Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 13, 2020
We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. At Intercom, we have taken advantage of these technologies relatively early. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences.
Customer Service Life
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Image by Daniel Reche from Pixabay. I recently wrote an article about a new quality process where I coached my team without showing them a score. So far it’s going great and the team has been receptive to the coaching. The other day I was reviewing emails sent to our customers to make sure they were doing all of the following behaviors (Coincidentally, these are the behaviors on our quality form): Making a human connection.
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Heart of the Customer
OCTOBER 15, 2020
I’ve always been a big reader, but the pandemic has given me even more time to indulge my passion. I recently devoured Conscious Capitalism, by John Mackey and Rajendra Sisodia. It really struck a chord with me, particularly this paragraph calling on businesses to stop using the term consumer: “Businesses must think of their customers […]. The post What’s in a Name?
Fonolo
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Are you truly listening to your customers? Sure, your agents hear their concerns and issues each day. But staying in tune with their desires and expectations requires a more deliberate effort. . Customers are not forthright with their expectations, but they know a sub-par experience when they encounter one. And if you want to keep them happy and brand-loyal, you need to develop solutions to their problems.
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Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 15, 2020
This week’s guest is no stranger to this podcast in fact, today’s episode will be his third time appearing as a profiled guest with us. Bob is the President & CEO of The Re-Wired Group and serves as a Fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute. As a visual thinker, teacher, and creator, Moesta has worked on and helped launch more than 3,500 new products, services, and businesses across nearly every industry.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Customer Experience , like everything else in the world, is changing. What customers want and what they do is changing, too. As we prepare for the next generation and level of putting the customer at the center of everything we do for a Post Pandemic world, we should remember that the critical part to achieving what we want (aka, customer-driven growth) is getting inside the customer’s mind.
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Kate Nasser
OCTOBER 11, 2020
Stop before you get to the top of the excuse meter to preserve trust & professional relationships! Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author of Leading Morale. The post The Excuse Meter: Yikes! Stop Before You Reach the Top | #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.
Taylor Reach Group
OCTOBER 14, 2020
By Colin Taylor. In the age of Linked In, everyone claims to be an expert and the challenge for most people is how do you tell the real experts from the self-appointed? I would humbly suggest that there a few factors to consider; What have they done and where (locations and verticals)? In short, what is their experience? Do they share their knowledge, through articles, posts, speaking at events?
TeamSupport
OCTOBER 14, 2020
In Part 1 of this blog series, we introduces why it’s more important than ever to revisit how to keep customer support teams engaged with each other and what tools will help enable collaboration and keep agents motivated and excited about providing excellent support to their customers. Now in Part 2, we dive into tips for enabling collaboration and engagement among support team members.
Steven Van Belleghem
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Offering the ultimate convenience. It’s great to see how financial players all over the world are doing everything they can to offer the ultimate convenience for their customers with frictionless, proactive, zero effort, invisible and personalized services. Alibaba Group’s mobile and online payment platform Alipay’s “Smile-to-Pay” system is probably my all-time favorite in the matter.
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.
DMG Consulting
OCTOBER 13, 2020
IVAs Role in Delivering a Great Service Experience. Three years ago, few companies had heard of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs), and fewer were willing to invest in them. Today, companies are trying to put these solutions in production as quickly as they can. (There’s nothing like a worldwide pandemic that requires people to social distance to emphasize the mission-critical nature of intelligent, artificial intelligence (AI)-based, omni-channel self-service solutions.
Customer Experience Matrix
OCTOBER 11, 2020
Friday afternoon brought an unconfirmed Forbes report that communications platform Twilio is buying CDP Segment for $3.2 billion. The deal would be Twilio’s third acquisition this year, following much smaller deals in January for telephony platform Teravoz and in July for IoT connector Electric Imp. It comes two years after Twilio’s $3 billion purchase of email platform SendGrid.
Kate Nasser
OCTOBER 11, 2020
Stop before you get to the top of the excuse meter to preserve trust & professional relationships! Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author of Leading Morale. The post The Excuse Meter: Yikes! Stop Before You Reach the Top | #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.
Lumoa
OCTOBER 12, 2020
The customer feedback loop is a term that you might have heard before. But what is it actually? In this article, we’ll explain to you what customer feedback loops are, explain the difference between the inner and the outer customer feedback loop, and give some concrete examples of them. More and more companies are turning to customer-centric business strategies to differentiate themselves from the competition with customer 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.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 10, 2020
Like the rest of the world, the Customer Experience world is changing. Customers have new expectations and are doing business in new ways. While we adapt to the world that COVID-19 presents, we change what we want as customers and how we think about our relationships with the entities we buy. As Customer Experience managers, we must rise to meet this challenge by getting inside our customers’ minds.
