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How to find the customer journey moments of truth
A moment of truth can turn a potentially positive experience into a negative one, and vice versa. Understanding moments of truth requires a complete knowledge of the customer journey. Continue Reading
6 challenges of omnichannel marketing
When marketers use omnichannel strategies to engage customers across touchpoints, they often face challenges with personalization, campaign tracking and brand consistency. Continue Reading
Top 6 marketing automation certifications and courses
With the right marketing automation certifications, SMBs and small marketing teams can gain the skills and expertise needed to compete with larger companies in their markets. Continue Reading
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How to overcome the top 6 marketing automation challenges
Marketing automation tools can improve employee productivity if organizations avoid common pitfalls, such as poor planning and a lack personalized messaging. Continue Reading
7 Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementation issues
Microsoft Dynamics 365 presents unique implementation challenges for organizations, like data migration and customizations. Explore these challenges and strategies to solve them. Continue Reading
5 email marketing challenges and their solutions
Most organizations primarily use email to connect with customers. Yet, marketers often struggle with engagement due to spam filters and crowded inboxes.Continue Reading
Banks aim to improve customer experience for users online
Tactics to increase digital interactions include improving contact center tools, prioritizing UX design and merging digital capabilities with real-time human service.Continue Reading
7 ABM challenges and how to solve them
Navigating through account-based marketing program headwinds in team collaboration, budgeting, resource allocation, scalability, and tool selection requires a unique approach.Continue Reading
7 account-based marketing tactics for your business
You can grow business revenue through an effective ABM strategy the complements lead-generation efforts. Here are 7 tactics to make your ABM program effective.Continue Reading
What is the role of a customer relationship manager?
The customer relationship manager -- a role that differs from a CRM manager -- has a challenging and ever-evolving role to play when it comes to optimizing the customer experience.Continue Reading
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8 CX challenges facing organizations and how to address them
There are many barriers to effective CX initiatives, but most revolve around communication at the consumer and enterprise level.Continue Reading
CXM vs. CRM: Which platform is best for your business?
CXM and CRM systems help organizations boost customer satisfaction, but CXM focuses on how customers perceive a brand, while CRM helps employees understand their customers.Continue Reading
9 disadvantages of self-service options
Customer self-service platforms free up live agents for more complicated issues, but if organizations don't keep this software up to date, its disadvantages can frustrate users.Continue Reading
5 ways to use social media in supply chain management
Amid a supply chain crisis, customers often turn to social media to voice frustration. Organizations need honesty, empathy and informative content to help disgruntled customers.Continue Reading
Top 5 challenges in field service management
Many organizations overlook field service management in their customer service strategies, yet this area -- and its challenges -- are critical to CX success.Continue Reading
How to train agents on call center fraud detection
Poorly trained call center agents are easy targets for bad actors. Organizations must prepare for call center fraud with proper agent training and anti-fraud technologies.Continue Reading
8 customer service challenges and how to resolve them
The most important skill for a customer service agent to learn is empathy. That, plus a well-crafted customer service plan, can solve nearly any problem that arises.Continue Reading
8 ways to improve call center agent performance
Side-by-side evaluations, reinforcement, training resources and coaching can help call center agents improve their performance and catch up to the pack.Continue Reading
Diversity in customer experience hinges on root-cause analysis
Sandra Mathis and Stephanie C. Harris discuss diversity and inclusion, and the necessity of addressing them at an internal level before customers see change.Continue Reading
10 ways to improve the customer experience today
Many organizations struggle with where and how to improve CX, as the focus shifts from CRM to customer experience. Here are 10 strategies to use for a successful journey.Continue Reading
6 tips for handling emergency calls in contact centers
Many contact centers do not have a procedure for handling emergency calls, but they should. It is important for agents to know how to react to emergency situations.Continue Reading
3 ways CRM improves customer experience
To be efficient, businesses need their information in one place. Using a CRM system, companies can improve CX by keeping track of their customers and automating business processes.Continue Reading
Mystery shopping software key to customer experience management
Businesses use mystery shopping platforms, comment cards, brand reputation management and more to identify customer pain points and improve customer experience.Continue Reading
Salesforce Einstein Vision sinks teeth into shark recognition
Using drones and a modified version of Salesforce's Einstein Vision, marine biologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, can track and identify great white sharks.Continue Reading
