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Foundations to build on: Intercom’s principles for building product

Intercom, Inc.

Clear guiding principles are the best way to scale a team while keeping them aligned. Without a set of principles, organizations begin to fracture. One team heavily believes in Big Design Up Front , another follows Lean start-up , a third tries to instil PRINCE-2 , and before you know it your process is a patchwork quilt of all sorts of conflicting ways to build software.

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For Better Customer Experience, Take a Closer Look at Context in Your Contact Center

Callminer

Speech analytics lets you see the “why” and “how” behind 100% of customer conversations.

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How VOC Analytics Improves Contact Center Performance

CX Accelerator

Contact centers are big on analytics. The main reason companies measure things like their call-handle time, first-call resolution, and internal quality management (QM) scores are to improve customer satisfaction. Although these metrics are valuable, they are internal to the organization, and they may or may not affect satisfaction. So, how do you know if customers are pleased with their level of service?

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Can We Trust Facebook?

Beyond Philosophy

Are you thinking the same as me? Facebook is not what it used to be – or at least my perception of what it was. Instead of being a company that I admire with a customer centric and open culture it now appears that the inherent culture of Facebook is one of non transparency which chooses to manipulate their customers and their data. Furthermore, I believe this could lead to their downfall.

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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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Intercom on Product: The principles behind how we build

Intercom, Inc.

Today’s episode of Intercom on Product is all about principles. We use product principles a lot in Intercom to guide us, in terms of how we build, what we build and how we make decisions. In this installment, SVP of Product Paul Adams and I explore our product principles in depth, discussing everything from how they evolved to the qualities that make a good principle.

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Call center agent feedback: Tips & best practices for providing effective agent feedback

Callminer

These 25 expert tips and best practices will help you deliver more effective, targeted feedback for better results in your call center.

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A Practical Guide To Evoke Emotions In Customers

Beyond Philosophy

How Customer-Facing People Should Evoke Emotions in Customers. I have always thought that talking about how to do something was important, but not as important as actually doing something. I feel so strongly about this idea that I named my company after it. I want my clients to take their ideas “beyond the philosophy” and into action. To that end, this episode of The Intuitive Customer discusses how organizations can take theories and use them in their everyday operations to improve

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Eyes on the future – How to predict your revenue with sales forecasting

Intercom, Inc.

We all know it’s impossible for a sales team (or anyone for that matter) to predict the future. But with rigorous sales forecasting, they can actually get pretty close. Sales forecasting allows you to not only project how much revenue your team will close but also proactively influence current and future deals – by getting ahead of potential blockers, course correcting when you’re trending off target, moving into emerging markets, and more.

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Call Center Agent Feedback: Tips & Best Practices for Providing Effective Agent Feedback

Callminer

Providing feedback to agents in your call center is entirely needed to maintain and improve a quality facility. The right encouragement, or even criticism, could dramatically alter agent performance, both for on-site employees and at-home agents. However, knowing how to deliver feedback can be tricky. Unfortunately, there are a number of pitfalls that can derail the process of delivering effective feedback.

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Interactive Video: The Rise of RPA Bots in Customer Service

Uniphore

Recently, Head of Automation Scott Merritt sat down with the TechTalk team and discussed the ways in which organizations seek to benefit from customer service automation. Most of us think of automation as the software that enables us to request an Uber on our mobile devices or get directions to a new restaurant from Siri or Alexa. Companies, on the other hand, need to look behind the curtain to find out what it really takes to make that customer service magic happen.

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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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Why Customer Success is Important in the Modern Age

Totango

Times are changing. The old sales idea of courting and closing a customer in a single effort and considering their value “bagged” from a one-off transaction is as antiquated as dial-up modems. After all, the digitization of business has empowered customers to seek long-term gains from short-term investments. Customers in the B2B and SaaS markets are inclined toward subscription options where they pay on a monthly or annual basis for a service they can discontinue at any time.

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Building help content into your product launch

Intercom, Inc.

When you’re gearing up for a big product launch, creating help content is often the last thing on your mind. There’s so much that goes into preparing for product launches – ensuring your beta testing goes smoothly, locking in your marketing campaign, getting your sales team up to speed. By the time the big day rolls around, it can feel like all that’s left to do is kick off the launch party and wait for the upvotes to roll in on Product Hunt.

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5 Ways to Improve Customer Loyalty and Skyrocket Sales

Return Customer

Did you know that research by Bain & Company found out that increasing customer retention rate by just 5% can increase profits by 25-95% ? If there’s one thing that always bears on the mind of businesses, it is this: What drives a customer to come back for more? In this day and age, where cut-throat competition is rife, brand loyalty is as elusive as a dream.

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Facebook Fines: Is Their Culture To Blame?

Beyond Philosophy

Can We Trust Facebook? Upon reflection of Facebook’s latest privacy violation and $5 billion fine, one must wonder whether we can trust Facebook. After all, the social media platform hasn’t exactly been keeping our private information under lock and key. On the contrary, it appears as if our likes and dislikes, networks and preferences are for sale to the highest bidder.

