Detecting Fraud with Speech Analytics
Callminer
JULY 1, 2018
There is a way to safeguard your customers and your business from fraud - speech analytics.
July, 2018
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Making things people want
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 11, 2018
The problems people encounter in their lives rarely change from generation to generation. The products they hire to solve these problems change all the time. If you’re building a new product, it’s because you believe you can create a better solution that people will want to use because it delivers a better outcome. A strong understanding of the outcome customers want , and how they currently get it, is essential for you to succeed in product development.
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What is a Good Net Promoter Score? (2018 NPS Report Update)
Retently
JULY 17, 2018
One of the most frequently asked questions that we get is “What is a good Net Promoter Score®?” And even though we repeatedly tell our clients that the score itself is irrelevant , we do understand the idea that comparing performance to other companies can help them show a more accurate picture of where they are standing at in a competitive landscape.
Japan: The Land of Amazing Service Culture
CX Accelerator
JULY 9, 2018
My favorite story coming out of the FIFA World Cup thus far is how Japan, fresh off defeat to Belgium, left a wonderfully clean locker room and a "thank you" note. Full story here. How amazing is that? This picture of them bowing to their fans may give you goosebumps. Having recently visited Japan CX for myself, these wonderful moments come as no surprise at all.
Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®
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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.
When Employees Misuse Their Authority Over Customers
Customers That Stick
JULY 13, 2018
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How Do You Keep Up With Customer Expectations?
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 26, 2018
Have you been to the Congo? If not, can you describe the weather? How about the vegetation? Now tell me why you thought that? Did you see a movie or read a book about the Congo? Did you travel to a nearby country and guess that the Congo was probably a similar experience? Did you or someone you know someone who went to the Congo? Now, to be clear, there isn’t a wrong answer here.
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Do you know what really makes your customers click?
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 2, 2018
Technology firms have a long and storied history with commercials. Just reading that sentence you’re probably already thinking about half-time Super Bowl commercials. Or annoying YouTube pre-rolls that leave you puzzled as to what the company actually does. In fact there’s a whole genre of tech company videos that are so clichéd – fast edits, shiny happy people, repeated lines of script, emotional cues and images of bakers (think about it) – it’s become easy to poke fun at them.
Net Promoter Score 101: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners
Retently
JULY 2, 2018
Satisfied clients don’t just help your company generate more leads and acquire more business; they also enable you to increase the customer lifetime value , reduce your churn rate and finally bring in more revenue. How likely are your customers to recommend you to their friends, colleagues and work acquaintances? Wouldn’t it be convenient if there was a metric that you could use to assess that?
Business Value and ROI of Customer Experience: The Step-by-step Guide
Lumoa
JULY 10, 2018
Most business leaders believe that customer experience will be the key driver for their company’s competitiveness going forward. However, when it comes to the actual customer experience management, things get difficult. It is not too difficult to listen to the customer. Companies receive real time feedback in massive volumes, if they only start listening to their customers.
How to Get Your Team to Deliver Consistent Customer Service
Customers That Stick
JULY 10, 2018
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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now
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.
Why Don’t Customers Buy After They Say They Will?
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 12, 2018
Many organizations have called to tell us that their Customer Experience initiatives are not performing like they did. The results that were once skyrocketing have plateaued. They are surprised by this turn of events, but we are not. As global Customer Experience consultants, we know that Customer Experience is less of a destination than a journey. Where you are going with Customer Experience (i.e., what customers want) could change and the work you do on the route (i.e., the way you deliver a C
4 Measurements of CX Success in the Outsourced Contact Center
Callminer
JULY 22, 2018
When it comes to business process outsourcing (BPO), the virtual assistant market is predicted to reach $3 billion by the year 2020. And it is no surprise that the number of home-based customer service agents is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 36.4%. It is one of the strongest expansion levels of any outsourcing market sub-segment.
4 simple steps to manage your sales pipeline
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 6, 2018
If you’ve ever looked at your diary, notebook, sticky notes and email inbox in the middle of a busy sales period and thought, “This isn’t working,” you’re not alone. For years, I used to try to organize my thoughts and ideas without structure, missing sales opportunities and forecasts as a result. Then, I found the answer – the concept of a sales pipeline.
12 Great NPS Survey Question and Response Templates (That Actually Work)
Retently
JULY 2, 2018
There’s much more to an NPS® survey than just the quantitative rating customers give to your business. You can keep track of your score and its changes, but it’s the qualitative feedback that gives you the “why” behind it, bringing the voice of the customer to the front. Ask the right NPS question to get a constant pulse on your customer satisfaction and you will gain an accurate understanding of how your company, product or service is perceived.
4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience
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.
7 Reasons You Need a Consultant when Looking for a New Contact Center Site
Taylor Reach Group
JULY 4, 2018
By: Colin Taylor . Why would you want to retain a consultant? Common wisdom would have it that all they do is “borrow your watch and tell you the time”. What can a consultant really bring to the table that can assist your center and your organization when you a looking at moving or establishing a new center? Seven Reasons You Need a Consultant’s Expertise When Selecting a Contact Center Location.
