Shaun Belding
AUGUST 24, 2021
Customer Service Lessons From a Snake Farmer The very foundation of outstanding customer service, as well as successful selling, is the willingness and ability to be truly interested in each customer you meet. Interest that goes beyond their immediate needs, and into who they are, what they do and what goes on in their […].
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 11, 2021
Here at Intercom, we believe in shipping as quickly as possible. . It breathes life into your engineering team, and teams across the company, as customer issues and requests are resolved quickly and efficiently. But here’s the caveat: you can’t just ship fast, you have to make sure your team is equipped to ship safely. . Why do we ship fast? We’ve always shipped to learn at Intercom.
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Adrian Swinscoe
AUGUST 27, 2021
The major barriers to simplification are closer to home than you may think. An effective strategy starts at the top. In this guest post, Ross Daniels, […]. The post What’s stopping you from achieving simplicity in your contact centre? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Uniphore
AUGUST 12, 2021
Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant—virtual assistants have transformed how we interact with technology and what we expect from it. Today’s most popular assistants offer a multimodal experience — the ability to interact on multiple channels — and are a major leap from the voice-only assistants that dominated the market just a few years ago. Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline.
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What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.
The Belding Group
AUGUST 11, 2021
How to Create Customer Loyalty “How do you create customer loyalty?” It’s a question I’m frequently asked. It’s a great question, the answer to which is most often ignored when organizations are developing their business strategy. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not because business are stupid. It’s because the principles of building long-lasting customer […].
Futurelab
AUGUST 10, 2021
The history of the Customer Success profession dates back to 1996, when a CRM vendor, Vantive, realized that their system had a high failure rate, an issue that certainly didn’t help their quest to have 100% of their customers willing to serve as references. Marie Alexander created and led a department she called Customer Success. Tags: customer experience customer success digital Annette Franz (Gleneicki) Facebook Like.
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Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 10, 2021
Your brand is how your company presents itself to the world, but inevitably there will need to be slight adjustments needed along the way. A brand is not a singular design element, font, color, illustration style, or icon. ( Your brand ? your logo , for example.) Rather, it’s a system of interconnected elements that represent how your company looks, feels, and acts, and which combine to create a consistent, recognizable, unified personality.
Adrian Swinscoe
AUGUST 21, 2021
When I spoke to Mads Fosselius, Founder and CEO of Dixa, in February of last year, we talked about the emergence of a conversational age of […]. The post Over 100 million reasons why conversational customer service is the way forward first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Uniphore
AUGUST 6, 2021
Demanding callers. Complex processes. Impossible expectations. These are some of top contact center pain points driving employee disengagement today. In our webinar, What Your Call Center Agents Rant About on Social Media , we went beyond the annual Voice of the Employee survey to explore how agents really view the contact centers they work in—and why they’re leaving at an alarming rate.
Inside Customer Service
AUGUST 12, 2021
Advertising disclosure: This blog participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. "We have totally lost control." A Customer Service Tip of the Week subscriber sent me that message. He explained that his new manager lacked leadership skills and played favorites.
Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón
Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.
Taylor Reach Group
AUGUST 13, 2021
By Colin Taylor. Last spring when the Covid19 pandemic began, companies were forced to make many changes to how they operated. With the offices closed, they sent their agents to work from home. This was a learning experience for the center leadership, the company, and the agents. According to the research we completed in May 2020, only 15% of contact centers had active and existing remote or agents working from home.
Callminer
AUGUST 11, 2021
The latest in our Responsible AI blog series, the CallMiner Research Lab explores two of the main categories of harms that AI outputs can cause: Harms of Allocation and Harms of Representation.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 18, 2021
There’s a good reason that the seemingly simple Net Promoter Score (NPS) has become a ubiquitous, revered statistic in modern business – this single number is viewed as a measure of customer loyalty, a way to benchmark competitive performance, and has been proven to correlate with revenue growth (hence the popularity). But all too often the way the underlying data is collected makes NPS little more than a vanity metric, easily rigged to give the impression of positive customer sentiment, leading
Adrian Swinscoe
AUGUST 24, 2021
Today’s interview is with Monika Jo, Director Of Communications at Mursion, a virtual reality platform for professionals to practice and master the complex interpersonal skills necessary […]. The post What do immersive VR, empathetic interactions and stand out customer service have in common? – Interview with Monika Jo of Mursion first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton
Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.
Fonolo
AUGUST 10, 2021
No matter how great your product or service is, the success of your contact center largely depends on the customer service you provide. Ultimately, if customers don’t have a good experience, they’re likely not going to call back. According to research from Khoros, 86% of clients say they’re more likely to turn into lifetime brand advocates if they receive exceptional customer care.
