Callminer

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Read this blog to understand the value of measuring and analyzing voice of the customer (VoC).

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s no secret that when it comes to support, customer expectations are higher than ever before – but how are support leaders and teams adapting to these increased demands? Our recent report showed that while 73% of support leaders say customer expectations are increasing, only 42% of them believe that they’re actually meeting those expectations. That’s a significant gap between expectations and reality – and one that it’s all too easy for your support team to fall into.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

In job descriptions and resumes, there are new required skills for candidate’s resumes in Behavioral Science. These jobs might be the most important new jobs in business today. But why? Behavioral science and the scientists that use it will tell you that understanding the “why” of what customers do has become table stakes in some industries today.

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Myra Golden Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Guide customers to the next step, or bring down the temperature in interactions, and slash talk time by explaining three things: Here’s what we know Here’s what we’ve done Here’s what’s next. Was This Helpful? I’m asking you because my newsletter offers ideas like this all the time. If you’re not yet subscribed, sign up here.

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Kerry Bodine

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I’m a strong proponent of including a short description of the customer persona on each journey map. (Otherwise, how do you know whose journey is being represented?) That practice often brings up a question during client conversations: To what degree should our personas represent different races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, etc.? It’s Black History Month here in the United States, and that seems the perfect time to answer this question in a public forum.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A lot has happened in the last 12 months. The world experienced exponential change and began navigating its way towards the “new normal,” and the way that companies support and engage their customers has rapidly evolved. Here at Intercom, we doubled down on building and shipping features across our conversational support and engagement solutions that would fundamentally shift how our customers communicate with their own.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Totango, Inc., the largest and fastest-growing customer success platform, today announced that G2 has recognized the company as one of the Top 50 Best Software Companies for 2021. G2, the largest software marketplace and review platform, annually names its list of best software companies based on authentic, timely reviews from real users. “We are honored to be named to G2’s prestigious Top 50 Software list for 2021,” said Guy Nirpaz, CEO and Founder of Totango.

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Astute

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

How do integrations help add context to your disparate data sources and help you better understand and boost CX? We take a look in this post. The post How Customer Data Integration Leads to CX Mastery appeared first on Astute.

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The DiJulius Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

5 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1. Customer Service Feature Story HUMANIZING OUR FUTURE “In the digital revolution, excellent human interaction skills become a premium advantage.” Technological innovations and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) have caused tremendous dislocations in today’s workplace. But the best customer service companies recognize the competitive opportunity.

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TeamSupport

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A playbook for delivering the ultimate customer service experiences. The customer experience is the new marketing. That’s what Micah Solomon, best-selling author, customer service industry consultant, and Forbes contributor, asked as he opened a recent webinar based on his new book , Ignore Your Customers (and They’ll Go Away): The Simple Playbook for Delivering the Ultimate Customer Service Experience.

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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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Totango

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A customer success strategy is a proactive plan for guiding your clients to outcomes that satisfy their needs. When your customers enjoy more value, your product adoption rates rise and customer retention rates go up. This promotes success for your company as well as your customers. In this guide, we’ll lay out a seven-step customer success strategy you can use to promote winning outcomes for your clients: Prioritize a culture of customer success.

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The Contact Company

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Customer service, and exceptional customer service at that, is no longer appreciated; it’s expected. As such, brands are needing to go that little bit farther to really ‘wow’ their customers. […]. The post Customer Service: How to Wow your Customer appeared first on The Contact Company.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Live chat is everywhere. It’s the most popular digital customer service channel, and everyone knows the basics of what live chat is. But what many people don’t know is just how many ways it can be used for different goals, in different industries. From sales and lead generation, to engagement and loyalty, live chat is an incredibly flexible tool. To show you some of the ways live chat can be used, and how it can benefit both your customers and agents, here are our top 5 live chat examples to ins

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Zendesk

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

When you think about the future of customer service and how it affects your organization, consider where exactly your support team fits into your business. With an effectively integrated CX department, the DNA of your business can pivot away from exclusively managing customer concerns and more towards benefiting the bottom line. Plus, as your approach to customer service matures, the complexity of your customers’ issues increases.

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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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Totango

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

What is customer churn ? The answer directly relates to your success at retaining customers and maintaining revenue levels. Read on to learn what you need to know about what customer churn is and how to calculate it. What Is Customer Churn? A Definition. Customer churn is the percentage of customers lost over a given time frame, typically a month. It is sometimes called customer attrition, customer turnover or customer defection.

