Sat.May 04, 2019 - Fri.May 10, 2019

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25 call center leaders share ways to boost contact center efficiency

Callminer

Contact center efficiency is a struggle for managers at one time or another. And because efficiency is directly tied to minimizing overhead costs in the call center, it’s a prominent challenge.

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Why opinions aren’t optional in content marketing

Intercom, Inc.

There’s a stat that should strike fear in the heart of every marketer, but particularly those involved in publishing content. By next year the digital data created and copied – everything from iPhone snaps to the billions of hours of TV streamed by Netflix every month – is predicted to hit 44 trillion (44,000,000,000,000!) gigabytes per year. For content marketers, that’s a staggering amount of digital noise that you’re struggling to break through to be heard. “There is one simple strategy

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Emotions Drive Spending, But Do You Know Which Ones Drive the Most?

Beyond Philosophy

In 2004, I presented to an insurance company in Germany about how they should be evoking the proper emotions in their customers. It was a tough audience. One of the guys asked, “How much money are we going to get back by doing this?”. It was not an unfair question, but it was one for which I had no answer. We needed to change that and so began two-years’ worth of research with the London Business School to identify which emotions drive and destroy value.

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What’s Your Customer’s Panic Question?

Myra Golden Media

After six weeks in the hospital, we got the news that Dad would be released and that he would go to a rehab center eight miles away. Mom called me frantic, “He’s so weak, I have no idea how I’ll get your dad into the car to take him to rehab.”. In my customer service workshops, I improve the customer experience by challenging employees to consider, “ What else does my customer need to know?

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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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Your questions on call center agent engagement answered

Callminer

Many contact centers are new to defining what employee engagement looks like, measuring, and figuring out how to tie employee performance to overall company goals.

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Product adoption: how to get customers to embrace your product

Intercom, Inc.

All products share a universal problem, no matter how long they’ve been around or how well they are built – the problem of customer inertia. The sad truth is your potential customers are probably more comfortable staying where they are rather than taking a chance on something new. Luckily, there are ways to convince them to make a switch and increase your product adoption.

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How to Measure and Improve Customer Retention

Lumoa

What is Customer Retention is and how can you improve it? We share the best tips on how to improve Customer Retention and tell you more about other relating KPI:s you can use.

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Welcome, Kevin Corcoran!

Kerry Bodine

Hot off the heels of my announcement of our new project manager, Jade Mulé , I’m excited to announce our latest addition to the Bodine & Co. team , Kevin Corcoran. As a CX Consultant at Bodine & Co., Kevin will be challenging our clients to look deeply at their numbers, while also allowing the human element of data be the voice in guiding business transformation.

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The future of customer acquisition with HubSpot’s Meghan Keaney Anderson

Intercom, Inc.

What does this have to do with marketing? Well, in this day and age, the world of marketing can also seem similarly mysterious, except that new tactics and spaces are emerging every year instead of every 100. If it’s not Facebook modifying its Newsfeed algorithm , it’s Google shaking up AdWords and DoubleClick – requiring marketers to constantly redraft once tried-and-true roadmaps.

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3 Steps to Reducing Stress and Escalations With Customer Service Teams

Myra Golden Media

Back in my call center days, I paid a consultant a wad to tell me to, “Give your employees time after each call to debrief with their co-workers, and create a culture where they can turn to each other for advice and guidance for how to navigate a tough call.” Here are the top three things my consultant advised me to do immediately to achieve the goals she set for me. 1.

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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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Are Your Hours of Operation Appropriate?

Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor. I asked a client recently how they had determined their contact center hours of operation. After a long pause they replied “I don’t know.” Many organizations don’t think too much about their hours of operations, or HOOPs; they are just a fact of life. The contact center is staffed during this window of time to answer inquiries and contacts from customers and prospects.

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The Intuitive Customer by Colin Shaw and Ryan Hamilton (a One Win Book Review)

Customers That Stick

In this One Win Book Review, we take a look at The Intuitive Customer by Colin Shaw and Ryan Hamilton. Check out the video below to hear Adam’s one win that you can take away from The Intuitive Customer to improve your organization’s customer experience and customer service. About The Intuitive Customer. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Consumers are unreasonable – but they’re not stupid.

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Customer Service Approaches To Help Build Your Business

Return Customer

A business can be nothing without its customers. Whether they are high-end clients, repeat staples or one-off transactions, customers are customers, and all should be treated with the respect and benefit to your business that they deserve. Quite simply, poor customer service will eventually spell the end of an organization – according to the White House Office of Consumer Affairs, customers who are the victims of an unhappy experience will tell 9 to 15 people about it.

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Are You Managing This Key Driver of Poor Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

We don’t like uncertainty. It affects our lives in many ways, and especially as customers. Consider the fact that we buy insurance. We purchase peace of mind that we are covered if something unlikely (and terrible) happens. Likewise, we buy Powerball tickets in the improbable event that we will win. In other words, we are terrible at estimating the probability of unlikely events, for good or ill.

