Sat.Oct 06, 2018 - Fri.Oct 12, 2018

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20 Call Center Pros Share the Most Undervalued Call Center Metrics and How To Better Leverage Them

Callminer

From essentials like average handle time to broader metrics such as call center service levels , there are dozens of metrics that call center leaders and QA teams must stay on top of, and they all provide visibility into some aspect of performance. Given the sheer number of metrics and KPIs that call centers could track, it’s no surprise that some metrics tend to go overlooked.

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PREACH – a framework for perfecting your customer support tone

Intercom, Inc.

Often in life, it’s not what you say but how you say it that makes all the difference. This is even more true in a customer support conversation, so getting your company’s tone just right is incredibly important. Once you’ve figured out how you speak to your customers , the next challenge is getting your team aligned for a consistent experience. At Intercom we strive to maintain a high caliber of customer support, and we do this with a peer review system, where every member of our Support team c

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Level Up Your VoC Program

CX Accelerator

Breaking free from survey mentality with unstructured customer feedback. It’s hard to say exactly when or how it happened, but the phrase “Voice of the Customer” (VoC) has become nearly synonymous with survey process. When we consider today’s customer, and the methods by which they exercise their voice, we can do so much more. Consumers are not as likely to fill out surveys as they once were.

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Are You Using This Powerful Sales Technique?

Beyond Philosophy

We all want to sell more. So how do we do this? A powerful sales technique exists that can help. The best sales organizations use it well; the worst, not so much. It is based on a psychological concept called reciprocity, and it might be what you need to get (or keep) your foot in the door. We discussed reciprocity in our recent podcast episode. Reciprocity is a concept in psychology that describes how people respond to a positive act with another one in return.

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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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20 call center pros share the most undervalued call center metrics and how to better leverage them

Callminer

We asked 20 call center pros to share the most undervalued call center metrics. If you want to improve agent performance, check out their responses to find out if you’re overlooking important KPIs.

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Introducing Answer Bot: instant resolutions and happier customers

Intercom, Inc.

Today we’re launching Answer Bot , an intelligent bot that automatically and instantly resolves your customers’ most common questions. It’s a simple proposition: when customers ask a question in the Intercom Messenger , Answer Bot uses machine-learning to recognize the query and deliver the exact answer right there, directly in the conversation. We’ve found that on average, Answer Bot instantly resolves 29% of your customers’ most common queries and improves customer response time by 44%.

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How To Make Your Experience Convienent

Beyond Philosophy

What are the six strategies for making your experience convenient? Colin and Ryan interview Shep Hyken, Customer Service and Experience expert about his latest book “ The Convenience Revolution ‘ Shep reveals these strategies. The post How To Make Your Experience Convienent appeared first on.

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Announcing Medallia Partnership to Empower Voice of the Customer Insights

Callminer

CallMiner announced a partnership with Medallia, the leader in Customer Experience Management cloud technology.

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How sales teams can use video to turn leads into customers

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to capturing people’s attention, there is nothing quite as effective as video – according to one study, 69% of people have decided to buy software after watching a video. For Sales Development Representatives, who are at the front line of sales teams, capturing attention is crucial to their success. A lot of our time and energy is spent trying to engage potential customers with outbound messaging.

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How to Build a CDP RFP Generator

Customer Experience Matrix

Recent discussions with Customer Data Platform buyers and vendors have repeatedly circled around a small set of questions: what are the use cases for CDP? (This really means, when should you use a CDP and when should you use something else?) what are the capabilities of a CDP? (This really means, what are the unique features I’ll find only in a CDP?

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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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Effective Customer Service Strategies from the World’s Biggest Brands

Fonolo

The rise of digital commerce and the growth of social media have given consumers powerful tools to share their thoughts and feedback with brands. The ability for customers to tout their distinct opinions with far-reaching audiences is a new phenomenon that has shifted the way brands must think and operate. Excellent customer service must become a central component of companies’ strategies if they hope to survive and thrive in this digital age.

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Customer Self-Service and the Role of Cloud Contact Centers

Win the Customer

The customer service landscape is changing, with technology allowing customer service to shift from call centers and direct contact solutions to self-service technology. . “Customers have begun to use, and in some cases even prefer, non-agented interactions,” says Ian Jacobs, principal analyst at Forrester. “They use knowledge bases, FAQs, mobile customer self-service, chatbots and peer-to-peer communities in increasing numbers.”.

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Issue complexity and urgency: Finding the right support channel matters

UJET

When customers contact your team, they're looking for solutions. Providing those solutions is the basis of a good customer experience. When you're able to connect with customers, provide them with personalized support, and interact in the support channel that best suits their current problem, that's an even better experience.

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4 Best Practices To Incorporate Wellness In Your Workplace

Customer Service Life

This post was originally published on CallCenter Weekly. In the contact center community, we understand the true value of a happy customer. We’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that we leave our customer satisfied. But – let’s consider this for a moment: In order to take the best care of others, we must first take the best care of ourselves.

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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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Mandatory Healthcare Compliance Training Made Easy With An LMS

ProProfs

Disclosing confidential data to unauthorized parties is likely to grab mass criticism, especially if that data pertains to patients’ medical histories. Healthcare Industry has often borne the brunt of data breach both by the staff and healthcare personnel. Proper training and development program can avert such undesirable incidents in the workplace.

