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Accelerating the value of customer interactions: Introducing the new CallMiner

Callminer

Read about CallMiner's new brand identity. The new brand is a natural evolution as CallMiner continues to grow as the leader in conversation analytics and business performance improvement.

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The 8 Behaviours of a Customer-Centric Leader

Futurelab

In a major customer centricity programme I ran a number of years ago, we interviewed over 100 people at all levels of the organisation. We wanted to understand how customer-centric they considered themselves to be and compare these findings to the behaviour of the whole business. Tags: customer centricity Alain Thys leadership behaviour Facebook Like.

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Building high-performing teams through continuous improvement

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we’ve always focused on building excellent products which our customers value and love. Continuing to meet this goal as we scale means constantly re-evaluating how our teams work to keep performing at our very best. There is no “one size fits all” approach to building high-performing teams. Once you find a winning formula, it doesn’t stay relevant for long.

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Follow the Chain of CX Value to Drive Impact

Heart of the Customer

Done right, CX is a business discipline where organizations thrive by investing in an improved customer experience. That notion is largely accepted, even though it’s not always practiced. The challenge there is knowing where to invest. Success requires finding the sweet spot where an improved experience leads your customers to spend more with you, stick […].

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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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Developing Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles in Call Centre Operations Will Improve Customer Service experience

Taylor Reach Group

by Patricia Ballantyne. Most organizations have mission and vision statements. Typically, the Mission Statement refers to the company’s purpose, or the reason why it is exists, while a Vision Statement refers to what the organization aspires to be. Even with inspiring mission and vision statements, a gap can exist between the statements and the culture that is actually experienced as you cascade down through the organization.

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Employee Experience Drives the Customer Experience: But It’s Not Just About the Frontline

Futurelab

I’ve had a lot of conversations in recent weeks about how the employee experience drives the customer experience, but the part that stands out from these conversations is the common thread: that the customer experience only happens via, or is only shaped by, the frontline employees. That is just not true. When I’ve addressed this latter point, I’m always asked, “Well, then how do I connect the dots for the backoffice folks?

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15 ways to handle a huge surge in contact volume

Inside Customer Service

Two contact center leaders recently contacted me about the same issue. Their contact center was getting overwhelmed with volume. Each faced multiple risks and worries. Long wait times increased complaints. Irritated customers were at risk of leaving. Overwhelmed contact center agents were at risk of quitting. Staffing alone isn't the solution. It's hard to find and train qualified agents fast enough.

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Is Customer Service Getting Harder?

Shaun Belding

Customer service is getting harder. There is an insidious perfect storm brewing in our relationship with our customers. It has been sneaking up on us for a while, and most organizations are already experiencing the effects without realizing the cause.

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Proving the ROI of Reducing Customer Effort

Futurelab

I originally wrote today’s post for GetFeedback. It appeared on their site on February 27, 2020. As a follow on to the post, Four Actions to Take on Customer Effort Feedback , you’re likely going to need to prove the ROI of reducing customer effort. In this post, I’ll talk about five steps to prove the ROI. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer effort customer experience ROI Facebook Like.

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A Simple Breakdown of Call Center Costs

Fonolo

Call centers have a reputation as a ‘money pit’ for businesses. Historically, they’ve been viewed as a costly yet necessary operation for businesses. Today, we know that a fully optimized contact center can actually create more opportunities for sales and customer engagement. But achieving a strong ROI is easier said than done. The ROI of Call-Backs for Your Call Center.

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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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5 Ways Ecommerce Brands Can Increase Customer Loyalty

ModSquad

Every interaction with your customer is an opportunity to build your connection and inspire a sense of loyalty with them. Creating loyal customers is more essential to your ecommerce business plan than attracting new buyers. It can cost five times more to attract a new customer as it does to retain existing buyers. Keeping customers is a company-wide effort; here are five ways to build your customer’s loyalty.

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Built for you: Custom Reports, Conversation Topics, Macros, and more to personalize customer communication

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to supporting and engaging customers, striking the balance between personalization and efficiency is critical if you want to operate at scale. But in order to find that highly sought-after sweet spot, you need to deeply understand your customers’ experiences with your product – and their expectations. Without this knowledge, it’s inevitable that your customer communication will remain impersonal and inefficient, neither of which will empower your team to meet ever-rising customer e

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CX Journey™ Musings: The More Things Change, the More the Excuses Don’t

Futurelab

Change is hard. We know that. But it’s even harder when we hear nothing but excuses for why something can’t be done or why it shouldn’t change. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) change change fatigue change management leadership Facebook Like. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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How Support Teams Can Improve Customer Retention

Help Scout

Great customer service delivers real business value. That’s a foundational belief at Help Scout, as outlined in our support-driven growth articles. Even so, it can be difficult for empathetic customer service staff to think about customers in terms of business revenue. It somehow feels more “fair” to treat every customer equally, being helpful and responsive without regard to the money involved.

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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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Cutting the cord on inappropriate customer conversations

Intercom

At Intercom, we support our customers through conversational, messenger-based support. Supporting our customers primarily through our Business Messenger has many advantages, such as helping us build personal relationships with our customers and providing them with the fast, meaningful resolutions they need. But sadly, and inevitably, there will be people who abuse their access to your team.

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8 non-obvious examples of fantastic customer experience brands

Customer Think

May 10, 2021. Add to rss feed. A lot of blogs on custome.

