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My Understanding of AI in CX so Far. Things Could Change!

CX Accelerator

I’m not known for being quick on the uptake by those closest to me. A couple prime examples include long division and driving a stick-shift. When my only option was a manual transmission, my parents just sort of cut me loose on the streets of Rancho Cucamonga, California to learn to drive (Yes, I already had my driver’s license but on an automatic transmission).

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3 Voice and Text Analytics Questions Answered from ROI Webinar

Callminer

3 questions from our recent webinar with Praxidia on how speech analytics can improve customer engagement as well as reduce operating costs, improve agent performance.

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The recipe for growth as a designer

Intercom, Inc.

Picture this: You’re a designer with a handful of years experience under your belt. You’ve cut your teeth on a few big launches and earned your stripes as a solid “mid level” product designer. Like many designers, you’re curious and ambitious. You look to the future and ask yourself, where do I want to be this time next year? What about in five years?

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5 trends in B2B customer experience management

Lumoa

Find out what are 5 leading trends in B2B customer experience management in 2019. Drive your business-to-business operations to customer success and advocacy. Understand the influence of customer feedback on B2B operations.

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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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How Does Mental Accounting Influence Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Understanding Customers’ Mental Budgets. I won some money at a Casino recently, an unusual outcome for me. It wasn’t a huge amount, but it was a nice windfall. Did I spend it on something practical? No. Save it? Nope. Give it to charity? Not a chance. I bought a fancy new fishing reel that I had my eye on but previously had felt was too expensive. It’s excellent, and I couldn’t be happier.

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Why growing support teams should focus on one channel not many

UJET

Great omnichannel support requires the right tools and training to ensure that your team provides a consistent customer experience. As your company grows, you'll need to support a higher volume of customers—which means scaling your customer-support team to meet their needs.

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The 3 Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Your Call Center

Fonolo

Outsourcing work is appealing for many reasons: It can save your business money, resources, and under the right circumstances, a serious headache. Almost any element of a company can be outsourced, anything from data entry to graphic design. However, the decision becomes more complicated when outsourcing means that another company will be in interacting with your customers.

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3 Downloadable Resources to Help You Earn Customer-Driven Growth

Customer Bliss

Are you doing all that you can to help your company earn customer-driven growth? The key word here, is, earn. You can earn customer growth by anticipating their needs, extending patience, and showing respect at all times. This is a topic I address in my latest book, Would You Do That To Your Mother? My goal with the book is to help you focus your decision making and actions on what matters most so you can inspire new behaviors inside of your company.

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4 Easy Ways To Get Started Using Behavioral Economics

Beyond Philosophy

There is an abundance of theory in behavioral economics which can seem overwhelming. How can Marketing and Customer experience teams start using it today. In this podcast we give you an overview of the big ideas. To do this, Ryan has developed a framework of the four key principles – a summary of the four principles of human behavior. Ryan calls this the 4R’s. 1: Reference points.

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New horizons: How to move your life for your career

Intercom, Inc.

When we think of our dream career, and by extension our dream life, we rarely picture jumping into the unknown to attain it. We seldom imagine replacing the comfortable life we already have with an entirely new, unfamiliar environment. That is even more true when you have a family to think about, too. And yet, just last year, that’s exactly what I found myself doing, moving my family and embarking on a new chapter of life with Intercom in Dublin.

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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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Journeys are for Action, not Maps

Heart of the Customer

In preparation for the upcoming Customer Contact Week, CCW shared their special report on journey mapping with me. Given our focus and expertise on journey mapping, I’m commonly asked to review these types of reports. Unlike most, however, CCW’s special report truly gets to the heart of the matter – journey mapping is not about […]. The post Journeys are for Action, not Maps appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Catch Fonolo at Avaya ENGAGE® 2019

Fonolo

Avaya ENGAGE® , hosted by Avaya and the International Avaya Users Group (IAUG) , is the largest gathering of Avaya users and experts under one roof. From January 20 – 23, 2019, a whopping 3,000 customers, partners, industry analysts, and executives will congregate in Austin, Texas for the event. The four-day conference will consist of workshops and inspirational speakers (including Peyton Manning!

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4 Features Your Digital Customer Engagement Platform Must Have

Totango

At its core, customer success is simple: take care of your customers and they’ll take care of your business. Nurture relationships, and not only will customers receive excellent service and well-supported products, but your enterprise will be financially healthy in the long-run. Customers will see the value in their purchase, and you’ll grow a more valuable brand.

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The Worst Way to Call a Customer

Customers That Stick

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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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Top Customer E- Service Articles Of 2018

The DiJulius Group

The results are in, and here are readers’ favorite articles of 2018 ranked by popularity. I recommend printing and reading any you missed, and sharing (link to share) this list with your team. Want to keep your mgmt team motivated about Customer service all year? Sign them up for our weekly e-service and we’ll be sure they. Read Full Article.

