March, 2018

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A Comprehensive History of AI in the Call Center: From ACDs to Predictive Analytics and Beyond

Callminer

Voice continue to the most widely-utilized customer service channel by consumers, with 73% of consumers calling into the call center for customer service needs, according to Forrester.

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Putting $125M to work for you, our customers

Intercom, Inc.

We just raised $125M in a round led by Mary Meeker at Kleiner Perkins. Here’s what we’re going to do with it. 2018 is shaping up to be a massive year for the Intercom platform. Historically, we’ve spent proportionately way more on research and development than other software companies we track, and that won’t stop any time soon. This funding will go straight into building great new software at a pace you’ve yet to see from us.

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The Real Reason Men Aren’t Eco-Friendly

Beyond Philosophy

On our Intuitive Customer podcast , Professor Ryan Hamilton and I have been talking about the ways that customers are irrational in their decision making, often focusing on things that seem irrelevant. I came across an excellent example of this in a Scientific American article about men and the environment. We men, it seems, aren’t as good at being environmentally friendly as women are.

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The Top Three Motivators for Any Generation

CX Accelerator

Originally published on ICMI Blog Does your contact center resemble an episode of "The Walking Dead?" Whether or not you've reached zombie apocalypse levels of engagement, all customer service leaders must be intentional to win the hearts and minds of our staff. The "why" behind our efforts will ultimately determine the quality and consistency of work.

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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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Top 5 Automation trends in the Contact Center

Uniphore

It seems automation is everywhere these days, allowing people to accomplish a variety of tasks faster, and the customer service industry is no exception, where technological advancements continue to transform the customer experience, and businesses continue to discover the benefits of real-time automation. Here are the top 5 customer service automation trends in 2018: Read More.

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3 of the Most Common Customer Service Complaints

Win the Customer

As a business owner, you understand the importance of keeping your valued customers happy; after all, a happy customer usually means a repeat customer. Thus, the last thing you want is to inadvertently drop the ball and/or anger a valued customer and have them decide to shop elsewhere due to a foul up by one of your support agents or glitchy systems.

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Navigating the complexity of change aversion

Intercom, Inc.

Change aversion is a concept well known to designers and product managers. It’s the negative reaction users have to changes in your product, whether that’s functional changes such as updates to product features, or interface changes such as visual redesigns. History is littered with cautionary tales of introducing change. When Twitter changed its “faves” icon from stars to hearts, users threatened a mass exodus.

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How To Manage Expectations

Beyond Philosophy

Have you been on a flight recently and found that you arrived at your destination a little early? I have, but I never thought much about it until I heard this NPR report. A Tufts University researcher named Silke Forbes thought it odd that she arrived 30 minutes early on a flight from Cleveland to Washington. She had taken the same flight a few years before, but it had taken less time back then.

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You’ve Got Data? Well Don’t Start There!

C3Centricity

Did the title about data make you curious? Great! Of course, in today’s data-rich environment I’m not really suggesting that you actually ignore it! However, in working with clients around the world and in numerous industries, I have found that many are lost by the wealth of information that is available to them. In fact it seems to drown out their reasoning of what to do and they remain frozen in indecision.

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The Future of Customer Experience for B2B Companies

Lumoa

B2C customer experiences have set the tone of CX transformation. All the people, who receive advanced personalized customer treatment, come to work and. very often experience the same old "traditional" system. Instead of online catalogue, they have to download a pdf or even order a paper brochure. Instead of usual "order in three clicks", they have to call.

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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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What's in Your #CX Budget?

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay What's in your customer experience strategy budget? Traditionally, customer experience professionals have no budget. By that I mean that they have no allocated financial resources for improvements to be made as a result of the learnings from surveys and other listening posts, journey mapping, and other customer experience strategy exercises that become the catalyst for onstage customer experience or behind-the-scenes process improvements.

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Join Industry Leaders for the CallMiner CX Intelligence Summit

Callminer

AI and automated analytics are instrumental for uncovering a wealth of actionable intelligence from the millions of data points captured in customer interactions.

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Start your marketing with why: Getting your story right

Intercom, Inc.

No matter how good your product is, if you can’t tell a cohesive, compelling story about it, you’re going to have a very hard time getting people’s attention when you actually do take it to market. Companies like Amazon understand this well and are rightly famous for their “work backwards” philosophy. You start by writing the press release, to articulate how the world will see your product, and then work backwards until you get to the minimum set of technology requirements to achieve your goals

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How Do I Convince People Of A New Way Of Thinking?

Beyond Philosophy

Didn’t Blockbuster, Kodak and Circuit City see the end was in sight? Why did they not change? Too many people reject new thinking that will improve their Customer Experience. Why? What is it about human behaviors that does this? In this podcast Colin Shaw and Professor Ryan Hamilton will debate why this is the case and what you should do about it.

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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 Chewy Built a $3 Billion Business Based on Customer Experience

UJET

"Every time I order through chewy I am blown away by the speed and quality of the service." "I have never come across such an understanding company and one so willing to help and give advice." "I think Chewy is the best thing since sliced bread." "There is simply no better online business.". The quotes above are actual testimonials from customers of the online pet supply retailer Chewy, submitted by the company in connection with its nomination for the 2017 Stevie Awards Customer Service Departm

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Customer Experience Strategy: An A to Z Glossary

Lumoa

Customer experience has been on the rise during the last couple of years. From the traditional product-oriented businesses we’re moving towards customer understanding and customer-centric approaches. Whether you’re new to customer experience or coming for little inspiration, this is the right place. We have explained each term and provided lots of extra sources, if you want to dive deep into the topic.

