Thu.Jan 26, 2023

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7 Contact Center Trends to Watch in 2023

Customer Think

Contact center leaders, your time is now. Customer service and customer experience analysts and thought leaders are suggesting that the contact center is “the next big tech frontier.” Investment in the contact center is increasingly—finally.

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The Complete Guide to Digital Entrepreneurship

Hubspot Sales

Decades ago, the thought of creating a profitable business was a distant dream. Now with the internet, the possibility of digital entrepreneurship is open to everyone. You can connect with millions of people globally for only a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing. Plus, finding and connecting with your target audience is easy with social media.

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TDCX Announces Launch of Digital Customer Experience Center of Excellence in Singapore to Pioneer New CX Solutions

Customer Think

Center will focus on CX solutions that enable hyper personalized and seamless customer engagement physically and in the metaverse

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New Sales Manager? Follow These 3 Essentials to Jumpstart Success

Sales Readiness Group

Congratulations! You have just been promoted from salesperson to sales manager, now what? For many sales organizations, promoting from the field to fill vacant sales manager roles is the standard operating procedure, and it’s easy to see why. Promoting a sales star into a management role is a quick way to fill a vacant position. Moreover, according to research by the Institute for Corporate Productivity, organizations with higher percentages of internally promoted managers have lower turnover ra

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2024, The Year of the Customer

2023's struggles fueled a shift: companies are ditching wasteful strategies in favor of data and AI-powered growth. Enter 2024, the year GTC takes center stage. Discover 5 ways a customer-centric approach unlocks new revenue and delivers lasting success.

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The Human Experience = Human Economics: CX and EX in the Real World

Customer Think

Homo Economicus – the characterization of people as rationally guided wealth-maximizing missiles in their behavior — never really was more than a textbook stick figure characterization. This one-dimensional theoretical view, however, dominated economic and business thinking for the past century and remains strong even today.

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9 ways to de-motivate an agency account manager

Account Management Skills

While preparing for a seminar with David C Baker , I’ve been reflecting on what de-motivates account managers. Unlike many agency advisors, David has invested in profiling account managers. His research over many years shows there are behaviour patterns. In this 2Bobs podcast episode , he shares what he has discovered. Not only could I recognise myself, but I have been training account managers since 2016 and can validate his findings.

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How Consistent is Your Feedback?

The Center for Sales Strategy

Have you ever played the hot and cold guessing game? “You’re freezing cold, you’re thawing out, you’re getting warmer, you’re on fire!” The person in charge of the game hides an object and then gives you feedback based on how close (hot) or far (cold) you are from what they’ve hidden. Now imagine searching for their hidden object without receiving any feedback on how hot or cold you are.

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The Hot Stores Of 2023 May Be Made Of Meta, Not Mortar

Customer Think

Imagine thousands of shoppers flocking to your latest store opening, trying on outfits and making big purchases. And there is no actual store. This is what the retail industry is poised to capture with the help of fully immersive virtual reality, or the metaverse.

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How to strengthen social capital in the workplace

MDI Training

Why do you like your job? Is it the work, the salary, or perhaps the interaction with your colleagues? The latter is being neglected in many companies, especially during the pandemic. Until then, people had lunch together from time to time, chatted briefly at the coffee machine or worked together on projects. How to foster exhange and strengthen social capital in the workplace.

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This IS Personal. How Customer Service Can Build Relationships One Customer at a Time.

Customer Think

Before the end of the year, I was looking through my library of past business books and came across an “oldie but goodie”, The One to One Future Building Relationships One Customer at a Time by Peppers and Rogers.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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3 Forecasting Habits of High-Performing Sales Organizations

Force Management

Achieving 100% forecast accuracy is a goal for any sales organization, but at times it can feel out of our hands. So many factors affect a successful forecast: external economic factors, problems within the buyer organization and the ability of sales teams to predict and execute their number. How do you improve forecast accuracy as a sales leader?

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NICE Announces Industry’s First Conversational CX With ChatGPT-Enabled CXone

Customer Think

This pioneering integration of CXone Expert and OpenAI's generative modeling enables consumers to resolve issues with human-friendly automated self-service

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Account-Based Selling – What it is and Why it Matters 

Upland

Today, the horizon of B2B selling looks different than it did even just a few years ago. The world has undergone several drastic revolutions in only a few years. Technological innovations, digitalization and workstyle evolutions that were being signaled years ago have today come to fruition. We are a more connected, virtual, and tech savvy business world than ever before.

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Juggling Multiple Project Execution Methodologies? This is for you.

Planview

As a project management leader, you’ve likely encountered the challenges of using multiple project execution methodologies (such as: waterfall projects, as well as collaborative and Lean-Agile work delivery). This process can be overwhelming for even the most experienced PMO, especially when supporting teams and their work methods of choice, but it doesn’t have to be.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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A new year calls for new integrations

Zendesk

Here are the newest integrations from Zendesk to help your team provide top-quality experiences. Virtru Secure Share Virtru Secure Share (Support) helps you close support tickets faster by making it easier to securely exchange sensitive information with customers–without ever leaving Zendesk. Virtru Secure Share for Zendesk lets you share encrypted files of nearly any size and creates a safe space for your customers to submit confidential information to you, encrypted and linked directly to thei