Consumer behavior analytics makes the unpredictable predictable
With AI's arsenal of machine learning, deep learning and NLP, consumer analytics can take some of the unpredictability out of predicting buying patterns and up conversion rates.Continue Reading
Best practices for creating chatbot scripts
The rules of good chatbot scripting are similar to those of application coding. Here are some best practices to creating a chatbot that users will approve.Continue Reading
Replacing contact center platforms poses big dilemma
CX expert Scott Sachs discusses the various dilemmas posed by migrating legacy on-premises contact center platforms to the cloud.Continue Reading
Liferay digital experience platform helps company improve CX
Jack Maina, group chief operations officer of Britam, talks about how the financial services group rebuilt the way it interacts with customers and partners using Liferay.Continue Reading
5 common customer support problems that affect CX
In customer support, common customer experience issues include lengthy hold times, scaling, failure to follow up, lack of human touch and a lack of personalization.Continue Reading
How Lucky Brand improved its online customer experience
As retailers try to keep up with customers' changing expectations, more and more brands are trying to mesh their online shopping experience with their in-store experience.Continue Reading
LA Metro pursues integrated CRM system with Salesforce
The Los Angeles Metro system integrates the Salesforce CRM with existing payment infrastructure, helping to bridge the gap between old and new technologies.Continue Reading
6 customer intent metrics to prevent lead dropouts
Learn about the key metrics marketing teams can use to analyze customer intent, detect leads in danger of dropping out and focus energy on nurturing those leads.Continue Reading
Is CRM with social media growing less trustworthy?
Comments made on social media can sometimes give businesses a skewed perception of consumer sentiment. Learn how to correct the data to inform business decisions.Continue Reading
Microsoft adds CRM for nonprofits to Dynamics 365 lineup
CRM for nonprofits, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Nonprofit Accelerator, helps nonprofit organizations take advantage of business tools and shared data.Continue Reading
3 call center improvement strategies that boost efficiency
Call center agents must multitask like never before in this era of omnichannel service. How to increase efficiency with tech while relieving some of the load on the people.Continue Reading
Omnichannel customer service improves customer experience
Customers have come to expect brands to provide omnichannel customer service, but many companies are still overwhelmed by the idea of introducing new channels and training agents.Continue Reading
Tips to build a successful digital customer service strategy
CRM pros from Wendy's, Chamberlain Group and DoorDash offer tips for integrating Salesforce AI and social media channels to create a successful digital CX strategy.Continue Reading
Salesforce marketing automation tools close the data divide
Marketing automation CEO offers tips on bringing together siloed data, spotting sales trends, analyzing sales funnels and allocating marketing campaign spending.Continue Reading
Designing chatbots with personality-plus and gift of gab
Planning, patience, trial and error and a business-minded team approach are the keystones to developing chatbots with human-like qualities that seamlessly assist customers.Continue Reading
AI for the enterprise transmitted directly from Mars
For marketing intelligence to explore new frontiers and achieve its ultimate goal, chief marketing officers may find their CRM applications were once developed by NASA and tested in space.Continue Reading
Sales Cloud implementation transforms sales tracking, analysis
Salesforce Sales Cloud has made Thompson Pump's once manual, paper-backed tracking, analyzing and crediting processes fast and tidy, reducing order-processing time by about 20%.Continue Reading
How Salesforce teams will feel the impact of GDPR
With less than a month until GDPR has to be implemented, both B2B and B2C sales teams must be prepared to properly protect or even dispense of customer data, according to experts.Continue Reading
MindTickle, Salesforce speed sales learning in merger
Last year's Blue Coat-Symantec merger posed a dilemma: getting salespeople up to speed on the reshaped product line. MindTickle with Salesforce paid dividends in sales learning.Continue Reading
Survey marketing leads to sales insights for outdoor association
After decades of catering to the needs of known customers, outdoor retailers now see the light and are targeting old and new customers with data-driven marketing and sales initiatives.Continue Reading
Taking on a virtual agent helps mint new wine connoisseurs
Having trouble selecting the wine that goes best with a special meal? And what if your preferred shop doesn't have it? Vivino helps you choose -- and, if needed, find -- the right wine.Continue Reading
How to calculate abandoned call rate for a contact center
Experts offer an abandoned call formula and advice on what to include when calculating call abandonment rates.Continue Reading
Customer data governance policies: Stop stalking, start selling
Customer data governance policies differ from traditional data governance in several ways. Finding that line between building trust among customers and stalking them is a start.Continue Reading
How do IoT analytics enhance customer experience with quality data?
IoT analytics helps companies create a better customer experience by providing quality data that allows for the reduction of costs and a more efficient work day.Continue Reading
How will Microsoft Dynamics 365 benefit the enterprise marketplace?
