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Analyze Customer Churn with Speech Analytics

Callminer

Speech analytics can listen for various churn signals on phone calls including keywords or phrases or voice pitch in addition to calculating a churn risk score automatically.

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Passing the GDPR test; or how we learned to stop worrying and love the EU

Intercom, Inc.

The EU was kind enough to provide a stress test for our email delivery pipeline during the GDPR surge on a scale that I doubt our engineering team as a whole would have agreed to, and we passed. You’ve all heard about GDPR, as it ironically swamped your inboxes in the process of protecting you from unwanted emails. For our engineering teams at Intercom, there was a much more short term impact last week, which we think is interesting enough to share more widely.

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Are You Making The Right Decisions?

Beyond Philosophy

Can you tell me the average length of a rain poncho without Googling or asking Alexa? Don’t worry, few people can. Nonetheless, it is a critical piece of information when you want to buy a rain poncho and need to choose a size. Without it, however, you can still make a decision—and as customers we often do this—by simply substituting in another question and answering it.

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How to engage with customers that love you

Lumoa

Happy customers are a dream of any business owner. As the famous saying goes, “Satisfied customer is the best strategy of all.” But what happens next, after you identified who your happy customers are ? Even if you don’t actively cooperate with your happy customers, they will, on average, tell nine other people about their experiences with your company (according to American Express ).

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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How to Elevate Customer Support from Within

UJET

Historically, Customer Support has been undervalued. It's been considered a cost to companies rather than a driver of revenue, like Sales or Marketing. After all, it's easy to measure the value of a sale or a lead. It's harder to understand the impact of a successful support experience. The result: customer support has been, in a way, neglected.

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Startup marketing: strategies for year one

Intercom, Inc.

The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. When we started Intercom the latter was my job. About 50 percent of my time was spent communicating with potential users, whether that was asking them to try Intercom over email, meeting them at conferences, responding to them in blog comments or talking to them on Hacker News.

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Everything You Need to Know About Texting with Customers

Myra Golden Media

In this video, taken from my online customer service training suite, I answer the questions I’m asked most often about what’s appropriate for business texting. We’ll look at everything from grammar in text, to emojis, to what to do if you get a prank text. Watch the short video, and use it in your own customer service training. Was This Helpful? I’m asking you because my newsletter offers ideas like this all the time.

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Critical Steps For a Successful CX Implementation

Beyond Philosophy

All the theory is great but implementing a successful CX program is vital. Colin Shaw and Professor Ryan Hamilton discuss exactly how do you do that…and the key steps to take. The post Critical Steps For a Successful CX Implementation appeared first on.

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The one simple question our bot asks that saves our Sales team hours

Intercom, Inc.

As the rise of bots and automation continues apace, a lot of people are wondering how the sales process and lead qualification will be affected by this fast-evolving technology. Some are even asking if salespeople are at risk of being eclipsed by chatbots altogether. But a fairly simple example of how the Intercom bot, Operator , helped our sales conversations illuminates what we think that future might look like in practice.

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Catch Fonolo at the 19th Annual Customer Contact Week in Las Vegas

Fonolo

If you’re deeply invested in the customer service industry, you already know this one fact: June will be an exciting, educational month thanks to the 19 th Annual Customer Contact Week, held this year from June 18-22 at The Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Known as Call Center Week since its inception in 1999, the annual event has rebranded as Customer Contact Week in 2018, in acknowledgement of omni-channel technologies improving customer experiences in the industry as a whole.

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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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Trying to Hire Millennial Employees for Customer Service Roles? Make Sure You’ve Mastered These 3 Things First.

Myra Golden Media

One of the most significant challenges facing companies today is attracting and retaining right-fit front line customer service professionals. For sure, this is challenging, but you can find and keep good-fit employees if you know what’s important to Millennials as it relates to the job search and company culture. Millennials now make up about 50% of the workforce.

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Confirmit APIs

Confirmit

What are the Confirmit Horizons APIs? True insights from Market Research, Voice of the Customer and Employee Engagement programs rely on the ability to correlate and integrate the information with other areas of your business, such as platforms for Customer Relationship Management, product management, Enterprise Resource Planning, or accounting. Confirmit Horizons provides programmatic access to your organization’s information using simple, powerful, and secure application programming inte

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Take the wheel and choose your own career direction

Intercom, Inc.

We all like to think we’re the drivers of our own life. We intuitively feel that we are choosing the route, direction and speed of our journey, and even the type of car we’re traveling in. We have an inbuilt tendency to believe we are deciding our destination, that we are actively mapping out our career direction and our life story. The truth is, however, that most of us are mere passengers in our own life journey.

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Customer Experience and Digital Transformation

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Quadient Are you communicating with customers in their preferred methods? That's only one of many questions we discussed last week, when I had the pleasure of participating in the keynote panel for Quadient's third virtual CX Transformation Day. The panel, moderated by Mirza Baig, Quadient's Director of Digital and Advocacy Marketing, included David Poole, with the Financial Services Center of Excellence at Publicis Sapient; Paul DeSantis, Chief Operating Officer of ANRO; and m

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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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4 Keys to Delivering Lousy News to Customers

Myra Golden Media

I’m sipping black tea and listening to classical music while I custom design a customer service workshop for a utility on the east coast. One of my deliverables for this training is to equip employees with the skill of giving lousy news to customers in such a way that the customer accepts the employees’ answer as the final word. You’re in for a professional development treat today, because I’m sharing with you what I’ll facilitate in Philadelphia next month.

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The Essential New Customer Service Model for Connected Devices

iQor

A fully connected environment—smart homes, smart offices, smart cars—has transitioned from yesterday’s futuristic fantasy into today’s very real Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem.

