Confirmit
AUGUST 21, 2018
The other day I found myself in the slightly annoying position of being unable to procrastinate any further. I had to – finally – admit defeat and just well get on with a domestic DIY project that I’d been in varying stages of denial and avoidance over for a few days. This meant writing a list. And working things out. And measuring things with a tape measure.
Callminer
AUGUST 22, 2018
Once you’ve collected the data, you need to do something with it to improve the customer experience and deliver exceptional customer service consistently. Actionable analytics is key.
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Fonolo
AUGUST 22, 2018
Just like me, you probably remember dozens of random 1-800 phone conversations with Johns, Jacobs, or Janes. They have called us from contact centers in the middle of the work day, when we ourselves were working on getting through that jerk chicken during a barely 15-minute lunch break. If I am not wrong, then it is safe to say that nine out of 10 times, we have hung up after the robotic, brief introduction and then wondered why they bothered calling us in the first place.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 20, 2018
The phrase “cross-functional” is most commonly used to describe a team made up of of people with different functions or skills. At Intercom for example, our product teams include designers, programmers and product managers , unique roles working together as one. Or you might hear the term used when teams from different parts of a business work together on a big project, like the launch of a new product or release.
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker
Brands used to look for a commerce platform that could do everything. But over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, so they added, and added, and added— and now it's essential that these vendors work well together. That’s composable, and it’s important to get it right. Customers and your board expect you to be in new channels and to adapt quickly to market change.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 24, 2018
Colin Shaw and Prof. Ryan Hamilton explore the study of customer emotions and how they influence customer experience and tendencies to buy. Explore the latest academic studies and how researchers have evoked specific emotions, what they mean, and how you can use them. The post How Do I Evoke Customer Emotions? appeared first on.
Callminer
AUGUST 23, 2018
No matter what industry you serve, chances are your customers have high expectations. As a contact center, it is your primary responsibility to understand and manage customer expectations. That includes determining if customers feel their needs are being met on every call. Collecting this valuable speech and text data or over all interaction data is just the first step in managing customer expectations though.
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Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 22, 2018
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”. – Peter Thiel. People in tech commonly overestimate the impact of big things and underestimate the power of small things. We constantly talk about the next big thing that will change everything, the next revolution that will inevitably happen. In the past few years it has been AI, chatbots, VR, blockchain and whatnot.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 23, 2018
Non-conscious influence has a significant effect on your customer’s behavior. Non-conscious influences are stimuli of which a customer is not aware. What’s more, these non-conscious influences exist in your Customer Experience even if you haven’t been deliberate about your design of them. In our latest podcast , we defined some terms that describe the information that influences behavior, including: Subliminal: Something you sense but that your conscious mind did not register, meaning it is pi
Callminer
AUGUST 21, 2018
Read the full Aberdeen report here to gain a full understanding of which strategies and trends are most important in 2018.
Customer Service Life
AUGUST 22, 2018
This article was originally published on the FCR blog on July 17, 2018. Click here to read the original. When customers contact you with a problem, do you apologize or do you not? Let’s work through a couple scenarios. In the first scenario you work for a SAAS (Software as a Service) provider and a customer is calling in because their service is impaired.
Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber
Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.
Myra Golden Media
AUGUST 20, 2018
When a customer reaches out to you about a problem, they usually don’t think things will be easy. They expect to enter a fray. To customers, it’s them against you. Visually, it’s like this. There’s a brick wall between you and your customer. You are on one side of the wall, and your customer is on the other. The customer sees the issue they’re trying to get resolved as being on the same side of the brick wall as you.
TeamSupport
AUGUST 24, 2018
Living in an era where there’s seemingly a statistic for everything, it can be difficult to truly understand the real value of each data point. You may look at your email count for the day, see it’s in the triple digits, and say “wow, I’ve had a busy day”. But on closer examination, half of the emails are holiday junk and a quarter are from a vendor who can’t get meeting invites right, leaving only the usual amount of “real” emails in your inbox.
ProProfs
AUGUST 21, 2018
Strategically, when a company plans to invest in economic development and chases the technology upgrade, it requires talented employees commanding proficient skills. And for this reason, providing training incentives becomes the need of an hour to stay ahead of the race. Did you know that the US companies spent more than $70 billion in 2016 solely on training to help employees in attaining higher skills?
Fonolo
AUGUST 21, 2018
Last week, Facebook announced that WhatsApp could now be used as a customer service platform. We now have an interesting race between Apple’s “Apple Business Chat”, Facebook’s own “Messenger for Business”, and Twitter. The goal is to grab a vital piece of the eCommerce landscape: The channel for customer service communication. What caught my eye is that WhatsApp is asking companies to pay in order to use its platform for customer service.
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Customer Bliss
AUGUST 22, 2018
Does your company need a CCO? You may have seen in the news recently that Walmart hired its first CCO , Janey Whiteside, who managed benefits and services – which also included customer engagement, at American Express. Like many other retailers, Walmart is facing serious competition from Amazon and is aiming to improve its customer experience both online and in-stores.
