Callminer

JUNE 4, 2018

We’re always looking for new ways to incorporate machine learning into speech analytics. I ended up with some interesting findings that really show the power of machine learning.

Machine Learning 182

Machine Learning 182

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2018

Kaizen is the philosophy of continuous improvement. Web businesses searching for product market fit think they can follow this philosophy just by shipping code. But shipping code doesn’t mean that you’re making any significant product improvements. Similarly you can make undeniable improvements to parts of your product and get no response or appreciation for it.

Start-ups 223

Start-ups 223

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 4, 2018

Each of us has a time when we decide and a time when we act. Once we act, we pass the point of no return on our decision. In other words, once we take action on a decision, we are less likely to change our decision—even when we run into challenges. It’s all a matter of mindset. The Rubicon model is a psychological principle that distinguishes our decision-making method or deliberative mindset from our execution course or implementation mindset.

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Gaming Government Customer Experience 144

Myra Golden Media

JUNE 8, 2018

Studies show the average business call lasts 2 minutes longer than it needs to. Customer service employees struggle with call control for a variety of reasons, including they don’t want to be rude to the customer, they aren’t sure how to move to closure or because the customer is rambling or angry. Using the principles of harmony, assertiveness and leading from the martial art Aikido, Myra walks your employees through the steps to politely and confidently control conversations.

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Customer Service Customer Experience 112

Speaker: Jason Cottrell

Brands used to look for a vendor who could do everything. Over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, and they added, added and added. Now they need all their vendors to work well together. That’s composable, and only some will make the cut. As customers — and your board — expect you to be in new channels and to rapidly adapt to shifts in the market, the need for true composability is more crucial than ever before.

Technology

Lumoa

JUNE 5, 2018

Every company dreams of having no negative feedback and no unhappy customers, yet many companies fail to identify their detractors and turn them into promoters. Why is that important? First, let’s get back to statistics : At least 30% of consumers stop interacting with a brand they love after the 1st bad experience and around 50% of all the consumers leave the brand for good after several bad experiences.

Customer Service 89

Customer Service Customer Experience 89

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 4, 2018

The promise of live chat for sales teams is being able to connect faster with high-quality leads. But for someone in Sales Operations, the first thing we think is: how well does live chat convert? As Intercom’s VP of Sales Operations, my job is to obsess over how we can optimize our supply chain to deliver against our pipeline and revenue targets; in other words, figuring out how to make our sales organization run better and faster.

Sales 220

Sales B2B Start-ups 220

Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2018

How do you take insights from customers and drive better decision making and better product delivery? This is one of the many questions that Eric Smuda , VP of Customer Experience & Loyalty of Hertz car rental service had to ask when he joined the company to transform customer and employee experience. Before joining Hertz, Eric spent time conducting traditional market research work and realized he had a passion for customers and how we treat them.

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VOC CX NPS Hospitality 88

Fonolo

JUNE 7, 2018

We’re about half-way through 2018, and the pace of acquisitions in the call center space has been brisk. We’ve seen transactions for every size and covering a wide range of technology. It always amazes me how dynamic and fluid this industry is. Below are the 5 most interesting deals I’ve seen so far. An honorable mention goes out to Mitel’s acquisition by a private equity firm and departure from the public market.

Machine Learning 79

Machine Learning Sentiment Analysis AI Technology 79

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2018

Sales has changed. Messaging and live chat are the new medium for initial sales conversations, not the phone calls or forms of old. Here at Intercom, we’ve seen this shift happening first-hand. Since we launched our live chat for sales product , the people reaching out to us to learn more are sales decision-makers. They’re VPs of sales, sales directors and CROs.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 8, 2018

Do you want your customers to buy your product or service over and over again? If you do, you need them to form a habit. Colin Shaw and Professor Ryan Hamilton discuss how and why are habits formed. What can we do to discover customer’s habits and change them to our advantage? The post How To Ensure Your Customers Buy From You Habitually? appeared first on.

