Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Last week we released Series , a brand new way to orchestrate customer messaging campaigns in Intercom. Series is a visual campaign builder with a very flexible and interactive design – you can easily build out sophisticated customer journeys using the intuitive drag-and-drop interface, making your customer engagement campaigns much more powerful and effective. “Series is so intuitive that it feels natural and obvious – and yet, the design was not inevitable at all” Indeed, Series is

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Outbound call centers depend on skilled and well-trained agents as much as useful software to consistently meet business goals. Keeping an outbound call center operating efficiently means making the most of both the talent you have on hand and the tools you can afford to implement. Outbound call centers thrive only when agents can place calls with confidence, and confidence is borne of preparedness.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

I heard a new term that I think has the capability of being the next wave of change in business today. Customer Science. ‘ Customer Science’ is the fusion between technology, behavioral science and data. This new concept is forming now, making this an exciting time for all us interested in customer-driven growth. This episode of The Intuitive Customer explores this nascent concept of Customer Science and what it could mean to organizations seeking customer-driven success.

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Customer Service Life

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. I’ve written and spoken extensively in the past on whether or not quality scores are essential to contact center quality assurance. You can read a whole lot about this topic here and read the opinions of 14 contact center professionals here. Now for the honest truth about the scoreless QA discussion. While I’ve spent a lot of time working with contact center teams on quality assurance, I, myself have not actually done a quality evaluation and coached an agent

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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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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Strong customer relationships are more important than ever for business success, but the old ways of communicating and building relationships with customers are broken. Old communication tools, like email and forms, simply don’t match the ways modern customers want to talk, connect, and receive help. Today, businesses need a modern way to deliver fast, personal, and real-time communication to their customers.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

To help your outbound calling operation overcome typical obstacles, we’ve rounded up this selection of immensely useful tips.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Gen-Z’s expectations of technology are far higher than previous generations. If you don’t start implementing these essential four technologies into your business, you’re going to have serious trouble connecting with this generation of digital natives. Gen-Z Expects More from Technology than Previous Generations. If they’re anything like Millennials, you can expect Gen-Z to rock incumbent corporations and further disrupt big industries.

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Doing CX Right

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Who owns customer service? Is it strictly the companies we buy from or do consumers have a responsibility in achieving a positive outcome too? This is the theme of my newest article co-written with a psychiatrist and author, Dr. Grant Brenner. We dive deep into using emotional intelligence to have great experiences. The original article can be found in Psychology Today.

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Myra Golden Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up your customer service game! Show your boss you’re proactive. Eight classes FREE through March 2021. Opportunity.LinkedInLearning.com.

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Win the Customer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The right marketing strategy for your e-commerce store can help you build brand awareness, drive customer loyalty, and ultimately increase online sales. Shopify is the ultimate e-commerce solution supporting more than 600,000 businesses in about 175 countries. Its popularity can be attributed to several reasons-it’s quick and easy to use, affordable, offers customization, ready designs, and is extremely customer-friendly.

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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.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

There’s a golden opportunity for credit unions in the next five years, but only if they act fast. With the rise of P2P lending and socially responsible investment, it’s clear that consumers are looking for alternatives to big banking institutions. Credit unions typically have much higher customer satisfaction scores compared to other financial institutions.

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Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We’re in the homestretch of my series on how to apply John Kotter’s change management work to customer experience! The penultimate seventh step, Sustain Acceleration, is an important reminder that you can’t rest on your laurels. As Kotter writes in 8 Steps to Accelerate Change in Your Organization: “So you’ve had a few wins. It can […]. The post Don’t Just Drive CX Success, Sustain It appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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The DiJulius Group

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

1. Feature Article How to Find Employees Who Fit Your Company’s Culture By John DiJulius, Chief Revolution Officer One of my more popular articles was The 3 Best Ways To Make Your Interview Process Ungameable. It is so important to select people who are going to align with your core values and company culture. Read Full Article. The post How to Find Employees Who Fit Your Company’s Culture appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Customer success in the 2020s is a precision business. Just as resource companies have boosted yields and increased prospect success rates through the adoption of increasingly accurate scientific measurements, striking gold in customer success has become a product of data and observation. Your product adoption strategy — the process you follow to ensure your customer is achieving maximum value from their daily use of your product — should be based on solid data and driven by the pursuit of ever-

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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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Steven Van Belleghem

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

And yet, according to that same McKinsey, the benefits of a fantastic customer experience for B2B companies are high: “In our experience, customer-experience leaders in B2B settings have on average higher margins than their competitors. In cases where companies have undertaken broad transformations of their customer-experience processes, the impact among B2B and B2C players has been similar, with higher client-satisfaction scores, reductions of 10 to 20 percent in cost to serve, revenue growth o

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TeamSupport

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We’re lucky to be living in an age where technology is constantly evolving. Among all the innovations that have developed throughout the years, artificial intelligence, or AI, is one of the biggest technological breakthroughs that has ever happened to mankind. Ever since AI came into existence, it has been significantly impacting various sectors, including contact centers and the B2B industry.

