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Fraud Spreads as Does the Coronavirus: Steps to Take

Callminer

As more of the US workforce is being divided into essential and nonessential roles and businesses are transitioning to work-from-home positions, employers and employees alike have another rapidly growing problem to monitor – fraud. In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, fraudsters are taking advantage of the fear that has already been shown to induce panic-driven buying.

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Ensuring Intercom’s business continuity during uncertain times

Intercom, Inc.

As the COVID-19 situation continues to impact people, businesses, and communities everywhere, we know it is more important than ever to stay in touch with your customers, and Intercom is committed to helping you stay connected. We have robust plans in place to ensure we continue to deliver the highest levels of technical and business service. Health and safety.

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How To Direct Your Customers During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Uniphore

Famed psychologist, Abraham Maslow, outlined the five-tier model of human needs: physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Only when a person's lower-level needs are met can one move up the continuum of human potential. You may have been operating from an evolved state, an altruistic state even, before the coronavirus pandemic.

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5 Best Practices For Crisis Communications During COVID-19

Gainsight

If you’re like me, you probably feel like the world we live in is completely different from what it was even just a few weeks ago. Companies, as well as their employees, are learning to adapt to the new normal of working from home, the economic fallout from the crisis, the business impact to their customers—the list goes on. It’s also clear that no one was 100% prepared for the pace at which this new normal came about.

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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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Fraud Spreads as Does the Coronavirus: Steps to Take

Callminer

Here are specific steps your employees can take during the pandemic to protect themselves and your company against rising fraud.

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Supporting the fight against COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

On behalf of everyone at Intercom, I want to share our sincere and deep appreciation for all those fighting so hard against this outbreak all over the world. There are countless heroes putting their lives at risk to support the sick and keep the rest of us safe. And there are thousands of volunteers behind the scenes building technology to help us through this very unique challenge – like data aggregation sites , infection tracing tools , gig finders for people out of work , sites helping source

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What You Need To Know About Customer Service Automation

Uniphore

Digitization is on the mind of virtually every customer service leader, as new technology promises to improve the customer experience, streamline internal processes and boost agent productivity. Read More.

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Call Center Service Levels: Calculations, Metrics, & Industry Standards

Callminer

Providing key metrics and clear numbers is primordial in any industry, and it becomes particularly challenging in the field of call centers. This is why managers have developed a number of techniques to quantify results and improve efficiency over the years. One of these methods is Call Center Service Levels. The most basic definition of a service level is: a measurable number of services provided to a customer within a given time period.

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Working together while apart – a remote roundtable

Intercom, Inc.

For many employees who might suddenly find themselves out of the office for an indefinite amount of time, the change can be jarring, to say the least. That’s why we put together a special panel episode of Inside Intercom to discuss how best to collaborate when being face-to-face isn’t an option. You’ll hear loads of different hacks for optimizing your work-from-home setup – from how to maintain the proper work-life balance to how to build trust among your teammates.

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Controlling The Controllable – Covid-19: How To Deal With Customers

Beyond Philosophy

A global pandemic wasn’t in your plans this quarter. However, we see an opportunity to enhance your relationships with customers in this global crisis. In this episode of The Intuitive Customer, we share ten strategies for managing the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19. Our practical tips help you manage the stress and anxiety at your front lines to the best possible outcome.

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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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10 Steps To Minimize SaaS Churn Through A Downturn

Gainsight

Investor Gavin Baker wrote a terrific blog where he shared his thoughts about recurring revenue. In short, you can’t take it for granted that your recurring revenue will, in fact, recur. 5) There is no such thing as truly "recurring" revenue. Some revenue is just more recurring than others. — Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) March 20, 2020.

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The Two Words on Everyone’s Minds: Business Continuity

Callminer

Read on to learn about adjustments we made to working from home. Like most of you, activities at CallMiner in recent weeks have been focused on executing our business continuity plan, moving to a remote workforce, and supporting our employees physical and emotional well-being. As we carried out our plan we thought it might be useful to share with you some of what we’ve done, not so much to assure you that we’re firing on all cylinders, but to potentially provide you with ideas that might help i

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Tips for using Intercom to help with your Covid-19 response

Intercom, Inc.

It’s a challenging time right now, and you might be seeing more customer conversations as a result. We’ve written about how you can manage your customer communications in a crisis detailing how you can proactively make it easier for your customers to get the answers they’re looking for, as well as on dealing with the inbound queries that you might be facing.

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UJET Tips for Work From Home Remote Agents

UJET

As companies begin work from home and remote work policies, we’ve seen questions about how employees can be as productive at home. The first thing support organizations need to do is trust employees. The second is to provide the tools and guidance to complete the necessary tasks. Contact-Center-as-a-Service platforms don’t require locally installed specialized contact center software, while agents simply need a stable internet connection, browser, and compatible headset to communicate with consu

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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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How to Select a B2B Customer Lifecycle Management Solution

Totango

Attracting new leads is great—but what then? Retaining loyal customers is equally as important as converting them in the first place, perhaps even more so. How do you address, much less predict, your customers’ needs and goals as they naturally grow and evolve over time in order to foster a lasting connection? Good B2B Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions set both you and your customers up for long-term success.