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5 Tips to Help Set Customer Expectations for Service Delivery

Fonolo

With advances in online communication, and the court of public opinion that social media now provides, brands and their customer service faux pas are more exposed than ever. Underserved and angry customers can easily take to Twitter, Facebook, or any number of digital channels to publicly ‘out’ companies like yours for falling short, especially when it comes to your product or customer service offerings.

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Customer Story: Brain.fm

Help Scout

When you provide a tool that your customers rely on to achieve their daily goals, a common guiding value is a user-first mentality. But what does this actually mean? For Brain.fm, this means achieving as much visibility into and consistency of customer success as possible. Brain.fm was founded in 2003 by Adam Hewett with the goal of helping people focus, relax, and sleep by way of neuroscience-backed functional music.

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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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Customer Experience Management Defined: How is it Different From CX?

Experience Investigators

Customer experience exists whether you are intentional about it or not. After all, your customer is experiencing the brand via every interaction, touchpoint, service call, and delivery. The customer walks away with a perception of what the brand is, and whether or not this brand lives up to its promises, with every step along their personal journey.

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Your Customer Base Is Changing. How Ready Are You?

Customer Think

A Changing Customer Base Means Changing Customer Tastes No exceptions. Take a retailer with a long-standing base of loyal, but maturing, customers. Recognizing the lifetime limitations of its market, the merchant launched an energetic strategy to attract younger shoppers. And it worked. It worked so well, in fact, that the merchant’s fast-expanding segment of younger […].

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8 non-obvious examples of fantastic customer experience brands

Steven Van Belleghem

Trader Joe’s. American grocery store chain Trader Joe’s is an incredible example of a company where a fantastic employee experience results in a stunning customer experience. Most of us automatically think of Zappos in this category, but Trader Joe’s is just as inspiring in the matter. They offer fantastic benefits and growth opportunities to team member and truly empower them to offer warm, personal and one of a kind experiences to customers.

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How Good A Liar Are You Really? Does Lying Affect Your Customer Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

This podcast is sponsored by Verint. Verint helps the world’s most iconic brands build enduring customer relationships by connecting work, data, and experiences across the enterprise. The Verint Customer Engagement Cloud Platform draws on the latest advancements in AI and analytics, an open cloud architecture, and The Science of Customer Engagement to meet ever-increasing, ever-shifting consumer interactions and demands.

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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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Supporting your customers starts with supporting your agents

Zendesk

. . . If there’s one silver lining to the pandemic, it’s that we’re all finally talking about mental health in the workplace. And unlike masked social gatherings or 24 hour-a-day pajamas, that’s not likely to change once things get under control. “This is something that’s going to stick with us ,” said Frances Brittingham, a customer experience manager at Calm , a meditation app.

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7 Ways How A Chatbot Impacts Your Business Growth

Customer Think

Are you a business owner? Does your business really need chatbots? Well, in recent times, we have seen how companies are desperate to introduce the chatbot. This is because chatbots are changing the way brands interact with their customers, and when the chatbot is of high quality, those changes are usually positive. Bots have indeed […].

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Cha Ching! How Support and Success Join Forces to Drive Revenue

TeamSupport

“You’re not paying close enough attention to your customers.”. That’s how TeamSupport CEO Pete Khanna and ProfitSword VP of Sales and Marketing Paul Bennie began their speaking session at the recent TSIA Interact annual conference. This blog provides the highlights from their talk. It was a provocative statement to introduce the session. What did they mean ?

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Best Free Live Chat Software – Reviews & Comparisons

Comm100

Note: This blog post was originally published in October 2020 but has since been updated to include the latest research, up-to-date features, and pricing. Live chat has become the most popular digital customer service channel, offering real-time support that is both efficient and personalized. Today, many vendors offer free live chat software, but with each boasting different features and capabilities, it can be hard to know which will be the best free chat for your business. .

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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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New Forrester Report Names Verint as a Strong Performer in Customer Feedback Management

Foresee

Verint is recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Customer Feedback Management (CFM) Platforms, Q2 2021, which was released May 11, 2021. The Forrester report noted that “Verint continues to provide CFM and VoC services to a large volume of customers across the globe, with a focus on unifying data across the enterprise […]. The post New Forrester Report Names Verint as a Strong Performer in Customer Feedback Management appeared first on Verint ForeSee.

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041: How do Apple, Starbucks, and Southwest Outperform the Rest of Their Industries Regardless of the Economy? Here’s How!

The DiJulius Group

Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius of the DiJulius Group answers this question: Why do companies like Apple, American Express, Tesla, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, Amazon, Southwest, and Zappos always outperform the rest of their industry regardless of the economy? It is the service, stupid! Today, discover how one company increased revenue to over $2 million a month.

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Trusting Customers: One of the most important decisions of Customer-Centric Companies

Customer Think

Tony is in charge of a convenience store in Salt Lake City, where I attended a customer experience conference. I told him I wanted to buy a certain brand of beer. He said his shop didn’t have it. Instead of insisting that I buy another beer, he directed me to the liquor store nearby where […].

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Optimize Stakeholder Engagement and Management With These Key Strategies

Totango

Stakeholder engagement and management is critical for customer retention. Here’s how to plan an effective stakeholder management strategy and track your performance. How Do You Optimize Stakeholder Engagement? A well-designed stakeholder engagement and management strategy includes two key components: An action plan for promoting stakeholder engagement.

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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.