June, 2018

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Conversations with Your Customers: Tone is Everything!

Callminer

Research is making it clear that when it comes to business interactions, tone matters. And if you’re not taking advantage of these insights in your contact center, you might be left behind.

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Machine learning isn?t as hard as it looks

Intercom, Inc.

It’s easy to believe that machine learning is hard. An arcane craft known only to a select few academics. After all, you’re teaching machines that work in ones and zeros to reach their own conclusions about the world. You’re teaching them how to think! Indeed, the majority of literature on machine learning is riddled with complex notation, formulae and superfluous language.

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How Developing Empathy Leads to Better Customer Experiences

CX Accelerator

Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. For example, we show empathy when we put ourselves in the shoes of an elderly person and give them our seat on a crowded bus. Or when we share genuine excitement with a friend who received a job promotion. Showing this type of empathy often comes naturally to us, and is ingrained in how we act in our everyday lives.

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Why We Compromise. Are Your Customers Expected To?

Beyond Philosophy

When I need work done at the house, I always get three quotes. I never go with the highest or the lowest, but instead, I choose the one in the middle. This shortcut, called Extremeness Aversion, helps me make an important decision—and it helps your customers make buying decisions, too. We discussed Extremeness Aversion on our podcast earlier this month.

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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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50 Quick Tips for Improving the Customer Experience

Fonolo

Your customer is your brand. Whether your client-facing business is a long-standing institution or the brand new kid on the block, you ought to keep this one fact in mind. In the midst of an increasingly digital space, where human interactions and considerations have the potential to get lost in the mix, it’s easy to forget that most of us are in the business of people; consumers are the heartbeat of our companies, and their feedback and acknowledgement of our good work can keep us chugging alon

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Lumoa raises €650 000 seed funding to take AI-powered customer experience analytics to the new markets

Lumoa

Finnish SaaS company Lumoa , which provides AI-powered customer experience analytics software for medium and large sized companies across the Nordics, has announced €650 000 in funding. The investment was led by Icebreaker.vc, along with serial entrepreneur Ali Omar and Business Finland. Lumoa, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, offers a simple and intuitive service for analyzing large amounts of customer feedback.

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Retention, cohorts and visualizations

Intercom, Inc.

There are few issues more important than customer retention when running software-as-a-service businesses. It’s no good acquiring customers for $10, if they only stick around for a month or two. Retention can be measured qualitatively by talking and checking in with your customers regularly so you’ll know what their main questions and issues are, and when they occur.

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Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Masters of CX Design

CX Accelerator

Customer Experience (CX) is all about creating positive perceptions. Doing this is especially hard when your customers are going through a tough time. Few would know this better than the team at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. People with unimaginable pain enter these doors every day, and yet most will exit with new hope and authentic smiles.

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How To Harness Customers Unseen Behavior

Beyond Philosophy

Each of us has a time when we decide and a time when we act. Once we act, we pass the point of no return on our decision. In other words, once we take action on a decision, we are less likely to change our decision—even when we run into challenges. It’s all a matter of mindset. The Rubicon model is a psychological principle that distinguishes our decision-making method or deliberative mindset from our execution course or implementation mindset.

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8 Interview Questions to Help You Hire for Emotional Intelligence In Customer Service Roles

Myra Golden Media

Too many hiring managers focus on candidates’ work history when filling customer service roles. They get excited when they read that the candidate has six-plus years working in customer service. But past work in customer service is not a reliable indicator of future success in serving your customers. To consistency deliver the best possible customer interactions, you need to hire for emotional intelligence —hiring people with empathy, friendliness, and connection, and then train those peop

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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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Totango Adds Personity.ai Team

Totango

Totango’s mission is to enable organizations to proactively and intelligently operate around their customers. With industry-leading enterprises confidently running on Totango’s Customer Success Platform, we are dedicated to innovating and bringing to market products that deliver Customer Success results. Extending Product and Engineering Teams. We are constantly hiring the best and brightest Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists who are passionate about our Enterprise-2-Cus

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Q&A on Best Practices and Guidelines for Purchasing Speech Analytics Webinar

Callminer

I had the pleasure of speaking on a webinar, Best Practices and Guidelines Purchasing Speech Analytics. But I wanted to share with you some of the questions, answers, and takeaways from the webinar.

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How to make product improvements

Intercom, Inc.

Kaizen is the philosophy of continuous improvement. Web businesses searching for product market fit think they can follow this philosophy just by shipping code. But shipping code doesn’t mean that you’re making any significant product improvements. Similarly you can make undeniable improvements to parts of your product and get no response or appreciation for it.

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CX Trends You Need to Watch in 2018 [White paper]

Fonolo

2018 is game time. It’s time to look at your customers as teammates rather than as opponents. It’s time to reboot your customer experience game. And: It’s time for you to win. Here is the reality: A poor (or even worse, unmemorable) customer experience (CX) has led to a resounding “Game Over” for many businesses in the last few years. In 2018, becoming a winning company with a devoted fan base is no easy feat.

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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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Is Your Price Right? Here?s How To Check

Beyond Philosophy

Pricing is fundamental to your business. It also has an enormous influence on Customer Experience outcomes. You should understand Mental Accounting as it pertains to customer behavior before you set the price and before you ruin how your customers feel about your experience. This was a great topic of discussion in our recent podcast. So, What is Mental Accounting?

