Callminer
JULY 24, 2018
During the recent Customer Contact Week event, I had the pleasure of joining CallMiner customer, Emily Deragon, a senior solutions manager for SiriusXM in a podcast.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 24, 2018
Working remotely in and of itself is challenging, but growing and moving a remote team into an office brings its own challenges. What’s it like when a team used to working remotely transitions to working together in an office? At Intercom, we are dedicated to offering our unique style of great support to our customers all over the world, all day long.
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Beyond Philosophy
JULY 26, 2018
Have you been to the Congo? If not, can you describe the weather? How about the vegetation? Now tell me why you thought that? Did you see a movie or read a book about the Congo? Did you travel to a nearby country and guess that the Congo was probably a similar experience? Did you or someone you know someone who went to the Congo? Now, to be clear, there isn’t a wrong answer here.
Customer Service Life
JULY 23, 2018
Did you (or do you plan to) take your lunch break today? I mean, really take your lunch break? Move away from your desk, actually eat a meal and maybe even talk with your coworkers? You may have worn (or currently still wear) the badge of hours worked. When you’re trying to get everything done, you rarely take your breaks. Yes, even if you are a salaried employee, you’re still human and you still need to take a break.
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Callminer
JULY 22, 2018
When it comes to business process outsourcing (BPO), the virtual assistant market is predicted to reach $3 billion by the year 2020. And it is no surprise that the number of home-based customer service agents is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 36.4%. It is one of the strongest expansion levels of any outsourcing market sub-segment.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 26, 2018
One of the hardest moments of Josh Pigford’s career came with the surprise news that Baremetrics had just six to eight weeks of runway left. He searched for ways to cut costs. Hard conversations ensued. Faced with the reality that were no options left, Josh had to ask his employees to take a 15% pay cut – and a 30% salary reduction himself. Remarkably, the team stuck around with few exceptions.
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Fonolo
JULY 25, 2018
Attention all call center managers: It’s time to talk about you. Picture it: You are the fearless leader of a call center team in 2018. Much like the call centers of old, your agents are grappling with 1) surges in call volume (both expected and unexpected); 2) evolving technologies; 3) increasingly complex customer cases; and perhaps most important of all, 4) the latent human desire to be appreciated, acknowledged, and active in the work environment.
Callminer
JULY 21, 2018
Do you use outsourced contact centers? These 4 vital measurements can help evaluate the effectiveness of BPO processes and agent performance.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 24, 2018
The challenge with automation is knowing when you’ve gone too far , when you’ve automated to the point of ruining the very thing you sought in the first place: a better customer experience. Chatbots are a prime example of when we couldn’t see the forest for the trees. The failure of bots to gain traction is well-documented. For example, the website Chatbot Fail is a virtual graveyard of chatbots that don’t solve a real problem: Poncho, the short-lived weather app that failed to recall that Googl
Heart of the Customer
JULY 25, 2018
Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first. – Simon Simek This quote reflects one of the biggest disconnects in customer experience – focusing only on the customer experience. It makes sense. Heck, that’s our name! Why wouldn’t we? But focusing only on the customer without regard to the employee experience […].
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.
Return Customer
JULY 25, 2018
While customer acquisition may be at the top of your list, customer retention should be as well. Your company may produce the best or only product of its type on the market, but without good customer support, your business will have a hard time holding on to customers. Your customers want quick and efficient support when they need it if they are not getting that they will go elsewhere.
Confirmit
JULY 26, 2018
Creating a positive and consistent customer experience across multiple channels is one of the biggest challenges facing businesses today, and a solid Voice of the Customer program is core to meeting this challenge. Building such a program, however, is far from simple and failure to do it well will result in “just another customer survey” For dedicated CEM professionals, a VoC program is simply the “right thing to do” However, while some organizations just “get”
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 27, 2018
We often talk about engaging with visitors on your website, but what happens when you have too many visitors and not enough people to chat with them? How do you make sure you’re talking to the right ones? In this guest post, Alex Ortiz and Hank Taylor of Tray.io , a general automation platform provider of automated API integration tools, explain how they integrated Intercom to their revenue stack and automated workflows across marketing, sales, and support.
ProProfs
JULY 27, 2018
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”. -Dale Carnegie. Did you know around 543,000 new businesses get started each month and roughly 7 out of 10 firms survive, while the rest of them fail to achieve their targets? But why do most of these businesses fail? There could be multiple reasons attributed to their failure. Either they fail to optimize conversions, or are unable to create an effective sales funnel.
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
JULY 24, 2018
It’s no secret – caring is a fundamental human need that triggers positive feelings. And a recent study reveals that patterns in human brain activity associated with empathy and caring are also associated with value and reward. Caring was found to inspire helpful behaviors, which seems logical — and foundational. The “Golden Rule” idea actually underscores our entire human experience.
Fonolo
JULY 26, 2018
Is your immediate response, yes? Well, think again. Research has shown that many contact centers are focusing on internal metrics only and, as a result, they are losing valuable insights into their CX programs. Most businesses will claim that meeting customer expectations through a profound experience is a top priority. But achieving this is no small task.
