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5 Benefits of Collecting Metrics to Identify Common Contact Reasons

Callminer

Once you’ve collected the data, you need to do something with it to improve the customer experience and deliver exceptional customer service consistently. Actionable analytics is key.

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How live chat increases conversion rates

Intercom, Inc.

For all the time and money we spend attracting customers to our website, isn’t it odd how little we spend trying to convert them? These live chat stats will show you the conversion power of messaging. According to an eConsultancy report , for every $92 spent acquiring prospects only $1 is spent converting them. Sure, that dollar could give you returns in spades, but in reality the odds of that are no better than a craps table in Las Vegas.

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How Small Things Have Big Influences on Customer Behavior

Beyond Philosophy

Non-conscious influence has a significant effect on your customer’s behavior. Non-conscious influences are stimuli of which a customer is not aware. What’s more, these non-conscious influences exist in your Customer Experience even if you haven’t been deliberate about your design of them. In our latest podcast , we defined some terms that describe the information that influences behavior, including: Subliminal: Something you sense but that your conscious mind did not register, meaning it is pi

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What The Simpsons Teaches Us About Customer Service

Fonolo

Listen: We can learn a lot from cartoons. I can think of few better examples than The Simpsons , an arguable work of art now approaching its 20th year on air. With never-ending talent churning through its writers room, the show is regarded not only as a universally-identifiable comedic cartoon, but also as a source of critical commentary on human behavior.

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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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5 Benefits of Collecting Metrics to Identify Common Contact Reasons

Callminer

No matter what industry you serve, chances are your customers have high expectations. As a contact center, it is your primary responsibility to understand and manage customer expectations. That includes determining if customers feel their needs are being met on every call. Collecting this valuable speech and text data or over all interaction data is just the first step in managing customer expectations though.

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Six essential chatbot recipes for sales and marketing teams

Intercom, Inc.

Chatbots push salespeople and marketers past the physical limitations of being human: our need to sleep, our loathe of repetitive tasks, our inability to multitask conversations. Modern-day chatbots, like our recently launched Custom Bots , are completely customizable and can automate all sorts of user journeys, while maintaining a positive consumer experience.

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Lesson #6: You Have To Use NPS, But You Should Also Include Other Measures of CX In A Transactional VoC Survey

PeopleMetrics

The following is an excerpt from Listen Or Die by Sean McDade, PhD. As we discussed in Lesson #5 , NPS is important to include in your VoC program, but if you’re running a transactional VoC survey, you need other ways to measure the most recent customer experience alongside NPS. Here are 3 ways you can measure the most recent customer experience alongside NPS: Ask how satisfied the customer was with their last experience.

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Check In On Key 2018 Trends in Contact Center & Customer Experience

Callminer

Read the full Aberdeen report here to gain a full understanding of which strategies and trends are most important in 2018.

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The 3 Cs of cross-functional teamwork

Intercom, Inc.

The phrase “cross-functional” is most commonly used to describe a team made up of of people with different functions or skills. At Intercom for example, our product teams include designers, programmers and product managers , unique roles working together as one. Or you might hear the term used when teams from different parts of a business work together on a big project, like the launch of a new product or release.

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How to Make Your Agents Feel Like They’re on Summer Vacation

Fonolo

Just like me, you probably remember dozens of random 1-800 phone conversations with Johns, Jacobs, or Janes. They have called us from contact centers in the middle of the work day, when we ourselves were working on getting through that jerk chicken during a barely 15-minute lunch break. If I am not wrong, then it is safe to say that nine out of 10 times, we have hung up after the robotic, brief introduction and then wondered why they bothered calling us in the first place.

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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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Here’s What’s In the Mind of Your Unreasonable Customers

Myra Golden Media

When a customer reaches out to you about a problem, they usually don’t think things will be easy. They expect to enter a fray. To customers, it’s them against you. Visually, it’s like this. There’s a brick wall between you and your customer. You are on one side of the wall, and your customer is on the other. The customer sees the issue they’re trying to get resolved as being on the same side of the brick wall as you.

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iQorian Authors: Maciej Michalewicz

iQor

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Flying cars, chatbots and looking forward to the next small thing

Intercom, Inc.

“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”. – Peter Thiel. People in tech commonly overestimate the impact of big things and underestimate the power of small things. We constantly talk about the next big thing that will change everything, the next revolution that will inevitably happen. In the past few years it has been AI, chatbots, VR, blockchain and whatnot.

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The Top 3 Most Misleading Customer Service Statistics

TeamSupport

Living in an era where there’s seemingly a statistic for everything, it can be difficult to truly understand the real value of each data point. You may look at your email count for the day, see it’s in the triple digits, and say “wow, I’ve had a busy day”. But on closer examination, half of the emails are holiday junk and a quarter are from a vendor who can’t get meeting invites right, leaving only the usual amount of “real” emails in your inbox.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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To Apologize or Not To Apologize

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on July 17, 2018. Click here to read the original. When customers contact you with a problem, do you apologize or do you not? Let’s work through a couple scenarios. In the first scenario you work for a SAAS (Software as a Service) provider and a customer is calling in because their service is impaired.

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How Training Incentives Encourage Learners Participation

ProProfs

Strategically, when a company plans to invest in economic development and chases the technology upgrade, it requires talented employees commanding proficient skills. And for this reason, providing training incentives becomes the need of an hour to stay ahead of the race. Did you know that the US companies spent more than $70 billion in 2016 solely on training to help employees in attaining higher skills?

