective organizational management has always been challenging for managers in any industry and is particularly valid for contact centers. To ensure that the customers always get the best experience, contact center leaders and administrators

• The Importance of Keeping the Lines of Communication in Business Open
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Collaboration in the workplace is as necessary for the workplace as it ever was. With company culture taking front and center stage in many workplace settings, the concepts of teamwork, unity, and how a team collaborates all play a part in how well a business functions overall.

• Changing Customer Service: The Impact of the Metaverse
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  How the metaverse is evolving the customer experience.and how to take advantage of what is available now.

• 5 Tools to Have in 2022 to Boost Employee Productivity
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  When it comes to hiring, promoting, and terminating employees, their productivity is a critical factor to consider. However, determining whether or not an employee is functioning to their total capacity is challenging.

• Improving Marketing Experiences With Customer Data
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Gathering customer data, in particular, can help you hone your customer service strategy, better your sales techniques, and improve the marketing experience you're providing to your customers.

• How Do You Build Confidence in Customer Service?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The only way you can get any ROI from your expensive advertising and marketing campaigns is if it convinces customers to purchase your products.

• 5 Ways To Write The Perfect Customer Service Response
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  A good customer service email is the key to ensuring that your customers are happy with the service that you provide. As a business, you need to be able to offer the very best customer service responses, to keep customers happy and coming back to you. Here's how you can create the perfect customer service response, each and every time.

• The 5 Latest Customer Service Trends You Need To Know In 2022
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Customer service has been changing rapidly in the past few years mostly due to the changing business landscape. There are five latest customer service trends companies need to keep up with these shifts in the industry and implement the necessary changes within their own organizations.

• 3 Methods for Leveling Up Survey Participation Rates
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Surveys are the bread and butter of market research. They offer an invaluable view into a consumer's mind — how they feel about brands, what trends influence their behaviors, what they

• Create a Customer Support Experience That Works for Your Customers and Your Team
  — Presented By: Intercom
  

  The customer support industry is at a critical tipping point. With the majority of a company’s customer interactions now happening online, providing fast and personal customer support is more critical than ever. The rules are being rewritten, and businesses need to embrace change fast–or risk losing valued customers and talented teammates.

• Driving Business Growth Through Knowledge Management System
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Contributed article by Every business wishes to make a mark. Growth is extremely important for that, and to accelerate it, one needs to plan everything. From setting a strategy to identifying what would make working towards a goal easier, organizations

• Creating Meaningful Customer Experiences is the Differentiator for Successful Businesses
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In today’s omni-channel customer experience world, companies can connect to their customers in a variety of ways through multiple touch points. Making it easy for your customer to connect in a way that is comfortable for them is key for your business’s success. Our blog will discuss consumer trends around malleability in the customer journey, providing up-to-date statistics for customer preferences.

• 5 Tips How to Use Email to Communicate With Your Customers
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Contributed article by Thomas Jackson (Source https retail insider.com articles 2020 11 5 tips for effective customer service via email ) Communication is a crucial tool for the success of any business. However, this is restricted to internal communications within

• How to Handle Negative Customer Feedback
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Image Source Unsplash How to Handle Negative Customer Feedback No matter how great your business is, negative customer feedback is sometimes inevitable. As the old saying goes, “you can’t please everyone”. But, you can actually use negative feedback to your

• The Role of Automation in CRM
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Unsplash The Role of Automation in CRM For many professionals, life without a CRM is inconceivable. Over 91% of businesses that have more than 11 employees use a CRM, and an effective CRM

• New Research from Grammarly and Harris Poll Estimates U.S. Businesses Lose $1.2 Trillion Annually to Poor Communication
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Contributed Article by Grammerly Grammarly’s new report “State of Business Communication The Backbone of Business Is Broken” the far reaching impacts of poor workplace communication on U.S. businesses and employees. In partnership with The Harris Poll, the study estimates up

• How Do You Build Trust with Customers?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  A contributed article by Thomas Jackson Customers have to trust you before they make a purchase. They need to trust your products or services and your messages. They want you to support them if anything goes wrong. While trust is

• 2022 Website Design Trends for a Stellar User Experience
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  However you decide to go about designing your website, you must make a stellar user experience the main priority. User experience is so important because of its place in the overall customer experience. In addition, its value to any company lies in its direct impact on profitability and customer relationship development. Start with these five website design trends to create an incredible user experience for all visitors.

