Callminer

APRIL 4, 2018

Have you heard about the General Data Protection Regulation? It’s important to understand if or how this new legislation is going to affect your business and ask yourself: are you ready for GDPR?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

For Duolingo, the world’s most downloaded education app, growth is fundamentally about retention. If users don’t stick around, they won’t learn and inevitably won’t share Duolingo with their friends. As VP of Marketing and Growth at Duolingo through 2017, improving retention was the top priority of Gina Gotthilf. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million.

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Lumoa

APRIL 3, 2018

How do you make important or day-to-day consumer decisions in your life? Whom would you consult if you were choosing a hairdresser's saloon or a new car to buy? 83% of customers would trust recommendations from the people they know : colleagues, family, friends, etc. Often, we believe that people closer to us can give us a better advice when choosing a product or service.

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Kerry Bodine

APRIL 4, 2018

When I bumped into a former colleague at a recent conference, he was eager to chat about a journey mapping initiative his organization (a major financial services provider) was kicking off. But I got a blank look when I asked what journeys his team planned to focus on. “We were going to do the whole lifecycle,” he told me. “We want to map from the awareness phase all the way through retention and loyalty.”.

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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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Callminer

APRIL 2, 2018

We’ve rounded up 101 expert tips to help you leave a lasting, positive impact by creating an innovative, meaningful customer experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2018

The way we interact with the world is increasingly determined by the software we use, but despite that growing dependence, we only truly connect with software on an emotional level when it speaks to us in a distinctly human voice. So, how does software take on a personality of its own? That’s typically where marketing comes in. At eFounders , we launch 4 new startups each year.

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Customer Service Life

APRIL 4, 2018

Episode #53 features our first repeat guest. Yay! It’s always a great day when we get to talk customer service with our good friend Leslie O’Flahavan. Leslie is the owner of E-WRITE and the foremost expert on writing for customer service. In this episode we first talk about one thing we’d rather make than buy from the store and then we dive into this #FreeToHelp movement that Jenny and Leslie started.

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Fonolo

APRIL 4, 2018

Apple announced “Business Chat” in June, staking a claim to a vital piece of the ecommerce landscape: the channel for customer service communication. The product went into live beta this week with about 10 companies participating, and the timing could not be better for Apple. Facebook, their main rival in this field, is bloodied from weeks of bad press over privacy issues.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 2, 2018

Let’s begin with a hypothetical scenario: You’ve spent the last two weeks perfecting your pitch. You’ve thought through every possible objection anyone might have to your plan. You’ve carefully justified your choice of programming language and why you just need to use a complex gossip protocol to build the system – it is theoretically the “best” language, but it’ll be tricky to get right (and yet really fun to build).

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Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 4, 2018

Original post via ProProfs, expert opinion summary by Colin Taylor. With Customer Experience being a crucial factor in business operations, comes the importance of ensuring high customer satisfaction (CSAT) levels. A high CSAT is a indicator of customer loyalty and repurchase intentions. This differentiator will reduce customer churn. Retaining brand advocates results in cost savings as it is cheaper to retain customers than it is to acquire new ones.

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PeopleMetrics

APRIL 4, 2018

Everybody works hard. There’s a reason that no hiring manager has ever been blown away by the answer “I’m a hard worker” when they ask why they should hire you. We all consider ourselves hard workers, but only a small percentage of the workforce will ever experience the seemingly infinite, grueling hours that Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) experience from January 1 st to April 15 th every calendar year.

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Fonolo

APRIL 5, 2018

They say the key to any healthy human relationship is effective communication. This principle also applies to the relationship between a customer and a customer service or sales representative. Active listening is the foundation of effective communication. Behind every customer call is a real person, looking for guidance or a solution to a problem. It’s critical to engage in active listening in order to make that person feel truly heard, understood, and served.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 3, 2018

For most sales teams, “personalizing” a cold email simply means referencing a person’s job title or company and sending them links to case studies or blog posts in the hope of generating a single click-through. The conversation typically ends after that click. As sales people we might follow up with lots of “ just checking in ” emails, but these can feel spammy, and there are minimal results to show for it.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 6, 2018

Why do customers ask for multiple competitive quotes? When they get them how do they decide what to buy? Customers have a natural tendency to avoid extremes. How can you use this to your advantage? The post Why Do Customers Ask For Competitive Quotes? appeared first on.

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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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Heart of the Customer

APRIL 3, 2018

I recently did an interview with Intouch Insight–see below for Part 1. —– We recently sat down with Jim Tincher, founder of Heart of the Customer and Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP), to get his take on the customer experience landscape and how it is changing in 2018. In part-one of this two-part article series, Jim discusses […].

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CX Journey

APRIL 4, 2018

Are journey maps a waste of time, or can you really use them to drive CX change? There's a big problem brewing out there when it comes to journey mapping: Too many folks view journey maps as useless, when instead, the maps should be seen as one of the (if not the ) most powerful tools and processes in the customer experience professional's arsenal. Done right, you can drive real CX change with your journey maps!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2018

We’ve written a lot about how to send the right message at the right time. And while timing is important, how many messages you send also plays a role in your customers’ experience. If your customers feel they’re receiving too many messages, it’s not just about message volume. There’s more at play. First, it’s important to note there’s a big difference between actual communication volume and perceived communication volume (i.e., the number of messages a customer feels they’re receiving).