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Free Call Control Online Training

Myra Golden Media

Studies show the average business call lasts 2 minutes longer than it needs to. Customer service employees struggle with call control for a variety of reasons, including they don’t want to be rude to the customer, they aren’t sure how to move to closure or because the customer is rambling or angry. Using the principles of harmony, assertiveness and leading from the martial art Aikido, Myra walks your employees through the steps to politely and confidently control conversations.

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5 steps to turn an unhappy customer into your greatest advocate

Lumoa

Every company dreams of having no negative feedback and no unhappy customers, yet many companies fail to identify their detractors and turn them into promoters. Why is that important? First, let’s get back to statistics : At least 30% of consumers stop interacting with a brand they love after the 1st bad experience and around 50% of all the consumers leave the brand for good after several bad experiences.

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Improving Productivity and Collections Revenue While Mitigating Risk

Callminer

For many businesses, debt collection is an unavoidable necessity. But how can you improve your call center agent productivity while mitigating risk?

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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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Trust your instincts or rely on procedure ? when to design with intuition

Intercom, Inc.

A few years ago, we had a seemingly simple problem to solve: our customers needed an easy way to set realistic expectations around their response times to conversations in our Messenger. Did this prove that we should have trusted our intuition all along? When we first considered the problem that businesses were facing, we instantly thought of implementing something like an “office hours” setting, so businesses could easily alert people to when they were likely to respond.

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To Unlock Customer Insights, Speak No Evil

Kerry Bodine

Imagine you’re in the midst of a journey mapping workshop and your customers are bombarding you—in a good way—with insights about their needs and expectations. Somewhere along the way, a participant recounts a particularly bad experience, and you feel compelled to explain the behind-the-scenes factors that derailed her experience. “Well, that’s because of a regulation we don’t have control over,” you begin to say.

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Hidden CX: Why It’s Critical For Your Business

Beyond Philosophy

Businesses are in a rut. Speed, efficiency and convenience are all rational factors companies focus on when they think about customer experience. But good experience isn’t that simple. It involves more than you think. For years, research has indicated that the future of success for business is in customer experience. But recent PwC research shows that businesses have a customer experience disconnect.

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This One Tip Will Instantly Make You Sound Friendlier On the Phone With Customers

Myra Golden Media

One of the easiest ways to make your conversations with customers more conversational, and friendly, is to speak in complete sentences. It is so familiar to hear interactions like this: Last name? First name? Zip code? It’s undoubtedly efficient to ask customers questions in this manner. However, it’s not the friendliest approach. In this article, I’ll talk to you about instantly improving your ability to connect with customers and sound friendly by just speaking in complete sentences.

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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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How to Build the Employee Experience and Culture of Continuous Improvement with VP of CX & Loyalty at Hertz

Customer Bliss

How do you take insights from customers and drive better decision making and better product delivery? This is one of the many questions that Eric Smuda , VP of Customer Experience & Loyalty of Hertz car rental service had to ask when he joined the company to transform customer and employee experience. Before joining Hertz, Eric spent time conducting traditional market research work and realized he had a passion for customers and how we treat them.

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CallMiner Named a Leader in AI-Fueled Speech Analytics

Callminer

Today we are excited to announce that CallMiner has been named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: AI-Fueled Speech Analytics Solutions, Q2 2018.

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From first touch to qualified lead: building a sales funnel for live chat

Intercom, Inc.

The promise of live chat for sales teams is being able to connect faster with high-quality leads. But for someone in Sales Operations, the first thing we think is: how well does live chat convert? As Intercom’s VP of Sales Operations, my job is to obsess over how we can optimize our supply chain to deliver against our pipeline and revenue targets; in other words, figuring out how to make our sales organization run better and faster.

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7 Innovative Ideas to Enhance Workforce Effectiveness

ProProfs

Trends and ties change, such as the millennial generation, which doesn’t believe in spending every hour of the day at work. For a business, it could mean that you should come up with solutions that can make those hours count. That means employing strategies that translate to increased efficiency and boost employee performance. So, what can you do to accomplish that?

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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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Getting Customers To Buy From You Habitually

Beyond Philosophy

We all have habits. Some of them aren’t very good habits, either. But we have them, nonetheless. Many of them form without our awareness. We have habits as customers, too, and habits are powerful things, especially for Customer Experiences. We discussed this problem on our recent podcast, and defined habits as any time your mind prepares you to respond in a certain way based on environmental cues or stimulant.

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Call Center Cloud Conversion Continues

Fonolo

Most people don’t realize the impressive scale of the contact center industry. Collectively, we spent 190 billion minutes calling a company for help. On the other side of those calls were 3.6 million people working as agents (and those numbers are just for the US). Companies spend roughly $22 billion on the technology enabling all of these interactions, and with the market undergoing a massive change in the last decade, that number will continue to grow.

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Three Proactive Things You Can Do to Pre-empt an Escalation with a Customer

Myra Golden Media

Tomorrow morning I’m headed to Phoenix to deliver a workshop at the Salesforce Trailblazers for the Future Conference. I booked an extra night at the Arizona Biltmore just because I wanted some “me time” for relaxation and reading. I do this a lot, adding a day or two on to a business trip to chill, explore, and enjoy local restaurants. Do you take time just for you?

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10 Tips to Improve Contact Center Operations

Callminer

Without a strong frontline call center staff, you risk losing customers, a poor reputation, and loss of revenue.

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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.