• How to Boost C-SAT Score Through a Robust Knowledge Management Strategy?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The interdisciplinary process of developing, utilizing, sharing, and managing an organization's information and knowledge is known as knowledge management (KM). It's an approach for maximizing the value of an organization's knowledge assets to meet business goals including increasing competitive advantage,

• For Better CX in 2022, Focus on Closing Your Feedback Loops
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  If you go the extra mile and seek personalized, timely, insightful feedback from your customers, you can identify and improve contact center operations—and strengthen customer loyalty By Matt DiMaria What defines good customer experience? When the customer experience (CX) is

• 8 Reasons Why Professional IT Companies need CRM
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Contributed by  Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology isn’t new. It has been used for decades and is considered the most important tool for businesses of all types and sizes. The advanced CRM technology is expected to reach$128.97 billion in 2028,

• Why Customer Service and Marketing Must Go Hand-in-Hand
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  Image Source Pexels Customer service and marketing teams serve different purposes. A customer service team engages with clients, responds to their concerns and questions, and supports them in any way possible.

• Nearshore Vs Offshore Customer Service. What Is Better?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Outsourcing is a collaboration between two organizations that specialize in the identical (related or complementary) field of work and seek mutual advantage. When, for instance, an American firm outsources customer service to a team in Ukraine, given the existence of

• How to Outsource Your Customer Support in 2021
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Contributed by  Aziz Nicleson - Outsourcing customer support goes beyond dealing with long queues of queries, answering telephone calls, and responding to emails. It is more about sustaining the image of the company for the continuous flow of business. Most businesses

• Hiring Tips for Customer Service Teams
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  According to a study done by HubSpot, “Of the consumers polled, 92% would stop purchasing from a company after 3 (or less) poor customer service experiences.” In other words, one bad customer service experience could turn

• 8 Best Yet Inexpensive Customer Appreciation Ideas
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Most businesses consistently thank their customers for doing business with them. This simple act of demonstrating gratitude to consumers who support your business is not to be underestimated. Customers want to feel appreciated. And the more

• IntelePeer Delivers an Omnichannel Communications Platform that Enables Enterprises to Improve CX via Enhanced Business Processes
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  As enterprise organizations endeavor to evolve to the higher level of service demanded by customers in the emerging post Covid environment, they seek to offer more choices to enable people to better communicate with them on the channels they prefer.

• Ozonetel Offers a Full-featured Omnichannel Communications Platform at a Competitive Price Point
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Ozonetel, founded by an experienced team of technologists and entrepreneurs, built full stack customer experience software from the ground up to solve the practical problems that keep call centers from optimizing their communications platforms. The goal was to offer secure,

• Top 5 Crucial CRM Trends To Pay Attention To In 2021
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Any business that wants to remain competitive understands the importance of consumer engagement. Regardless of the exceptional quality of a company’s products or services, growth and profitability are only possible with strong customer relationships. CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solutions provides

• How to Handle Burnout Among Your Customer Experience Team
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Customer experience professionals are no strangers to burnout. Dealing with less than happy customers all day can take its toll on anyone regardless of how long you've been in the profession. However, if left unchecked,

• 9 Easy Hacks To Increase Customer Engagement And Slash Your Bounce Rate
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  When it comes to getting people to your website and keeping them there, the key is engagement. If your visitors aren’t engaged with what you are offering them, they are highly likely to bounce onto the next website that is able to capture their engagement.

• DMG Consulting LLC’s Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  The CBCCI market is the fastest growing IT sector in contact centers because these solutions are giving enterprises what they want – the agility to meet their customers’ evolving inbound and outbound needs, in voice and digital channels.
  

• Impact of Digital Channels on Contact Center Forecasting and Scheduling
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  Contact centers that adopted new channels during the pandemic now need to properly incorporate them into the fabric of their servicing infrastructure, including their automatic call distributor (ACD) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions.

• The Link Between xP&A and Customer Experience
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Most modern organizations put a significant portion of their resources into customer retention, customer loyalty, and expansion. For the majority of those organizations, retention and expansion are key drivers for their business planning and budgeting.

• Tips and Tools to Provide Excellent Customer Service in Healthcare
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Healthcare institutes have to stay as much on their toes to serve & retain their “customers” as other businesses.

  Now here’s why we’re emphasizing so much on healthy patient services and experiences.

• The Moral Crisis of Firing an Employee
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  There's a good probability you'll have to fire an employee as a manager at some time in your career. Regardless of the reasons why you’re letting someone go or who they are, the result is usually an awkward and emotional time afterwards, especially for the employees who are staying at your business.

