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7 Unexpected Tools that Will Help You Improve the Customer Experience

CX Accelerator

There aren’t many professional career paths more rewarding than Customer Experience (CX). Life as a CX professional is never dull, always changing, incredibly challenging, and so fulfilling. It takes blood, sweat, tears, and heck of a lot of time and dedication to drive meaningful CX improvements and to energize a team to keep the progress going. It’s one of the many reasons why CX Accelerator exists.

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The complete guide to onboarding customers for long-term success

Intercom, Inc.

Good onboarding isn’t just about introducing new signups to your product’s features – it’s a continual process of guiding people towards success with your product. That long-term focus on ensuring people find success with your product should lead to higher customer retention, which is the foundation on which thriving businesses are built. As our Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des puts it, “ customer retention is the new conversion. ”. “It’s important to have a solid strategy in plac

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25 Tips & Best Practices for Identifying the Best Call Center Services

Callminer

These expert tips and best practices will help you choose the best outsourced call center services for your company’s needs.

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A Great Customer Experience Starts With a Great Employee Experience

Lumoa

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Why Tech-Forward Tax and Accounting Firms Have the Inside Track to the Future

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Sales Engineer Manager

Automating time-consuming manual tasks can save your firm hundreds of hours–and thousands of dollars. But it can also have longer-lasting benefits, like helping you attract and retain the next generation of CPAs, and we don’t need to tell you how important that is amid the current generational staffing crisis in the tax and accounting profession. You'll want to save your seat for this new webinar with industry expert Joe Wroblewski, where we'll explore how to: Maximize ROI with Cost-Effective Te

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7 Unexpected Tools that Will Help You Improve the Customer Experience

CX Accelerator

There aren’t many professional career paths more rewarding than Customer Experience (CX). Life as a CX professional is never dull, always changing, incredibly challenging, and so fulfilling. It takes blood, sweat, tears, and heck of a lot of time and dedication to drive meaningful CX improvements and to energize a team to keep the progress going. It’s one of the many reasons why CX Accelerator exists.

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From frontline manager to SVP of Sales: How to stand out in your sales career

Intercom, Inc.

If you are new to sales management, it can be hard to know what concrete steps you can take to improve your skills, be recognized, and eventually, rise to a senior leadership role. Sales managers looking to stand out among their peers would do well to focus on four things: prioritizing work that will move the needle, making sure the right people are on their team, thinking about initiatives that will improve the business (not just themselves and their reps), and developing a solid decision-makin

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How To Provide Exceptional Customer Service Throughout The Holiday Season

Fonolo

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! For most retail companies, the fourth quarter of the year is the busiest and most crucial part of the year for business. This can put a lot of pressure on customer service workers who are not only dealing with a higher volume of tickets but also, potentially, a more stressed shopper. . It’s important for retail companies to have plans and strategies in place when heading into the holiday season to ensure that customer service workers have the tools and r

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7 Unexpected Tools that Will Help You Improve the Customer Experience

CX Accelerator

There aren’t many professional career paths more rewarding than Customer Experience (CX). Life as a CX professional is never dull, always changing, incredibly challenging, and so fulfilling. It takes blood, sweat, tears, and heck of a lot of time and dedication to drive meaningful CX improvements and to energize a team to keep the progress going. It’s one of the many reasons why CX Accelerator exists.

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People & Company’s Bailey Richardson on how to find your people

Intercom, Inc.

“Although a community feels magical, when it shows up in your life, it doesn’t come together by magic.” So says Bailey Richardson, who has spent the second act of her career trying to repeatedly bottle up a bit of that magic so that groups of like-minded individuals can go from crowd to community. As one of the first 10 employees at Instagram, Bailey was wowed by the generosity and kindness that led early users to from Instameets around shared interests and hobbies.

