March, 2021

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The European Customer Experience Organization is now live! The Time to Evolve Together arrived!

eglobalis

The European Customer Experience Organization the real associationpractical , employee experience , experience design , innovation launch Ricardo Saltz Gulko and Adrian Swinscoe. The post The European Customer Experience Organization is now live! The Time to Evolve Together arrived! appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Tips & strategies for improving customer experience

Callminer

Read this blog to learn how the right tips and strategies can help your organization deliver positive, effective customer experience.

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Health matters: Store and process healthcare data in a HIPAA-compliant manner using Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

The onset of COVID-19 has accelerated a digital transformation in the healthcare industry, resulting in changes to how patients receive care and how medical records are stored and processed. From healthcare providers to insurers and others, the pandemic is rapidly driving organizational change and prompting businesses to consider future needs by adopting new technologies to replace or assist with historically manual workflows without compromising on care or privacy.

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Contact center agent satisfaction remains high after a rough year

Inside Customer Service

This past year has been tough on contact center agents. The pandemic shifted more agents to working at home. Those who were at home already likely had their lives disrupted in some other way. Some contact centers endured unimaginable spikes in volume. Others saw their businesses dry up and were forced to lay people off. A report from Benchmark Portal found that agent satisfaction has remained fairly high.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Best Technologies for Small Businesses

Win the Customer

Running and maintaining a small business is a challenge. Because of limited personnel and limited financial resources, small business owners often need to wear multiple hats to keep their business afloat like the use of another address for their mailbox company. The Importance of Using a Secure Fax and a virtual office address where the service provider will forward all of your mail, this is a really good one for Modern technology has made it easier for small business owners to manage and trac

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Interview: Creating a Clean Experience

Heart of the Customer

How would you respond if your deliberately behind-the-scenes customer experience efforts were suddenly thrust to the foreground? That’s the challenge Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services’ CEO Todd Hopkins faced when COVID changed the way we all think about cleaning. I met Todd after customer service guru Shep Hyken recommended him in response to my call […].

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How to improve the customer journey

Callminer

It's important to consider what factors impact customer journey and what can make it better. Learn how to improve customers’ journeys to improve your business and bottom line.

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Decision time: Our new product decision-making framework

Intercom, Inc.

There are many ingredients involved in successfully building a great product, but fundamentally it all boils down to a series of decisions. And it’s the quality of those decisions – and the speed at which you can make them – that will dictate how fast you can bring value to customers and realize positive impact for your business. That can be said of most businesses, at any scale, but too often the hard job of thinking about how businesses make decisions goes unexamined, never mind improved

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How to fix customer experience by keeping your promises

Inside Customer Service

Domino’s helped me survive college. My school had a deal with the local Domino’s franchise where you could use your meal plan to order a pizza. The meal plan even covered the delivery driver’s tip. It was way too convenient for a student who was strapped for cash. To say I ordered a lot of Domino’s was an understatement. I ordered A LOT of pizza. And when I wasn’t ordering Domino’s, my friends were.

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Customer-Centricity: What Exactly Is It?

Futurelab

The terms “customer-centric” and “customer-centricity” get thrown around a lot; oftentimes, it’s quite clear that they’re being used out of turn. I believe “customer-centric” is often confused with “customer focus,” and the two are very different. Let’s look at some definitions. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) culture customer experience customer focus customer centricity Facebook Like.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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Don’t Leave Your Customers in the Dark!

Heart of the Customer

At Heart of the Customer, we work across many different industries – in the past six months alone, we’ve partnered with life insurance, SaaS software, healthcare delivery, property and casualty insurance, non-profits, and staffing enterprises. These organizations serve a wide variety of customers who have very different needs. Or do they? We’ve found that there’s […].

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Customer service training needs to be on your short-term bucket list

Shaun Belding

Customer service training needs to be on your short-term bucket list Reprinted with permission from Winning at Work Back in the olden days — say, five years ago — customer experience was recognized as the great competitive differentiator. The experience organizations provided for customers was a powerful force that made them stand out. The […].

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AI + collections: How technology can help organizations adapt to change, fast

Callminer

Learn how AI and other technology can help support collections organizations. CallMiner will be speaking at the Collections Technology Think Tank 2.0 on March 18.

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Intentions matter: How to uncover the why behind customer questions

Intercom, Inc.

Customers reach out to you when they hit a roadblock in using your product and getting their job done, so it’s essential that you’re able to provide them with the right answer, quickly. But when it comes to customer support, all of your great product knowledge and technical skills will go to waste if you’re answering the wrong question.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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How to get back-of-house employees to be customer-focused

Inside Customer Service

Before the pandemic began, I had just started volunteering to do trail maintenance at Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego. (The pandemic has shut that down for now.) Mission Trails is a large, open-space park with miles of hiking and mountain biking trails. Trail maintenance volunteers clear brush, control erosion, and otherwise make trails safer and more enjoyable to use.

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Customer Engagement: Beyond Personalization to Hyper-Personalization

Futurelab

I originally wrote today’s post for GetFeedback. It appeared on their site on March 1, 2020. According to Salesforce , 51% of customers expect that brands will anticipate their needs and make relevant suggestions before they make contact – by 2020. Well, here we are! Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience personalization personalized Facebook Like.

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UPS Fail: Mishandled With Care

Heart of the Customer

Operational mistakes happen. If a company handles them well, customers will forgive the occasional lapse. But UPS’s recent operational lapse on a very sensitive item actually went from bad to worse. The good news is, we can learn from their mistakes to produce a better emotional outcome for our customers. And that outcome matters: When […]. The post UPS Fail: Mishandled With Care appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Joseph Michelli: What’s the Purpose of Your Business?

