Callminer

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Not every contact center is set up to make it easy to be a true problem solver and provider of excellent customer service.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

If you have followed us over at Sherlock , you will likely have heard us say many times that product engagement is the lifeblood of any SaaS business. This is because the entire SaaS business model is dependent on people using (and getting value from) your product consistently over time. The entire model is dependent on product engagement. In short, creating a method for scoring engagement is essential for every SaaS business.

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Social Media Start-ups B2B Sales 178

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Organizations cannot afford to be operationally driven. A Customer Experience focus is a necessity of survival in today’s hyper-competitive and disrupted retail market. That said, not every organization realizes this fact yet, which I find disappointing. I was talking to the C-Suite of a retailer (who shall remain nameless) about Customer Experience.

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Intercom

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Artificial intelligence is radically redefining the customer service landscape. From automated emails to visual search , AI allows companies to better support their customers at more touchpoints along their journey. Nowhere is this radical change to the customer experience as apparent as in the new wave of chatbots. AI-powered chatbots have become widely available and let you do what was once impossible: help customers 24/7, answer questions without any human intervention and provide support to

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Using artificial intelligence to evaluate and understand past contact center conversations shows businesses what to expect and gives them the opportunity to be proactive in the future.

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Artificial Intelligence Contact Center Customer Experience AI 182

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

“Time is money.” Never does that phrase ring more true than when you’ve wasted days going back and forth over email to coordinate a sales meeting or spent hours manually copying and pasting data between tools. As a sales rep, your focus should be on hitting your number, but oftentimes, you find yourself dealing with day-to-day tasks that take time away from what’s most important: selling.

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Uniphore

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

While assisted service aptly describes the human-touch component, intelligent agent engagement more accurately describes the human-touch fueled with technology to drive improved operational efficiency. Read More.

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Technology Technology 124

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Check the latest easy quick-win loyalty-boosting customer experience strategies to power up your CX in 2019!

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Customer Experience CX 109

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Product design is about cost-benefit analysis. How useful is something versus how hard is it to do. Here’s how I think of it: The cost-benefit analysis of features. Every type of feature can be identified as belonging to one of four quadrants: low reward and low effort; low reward and high effort; high reward and low effort; and high reward and high effort. .

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Taylor Reach Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

. Written by Garry Schultz . Hafeez’s cartoon is fashioned on a Like all Goldberg machines, if you take the time to follow the flow, it does work. The question is, “But, is it worth the effort?” The Goldberg machine suggested a complaint often heard in Contact Centers – “thanks for the fix but it’s too complicated.” Enter Customer Effort Score (CES) and its applicability in a well-crafted Customer Journey.

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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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Uniphore

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Agent engagement refers to any customer interaction that requires a human-touch. While much of the technology focus of recent years has been with self-service, the assisted service channel is seeing a resurgence of interest and importance. There is also a growing realization that customers no longer need to make a binary decision on using one form of service over the other - instead, self-service and assisted service are deeply intertwined, so much so that a single customer interaction can span

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C3Centricity

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I presented last week at an exciting, forward-looking conference in Fort Lauderdale, USA. It was ITEXPO , a successful conference celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year! The huge turnout of thousands clearly shows the value that both attendees and exhibitors get from it. This year the programme included a new stream, the Future of Work and that was the one in which I was invited to speak.

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Heart of the Customer

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

“When all customers are important…none will be.” – Syndrome from The Incredibles (slightly paraphrased) Are all customers worth the same to your business? No! But odds are, your CX program doesn’t recognize this. Which is odd, since other departments don’t have a problem with this concept. Sales gives higher discounts to some customers. Customer service […].

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Taylor Reach Group

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Are You Listening to the Canaries in Your Customer Experience Coal Mine? By: Colin Taylor. The call center or customer service department has long been call the ‘canary in the coalmine’ for its ability to provide early identification and diagnosis of problems and issues impacting the satisfaction of customers. Despite of numerous warnings most organizations don’t change, but rather convince themselves that ‘friction-less’ service is too difficult, expensive or just simply isn’t needed.

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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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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

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. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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Hospitality Hospitality Start-ups Education 83

The DiJulius Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Your Relationship Report Card To demonstrate how critical and dependent we are on others, The DiJulius Group uses the following exercise called Your Relationship Report Card. There are three parts: 1) Rank the importance of each group to your success, using 1-5 (1 being critically important, 5 being of low importance); 2) rank them in. Read Full Article.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

For most call centers, service level is a very important KPI. It measures two parameters: 1) the availability of call center agents to assist customers; and 2) the speed with which agents resolve customer queries and concerns. Since any fluctuation in service levels can directly and significantly impact revenue, it’s understandable that call center executives are concerned with taking the necessary steps to consistently improve them.

