Callminer

JULY 11, 2018

In a world where customer experience is more important than ever, call centers must empower their agents to exceed customer expectations at every touch point.

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Customer Expectations Customer Experience 182

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2018

The problems people encounter in their lives rarely change from generation to generation. The products they hire to solve these problems change all the time. If you’re building a new product, it’s because you believe you can create a better solution that people will want to use because it delivers a better outcome. A strong understanding of the outcome customers want , and how they currently get it, is essential for you to succeed in product development.

Entertainment 205

Entertainment Start-ups Engineering Technology 205

CX Accelerator

JULY 9, 2018

My favorite story coming out of the FIFA World Cup thus far is how Japan, fresh off defeat to Belgium, left a wonderfully clean locker room and a "thank you" note. Full story here. How amazing is that? This picture of them bowing to their fans may give you goosebumps. Having recently visited Japan CX for myself, these wonderful moments come as no surprise at all.

Contact Center 140

Contact Center CX Customer Service Sales 140

Customers That Stick

JULY 13, 2018

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Customer Service 134

Customer Service 134

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Lumoa

JULY 10, 2018

Most business leaders believe that customer experience will be the key driver for their company’s competitiveness going forward. However, when it comes to the actual customer experience management, things get difficult. It is not too difficult to listen to the customer. Companies receive real time feedback in massive volumes, if they only start listening to their customers.

Customer Experience 121

Customer Experience NPS Text Analytics Customer Satisfaction 121

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2018

Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches.

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Sales Start-ups 154

Customers That Stick

JULY 10, 2018

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Customer Service 121

Customer Service 121

TeamSupport

JULY 10, 2018

Customer relations are very important to all businesses. Building positive relationship with your customers can do wonders, because customers want to have a positive relationship with you, and if you're lucky they will actively work to maintain it Of course, businesses also put in considerable time and effort into making a relationship rewarding and enriching for both parties.

Customer Experience 89

Customer Experience Customer Relationship B2B Customer Service 89

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2018

Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches.

Sales 117

Sales Start-ups 117

PeopleMetrics

JULY 10, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Listen Or Die by Sean McDade, PhD. Listen to any company in almost every industry, and you’ll undoubtedly hear phrases like customer-centric and customer-focused touted as top priorities. But what does that exactly mean? When leaders of a company fail to explain or provide specific examples of what it really means to be customer-centric, employees often see these words as little more than corporate platitudes.

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Heart of the Customer

JULY 10, 2018

Devin Anuzis is Corporate Manager, Customer Experience at Benchmark, the leading provider of senior living services in the Northeast. Serving as the “voice” of the customer program, Devin manages multiple feedback channels and deciphers the feedback for company stakeholders to ensure the customer’s voice is clearly heard and considered in all decisions.

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Voice of the Customer Customer Experience CX 60

Customer Service Life

JULY 9, 2018

Omnichannel is a word that’s mentioned often in customer support circles and it’s fascinating to see what existing cloud-based platforms like Zendesk and Salesforce are doing to make this a reality. You may want to check out the recent announcement from Zendesk on this topic and also Salesforce’s decision to discontinue Desk.com and transition to Service Cloud Lightning by March 2020.

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Omnichannel Machine Learning Voice of the Customer Customer Survey 60

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 10, 2018

In order to make bootstrapping work, you need to be scrappy, ruthlessly prioritizing your actions and avoiding non-essential expenses. Having one tool that helps you do all your most important work – sales, marketing and support – makes life so much easier. We’ve been pretty vocal about our love for Intercom as we’ve grown Ad Reform and Userfeed , our profitable, bootstrapped SaaS businesses over the last year.

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Non-Profits Sales Start-ups Customer Feedback 106

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 12, 2018

Many organizations have called to tell us that their Customer Experience initiatives are not performing like they did. The results that were once skyrocketing have plateaued. They are surprised by this turn of events, but we are not. As global Customer Experience consultants, we know that Customer Experience is less of a destination than a journey. Where you are going with Customer Experience (i.e., what customers want) could change and the work you do on the route (i.e., the way you deliver a C

Customer Experience 68

Customer Experience Customer Expectations 68

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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Fonolo

JULY 11, 2018

It’s been a year since Apple announced “Business Chat”. The company staked out an audacious goal: to become the preferred channel for customer service communication. A year ago, Facebook, a competitor on this front, was reeling from weeks of bad press over privacy issues. But now, Facebook stock has hit a new all time high, with those transgressions seemingly forgotten by the market.

