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Continue, Stop, Start: a new take on retrospectives

Intercom, Inc.

When faced with a problem or new process at work, most people usually don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, they look for patterns and frameworks that are widespread and valuable. A common challenge for many teams is how to run retrospectives. There are plenty of solutions, and one of them is Start, Stop, Continue – a framework to structure a retrospective for a team, career or project.

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10 Tips to Improve Contact Center Operations

Callminer

Without a strong frontline call center staff, you risk losing customers, a poor reputation, and loss of revenue.

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Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Masters of CX Design

CX Accelerator

Customer Experience (CX) is all about creating positive perceptions. Doing this is especially hard when your customers are going through a tough time. Few would know this better than the team at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. People with unimaginable pain enter these doors every day, and yet most will exit with new hope and authentic smiles.

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Getting Customers To Buy From You Habitually

Beyond Philosophy

We all have habits. Some of them aren’t very good habits, either. But we have them, nonetheless. Many of them form without our awareness. We have habits as customers, too, and habits are powerful things, especially for Customer Experiences. We discussed this problem on our recent podcast, and defined habits as any time your mind prepares you to respond in a certain way based on environmental cues or stimulant.

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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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How to collect customer feedback the right way

Intercom, Inc.

There are many reasons an organization seeks out customer feedback. A support team will want to know if they were helpful, while a product team might need help prioritizing what to build next. Whether you’re measuring success, monitoring customer trends or gathering input for a product decision, customer feedback is an essential part of staying competitive and growing your business.

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CallMiner Named a Leader in AI-Fueled Speech Analytics

Callminer

Today we are excited to announce that CallMiner has been named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: AI-Fueled Speech Analytics Solutions, Q2 2018.

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Head of Marketing, How Can You Keep Your Job When Most CMOs Are Losing Theirs?

C3Centricity

What does a Head of Marketing (CMO) do in their average four-year tenure to ensure that they keep their job for longer? Did you know that CMOs have the shortest average term of office of any chief in the C-suite, according to a recent report by Korn Ferry? And even more shocking is the fact that in the consumer goods industry it is even lower at just 3.6 years!

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Smells like team spirit – what sports and engineering teams have in common

Intercom, Inc.

There is something unique about the joy of being on a high-functioning, high-achieving team – and that goes as much for a sporting team as a professional one. We borrow a lot of the words and concepts we use to describe our engineering teams from the world of sports – from huddles and scrums to sprints and even goals, the terminology resonates from the pitch to the office.

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Totango Adds Personity.ai Team

Totango

Totango’s mission is to enable organizations to proactively and intelligently operate around their customers. With industry-leading enterprises confidently running on Totango’s Customer Success Platform, we are dedicated to innovating and bringing to market products that deliver Customer Success results. Extending Product and Engineering Teams. We are constantly hiring the best and brightest Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists who are passionate about our Enterprise-2-Cus

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How to Choose the Best NPS Software for Your Business [2018 Update]

Retently

In the increasingly crowded market, each NPS® product strives to become noticeable by means of distinct features that makes it competitive and visible. In order to choose the best NPS software that properly fits your business, it’s essential to first become familiar with what most NPS tools have to offer. From automating various tasks to integrating with other systems, find out below what you should pay attention to when deciding on the appropriate customer satisfaction survey software for your

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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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Marketers, How Can You Keep Your Job When Most CMOs Are Losing Theirs?

C3Centricity

What does a CMO do in their average four-year tenure to ensure that they keep their job for longer? Did you know that CMOs have the shortest average term of office of any chief in the C-suite, according to a recent report by Korn Ferry? And even more shocking is the fact that in the consumer goods industry it is even lower at just 3.6 years! So just how long have you been in your position?

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Do more with Intercom: 5 new apps for seamless workflows

Intercom, Inc.

Building a platform is something we have been passionate about at Intercom from the start. From very early on , we’ve invested in an open platform and have supported a growing ecosystem of partners and customers building on it ever since. In April, we launched our new Messenger , making it possible to use apps for quick actions right inside the messenger.

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Call Center Cloud Conversion Continues

Fonolo

Most people don’t realize the impressive scale of the contact center industry. Collectively, we spent 190 billion minutes calling a company for help. On the other side of those calls were 3.6 million people working as agents (and those numbers are just for the US). Companies spend roughly $22 billion on the technology enabling all of these interactions, and with the market undergoing a massive change in the last decade, that number will continue to grow.

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Does LMS Hold Power to Cause a Progressive Change in Educational and Corporate Sector

ProProfs

LMS is an abbreviation for Learning Management System ; it is a software application that is typically used to design, execute and publish self-made online courses in online catalogs. LMS is basically a cover-up term that encompasses various attributes of eLearning; in fact, its origination also emerges from the concept of eLearning system. With an advent introduction of cloud based LMS in the education system, the learning and assessment strategy has soared by far because of eLearning and onlin

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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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Would you ditch phone support in your contact center?

Customer Service Life

For us in the contact center world, we know it’s expensive to run a full time phone support contact center. It’s even more expensive when that contact center is 24/7. Phone support is a channel we’ve all known over the years and grown to hate. We’re stuck on long IVR menus, waiting to speak with a real human only to get another robot on the line.

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Don’t forget the service in SaaS: how your sales team can provide world-class service

Intercom, Inc.

Too many startups focus on the first S in SaaS, but they forget all about the second one. When software and service aren’t equal priorities, it’s impossible to build a successful company. The people you hire provide just as much value as your product. When I moved to Silicon Valley in 2007, self-serve software was all the rage. Everyone wanted to create products that sold themselves.