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The Psychology Behind Why Customers Hate Waiting

Fonolo

As humans, we’ve all had to endure the seemingly torturous act of waiting. Whether as a child, eagerly waiting for our slice of the birthday cake to be passed down, or as an adult, having to sit in drab waiting room at the doctor’s office. As Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers perfectly put it, “the waiting is the hardest part”. When it comes to customer service, it’s no secret that long wait times are something to be avoided at all costs.

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GDPR is Just Around the Corner. Are You Ready?

Callminer

The requirements of GDPR are leaving many businesses struggling to make updates to internal procedures regarding recordkeeping and storing of information

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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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Why live chat isn’t just for customer service anymore

Intercom, Inc.

For all the time and money we spend attracting customers to our website, isn’t it odd how little we spend trying to convert them? According to an eConsultancy report , for every $92 spent acquiring prospects only $1 is spent converting them. Sure, that dollar could give you returns in spades, but in reality the odds of that are no better than a craps table in Las Vegas.

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The Big Assumption That Economists Got Wrong – And You?

Beyond Philosophy

You know that old saying about what you make of you and me when you assume something? Well, it turns out, that economists made quite an assumption for years: that people were entirely rational in their decision making. However, they were wrong and we know they were because of the scientific method. Best of all, the truth is fairly simple and makes a lot of sense.

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CX Secrets: Not measuring CX is like not counting your money

PeopleMetrics

Wouldn't it be great if you could predict how much revenue you'd be receiving 2 months from now? 6 months from now? A year from now? Finance departments take lots of factors into consideration when trying to make long-term revenue predictions, but often fall short because they're not seeing the whole picture. In this edition of #CXSecrets, I'm going to reveal how measuring customer experience can help companies more accurately predict long-term revenue.

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Improving Customer Experience Through A/B Testing Your Customer Service

Return Customer

Multivariate testing (including A/B testing) is a technique used to identify the best performing campaigns on your marketing inventory. Such testing tools can be used to identify the ad copies, landing pages and even Call-To-Action (CTA) buttons that perform the best. The way to do this is simple – marketers pick two or more variations of the component to optimize (ad copy, landing page, etc.) and make these variations available to a random group of website visitors who belong to the same

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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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Operational Indicators – Sevice Levels, ASA & Occupancy Rate

Taylor Reach Group

By: Turaj Seyrafiaan. In the last Indicators post, we discussed one of the most important operational indicators: Average Handle Time or AHT. In this issue, we continue with other operational indicators dealing with the efficiency of the center, i.e. “Service Level”, “Average Speed of Answer (ASA)” and “Occupancy Rate”. Although each indicator provides different information, they are inter-related and must be treated as a single group.

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RFPs for Speech Analytics: Asking the Right Questions

Callminer

When you want to hear what your customers truly have to say, you are on the path to transforming your business.

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How to run a successful beta in 7 steps

Intercom, Inc.

Prior to joining Intercom as a Product Manager, I had never run a structured beta. When it came to finally running my first one, I was surprised to find very little information online that could help me. I’ve run a lot of successful betas now but I learned my craft through tribal Intercom knowledge, built up by other Product Managers over the years.

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The Remarkable Truth about (the Lack of) Workplace Privacy

Beyond Philosophy

Amazon received two patents on wristbands that can track the moment-by-moment actions of their warehouse workers. Amazon has not said whether they will use the technology in their warehouses but stated if they did, they would be used to improve the process for their employees. However, anyone who has ever read George Orwell’s 1984 or suffered the scrutiny of a micro-manager will have a healthy dose of doubt that a wristband that reports back the nitty-gritty details about productivity will impr

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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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Tracking Microlearning with Tin Can API

ProProfs

Until the world heard about e-Learning, the idea of learning a skill anytime and anywhere felt only like a distant dream. No wonder e-Learning is all set to be a USD 240 billion industry alone by 2023, having opened up opportunities to learn without bearing the monotony of classrooms or the pain of daily commute. Although time and location freedom are the pillars to the e-Learning success, they are not the sole drivers. e-Learning, like any other industry, is growing everyday to accommodate bett

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#CXSecrets: Collecting Feedback IS a Touchpoint

PeopleMetrics

Are you familiar with all the different ways your customers interact with your business? Whether you're a seasoned CX professional or you've never heard of CX, chances are you at least have some basic notion of the areas, or touchpoints, where customers interact with your organization. Your website, call center or storefront are all examples of possible customer touchpoints.

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Listen to The CX Show Podcast

Heart of the Customer

I had the opportunity to join The CX Show, with SaleMove co-founder and CEO, Dan Michaeli. Here’s their summary: Jim defines customer experience as the overall experience customers have with you across all touchpoints and even beyond. It typically begins in the call center and extends to the company website, apps, your sales representatives, your […].

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Public Company Earnings Show Cloud Call Center Strength

Fonolo

Something new this week! As a result of recent acquisitions and other maneuvers , we now have a nice sample size of publicly listed companies for whom cloud call center is a key focus. Many of them released their Q4 earnings in the past couple weeks. It’s interesting to review the numbers at a high level to see what kind of picture they paint for the near term future of the sector.

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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.