Inside Customer Service
AUGUST 26, 2021
Advanced techniques are one of the top requests I receive as a customer service trainer. Many people feel the basics are, well, too basic. If that's you, I have five advanced techniques to share. But first, a word from our sponsor: basic skills. The basic skills never go out of style. Customer service professionals who master the basics will always do well.
The Belding Group
AUGUST 15, 2021
Harness the Power of Silence One of the most powerful communication skills you can harness is the power of silence. Professional salespeople have known the power of silence for years, with silence being the magic ingredient to closing sales. The same is true in negotiation and leadership. When someone is voicing a complaint or expressing an […].
Callminer
AUGUST 10, 2021
Business intelligence (BI) bridges the gap between business goals and the information needed to reach them. This blog shares how the right BI tools can drive business growth and transformation.
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
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 26, 2021
This month marks the 10th anniversary of Intercom. A decade ago, a small group of friends — our co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee — realized that the impersonal, transactional way of doing online business just wasn’t cutting it for customers anymore. Intercom was born out of a desire to make internet business personal.
Adrian Swinscoe
AUGUST 16, 2021
Today’s interview is with Stan Phelps and Dave Rendall, co-authors of Pink Goldfish 2.0: Defy Normal and Exploit Imperfection. They join me today to talk about […]. The post Pink Goldfish, standing out, portmanteaus and wabi-sabi – Interview with Stan Phelps and Dave Rendall first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Fonolo
AUGUST 5, 2021
Regardless of your industry, providing ongoing training opportunities can mean the difference between finding lasting employees and experiencing high turnover rates. The 2019 LinkedIn Workforce Learning Report states that 94% of employees polled would remain with an organization longer if there were learning opportunities available. The proof is in the statistics — a proper training strategy leads to more engaged employees.
Inside Customer Service
AUGUST 5, 2021
"You shouldn't have to experience this." The words just blurted out of my mouth. A customer had called, upset about receiving the wrong item. I saw past their anger and empathized with the inconvenience it was causing them. "I'm really sorry about the mistake. We need to do better. I'm going to make sure we send you the correct item." Then, something mysterious happened.
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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.
The Belding Group
AUGUST 14, 2021
Be Careful With Your Opinions Opinions. Sometimes they’re based on facts, sometimes on experience, sometimes on misinformation, and sometimes they’re based on nothing at all. Opinions are everywhere and we all have them. Interestingly, while people are often hesitant to share other things they have (chocolate, for example), they are typically quite anxious to […].
Callminer
AUGUST 4, 2021
The goal of Project Ice Cream was to use our own solution to gain a better understanding of the aspects of business and data that inform our use cases.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 25, 2021
This month marks 10 years since Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee launched Intercom and began their mission to make internet business personal. We have achieved a great deal in the past decade – we have built a lot of great product , hired hundreds of wonderful people , and helped thousands of amazing companies form lasting relationships with their own customers.
Customer Think
AUGUST 30, 2021
The AI market is growing at a rapid rate, with experts claiming that it will snowball to reach a market value of $190.61 billion by 2025. Research also indicates that the forecasted AI annual growth rate will reach 33.2% between 2020 and 2027. And if you think that AI is primarily being used to drive […].
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali
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.
Fonolo
AUGUST 17, 2021
To optimize your call center’s performance, you need to think about improving your customers’ experience. After all, customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable. While incredible customer service should always be a call center’s goal, it shouldn’t be your only goal. If your agents have polite, customer interactions — that’s great! But it’s not enough.
Inside Customer Service
AUGUST 19, 2021
"We had $1 million in preventable returns last year." The executive who shared this shocking figure explained that his company had recently entered the consumer market for home improvement tools. The preventable returns were tools that worked perfectly well, but confused customers couldn't figure out how to use them. The company had failed to anticipate that consumers wouldn’t be savvy users like the professionals who had used its tools for years.
The Belding Group
AUGUST 12, 2021
In today's ultra-transparent world, there is no way in Hell you can expect loyalty from your customers, if you aren't genuinely loyal to them. And just like the loyalty you have for your friends, it means you have to have their backs, and make sure that you're always there for them. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.
Callminer
AUGUST 2, 2021
Deeply understanding customers is key to success. By leveraging customer journey maps, your company can keep up with its customers' evolving needs and expectations.
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Faster response times mean happier customers Are your customers on hold too long? Nearly half of consumers find hold times unacceptable, and a quarter will leave your brand because of it. Our latest report reveals how companies are affected by wait times and the impact on customer satisfaction. Read the report to get insights into the impact of long hold times and areas for opportunities.
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