Totango
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team.
Lumoa
OCTOBER 20, 2022
It’s no secret that customer experience is key to a company’s success. But what may be surprising is that as businesses compete more and more for customers, customer experience is becoming the new competitive battleground. . What does this mean for companies? It means that in order to stay ahead, they need to focus on delivering not just a good product or service, but a great customer experience as well.
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Inside Customer Service
OCTOBER 20, 2022
"Who was it?! Who's making us look bad?!" The employee was furious at her coworkers, and she let everyone in the customer service training class know it. I was facilitating the class. The night before, I had completed a mystery shop on five random employees at the client's request. The class was shocked when I revealed the dismal results. Nobody passed.
Adrian Swinscoe
OCTOBER 21, 2022
This is a guest post by Lara Khouri, founder of there is no spoon, a boutique people experience and change leadership consultancy. It is the first […]. The post Why skills training your customer service team doesn’t work first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
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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.
Callminer
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Join us for LISTEN in Miami, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, to hear about our product roadmap and how we're supporting experience management use cases, including customer, product and brand experience.
The Belding Group
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Outward focus is our guide to staying on the tightrope. When your customer is the focus of your thoughts, actions and words, creating outstanding customer experiences becomes easier. But it’s not easy. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.
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Adrian Swinscoe
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Today’s interview is with Joe Andrews and Martin Schneider. Joe is the Chief Marketing Officer and Martin is the Chief Evangelist and Head of Solutions Marketing […]. The post Product Led Growth (PLG) is missing a pillar – Interview with Joe Andrews and Martin Schneider of SupportLogic first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Callminer
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Optimizing customer experience in the digital age requires a process of continuous improvement. Read on to learn more about making the most of your CX strategy.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 19, 2022
At Intercom, we believe trust is at the core of every relationship between a business and its customers. As businesses grow and scale, they need to continue to earn and build on that trust in every way they can – but with rapidly expanding tech stacks, it’s not just their own company policies they need to monitor, it’s those of every company they partner with.
Steven Van Belleghem
OCTOBER 17, 2022
These Summer holidays, my company nexxworks’ team visited Teleperformance’s “Global Esports Arena and Metaverse Center of Excellence” in Lisbon. For the moment, this metaverse-oriented eSports arena may not immediately mean something for Teleperformance’s core business – which is customer acquisition management, customer care, technical support, debt collection, social media services, and other services – but that’s not why they introduced the concept.
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.
CSAT.AI
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Phrase based models use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning which allow AI to derive meaning from human language. This is a powerful customer service technology in multiple ways. The Power of NLP. NLP is a branch of computer science focused on enabling AI to interpret and respond to human language at a human ability level. People are trained all of their lives to use language and automatically assess words in context.
Callminer
OCTOBER 21, 2022
CallMiner's VP of Product Management shares highlights from release 2022.10, including Coach enhancements, new Solutions Catalogue language support, and screen capture ingestion and playback.
Shep Hyken
OCTOBER 19, 2022
There are many definitions of the term brand. One of my favorites is this: A brand is a promised delivered. . Is what you’re known for delivered consistently? Consider Ace Hardware, whose brand promise is The Helpful Hardware Place. When you visit an Ace Hardware store, do they keep their promise? Are they helpful? Based on all their awards and the comments from happy customers posted on social channels, they deliver. .
The DiJulius Group
OCTOBER 17, 2022
There are business experiences that people enjoy such as a visit to Starbucks, a weekend at The Ritz-Carlton, shopping at Nordstrom, or a visit to the spa. All are examples of “happy spending” Then there are businesses that consumers dread and wish to avoid. In fact, it frustrates them when it’s necessary to “waste” their.
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.
The Belding Group
OCTOBER 19, 2022
An outward focus, defined simply, is placing the needs of other people at a higher priority than our own. The classic example is the story of Sir Walter Raleigh. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.
Comm100
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Chatbots are quickly becoming a long-term solution for customer service across all industries. A good chatbot will deliver exceptional value to your customers during their buying journey. It boosts customer engagement because it’s quick, simple, and puts the user in the driver’s seat. But you can only deliver that positive value by making sure your chatbot features offer the best possible customer experience.
Zendesk
OCTOBER 18, 2022
It’s more important than ever for businesses to create strong customer connections. In today’s competitive landscape, companies need to connect with their audience if they want to stand out from the crowd, retain customers, and build loyalty. In the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report 2022 , 60 percent of companies stated that succeeding at wowing customers has improved their customer retention.
