CX Accelerator

MAY 15, 2019

Here at CC Expo, it’s clear that the world of the contact center is at a turning point. The Expo hall is crammed with state-of-the-art technologies and promises of automation, higher efficiency, lower costs. New software and solutions are dazzling and daunting in equal measure. While it’s important to adapt to technological change, it’s important also to be able to look at your customer service function and seek to improve what’s there already.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 15, 2019

Part of the ritual of eating a meal in a good restaurant is the waiter asking if you’re enjoying your food and if there is anything else they can get for you. Now, you might not think much about that particular restaurant practice – after all, it’s just a simple customer follow-up question shortly after your food has arrived. However, there are a few lessons in this simple example of customer service that are valuable for anyone who works in customer support.

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Callminer

MAY 14, 2019

Let’s look at why it’s attractive on the surface to undertake DIY speech analytics and the pitfalls companies we work with have encountered when they have tried.

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Fonolo

MAY 16, 2019

Customer service is often not seen as the effective marketing tool that it is. It’s no surprise: on the surface, the two departments and their goals seem distinct from one another: Marketing is all about customer acquisition (or, attracting new customers), while customer service is all about customer retention. And yet, limiting customer service’s definition to that superficial definition ignores a big part of its potential.

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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

Customer Satisfaction

Taylor Reach Group

MAY 14, 2019

by JD Fairweather. There was a time where video games were purchased, played and completed with no reason to interact with their creators. The enjoyment to be had was contained within a small window of experience and replay-ability reserved for the most dedicated of fans. Post-purchase interaction with the game developers or publisher was limited to a P.O.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

Mid-market and enterprise sales deals are undeniably complex. There are many decision makers, feature requests and critical dependencies that you have to navigate. Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals. You need a structured way to see and track exactly what’s required to progress the deal forward, while also staying flexible enough to adapt to changing deal dynamics.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 17, 2019

Creating a Frictionless Experience. As a global customer experience consultant for nearly two decades, I have never heard a customer say, “Gee! I wish that buying process was just a little more complicated!” Why? All customers want their experiences to be easy. When things aren’t easy in a given moment, we describe that as friction.

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Uniphore

MAY 13, 2019

There was a time when customers only had a single choice when it came to contacting a company's customer service department. They had to dial a number to reach the department by phone—and make sure that they did so during the company's customer service department's hours of operation. Read More.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

That’s why we recently launched Product Tours , a dead-simple onboarding tool featuring a code-free tour builder, error notifications and quick-start templates. As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. So I hosted our Director of Product Management Brian Donohue and Senior Product Manager Patrick Andrews on the podcast today to get the behind-the-scenes look at how this product came to life.

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Myra Golden Media

MAY 13, 2019

Escalated calls are frustrating for everybody – the employee who knows she could’ve done the exact same thing the supervisor did, the supervisor whose hair is on fire, and for the customer who has lost time. It’s time to fix the escalation problem. Here are three ways you can prepare your employees to de-escalate so you can take a little stress out of everybody’s life. 1.

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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.

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Fonolo

MAY 13, 2019

Miele. Its brand promise is “Forever Better.” It’s a household name. And, as it turns out, it’s a new university. As Miele evangelists know, the company stands for two important things: Quality and customers. So, it is fitting that its customer service reflects this, too. The brand, its products, and its thoughtful engagement with customers and employees remain difficult to match in an increasingly competitive marketplace (both instore and online).

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Uniphore

MAY 13, 2019

In today's world we have come to realize that technology makes our lives easier. Incorporated into almost all daily used devices, from smart phones to smart refrigerators, technology simply makes our personal lives easier to manage thereby creating a more efficient use of our personal time. Read More.

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Totango

MAY 14, 2019

Customer success initiatives are critical in ensuring your product gives customers the positive outcomes they’re looking for. But how can you tell if your customer success team’s hard work is paying off? One way is to use key performance indicators (KPIs) to make an abstract concept, like customer success, quantifiable. There are many different KPIs, and each evaluates progress toward goal completion from a different angle.

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Myra Golden Media

MAY 13, 2019

Imagine your newest and most timid employee’s next call is from an irate customer. The customer is ranting so loudly that the person across from her can hear his voice. But your employee is calm and confident. She’s saying things like, “Umm…hmm,” “I see….” and “I realize this whole thing has been frustrating for you.”. She’s leaning in toward her computer and listening to the customer.

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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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DMG Consulting

MAY 16, 2019

Will Robotic Process Automation Replace Human Workers? 4/25/2019. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website. The bots are marching in, a trend that is going to continue at an increasing pace as the use cases for robotics expand to address opportunities throughout organizations. Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are allowing companies to re-imagine and re-invest in all aspects of their businesses, including their employees.