Bill Quiseng

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” Charlie “Tremendous” Jones. Believing in this mantra for years, as an avid reader of the books by Dr. Joseph Michelli, I have learned so much about delivering the World’s Best Customer Experience through his insight starting with his book, The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Welcome to the CallMiner Research Lab blog: The cutting edge of innovation

Callminer

Welcome to the CallMiner Research Lab blog! We are excited to share what we are working on and what we are thinking about.

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Strategies to avoid burnout and manage your workload

Intercom, Inc.

When you’re working in a fast-paced industry, it’s all too easy to reach burnout no matter what role you’re in. And when you work on multiple concurrent projects and across lots of teams, the risk of burnout isn’t just high, it can feel inevitable. Many individual contributors (such as researchers, visual designers, content strategists, data scientists) who work horizontally across teams can be viewed as an infinite resource.

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The one customer insight you absolutely must know

Inside Customer Service

Sometimes, you just get lucky. Years ago, I became the membership director for the San Diego chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD San Diego). It's a nonprofit professional association for corporate trainers. Membership grew 67 percent over the course of my two year term. It might surprise you to learn we didn't resort to any traditional tactics: Lower our prices Offer new member discounts Run a membership drive What we did instead was leverage one specific insight t

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Breaking Down Silos Between Product and CX

Futurelab

I originally wrote today’s post for GetFeedback. It appeared on their site on July 19, 2020. Designing and delivering a cohesive end-to-end customer experience is important for brands to do. To make this happen, your entire organization must be integrated and aligned to work toward that goal. In this article, I’ll address the gap between two important parts of your organization that must be bridged in order to achieve this goal.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Sound and Smell: The Crucial Missing Aspect in Your CX Design

Beyond Philosophy

What do the song “Fine Line” by Hootie and the Blowfish and the scent of air conditioning have in common? They are two things my family associates with taking holidays in the US. Once they hear the song or walk into an air-conditioned building, they are transported to our family trips in the US when they were young. However, these examples also represent critical areas for your Customer Experience design.

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How to Overcome Challenges with Your Call Center Metrics

Fonolo

Contact center reporting can be stressful for even the most seasoned managers and directors. Even with modern technology, it’s still impossible to predict call volumes and customer demand with full accuracy. But when your team’s performance is being evaluated based on cold hard metrics, it can be downright nerve-wracking to explain the numbers to upper management.

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Empathy is a Powerful De-escalation Tool

Myra Golden Media

Many people are surprised when I bring up empathy in my de-escalation workshops. They’re looking for hard-hitting tools and frameworks to help them bring down the temperature in interactions with customers. But empathy? How does this soft skill fit in? Empathy helps you come across as a compassionate, non-judgmental listener. With customers in intense situations, empathy helps you begin the de-escalation process.

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Built for you: Behind conversation topics and custom reports

Intercom, Inc.

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. This week, we see how they tie together as we go behind the scenes into one major launch from the past month. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. To understand a bit more about the launch, we’ve gathered some of the folks behind it: Thomas Creighton de Farias – Senior Product Education Producer.

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How to Easily Navigate Crypto Accounting in the Web3 Era

Speaker: Aaron Jacob, VP of Accounting Solutions & Reagan Cook, GTM Lead

Are you struggling to navigate the complexities and challenges that come with crypto accounting? 🤔 This new webinar will cover everything businesses need to know to get started with crypto accounting after incorporating crypto into their business models! Industry experts Aaron Jacob and Reagan Cook of TaxBit will thoroughly explore the prevalent operational hurdles encountered by accounting teams when interacting with crypto on the books, and detail how software solutions can effectively

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Customer Journey Infographic: Visualizing Your Customer’s Experience

Totango

The traditional customer journey infographic envisioned the customer’s experience from a sales and marketing standpoint, visualizing a funnel marking the steps from a lead acquisition through a sale, also known as the buyer’s journey. The traditional approach fails to see things from the perspective of the customer, instead, it takes a company-centric approach, splitting these into multiple journies each handled by a different department; marketing, sales, onboarding, retention.

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Job Opening: Global Senior Manager, Consumer Response

Taylor Reach Group

Hello we are working with a client to identify and fill this role (below), if you are interested in this opportunity please send you resume to my email ctaylor@thetaylorreachgroup.com and include ‘GSM Applicant’ in the subject line. Global Senior Manager, Consumer Response. What makes this a great opportunity? WHAT WILL I BE DOING? In your role as Global Senior Manager, Consumer Response, you will be part of our success by: Developing and delivering a roadmap for responding to incom

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5 Rules for Making Customers Feel ‘Cared For’ and ‘Valued’

Beyond Philosophy

Customer emotions are essential in Customer Experience. Being deliberate about which emotions your experience evokes is critical, too. Today, we will take a deeper dive into making your customers feel “Cared for” with the 5 Rules for Making Customers Feeling Cared For and Valued. Before we get into the rules, it’s essential to know what you’re aiming at and why.

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The Only Call Center Agent Performance Metrics You’ll Ever Need

Fonolo

Tracking is vital to providing a great customer experience and running a call center. But most metrics that contact center managers use to measure agents focus on optimizing them rather than encouraging them. And they usually end up doing neither. Top Contact Center Trends 2021. Your contact center runs on technology , but it’s your agents doing the running.

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7 Essential Criteria for Choosing the Right Payments Partner

Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

In this webinar, Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, will dive into the 7 must-have criteria for evaluating payments partners, helping you maximize both efficiency and the long-term value of your investment. From assessing technology capabilities to leveraging business development opportunities, this session will give you a clear, actionable strategy to select the right partner for scaling your business.