• Make the Customer’s Behavior Work for You: Customer Analytics
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  In broad strokes, customer analytics gives businesses the tools they need to make data-driven decisions regarding just about anything. To take advantage of all the benefits this creates, you’ll need to craft an expert approach to working with analytics if you want to incentivize customer behavior that works for you.

• Prioritizing Customer Experience in Every Aspect of Your Business
  — Presented By: Amanda Winstead
  

  You might immediately think of your manager or the CEO. Or, if you own the company, you might proudly say, “Me!” However, there is someone else who is above you in the chain of command — your customers!

• How Amazing Team Leaders Communicate To Build Deeper Rapport
  — Presented By: Marc Carriere
  

  Do you find it hard dealing with all the different personality types in your call centre, whether you’re dealing with Team Members, other Team Leaders and especially your manager? It can be really frustrating dealing with different personality types and

• DMG Consulting’s 2021 – 2022 Interaction Analytics Product and Market Report Highlights
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  DMG Consulting’s 2021 – 2022 Interaction Analytics Product and Market Report, our 16th annual report on this sector, focuses on contact center and service related uses of interaction analytics (IA). It also covers broader applications of IA throughout the enterprise,

• RPA for Contact Centers and Customer Service
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  Robotic process automation (RPA) solutions have been in the market for more than 15 years, but it was only 5 years ago when they started to capture the attention of enterprise and IT managers. Seemingly out of nowhere, automation technology

• STIR-SHAKEN - Helpful, But Still a Bit Unsteady
  — Presented By: Sevis Systems
  

  By Krishna Korlepara, Director of Product Management at Sevis Systems   “Do not answer the call if you don’t recognize the number.” The Federal Communications Commission took this well adopted behavior one step further last year when it passed regulations

• Workforce Management in 2021 - Better than Ever
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  Interest in workforce planning has picked up over the last few years as companies have looked for ways to improve employee engagement. Identifying methods for improving scheduling flexibility is an enterprise concern and opportunity.
  

• Current Status of Speech (and Text) Analytics
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  Current Status of Speech (and Text) Analytics Interaction analytics removes the mystery from customer conversations. It gives companies access into what customers are “talking” (or writing) about and, specifically,

• Automation and IoT Trends for Customer Service in 2021
  — Presented By: Onilab
  

  On the whole, AI, IoT, and automation are becoming more and more essential for every company. The COVID-19 pandemic only fuels this tendency. Since business processes and relationships with customers have largely moved online, there is a growing need for cutting-edge solutions linked with the former and the latter.

• How Big Data & IoT Are Revamping The Customer Service Industry
  — Presented By: Blue Label Labs
  

  Across many different industries, customer service is a vital part of building a business. Interactions and impressions made with customers can make or break your long term success. In fact, great customer service is often a catalyst for building an

• Call Center Responsibilities Allocation Matrix
  — Presented By: Marc Carriere
  

  One of the biggest concerns Team Leaders have (especially new Team Leaders) is not having a clear understanding of their role and all their responsibilities. This can cause a lot of unnecessary confusion and anxiety within the team and between Team Leaders and their Call Center Manager.

• Meeting the New Challenges of Employee Training, Coaching and Engagement
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Since the contact center agent is the face and voice that often defines a company in the eyes of existing and potential customers, workforce recruiting must focus on identifying vital traits, skills, and abilities in individuals. But even when those who meet the highest qualifications are put in place, they must be trained, continuously coached, and kept actively engaged to be successful.

• 8 Common Mistakes Made By Newly Promoted Team Leaders
  — Presented By: Marc Carriere
  

  We are all human and make mistakes, and there are some mistakes newly promoted Team Leaders make in particular.

• How Embedded Video Advances Digital Engagement
  — Presented By: Glance
  

  By Tom Martin, CEO, Glance   Digital customer engagement has become the new norm. What began last year as a quick reaction to social distancing mandates has now manifested in consumer behavior changes that will be with us for the

• The Future of Customer Support is Conversational
  — Presented By: Intercom
  

  By Bobby Stapleton, Director of Customer Support at Intercom Today, customer support is undergoing a massive, irreversible change. Support teams are struggling to manage increasing conversation volumes. Simultaneously, a survey we ran found 73% of support leaders say customer expectations

• 2021 Predictions from Pega – What’s Next for Customer Service?
  — Presented By: Pega
  

  By  Jeff Nicholson, Global Head of CRM, Pega While technologies like virtual or augmented reality tend to conjure images of immersive gaming, advanced robotics, or even intense military training these solutions are much more broadly accessible than you think. Digital

