Sat.Jun 29, 2019 - Fri.Jul 05, 2019

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Customer retention is the new conversion

Intercom, Inc.

The old world SaaS model was basically all about sign up and convert. The new SaaS model is subscription revenue-driven, which begs the question: what is a conversion today? After all, we don’t buy software these days; we subscribe to it. At Collision , I spoke about the new techniques that product owners and marketers will need to navigate the world of customer relationships.

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Customer Experience Management Tips & Best Practices

Callminer

Does your company’s CX management program stack up? These 25 expert tips will help you transform your customer experience and boost customer loyalty.

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Customer Experiences for All

CX Accelerator

When you have a child on the Autism spectrum , you gain an unusual view of Customer Experience. By the time my youngest son was 6 years old, I (Sheri) understood barber shops, grocery stores, restaurants, doctors offices, dentists, and most recreational activities were not built for us. We created our own solutions. His older brothers learned how to cut his hair, eating out meant drive-thru meals, recreational activities consisted of visits to the local parks or the local YMCA until we were aske

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This Will Be the Year of (Really) Building Rapport with Customers

Myra Golden Media

For all of my onsite customer service workshops and keynotes, I arrive at least 45 minutes before we start so I can meet and talk to the people who’ll be spending several hours with me. Now I didn’t always do this. In the past, I’d hide out in the back of the room, mentally preparing and praying, and only go up after I was introduced.

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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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Josh Seiden on why product teams should focus on outcomes over output

Intercom, Inc.

Deciding what your engineers should do next can be a lot like climbing a ladder. On the lowest rung is a problem to be solved. At the top is an impact on the business, a change in the bottom line. But the rungs in between can often be quite flimsy. Instead of trying to jump straight from the theoretical business impact to a directive for your R&D teams, it’s essential to stop for a moment and consider: “What is the desired outcome?

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The Vital Art of Creating Memorable Messaging

Beyond Philosophy

The Vital Art of Creating Memorable Messaging. When we make buying decisions, we usually are choosing from a short list of options. Our memory assembles these options. So, from a Customer Experience perspective, it is vital that your product or service is one of these options recalled at the moment of the buying decision. In this episode of The Intuitive Customer podcast, we explore how our memories generate these choice sets for buying decisions.

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How to Get Angry, Irate or Unreasonable Customers to Back Down (3 Steps)

Myra Golden Media

Imagine your next phone call is from an angry, irate customer, and you’ve only got a few seconds to gain control. Are you 100% confident you can handle it? If not, I’ve got the perfect program for you. Tae my 3 0-minute De-escalation Online Training , and you’ll be able to: Handle Any Difficult Customer. I promise, after just 30-minutes with me in this special “3-Step De-escalation Method” on-demand workshop, you will be inspired and thrilled with how much more productive you can be at getting a

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More deals, less work: how to unlock new efficiencies with sales automation

Intercom, Inc.

Operating a sales organization at any scale involves a lot of tedious, repetitive work. Without sales automation, this work can become a black hole for your sales reps’ time. In their “State of Sales” report, Salesforce found that in an average week, sales reps spend 64% of their time on “non-selling” tasks – everything from entering lead data to manually prioritizing opportunities.

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Actionable Insights: What they are, why they’re important, and how to get them

Lumoa

Actionable insights are data sets that prescribe any direct, meaningful actions you can take based on the analysis of raw data.

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Is Packaging Part of Product or Promotion? Should it be Both?

C3Centricity

Which did you answer subconsciously when you read the title? Do you consider your packaging to be a part of the product, protecting its contents and framing its on-shelf life? Or do you consider it to be an integral part of your connection with your customers at an important moment of truth, that of purchase and usage? If you answered both, then I believe that you are making maximum use of your packaging or at least you recognise its potential for communication.

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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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The Top 5 Customer-Centric Goals for an Enterprise

Totango

These days, customers expect personalized service. Whether they’re shopping for software or a way to increase sales, they expect you to be right there next to them searching for every potential edge that will help them grow their business. The digital transformation of business means that customers can easily leave a professional relationship that isn’t working for them.

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Shortcuts to superpowers: What an emerging design pattern tells us about disruption

Intercom, Inc.

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Training Customer Service Reps: Best Practices to Form a Loving and Successful Environment

Fonolo

Good training teaches employees in the customer service realm how to handle complex customer issues in the most efficient and customer-friendly way possible. This is important, as customer service is the touchstone for all kinds of customer-facing interactions. In training CS representatives, it’s crucial to help them understand a) what they are doing; and b) why they doing the job.

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Five Rules of Customer Observation for Greater Success

C3Centricity

One of the best ways to a deeper understanding of your customers is to watch and listen to them whenever you can. Customer observation is a powerful, but unfortunately too often an under-utilised tool of marketers. It is, therefore, understandable that so many companies run to conduct market research, usually a qualitative study, as a first step to improved customer understanding.

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

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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The Ideal Contact Center Solution

DMG Consulting

The Ideal Contact Center Solution. 6/3/2019. By Donna Fluss. I often think about what it would take to make the perfect contact center infrastructure solution, ACD, dialer, IVR/IVA, CTI, universal queue, etc. Obviously, perfect is in the eyes of the beholder, but there has to be a way of creating a contact center solution that is omni-channel, easy to provision, set up, install, implement and operate.

