The Belding Group
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
The Pot-Stirrer loves an injustice. He (she) lives to find real or imagined issues within the company, or even with you. He constantly questions decisions, and, like a dog with a bone, won't let go of something once he's got his teeth in it. To make matters worse, he just doesn't seem to be happy until everyone at work is talking about it. The Pot Stirrer is almost always in the middle of workplace morale challenges.
Adrian Swinscoe
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Organizations are often fraught with gaps in perception, and many of these impact their ability to improve both the customer and employee experience. Bain is responsible […]. The post Digital teams suffer from a perception gap that hinders customer experience improvement efforts first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.
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Inside Customer Service
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Note: Lessons from The Overlook is a periodic update on lessons learned from owning a vacation rental property in the Southern California mountain town of Idyllwild. It's a hands-on opportunity to apply some of the techniques I advise my clients to use. You can find past updates here. My wife, Sally, and I own a vacation rental cabin called The Overlook Idyllwild.
Callminer
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Ahead of his session at the Online Collections Technology Think Tank 2.1 on September 16, Frank Sherlock shares his thoughts on using data to identify vulnerable customers and assess affordability.
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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.
Fonolo
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
When customers call your customer service line, greeting them with a friendly and easy-to-navigate interactive voice response system is a standard in call center software. This is often the first stage in a customer service journey, so making your welcome greeting and routing accessible and intuitive is a key aspect to your call center functionality.
Shep Hyken
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
One of the favorite chapters I wrote in my recent book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , was about why customers would terminate their relationship with you. Yes, the word terminate ties into the movie Terminator , which somehow became a theme in the background of the book. So, why would a customer terminate his or her relationship with you?
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Callminer
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
Sales leaders need to evolve with technology. Rick Britt, CallMiner's VP of AI, shares why it’s time to change the game and start moving the needle using technology like sales conversation analytics.
Myra Golden Media
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
We had high hopes – and big plans – to reconvene and reconnect at ACX’21 in Arlington, VA, but remember the saying about best-laid plans? Now we’re meeting OCTOBER 26-27 for a FREE online event packed with insightful learning and new opportunities to engage and interact. . Learn more and register here!
Shep Hyken
SEPTEMBER 6, 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. When Customer Care Isn’t Enough, Call the Customer Delight Brigade by Katie Deighton. (Wall Street Journal) Staff members at the George Eliot Hospital in the English town of Nuneaton are used to the sight of flowers being delivered to patients.
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
I had a recent experience with a prospective client. They are a large global (bricks and mortar to digital) retailer who told me that they needed to map their “end-to-end customer journey” They said they wanted a “deep understanding of the emotional experience” and “how they could improve this journey for existing customers and prospects”, […].
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.
Intercom
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
For so many years, customer support was seen as a cost center – the first port of call for customer complaints. Now, it’s taking center stage as the value driver it truly is , enabling businesses to build lasting relationships with their customers, drive increased operational efficiency, and influence better customer satisfaction and retention. Customers’ expectations of support are also changing dramatically as the support landscape continues to evolve.
Help Scout
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Just because a customer clicked a smiley face in your post-service feedback survey does not mean you gave them high-quality service. They might love the product, and your service is just okay enough not to make a difference. Or they might be very happy with an answer, not knowing you’ve given them incomplete or out-of-date information.
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. Despite attending university at Santa Barbara, not too far from the mecca of tech that is Silicon Valley, Maggie never thought she would end up working in technology. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Video marketing is the current trend, bolstered by social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube, which are putting video at the center of our everyday lives. In business, the benefits of making website landing pages more interactive and integrating video into more traditional marketing campaigns have been discovered. Video content has never been more […].
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.
Steven Van Belleghem
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
How do you react when you have an opposing interests with your client? The first question I ask them is “how do you react when your own interest and that of your customer oppose each other”. This type of situation happens more often than you would care to think. Let me illustrate with an example: imagine a bank customer with a sleeping account which hasn’t been used for the last five years.
Fonolo
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
As a call center leader, you have one main goal — to grow your long-term customer base. To do that, you need to keep your customers happy. Call center performance is heavily weighed on customer satisfaction; so, the importance of a customer service strategy is undeniable. READ THE FULL GUIDE: Creating a Customer Service Strategy That Drives Business Growth.