Is Microsoft Dynamics 365's role in the enterprise marketplace actually beneficial for users? Expert Brent Leary discusses Microsoft's upcoming product.Continue Reading
Can Salesforce Wave answer data integration challenges?
Like other products, Salesforce Wave promises to make it easy to stitch together data silos. Is data integration as easy as it sounds? An expert offers some insight.Continue Reading
Communication essential to sales and marketing alignment
A lack of communication between sales and marketing teams can derail internal processes. Here's how to ensure collaboration between the two factions.Continue Reading
Sales management software helps teams get a jump on leads
As customers become more knowledgeable about products, sales reps can't just rely on the gift of gab. Today they need sales management software that help target people who are ready to bite.Continue Reading
The secret to selling more? Sales intelligence
Sales teams have a basic but ever-challenging task: Sell stuff and make money for the company. But they can't do that without proper insight into the business.Continue Reading
CRM platforms alone won't give total customer picture
Some CRM vendors have started to demonstrate the power of unified CRM platforms, enabling companies to manage customer data, analytics, financials and more from a single application and get a unified view. But many companies still struggle with ...Continue Reading
The double-edged sword of location-based technologies
Location-based technologies like personalization are yielding valuable consumer data, but companies need to be careful stewards of the information.Continue Reading
Customer data integration needs strategy to derive meaning
Your approach to customer data integration needs to be guided by another strategy to determine which information is relevant.Continue Reading
Which call center billing model should I use?
What’s the best call center billing model measurement – charging for calls per month or per call? Expert Donna Fluss explains the methods behind both and how to best apply them in the contact center.Continue Reading
How can I measure call center agents' unavailable and "not ready" time?
Find out how to measure call center agents' unavailable and not ready time in this expert tip and get a formula for calculating unavailable time in your call center.Continue Reading
Three management tips for overseeing call center agents on night shift
There are psychological and medical challenges for call center agents working the night shift. Hear management tips from Donna Fluss for managing night shift call center agents.Continue Reading
Does hot seating in the call center affect agent morale?
Learn about hot seating in the call center and find out how it can have a positive and negative impact on agent morale and productivity in this expert tip.Continue Reading
Pros and cons of auto-response software in the call center
Auto-response software often gets mixed reviews from both call center professionals and customers. Learn the pros and cons of using auto-answer and auto-response software in the call center from expert Donna Fluss.Continue Reading
Call center rules and regulations: Why are they so strict?
Learn the purpose of call center rules and regulations in this tip from Donna Fluss, including how and why call center managers control the number of scheduled agents according to the forecasted call volume, using workforce management (WFM) ...Continue Reading
Call monitoring best practices: Is there any industry standard?
Learn the best approach to monitoring call center agent's calls with expert Lori Bocklund.Continue Reading
What's the difference between speech recognition software and voice tags?
Wondering about how voice recognition or speech recognition and voice tags differ? Read definitions from Donna Fluss in this tip.Continue Reading
Call center scheduling: How to manage Auxiliary or unavailable time
Expert Lori Bocklund advises a reader on managing a call center agent's Auxiliary or unavailable time.Continue Reading
Conducting a CRM system and process audit
Expert Paul Greenberg offers advice on conducting an audit of CRM systems and processes.Continue Reading
How to evaluate call center quality analyst performance
Expert Donna Fluss provides some guidelines for evaluating the performance of a call center's quality coach, and offers suggestions on training a quality coach.Continue Reading
Calculating the call center agent seat utilization ratio
Lori Bocklund explains how to calculate the seat utilization ratio for a call center with a formula using call center agents and number of call center seats.Continue Reading
How can understanding customer value lead to successful marketing?
According to Lior Arussy, understanding customer value can lead to successful marketing if you target those customers with the highest potential value, not just those with the highest actual value.Continue Reading
New call center agents -- top 10 pitfalls
Common areas of call center agent weakness are largely due to inexperience in handling live (and sometimes frustrated and nasty) customers, and a lack of in-depth knowledge of systems, products, policies and procedures. Most of these areas can be ...Continue Reading
Using subject matter experts (SME) to develop call center managers
Learn the benefits of promoting star agents to subject matter expert positions (SME) where they work under the call center supervisor.Continue Reading
How do you define flow out calls?
Call center expert Lori Bocklund answers a reader who's using Avaya reports and is wondering about flow out calls, and whether they are the sum of abandoned and blocked calls.Continue Reading