Confirmit
AUGUST 21, 2018
The other day I found myself in the slightly annoying position of being unable to procrastinate any further. I had to – finally – admit defeat and just well get on with a domestic DIY project that I’d been in varying stages of denial and avoidance over for a few days. This meant writing a list. And working things out. And measuring things with a tape measure.
Callminer
AUGUST 22, 2018
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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Fonolo
AUGUST 22, 2018
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.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 24, 2018
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.
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
DMG Consulting
AUGUST 20, 2018
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.
Callminer
AUGUST 23, 2018
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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Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 21, 2018
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.
Fonolo
AUGUST 23, 2018
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.
Callminer
AUGUST 21, 2018
Read the full Aberdeen report here to gain a full understanding of which strategies and trends are most important in 2018.
PeopleMetrics
AUGUST 21, 2018
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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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.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 20, 2018
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.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 23, 2018
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
Customer Service Life
AUGUST 22, 2018
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.
Myra Golden Media
AUGUST 20, 2018
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.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 22, 2018
“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.
TeamSupport
AUGUST 24, 2018
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.
ProProfs
AUGUST 21, 2018
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?
Fonolo
AUGUST 21, 2018
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.
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.
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 22, 2018
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.
Chip Bell
AUGUST 21, 2018
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.
ProProfs
AUGUST 20, 2018
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.
ClientSuccess
AUGUST 22, 2018
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.
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
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 23, 2018
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.
Comm100
AUGUST 21, 2018
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.
ProProfs
AUGUST 21, 2018
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?
Provide Support
AUGUST 22, 2018
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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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.
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 22, 2018
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.
TeamSupport
AUGUST 24, 2018
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.
Help Scout
AUGUST 22, 2018
Can you remember your toughest customer? Chances are, the experience involved some sweat, maybe some tears, and a few extra cups of coffee. When you’re dealing with people, there’s no rulebook. A rational approach doesn’t necessarily evoke a rational response. Learning to tease out the nuances of interactions with difficult customers and untangle the right solution takes time, thoughtfulness and skill.
Hodusoft
AUGUST 21, 2018
Like every other buy, it is imperative to comprehend what you might want to encourage out of your video conferencing administration before you choose one. For instance, a curiously large organization would conceivably be constrained to circle in many members specifically, though a little organization would potentially exclusively require one-on-one gatherings.
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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