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Making the transition from consultant to product engineer

Intercom, Inc.

Those unfamiliar with what product engineers do could be forgiven for assuming that it’s all broadly the same job. After all, we all tend to work in code, use black text editors with luminous text, and stare at console windows with endlessly scrolling symbols. But making the transition from consultant engineer to a product engineer was a revelation – I realized that working as an engineer in client services and working as a product engineer are essentially two completely different jobs, br

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The 3 Whys Behind Yes/No Quality Scoring

Customer Service Life

This article originally appeared on the FCR blog on May 9, 2018. Click here to read the original. Without exaggeration, I think I’ve seen quality forms for a hundred different companies in my tenure at FCR and can confidently say that they come in all different shapes, sizes, and flavors. Some of that’s to be expected given the variety of clients we work with.

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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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CX Leadership in the International Gas and Energy B2B Industry with Antonio Susta

Customer Bliss

In today’s episode, I speak with Antonio Susta , Head of Customer Experience and Customer Service at The Linde Group , a world leading supplier of industrial, processes and specialty gases. . Antonio has a lot of experience blending marketing and sales. As a marketer, he was a fan of B2B marketing for technical products, and spent almost 10 years with Air Liquide , where he became familiar working in a large B2B company in the gas and tech industry.

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Warm Welcome: JOIN People Skills Global Chat June 3rd | #PeopleSkills

Kate Nasser

Many people today overlook the importance and power of a warm welcome -- in business & in personal relationships. JOIN #PeopleSkills global Twitter chat w/ Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ June 3rd 10amEDT to share your insights on the chemistry & power of the warm welcome. | #Community #Teamwork #Leadership #Relationships. The post Warm Welcome: JOIN People Skills Global Chat June 3rd | #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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CSM from the Trenches: Mentors – McKayl Bergman; Head of Lucidpress Customer Success

ClientSuccess

For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches, welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.

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Confirmit CATI - Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing

Confirmit

What is Confirmit CATI? Confirmit CATI is the telephone interviewing module of Confirmit Horizons™, our flexible, multi-mode solution for Market Research, agencies. Confirmit CATI is used by some of the world’s largest Market Research organizations and is built on over 30 years of experience in providing business critical CATI solutions to the market.

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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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iQorian Values Week 2018

iQor

Exciting week of celebrations highlighting iQorian Values Week 2018.

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Is Your Company People-Centric or Profit-Centric?

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay Rather than thinking customer-centric, how about thinking people-centric? While customer experience strategies must include a priority focus on the employee experience (i.e., they are first!), they often don’t. Many companies actually believe that they can improve the customer experience without improving the employee experience.

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Recorded Customer Success Webinar: How to Nail Onboarding and Adoption – Learn 3 Fresh Perspectives from Peers Like You

ClientSuccess

This customer success best practices webinar was hosted by ClientSuccess on June 20, 2018 and shared three fresh perspectives on customer onboarding and adoption. Join three exceptional customer success leaders: Erica Newell from Marketware , McKayl Bergman from Lucid Software , and Sam Feil from ClientSuccess , as they present best practices to succeed with customer onboarding and adoption.

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Brewing a Turnaround at DAVIDsTEA

1 to 1

Only two years after going public, specialty tea retailer DAVIDsTEA announced at the end of 2017 that it was evaluating strategic alternatives, including a potential sale and store closures. At first glance, this is another example of a brick-and-mortar business struggling to stay afloat in a retail economy that is increasingly shifting toward e-commerce and digital experiences.

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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

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Close.io CEO Steli Efti on the rights and wrongs of lead qualification

Intercom, Inc.

To build a great product, you have to intimately understand the problem it’s built to solve. To build a great business, as Steli Efti has learned, your customers must feel the pain of that problem too. Steli is the CEO of Close.io , an inside sales CRM that helps startups and SMBs generate high-quality leads and close more deals. When he’s not building software, Steli’s sharing content with the wider sales community through the Close.io blog , books on everything from product demos t

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A Letter of Gratitude: Thank You for Supporting the Release of My New Book

Customer Bliss

Thank you for joining the movement! My friends, book number four is done! And many of you already have the copy on your bookshelf! This book, Would You Do That To Your Mother? The “Make Mom Proud” Standard for How to Treat Your Customers , is my “thank you” for letting my words into your life. I’m grateful to our community of brave customer crusaders from every kind of business across the globe.

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10 Trends That Will Disrupt Customer Service in 2018 [White Paper]

Fonolo

“I feel the need , the need for speed !”. In Top Gun , the 1986 classic, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell’s famous phrase effectively summed up the future of customer service (CS). While it wasn’t intended to evoke the relationship between business and consumer, over 30 years later, it speaks directly to the state of CS today. Speed is arguably the most significant benchmark for every single customer service interaction today.

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A Customer Success Conversation with CS Veteran Mark Pecoraro

ClientSuccess

At ClientSuccess , we value candid conversations with Customer Success leaders that have unique experiences and varying viewpoints on the world of Customer Success. This week, we’ll showcase one such conversation with expert Mark Pecoraro , advisor to many B2B SaaS companies all of which have cultures of Customer Success. What led Mark into Customer Success?

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When Customers Win, You Win: How to Deliver Value That Transforms Your Customer Experience

Speaker: Donna Weber - Customer Onboarding Expert

Customer onboarding is so much more than going live with your product and driving adoption. The truth is, onboarding is the most important part of the customer journey. When you set positive first impressions, establish trusting relationships, and quickly deliver meaningful outcomes, you create customers for life. Invest an hour with Donna Weber to learn why your customer onboarding is critical to your success.