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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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Journey Mapping in the Contact Center: 6 Insights to Maximize the Value

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on CustomerThink on February 28, 2019. Click here to read the original post. I’ve recently been collaborating with my colleagues to improve customer satisfaction for one of our clients. While our approach has many aspects to it, one of the key initiatives has been to establish a new voice and style for how we interact with customers.

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Two Days to Journey Mapping Mastery

Heart of the Customer

The Heart of the Customer blog is a place where we share our insights on journey mapping, offer best practices based on our experiences, and share CX practitioner interviews – and we don’t normally place promotional items here. We are making an exception this week; as Jim Tincher and I prepare to release our journey mapping book this month, we want to get the word out about a new Heart […].

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Trust the Front Line to Extend Grace and Honor Your Customers

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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4 Brands Providing Amazing Customer Service with Social Media

Fonolo

While call centers continue to be a crucial component to a company’s customer service strategy, digital avenues are also becoming increasingly popular. In order for brands to remain competitive and provide the level of service consumers are expecting, they must take a multi-pronged approach to their customer service tactics. The call center remains the ideal avenue to funnel in customers who are less tech-literate as well as those with more complex concerns.

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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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Make Customers Smile w/ These Guaranteed Steps | #CX #CustServ

Kate Nasser

Do you want to make customers smile? If you mean more than entertain them, here are guaranteed steps to wow 'em. Kate Nasser The People Skills Coach™ #CX #CustomerService #CustServ #Sales. The post Make Customers Smile w/ These Guaranteed Steps | #CX #CustServ appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Product Updates | May 6th 2019

Totango

We believe that a fast & frictionless experience in Totango is necessary for empowering your team to drive results. For our first of two May releases, we’re excited to share seven new features and enhancements aligned with our roadmap themes of enabling single click engagements and extensibility. Spark. New Feature: Model Reporting Structure in SuccessTeams.

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5 Tips for Finding a CX Platform your Agents, Customers and Exec Team Will Love

Comm100

You can’t build a house on a weak foundation. In the same way, the standard of customer experience that consumers expect isn’t achieved without technology to bring together disparate channels and make consistent, seamless experiences an easy thing to achieve. Thanks to the growth of omnichannel strategies in recent years, there’s no shortage of customer experience (CX) platforms out there.

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HOW DHL BECAME MORE CUSTOMER-FOCUSED, WITH CCO SCOTT ALLISON

Customer Bliss

How does a logistics company shift its gears to become more customer-focused? In today’s episode, Scott Allison , the Chief Customer Officer of DHL ’s supply chain, shares some strategies and tactics around communicating the brand’s message, telling the customer story, and improving employee and customer experience. DHL is a global leader in the logistics industry.

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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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Focus on the People and the Numbers Will Come

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay I originally wrote today's post for CallidusCloud. It appeared on their blog on July 12, 2018. When companies focus on people, their people - employees first, then customers - the numbers will come. This is a tough concept for a lot of executives to grasp. They know the old management adage, companies are in business to maximize shareholder value, all too well.

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Top 5 SaaS Customer Success Health Metrics and 5 Runner-Ups

ClientSuccess

I’m excited to continue on with our blog series on customer success metrics. In our last post on this topic, we covered the top four categories of customer success metrics. The topic I will cover in this blog is on the top five customer success health metrics. I will also throw in a few runner-ups. You can also read the top 5 customer success financial metrics by clicking on the link.

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Is Virtual Reality Ready for School?

ProProfs

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher’s hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience most of our world – David Warlick. Innovation in technology has led to major advancements in the education industry. Online classes, video conferencing, online assessment software and artificial intelligence are just some of the innovative learning concepts used in the classrooms today.

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Do You Know How Good Your Company’s Customer Service Really Is?

The DiJulius Group

Do you really know how good your company, your locations, or departments are at customer service? The DiJulius Group has created an incredibly powerful tool, called the Company Service Aptitude Level Test (C-SAT), which not only pinpoints the Service Aptitude Level of your organization but, even more importantly, lets management know where your strengths and.

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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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Disrupt Live Chat – 3 Considerations on How to End Interactions

CSAT.AI

Beth contacted her wireless provider via chat to ask about data upgrade options for her phone plan. The customer service rep, Dale, answered her question with ease. Beth thanked him. They talked about how cool the most recent “Game of Thrones” episode was, and then Beth closed the window. The chat, however, was not ended. Will the interaction time out and the chat end if Dale waits?

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3 Key Takeaways from My First Two Years as a Customer Success Manager

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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Why Customer Service Integrations are Essential to Success

TeamSupport

It seems like all areas of a business now rely on software in some way. There is payroll software for Accounting, lead nurturing and CRM for Sales, and customer service for the support team to resolve customer issues. All these systems are great, but in this modern era of business how do companies communicate internally with so many different technologies?

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Welcome, Kevin Corcoran!

Kerry Bodine

Hot off the heels of my announcement of our new project manager, Jade Mulé , I’m excited to announce our latest addition to the Bodine & Co. team , Kevin Corcoran. As a CX Consultant at Bodine & Co., Kevin will be challenging our clients to look deeply at their numbers, while also allowing the human element of data be the voice in guiding business transformation.

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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.