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Tin Can API: What It Has in Store for Online Learning Environments

ProProfs

In technology, whatever can be done will be done – Andrew S. Grov. In a traditional classroom-based teaching and learning environment, the only time you get to assess the knowledge of each learner is at the end of tests and examinations. This method is not conducive to the holistic development of learners as it doesn’t show the whole picture of the learning activity.

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Guest Experience Management will make your Restaurant Profitable. Here’s How!

SurveySensum

Engage them, listen to them, delight them and that’s how you turn them into your super-fans. Give reasons to your restaurant guests remember you for the best-in-class experience you deliver. Experience is the influencer in the hospitality industry. Especially, for restaurants, it’s become pivotal to get more guests and earn customers loyalty. Real-time and actionable insights can drive a successful guest experience management for restaurants.

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Improving Customer Experience Through Agent Efficiency

ModSquad

It’s impossible to talk about brand without talking about the customer experience. Maintaining your customers’ satisfaction with — and loyalty to — your brand requires your entire organization to focus on that end user. But it’s your customer support agents who are your front line in sustaining that loyalty. That’s no trivial task. When a consumer contacts an ecommerce retailer about an order problem, they expect the support agent to fully understand everything related to that order.

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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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All You Need To Know About Getting Customers To Use Self Service In Public Libraries

Myra Golden Media

A lot of people are curious about self-service options in public libraries and in retail, but many customers will avoid trying self-service if it seems complicated. No one wants to add more stress to their lives, so if it looks hard, they’ll skip it, and work with a real person instead. Here are 6 keys to guiding you through exactly how to teach first-time users to master self-service in your library branch or retail store. 1.

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Epilogue to “Is Your Customer Experience Program Making Your Customer Experience Worse?”

Heart of the Customer

I ran across a friend of mine on Tuesday who read my last post Is Your Customer Experience Program Making Your Customer Experience Worse? and she asked me, “Whatever happened?” Did you get your books? One of the most basic rules of story-telling is that you have to finish your story! Which I didn’t. So, […]. The post Epilogue to “Is Your Customer Experience Program Making Your Customer Experience Worse?

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Totango Product Updates | July 1st, 2019

Totango

We know that our customers spend their day to day in Totango Spark. This enables them to stay always up to date with their customer status and goals. During this year we focus a lot on Customer Success Manager productivity and we just release Account Profile Links to enable them quick access to all systems. Keep reading to learn how this feature will enable your team to focus on the customer and deliver results.

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Service Delivery From Contented Employees

Chip Bell

In 1907, Carnation Evaporated Milk introduced a brand-new ad to promote its product, “made from contented cows.” Since I lived on a cattle farm and milked a cow twice a day for most of my teenage years, I thought a lot about the productivity of cows with high morale. Our cows never seemed to be very anxious. They pretty much grazed all day and slept all night.

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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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Will AI mean Contact Center Doom or Boom?

CSAT.AI

Is AI still predicted to be contact center doom or boom? It depends on where you’re standing. Is AI Killing or Changing Contact Center Jobs? How about this inflammatory post title: Bots and AI continue their march toward call center obliteration. Really? Sounds like a sci-fi logline. Industry people are in two camps about this whole AI in customer service thing.

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Is Your Customer Experience Program Making Your Customer Experience Worse?

Heart of the Customer

We launched our book at this year’s CXPA Insight Exchange. We’d shipped them to the hotel ahead of time, but when I arrived, they were nowhere to be found. My tracking information showed they had been delivered, but nobody knew where they were. The hotel recommended I call USPS to ask who signed for the […]. The post Is Your Customer Experience Program Making Your Customer Experience Worse?

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The Top 5 Customer-Centric Goals for an Enterprise

Totango

These days, customers expect personalized service. Whether they’re shopping for software or a way to increase sales, they expect you to be right there next to them searching for every potential edge that will help them grow their business. The digital transformation of business means that customers can easily leave a professional relationship that isn’t working for them.

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How to Ensure Customer Success is a Company-Wide Initiative

ClientSuccess

If there is one thing customer success professionals know, it’s that ensuring customer satisfaction with a product or solution requires the attention and resources of far more than a single person. While a CSM may be ultimately responsible for retaining and growing his or her accounts, most organizations are on a mission to serve the end customer, and therefore every department – from Finance to HR to Marketing to Product Development – should hold responsibility to some degree for customer succe

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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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What Are Onstage and Backstage in Customer Experience?

Customers That Stick

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Rocking the CX Summit in London

Confirmit

I don’t know about you, but in my experience the networking at events are often pretty awkward. Lots of shuffling about half-making eye contact and then being ridiculously grateful when you’re called back to the presentations where you can sit down again. That was not the case at last week’s Confirmit Customer Experience Summit in London last week.

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How Much Do You Know About Student Self Assessment

ProProfs

It’s not too hard to find a teacher cribbing about the time spent in preparing test papers, conducting tests and then grading them. If you’re a teacher, you would most probably know how crucial it is to give routine tests to students all the time, only to identify knowledge gaps and prepare better classroom instructions. You finish a topic, give your students a test, conduct it, grade test papers, and then assess the results to identify knowledge gaps. .

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Best Practices for Sourcing Your Customer Success Team Internally

ClientSuccess

Blog post author Irit Eizips is an innovative, passionate customer success thought leader. As Founder and CEO of CSM Practice , she helps high-growth organizations shape and scale their teams to place customer success as a top priority. Irit has been in the customer success space for over 25 years and is an expert in accelerating customer success strategies.

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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.