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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.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2018

As “customer experience” has become a hot topic and nearly every industry has embraced it as a priority for their business, it is important that it also become united across your organization. And that means building a one-company approach to business strategies. What I know from 25 years as a CCO practitioner and ten years as Coach to Customer Leadership Executives and their Leadership Teams is that we’ve got to take the reactive nature out of this work.

Engineering 77

Engineering Business Growth Customer Experience Customer Feedback 77

Fonolo

JUNE 5, 2018

Last week, Fonolo hosted an insightful live discussion on the top call center metrics you need to be tracking. This expert panel discussed NPS for customer satisfaction, popular call center metrics, the future of the voice channel, and so much more! To save you some time, we’ve extracted video snippets showcasing highlights from the discussion. First, let’s take a quick look at the panel of speakers: Daniel Hong , Jon Arnold , and Shai Berger.

Net Promoter Score 79

Net Promoter Score NPS Customer Satisfaction Customer Service 79

Heart of the Customer

JUNE 7, 2018

We held an offsite today. As our team expands, it’s important to connect and learn from each other, and this was one of those rare opportunities. Engagement Lead Kathleen Hoski led us in an exercise to review our past journey maps, discussing and aligning on best practices. As she led the discussion, something interesting happened. […]. The post What is the point of a journey map?

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Kerry Bodine

JUNE 7, 2018

We’re often asked how the framework of customer jobs-to-be-done fits with the methodology of customer journey mapping. Here’s my perspective on how jobs theory can complement your mapping efforts. The term “jobs-to-be-done” first surfaced in 2003, coined by Clayton Christensen in The Innovator’s Solution , but its philosophy shares underpinnings with older models like goal-directed and activity-centered design.

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Taylor Reach Group

JUNE 7, 2018

The Taylor Reach Strategic Assessment analyzes people, process, and technologies to establish a prescriptive approach for optimizing operations. TORONTO (PRWEB) JUNE 07, 2018. Customer Experience and Contact Center Consultancy, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (Taylor Reach), announced that they have been appointed by one of America’s largest home builders to take an in-depth analysis of their Contact Centers.

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Contact Center Technology Technology Customer Service 54

Fonolo

JUNE 6, 2018

For those with even one foot in the digital doorway, chances are you may have heard some breaking news around the watercooler at the beginning of 2018: A revival is being planned for a well-known social networking platform: LinkedIn Groups. If you have ever belonged to a handful of LinkedIn Groups, or just one, your experience was probably alternately positive and negative; this reflects its reputation in the marketplace, too.

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Contact Center Engineering Technology Technology 75

CX Journey

JUNE 6, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay Now there's a crazy statement to make during a customer experience design session. "Imagine for a second that you're a human. " Yikes! Unfortunately, more companies need to start thinking this way! Sadly, there is no shortage of stories about customers being treated badly, even inhumanely. The one that always - instantly - comes to mind is the one of the poor doctor who got dragged off that United flight just a year ago.

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Customer Experience 60

Totango

JUNE 6, 2018

Customer Success Buzz at TSW. Customer success is hot. Notably, over 50% of the attendees at TSIA’s Spring Technology & Services World (TSW) event this year were in customer success. TSW buzzed with people who were both in the know and those looking to better understand what a Customer Success program really means and how to get started. Organizations are finally recognizing they cannot afford to ignore their most important asset – their customer.

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Actionable Insights Sales Technology Technology 48

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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Taylor Reach Group

JUNE 5, 2018

The Taylor Reach Strategic Assessment will enable scalability through the analysis of people, process and technologies to establish a prescriptive approach for optimizing operations. Taylor Reach Group is conducting an in-depth analysis of people, process, technologies and the ‘thousand moving parts’ within one of Canada’s Medical Marijuana Producer’s Contact Center to support the increasing contact volumes and establish a prescriptive approach for optimizing operations.

