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Smart Implementation of Machine Learning and AI in Data Analysis: 50 Examples, Use Cases and Insights on Leveraging AI and ML in Data Analytics

Callminer

More companies are mastering their use of analytics, and are delving deeper into their data to increase efficiency, gain a greater competitive advantage, and boost their bottom lines even more.

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Evolving your Product Management career ladder

Intercom, Inc.

Product Management is an elusive craft. We all think we know what we’re talking about, but when it comes down to it, the difference between great, good and not quite good enough can be pretty slippery. And what makes this even harder is that, because PMs own so few clear deliverables (such as code or designs), it can be tricky to pinpoint what exact impact a PM had on a team.

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Your Front is different than your Back

Uniphore

As business leaders are contemplating the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation on digital transformation, many are quickly realizing that a customer’s experience is the sum of each moment: good and bad, direct and indirect, automated and manual, digital and face-to-face. Read More.

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Lose The Fear Of Facial Recognition If You Want CX Improvement

Beyond Philosophy

Many new technologies, such as facial recognition technology for Customer Experience are emerging. Facial recognition and facial expression analysis are capturing essential information about how customers feel during an experience at the moment. However, much to my surprise, many people are scared of this technology. It is time to lose the fear of facial recognition technology.

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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

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The Agent Churn Cycle: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It

Callminer

Discover the most common problems found across the industry and how AI-powered speech analytics solutions can help churn-proof your call center today.

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MadKudu’s Liam Boogar-Azoulay on building apps to expand your product’s reach

Intercom, Inc.

For instance, many teams build apps on Intercom so users can leverage their workflows and services within our live chat Messenger and messages. Just this week, we announced a new group of apps that users can add to the Intercom Inbox to provide faster and deeper customer interactions. But how do you decide when to build an app for your product and what platforms to invest in?

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Happy Employees Make Happy Customers

Beyond Philosophy

Happy Employees Make Happy Customers. When your employees are happy, they are more likely to make your customers happy. Common sense dictates that this is logical. However, despite the rationality of this statement, too many organizations do not spend enough of their resources ensuring their employees are happy—and their Customer Experience suffers for it.

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The Agent Churn Cycle: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It

Callminer

Today’s contact centers are all too familiar with agent turnover. The industry’s employee turnover rates remain more than double the average for all other U.S. occupations, with large call centers reaching over 50%. Not only does this come at an expensive cost to companies due to the time and resources it takes to hire and train, but it can also lead to bad customer experiences—an indirect attack against the heart of your brand.

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Why sales and marketing are the key to your roadmap success

Intercom, Inc.

Product managers have the onus to be deeply attentive listeners. We’ve got to keep a pulse on a diverse set of inputs, filtering signals amidst the noise, to build strategic direction and seemingly mid-flight, make calculated tradeoffs for the product roadmap. It’s a game of endless Bayesian inference with an overwhelming amount of directions. We are constantly reevaluating if the choices we’ve made for the product are the right ones as new information becomes available.

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What is Rich Communication Services (RCS)

UJET

According to research from GfK MRI , 68% of consumers - and more than 83% of millennials - said that they text more than they talk on their smartphones. Consumers use Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, KakaoTalk, Line, WeChat, and more to chat with family and friends.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

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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Making the Most of the Customer Renewal Process

Totango

Renewal is a promise of future reward. In fact, an MRI study of the thought processes of loyal customers found that specific parts of the brain are activated when a customer sees a brand they like. Those illuminated parts of the brain are associated with our emotional responses, and they encourage us to act in a certain way based on an expected future reward.

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7 Secrets to Business Growth from Leading Global Brands

C3Centricity

Consultants get contacted for all sorts of – admittedly sometimes strange – requests for support from their clients. However, when I get several people asking for help in the same area, I know something important is happening in the marketplace. This is exactly what happened to me last month. The topic? Business Growth. Most marketers will soon be leaving on their annual vacation and are realising just how little time they will have left to meet them when they return.

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Rebuilding Intercom’s homepage with a new CMS

Intercom, Inc.

Last week, we launched the new Intercom.com and shared the process and thought behind our new design. In addition to the new brand direction, we also made many changes on the development side, which I detailed in this Twitter thread. I was the tech lead on this project, on Team Web! Our new marketing site has lots of goodies from the development side of things that I'm excited to talk about.

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What are the World’s CX Leaders Doing? Lessons from Medallia’s Exchange ‘19

Heart of the Customer

I attended Medallia’s annual conference for the first time and was impressed with the quality of both the keynotes and the breakouts. While I captured many pages of notes, four findings really stuck out that I want to share: There is no one right metric. Despite having NPS inventor Fred Reichheld speak the first day, […]. The post What are the World’s CX Leaders Doing?

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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What is Voice of Customer and How Can You Leverage It?

Totango

According to research by workplace collaboration specialist Atlassian, less than 1 in 5 people believe companies listen to their feedback. Whenever a customer offers feedback, they are giving you an opportunity to make them happy—or at least happier. If 80% of people believe their input is being either ignored or lost, that marks a failure that could lead directly to churn.

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Serving as a Role Model of Greatness

Chip Bell

When I was a young boy, I imagined I was Wild Bill Hickock a lot of the time…or sometimes I was Hopalong Cassidy. We watched the great cowboys on black and white television and then rushed to the back yard to replicate their antics. I now live on the 13 th hole of a PGA golf course designed by Jack Nicholas about an hour from the Augusta National golf course.

