September, 2019

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So You’re a New CX Leader? 5 Tips to Succeed in Your Role

CX Accelerator

We’ve all been there. It’s your first day on a new job and you’re trying to figure out how things work. There’s lots to be done – relationships to be built, goals to be set and plans to be drafted. You’re learning how to work in a new environment, and trying to battle the exhaustion that comes with that while remembering everyone’s names and figuring out what your priorities should be.

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Business Intelligence Software: How to Choose the Best Software

Callminer

Companies are using business intelligence software today than ever before. These expert BI software tips will help you make smart BI buying decisions.

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Intercom’s fundamentals of good interaction design

Intercom, Inc.

The design community is no longer talking about having to prove the value of design to get a seat at the table. Designers have demonstrated that design can be a central pillar of business success. But they’ve also lost something along the way. Designers have stepped off their island where slick, yet ineffective and impractical design is made. They’ve embraced cross-functional relationships and work closely with partners all across the organization.

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Customer Satisfaction Continues Declining

Beyond Philosophy

Customer Satisfaction is Declining in the UK! A new report by the Institute of Customer Service indicates that Customer Satisfaction is declining in the UK. Earlier this year reports from both Nunwood and Forrester, two firms entrenched in the Customer Experience movement, presented similar sentiments. All of this disappointing news about the state of Customer Experience makes one wonder what is going on in business today?

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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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Why Spirit Airlines’ and Ryan Air’s Customer Experience is Better than Yours

Heart of the Customer

I’m partway through a European holiday with my wife, celebrating 25 years of marriage. Okay, actually 26, but that’s a different story. When a friend heard we were flying Ryan Air, she told me, “Uh oh. Pay attention to the experience you receive.” Interested, I did pay attention. And I realized that Ryan Air probably […]. The post Why Spirit Airlines’ and Ryan Air’s Customer Experience is Better than Yours appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Don’t Make Customers Do Extra Work!

Customer Bliss

In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. There’s not much that can give me an immediate stomachache like watching that airport conveyor belt slow down and halt without my bag on it.

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Data Mining: Definition, Techniques, Tools & Tips

Callminer

Gain an understanding of data mining, including data mining techniques, tools for data mining, and data mining best practices you should know.

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How to have impact as a product designer

Intercom, Inc.

A lot of the books, articles and discourse around product design focuses on the process of design work (the things designers do) and the output of design work (the things designers deliver). We often spend less time thinking and talking about the impact of design work – that is, what does our work truly achieve and change beyond just the artefact that it delivers.

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The 5 Essential Practices for Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Because we have frequent thunderstorms and power outages in my Florida home, I recently decided to buy an uninterruptible power supply for my electronics. I’ve had good experiences with Apple products so I first checked to see if Apple made that sort of thing. They didn’t, so I set about comparing and contrasting the models that were available. I quickly got lost in technical specifications, so I decided that I would choose based on how long the power supply would last.

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Fees = Lazy CX

Heart of the Customer

I spoke in Austin last week and while there, I rented a car to visit my youngest in San Antonio. I stopped at Dollar’s counter and the agent told me that, if I wanted, I could skip refilling the gas for $27. I didn’t have to decide right then – I could just bring it […]. The post Fees = Lazy CX appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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 Customer Churn is and How to Calculate it

Lumoa

What is customer churn? It means that your customer canceled their business with you, or decided not to renew the agreement they previously had. You calculate the churn rate by dividing the # of lost customers by # of customers at the start of the defined period.

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So You’re a New CX Leader? 5 Tips to Succeed in Your Role

CX Accelerator

We’ve all been there. It’s your first day on a new job and you’re trying to figure out how things work. There’s lots to be done – relationships to be built, goals to be set and plans to be drafted. You’re learning how to work in a new environment, and trying to battle the exhaustion that comes with that while remembering everyone’s names and figuring out what your priorities should be.

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What is first call resolution? Benefits, challenges, examples, & best practices for improving FCR

Callminer

A contact center’s ability to resolve customer problems, questions or needs the first time they call. High first call resolution (FCR) rates, paired with low talk time, is a common goal.

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Piecing it together: how to design cohesive onboarding

Intercom, Inc.

Onboarding is a holistic, ongoing process sitting at the intersection of many different teams: product, sales, marketing, customer engagement and business operations. A customer’s onboarding may start with them visiting your website and choosing to purchase your product or service. But it should also persist as they learn how to use your product and become a confident power user who discovers continued value in your product over time.

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

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.

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Revealed: The Two Secrets to Customer Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

Do you know what drives me mad? When organizations talk about loyalty, what they mean is, “the customer gives me all of their business.”. Customers giving you all their business isn’t customer loyalty on its own. They could give it to you out of habit , or because you are a monopoly. It could also be a product of their apathy. Customer loyalty is more than automatic or indifferent behavior.