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Contact Center Government Technology Technology 48

Comm100

JUNE 5, 2018

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is undoubtedly a buzzword that’s been around for a while. From the early days of Science Fiction and Kubrik’s groundbreaking 2001: A Space Odyssey to the more recent chess match between Deep Blue and Kasparov, AI has long captured our imaginations. As technology continues to advance, companies are coming to realize that many benefits can be accrued from employing it.

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Confirmit

JUNE 6, 2018

Your website is a powerful force representing your brand, driving sales, and engaging customers. But did you know it can do a whole lot more? Your website is also a great place to collect feedback from your customers and prospects. Confirmit Website Intercept helps you turn your website traffic into real-time insights. What is Confirmit Website Intercept?

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Voice of the Employee CRM Voice of the Customer Customer Satisfaction 40

Waypoint Group

JUNE 7, 2018

I recently wrote about the importance of leading indicators to improve customer retention and expansion rates in B2B environments. Waiting for financial results is too late; it behooves every company to embed a simple and repeatable set of steps that strengthen customer relationships over time. To achieve this, many companies start with “mapping the customer journey” in order to understand the complete set of processes that customers go through to be able to fully use (“adopt”) the product.

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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?

Technology

iQor

JUNE 8, 2018

Customer Support Re-IMagined.

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience 40

1 to 1

JUNE 5, 2018

Customer service is evolving, and while brands begin to implement the latest tools in automation and AI, genuine human values never go out of style. Zendesk’s latest event “The Future of Customer Experience” dove into the impact and need for authentic interactions as people and technology become interchangeably connected. Just last year a survey by Stackla found that an 86 percent of customers believe that authenticity is a key factor in deciding what brand gets their business.

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Confirmit

JUNE 6, 2018

Confirmit Genius is an advanced Text Analytics platform that uses the latest Machine Learning technologies to help you draw meaning from unstructured content. It is tightly integrated with Confirmit Horizons, our comprehensive, multichannel Voice of the Customer (VoC), Voice of the Employee (VoE), and Market Research platform, so you can easily combine structured data from surveys with the depth of insight and unprecedented level of detail available only in open-ended feedback.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

When Sean Ellis joined Dropbox as the company’s first marketer, he was tasked with creating a culture of growth and experimentation. This wasn’t just a line item on a goals sheet; it was written into Sean’s contract. Where Dropbox went from there is well documented. Meanwhile, Sean has used that same approach to growth at LogMeIn, Eventbrite, Lookout and Qualaroo.

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Engineering Start-ups Non-Profits Gaming 196

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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Lumoa

JUNE 4, 2018

Finnish SaaS company Lumoa , which provides AI-powered customer experience analytics software for medium and large sized companies across the Nordics, has announced €650 000 in funding. The investment was led by Icebreaker.vc, along with serial entrepreneur Ali Omar and Business Finland. Lumoa, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, offers a simple and intuitive service for analyzing large amounts of customer feedback.

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Net Promoter Score AI Customer Experience Machine Learning 121

Myra Golden Media

JUNE 5, 2018

Tomorrow morning I’m headed to Phoenix to deliver a workshop at the Salesforce Trailblazers for the Future Conference. I booked an extra night at the Arizona Biltmore just because I wanted some “me time” for relaxation and reading. I do this a lot, adding a day or two on to a business trip to chill, explore, and enjoy local restaurants. Do you take time just for you?

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Customer Experience 83

Confirmit

JUNE 4, 2018

The why, what and how of running a VoC program. Companies have talked about the Voiceof the Customer for years, and VoC has become engrained in many an organization's lexicon. So why do we need a VoC guide? Surely the arguments have been made and won, best practices put into place and budget allocated to ensure everything runs smoothly. But, as we all know, that’s not the case.

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Confirmit

JUNE 4, 2018

You work hard to glean meaningful insights from the feedback you collect from your company’s Voice of the Customer (VoC) program. Unfortunately, organizational data silos can make it impossible for you to get the kind of holistic, real-time insights you need to improve the customer experience, anticipate customer behavior, drive organizational improvement, and maximize innovation and profitability.

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