TeamSupport

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A customer can expect everything from the ordinary to the seemingly impossible. But whether or not a customer is asking you to take them to the Moon or provide a simple reporting apparatus, your business needs to be able to meet their expectations in at least some manner, or risk the consequences. So in the cases where a customer is asking for something you can't provide, whether that's faster response times or new features (or a trip to the Moon with Wallace and Gromit), your business needs to

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Adrian Swinscoe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As we approach the end of the Summer and head into Autumn, here in the Northern hemisphere, many gardeners will be starting to think about getting […]. The post In times like these, customer service leaders can learn a lot from gardeners first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Today’s interview is with James Dodkins, CX Evangelist at Pegasystems. James joins me today to talk about some new research that Pega has just conducted, some […]. The post Customer experience isn’t about experience at all. It is about relationships – Interview with James Dodkins of Pega first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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MyCustomer Experience

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Happy Customer Service Week! Observed every year during the first full week of October, Customer Service Week is an international. 3rd Oct 2022. By Mandy Reed Global Head of Marketing.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It’s time organizations view surveys as only one customer feedback channel – not the only channel. Read on for three conversation intelligence use cases to upgrade your feedback mechanism.

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Inside Customer Service

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Average handle time, or AHT, is an important metric in contact centers. It measures the average length of a call. Many contact center leaders track AHT closely because shaving even a few seconds off the average call could allow the contact center to handle more volume without adding staff. A Customer Service Tip of the Week subscriber recently wrote to ask my advice on reducing AHT in his contact center.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We’ve got an update to share. Today, we announced that Eoghan McCabe, Intercom’s chairman, co-founder and former CEO, is returning to lead the company as CEO. Karen Peacock is stepping down as CEO and transitioning to an advisory role to support through the transition. Below is the email that Eoghan sent to the company after sharing the news with employees at All Hands.

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Shep Hyken

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how sales and customer service combine to create an experience – hopefully a positive one. And then, by coincidence, one of our loyal subscribers, Heidi Reslow, shared a story about someone buying a new car. As I read the story, I realized the salesperson didn’t just sell a car. She created an experience for her customer.

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Doing CX Right

OCTOBER 2, 2022

David Wachs, CEO of Handywritten, explains how to enhance and nurture customer relationships through a personalized tactic that really works for business growth and retention. The post Creating Memorable & Personalized Customer Experiences At Scale appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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The DiJulius Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The companies not making a monetary investment in customer experience are the ones whose leaders don’t understand the financial impact CX can have. A Return on eXperience (ROX) dashboard helps you determine precisely what victory looks like over time and offers insight into customer churn rates. To build an ROX dashboard the executive team will. Read Full Article.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. But no matter how isolating a management position can feel, you’re not going through it alone.

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Steven Van Belleghem

OCTOBER 5, 2022

1. Make it easy to find and contact you. I think we can all agree that few things that are more frustrating than very well hidden contact details on a website. Chatbots or FAQ are not always the right answer. 55% of users, in fact, say it takes too many questions for a chatbot to recognize it can’t answer their issue. We all know that sometimes people have questions that are not frequent or standard and just require a 5 minute conversation with a human, be it via phone, chat or even e-mail.

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Execs In The Know

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Your vendors are an extension of your brand. You entrust them with your most precious asset – your customers. So, how you manage outsourcers has a direct and lasting impact on customer loyalty and bottom-line growth. Although these relationships are critical, only 46% of executives surveyed are satisfied or very satisfied with their outsourcers’ performance. 1.

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Zonka Feedback

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We all want to keep our customers happy and satisfied so they do repeat business with us. And customer experience is one differentiating factor that can make or break your customer retention efforts. Customer Service Performance plays a catalyst in achieving that level of customer experience and winning over the trust and loyalty of clients.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A few years ago, we published The Customer Retention Starter Kit which helped thousands of businesses retain more customers over the long term. Today, we’re launching a completely refreshed guide to help you engage, nurture, and retain more customers in the modern age. In today’s digital era, engaging and retaining the customers you have is easier and more efficient than winning new ones.

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Zendesk

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Examples of bad customer behavior are typically what make for breaking news in the world of customer service. These are the kind of stories we’ve seen more frequently throughout the past few years as staffing and supply shortages mount and consumer stress levels run rampant. More than a lack of gratitude or a bit of unpleasantness, many frontline customer service agents have faced truly difficult scenarios.

