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Let’s talk principles: Exploring how we build product at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Principles are a way of encoding successes, allowing teams to repeat behaviors that lead to positive outcomes and avoid behaviors that lead to mistakes. Over the last ten years, we’ve developed, refined, and iterated on our principles to ensure they each represent an important part of the way we work, collaborate, and build product. We’ve recently kicked off a blog series exploring these principles, written by the people that know them best – our R&D team.

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Three ways to immediately improve your customer experience

Inside Customer Service

Today's customers are increasingly unhappy. The American Customer Satisfaction Index has steadily declined for the past four years. By the end of 2021, it had reached its lowest point since 2005. What's causing the decline? A survey conducted by Toister Performance Solutions in April 2022 aimed to find out. Over 1,500 consumers across the United States were asked about their experiences with companies.

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How to Develop and Implement a Customer Experience Strategy

Lumoa

Most people understand the importance of creating great customer experiences —nevertheless, many struggle with the complexity of working holistically and long-term with a Customer Experience strategy. Customer Experience (CX) is far more than traditional customer service and marketing. A holistic understanding of customer experiences can help close the gap, strengthen the brand and open up new opportunities for profitable growth.

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What are NPS questions in survey?

Zonka Feedback

NPS® or Net Promoter Score® is more than just a score that shows your customers’ willingness to recommend your brand to others. It is the qualitative feedback that can help you understand ‘why’ your customers are or aren’t willing to promote your brand.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Internal customer service: Definition, tips, and examples

Zendesk

Internal service for employees is just like customer service. The same rules apply: Make yourself available, answer questions, solve problems, and monitor feedback. Having a process for handling internal questions is one thing you can do to improve the employee experience at a time when workers are increasingly dissatisfied at work. Internal requests from corporate employees increased 31 percent last year.

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5 Rules for Creating Behavioral Experiments

Beyond Philosophy

Have you ever heard of the Milgram experiment? This behavioral experiment tested whether one participant would deliver electric shocks to another participant at a fatal level even as they listened to the second participant’s screams of pain. Shockingly (ahem), they did. Luckily, no one died. The other participant was an actor, and the shrieks the first participant heard were recorded.

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Philosophy as a Lens to Understand Money. and Yourself

Conversation Agent

“The philosopher's job is to be an interface between things that would not normally communicate with each other. We think about policies, strategies, business models, priorities: they are all open problems, where the philosopher has his perfect place.” Oxford University professor Luciano Floridi considers himself a digital philosopher. Digital communication has become a much greater part of our lives.

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Boost Cross-selling Opportunities with CDP Software

NGDATA

Personalize every experience and increase customer lifetime value (CLTV) with in-built software for cross-selling success. For businesses across every industry, consistently driving value for customers is a common objective, with the goal ultimately being to boost CLTV and increase revenue per customer. Maximizing cross-selling opportunities though advanced customer data software presents a.

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A 3-pronged approach to creating (and scaling) legendary customer service experiences

Zendesk

More than half of people have higher expectations for customer service now compared to a year ago, according to Microsoft’s State of Global Customer Service Report. But providing consistent, quality customer service is a challenge. You can’t simply automate or template your way to success. It’s an art and a science that requires masterful people skills, as well as constant digging into the data behind interactions (and setting goals along the way) to turn bland customer experiences into remarkab

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What is knowledge management and how is it relevant to contact centers?

DMG Consulting

Question: What is knowledge management and how is it relevant to contact centers? Answer: DMG defines knowledge management (KM) as a structured methodology and technology framework that is used to capture and curate the collective information of an organization, industry, clients, customers, partners and employees, transform the data into knowledge assets, and systemically distribute them for the achievement of organizational objectives.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

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.

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The new face of user groups—and 3 reasons to consider joining

Zendesk

The need to embrace a digital-first approach to business over the past two years has brought about new opportunities to connect with one another—from our colleagues to our customers and even their customers. With distances shortened by a screen, customer communication no longer remains a regional affair or something that requires travel. In particular, as a year-round connection point, a company’s user groups offer a way for customers to routinely connect with industry peers and the company to p

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AI: The Key to Reversing Customer Churn

SugarCRM

In the face of growing customer demands, it’s not easy to keep your clients happy. Sugar’s new research 2022 CRM Impact Report surveyed sales and marketing decision-makers to explore customer satisfaction and retention issues. We wanted to understand how technology is transforming the expectations of sales and marketing leaders and their customers, which roadblocks and blind spots are causing sales friction and contributing to churn, the impact of misalignment between sales and marketing, and th

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Why brands aren’t optimising value for customers

MyCustomer Experience

WWe all talk about it. Most of us believe it. Nearly nobody does it: Organizations are NOT optimising for value for customer. If they did, 5th May 2022. By Forrester Independent research and advisory firm.

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Banking AI Chatbots – Benefits, Use Cases & ROI

Comm100

Digital technology has transformed customer expectations in recent years, and the banking industry is now playing catch-up. Technology leaders like Amazon and Apple have offered customers seamless experiences across digital devices for years, and it’s only natural that consumers should expect the same experience from their financial institutions too.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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5 Rules for Creating Behavioral Experiments

MyCustomer Experience

5Have you ever heard of the Milgram experiment? This behavioral experiment tested whether one participant would deliver electric shocks to. 5th May 2022. By Colin Shaw Founder & CEO.

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Why Companies Aren’t Optimising Value For Customer

MyCustomer Experience

WWe all talk about it. Most of us believe it. Nearly nobody does it: Organizations are NOT optimising for value for customer. If they did, 5th May 2022. By Forrester Independent research and advisory firm.

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