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The Secret of Measuring Customer Emotions

Beyond Philosophy

Unless you serve robots exclusively, your customers are humans. Human feelings influence our actions and drive customer behavior. Therefore, you must design a Customer Experience that makes your customers feel a way that drives value for your organization. In our global Customer Experience consultancy, we have said for nearly 20 years that customer’s emotions account for over half of the outcome in any Customer Experience.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Are You Prepared for Unpredicted Spikes in Call Volume? [Slideshare]

Fonolo

While today’s tech-savvy consumers are using more non-voice channels to connect with businesses, the act of picking up the phone to quickly and verbally resolve an issue (complex or otherwise) isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. The problem with this? According to an Accenture study , consumers’ top two complaints were: Having to contact customer service multiple times; and.

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7 Tips and Resources for CCOs and C-Suite Customer Experience Leaders

Customer Bliss

Last year, Walmart added a chief customer officer role to better align its digital and brick-and-mortar business, especially as competition from Amazon continues to increase. Their goal is to keep the customer at the center of its operations. Mastercard, Neiman Marcus, and many others have added this high-level position to their C-suite as well, increasing their focus on customer growth and relationships.

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QUEL TYPE DE FLEURS CHOISIR POUR DES FUNÉRAILLES?

ClearAction

Lorsqu’on ne trouve plus les mots pour exprimer sa tristesse et son deuil, il est d’usage de se tourner vers les fleurs, avec leurs couleurs et leurs significations si puissantes. Depuis le rituel des funérailles jusqu’aux bouquets de fleurs envoyés par les proches en témoignage de soutien, les fleurs permettent d’honorer la mémoire du défunt. Reste à savoir quelles fleurs choisir pour un service funéraire.

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Insights to understanding Customer Habits

Beyond Philosophy

Understanding Customer Habits: A Practical Guide. Habits can be excellent or terrible for your Customer Experience. When it is the customer’s habit to buy from you, then there is not a problem. However, when it goes the other way, well, let’s just say some habits are meant to be broken. Understanding what habits are and how they work is vital to your Customer Experience.

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Ticket Management for Dummies: Keeping Tickets Organized Truly Matters

TeamSupport

You get a support call escalated to you one minute, your boss tells you to call a different customer the next, and a few minutes later three new tickets hit your inbox, all with totally different issues. How do you and your team stay organized with your tickets when they’re flying in from everywhere?! If all customer problems came in through a single channel, such as email, it would make organizing and keeping track of your tickets so much easier.

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Is This the End of Customer Success Software as We Know It?

Gainsight

The critical role played by customer success (CS) teams is well known, as is the importance of the customer success software powering these teams. But, could thinking about customer success software as a category be leading us down the wrong path? If I was to tell you in 2009 that in just a few years there would be a new category of software almost as prolific as CRMs, customer support, and project management software you wouldn’t have believed me.

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In CX, Relationships Matter

Heart of the Customer

A few months ago, I was interviewing a Senior VP customer of my client, and asked her, “Do you have a relationship with [my client]?” She replied, “Well, yes, we have a commercial relationship…” I cut her off (probably a bad thing to do in an interview!) and said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t explain myself well. […]. The post In CX, Relationships Matter appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Things You Think About When Shopping While Being Black

Myra Golden Media

Two employees were chatting at the register. Both looked up when I crossed the threshold, taking in my Afro blossom, but rather than speak to me, nod or smile, they merely fell back into their banter. Floored by the blatant dismissal dis, yet urgently needing a black dress, I made my way to the Ponte sheath black dress I’d seen on the chain’s website.

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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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The FAQ has Evolved but is it Still a Powerful Customer Service Tool?

CSAT.AI

Humanity loves to ask questions. Our curious nature has taken us as far as the moon and as deep as the quantum world. Some of our questions are much simpler, like how do I turn this thing on? (Admit it. We’ve all asked that question.) For customer service questions one of the most powerful tools is the FAQ. A Touch of History. Whether you say “F-A-Q” or “FAQ”, most people will know what you mean.

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A New Inbound Approach To Customer Success

Gainsight

If you’re familiar with HubSpot, then the word that probably comes to mind is “inbound.”. Inbound marketing was the concept upon which we founded HubSpot: that outbound, interruption-based marketing was going extinct, and instead of interrupting people to get their attention, you needed to start attracting an engaged audience to grow bigger and better.