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Totango

APRIL 6, 2018

This year’s Customer Success Summit was a huge success! We enjoyed learning from our speakers and attendees about Customer Success in practice. In case you couldn’t attend Totango’s 6th annual industry conference, the recordings and presentations are now available here. #CSSummit18 was packed with great information from different points of view. You are sure to find many sessions that can help you run your CS program better.

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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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Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 4, 2018

Leveraging a proprietary approach, combined with best practice benchmarking, the Audit process creates a road-map to a future state by assessing all aspects of current Contact Center operations. The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., retained to complete a Contact Center Audit for one of the world’s leading digital data collection companies. TORONTO (PRWEB) April 4, 2018.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 4, 2018

Have you recently become a chief customer officer? If you’re taking on a CCO role in a company, there’s a lot of work that has to be done to get your customer experience program off the ground and running. From getting executive buy-in, to understanding the inner workings of the organization itself, and looking for areas of opportunity, it can all seem so overwhelming.

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Provide Support

APRIL 3, 2018

What’s the most important thing a business needs to do to improve relationships with their customers and keep them coming back for more? The answer is pretty obvious, and yet so often overlooked: providing a delightful customer service. No matter how good your product may be, or how competent your customer service team is, the only thing that matters is how your customers feel about your company.

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Totango

APRIL 6, 2018

This year’s Customer Success Summit was a huge success! We enjoyed learning from our speakers and attendees about Customer Success in practice. In case you couldn’t attend Totango’s 6th annual industry conference, the recordings and presentations are now available here. #CSSummit18 was packed with great information from different points of view. You are sure to find many sessions that can help you run your CS program better.

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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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Waypoint Group

APRIL 5, 2018

I’m proud to announce that Waypoint Group’s TopBox, the B2B-centric customer engagement and visualization engine, has won Temkin Group’s Vendor Excellence award. Evaluating industry providers and products based on customer results, overall capabilities, and customer references, Temkin Group are the leading analysts covering the customer feedback / customer experience industry and founded the Customer Experience Professionals (CXPA) organization.

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SugarCRM

APRIL 3, 2018

Companies like Amazon and Zappos are lauded for providing outstanding customer service. That has raised the bar for what customers expect from every brand they interact with. No matter your industry, expectations higher than ever. So, it’s critical that customers service reps have the tools, data and autonomy needed to satisfy customers. In this post, let’s dig a little deeper into some of the key challenges facing your customer service professionals and how Sugar can help organizations meet cus

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 5, 2018

ClientSuccess will host Bill Cushard, Customer Success Strategist of ServiceRocket and a 2018 Mindtouch Top Customer Success Strategist , for this month’s customer success webinar series: How to Design a Customer Education Strategy. The webinar covers the topic of designing a proactive strategy for customer education. This webinar is relevant to leaders of B2B recurring revenue companies of all types, customers success leaders, and practitioners.

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Confirmit

APRIL 5, 2018

More than 90% of consumers want to use their telephone for vendor interaction, and voice-driven data collection represents an ideal way for brands to engage today's mobile consumers throughout their entire customer journey. To support our customers’ needs for sophisticated, omni-channel feedback collection, Confirmit has partnered with PinPoint Research, a leader in voice the leader in Voice Based Research™ Together Confirmit and PinPoint Research deliver a seamless IVR and autom

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1 to 1

APRIL 3, 2018

Seth Van Sickel, director of operations at Sling TV, and Richard Smullen, founder and CEO of Pypestream, spoke with Senior Writer Judith Aquino about the AI-powered bots that are teaming up with associates and the new personalized recommendations that customers will soon receive. Listen to all episodes of The CX Pod at TTEC. .

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 3, 2018

Too often Customer Success Managers (CSMs) can get swept up in the day-to-day grind of activation questions, project management, and renewal processes. It can be easy to lose sight of the original goal at the heart of your role: to create successful customers. And at the end of the day, your most successful customers are the ones who trust you, your recommendations, and your services.

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Confirmit

APRIL 5, 2018

More than 90% of consumers want to use their telephone for vendor interaction, and voice-driven data collection represents an ideal way for brands to engage today's mobile consumers throughout their entire customer journey. To support our customers’ needs for sophisticated, omni-channel feedback collection, Confirmit has partnered with PinPoint Research, a leader in voice the leader in Voice Based Research™ Together Confirmit and PinPoint Research deliver a seamless IVR and autom

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Confirmit

APRIL 5, 2018

AcuPOLL has challenged the status quo in Market Research since its founding by P&G marketing innovators. It invented in-person qual+quant research for the industry to provide faster and more predictive concept test results in real time. In 2009, AcuPOLL teamed up with Confirmit to deliver deeper, faster insights to their clients. AcuPOLL now runs its most innovative research solutions on Confirmit Horizons.

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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.

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