Chip Bell
AUGUST 21, 2018
My brother and his wife and their two grown children with spouses and children are spending the weekend with us. With my reputation as Mr. Customer Service on the line, we want to be the “hostess with the mostest.” My brother’s son-in-law is gluten intolerant. It carries special exceptions when planning all meals. And, it has driven us to sections of the grocery store we never visit.
ProProfs
AUGUST 20, 2018
Examinations are one of the crucial phases in students’ life which they can’t escape. Likewise, it is equally intriguing for educators to create exams to assess students’ learning continually. While making several assessments, exams focus on contemplating learning objectives and providing valuable feedback on the knowledge retained by the learners. Reliable exams, at their core, create a significant impact on student’s learning.
Comm100
AUGUST 23, 2018
It’s 2018, and customer expectations are changing faster than ever. Consumer patience is dwindling; we want better, more accessible products, and everything that we do seems to revolve around convenience. Companies that couldn’t deliver are now either history or relics that remind us of another time – think the last Blockbuster. While some businesses have struggled to withstand the shifting tides, others have reacted in a timely enough fashion to keep up (at least minimally) with changing custom
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 23, 2018
At a time when more and more people are taking public transportation, customer experience for commuters has a big impact on their daily lives. How do you create great service for such a complex system? In today’s conversation with Anand Sampat , the head of customer experience for c2c , a public London commuter train that services 40,000 daily commuters, we discuss how he manages the customer experience for a service that so many people rely on.
Provide Support
AUGUST 22, 2018
Have you ever thought about why you are losing customers? Perhaps you are giving them a reason to leave? A study from NewVoiceMedia found that: 67% of customers left a company due to poor service. 10% have switched more than 5 times in the past year. $430 is the average loss per customer. On the whole, all those service failures cost to businesses in the United States $75 billion per year.
ProProfs
AUGUST 21, 2018
Strategically, when a company plans to invest in economic development and chases the technology upgrade, it requires talented employees commanding proficient skills. And for this reason, providing training incentives becomes the need of an hour to stay ahead of the race. Did you know that the US companies spent more than $70 billion in 2016 solely on training to help employees in attaining higher skills?
ClientSuccess
AUGUST 24, 2018
Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful. Each day we learn from the trenches what it takes to make clients happy and successful.
Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera
Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 22, 2018
Does your company need a CCO? You may have seen in the news recently that Walmart hired its first CCO , Janey Whiteside, who managed benefits and services – which also included customer engagement, at American Express. Like many other retailers, Walmart is facing serious competition from Amazon and is aiming to improve its customer experience both online and in-stores.
TeamSupport
AUGUST 24, 2018
Living in an era where there’s seemingly a statistic for everything, it can be difficult to truly understand the real value of each data point. You may look at your email count for the day, see it’s in the triple digits, and say “wow, I’ve had a busy day”. But on closer examination, half of the emails are holiday junk and a quarter are from a vendor who can’t get meeting invites right, leaving only the usual amount of “real” emails in your inbox.
Help Scout
AUGUST 22, 2018
Can you remember your toughest customer? Chances are, the experience involved some sweat, maybe some tears, and a few extra cups of coffee. When you’re dealing with people, there’s no rulebook. A rational approach doesn’t necessarily evoke a rational response. Learning to tease out the nuances of interactions with difficult customers and untangle the right solution takes time, thoughtfulness and skill.
Hodusoft
AUGUST 21, 2018
Like every other buy, it is imperative to comprehend what you might want to encourage out of your video conferencing administration before you choose one. For instance, a curiously large organization would conceivably be constrained to circle in many members specifically, though a little organization would potentially exclusively require one-on-one gatherings.
Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali
Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.
ClientSuccess
AUGUST 18, 2018
ClientSuccess hosted Jamey Jeff, Managing Director of Customer Success Solutions of Coastal Cloud , for this month’s customer success webinar series: 5 Standout Strategies of Top Performing Customer Success Teams. These 5 standout strategies are backed by data and research found in the 2018 Customer Success Industry Report. Jamey Jeff, the webinar presenter, is a former Chief Customer Officer with over 20 years experience as a client services executive.
SugarCRM
AUGUST 22, 2018
I know what you’re probably thinking: What is Sales Velocity in the first place? Here’s a simple answer: How much revenue you can expect to bring in each day; calculated by the PRODUCT of 1) the number of opportunities you have in sales pipeline, 2) the average value of your opportunities and 3) your percentage win rate – DIVIDED by 4) the average sales cycle length in days.
Hodusoft
AUGUST 21, 2018
HoduSoft Pvt. Ltd., located in the heart of Ahmedabad city, in India, serves best-in-class VoIP Softwares all over the world. Being one of the leading business communication software providers, the company offers communication software which is robust, flexible, advanced yet affordable. Recently, HoduSoft announced their Visiting in Source India Turkey 2018, which is going to conduct in Turkey, from 7th Sep to 11th Sep 2018.
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JUST RELEASED! New research reveals 92% of business leaders would like to provide additional training to their customer service representatives. Soft skills training stands out as a priority area of investment and/or improvement. Check out The Northridge Group’s latest CX research report —the 7th annual CX survey of 1,000 customers and 250 business executives—to see additional statistics as well as insights that businesses can use to benchmark their customer service and improve the overall exper
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