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Join Fonolo at SOCAP’s Re-Imagine Customer Care Conference

Fonolo

Summer may be over, but the sun is rising on a busy 2018 fall trade show season. Fonolo has many events on the horizon, but is especially excited to be a first-time exhibitor at SOCAP’s Re-Imagine Customer Care Conference , October 21-24, 2018, at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah. Produced by SOCAP International, a collaborative community of leading customer care experts from diverse industries, the Re-Imagine Customer Care Conference will bring together renowned brands and

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You Need To Fire One Third Of Your Employees

The DiJulius Group

Is Your Key Performance Indicator The Right One? Every company needs to have ONE customer experience key performance indicator (CX-KPI) measuring which customer facing employees, teams, and locations are delivering a world-class experience and which are not. While meeting with the CEO’s of our clients during preliminary discovery, many feel confident they know what their.

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19 Pieces of Advice Customer Success Mentors Would Give Frontline Customer Success Managers

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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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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Why Customer Loyalty is Essential to SaaS Companies

TeamSupport

It’s no secret that the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) industry is on fire right now. More businesses are moving their technology stack from silo'd, on premise software installs to cloud instances with improved accessibility and reliability. Given so many companies are making this switch, why should you care at all about customer loyalty? After all, so many businesses are evaluating SaaS options that even if they churn, there will be five more waiting and ready to sign up, right?

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Disrupt Your Competition with Convenience

Chip Bell

The following is a guest post by customer service and customer experience expert, Shep Hyken. I believe that that the next competitive differentiator will be convenience, and I’ve written an entire book on the subject, The Convenience Revolution. Offering customers convenience is essential to keep them coming back. It takes your customer service and customer experience to the next level.

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Feedback: How To Give It, How To Get It, And What To Do With It

The DiJulius Group

One word can do so much – it can crush spirits, or it can help fuel growth and success. The impact of feedback is determined by both delivery and acceptance. Important feedback delivered poorly can demotivate. Conversely, feedback involving a hard message delivered well can motivate. To truly focus on improving feedback, we need to. Read Full Article.

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Customer Success Performance Indicator

CSM Practice

Introduction. This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Blake who is the CEO for Client Success. Dave asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a judge for The Customer Success Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit. For those of you who never attended, CS100 Summit is one of the most coveted customer success executive exclusive events (mainly because the Client Success team makes everyone feel m

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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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SAP CX LIVE Recap, General Availability of Spark, and Upcoming Webinars

Totango

We’ve had a very busy week full of exciting news at the Totango HQ and in Barcelona attending SAP CX Live! . First off, we are pleased to announce Totango Spark , our flagship software platform is now available. Spark guides enterprises through the successful completion of each stage in the customer journey with relevant KPIs, dashboards, analytics and best practices to achieve business goals faster.

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Be a Banjo in Your Symphony Orchestra

Chip Bell

Bella Fleck is arguably the greatest banjo player in the world. Winner of 16 Grammy Awards, his amazing repertoire ranges from bluegrass to classical. He made the news in the music world when he wrote a banjo concerto called “The Imposter” and performed it with symphony orchestras around the country to sell-out crowds. A banjo in a symphony? Banjos don’t go with Bach and Beethoven.

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How Does CX at Not-For-Profits Compare to For-Profit Organizations? A Conversation with Martin Hand of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Customer Bliss

I hope you had a fantastic CX Day last week! I was on the road, so I celebrated with my good friend Martin Hand , chief donor officer of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital , where I gave a keynote to their team. While I was there, I shot this short video with him and asked him to share his path to his position at St. Jude and what he’s learned along the way. .

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Customer Success Performance Indicators

CSM Practice

. This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake who is the CEO for ClientSuccess. Dave asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a judge for The Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit. For those of you who never attended, CS100 Summit is one of the most coveted customer success executive exclusive events (mainly because the ClientSuccess team makes everyone feel more like they are at an aweso

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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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SAP CX LIVE, General Availability of Spark, Upcoming Webinars and More

Totango

We’ve had a very busy week full of exciting news at the Totango HQ, and in Barcelona attending SAP CX Live! . First off, we are pleased to announce Totango Spark , our flagship software platform is now available. Spark guides enterprises through the successful completion of each stage in the customer journey with relevant KPIs, dashboards, analytics and best practices to achieve business goals faster. .

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Customer Success Webinar: The One Question That Will Transform Your Customer Success Strategy

ClientSuccess

ClientSuccess will host Greg Daines (The Churn Whisper), Founder and CEO at Client Velocity , for this month’s customer success webinar series: The One Question that Will Transform Your Customer Success Strategy. Greg will introduce you to a simple customer success question that will help you and your organization become truly customer centric. Learn the one question backed by research and data that will help your customers stay and grow.

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How to Build in Experiences That Will Earn Customers’ Raves: Introducing the “Talk Trigger” with Jay Baer

Customer Bliss

In this special video episode of “The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show” podcast, I interview Jay Baer , founder of Convince & Convert , a digital strategy consulting firm that helps prominent companies with customer retention and acquisition, and author of the new book “ Talk Triggers: The Complete Guide to Creating Customers With Word of Mouth, ” on how to operationalize experiences that creates word-of-mouth marketing for your business.

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All About the Customer Success Performance Indicator

CSM Practice

All About the Customer Success Performance Indicator . This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake (CEO for ClientSuccess ) who asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a Judge for The Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit. For those of you who never attended, CS100 Summit is one of the most coveted customer success executive exclusive events (mainly because the ClientSuccess team makes every

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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.