Sat.Aug 08, 2020 - Fri.Aug 14, 2020

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What Executives Need To Know About Contact Center Compliance

Callminer

When it comes to managing a contact center, you should never take a risk in regards to regulatory compliance. Here is a look at eleven compliance acts that contact centers should be aware of.

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No more compromises: Announcing 20+ new features to supercharge your customer support

Intercom, Inc.

Today we’re announcing Intercom’s biggest ever launch, with more than 20 new features built to ensure you can provide prompt, personal support without sacrificing power or efficiency. These new features come in the midst of an epic revolution in the way business is being conducted. Multiple industries are suddenly forced to move operations online, and support teams are at the forefront of this transformation – battling every day to deliver excellent, fast customer service, while facing an unprec

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The 5 Rules of Behavioral Journey Mapping

Beyond Philosophy

We’ve recently trained some of our clients on journey mapping. During the process, I realized that there is a lot that people don’t know about it—and that they needed a few rules to help them make the most of the exercise. We discussed the problems with journey mapping in a recent podcast. Traditional journey mapping is what a customer is doing, but is missing a few things.

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Getting Started with a Customer Success Program at Lucid

Totango

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Stephanie Comardelle, Vice President of Customer Experience, Success, and Solutions at Lucid to discuss what it takes to implement a stakeholder engagement plan at a time when there is so much going on as well as how they are managing their new customer success program. . Lucid bridges the gap between global questions and human answers by connecting buyers and sellers in one central location for survey sample groups.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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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I get no respect!

Taylor Reach Group

By Turaj Seyrafiaan. In the past 25 years I have visited hundreds of contact centers and have spoken to many contact center directors. Beside all the typical operational issues, one subject comes up frequently; contact center management feeling that the rest of the organization does not appreciate what the contact center does. In fact, one manager half-jokingly said: “ We get no respect ”!

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Boost your support efficiency with Intercom’s new workflows

Intercom, Inc.

Yesterday we launched powerful upgrades to the Intercom platform for support teams. Teams can now use Intercom to efficiently provide conversational support for all types of questions, from simple ones to the most convoluted ones. This launch is a meaningful one for us because our Support team partnered hand in hand with the Product team to develop many of the features.

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Customer Service vs. Customer Experience: What is the Difference

Lumoa

Customer service and customer experience are vital for long-term business success. Customer service is an important piece of your overall customer experience, and customer experience is the key driver of customer loyalty.

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Business Success Tips Based On 25 Yrs Of Marriage

Doing CX Right

Today is my milestone 25th wedding anniversary. Having come from divorced parents, it’s a big deal for me. I tell you this because there are many relationship lessons I’ve learned over the years and want to inspire you to enrich connections with your partner, friends, colleagues, and customers too. You may be wondering what does marriage have to do with business?

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Navigating the unknown: How contact tracing app Rippl is using Intercom to guide New Zealand into the “new normal”

Intercom, Inc.

As lockdown restrictions continue to ease and businesses reopen, the world sits on tenterhooks awaiting a second wave of the pandemic that it hopes will never come. In New Zealand, mobile-centered solutions company PaperKite put that thought into action when they developed the country’s lifeline to reopening the economy – contact tracing app Rippl. For a time when it launched, Rippl was New Zealand’s most downloaded app, surpassing Facebook and Instagram with over 72,000 downloads in its first w

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How To Make Your Experience Easy And Gain Growth

Beyond Philosophy

How to Make Your Experience Easy and Gain Growth. I hear things like this when I go into an organization: “We want to delight customers at every moment of contact.” I nod my head and smile, but secretly I think it sounds exhausting. Moreover, it is unnecessary in many parts of the experience. People many times do not want to be delighted; they want to be done already.

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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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The Best Way to Gain a Competitive Advantage Today

The DiJulius Group

1. Feature Article The Best Way to Gain a Competitive Advantage Today By John DiJulius, Chief Revolution Officer COVID-19 is not changing the future, it is accelerating it. Even before 2020, we were living in the “digital disruption era.” Our current situation is allowing too many businesses to hide behind technology even more than. Read Full Article.

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10 Best Features You Need in Your Online Assessment Software in 2020

ProProfs

“The students of the future will demand learning support that is appropriate for their situation or context. Nothing more, nothing less. And they want it at the moment the need arises. Not sooner, not later. Mobile devices will be a key technology to providing that learning support.”. – Dr. Marcus Specht, Professor of Advanced Learning Technologies, Open University of Netherlands.

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Part 3: Taking “On-hold” Out of B2B Customer Support

TeamSupport

In Part 1 of this blog series we suggested tools that can help your B2B customers solve issues on their own and ways to help them feel more comfortable doing so. We continued in Part 2 exploring one way that customers can speed up the time to ticket resolution with live chat. And we conclude in Part 3 with more ways to speed the time to ticket resolution, using visual support tools.

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What Factors Influence Customer Perception?

Fonolo

Managing customer perceptions and expectations is one of the most essential components of a successful customer service department. To do this, you need to understand what factors affect customer perceptions. Everything and anything from your products to brand voice and color will impact how customers feel about your business. To make things simpler, we’re going to focus on the following three types of influence: Personal experience.

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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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016: The Practice with Seth Godin

The DiJulius Group

This week, customer experience expert John DiJulius interviews the legendary Seth Godin, entrepreneur, author, speaker, leader, and visionary. Seth Godin is the author of 20 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35 languages. In 2018, Seth was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame. In addition.