Totango
OCTOBER 15, 2020
As business becomes increasingly digitized and competitive, customer engagement that makes clients feel valued and appreciated becomes more critical. Covid-19 adds another complicating factor—a heightened risk of customer churn across a number of industries. It is clear that companies need to take every opportunity they can to maintain customer loyalty, and today’s technology makes it easier to do so. .
ClientSuccess
OCTOBER 12, 2020
If there is one thing that customer success managers have learned throughout the ups and downs of 2020, it’s that there is no such thing as being too prepared. The SaaS industry has gone through a ton of instability this year, and seasoned CSMs know that this time of change is far from over. The best way to stay on top of changing customer sentiments and shifting account goals is to put proactive strategies in place to better handle these kinds of situations.
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
Gainsight
OCTOBER 16, 2020
You are standing in an open field west of a white house with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. And just like that, the keynote (err, I mean, game) is afoot! Two sentences and a blinking cursor was all it took to capture my imagination back when I first started leveling up in the ZORK I text-only video game. . At our first-ever Pulse for Product event, we got inspired by this idea of video games, the nostalgia of 8-bit classics, the 90s (or really any year excluding 2020 –
ProProfs
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Learning is an ongoing process that goes beyond the four walls of a classroom. This is why more and more businesses are starting to see the importance of continuous learning and development (L&D) among their employees. Fortunately, the rise of Software as a Service (SaaS) and other cloud technology has made it easier for businesses and individuals to access different training and development software tool s. .
Totango
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Given that peer recommendations are among the most trusted sources of information about a business, positive reviews from existing customers can quickly turn into genuine inquiries from potential new clients. Happy customers can multiply your revenue base since each satisfied client might recommend your services to dozens of their peers. You can activate word-of-mouth recommendations by turning customers into advocates , and display their advocacy through case studies published on your website,
TeamSupport
OCTOBER 12, 2020
“Right now, you as leaders have only one option: lead your way out of this challenge.” That’s what Mike Caracalas , leadership coach, executive consultant, and author of Ten Strategies to Get Better Results with People advised when we sat down with him last Spring. At that time, companies were scrambling to get their employees adapted to the remote work environments.
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Qualtrics
OCTOBER 13, 2020
While some character traits indicate an inclination toward leadership capability, it is still a skill, and skills must be developed in order to unleash their true power. I didn’t wake up one morning and realize that I was a leader. However, I did have the passion, drive, and vision to start my own businesses and identify people who looked to me for direction, inspiration, and opportunity.
Knowmax
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Customer management software: The customer relativity theory.
Confirmit
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Register to watch the webinar for your region. Australia. North America. Europe. How did a “side hustle” turn into a sought-after tool? As COVID-19 began to wreak havoc across our personal and professional lives, ENGINE Insights began surveying consumers and looked at third-party data to provide clients with a better understanding of the overall impact.
Gainsight
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Welcome back to Day 2 of Pulse for Product. While we don’t have an MTV nominated music video to share today, but we do have some winners—our GameChanger Product VIP Awards. The GameChanger community launched to allow our customer success and product network to inspire each other and soar to new heights. Our GameChanger Product VIP Award categories are linked to the four stages of our Product-Led strategy—onboarding, adoption, retention, and growth.
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
Hodusoft
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Modern contact center software may have integrated CRM, which makes life easier for agents. However, portmanteau, all-in-one software may have inherent drawbacks. Further, the software is developed specifically for a purpose. IP PBX does what it is supposed to do: make and receive calls. Accounting software focuses on accounting functions. Contact center software is specifically tailored for call centers to handle inbound and outbound calls as part of customer service or for campaigns.
Knowmax
OCTOBER 16, 2020
What is an intelligent chatbot and how it works? | Features | Advantages.
The DiJulius Group
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius and Senior Customer Experience Consultant Dave Murray recap the amazing group of speakers that presented during week 1 of The Customer Service Revolution Conference, featuring Guy Kawasaki, Jess Pischel, John DiJulius, Corey McCarthy, and Bronkar Lee. This is our 12th year of putting on this event and virtually our first.
Gainsight
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Welcome to Day 1 of Pulse for Product, our inaugural event geared towards those in product management roles. Child-like joy is so vital to Gainsight, and we wanted to incorporate that essence into our theme. What better way to feel like a kid again than through video games, looking back fondly on the 90s and listening to the Backstreet Boys? Yes, you read that right.
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