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Lumoa

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Here are the improvements we have brought to Lumoa in the past month. Share data with other users. We want everyone to be able to act based on the voice of the customer. Due to this, we made a few changes to how Dashboards and Cards can be shared with others: Your Private Dashboard can now be shared with other users – for example, this lets you make a template to give new users for easy onboarding ; Cards can now be linked and shared among your coworkers – this lets you quickly sprea

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Zonka Feedback

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Accenture reported that artificial intelligence (AI) can potentially increase corporate profitability by an average of 38% by 2035. With this statement in mind, should you implement a strategy that helps your organization to drive better revenue with AI customer experience ?

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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?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A customer self-service offering is key to empowering customers with information while also reducing the burden on customer service professionals. Customer self-service takes a variety of forms, including but not limited to: help centers or knowledge bases, customer portals, FAQ or glossary pages, mobile apps, AI-powered chat and messaging services, or customer communities.

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CSAT.AI

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The concept of nudging in business isn’t brand new. It’s the idea of guiding someone toward an action. Nudges don’t remove freedom of choice, they make a certain choice more attractive. The aim is to make those preferred choices beneficial to the chooser. We’re not focusing on negative nudges or those meant to manipulate for the benefit of another party.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Skills-based call routing sounds super technical! While there is a tech side to it, at its heart, skills-based call routing is all about peopl e. Still with me? Picture this: Y ou’re the coach of a soccer team. The opposing team is about to make a penalty kick, trying to score on your goalie. In net, you need the best of the best to ensure a goal isn’t scored.

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Zonka Feedback

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“ Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we catch excellence. ” - Vince Lombardi. The quote by the popular American football coach applies perfectly when we talk about improving our products. There can be no perfect product on the globe. However, if you keep on improving your product from time to time, you can make it to the leading position in the market.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When it comes to the behavioral sciences, I love their take on memory. I love it so much, that we did a podcast mini-series on it in three parts. In the first part , we talked about why memories are essential to experiences, when we use them to decide sometimes, and how memories form. The second part covered how memories are connected and the different types of memories we have.

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MyCustomer Experience

OCTOBER 4, 2022

You buy from your favorite brand. But you can now also help them on the side (hours of your choosing), earning a bit of money and enhancing. 4th Oct 2022. By Megan Neale COO and Co-founder.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 6, 2022

There’s nothing that destroys a perfectly good call center schedule like unplanned absences. Don’t get us wrong—we’re in full support of call center agents taking time off and embracing work-life balance. But scheduling shifts becomes tough when absenteeism rises, leaving the agents who did show up to bear the brunt. Unplanned absences have a ripple effect that can impact everything from customer satisfaction to agent attrition to contact center KPIs—and that’s something you shouldn’t ignore.

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Shep Hyken

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Zhecho Dobrev, leading principal consultant at Beyond Philosophy and author of The Big Miss: How Organizations Overlook the Value of Emotions. He shares the value that customer emotions bring to a company. How much value ($$$) do closer customer relationships and specific customer emotions bring to your business? I know you would say, “of course that these are important, and we focus on them,” but have you calculated how much value they actually bring?

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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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Zendesk

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To survive and thrive in a crowded landscape, software and cloud services companies need to be hyper-focused on one key metric: customer retention. To accelerate net retention, you need to be highly attuned to your customers’ needs and exceed their expectations. Zendesk makes this easier with process automation and AI-powered conversation flows, so you deliver exceptional experiences while remaining profitable.

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MyCustomer Experience

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Looking for your next step in the world of customer experience? Every week, MyCustomer scours the internet to find the latest CX job. 4th Oct 2022. By Rhys Fisher Staff Writer.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Get The Right Call Routing System For Your Business . Regardless of how big or small your company is, your customers expect accessibility to connect with the proper agent when required. But do the customers receive the same accessibility during the seasonal spikes of the call center? Unfortunately, most businesses fail to deliver consistent customer service levels if they do not have call routing systems.

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Shep Hyken

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Winning the World Cup in Customer Experience. The Link Between Soccer (Football) and Customer Service. Shep Hyken interviews Gregorio Uglioni, a customer experience specialist, host of CX Goalkeeper , and author of Customer Experience 4 (CX4). He shares how customer service teams can implement lessons and best practices that organizations can learn from soccer teams and their fans.

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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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