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Acquisitions Point to Messaging’s Future in Customer Service

Fonolo

Big question: How should text-based communication work alongside voice for customer service? In the dark ages, the only answer to this was email, in its own silo, and a call center, in its own silo. Then real-time chat came along. And then messaging, powered by massive platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, made an appearance. Meanwhile, driving in its own lane, is good ‘ol SMS.

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Why Facility Management Leaders Need B2B Customer Support Software

TeamSupport

The facility management industry is unique. You’ve got customers with all different types of buildings and a wide array of needs and demands. This means there’s isn’t a “blueprint” for how to deal with customer issues as they arise. Fortunately, B2B customer support software exists to help! Here are a few reasons why facility management leaders need support software to optimize their operations….

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

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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Quality, Productivity, and Striking the Right Balance

Customer Service Life

Image by Harald Funken from Pixabay. This article was originally published on the ICMI Blog on March 19, 2019. Click here to read the original post. When I say “metrics” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? If your answer is spreadsheets and dashboards packed with tons and tons of analytics, you’re probably not alone. And while many of these metrics have their purpose, when it comes to agent performance, there are really two types of metrics that matter.

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Why You Should Be Proactive About Online Reviews

ModSquad

Last week, we explored the value of proactive customer service and why that winning strategy pays off for savvy brands. Here’s a closer look at a specific proactive strategy that can make a real impact on a business. Online consumer review sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor can make or break a business with their star-based rating system. Whereas in days past word-of-mouth advertising was golden, today’s online reviews are platinum.

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Product Updates | June 2nd, 2019

Totango

All spring the Totango product team has been working hard on building features that make it easier than ever to get data into Spark, and once it’s in, keep it safe. You’ve seen this with new features like Integration Hub Execution Reporting (which we’ve expanded on in this release), and enhancements like read-only attribute settings and new Minio integration.

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The Importance of Closing the Feedback Loop: A Discussion with Dropbox’s CCO

Customer Bliss

“I am a bridge builder and I really like that aspect of my role,” says Yamini Rangan , chief customer officer at Dropbox , a SaaS company that offers file storage and collaboration solutions to both individuals and companies. With a background in sales and marketing, Yamini spent a lot of time talking to customers, mentioning that it was one of her favorite aspects of her job.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

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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Q&A From My Webinar: The Path To Journey Management

Kerry Bodine

Two weeks ago, I delivered a webinar called “The Path To Journey Management” in partnership with Intouch Insight , a CX management solutions provider. (You can still register to watch the replay.) We got a ton of great questions about the content I presented. So many, in fact, that I didn’t have time to answer them all on the webinar itself. I hope you’ll watch the webinar if you haven’t already — and that you’ll find the answers below helpful on your own path to journey management.

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Behind the Curtain: Demystifying AI and NLP [Live Discussion]

Fonolo

Anyone who works in the customer service arena has witnessed an explosion in the hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). Why is this the case? Popular AI tools like chatbots use NLP (or, the ability to understand human language) to interact with customers on a more sophisticated level than the IVRs of old.

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How non-tech companies can stay relevant in the age of AI platforms – 3 recommendations

Steven Van Belleghem

Support is the new convenience – become a life partner. I like to tell brands that their ‘selling days’ are coming to an end. That’s a good thing, because we will all finally move beyond the dry commercial exchanges into something that’s a lot more human, more emotional even. As you know, I’m often talking about how companies need to automate the day to day life of their customers in my presentations.

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Reward Employees for Congruence of Heart and Habit

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. 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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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.

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Ask the Right Questions to Get the Right Answers

The DiJulius Group

This guest article is brought to you by Mark Scharebroich, speaker at the 2019 Customer Service Revolution. In the restaurant industry, they refer to it as “Two minutes or two bites”. It’s when the server circles back to the guest and asks, “How is your meal?” I have made the point of listening to my fellow guests. Read Full Article. The post Ask the Right Questions to Get the Right Answers appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Q&A From My Webinar: The Path To Journey Management

Kerry Bodine

Two weeks ago, I delivered a webinar called “The Path To Journey Management” in partnership with Intouch Insight , a CX management solutions provider. (You can still register to watch the replay.) We got a ton of great questions about the content I presented. So many, in fact, that I didn’t have time to answer them all on the webinar itself. I hope you’ll watch the webinar if you haven’t already — and that you’ll find the answers below helpful on your own path to journey management.

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Has Your #CX Transformation Stalled?

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay I originally wrote today's post for Forbes. It appeared on the Forbes site on October 18, 2018. I've made some slight modifications since then, as it turned into a two-part series. The good news is that you've embarked on a customer experience transformation journey. The bad news is that you don't think your organization has evolved as much as you'd hoped it would by now.

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Release Notes: Private Docs Sites, Mailbox API Updates + More

Help Scout

Release Notes is our monthly update that highlights recent product improvements we’ve made so you can easily stay up to date on what’s new. What’s New. Use private Docs sites in Beacon. Got a knowledge base that should only be accessible to certain people? Now you can create Docs sites that can only be found and viewed through a Beacon. Put that Beacon behind any password-protected area on your website and you’ll be all set.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

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.