Sat.Nov 03, 2018 - Fri.Nov 09, 2018

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How Listening to Customer Impacts Your Bottom Line

Callminer

We recently published The CallMiner Index: Consumer Switching By Sector, The Reasons and The Impact of Call Centers and are hosting a webinar on November 13th to discuss the numerous findings. In addition we will discuss how listening to your customers and using speech analytics can impact customer loyalty and your company’s bottom line. And this bottom line is adding up!

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What is customer acquisition cost and why does it matter?

Intercom, Inc.

Growth is good, but growth at any cost is very, very bad. The best marketers in the world help their companies grow for the long term. However, periodically marketers seem to go through a wave of collective insanity where we forget about the ‘long term’ part of the discussion and start to chase growth at any cost. Whether it’s through inattention, ignorance, or excitement, marketers sometimes make very bad business decisions.

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6 Most Popular Customer Experience Metrics and KPIs Explained Simply

Lumoa

According to The State of the Customer Experience survey that we did earlier in 2018, all companies track customer experience using one or several of the 6 world-wide recognised KPIs: Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Churn rate, Retention rate, Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) or Customer Effort Score (CES). You can easily see that NPS is the most common CX metric: almost two thirds of companies follow it.

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How to Make Your Customer Experience Convenient

Beyond Philosophy

Convenience has a significant influence on the outcome of your Customer Experience. It is crucial you ensure you are making it as easy as possible for your customers to do business with you. Today, we are going to discuss some areas you can look at to do just that. I didn’t like shopping for years. I hated creating a bloody list and taking it up to the store because it wasn’t convenient.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Stop Avoidable Customer Churn With Great Agent Behavior

Callminer

If you see a business contact for the first time in months and they appear not to be interested in what you have to say, your desire to meet them again is likely to be low. If they also appear keen to move on to their next meeting rather than listen to you, then you’re unlikely to want to invest in that relationship. This is the same reaction that customers will have after a bad experience with your call center.

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Build a growth stack, not a tech stack

Intercom, Inc.

Tech stacks are the backbone of modern sales and marketing operations. When set up right, they provide a clarifying view of your most valuable prospects and customers — and the next steps that your team needs to take to efficiently nurture a lead, close the deal or grow the account. But, too often sales and marketing tech stacks are cobbled together from existing tools and workflows that have organically developed over time.

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Seven Key Strategic Questions Critical to CX That You Must Answer

Beyond Philosophy

I went to Bahrain for the first time recently. I was a keynote speaker there for a Customer Experience conference. I was fascinated by the country. There is a lot of Customer Experience activity happening there. Rami Sweis, the CEO of GolfCX invited me to speak at the conference. He explained on a recent podcast the reason improving Customer Experience is such a hot trend in the Middle East has been the liberalization of markets there.

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How Listening to Customers Impacts Your Bottom Line

Callminer

The CallMiner Index survey uncovered that consumers want to stay loyal, but are ‘forced’ to switch because of bad or ineffective supplier practices. Below are some stats from the report.

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6 Most Popular Customer Experience Metrics and KPIs Explained Simply

Lumoa

Find out how to work with the most popular Customer Experience metrics and KPIs. Understand if you should collect NPS, CSAT or CES (or maybe all?). Find out the value of customer retention and the threat of churn.

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Sales velocity: the simple equation that will help you hit your number

Intercom, Inc.

When making a plan to hit their quota, most sales reps look at how much potential revenue they have in their pipeline. The larger your pipeline, the more revenue you’ll bring in. Right? Not so fast. Although focusing on the size of your pipeline is a good starting point, it ignores a whole host of other factors that are equally important, including the average value of the deals and how many of them will actually be won.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Live chat for business: everything you wanted to know about live chat but were afraid to ask

Intercom

A great customer experience today is about meeting people where they already are. And today, there’s one channel where more potential customers are than any place else: messaging and live chat. Think about the way that you talk to people every day. If you’re anything like me, you use iMessage to talk to your family, WhatsApp for your close friends, and you probably spend your entire day on Slack talking to your teammates at work.

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Stop Avoidable Customer Churn With Great Agent Behavior

Callminer

The CallMiner Index report shows that the wrong behavior drives customer churn, with 55% of consumers saying they are very or extremely likely to switch after a bad call center experience.

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How to Take Local Brands to Global Success: The 5 Rules to Fortune

C3Centricity

I remember reading an article in the Financial Times a couple of years ago, that challenged companies to search for a new style of marketer. They weren’t speaking about the current need for marketers to be both creative and comfortable with data. They were referring to the growing need for marketers to stand up to the challenge of taking local brands global.

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What we shipped: 7 new features to deliver personalized experiences at scale

Intercom, Inc.

While a personalized approach is key to delivering engaging and positive customer experiences, it can be challenging to maintain the personal touch at scale. At Intercom, we know it’s important to find the right balance and we’re working hard to help our customers do just that. In the past month, we have released seven new features to help you deliver more personal experiences at scale through both intelligent automation and a data-driven understanding of your customers.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

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.

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Crying in a Contact Center Cubicle: A Look at Emotions in the Workplace

Customer Service Life

I’m not crying, you’re crying (at work). Photo cred: Ban.do. Samantha (not her real name) sat across from me in our small contact center. Not a week went by that she didn’t shed tears after hanging up the phone with a customer. She didn’t seem to mind that everyone saw her with tears streaming down her face. I remember her scampering, post call, out of the office to catch her breath.

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Collection Success Stories in the Contact Center: Part 2

Callminer

Maintaining contact center compliance in the debt collection industry is a difficult task with compliance to state-by-state regulatory laws and agent retention being two of the biggest.