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The Contact Company

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Customer service, and exceptional customer service at that, is no longer appreciated; it’s expected. As such, brands are needing to go that little bit farther to really ‘wow’ their customers. Here are our top 5 customer service ideas to wow your customer… 1. Follow up One of the best ways to really wow your customer is to ensure that you follow up.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Offering live chat on your website is a no-brainer if you want to provide accessible and fast support to your customers. It’s fast become the most popular digital channel for customers and agents alike whose experiences are both improved by it. But before you jump into choosing your live chat software , you need to decide if you want hosted or self-hosted live chat.

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Zendesk

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As the world adjusts to the “new reality” of the pandemic, industry leaders look back on what has worked well for them and share advice about what to expect in the future. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from recent interviews with industry leaders, as part of Zendesk’s CX Moments virtual events series. Simplr and Black Rifle Coffee Company: Focus on neglected customers.

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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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Ameyo Callversations

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

2020 ended the debate whether call centers should move to the cloud. With its inherent flexible features, cloud call center software saw a significant adoption in 2020. Sales, service, and collection departments have moved to remote work environments, paving the way for adopting cloud call center software at length. What led to cloud solutions’ tremendous growth can be simplified into three segments: Scalability, Security, and Integration Capabilities.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

DMG Consulting Releases New Report on Contact Centers in a Post-Pandemic World: A Strategic and Tactical Guide to the Future. Accelerated change driving a technology revolution. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services. What: Releases a New Report on Contact Centers in a Post-Pandemic World: A Strategic and Tactical Guide to the Future.

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Taylor Reach Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

A church denomination with worship and education centers around the world has called on The Taylor Reach Group to assess its contact center operations. Award-winning global contact center consultants and Customer Experience experts, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG) have been enlisted to help the faith community assess its customer experience operations.

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Zendesk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In 2020, the office went virtual. Meetings moved from boardrooms to Zooms, watercooler conversations became Slack threads, and IT infrastructure disappeared into the cloud. Amid tightening tech budgets, companies shifted their spending from IT hardware to more cost-effective cloud services. Instead of paying for expensive on-premises data centers and servers, businesses were able to access the computer resources they needed through cloud service providers.

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Service Quality Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Amazon just released its 2020 annual sales. I follow Amazon every day. Jeff Bezos is stepping down to become executive chairman and promoting Andy Jassy to CEO. Andy was CEO of Amazon’s cloud business (AWS). Sales with AWW were $45.4 billion in 2020 with an operating net income of $13.5 billion. This is business to business sales. In humor but true I always say most people do not copy Amazon because they do not want to have a sales increase of $105.6 billion, a stock increase of 76% and h

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Knowmax

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Steps to create decision tree for your contact center.

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Qualtrics

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

For almost half of companies, remote working is here to stay. This means that isolation, burnout, and stress-related issues are becoming more commonplace. Here’s how tracking employees’ time can address these challenges. Since the onset of COVID-19, companies across the US have been forced to adopt remote working models. Once the pandemic subsides, 47% of businesses plan to allow employees to keep working from home full-time.

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Zendesk

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

How did your life change during lockdown? Whether you spent it muting and unmuting yourself in meetings on Zoom, or logging your kids into online classrooms, it comes as no surprise that digital interactions have surged to an all-time high according to Zendesk’s Customer Experience Trends 2021 report. Regardless of whether or not companies were ready, the pandemic accelerated the digital technology adoption timeline from five years to three months.

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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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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

By now, most professionals in the sales and service fields are well aware of the basic benefits of Customer Relationship Management. Unfortunately, actually getting your employees to use it is an entirely different beast. The fact is, people, don’t like change. And when it comes to CRM adoption, there may be many reasons why salespeople resist. Control.

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Knowmax

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

How to maintain customer loyalty?

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Qualtrics

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Continually design and improve the patient experience by hearing every voice along their journey with you. Understand their needs, pet peeves, and problems, while pinpointing opportunities to close gaps. Today, healthcare providers spend significant time interfacing with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems such as Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, Athena.

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Zendesk

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The world has changed, and so have consumer expectations. Consumers want products, services, and solutions fast and without hiccups or mistakes along the way. As a result, every customer interaction is a moment that can make or break your business. And every opportunity to help your customers is imperative, whether it’s helping them make a purchase or refunding a product.

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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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