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The Two Words on Everyone’s Minds: Business Continuity

Callminer

Here are some of the steps CallMiner has taken to ensure our business continuity via a remote workforce during the pandemic.

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How to manage your support communications during a crisis

Intercom, Inc.

Supporting your customers with efficiency and empathy is challenging in the best of times. But when an unprecedented event like Covid-19 hits, what do you say and how do you say it? Right now your support team are probably facing an array of challenges. Depending on the nature of your business, you may experience an increased volume of conversations, more requests for refunds and cancellations, and perhaps even dealing with customers who are understandably on edge. “You’ll want to provide

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Maintaining Strong B2B Customer Relationships Without Face-to-Face Interaction

TeamSupport

In an era where remote work has become commonplace, many customer success managers aren’t too happy. Why? Don’t the enjoy working from their home office? Sure, many professionals do, but their dissatisfaction is because the home office lifestyle inhibits their ability to meet face-to-face with customers. These in person interactions are the foundation of many excellent customer relationships, and it can sometimes be a challenge to build or sustain relationships without them.

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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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How to Handle a Large Volume of Live Chats

Comm100

Ensuring that your customers can reach you in a click (or two) is crucial to offering great digital customer service and is what makes live chat such a popular customer support channel. However, the volume of chats you receive may get out of hand if you aren’t prepared. You don’t want your agents to feel bombarded with visitor inquiries, and right now, for many customer service teams, this is a bigger challenge than ever. .

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What is Sentiment Analysis? Tools, Best Practices & More

Callminer

Among the many metrics worth considering to improve your organization's efficiency, sentiment analysis stands out as particularly powerful.

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You can expect a rise in customer frustration and significant increases in escalations to supervisors right now. Here's help.

Myra Golden Media

My roller bag is stowed away like winter sweaters. But the work continues. This week I’ve been working remotely to help my clients redirect intense interactions, regain control, and restore customer confidence in these uncertain times. Today I’m sharing with you the guidance I’m giving my clients right now, in these intense times with customers. You can expect a rise in customer frustration and significant increases in escalations to supervisors.

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How To Increase Morale And Collaboration Virtually

The DiJulius Group

1. Customer Service Feature Story How To Increase Morale And Collaboration Virtually By Jess Pischel, CX Consultant Now more than ever it seems we are craving communication and connection. Go figure, once the government tells us we have to stay home and isolate ourselves from public interactions we want nothing more than to engage. Read Full Article.

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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.

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UJET Tips for Work From Home Remote Agents

UJET

As companies begin work from home and remote work policies, we’ve seen questions about how employees can be as productive at home. The first thing support organizations need to do is trust employees. The second is to provide the tools and guidance to complete the necessary tasks. Contact-Center-as-a-Service platforms don’t require locally installed specialized contact center software, while agents simply need a stable internet connection, browser, and compatible headset to communicate with consu

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Call Center Service Levels: Calculations, Metrics, & Industry Standards

Callminer

The most basic definition of a service level is: a measurable number of services provided to a customer within a given time period.

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Is Call-Out Culture a Necessary Evil?

Fonolo

Bad service at a restaurant, being disconnected from a service call or a poorly directed commercial ad — all of these scenarios can lead to your business feeling the wrath of social media users at one point or another. Callout culture has picked up steam over the last few years with popular movements on social media making an impact in our everyday discourse.

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How to Handle a Large Volume of Live Chats

Comm100

Ensuring that your customers can reach you in a click (or two) is crucial to offering great digital customer service and is what makes live chat such a popular customer support channel. However, the volume of chats you receive may get out of hand if you aren’t prepared. You don’t want your agents to feel bombarded with visitor inquiries, and right now, for many customer service teams, this is a bigger challenge than ever.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

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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Managing B2B Customer Lifecycle Stages

Totango

Keeping pace with your customer’s evolving needs and experiences throughout their journey is essential to remaining a part of their plans. The most effective way to follow this progress is to break down the journey into modular B2B customer lifecycle stages. This breakdown helps turn the sprawl of an ongoing customer relationship into a series of clearly defined stages that ensure every action you undertake is aligned with generating customer value.

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Customer Success Job Openings

ClientSuccess

Customer Success Friends: We’re seeing the impact of the COVID-19 crisis across our space with some excellent customer success professionals being laid off. To help, we’ve compiled a list of job openings. View Job Openings. The post Customer Success Job Openings appeared first on ClientSuccess.

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Healthcare Edition: 3 Reasons Why Customer Success Is Existential Right Now

Gainsight

The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally changing how we practice and experience healthcare in the United States and digital health platforms, like yours, are at the heart of this transformation. Because of you, patients today have access to care at their fingertips. Adoption of telemedicine platforms like American Well and TytoCare bring healthcare directly into our homes.

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Imagine your next phone call is from an angry Customer. Are you 100% confident you can handle it?

Myra Golden Media

Imagine your next phone call is from an angry, irate customer who is frustrated (like all of us) about the pandemic and takes things out on you. Are you 100% confident you can handle it? If not, I’ve got the perfect program for you. Step into this course and learn how to create positive conversations with challenging customers. .

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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.