5 Disastrous Mistakes when Dealing with Difficult Customers
Customers That Stick
JULY 5, 2018
Let’s just say it right here at the start — dealing with difficult customers stinks. Having provided customer service training to thousands upon thousands of people at all levels of organizations, I’ve learned that there is one thing every person who works with customers wants to know: how to successfully navigate difficult customer service situations and customers.
Make This Small Change For Big Results
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 19, 2018
We all have a Status Quo Bias when it comes to decision making. Also called Status Quo Inertia, the Status Quo Bias is our preference to keep things the same or maintaining a previous decision. Your customers have one, too, and you can use it to get them to do what you want in your Customer Experience. In the 80s, two professors, William Samuelson and Richard Zeckhauser wrote an article for the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty called, “ Status Quo Bias in Decision Making.
New research gives you 25 billion reasons to understand why customers say goodbye
Callminer
JULY 29, 2018
CallMiner published the CallMiner Index – a customer churn survey report that reveals a switching epidemic that is costing British businesses at least £25 billion a year.
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
Builder beware: marketing tension in product-first companies
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 4, 2018
One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. We continue to repeat that mantra to ourselves today, and we say it to anyone who’ll listen. We thump our chests when we say that. It’s a badge of honor – a badge of legitimacy – a badge of a new, better way of building a company. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it.
How to Think about Chatbots in a Big Picture Kinda Way
Fonolo
JULY 5, 2018
What does the future hold for customer service? A common theme in answer to this question is, “Improvements in automation and self-service will erode the importance for call centers.” That theme gets reinforced every time you read an announcement from a company touting success of a new automation project. It also gets strengthened by the marketing efforts of all the vendors selling self-serve technology.
10 chat support job responsibilities: what you need to know about providing live chat support to your customers
UJET
JULY 19, 2018
It's Friday. You're queuing up emails for next week's big product announcement when all of a sudden your email service stops working.
Please take my lunch break survey
Customer Service Life
JULY 23, 2018
Did you (or do you plan to) take your lunch break today? I mean, really take your lunch break? Move away from your desk, actually eat a meal and maybe even talk with your coworkers? You may have worn (or currently still wear) the badge of hours worked. When you’re trying to get everything done, you rarely take your breaks. Yes, even if you are a salaried employee, you’re still human and you still need to take a break.
Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024
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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.
11 Types of Difficult Customers Infographic
TeamSupport
JULY 10, 2018
Customer relations are very important to all businesses. Building positive relationship with your customers can do wonders, because customers want to have a positive relationship with you, and if you're lucky they will actively work to maintain it Of course, businesses also put in considerable time and effort into making a relationship rewarding and enriching for both parties.
SiriusXM CallMiner Success Story Podcast Highlights from CCW
Callminer
JULY 24, 2018
During the recent Customer Contact Week event, I had the pleasure of joining CallMiner customer, Emily Deragon, a senior solutions manager for SiriusXM in a podcast.
Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 5, 2018
Doug Landis often sees an unsuccessful sales pitch stumble straight out of the gate. Specifically at the very first slide in the pitch deck. The problem, Doug says, is salespeople tend to focus too much on their company and the names on their client roster, rather than connecting with their audience. The easiest way to do that? Tell a compelling story.
26 Actionable Tips to Improve Your NPS Survey Response Rate
Retently
JULY 29, 2018
This article provides a list of actionable tips to improve your email survey response rates. Although it was written with Net Promoter Score© in mind, it is applicable to any customer satisfaction – CSAT, CES, regular multiple choice surveys, etc. Like every metric that depends on user-submitted data, NPS© gets more accurate as the audience size and survey response rate grows.
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.
Why Do Customer Emotions Matter?
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 20, 2018
Colin Shaw and Prof. Ryan Hamilton discuss how emotions drive customer behavior. So, what is an emotion? How are they evoked? How can you deliberately evoke a customer’s emotions? How is an emotion different to a mood and what you should do about it? The post Why Do Customer Emotions Matter? appeared first on.
How Well Do you Know Your Customers? 13 Questions your Boss Expects you to Answer
C3Centricity
JULY 16, 2018
Be a true leader; share this post with the members of your team who need the inspiration and support. Your boss expects you to be able to answer all his questions and especially to know your customers. Here are the 13 things your boss is likely to ask you and a handy Checklist to prove to him that you know your customers better than he realises. Everyone speaks about customer centricity and the importance of the customer, but just how well do you know yours – really?
The Benefits of Gamification for Call Center Managers
Fonolo
JULY 25, 2018
Attention all call center managers: It’s time to talk about you. Picture it: You are the fearless leader of a call center team in 2018. Much like the call centers of old, your agents are grappling with 1) surges in call volume (both expected and unexpected); 2) evolving technologies; 3) increasingly complex customer cases; and perhaps most important of all, 4) the latent human desire to be appreciated, acknowledged, and active in the work environment.
4 Measurements of CX Success in the Outsourced Contact Center
Callminer
JULY 21, 2018
Do you use outsourced contact centers? These 4 vital measurements can help evaluate the effectiveness of BPO processes and agent performance.
Case Study: Key Insights on Wait Times and Customer Service
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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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