Shep Hyken

APRIL 25, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Consumers Prefer Traffic Jams Over a Bad Customer Experience by Retail Customer Experience. I love customer service statistics , and this short article has several. Customer Loyalty.

Customer Service 57

Customer Service Retail Customer Loyalty Start-ups 57

SurveySensum

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, where your online reputation has the power to determine your B2B business’s fate, customer feedback stands as the cornerstone of your success. And when we say customer feedback, we mean every facet of it – not just the good but also the criticisms. Can I ever recover from this?”

B2B 52

B2B Construction Social Media Customer Feedback 52

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Transitioning into an effective marketplace required keen attention to the evolving needs of their customers – who wanted to connect to third-party partners. Customer nurturing now starts from the first touch, and AI can help with that. I’m running an accelerator program of sorts called Salesforce Accelerate.

Machine Learning 151

Machine Learning AI Innovation Start-ups 151

Sprinklr

AUGUST 12, 2021

However, despite these challenges, it’s more important than ever to invest in social selling strategies to help your financial advisors engage customers across these digital channels. The benefits are clear: new business growth, increased competitive advantage, and an improved customer experience across all touchpoints.

Social Media 111

Social Media Education Sales Compliance 111

Execs In The Know

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Crunching customer data is at the crux of it all, and applying data insights to decisions is the most challenging barrier to the success of a hyper-personalization strategy for 53% majority of marketing influencers, according to a report by Ascend2. Ill-informed data-driven approaches risk violating customers’ trust.

Omnichannel 52

Omnichannel B2C CX AI 52

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Today, Max is the CEO of Sales Hacker: a global conference, event series, and an online publication that brings together proven sales execs and emerging startup founders to share their lessons and experiences in sales automation and tech sales. I built the supply side of their marketplace and took them through their B and C rounds of funding.

Sales 183

Sales Start-ups Finance Education 183

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

I hosted Andrew on our podcast to chat about the changing landscape of customer acquisition, how his “Law of Shitty Clickthroughs” manifests itself in today’s growth channels, and what the rest of us can learn from the likes of Dropbox and Uber. If you enjoy the conversation check out more episodes. Adam: What drew you back?

Start-ups 224

Start-ups Gaming Customer Acquisition B2B 224

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Intercom was created out of an epiphany in a small Dublin coffee shop because we realized that the impersonal, transactional way of doing business online just wasn’t cutting it for customers anymore. We’ll also hear Andrew Chen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talking about the changing landscape of customer acquisition.

Start-ups 215

Start-ups E-commerce Engineering Customer Acquisition 215

Totango

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

As the digitization of the marketplace reaches near-saturation, organizations will compete for customers based on value derived—and this will be driven by customer success. Customer success and retention have therefore become critical to achieving maximum customer lifetime value. Connect customer data streams.

AI 83

AI CRM B2B Engineering 83

SurveySensum

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Do you want to proactively prevent customer churn? Do you want to understand what your customer is looking for? You need to ask those questions at the right time throughout the customer life cycle. It will tell you at what different stages you should launch customer surveys to collect feedback. . CES Survey.

B2B 52

B2B Net Promoter Score NPS Touchpoint 52

Zendesk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Evolving technology means customers are no longer limited to shopping locally. No longer are they just selling products or services—they’re building relationships and selling a great customer experience. No longer are they just selling products or services—they’re building relationships and selling a great customer experience.

Sales 52

Sales Social Media CRM B2B 52

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 19, 2016

In a recent New York Times article , writer Frank Bruni laments the erosion of higher education as a result of the growing adoption of a consumer model positioning students as customers and colleges as mere providers of goods and services. Are you building your customer experience strategy around what you actually sell?

Education 68

Education Entertainment Hospitality Hospitality 68

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

The Super-Heroes of Customer Experience are here! Customer Experience – The new focus of 2020! Customer Experience has become a top priority for businesses in 2020. They have not only brought new perspectives on the table but have redefined the customer experience exceptionally!

Customer Experience 132

Customer Experience CX E-commerce Social Media 132

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 25, 2019

For example, your business might go under if you treat too many people like family and not enough like customers. If it is something that requires customers to decide to go with you again and again, then a more relational perspective can help. This relationship is the basis for most b2b organizations. We changed our approach.

Customer Expectations 143

Customer Expectations Gambling Start-ups B2B 143

PeopleMetrics

APRIL 15, 2015

Over the years, we''ve talked to many companies looking to outsource their Voice of the Customer software. So, if you need to find a new Voice of the Customer solution, this post is for you. What advice and guidance do you offer your clients when it comes to survey and program design? And, well, you’d be mistaken.

Voice of the Customer 82

Voice of the Customer Net Promoter Score Text Analytics VOC 82

Confirmit

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

One of the industries that’s really started to embrace Customer Experience in recent years is the pharmaceutical market. Many pharma businesses have an interesting, not to say complex, relationship with clients, with many of them being B2B companies who also engage with end customers as part of their marketing strategy.

Pharmaceutical 40

Pharmaceutical CX B2B Education 40

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. And I’m a writer of a newsletter called Tech Bound, in which I hone in on marketing strategies and customer acquisition. Kevin: Yeah, that’s true.

Engineering 199

Engineering Start-ups E-commerce B2C 199

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Customer satisfaction is a lot like Maximus. Maybe this is because ‘customer satisfaction’ is such a ubiquitous phrase that it’s thought to be a standard for understanding behavior and designing experiences. Entering the arena, Commodus dejectedly says to Maximus: “What am I going to do with you? You simply won’t…die.”

Customer Satisfaction 60

Customer Satisfaction Machine Learning B2B Customer Loyalty 60

Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

The Net Promoter System® (or NPS) has been a popular customer experience metric since its creation in 2003. Before we dive deeper, here’s a detailed guide to how to improve your customer experience with NPS (and here is a quick summary of what NPS is and isn’t ). All the leaders were asked the same two questions : 1.

NPS 135

NPS CX Net Promoter Score Close the Loop 135

Comm100

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

85% of Gen Z (those 25 and under) prefer chat or automated interactions for customer service over phone calls. In customer service, only live chat can offer the kind of responsive digital tools that students look for. In one study, 246 students were surveyed to learn how live chat for education impacted the learning experience.

Education 86

Education Omnichannel B2B Customer Service 86

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

That’s why we’re redesigning our onboarding process from the ground up , with the aim of personalizing the experience for every single Intercom customer. For me, a bot is simply a piece of simple computer program that runs some logic that can do things for you: “if this, then that”. Intercom’s custom bot builder.

ML 143

ML Start-ups Machine Learning B2B 143

Aquire

AUGUST 24, 2021

In this article, we’ll look at simple lead generation best practices you can implement right now to drive leads into your sales funnel and convert them into paying customers. Also, set up a sales funnel ahead of time that nurture leads into customers. Live chat is a great way to engage your customers as soon they get to your website.

Sales 52

Sales CRM Social Media Start-ups 52

Intercom

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That transformative power is most evident in the customer service space. This was the year we launched our breakthrough GPT-powered chatbot, Fin , capable of instantly resolving up to 50% of customer queries. The customer service landscape is experiencing a monumental shift at the moment as AI becomes more advanced.

AI 98

AI Start-ups Legal Technology 98

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

. “Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. Michael: Early stage is tough. Nothing’s set up.

E-commerce 36

E-commerce Start-ups B2B Retail 36