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Digitial Transformation – The Opportunities And Problems And How To Overcome Them

Beyond Philosophy

We all know the retail landscape is changing. But what should it be changing to? What are the opportunities and problems? Colin and Ryan interview Amit Sharma, CEO of Narvar, about how retailers can create emotional connections with shoppers in a technology-driven world. Colin will reveal how you can benchmark your organization performance against other companies to determine how you are doing in the new world of behavioral economics and customer experience.

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Advice From 18 of the Top CX Experts

The DiJulius Group

The DiJulius Group held our annual Customer Service Revolution October 24th and 25th in Cleveland, Ohio. It has grown into the #1 Customer Service conference with a community of 700 extremely passionate revolutionaries, from all over the world, looking to create brands customers cannot live without and make price irrelevant. This year was The DiJulius Group’s 10th conference with the highest ratings ever.

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Future-Proof Your Firm: Smarter Tech for Stronger Returns & Simpler Workflows

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Senior Sales Engineer

Is your tech stack working for you—or are you working for it ? 🤖 In today’s world of automation and AI, technology should simplify workflows—not add complexity. Seamless integration and interconnectivity are key to maximizing productivity, optimizing workflows, and improving collaboration. Join expert Joe Wroblewski for a practical and insightful session on how you can build a smarter, more connected tech stack that drives efficiency and long-term success!

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The Power of Service Clairvoyance

Chip Bell

Two weeks ago I visited my long-term friend, Karen, in the Novant Health hospital near Charlotte in critical condition. Mounted on the wall near the couch in her hospital room where my wife and I sat for several hours was a courtesy charging station for cell phones. It had a cord for every conceivable phone on the planet and a shelf to lay your phone while it was being charged.

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Call Center Director Position in Phoenix

Taylor Reach Group

This is a position we’re sharing for a Taylor Reach client. While we’re not recruiters, we’re always happy to help our clients reach out to locate amazing candidates for open positions. SUMMARY. The Director of Community Information plans and implements contact/call center strategies and operations; improving ROI, company performance, customer experience, processes and systems while contributing to the sales goals of the company.

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8 Essential Features for your Contact Center LMS

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on October 8, 2018. Click here to read the original post and to see a video discussing this content. When you picture customer service training, what key elements come to mind? Some of these elements likely include classroom training with an instructor, watching videos and extensive slide decks, time spent in front of a computer reading documentation and knowledge articles, testing the product or service, and shadowing experienced agents.

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Introducing Anthropology & Ethnography to your Customer Room: An Inside Look with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. In today’s video, I want to talk about telling customer stories by introducing applied anthropology and ethnography into your listening strategy, and most importantly,

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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.

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Reflections after Five Years of Journey Mapping

Heart of the Customer

Last month we celebrated Heart of the Customer’s 5th year anniversary. The team got together to share where we are, discuss best practices, plan for the future, and—most importantly—to celebrate! We were also grateful to have Angelica Bonacci from Allianz come to tell us about the ways her organization is using our work to drive […]. The post Reflections after Five Years of Journey Mapping appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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How to Make Your Customer Experience Convenient

Beyond Philosophy

Convenience has a significant influence on the outcome of your Customer Experience. It is crucial you ensure you are making it as easy as possible for your customers to do business with you. Today, we are going to discuss some areas you can look at to do just that. I didn’t like shopping for years. I hated creating a bloody list and taking it up to the store because it wasn’t convenient.

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Do It Yourself Net Promoter Score: Is it Worth It?

Retently

One of the biggest strengths of Net Promoter Score ® is its simplicity. Instead of asking customers endless questions, NPS® surveys are direct and straightforward, addressing just one single question and giving users the option of providing their own qualitative feedback. This simplicity is part of what makes NPS so effective. A well-shaped NPS campaign can regularly achieve a response rate of 40% or more , compared to a paltry 3% average for a conventional marketing survey.

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Top types of customer communication channels

Comm100

Top Types of Customer Communication Channels. Customers are the lifeblood of your business, so it makes sense that they should also be the motivating factor behind any major business decisions. Adding a new customer communication channel can seem like great business sense, either to embrace a new section of customers, or deflect from other channels.

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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.

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Does NPS Correlate to Churn?

Gainsight

Roses are red. Violets are blue. NPS is a leading indicator for retention—except it’s just not true. It’s often taken for granted (even among long-time Customer Experience (CX) professionals) that Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey results correlate positively to retention. Sure, it may not tell you why a customer is happy or not happy. It may not provide any prescriptive actions for you to take, but it’s valuable because it’s one of the few basic metrics that’s truly

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Best of the Podcast: Improve Your Customers’ Lives By Stepping into Their Shoes

Customer Bliss

Do you put the needs of your customers first and focus on the value you provide them? Today, we’re replaying an episode that many of you enjoyed, featuring Francis Cordon , the first Chief Customer Officer at Rigor , a SaaS company. In this conversation, Francis and I chat about the importance of putting yourself in your customers’ shows in order to earn your right to customer-driven growth. .

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3 ways automation helps your team provide a better customer experience

UJET

Automation is how you take an exceptional customer experience and make it scalable.

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20 Essential Features in a B2B Customer Support System

TeamSupport

There are A LOT of features available for companies to choose from when deciding what’s important in their Business to Business (B2B) customer support software solution. We made this list to help companies think about the key features these solutions offer and their value. Without further ado, here’s our list of 20 essential features in a B2B customer support system: Customer AND contact tracking – B2C software only tracks at the contact level, so make sure you also track at the company level to

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Case Study: Key Insights on Wait Times and Customer Service

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.