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Contact Centers? Say Hello to 2019

Fonolo

2018 was a big year for the contact center industry. Major product launches, intriguing acquisitions, new entrants, re-emerging giants. Added to the mix were the frustrating dalliance with AI, the quasi-melding with CRM, the embrace of chatbots, and the rise of RPA. All juicy topics worth exploring. We’re going to dive into all of the above on our blog this year, along with our usual coverage of industry reports, public company earnings, fun posts about call center life, findings from our sister

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How a Clean Energy Start-up Approaches Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

As conversations around sustainability and corporate social responsibility continue to increase, I think you’ll enjoy this timely conversation with Michael Bair , Senior Director of Member Experience at Inspire , a clean energy tech start-up. Inspire uses technology to bring clean energy sources to businesses and the homes of everyday Americans. With over 10 years of experience under his belt, leading customer-facing teams, Michael sheds some insight into how he breaks through some of the challe

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It’s Never too Late to Win with Customer Experience: The Comcast Turnaround

Customers That Stick

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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?

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How to Beat the Average Churn Rate for Subscription Service Enterprises

Totango

When you’re selling subscription services, how do you measure customer success? Most subscription-based enterprises look at “churn rates,” or the percentage of customers who cancel their subscription every year. It’s a simple way to check out the health of your business, and see if you’re meeting your growth goals. And if you’re operating in the highly competitive subscription-based B2B industry, it’s an especially important number.

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3 Obvious and Non Obvious Signs Customer Product Usage is Slipping

ClientSuccess

As a customer success manager (CSM), your goal is to help your customer accounts change their behaviors by using your product(s) to drive positives outcomes and ROI throughout their entire journey with your company. Tracking and measuring product usage is one key method customer success professionals use to determine success and risk along a customer lifecycle.

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Applying the 23 MPH Principle

Chip Bell

Walk into the lobby of the five-star Mansion on Turtle Creek hotel in Dallas and the first thing you notice are the extraordinary flowers in the middle of the lobby. They do not look like they came from the local nursery; they look like they came from the jungle. Order a fruit plate at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and it might contain something unexpected–passion fruit, heirloom figs, or slices of kumquat.

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Are calibration sessions necessary in an AQM environment?

DMG Consulting

Question: We’re implementing analytics-enabled quality management to perform automated evaluation of customer interactions. Do we still need to do calibration sessions? Answer: Analytics-enabled quality management (AQM), which leverages capabilities that include speech, text, and desktop analytics to automatically evaluate up to 100% of customer interactions, enhances, but does not completely eliminate, traditional quality management (QM) processes, including calibration.

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7th Annual CX Report by The Northridge Group Uncovers Priority Training Focus

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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Highly Effective Customer Strategies - Act Less, Act More

Confirmit

Customer experience (CX) professionals always want to know more. It’s in our nature. What are customers thinking? What do they want more of? Did they like our staff? Were they disappointed? The list of questions can get out of hand quickly. With attention spans short and too many surveys for customers to respond to, we need to reign ourselves in a bit and look at what we already have right in front of our noses.

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SaaS Customer Service: Making the Most of Online Customer Experiences

TeamSupport

Running a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) company is fun. It’s usually created by a couple tech enthusiasts with a great idea and extensive coding knowledge. Getting those first few customers feels amazing, and your core focus is on making them happy. They’ve got your cell number and you’re just a phone call away for anything they need. However, as you acquire more customers, things change, and before you know it most of your day isn’t spent improving the software.

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The Value of Face Time in a Remote Company

Help Scout

Asynchronous communication is a skill that all high-functioning remote companies master over time. Email, chat, comment threads, recorded videos, wiki posts … it’s all in a format that can be consumed, replied to, and revisited on-demand, at your convenience. When your teammates are remote, async is the default way to get things done, and it’s one of the things I love most about my daily workflow.

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Provide Support Live Chat Achievements in 2018

Provide Support

Provide Support Live Chat 2018 Success Story. 2018 year was very productive and rich for new features in Provide Support. A complete system redesign made it possible to add new functionality and start working on major upgrades which will help to improve live chat customer experience and increase customer engagement and customer support team productivity.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Servitization: When Manufacturers Become Service Companies

SugarCRM

It’s that time of year again when techies bring out the crystal ball and prophesize about what’s coming in the next year. Not to be left behind, I opened my browser this morning to an article about Apple that speaks directly to what I see as one of the most important paradigm shifts we will see in the manufacturing industry this decade… manufacturing companies reinventing themselves as services companies.

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Webinar: Using AI Tools to Enhance Customer Support With PTC

TeamSupport

We're excited to continue our new webinar series in conjunction with the Association of Support Professionals (ASP). These aren't be your standard, boring webinars! Instead, ASP is pairing TeamSupport's CEO, Robert Johnson, up with some of the most innovative and forward-thinking minds in the customer support industry. These webinars will delve into ground-breaking topics you want to know more about and will uncover great insights to help you improve your support operations.

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Resurrecting the Dead Horse Theory

CX Journey

Sleeping (not dead!) horse image courtesy of Pixabay I challenge you think about things differently in 2019. What got us here won't get us there, right? I recently came across The Tribal Wisdom of the Dakota Indians , a 1999 article in the Guardian, that I felt needed to be resurrected. I had never seen this before. You can read the article by clicking the link above, but here it is in its entirety.

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‘Why Qualtrics’ – Rupali Jain – Senior Manager, CX Product Management – Seattle

Qualtrics

What is your why? How does Qualtrics connect with your why? I want to learn something new with everything I do. Whether it’s learning how to grow as an individual, learning about a product, a culture, or how to work with other people., If I’m not learning, I feel something is missing. At Qualtrics, I’m learning how to build an enduring business. Feedback is the founding concept Qualtrics is built on and I was drawn to that aspect of the business.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the