Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He-Man had the right idea when he held aloft his sword and transformed into his mightiest self. “I HAVE THE POWER!” he proclaimed with animated gusto. Although the cartoon is pushing 35 years old, it’s still an inspiring sight to see (and message to hear). While we’re not all Eternia-born superheroes like him, per se, as mere mortals we can still aim to be the masters of our own universes (contact center universes, if we’re being specific here) and harness the unshakable power to satisfy our cus

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Read 5 tips on how monitoring and analyzing data on every interaction including calls, email, live chat, SMS messaging, and social media.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Volume and capacity are always top of mind for sales, support and marketing teams. At Intercom , we’re helping all three teams do more with their time to increase their performance. For sales and support, the volume of prospects and customers they handle, and their capacity to scale up that volume, is the reason they are so focused on efficiency and output.

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UJET

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Customer support is a vital part of your business. Your customer service agents are on the front line with the customer, and they need to be able to provide the best possible support at all times.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Customer support is currently standing at a crossroads: One road leads to exciting automated technologies, and the other to the ‘human touch’. Recent technological advancements are many, ranging from Artificial Intelligence (AI) (and related automated tools like virtual assistants, chatbots, etc.) to real-time messaging, simulation, self-service and crypto-currency.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In this post, we explore the concepts of BPO and KPO and discuss the key differences between the two.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In sales and marketing, speed is everything. The fate of your business depends on how quickly you can turn promising leads on your website into paying customers. The faster you capture the intent, the faster you will make the sale, and the faster your business will grow. The traditional approach from marketers and salespeople of using lengthy contact forms and delayed callbacks doesn’t cut it anymore.

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Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

I was talking with a prospective customer last week, and I walked through our customer journey mapping process – first you collect companies’ hypothesis and existing data, then go out to their customers to interview them in their places of work (they’re a B2B company), and finally bring that voice of the customer back to […].

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ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Are Your Customer Care Metrics Customer-Centric? Lynn Hunsaker. Customer care metrics are a barometer of performance across a variety of customer interactions such as chat, text messages, email, social media and communities. Traditionally, these metrics have been cost-center oriented , intended to drive efficiency and productivity. CRM put another dimension on customer care metrics with profit-center orientation , intended to up-sell and cross-sell, increasing share of customers’ budget.

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CSAT.AI

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Alice can’t get her computer to boot. George received a part that doesn’t fit his motor. Dani never received her order at all. And Raj is almost apoplectic with frustration this is his fourth attempt to get a credit for an item he returned a month ago. These are reasons customers contact customer service but are these the only times customers communicate?

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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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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In my new Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. There will be a day (or days) for all of us doing this work…that we will have to present some not so great depictions of the company’s customer experiences.

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Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

I was talking with a prospective customer last week, and walked through our customer journey mapping process – how you first collect companies’ hypothesis and existing data, then go out to their customers, interviewing them in their places of work (they’re a B2B company), and bring that voice of the customer back to your teams […].

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Hodusoft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For political parties nowadays, HoduBS is a highly effective tool. Every candidate wants public support and their attention. And this can be easily done through the use of HoduBS for election service. We, at Hodusoft, leading HoduBS provider in India, provide high-quality SMS Solutions to all kind of customers such as big brands, organizations, entrepreneurs and political parties.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for 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. Each day we learn from the trenches what it takes to make clients happy and successful.

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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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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I had the pleasure of speaking with Bob Buiaroski , the SVP of Manulife , a leading Canadian-based financial services group that serves millions of customers in 22 countries and territories world-wide. With a background in business and technology, Bob is an extremely senior executive leader with many years of experience leading and guiding not only what goes inside of an organization, but also in how he tells the customer story and engages leaders in a graceful way.

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iQor

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Show Me (All) the Money: Why Agents Need Real-Time Access to Pay and Performance.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

What does customer experience success look like, how do you measure it, and why is it so darn hard? Those are some of the questions we posed to customer experience experts Kevin Shields, vice president of employer services at ADP, and Tim Keefe, and strategy consulting partner at TTEC. What they have to say may surprise you. Music credits: Siesta by Jahzzar; Something Elated by Broke for Free Listen to all episodes of The CX Pod at TTEC. .

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Scarcity as a marketing tactic is one that works well with customers. However, it is one that many marketers don’t use to their advantage often enough. If you are one of them (and you don’t act now), avoiding scarcity tactics can hurt your bottom line. For our recent podcast we invited a special guest to join us. Professor of Marketing at Vanderbilt University, Kelly Goldsmith, Ph.D., is a behavioral scientist who studies how we respond to uncertainty and scarcity as consumers.

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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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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

You know when you’re listening to a podcast interview and the guest says something and you literally smack your head, pause the podcast, and start tweeting? Happened to me last week. Andrew Yang, founder of “Venture for America” (and a long-shot candidate for president in 2020) said “Google recently demonstrated software that can do the job of an average call center worker … that’s going to result in hundreds of thousands of jobs lost”.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

As a human being, storytelling is one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal. It works in just about every situation where other human beings are involved and, contrary to what you might think, it’s actually surprisingly simple to construct a compelling story. In my talk for Intercom’s tour last year, I walked the audience through a simple structure for building strong stories and spoke to several experiences I’ve had where a story made all the difference to the outcome.

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TeamSupport

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A new term, customer health, is all about monitoring the customer relationship to ensure it remains in a vibrant state. Because not all businesses are receptive to proactive support or additional conversations, the concept of customer health has evolved because it allows a business to further understand the impact of their interactions. Rather than spending time and money on proactive communication campaigns with customers that already love you or don’t want to be contacted, customer health anal

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CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Lexie Lu of Design Roast. Coming up with a brand identity isn’t an easy task. You have to consider the message you want the world to take away from any interaction with your company, and you have to think about what your target audience cares about. Ideally, a strong brand identity will mesh both your needs and those of your customer. 77 percent of B2B marketers say that proper branding plays a big role in company growth.

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Customer Service Life

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This article originally appeared on the CustomerThink blog as part of my monthly column on June 12, 2018. Click here to read the original. Not long ago I saw a demo of a cool product for gathering customer feedback called Stella Connect. They have a fun angle on customer satisfaction where customers are invited to rate their experience with the specific agent that helped them.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A unique characteristic of our species is our enduring drive to represent the infinite richness of the real world in other mediums – from art to mathematics, we strive to capture and record the world around us. For instance, one of the most distinguishing aspects of Renaissance art was the gradual evolution of techniques to convincingly represent the 3D world on flat surfaces – elegant, clever tricks such as perspective and chiaroscuro developed slowly as the result of experimentation by a huge

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C3Centricity

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

As a customer centricity champion, just like you I hope, I spend a lot of my time researching what customers want. I’m always trying to understand exactly what their preferences are today, and where these may be going. My regular searches online include customer service, customer satisfaction, customer care and similar topic areas. Google is my best friend!

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