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Customer Experience Innovation with the One-Way and Two-Way Door rule

Steven Van Belleghem

Two-way door innovation. About 99% of all customer improvements function like two-way doors. This means that the impact of a possible failure of this type of small-scale experiments will always be so low that you’ll be able to retrace your footsteps – and go back through the door – without losing face, heaps of money and – worst of all – customers.

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CSM Metrics: Latest and Greatest Thinking

ClientSuccess

The customer service industry is constantly changing. For CSMs in the SaaS industry, the same metrics that guided decision making and strategy even a few years ago aren’t cutting it anymore. Because customer success trends are rapidly coming and going, customer success leaders must keep their eyes open for the latest and greatest thought leadership. .

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Future-Proof Your Firm: Smarter Tech for Stronger Returns & Simpler Workflows

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Senior Sales Engineer

Is your tech stack working for you—or are you working for it ? 🤖 In today’s world of automation and AI, technology should simplify workflows—not add complexity. Seamless integration and interconnectivity are key to maximizing productivity, optimizing workflows, and improving collaboration. Join expert Joe Wroblewski for a practical and insightful session on how you can build a smarter, more connected tech stack that drives efficiency and long-term success!

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Develop a Customer Journey Strategy: Examples and Tips

Totango

Customers want to see the value of your product or service—fast. They bought your product to solve a specific problem and if they are unable to achieve the desired outcome, they may churn. By helping customers achieve their own goals using your product, you’ll create loyal customers for life. And loyal customers are incredibly valuable, as they often spread positive word-of-mouth about your company and help secure future revenue.

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CCO Career Path: Are You Working with a North Star or ROI-Based Leader?

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. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. Today, I want to talk to you about something that continuously comes up in my podcast conversations , as well as something I recognized when I was a Chief Customer Officer.

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Are You Ready for Some Football?

Confirmit

…Wait, that’s not right. I meant Insurance Experience. Earlier in the month, we held our 6 th Annual Insurance Summit at MetLife Stadium, home of the NFL teams New York Giants and New York Jets. We truly had a blast this year where the overall theme was revolutionizing the insurance experience. At Confirmit, we love talking about experience.

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19 Qualities That Can Make Good Customer Success Managers Great

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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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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Omnichannel Contact Center Software For Travel Industry – You Simply Cannot Do Without It

Hodusoft

The travel industry is an umbrella term that covers diverse services such as air, train and surface travel, hotels, holiday experiences, and business travel. Customers no longer turn to travel agents for advice, tips and to find the right service. They go on internet searches, on social media and expect to find the best. They use mobiles and they use desktops.

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Trick or Treat: Your Customers Are at Your Front Door

Chip Bell

My granddaughters are in the annual early October throes of deciding on a costume for this coming Halloween. It is a chance for imagination and competition! Wonder Woman and Mal from Descendants, even Jasmine from Aladdin, are getting extra nods. It all made me think about what costume I would don. Here is a peephole into my admittedly sinister mind.

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New Fieldwork Reporting Capability: Top Takeaways

Confirmit

With increasing pressure on Market Researchers to show quick top-level insights, efficiency is everything, and while the industry is rightly focused on speed, quality shouldn’t be sacrificed in its favor. Recently, Confirmit launched our brand new Fieldwork Reporting capability , providing out-of-the-box reporting with just one click. In this post I’ll explore some of the core features and benefits for our users.

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What Does the Growth of Advocacy Mean For Customer Success Teams? 

ClientSuccess

As a CSM or customer success team manager, you’ve probably heard the term ‘customer advocacy’ tossed around a time or two. There’s no denying that this customer engagement trend is here to stay. Although they are true champions of your brand and your product, advocates are definitely shaking things up in the CSM world. . Advocates are extremely well-versed in the products and solutions they use because they are working in them day in and day out.

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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.