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Q&A From My CXPA Webinar: From Journey Mapping To Journey Management

Kerry Bodine

On Wednesday I presented a webinar with the Toronto Customer Experience Professionals Association. We got a ton of great questions about the content I presented. So many, in fact, that I didn’t have time to answer them all on the webinar itself. I’ve organized the questions according to the Journey Management framework that I presented on the webinar: Discover the journey, Design the journey, and Deliver the journey.

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What is Closing the Customer Feedback Loop?

Zonka Feedback

You all know that Customer Feedback is essential for any organization. But does merely collecting it serves the purpose? Do you know that 32% of the customers stop doing business with a brand once they loved due to one negative experience. It simply means that you need to provide such an experience to the customers that can change a negative experience into a positive one or at least reduce the impact of the poor experience.

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How Should You Define Customer Success?

Totango

In customer success, your customers define their own victories. No one-size-fits-all finish line exists that clients must strive to cross, and there is no Harvard Business School concept of accomplishment you can award your customer before resting on well-earned laurels. That’s because defining customer success is a long-term joint project undertaken by you and your client.

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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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Getting Your Customers and Employees to Whistle in the Dark

Chip Bell

As a young boy, I spent about as much time at my grandparents’ home a quarter mile away as I did at my own. We lived in the country and a rural highway separated our houses. Sometimes, I stayed with my granddaddy after sundown and had to walk home in the dark. As a six-year old with an imagination as big as Texas, it was very scary. I remember asking my granddaddy to drive me home in his truck.

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How Businesses Can Cope in This Pandemic with Chief Evangelist Guy Kawasaki

The DiJulius Group

We’re all startups in this pandemic. The way we used to do business is a lot different than what we should be doing now. New changes have to be made – new changes that we all need to embrace. And many businesses right now are slowly adapting to this “new” normal. Speaker, author, and Chief. Read Full Article. The post How Businesses Can Cope in This Pandemic with Chief Evangelist Guy Kawasaki appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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7 Best Ways to Get Customer Feedback Online using Survey Software

Zonka Feedback

If you want to know about your performance and to know how your customers feel about you and your company; you analyze their actions in the form of their choices of products and services, their repurchase, their churn rate and so on. But don't you think there should be something that let's you establish a direct contact with the customers and lets you know the real customer insights?

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CX Leadership Lessons Based On “The Four Agreements”

Doing CX Right

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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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Most parents will send kids back to school — with hesitation, Qualtrics study finds

Qualtrics

Parents are faced with a tough decision: Send their kids to school during an ongoing pandemic or keep them home and continue the often difficult process of remote learning. According to the latest Qualtrics research, parents are saying ‘go,’ reluctantly. Will parents send their children back to school? A recent Qualtrics study of more than 1,000 parents with children in preschool through high school found that the majority of parents (53%) who can send their children to school in-person are unco

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Vital Lessons from 3 War Medals for Modern Marketers

SugarCRM

It’s not often I mix my hobby with my work, but I will ask that you indulge me for a few minutes as I try to explain how these three World War I medals can teach modern marketers an invaluable lesson. The medal in question is known as the British Victory Medal. It was awarded to all members of the British and Imperial forces who took part in the war.

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Words matter: Removing exclusionary terminology from our codebase

Intercom, Inc.

In the past few months, the world has changed in many ways. The Black Lives Matter movement has sparked a much-needed dialogue about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog.

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Call Center Overwhelm is Not Normal — Stop Treating it That Way

Fonolo

Why do we treat call center overwhelm like a necessary evil? Times have changed, and the call center industry with it. Our phones no longer have cords, the internet exists, and agents no longer have to be tethered to the office. And what’s more, there’s technology — fantastic software that helps you track everything from customer touchpoints to customer feedback.

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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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5 Tips to Deliver a Great SaaS Customer Onboarding Experience

Totango

Customer onboarding is an introduction to a new way of working. Your customer has sought out your product because they hope it will bring them value and growth. Achieving this success depends on your customer’s ability to quickly get to grips with your product’s interface, features, and the way the whole program integrates with their workflow. . The most effective ways to take the stress out of that transition are to build the customer onboarding experience around simple steps and a clear path t

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Delivering on our Promises – SugarClub Launch

SugarCRM

We understand how frustrating it can be to work with a vendor that promises much but never delivers. In January, we made you a promise for an improved customer experience, and we’ve been working diligently to make that happen. Some of the changes were unidentifiable but largely important, and others were much more noticeable. That said, there’s one change that you can’t (and don’t want to) miss. .

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From Adobe to Walmart: How Sprinklr won over the world’s most valuable brands

Intercom, Inc.

?. But long gone are the days of one-size-fits all marketing. The rise of review sites, messaging apps, and online forums has flipped the relationship between brands and their customers on its head. Where once brands could control what was said of them, today’s customers are well-placed to talk back and to one another – on any platform. Nowhere is this shift in power from brands to customers more apparent than on the internet’s favorite public playground: social media.

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How to write great survey questions (and avoid common mistakes)

Qualtrics

Crafting survey questions is both art and science. The wording you choose can make the difference between accurate, useful data and just the opposite. Fortunately, we’ve got a raft of tips to help. Creating surveys that yield actionable insights is all about sweating the details. And writing effective questionnaire questions is the first step. Essential for success is understanding the different types of survey questions and how they work.

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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