Gainsight
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. Organizations create dedicated roles to continuously improve CS functions to improve NRR or reduce costs by scaling up your customer base with the same CS headcount.
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Customer service is one of the most important elements of a healthy business. Unfortunately, it also tends to be the aspect of business that gets neglected for sexier components like marketing, branding, sales, and innovation. But if you extract more value out of your customer service, good things will happen for your business. 4 Ways […].
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
Uniphore
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field that often attracts hyperbole and misinformation fueled by a general lack of understanding. Popular media hasn’t done much to help the public image of AI, with stories of machines capable of thinking for themselves, stealing people’s jobs and threatening humanity. In reality, AI isn’t close to having the cognitive capacity to surpass human intelligence.
The DiJulius Group
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
We’ve all been there. Stuck in an unsatisfactory customer experience with no hope of resolution in site, and we utter the words “Can I speak with the manager, please?” Ah, The Manager – the person that holds the magical key to all resolutions and customer happy endings. That’s the way it works in your organization, Read Full Article. The post Are Your Managers “Heroes” or “Zeros” When Putting Out Customer Fires?
Zendesk
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Say you’re scrolling through your Facebook app, and you see a post from your favorite shoe store announcing a weekend sale. You’ve been eyeing a cute pair of ankle boots for a while, so you click over to the shop’s Facebook page. You quickly get a prompt to order the boots via Facebook Messenger. There are suggested replies, scrollable image carousels, and payment options, making it fast and easy to buy them.
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
A growing number of marketing leaders now believe that driving business growth is the raison d'etre of the marketing function. Recent research shows that the pressures on marketers to deliver on revenue growth have become intense. A 2021 global surv.
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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.
Uniphore
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Digital servicing has given CX teams the ability to conveniently and efficiently reach out to more customers, and COVID-19 has enabled many companies to adopt digital platforms at scale. But there’s an inherent danger with focusing completely on digital: losing the empathy of the human touch. Dipu KV , President & Head of Operations and Customer Service at Bajaj Allianz General , talks about how the focus in CX is on transitioning from digitizing the physical, to humanizing the digital.
Aquire
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
An omnichannel contact center offers more than just customer communication — it’s a powerful tool for creating memorable customer experiences (CX) and strengthening brand loyalty. In fact, according to the Aberdeen Group, companies with well-defined omnichannel CX achieve a 91 percent higher year-over-year increase in customer retention rate compared to those without.
The DiJulius Group
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius of the DiJulius Group discusses the best and easiest way to find out if your employees have extremely high service aptitude and if your company is obsessed with customer service. You will learn: If your employees are not providing the same level of customer experience every single time, then you’re. Read Full Article.
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
As studied earlier, computer networks are one of the most popular and well-researched automation topics over the last many years. But along with advantages and uses, computer vision has its challenges in the department of modern applications, which deep neural networks can address quickly and efficiently. 1. Network Compression With the soaring demand for computing […].
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
Logicalware
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Payment solution company OPEN cut its response times by 85% after switching to Puzzel’s Contact Centre and completing a reorganisation process. OPEN specialises in payment solutions and point-of-sale systems for the commercial sector, in particular businesses such as restaurants, petrol stations and cruise operations. The company was created through a merger of several companies in the sector, and operates in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, with a workforce of approximately 170.
Ameyo Callversations
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
In the age of chats and social media, the call center is still a key to manage customer queries. It’s the closest experience towards face-to-face customer engagement. Call centers handle large volumes of calls, both inbound and outbound. Understanding the differences between inbound and outbound call centers will help you determine the best option for your business.
Shep Hyken
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Digital Customer Service. Transforming Customer Experience for an On-Screen World. Shep Hyken interviews Rick DeLisi and Dan Michaeli, authors of Digital Customer Service: Transforming Customer Experience for An On-Screen World. They discuss why customer-centric companies need digital transformation. Top Takeaways: Digital Customer Service is about interactions that take place on-screen or have a component of on-screen enhancements (on-screen automation, on-collaboration, on-screen communication
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
With the appearance of presales-focused tools and products, presales managers and leadership now have the opportunity to track activities and establish metrics. But what should be tracked? What should be the measures? Contemplate the foll.
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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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