Zonka Feedback
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The Net Promoter Score is the most popular CX metric that businesses across the globe use to measure customers’ loyalty. It can be measured using an NPS survey that enables customers to rate their experiences and also share the reason for their scores.
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
Shep Hyken
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The Leader’s Playlist. How Memories, Experiences, and Patterns Impact Leadership Style. Shep Hyken interviews Susan Drumm, CEO & Chief Empowerment Officer of Meritage Leadership Development and the author of The Leader’s Playlist: Unleash the Power of Music and Neuroscience to Transform Your Leadership and Your Life. She shares how to use music to improve your leadership style and make the changes that no longer serve you.
Conversation Agent
OCTOBER 17, 2022
It's 1860, the year before the end of “Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.” In 1814, the Congress of Vienna had put together the Kingdom of Naples (the southern half of Italy's “boot”) and the Kingdom of Sicily under the rule of a Bourbon, in Naples. This is the backdrop for a spellbinding story. “For everything to stay the same, everything has to change,” says Tancredi in Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s 1963 novel, The Leopard.
Zendesk
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Workers on production lines, assembling industrial goods with wrenches is one image that usually comes to mind when people think of the manufacturing industry. But now that we’re in what’s being described as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, that visual is as outdated as the steam engine. According to the World Economic Forum , “the first industrial revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production.
Retently
OCTOBER 18, 2022
From its humble beginnings as an online bookseller, Amazon has grown to become one of the world’s largest ecommerce businesses. But unlike many massive multi-national organizations, Amazon remains incredibly popular with its customers. In fact, so popular that Amazon accounts for 10.8% of total US retail turnover (nearly $218 billion in 2021) and 37.8 % of the US ecommerce market , becoming the leading online retailer in the country.
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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.
Fonolo
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Agents are the key to a successful call center—that’s no secret. But it takes more than hiring the right individuals to reach your goals. People management is a big part of running a successful call center, including managing employee absences, both scheduled and unscheduled. While it’s normal for agents to take an occasional sick or personal day, extended time away from work can directly affect your KPIs and other performance metrics.
Conversation Agent
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Instead of investigating the funneling of Euroscepticism into Brexit and the reasons why Britain, once a land of ambitious colonizers, is descending into a dramatic spiral, The Economist decides to make fun of Italy. Perhaps cucumber on pizza (must be a British thing) can paper over the Government's embarrassment for the ridiculous twists and turns of the last few days.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 20, 2022
This newsletter issue is the second of a series based on a podcast we did with Beyond Philosophy’s own Zhecho Dobrev ( @ZhechoDobrev ), author of The Big Miss: How Organizations Overlook the Value of Emotions. We talked with him before on our podcast a month ago about how emotions drive customer behavior. This week, we dive a little deeper into this concept and explore how emotions affect the insights we get from Customer Science.
ClientSuccess
OCTOBER 18, 2022
As the importance of customer success – and the role of customer success managers – has grown over the past few years, more and more responsibility is falling into the laps of CSMs. Managing customer accounts is no longer contained to spearheading implementation and being on call to help customers through issues. Modern CSMs are now responsible for the full spectrum of customer conversations, including those trickier ones that may center around strategic initiatives such as renewals, upsells, ex
Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja
Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever
Shep Hyken
OCTOBER 21, 2022
This week, we feature an article by Eleanor Hecks , editor-in-chief of Designerly Magazine. She’s also a web design consultant focusing on customer experience and user interface. She shares how customer experience is a valuable marketing strategy. If your business follows marketing best practices, you’re probably already implementing user research, collecting customer data, and targeting customers with personalized messaging.
Gainsight
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The countdown is on and we’re pumped about Pulse Europe 2022 —live, in person, and in London. It is a celebration of all things related to Customer Success, Product Experience, and Community. But most importantly, it’s a celebration of the Pulse Community, a special group of people who are unstoppable together. We’d love to have you join us this year.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 15, 2022
Organizations need to embrace that emotional side of their experiences. Not only to design an experience that surprises and delights their customers, but also so their Artificial Intelligence works to provide useable insight. Combining the emotional data into the formula with concepts from the behavioral science side will make it so organizations can understand what and why their customers do what they do.
Zendesk
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Striking up a conversation with a stranger can feel daunting. If you’ve ever stumbled over your words asking for directions or dared to invite someone you like for a coffee, you know the feeling. For sales reps, especially those new to the game, finding the right questions to ask is half the battle. Enter the probing question—a sales tactic that will help your team seal more deals.
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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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