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In the past few months, the world has changed in many ways. The Black Lives Matter movement has sparked a much-needed dialogue about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog.
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Do you know what annoys me? When I go into an organization, and they say their goal is to delight customers at every moment of contact. Honestly, it sounds exhausting, for both the team and your customers. After all, how much joy do you need to buy paper towels? Another area exists to channel all that enthusiasm instead. There is a significant connection between successful Customer Experiences and the amount of effort they require from customers.
Why do we treat call center overwhelm like a necessary evil? Times have changed, and the call center industry with it. Our phones no longer have cords, the internet exists, and agents no longer have to be tethered to the office. And what’s more, there’s technology — fantastic software that helps you track everything from customer touchpoints to customer feedback.
Yesterday we launched powerful upgrades to the Intercom platform for support teams. Teams can now use Intercom to efficiently provide conversational support for all types of questions, from simple ones to the most convoluted ones. This launch is a meaningful one for us because our Support team partnered hand in hand with the Product team to develop many of the features.
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This week, customer experience expert John DiJulius interviews the legendary Seth Godin, entrepreneur, author, speaker, leader, and visionary. Seth Godin is the author of 20 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35 languages. In 2018, Seth was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame. In addition.
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In Part 1 of this blog series we suggested tools that can help your B2B customers solve issues on their own and ways to help them feel more comfortable doing so. We continued in Part 2 exploring one way that customers can speed up the time to ticket resolution with live chat. And we conclude in Part 3 with more ways to speed the time to ticket resolution, using visual support tools.
Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting
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More than 23,000 registered. And more than 15,000 saw it live! Now YOU can watch 40+ sessions from the Customer Success and Product Management event of the year on-demand. And it’s ALL 100% FREE. The post Pulse Everywhere On-Demand! appeared first on Customer Success and Product Experience Software | Gainsight.
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If you want to know about your performance and to know how your customers feel about you and your company; you analyze their actions in the form of their choices of products and services, their repurchase, their churn rate and so on. But don't you think there should be something that let's you establish a direct contact with the customers and lets you know the real customer insights?
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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