Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Customer retention is the silent killer of SaaS businesses today. People get curious, kick the tires, shrug their shoulders and leave without saying goodbye. Even if you are acquiring customers for $10, if they only stick around for a month or two, you won’t build a lasting business. What is customer retention? Customer retention is the rate at which your business can keep its paying customers over a given period of time.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Contact centers are like people: We’re all at different stages, chugging along healthily but sometimes faltering along the way. As we begin to look back at 2018, one thing is becoming clear: Not every contact center is created equal. While some are overhauling and optimizing their entire operations and adapting to the demands of modern consumers, there exist some (even those belonging to notable brands) that lag a step or two behind the speed of change.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Each of us has a time of day when we are at our best. Likewise, we have times when we are not at our best. These times affect how we behave, and that can have repercussions for your Customer Experience. For example. I am a morning person. When I have something creative or complicated to do, I like to tackle it first thing. However, in the late afternoon to evening, I am useless.

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Uniphore

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In order to step up to the seemingly impossible challenge of enabling deeper customer engagements, support organizations are turning to automation. It expands self-service from responding to questions, to actually completing customer requests such as returning a product or changing a flight. Automation can also assist agents who deal with a common contact center problem of having to juggle multiple systems and applications during live customer interactions.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2018

You might have noticed Inside Intercom is looking a little different today. What you’re experiencing is the result of almost a year’s work, designed not just to showcase the breadth of content we publish, but to make it easy for you to discover and consume it. Over the past few years Intercom’s customer base has grown considerably beyond the startup and product-focused readership we initially focused on with Inside Intercom.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit … then the business must die as well, for it no longer has a reason for existence. – Henry Ford. Ford started out with a dream: Build a horseless carriage affordable enough for every American household. He wanted Ford Motors to be special, not just another giant, aloof institution in the marketplace.

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Customer Service Life

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In order to take the best care of others, we must first take the best care of ourselves. @jennysuedempsey. When it comes to fostering a culture of self-care and supporting our customer service agents to the best of our abilities, we must first set the stage and care for ourselves. If we can talk the talk, we better be walking the walk. I’m honored and SO excited to attend and speak at the upcoming ZenDesk Relate Conference this November held at The Fairmont in San Francisco.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation doesn’t matter if it can’t be trusted, and that’s why we are committed to ensuring we deliver the highest standards of security for our customers. That has always been a guiding principle here at Intercom from our very earliest days. We aim to constantly deliver the most innovative products to our customers but we know that your trust is fundamental to everything we do.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Voice-powered technology has grown exponentially in the past few years. On its journey, it has become more sophisticated and intelligent, and has evolved to sound and behave more like a real human would. Advanced voice-powered technology has become a central component of call center strategies at some of the largest businesses around the world, causing many stakeholders in the customer service field to begin asking important questions about the future of call center service.

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CX Journey

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Image courtesy of CXPA It's that time of year again. This week, we are celebrating CX Day and Customer Service Week. I love that they land on the calendar at the same time, and yet, let's just keep adding to the confusion! I've written about the differences before: Customer Experience is More Than Just Customer Service Customer Service or Customer Experience Customer Experience Isn't Just about Customer Service Looks like I need to get more creative with my blog post titles!

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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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Heart of the Customer

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This may not seem like a CX-related post, but bear with me a minute. I attended a fabulous CXPA event on CX Day this week. Laurie Englert (full disclosure: she’s a client), the VP of Customer Experience at Legrand’s AV Division, shared how her team uses design thinking. We then applied those skills to strategize […]. The post Brainstorming: Design Thinking vs.

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Kate Nasser

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Leaders, managers, and team leaders, lead customer service morale w/ these 5 steps from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach, author of new book, Leading Morale. Happy National Customer Service Week! The post Customer Service Morale: 5 Key Leadership Steps | #CustServ #NCSW18 appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Though many of us may enjoy out-of-town excursions that require a flight, we’re often a little less enthusiastic about the thought of the airport or the in-flight experience. Thankfully, there are leaders in the airline industry who understand this and are working tirelessly to improve both of these experiences. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Karen Ellis , the Chief Customer Officer of San Antonio airport , and Sonya Lacore , Vice President of Inflight Operations at Southwest A

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Provide Support

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is credited with saying “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”. It is generally understood that the goal in customer service is to have effective communication with customers, which will result in customers being satisfied and will produce more revenue for the company in the end. However, what is effective communication?