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10 Chat Support Job Responsibilities: What You Need to Know About Providing Live Chat Support to Your Customers

UJET

Mobile devices have changed consumer’s daily habits. Millennials spend an average of 5.7 hours on mobile devices with Generation Z averaging 11 hours according to ZDNet. Mobile devices are used for media consumption, communication, and entertainment. With mobile becoming the centerpiece, it makes sense that customer support has adopted available channels and continues to modernize customer expectations.

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How Can Customer Service Agents Help Upsell and Cross-sell? 3 Techniques and Tips

Fonolo

Your airline has updated your flight details, shortening an already tight connection time. After being on hold for 45 minutes, you spend a slow afternoon going back and forth with an agent before you are finally booked on another flight. Just as you’re about to hang up, the agent asks, “By the way, would you like to upgrade to our Premium Economy for only $70 more?”.

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If you want a consistent experience across all touchpoints, you must ask for customer feedback at each one

PeopleMetrics

Understanding the various touchpoints (e.g., in person, digital) you have with your customers is key to delivering a memorable customer experience. Once you’ve mapped out your touchpoints, it’s often helpful to group them into channels. That’s the focus of this blog post. The most common channels. There are five channels that we see often at PeopleMetrics: websites, mobile app, contact center, in location, and field services (in the home): Websites: refers to customers visiting websites to gathe

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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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What is After-Call Work (ACW) or Post-Call Processing? Tips, Industry Standards & More

Callminer

Tracking the time agents spend on after call work is an important component of running an efficient call center. Here’s how ACW tracking can benefit your company.

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Close.com’s Steli Efti on balancing competition and collaboration in sales

Intercom, Inc.

Some leaders mistake internal competitiveness for toxicity, opting instead to exclusively focus on collaboration. They avoid any internal ranking, out of fear that the workplace will become negative – or politically charged. This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive.

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The Surprising Reason That Tactics Alone Don’t Get the CX Job Done

Beyond Philosophy

There is a difference between strategy and tactics when you’re trying to solve a business problem. Most people jump straight to tactics and implementation, because it is the concrete stuff, the stuff that we can start doing now. Too few business people step back and think about the larger strategy. However, strategy is essential to ensure that all your tactics are not a waste of time. .

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Achieve Exponential Growth by Focusing on CAC Efficiency

SixteenVentures

Companies struggling with growth are the ones that try to figure out how to spend as little as possible to acquire customers. The companies growing like crazy have figured out it’s not about how much you spend, but the efficiency of that spend. They know that if you can outspend your competition to get in front of prospective customers, you’ll win.

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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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Who are you #OnHoldWith? The Top On-Hold Offenders in the Retail Industry

Fonolo

Build a deck. Outfit a room. Fill a prescription. Get a birthday card. Purchase a television. Scoop up school supplies. Order a couch. Snap up a subscription. Spend. Spend. Spend. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. In every facet of a customer’s life, there is at least some encounter with the retail space, an investment of their funds in DIY projects, in personal healthcare, in family activities, in leisure, or in bare necessities.

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Leaders, Great Employee Attitude is Essential, Not Negotiable | #Leadership

Kate Nasser

Leaders, a great employee attitude is essential not negotiable. Lead, inspire, & expect it. Don't tolerate a bad attitude. Tips fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post Leaders, Great Employee Attitude is Essential, Not Negotiable | #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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5 Standards of Excellent Customer Listening

Callminer

High quality Customer Listening programs always meet the same 5 standards. Failing to meet these standards often steers companies off course.

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Does live chat really work for marketing?

Intercom, Inc.

Your potential customers see dozens, sometimes hundreds, of marketing messages every day and everywhere: on social media, on their phones, on billboards as they drive down the street. But this kind of marketing has a low success rate. Why? It’s all about context. When a prospect is watching TV or running errands, they’re not thinking about what kind of software to buy for their business.

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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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Stereotypes: The Hard-Wired Way Our Brains Make Decisions

Beyond Philosophy

I’ve got a hypothetical question for you. On a scale of one to ten, how likely is it I am a male model? . Now before you destroy my self-esteem with your answer, I have a follow-up question. How did you come to that determination? . The answer to that question is the subject of this post and a recent podcast , and it involves the Representative Heuristic.

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Earn Positive Survey Results! Don’t Beg for Survey Scores

Customer Bliss

In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. “Thank you for watching this video. After it’s played, you will receive a survey and I really need you to give me a ten. Anything less is not passing and I won’t get paid.” Does that sound familiar to you?

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UJET receives Privacy Shield Certification

UJET

UJET leverages enterprise-grade compliance and security standards to secure its customers' data. As part of our continuing effort to comply with GDPR and other data privacy and protection regulations, UJET has finalized its certification to both the EU-US Privacy Shield and the Swiss-US Privacy Shield.

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Hurricane Dorian Updates - Carolina's

iQor

Employee Safety is Our Top Priority.

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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.