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Technology Technology Contact Center Education 70

Comm100

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Rising customer expectations means that organizations are squaring off against their competitors with superior customer experience when it comes to attracting and retaining customers. In order to stand out from the noise, organizations need to make every touchpoint an opportunity to not only solve customer problems but also to continuously impress. With the ability to provide always-on, real-time, personalized communication, live chat is a key tool to help get you there.

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CX Touchpoint Start-ups Customer Expectations 69

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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TeamSupport

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

We live in an era where technology is advancing so quickly that it’s hard to keep up. Think back to ten or even twenty years ago when you needed to get to a business meeting. You had to print out your plane ticket, rental car information, and sometimes even directions on where you needed to go. Now, all this information is stored in your pocket (via smartphone), and technology is changing in a different way.

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Artificial Intelligence Sentiment Analysis AI Technology 69

ProProfs

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In the early days of computing, storing learning data (or any other data for that matter) was not that organized and systematic. There was no centralized location for those data and they were scattered across different systems in different locations. Fortunately, this is no longer the case now. The arrival of advanced computer technologies and the cloud has changed this situation for good.

Education 68

Education Compliance Start-ups Actionable Insights 68

Totango

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In today’s digitally transformed business world, customers are empowered to shift their subscription loyalties at short notice and without repercussion. As such, there’s seemingly no greater crisis than a lapsed customer. But, as John F. Kennedy once noted, within each crisis there lies opportunity. It’s a chance to reinvigorate and deepen your relationship with your customer through a successful winback campaign.

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Social Media Start-ups Customer Relationship Sales 63

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The role of a customer success manager (CSM) in the SaaS industry has become increasingly complex. As platforms themselves become more innovative and functional, and as customers become more well-versed in how these solutions impact their business, CSMs are faced with more questions and challenges than ever before. While working with customers takes a certain type of person with a certain temperament, there are also specific skills CSMs must work on and develop in order to be successful.

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UJET

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Comprehensive and easily accessible customer data is a big part of your company's competitive advantage. It helps your team craft better customer experiences and streamlines their ability to work effectively with one another.

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ProProfs

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

A lot of research has been conducted to determine the benefits of online tests, quizzes, and assessments in learning & development. Even though there is so much that has already been said about quizzes, there are a plethora of things that make them ideal for the learning industry. Most of this research points to several benefits that should be understood from a wider perspective.

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CSAT.AI

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It may not change fast enough for some (“your estimated wait time is 27 minutes…”), but call center communication has come a long way, baby. Imagine having to write an actual letter, on real paper with a stamp and everything, to get an issue addressed. That is what customers did before the invention of our beloved telephone. Call center and now contact center tech has evolved greatly over a relatively short period of time, considering the dinosaurs and all.

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Steven Van Belleghem

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From SEO to AO. Now, for those critical readers amongst us: true, influencing algorithms to get to the consumers is not new. We’ve all had to perform some Search Engine Optimization to keep afloat in Google’s sea of information. But the difference was that, with SEO we were still trying to affect humans in the end. If our fridge automatically buys new milk when the bottle is almost empty or if we tell Alexa to buy toothpaste, the algorithm could become the final decision maker.

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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

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Transcosmos

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

People share almost everything on social media, sometimes, a little too much. Admittedly, it’s the stories about a company’s wins and gaffes on customer service that catch the attention—and rightfully so. After all, everyone is a customer one way or another. You may be judging the company by its hashtags nowadays, but there are legitimate organizations that measure customer satisfaction with proper metrics, such as the US American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), which ranks comp

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ProProfs

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Enterprises always feel the need to provide continuous training to their workforce so that the latter can fit into modern workplaces. Creative problem solving, collaborative skills, adaptability, and agility are some of the competencies employers look forward to in their employees. In fact, talent has become a key differentiator in the present business world.

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Business Growth Start-ups 53

Win the Customer

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Before we get too far into VR, there is one more technology that will play a role in the next generation of VR technology. This is augmented reality. AR is a type of VR that is specifically geared toward creating 3D experiences. But AR technology is taking shape and will be seen in many forms in the future. You may be familiar with the television series “Supernatural” In this show, demons use magic to affect objects.

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Technology Technology 52

Totango

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Last year, we experienced record business growth—we more than doubled our revenue and customer base, tripled our engineering and support staff, introduced Totango Spark , a next generation flagship customer success solution, and announced a go-to-market partnership with SAP among many other exciting milestones. Although we’re less than two months into 2019, we’re in full execution mode, working to capitalize on another year of significant business growth and see our vision of the Customer Center

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