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The DiJulius Group

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In today’s episode, customer experience expert John DiJulius talks with health & wellness expert Dr. Paul Bizjak. Dr. Paul Bizjak is a serial self-experimenter, working to test success & wellness theories in an effort to help others live their best life possible. His more than 22 years in his private chiropractic practice, caring for thousands.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Making your customers successful is ultimately about delivering value —you can create value for your customers by placing them in a position to grow their enterprise through the efficient use of your product to meet their business challenges. In strict business school translation, value is benefit minus cost. In a real-world sense, however, value is the potential for success a customer gains by partnering with you and your product.

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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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Chip Bell

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

“You can pretend to care, you cannot pretend to be there,” wrote Texas Bix Bender in his book Don’t Squat with ‘Yer Spurs On! Bender was describing a vital feature of effective leadership—command presence. People who spend more than twenty minutes in the military know the power of command presence. Officer school candidates are drilled on the proper manner of a leader—focused, attentive, and engaged.

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TeamSupport

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The main focus of B2B companies is to offer unmatched support to their customers. Failing to do so will increase the likeliness of customer churn and also damage their reputation.That’s why an increasing number of businesses are leveraging AI every year to enhance their brand and provide a level of support required to stay competitive. In Part 1 of this series we introduced the first two of five ways AI is impacting the B2B customer support sector.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As a customer success leader in 2020, you’re either currently working with a customer success management platform or actively looking to invest in a new solution. Modern CSMs are turning to customer success solutions to drive customer satisfaction, retention, and growth for customers. One thing that all CSMs are familiar with is customer churn. Unfortunately, no matter how much effort a CSM puts into their accounts there will be customer churn.

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The DiJulius Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Boring loses business. But the reality is, most of us are boring. Want proof? Just watch one of your own Zoom calls and see if you would be engaged with yourself. Well, 90% of us definitely would not! Virtual has changed everything. The rules are different now. So you’ve got to up your game because. Read Full Article. The post 5 Ways to Better Engage with Your Customers and Become Less Boring appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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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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Chip Bell

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

True confession: I am a huge Queen fan. And, one of my favorite songs is their “I Want it All.” The Brian May lyrics convey an assertive search for a dream come true. The message of the singer is a pronouncement that says: I gave in to external events along the way to live a lesser life than I could and now I am going for my all , not just for my some.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Have you been keeping up with me on my LinkedIn Live conversations? If not, what are you waiting for? As many of us continue to work from home and shift working styles due to the pandemic, I’ve been interviewing practitioners and thought leaders about how we can adapt and continue to show up as our best selves in our roles. I’ve spoken to leaders in a range of industries, and they all have had incredibly useful things to say about how they’ve been working through these uncertai

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In today’s B2B technology world, it seems common that the phrases “customer success” and “customer support or service” are often intertwined. After all, they’re both about serving the customer and ensuring they’re finding success with your product or service, right? Yes. But by using these phrases interchangeably, it can cause confusion both to your customer, as well as to your internal team as to what the job responsibilities include.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In today’s digital landscape, the constant evolution of technology continually changes the way we communicate and do business with each other. This especially extends to the world of customer success and retention. With many customer success teams responsible for dozens or hundreds of accounts, automation has become an important tool to not only provide great customer experiences and solutions to problems, but to scale customer success and increase value as well. .

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Knowmax

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Serve Yourself! Self-Service Tips in the Digital Age.

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Neosperience

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Technology shows all its destructive nature when applied to what has always seemed unchangeable. It is the case of agriculture , and its enormous possibilities for growth and development if interfaced with the latest innovations and technological solutions of Smart Agriculture. . The value of this technology employment in 2019 in Italy was estimated at 450 million euros , with a growth of 22% compared to last year’s value and with even more optimistic long-term development prospects.

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Zonka Feedback

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

When the customers are unhappy with your products and services, they stop doing business with you. This process of customers leaving you due to dissatisfaction from your brand is known as Customer Churn.

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Hodusoft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

There are different ways to reach out to mass audiences. You can use newspapers. You can use Radio and TV. You can use digital channels such as Whatsapp, SMS, email, and, of course, the standard phone call. All these have some shortcoming or the other. Besides, you will find them to be expensive and time-consuming. Then, you have voice broadcasting.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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