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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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Customers That Stick

OCTOBER 4, 2018

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The DiJulius Group

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Happy National Customer Service Week! National Customer Service Week is celebrated during the first full week of October, and this year it falls on October 1-5th. The theme this year is “Every Customer, Every Time”. That is precisely the goal of a Customer Service Vision Statement. The Customer Service Vision is what each and every. Read Full Article.

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TeamSupport

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Even a fantastic customer service team can be plagued by poor ticket deflection and routing. Your stellar agents may be equipped to answer many customer questions, but if they need to sift through dozens of issues outside of their specialty then they aren’t maximizing the ways in which they can help customers. This is where ticket deflection and routing comes in to maximize the time and effort of your agents.

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CSAT.AI

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Customers. They are the heartbeat of all business. After all, businesses without customers don’t stay in business. They are the gas to the engine. The sunshine to the garden. It is vital to keep and grow your customer base. That means providing an exceptional experience with customer service. Product is not enough no matter how great. Customers: love them or lose them.

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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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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 3, 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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The DiJulius Group

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The Most Customer-Centric Company In The World Amazon has really had only one stated goal since it began: to be the most customer-centric company in the world. That was Jeff Bezos’ goal when he started Amazon. Actually it wasn’t his goal—it was his obsession. Early in his career he told a reporter, “The reason I’m. Read Full Article. The post Jeff Bezos Shares The Secret To Amazon’s Success appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In lieu of alieu of a regular Daily Dose video, I want to share with you an excerpt from an interview I did this summer with my good friend Laura Ortman—chief customer officer of Equinix—in which we discuss how practitioners from call center representatives to business leaders can impact customer experience in their roles every day. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below.

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UJET

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Want to know how to make your company sound terribly out of date? Call your support organization a call center!

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Confirmit

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Market Research is changing. The rise of digital communications and the expansion of consumer data means that Market Researchers face a real challenge to mine real insights from multiple feedback channels. More importantly, they also need to provide a unique service that provide superior value to customers. Automation of MR processes and systems creates a win-win scenario that can boost the overall profitability and viability of your research agency and the services you offer.

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Chip Bell

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Today is Monday, October 1st. National Customer Service Week will be this week–October 1-5. Over the next five days, we will celebrate heroes who deliver over-the-top innovative service. And, I start with a master shoe repair person—David Cooper! I took my beloved Lucchese boots to McMillan’s shoe repair store for new soles and heels. Leaving them in the hands of a stranger was no doubt like leaving your hand built, perfectly restored sports car with a new mechanic.

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Hodusoft

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Communication is at the core of business operations. Operational cost and vendor management keeps in grips with each other like customers. Standard telephony is out, yes old school. Businesses have confessed IP PBX benefits are several. Price of calls falls dramatically. Online web and video conferencing solutions are super easy and interactions improve, saving time and cost.

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Quality Assurance in any industry is key to a product’s success. In software development, we measure quality in terms of conformity to requirements and freedom from defects — quantifiable qualities. In customer service, quality is more difficult to define and measure. Because there’s no tangible product, our industry is as much an art as it is a science.

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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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Confirmit

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Earlier this year, we held our most successful B2B Summit yet – with record turn out and standing room only! There were several speakers present for the event, covering topics from incorporating storytelling in CX programs to proving change across the business and showcasing success through action. Guest speakers included analysts from Forrester Research, CX practitioners from clients including LexisNexis and Philadelphia Insurance, and our own CX visionary, Claire Sporton.

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Chip Bell

OCTOBER 4, 2018

How would you feel if the grand opening of your new upscale steakhouse restaurant was in the fall of 2008? As your doors were opening, the Dow was falling 3600 points. Discretionary income was suddenly zero. And, your patronage was only 10% of what normal time would have produced. That was the situation faced by Mark and Terri Stark, owners of Stark Steakhouse in Santa Rosa, CA.

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1 to 1

OCTOBER 4, 2018

It’s hard to create seamless interactions without truly understanding what customers are going through. How can companies make data collection and customer feedback frictionless? Mike Soylu and Nazli Chamlibel of customer feedback firm Pisano share their insights from the field. Listen to all episodes of The CX Pod at TTEC. .

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Myra Golden Media

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Customer Service Week is a fantastic time to celebrate the VIP employees who take care of your customers, and it’s the perfect week to go all out for your customers. But, if you want your employees to take your focus seriously, and if you’re going to create a customer service culture, you need to also: -Have fun days designed to bring energy to your team throughout the year.

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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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