• 7 Pillars For Creating Amazing Team Leaders
  — Presented By: Marc Carriere
  

  Team Leaders are the backbone of any call center   Yet typically what happens is one of the better operators is made a Team Leader and thrown into the deep end with little or no understanding of their role, much

• “Branded Calls” Enable Legitimate Businesses to Reach Fraud-Weary Consumers
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The original Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was passed into law by Congress and signed into law by President George HW Bush in 1991. It has since been updated several times to more effectively deal with issues related to cellular

• 2021 - The Year of the Contact Center
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  2021 is off to a rocky start as countries struggle to roll out the vaccines needed to combat the COVID 19 pandemic. Human ingenuity will triumph over adversity ­­­­­­and ineptitude. If scientists around the world could develop a series of

• 15 Essential Habits of Amazing Team Leaders
  — Presented By: Marc Carriere
  

  15 Essential Habits of Amazing Team Leaders     Creating amazing Team Leaders takes a lot of work and it’s certainly not always easy, but, the surprising thing is it isn’t the hardest thing in the world either… especially if

• Amazing Team Leader Scoring Model
  — Presented By: Marc Carriere
  

  Team Leaders are the backbone of any call center and depending on who you have in that critical role can make or break you.   Many Call Center Managers usually promote a really good operator as a Team Leader thinking

• How to prepare customer service teams to deliver a top-notch social media experience in 2021
  — Presented By: Majorel
  

  Author Estelle Wienk, Global Research and Solutions Manager at Majorel Companies have had to increasingly focus on social media as part of their strategy to serve up an amazing experience on customer preferred platforms for interacting with brands. Then when

• 2020 Contact Center Retrospective
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  What an amazing year 2020 has been – never seen anything like it and hope we won’t again. But, despite all of the challenges, a lot of good things have happened, including in the world of contact center. Below are

• Taking a Proactive Approach Prepares a Contact Center for Any Eventualities
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  We all want to believe we are taking the right measures to stay one step ahead of whatever life might throw at us next. We put blankets, tire inflators and glass cutters in our cars to be ready for emergencies.

• Three Tips for How Brands Can Avert a CX Crisis Amidst COVID-19
  — Presented By: CallMiner
  

  By Eric Williamson, CMO at CallMiner   Every organization has its own philosophies and methodologies for how best to establish customer relationships, but despite how companies get there, the end goal has always been the same Treating people with care

• The True Costs of an In-House Customer Service Team
  — Presented By: Cloudtask
  

  Customer support and success are key to your company’s survival and growth, otherwise you wouldn’t retain any of your customers. Research shows that it costs 5X more to obtain a new client than to keep an existing one. Of course,

• Experience Counts in Shaping a Meaningful Virtual Conference Event that Offers Quality Education and More
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Over the past few months, people who wish to dine out as safely and enjoyably as possible have often sought outdoor options. Suburban restaurateurs have responded to this demand by carving out a section of their parking lots and putting

• Learn to Identify the Five Interaction Categories that are Most Effectively Handled by AI-Powered Virtual Agents
  — Presented By: SmartAction
  

  Just about everyone has an IVR horror story to share. Being forced to listen to repetitive menus. Getting stuck in an endless cycle of trying to navigate through options that don’t meet their needs.

  
  

• Let’s Get Digital: COVID-19 Reveals How Brands Can Improve CX Across Channels
  — Presented By: Sitel
  

  By Kelli Harrison, VP, Account Management Retail, Sitel Group Surviving COVID 19 meant a major increase in online shopping. It’s how many consumers safely went grocery shopping, treated themselves with new devices and even ordered needed medication to their front

• Unearthing the Most Important CX Initiatives for 2021 Requires Going Far Beneath the Surface
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  It’s always been a tried and true topic for seminars and webcasts to divine the most significant changes and new directions in a specific industry. Until now, when someone set out to predict what the major trends might be in

• Leading Remote Teams: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters More than Ever
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  As the coronavirus pandemic lingers worldwide, more call center workers are finding themselves suddenly and in some cases indefinitely thrust into remote settings. These circumstances require agile leaders with the skills and capacity to unite and sustain their teams.

