Intercom, Inc.
JULY 13, 2021
The only thing harder than designing a product is designing your career. And many organizations, unfortunately, don’t make it any easier. For instance, the Design Career Index shows that 71% of design orgs don’t have a career progression framework. Less than 1% have documented competencies with scorecards for rating performance. But if you don’t have a map for your career, then how do you know where you’re going?
Uniphore
JULY 10, 2021
How to Cut Call Center Agent Onboarding Time in Half. and Make Every Agent Your Best Agent. August 25th | 11 AM EDT | 4 PM BST. Register Now. Brian Cantor Leading CX Industry Analyst Contact Center Week. Kumaran Shanmuhan CX & Automation Consulting Leader Jacada. Live Demo Featuring 10 Ways to Simplify Agent Onboarding With AI & RPA. Embed learning in the flow of activities that employees and the enterprise perform to deliver their outcomes.
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Beyond Philosophy
JULY 13, 2021
Sometimes your Customer Experience requires you to outsource a portion of it to a third party. Maybe it’s an installer or a tow truck service, or even an entire call center, but whatever or whoever it is, this part of the experience is not under your control. Today, we will examine whether this is a good idea or not. We discussed this topic of outsourcing on a recent podcast , where my co-host shared a story about his friend who ordered a trampoline.
Fonolo
JULY 15, 2021
There are many different call center metrics used to measure activity and efficiency. Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs, can be tracked through integrated phone systems and call center cloud-based technology. These include metrics like customer satisfaction (CSat) score, average handle time (AHT), net promoter score (NPS) , occupancy rate, average speed of answer (ASA), first call resolution (FCR), and more.
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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.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 15, 2021
When we think about design at IBM, we probably remember Paul Rand’s iconic Eye Bee M poster or the famous motto “good design is good business”. But while the spirit is still the same, IBM has come a long way. Since Thomas Watson Jr. took over the company in 1952 and decided to make his mark through modern design, they’ve become the single largest design organization in the world, with over 1500 designers working in innovative products from machine learning to cloud to file sharing.
Inside Customer Service
JULY 15, 2021
Note: The following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of The Guaranteed Customer Experience. Daniel Pascoe has never owned a car. That might seem inconceivable to many people, but a car isn't necessary if you live in a city that has reliable public transportation—like Portland, Oregon. Portland's transportation system is run by TriMet , which provides bus, light rail, and commuter rail service.
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The DiJulius Group
JULY 13, 2021
Across the United States, companies are struggling with hiring and retaining quality employees. Unemployment rates are high but still there is a labor shortage. With many open positions, it’s very difficult to get people to apply and show up for interviews. The market is hot! It’s more important now than ever before that you have. Read Full Article.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 15, 2021
Marketing teams are under constant pressure to find creative ways to generate more leads for sales teams. Over the past few years, marketers have learned one of the most effective methods for lead generation is engaging with prospective customers while intent is high, like when they’re browsing the website or perusing the pricing page. However it’s quality – not quantity – that’s most important when it comes to accelerating your sales pipeline.
Shep Hyken
JULY 14, 2021
How do you say Yes to every customer request ? Is it possible? Is this customer service utopia? My friend Christine Trippi wrote a book titled Yes Is the Answer. And Cameron Mitchell, about whom I’ve written before, wrote a book with a similar title, Yes is the Answer. What is the Question ? Both of these authors have a hospitality background. Trippi is a world-class, award-winning hotel manager and Mitchell is a super-successful restauranteur.
Customer Think
JULY 12, 2021
Basic. The classical definition is one of being fundamental in nature. Slang has turned this categorization into an insult. In either case, using the term “basic” to describe an organization’s customer service is not a positive thing. That’s not to say covering “the basics” isn’t important. In fact, the basics are the absolute starting point […].
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.
Help Scout
JULY 13, 2021
Sometimes the customer service teams who are supposed to be solving problems somehow manage to make them so much worse instead. These are their stories — along with some tips to help you avoid ending up on this list next time we update it! 1. Running from responsibility The root of many terrible customer experiences is a company that is happy to collect money from a transaction but not to accept responsibility when things go wrong.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 14, 2021
When you’re part of a team, you adopt the goals, objectives, and priorities of that team. As a principal engineer, you can effectively be operating as a team of one – and that makes it a little trickier to manage your time. . At Intercom, we believe that a principal engineer should “set goals autonomously and at the level of scope and ambition usually associated with a team.
Adrian Swinscoe
JULY 14, 2021
In the second half of May, I hosted a webinar discussion on Hyper-Personalisation in Financial Services. I was joined by Ian Ashby, Principal Strategist for Customer […]. The post Hyper-Personalisation in Financial Services: What is it and how to achieve it. first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Customer Think
JULY 13, 2021
Augmenting Retail space with intelligent technologies that can create an interactive and context-specific personalization experience. Technology-driven innovations ranging from one-click ordering to personalized recommendations to smart speakers to anticipatory shipping are redefining shopping. Modern technologies like AI, VR, IoT are enhancing the intelligence of the products and services.