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

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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Customer Success and Sales: How They Work Together

Totango

What’s better for your business to focus on: customer success or sales? Customer success is the practice of cultivating deep and lasting relationships with your customers, which can unlock lasting customer lifetime value for your business. And sales is, well, sales: a customer makes a single transaction and your business profits. However, no business can thrive without making sales to new customers.

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Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Stop Sending Bad Surveys

InteractionMetrics

In the United States, healthcare is a $3.5 trillion a year market and employs 1 in 8 Americans. For a market with huge impact and under tremendous scrutiny, you would expect medical organizations to take an interested, data-driven approach to measuring the patient experience (PX). In other words, you would expect their patient surveys to be relevant, well-written, and to the point.

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Seven Useful Tips from Experts to “Close the Loop” Customer Feedback

SurveySensum

Imagine, you’ve ordered a meal and it got delayed by 2 hours, you’ve sent quick feedback but got no response from the company. Isn’t frustrating for you as a consumer? Do you know every bad experience is the lost revenue for your business of that specific customer? It’s 2019, CX is trending and becoming more important now than ever. In this new era, the experience is the differentiator, not the brand.

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What Make a Great Customer Experience Leader

Heart of the Customer

Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to interview dozens of CX leaders, and still more as we wrote our book. Combining that knowledge with some of the industry research, such as CustomerThink’s report on winning CX programs, we’ve identified three traits that separate the best customer experience leaders from the rest. For too many, […].

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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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Why Efficient Customer Service is Valuable to B2B Companies

TeamSupport

Please hold. There are 12 callers ahead of you. Your business is important to us. This scenario is still far too common in customer support, even in the B2B (business-to-business) industry where the average customer value is higher and business relationships matter more. Sometimes waiting on hold for a half hour may be because of understaffing. But, other times it’s simply due to an inefficient customer service team.

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What is Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)?

UJET

Traditional call centers typically host all of its hardware and software on-site. This meant necessary hardware such as computers, servers, and all the infrastructure needs had to be stored and used at a central location. Agents would come into work and sit at a workstation to address support issues.

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Why You Must Take the Monkey Off Your Customer’s Back

Customer Bliss

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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Essential Truth: Be Verbally Abusive & You Lose Everything | #PeopleSkills

Kate Nasser

Before you vent your heavy frustration on others by being verbally abusive, remember you will lose everything. Here's why. Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post Essential Truth: Be Verbally Abusive & You Lose Everything | #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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Why Customer Success is Important in the Modern Age

Totango

Times are changing. The old sales idea of courting and closing a customer in a single effort and considering their value “bagged” from a one-off transaction is as antiquated as dial-up modems. After all, the digitization of business has empowered customers to seek long-term gains from short-term investments. Customers in the B2B and SaaS markets are inclined toward subscription options where they pay on a monthly or annual basis for a service they can discontinue at any time.

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What is Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)?

UJET

Traditional call centers typically host all of its hardware and software on-site. This meant necessary hardware such as computers, servers, and all the infrastructure needs had to be stored and used at a central location. Agents would come into work and sit at a workstation to address support issues. Having all support hardware and software in one location was fine when the number of support channels was limited.

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How to Tie Compensation to Your VoC Program

PeopleMetrics

Yes, you should tie compensation to your Voice of Customer (VoC) program ( it’s the best way to get your people to actually use it! ). But be strategic about how you do it. and when. Monetary bonus programs. There are many creative ways to tie VoC to compensation, but one of the most common ways is do it through a bonus program. Your bonus program could be based on people achieving a particular NPS level or customer satisfaction score.

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Meet Your Customers On Their Terms: The Importance of Omnichannel Support

ModSquad

As technology has become more advanced in recent years, companies dramatically changed the way they’re handling customer support. Not so long ago, the only way for customers to reach a company was through phone or fax. Today, efficient companies also offer consumers the opportunity to get support through email, live chat, SMS, social media, apps, and within video games.

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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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Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Stop Sending Bad Surveys

InteractionMetrics

In the United States, healthcare is a $3.5 trillion a year market and employs 1 in 8 Americans. For a market with huge impact and under tremendous scrutiny, you would expect medical organizations to take an interested, data-driven approach to measuring the patient experience (PX). In other words, you would expect their patient surveys to be relevant, well-written, and to the point.

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Turnover in Call Centers – Why So Much?

CSAT.AI

Twisted Sister could have been singing for call center and contact center workers in this 1980s anthem. Per The Quality Assurance & Training Connection (QATC) 2018 study, turnover in US contact centers alone is “between 30-45% which is more than double the average for all occupations in the U.S.” Intense. There are many reasons why there is so much turnover in call centers.

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How to Prepare Your Call Center for Seasonal Call Spikes: Utilities

Fonolo

It’s no secret that, once upon a time, utility companies could get away with less than stellar customer service. Nowadays, increased competition means that customers have more alternatives than ever before, and are willing to switch providers if they are unhappy. Even utility companies that operate in a de facto monopoly have regulators mandating certain customer service levels with corresponding CSAT scores.

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How Easy are You to do Business With?

The DiJulius Group

Today there are more options than ever before, which can make being a customer difficult and exhausting. Companies not only need to meet and exceed customer expectations with the services and products they offer, they need to make it easy to be a customer. As I am planning my wedding, I now realize how important. Read Full Article. The post How Easy are You to do Business With?

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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.