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Taylor Reach Unveils Leadership Training Program for Transforming Contact Center Leaders for the Digital Age

Taylor Reach Group

The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (Taylor Reach) announced today, the launch of their Leadership Training Program for Contact Center Team Leads, Supervisors, Analysts, and Managers. A staggering statistic points out that 84% of organizations anticipate a shortfall of leaders in the next 5 years. While 83% of organizations say it is important to develop leaders at all levels, only 5% have fully implemented development at all levels.

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Stuck? Here are Three Ways to Gain CX Traction

Heart of the Customer

As one of the CXPA’s CX Experts, as well as a journey mapper, I’m often called by companies trying to create momentum for their CX program. Sometimes it’s a midsize manufacturer trying to start their CX program. Other times, it’s a Fortune 50 company who has a program, but seeing its influence wane. I wrote […]. The post Stuck? Here are Three Ways to Gain CX Traction appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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How to Improve Your CX Function Through Coaching

Comm100

With the World Cup in full swing, now is probably the perfect time to talk about one of the essential elements of any team – the Coach. Coaches are focused on improving performance during the moment, and the skills required for an excellent coach are very distinct. Many companies have now started to realize that excellent customer service is essential to the success of the business.

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Continue, Stop, Start: a new take on retrospectives

Intercom, Inc.

When faced with a problem or new process at work, most people usually don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, they look for patterns and frameworks that are widespread and valuable. A common challenge for many teams is how to run retrospectives. There are plenty of solutions, and one of them is Start, Stop, Continue – a framework to structure a retrospective for a team, career or project.

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In the Competitive Airline Industry, Best Practices in CX can be Transformational

Customer Bliss

Let’s face it: the airline industry is tough. It’s competitive and increasingly consolidated. (Do you remember how many airlines there were when you were a kid?) The number of domestic and international passengers rises every year—as do both costs and revenues. To stay ahead of the competition, airlines keep close tabs on customer experience to address flyers’ concerns, preferences, and needs through reports like the recently released J.D.

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Tell-Tale Signs You Need to Upgrade Your IVR

Fonolo

“IVR.”. *Shudder*. Even the mere mention of the acronym is enough to make one cringe. We’ve all had less-than-stellar experiences interacting with a robotic, impersonal interactive voice response. Be it the endless menus, the hunting and pecking for options on the keypad, and worst of all, the failure of the system to understand your request, is enough to drive even the calmest person crazy.

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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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CX Journey™ Musings: Golden Rule or Platinum Rule?

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay Here's another age-old debate. gold or platinum? Personally, I prefer platinum. Oh wait. What are we talking about? LOL. Rules. I'm talking about rules. I still prefer platinum! On the heels of my recent post about imagining that you're a human. I thought I'd take a look at which one, the Golden Rule or the Platinum Rule, puts us into more-human and more-empathetic shoes.

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How to collect customer feedback the right way

Intercom, Inc.

There are many reasons an organization seeks out customer feedback. A support team will want to know if they were helpful, while a product team might need help prioritizing what to build next. Whether you’re measuring success, monitoring customer trends or gathering input for a product decision, customer feedback is an essential part of staying competitive and growing your business.

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Totango Welcomes personity.ai to the Team

Totango

Totango’s mission is to enable organizations to proactively and intelligently operate around their customers. With industry-leading enterprises confidently running on Totango’s Customer Success Platform, we are dedicated to innovating and bringing to market products that deliver Customer Success results. We are constantly hiring the best and brightest Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists who are passionate about our Enterprise-2-Customer vision.

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Contact Center and Customer Experience Events – July 2018

Taylor Reach Group

At Taylor Reach Group, we have compiled a list with hundreds of expos, conferences and summits focused on the Call Center, Contact Center and/or Customer Experience. Whether you’re interested in speaking, exhibiting or simply attending these events, we wanted to keep everybody informed on the upcoming Contact Center and CX Events. With that, here are some of the events taking place in July 2018 (in chronological order) with direct links to each event: Enterprise World 2018: July 10-12, Toronto,

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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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Infographic: Tips for Market Research Organisations to Gain Competitive Advantage

Confirmit

Tip 1: With 61% adults worldwide carrying at least one mobile device, mobile is no longer an option in market research. Mobile is not only a matter of respondent convenience, it is a disruptive industry force. Advancements in mobile technology have created tremendous opportunities for gathering in-the-moment feedback. Mobile surveys triggered based on a respondent’s location improve the speed and accuracy of your research while opening the door to new opportunities such as developing a dee

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Smells like team spirit – what sports and engineering teams have in common

Intercom, Inc.

There is something unique about the joy of being on a high-functioning, high-achieving team – and that goes as much for a sporting team as a professional one. We borrow a lot of the words and concepts we use to describe our engineering teams from the world of sports – from huddles and scrums to sprints and even goals, the terminology resonates from the pitch to the office.

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CXO Transforms Parkland Hospital Customer Experience Through Employee Experience

Customer Bliss

Vishal Bhalla is the VP & Chief Experience Officer at Parkland Health & Hospital System. Similar to my guest Shawn Smith in my last interview, Vishal also transitioned into healthcare from hospitality, after nearly 20 years in the industry. After a personal encounter spending a few days each month in a hospital for two years, Vishal realized he wanted to serve in healthcare.

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Recorded Customer Success Webinar: Churn Probability Score Framework – How to Recognize Risks and Predict Customer Success

ClientSuccess

ClientSuccess hosted Lukas Quanstrom, CEO & Co-Founder, Ontic and 2017 Customer Success Innovator of the Year Finalist, for this month’s customer success webinar series: Churn Probability Score: How to Recognize Risks and Predict Customer Success. The recorded customer success webinar covers the topics on how to build and use the Churn Probability Framework to recognize risks and predict customer success.

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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.