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CX Webinar Invitation, August 27th

Heart of the Customer

Do your employees love your company? Jim Tincher joins Shiftonomics to break down the customers’ journey, and how strongly it is impacted by corporate culture and the effort the company puts into empowering its frontline teams. You’ll Learn How to hire people who care Keys to maintaining employee engagement How to map each customer’s journey […].

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Contact Center Management Is Both an Art and a Science

DMG Consulting

Contact Center Management Is Both an Art and a Science. 7/1/2018. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website. It’s alarming how many contact centers are managed without metrics, yet running a contact center strictly by the numbers is no silver-bullet solution either. In other words, contact center management is both an art and a science.

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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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WhatsApp and Twitter: You Need to Pay Us to Use Our Platform for Customer Service

Fonolo

Last week, Facebook announced that WhatsApp could now be used as a customer service platform. We now have an interesting race between Apple’s “Apple Business Chat”, Facebook’s own “Messenger for Business”, and Twitter. The goal is to grab a vital piece of the eCommerce landscape: The channel for customer service communication. What caught my eye is that WhatsApp is asking companies to pay in order to use its platform for customer service.

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10 Innovative Practices for Creating Online Exams

ProProfs

Examinations are one of the crucial phases in students’ life which they can’t escape. Likewise, it is equally intriguing for educators to create exams to assess students’ learning continually. While making several assessments, exams focus on contemplating learning objectives and providing valuable feedback on the knowledge retained by the learners. Reliable exams, at their core, create a significant impact on student’s learning.

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5 Steps to CX Management in the Public Transportation Industry with Anand Sampat

Customer Bliss

At a time when more and more people are taking public transportation, customer experience for commuters has a big impact on their daily lives. How do you create great service for such a complex system? In today’s conversation with Anand Sampat , the head of customer experience for c2c , a public London commuter train that services 40,000 daily commuters, we discuss how he manages the customer experience for a service that so many people rely on.

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Are Your Customers ‘Gluten Intolerant’?

Chip Bell

My brother and his wife and their two grown children with spouses and children are spending the weekend with us. With my reputation as Mr. Customer Service on the line, we want to be the “hostess with the mostest.” My brother’s son-in-law is gluten intolerant. It carries special exceptions when planning all meals. And, it has driven us to sections of the grocery store we never visit.

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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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CSM from the Trenches: Mentors – Chris Hecklinger, Sr Director of Client Success, EveryoneSocial

ClientSuccess

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful. Each day we learn from the trenches what it takes to make clients happy and successful.

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How Training Incentives Encourage Training Participation

ProProfs

Strategically, when a company plans to invest in economic development and chases the technology upgrade, it requires talented employees commanding proficient skills. And for this reason, providing training incentives becomes the need of an hour to stay ahead of the race. Did you know that the US companies spent more than $70 billion in 2016 solely on training to help employees in attaining higher skills?

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11 Statements to Help Assess if Your Company Needs a Chief Customer Officer

Customer Bliss

Does your company need a CCO? You may have seen in the news recently that Walmart hired its first CCO , Janey Whiteside, who managed benefits and services – which also included customer engagement, at American Express. Like many other retailers, Walmart is facing serious competition from Amazon and is aiming to improve its customer experience both online and in-stores.

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Addressing metrics gaps between bot-led and human-led service

Comm100

The decision to take on chatbot customer service is an exciting one for companies. Like with any new initiative, there are a series of considerations that organizations should take into account to ensure this endeavor goes according to plan. One of those considerations is metrics. As Forrester notes in their 2016 report, How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management , “Every customer interaction leaves a trail of customer data waiting to be analyzed.

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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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Is Your Organization Achieving Ideal Sales Velocity?

SugarCRM

I know what you’re probably thinking: What is Sales Velocity in the first place? Here’s a simple answer: How much revenue you can expect to bring in each day; calculated by the PRODUCT of 1) the number of opportunities you have in sales pipeline, 2) the average value of your opportunities and 3) your percentage win rate – DIVIDED by 4) the average sales cycle length in days.

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5 Ways Managers Can Build Trust In The Workplace

ProProfs

One of the major problems today’s businesses face is the lack of trust. According to the Elderman 2016 Trust barometer , 35% of people don’t trust the company they work for. The results the Global generations study by EY shows are even more worrisome. They found that only 46% of employees have a great deal of trust in their employers. The factors that led to this are multiple, from unfair employee compensation and unequal opportunity for promotion to poor collaboration. .

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11 Statements to Help Assess if Your Company Needs a Chief Customer Officer

Customer Bliss

Does your company need a CCO? You may have seen in the news recently that Walmart hired its first CCO , Janey Whiteside, who managed benefits and services – which also included customer engagement, at American Express. Like many other retailers, Walmart is facing serious competition from Amazon and is aiming to improve its customer experience both online and in-stores.

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Don’t Give Your Customers a Reason To Leave

Provide Support

Have you ever thought about why you are losing customers? Perhaps you are giving them a reason to leave? A study from NewVoiceMedia found that: 67% of customers left a company due to poor service. 10% have switched more than 5 times in the past year. $430 is the average loss per customer. On the whole, all those service failures cost to businesses in the United States $75 billion per year.

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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.