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.
The Belding Group
JULY 12, 2021
"I have a great boss. The one problem I have with her is that she quite often misses our meetings. She keeps meetings with everyone else, but she seems very comfortable continually postponing meetings (with me), or just not showing up until a considerable time later. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.
Totango
JULY 15, 2021
The role of a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) is a fairly new addition to the C-suite, but it has been on the rise over the past several years as companies are better understanding the importance of creating a customer-centric culture within their organizations. Customer success (CS) teams are designed to build, maintain and optimize lasting relationships with customers by helping them fulfill, and even exceed, their own business goals.
Shep Hyken
JULY 16, 2021
This week we feature an article by Daniel Bishop, the assistant editor and marketing consultant for ReallySimpleSystems. He writes about creating a better experience for customers when they come into a store. We all know that the retail landscape changed massively in 2020. However, the truth is that the Covid-19 pandemic probably only accelerated what was happening already.
Customer Think
JULY 15, 2021
Virtually all states have ended restrictions on public and indoor dining, and ravenous consumers have been responding. Restaurants sales reached $66 billion in April, a 30% increase from February and a 120% vault over April 2020. But how those dollars are spent, from the time of day to the method of payment, are different from […].
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
Help Scout
JULY 15, 2021
When thinking about education, most of us tend to think only about teachers and other administrative staff — frontline workers, so to speak. It makes sense; frontline educators are incredibly important and often underappreciated. In reality, the education ecosystem is like an iceberg: What you see is just a small fraction of the whole. In order for frontline educators to do their jobs successfully, they need access to things like books, software, and various other supplies.
Totango
JULY 13, 2021
Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. In the old days, growing your business was easy. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. But that was before the internet made it possible to deliver highly customized items.
Shep Hyken
JULY 12, 2021
Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. The Top Customer Service Trends: Digital Channels Overtake Service Options by Phillip Britt. (DestinationCRM) Even as interactions move to digital channels like chat, email, and social media, the companies providing the best customer service are ensuring that they don’t over
Customer Think
JULY 12, 2021
The world of marketing is always changing, and businesses must keep up. Today, more and more brands are beginning to realize the benefits of a symbiotic relationship with one another through collaborative marketing. What is collaborative marketing? It’s a special relationship between two brands with similar interests where parties combine their strengths to their benefit. […].
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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.
Zendesk
JULY 16, 2021
Messaging apps have the highest customer satisfaction rating of any support channel and their usage has skyrocketed. In fact, the volume of support tickets over WhatsApp alone jumped 101 percent in 2020, according to our 2021 Customer Experience Trends Report. Customers want to interact with companies over the same channels they use with friends and family.
CX Network
JULY 15, 2021
Winners of Best Response to the Pandemic at the CX Elite Awards 2021, Virgin Money discuss their adaptation to the pandemic.
The DiJulius Group
JULY 15, 2021
Lawyers, doctors, and accountants suck at service. Why is that? The majority of people in the legal, financial, and medical field lack the client-patient experience and there are a few reasons for this. First, there’s a great deal of education involved in getting a certified license in these industries and it doesn’t stop there as. Read Full Article.
Customer Think
JULY 15, 2021
The wheel may be one of humankind’s greatest innovations, but keep in mind that it’s what the tool can do – not the tool itself – that guides history. This applies to high-tech inventions as well. Retailers thought digital shopping would forever alter consumer behavior, but actually, it’s the implicit capabilities behind e-commerce that are […].
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
The Contact Company
JULY 15, 2021
A frustrated customer is frustrated for a reason, and it’s your job to help turn their negative experience in to a positive one. As we move in to further […]. The post How to Talk to a Frustrated Customer appeared first on The Contact Company.
Qmatic
JULY 14, 2021
During the pandemic, many service providers implemented measures to streamline the visitor journey. Now, as facilities open up, it's time to decide what implementations to retain in your reopening plan. This article aims to describe why appointment scheduling should be a top priority if you want to maintain efficient queue management.
Adrian Swinscoe
JULY 16, 2021
Today’s interview is with Liat Bycel, the VP of Sales at Airtable, the no code collaboration platform, and the person responsible for building the customer engagement […]. The post A good customer experience starts with having the right tools – Interview with Liat Bycel of Airtable first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
Customer Think
JULY 13, 2021
Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, once quipped about technological innovation that, “if it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” And Wright wasn’t wrong. Like many other information workers, I spend my days punching buttons on my computer keyboard – most frequently the “delete email” button. Sometimes I switch things up […].
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