Social Media 59

Social Media Start-ups Customer Service 59

Customer Bliss

JULY 13, 2018

Over the past two years, the CX leaders and CCOs that I’ve spoken with have shared great actionable advice and tactics to help you transform the culture of your organization to be customer-driven. In this episode, you’ll hear from two brilliant leaders who’ve led CX work in the telecommunications industry. Charlotte Dunsterville , Chief Customer Officer of Sure International Telecom, and Patricia Pedhom Nono , former general manager of customer service & customer experienc

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CX NPS Social Media Voice of the Customer 56

DMG Consulting

JULY 9, 2018

The Uberization of Workforce Management. In 2015 DMG introduced the concept of adaptive real-time forecasting and scheduling to the market to help companies begin the process of rethinking their contact center staffing challenges. We called this concept the “uberization” of workforce management, as it was conceived with the intent of balancing the “power” between companies and their employees.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Technology Technology 48

Kate Nasser

JULY 7, 2018

Say these positive people skills beliefs to yourself daily to deliver consistently great customer service. By Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX #Video. The post Stay Positive w/ These Positive People Skills Beliefs | #CustServ #CX appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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

JULY 9, 2018

It’s that special time of year. Put your hands together and give it up for the 2018 winners of Fonolo’s Customer Experience Excellence Awards! Each year, Fonolo takes pause and looks at the big CX picture, studying the work of the best and brightest contact centers across all industries and regions. It awards those that shoot for the stars by significantly reducing hold times and thus winning the hearts of clients.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Contact Center Technology Technology 52

Customer Bliss

JULY 12, 2018

As modern day consumers of digital media, you’ve probably already encountered numerous privacy policy updates through various alerts and newsletters. All of these updates are related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that was passed in the European Union this May. But the GDPR now essentially serves as the world’s largest protection for digital privacy rights because of the borderless nature of the Internet.

Customer Experience 47

Customer Experience Compliance CX Customer Loyalty 47

Comm100

JULY 12, 2018

Continuing our series of the best customer service posts on the web from May , I’m going to look at some standouts from last month that caught my eye. There is no specific theme here aside from a focus on improving the customer experience. Take a look at this month’s picks, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did! From the Dentist’s Chair. Dan Gingiss is a contributor with Forbes, and he wrote an excellent post about providing an exceptional customer experience.

Customer Service 41

Customer Service AI Entertainment Contact Center 41

Waypoint Group

JULY 13, 2018

On June 19 th , 2018, a few of us Waypointers attended the inaugural Customer SuccessCon Denver, hosted by Mikael Blaisdell’s Customer Success Association. Our own Steve Bernstein was joined by Paul Piazza, Senior Director of CS at Reciprocity Labs, for a chat centered around driving a Customer-centric culture and enabling CSMs to collaborate with the rest of the company to drive the right improvements.

NPS 40

NPS Customer Experience B2B Start-ups 40

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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Confirmit

JULY 12, 2018

Hot on the heels of walking 65km through the Brecon Beacons to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, I am putting my body through another challenge later this month. I suspect this makes me the very definition of the phrase “glutton for punishment”, but there we have it. In the usual Confirmit way, though, I won’t be going it alone.

Hospitality 40

Hospitality Hospitality Start-ups 40

TeamSupport

JULY 10, 2018

Customer relations are very important to all businesses. Building positive relationship with your customers can do wonders, because customers want to have a positive relationship with you, and if you're lucky they will actively work to maintain it Of course, businesses also put in considerable time and effort into making a relationship rewarding and enriching for both parties.

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience Customer Relationship B2B Customer Service 40

UJET

JULY 12, 2018

“Hold on just one moment,” the customer service agent says.

CRM 56

CRM Customer Service Customer Experience 56

CX Journey

JULY 12, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay A fish rots from the head down - and so does your culture. What does "a fish rots from the head down" mean? It means that the problem starts at the top, that the problems, failures, issues , toxicity , etc. in your organization - or any organization - start with the leadership team. Senior leaders and executives: take a good, hard look at how you and your colleagues act, behave, make decisions, walk the walk/talk the talk, live the values, etc.

Mystery Shopping 37

Mystery Shopping CX Customer Experience 37

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Confirmit

JULY 10, 2018

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the most blister-y of times. That’s right – the Great Strides 65km walk had raised its weary head once more and enticed only the craziest of crazies into its fiendish grasp. For those who are not familiar, the Great Strides 65km is a rather wonderful charity event hosted by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust which takes place each year.

Voice of the Employee 40

Voice of the Employee Start-ups Gaming Voice of the Customer 40

iQor

JULY 12, 2018

Reading Is (Always) In.

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SugarCRM

JULY 12, 2018

With technology having become ubiquitous in our home and social lives it is crucial that the social trends we see in these spaces help drive how technology is developed and deployed in the business world. At SugarCRM, we have long known that if technology in the workplace looks, feels and intuits like the technology we use at home, it will be more engaging and easier to use, meaning the most benefit can be gained.

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CRM Technology Technology Innovation 31

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

You can spend months working on a great idea, pour tons of time and energy into crafting the perfect marketing, but without customers your business will cease to exist. All future growth hinges on one thing – customer acquisition. While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

Customer Acquisition 156

Customer Acquisition Start-ups Sales 156

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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