• How Can Businesses Ensure They’ll Reach Customers When So Many Don’t Answer Their Phones?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  It happens to nearly all of us every single day the mobile phone buzzes and we encounter an   unrecognized number and simply don’t answer. It could be an 800 number, an out of state exchange or a spoofed number that

• Employee Wellness Monitoring and the Call Center Industry
  — Presented By: Nemesysco
  

  In early February, Time Magazine declared that the Coronavirus has become the “world’s largest work from home experiment”. In the following month, Gartner published an analyst report on managing costs during the Coronavirus outbreak and revealed that 74 percent of

• Data Breaches: What Business Owners and Shoppers Need to Know
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Do you think about what happens to your data when you swipe your card at a coffee shop or enter your credit card number online? Or, if you’re a business owner, do you have a plan for protecting customer data,

• Adapting Workforce Optimization to Meet the Rapidly Changing Priorities of Contact Center Operations
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  In normal times, workforce optimization is a business approach that utilizes advanced contact center technologies to improve customer experience while boosting overall operational efficiency. WFO includes…but is not limited to…automating processes, creating greater data visibility, ensuring compliance, performance management, recording,

• How Can Companies Provide a Human Touch and Ensure Consumers’ Calls are Answered During a Crisis?
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  By now, we are all only too aware that contact centers have had to adjust to a new paradigm. Thousands upon thousands of formerly premise based agents have transitioned to become home based agents, often in the face of dramatic

• The New Knowledge Management Required for Customer Service in the COVID Era
  — Presented By: eGain
  

  “Due to overwhelming demand for service, we are not able to take your call.”   “Our wait times for customer service may be longer than usual due to COVID 19.” These caveats are typical of what you get these days

• Listen to Your Contact Center Now for CX Insights Beyond the Pandemic
  — Presented By: CallMiner
  

  With the impact that the current pandemic has had on all our lives customer experience rightfully takes a backseat to concerns for health and safety when directly impacted by pandemic challenges. This is, however, a journey from which we all

• Companies that are Serious about CX Need to Up Their Mobile Customer Support Game
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  It is no secret that customer experience (CX) has become perhaps the most compelling influence in the consumer’s decisions to initially do business—and build an ongoing relationship-- with a company. CX can be defined as the sum of all

• Now is a Better Time than Ever to Update from Manual to Automated Forecasting Models
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  Even in the best of times, determining the right staffing levels needed to keep a contact center operating efficiently while adequately meeting customer demand is a delicate balancing act. Staffing too many agents needlessly drives up costs staffing too few

• Discovering the Value of Attended Automation as a Digital Transformation Tool to Enhance the Productivity of Remote Agents
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  It was a transition that was already in progress before the current emergency unfolded. The migration to a reduced population of work at home agents, coupled with the unprecedented spike in demand for information, has dramatically accelerated the need for

• Managing Contact Centers Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  The COVID 19 pandemic is front of mind for all of us, as it’s next to impossible to avoid hearing and reading about the Coronavirus and the impact of this disease on the stock markets and

• Navigating the Winding Path to Effective Digital Customer Engagement
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The phrase “Digital Customer Engagement” has been broadly applied to incorporate a variety of elements everything from developing interactive websites and establishing responsive social media accounts to deploying customer surveys and providing convenient user apps. However, this all encompassing definition

• The Crucial Points of CRM Implementation
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  By Nikolaus Kimla, Serial Entrepreneur, Pipeliner CEO and author of over 50 e books  Ask any business leader what the most valuable capability in business is and they’re likely to answer the ability to make accurate predictions. Why? The ability

• Unlocking Voice of the Customer with Emotional AI
  — Presented By: CallMiner
  

  By Jeff Gallino, CallMiner   Every customer behavior is driven by an emotion, and as we know, some emotions are more powerful than others. Anger, disgust, rage — these are feelings that typically lead to customer churn and a very

• 2020 Contact Center Investment Priorities
  — Presented By: DMG Consulting LLC
  

  DMG’s annual survey of contact center investment priorities for the year has confirmed the anecdotal data we’ve been hearing from companies. 2020 is looking to be an outstanding year for contact center investments.     As it’s difficult to get

• CCW Nashville 2020 - Solution Providers and End Users Harmonize in Music City
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  CCW Nashville 2020   Solution Providers and End Users Harmonize in Music City     CCW Winter, the first event on the CX contact center calendar, took place in Nashville, TN from January 28 31, 2020, attended by professionals representing

• How Analytics Enable You to Bring Your Company Closer to the Customer than Ever Before
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  There are divergent opinions in what technologies are most effective in creating a better customer experience, but one thing that just about every expert agrees upon is analytics can be   a real game changer.  According to a recent Harvard Business

• Changing the World Technological Climate to Enhance Human Wisdom
  — Presented By: CrmXchange
  

  The Center for Humane Technology   Changing the World Technological Climate to Enhance Human Wisdom Everyone has an opinion on climate change. While people have divergent beliefs on whether human activity is causing it, there is universal awareness of the