C3Centricity
JULY 26, 2018
Every winter, the media is full of stories of record snowfalls somewhere in the world, whether in the US, Europe or in the Far East. Despite all the sophisticated technologies at our disposition, we just never seem to be prepared. So what are the success factors of readiness? Remember winter storm Juno in the USA in 2015? It dropped a couple of feet of snow on the Eastern coastline of North America.
DMG Consulting
JULY 26, 2018
Call Center Quality Assurance Best Practices for Empowering Agents. 7/23/2018. By Donna Fluss. Contact center quality assurance (QA) remains a high-value application, particularly when it’s done right. Effective QA programs actively engage their agents at all stages of the program, including development, roll-out, calibration and continuous improvement.
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?
TeamSupport
JULY 27, 2018
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can have many different definitions, and can sometimes cause confusion. Does CRM include correspondence before a company becomes a customer, such as sales and marketing? Should CRM extend to all areas of a business, including internal IT teams who don’t interact with customers? Drawing the line of what is and isn’t part of the CRM experience can be difficult.
Hodusoft
JULY 23, 2018
Time Lost Cannot Be Regained In the contact center, time is everything. Every second wasted result in fewer sales and missed opportunities for delivering great customer service. Fortunately, predictive dialers offer the perfect solution to this problem, as this automated technology filters out obstacles and places call at optimal times to ensure better results.
Customer Bliss
JULY 26, 2018
We know how difficult it can be to unite silos within your own organization; now imagine you had to unite silos across 17 different state agencies! That’s right, when your customers are the employees within a group of government agency partners, you’ve got a lot of work cut out for you. Today, we’ll hear from William Chumley , the Chief Customer Officer for the Governor’s Office of Information Technology for the state of Colorado.
Kate Nasser
JULY 21, 2018
Why must we be nice to difficult unhappy customers who treat us badly? The answer is not what you think! Simple truth from Kate Nasser The People Skills Coach™ for customer service morale. The post Why Be Nice to Angry Unhappy Customers? | #PeopleSkills #CustServ appeared first on KateNasser.com.
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Provide Support
JULY 22, 2018
Have you ever encountered a situation when you would click the live chat button on a website promising instant online help and you would not reach anyone? I did. At other times, I would contact live chat support and instead of finding an answer to my question, I would be escalated to another person who would say that they will check the information and email me later.
TeamSupport
JULY 27, 2018
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can have many different definitions, and can sometimes cause confusion. Does CRM include correspondence before a company becomes a customer, such as sales and marketing? Should CRM extend to all areas of a business, including internal IT teams who don’t interact with customers? Drawing the line of what is and isn’t part of the CRM experience can be difficult.
Waypoint Group
JULY 26, 2018
Back in 2003 a mentor told me, “Steve, you get 1 point for highlighting a problem/concern. You get 5 points for highlighting a solution to a problem. You get 10 points for addressing a problem. You get 100 points for proactively addressing a problem before it becomes an issue. So, if you want to win in your career then don’t come to customers, managers, or colleagues with problems.
Help Scout
JULY 24, 2018
The difference between customer support and customer success has sparked a number of lively discussions. The roles share similar skill sets and goals, but they implement different approaches. Customer Support teams resolve product-related issues and educate the customer about how the product works. They work with other operational teams like Engineering and Product to improve existing features while gathering customer feedback for upcoming release cycles.
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
Confirmit
JULY 24, 2018
The journeys on which your customers’ travel when engaging your organization often vary significantly, are rarely linear, and can be downright complex. Understanding those customer journeys is an extremely important part of any Customer Experience (CX) strategy. Journey maps serve as a diagnostic tool. They are an objective view of the experience your company is currently delivering to your customers.
CX Journey
JULY 25, 2018
Annette Franz, founder and CEO of CX Journey Inc., a boutique customer experience strategy consulting firm, has been accepted into the Forbes Coaches Council, an invitation-only community for leading business and career coaches. Annette joins other Forbes Coaches Council members, who are hand-selected, to become part of a curated network of successful peers and get access to a variety of exclusive benefits and resources, including the opportunity to submit thought leadership articles and short t
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 25, 2018
If you analyze any problem for long enough, it ends up sounding like a people problem. That’s what I’ve learned most in the past 7 years at Intercom. And it’s usually your fault. What follows are my talk from Intercom’s tour last year and a loosely edited transcript of it. Short on time? Here are five quick takeaways: 1. During the founding stage , the wrong co-founders can cause your company to fail.
Help Scout
JULY 24, 2018
Is customer service part of the customer experience? Or is customer experience what happens when someone receives customer service? Are they the same thing? The terms “customer service” and “customer experience” are often confused or used interchangeably. They’re not the same thing, but they are related. The difference between customer service and customer experience is that while customer service is one piece of the puzzle — focused on human interaction and directly supporting customers — custo
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
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