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ProProfs

MAY 17, 2019

The traditional format of training and learning in different organizations is shifting towards a more mobile environment partly due to the limitations of the traditional classroom method and partly due to the need to keep pace with this tech-driven world. The classroom mode restricts the learning of employees – they have to leave their day jobs to receive training to improve performance at work.

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Totango

MAY 15, 2019

Culture is defined by actions. It is a tangible presence customers can see and feel in the way you engage them, respond to them, and present the product. Creating the right culture within your enterprise is, therefore, a matter of giving employees the right customer success tools and establishing best practices for using them. In today’s digitized, subscription-based environment, these best practices are based on finding out all you can about your customers and then using that data to create a c

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Myra Golden Media

MAY 13, 2019

Anger Can’t Be Ignored. We’ve all chosen to not dignify a person’s absurd comment with a response, or perhaps you’ve stepped over a toddler sprawled on the floor in a tantrum, letting them scream. Dismissing fits of anger can be a healthy response in some situations – unless the infuriated person is your customer. Let me unpack this.

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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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Customer Bliss

MAY 15, 2019

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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The DiJulius Group

MAY 15, 2019

My clients always say that implementing daily huddles is the best decision they made in regards to their customer experience journey, but arguably the most difficult. And I agree with them, it is a challenge to get everyone to commit to adding another meeting to their jam-packed schedules. Everyone is so busy that you. Read Full Article. The post How Simple, Daily Huddles Make Your Business Better appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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CX Journey

MAY 15, 2019

Image courtesy of Pixabay How do leaders drive (lasting) change? Last week, I enjoyed spending a few days in Vegas, speaking and networking at Fiserv's annual client Forum. The keynote on the second day of the event was Troy Aikman, who was interviewed by Fiserv's CEO Jeff Yabuki about sports, of course, as well as about leadership and business. One of the stories that Troy shared resonated with me because it's exactly the kind of thing that I talk about when it comes to driving lasting change:

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Heart of the Customer

MAY 16, 2019

We had a keynote from Geeta Wilson, a great sharing from Foot Locker, and said good-bye to the CXPA’s rock Lesley Lykins. HoC team members Ben London and Diane McManman and I posed with her as we said good-bye. The post Report from Day 2 of the CXPA Insight Exchange appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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Comm100

MAY 13, 2019

Most people who have used live chat as a customer know its?biggest?advantages: it’s?quick, convenient, and fits your need for instant communication when you can’t (or don’t want to) pick up the phone. Nowadays, customers expect to be able to choose how they contact your business, in ways which are convenient for them. Imagine if your bank only provided information over the phone – it would be?

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Customer Bliss

MAY 17, 2019

“I was really looking to achieve an experience that was elegant. I’m a big believer in that,” said Eleanor O’Neil, regarding her decision to create a customer success forecasting system. Eleanor is the Chief Customer Experience Officer at Workshare , a B2B company that manages document productivity and security software for legal firms.

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Steven Van Belleghem

MAY 13, 2019

Change the channel. Branding used to be all about presence in shops and classic advertising: shelve space and air time were the best ways to get your brand out there. But in the virtual world, we’ll need to approach our advertising differently. And that’s something that we’ll need to start experimenting with now. On Saturday February 2, the world’s largest ever virtual concert took place within the video game Fortnite: no less than 10 million people streamed the 10-minute DJ set by Marshmello, w

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Heart of the Customer

MAY 15, 2019

Jim checks in after Day 1 of the CXPA’s annual Insight Exchange, where he is this year’s host. It includes information about story-telling, Ian Golding, and AirBNB. The post Report from Day 1 of the CXPA’s Insight Exchange appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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TeamSupport

MAY 17, 2019

“Whoever closes the most tickets by 5PM gets a $50 gift card!”. “5 extra gold stars if you’re able to close 20 tickets today!”. “Every ticket you close is another entry into our iPad drawing on Friday!”. If you’ve ever worked in or been a part of the customer support industry, you’ve likely seen or directly experienced “contents” or “games” like the scenarios listed above.

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ClientSuccess

MAY 15, 2019

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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Confirmit

MAY 16, 2019

Increasingly empowered consumers and ever-changing markets mean global corporations need to rethink how they do business. In their recent Industry Outlook Report, Deloitte highlights the value that “Enabling Technologies” provide to support business improvements at every level. Specifically, they point out that companies leveraging “enabling technologies” can: Act faste r: quickly gather data, analyze it, and pivot as necessary.

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ProProfs

MAY 17, 2019

An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. – Jack Welch, former chairman & CEO, General Electric. Employee training, as most organizations know it, is laborious. But research by Middlesex University found that 56% of HR managers consider training & development (L&D) to be an essential business enabler.

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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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