Intercom, Inc.
MAY 20, 2019
Picture this: You’re a product designer with a handful of years on your career path. You’ve cut your teeth on a few big launches and earned your stripes as a solid “mid level” product designer. Like many designers, you’re curious and ambitious. You look to the future and ask yourself, where do I want to be this time next year? What about in five years?
Lumoa
MAY 23, 2019
In this article, we cover why ecommerce customer experience is so critical and offer some tips on how to excel in an online environment.
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Taylor Reach Group
MAY 22, 2019
By Rosetta Lue. The government will better serve all stakeholders by establishing a focus to oversee the design and implementation of a human-centered design strategy that: identifies and responds to key touch points in a stakeholder’s journey. streamlines, integrates, and scales websites and call centers consistently over time. takes a holistic, iterative approach to prioritizing improvements across channels. maintains a mobile-experience first philosophy (people seeking information often
C3Centricity
MAY 20, 2019
Every industry strives to improve their customers’ experience with their products and services. Adopting a customer first strategy is therefore in many company objectives. Unfortunately it rarely goes beyond the theory in many organisations, so I decided to help out with these six suggestions. Hospitality is perhaps one of the most visible industries where customer satisfaction, or lack of, is quickly shared with the world.
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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.
MAY 22, 2019
If you wanted to know your customers’ gripes and praises in the past, you had to assemble a series of questions anticipating their possible answer. Then you had to try to reach them via email and convince them to fill it out. But there’s a better way now. Deepa Subramanian (a graduate of Harvard Law School and a veteran of Salesforce) set out to improve businesses’ understanding of the customer voice by co-founding Wootric , a platform that offers a range of feedback collection and a
Customer Experience Matrix
MAY 19, 2019
Is real-time processing a requirement for a Customer Data Platform? It’s a deceptively simple question that can’t be answered without resolving two additional questions: What do we mean by real-time processing? How do we decide what is and isn’t a requirement? Let’s tackle the definition of real time first. There are at least four different flavors of real time processing that relate to CDPs.
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Uniphore
MAY 20, 2019
There was a time when customers only had a single choice when it came to contacting a company's customer service department. They had to dial a number to reach the department by phone—and make sure that they did so during the company's customer service department's hours of operation. Read More.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 21, 2019
Since we first published Intercom on Onboarding back in 2016, awareness about the critical importance of excellent user onboarding has grown considerably. With the relentless rise of SaaS in particular, the need to help users find value and discover their “aha” moment is more important than ever. The one-off transaction has been superseded by an ongoing relationship, and excellent onboarding is central to the success of that relationship. “Onboarding is the one truly universal
Gainsight
MAY 22, 2019
As a COO, I’m always trying to figure out get a ton of things done in a short amount of time. I’m constantly thinking about how to do more with less. The danger for someone like me is that when you give them technology, the standard for what counts as “efficient” dramatically increases. Here’s what my typical work week looks like. Technology helps me pack my calendar to the brim: any empty 30-minute time slot is immediately visible and available for me to book.
Totango
MAY 21, 2019
In the customer-centric economy, retaining current customers is a top priority. Not only are new customers expensive to win over, but loyal customers are more valuable in the long run. They trust your brand and are more likely to spread word-of-mouth advertising or accept an upsell. Plus, retaining a following of customers gives you a good brand image, as it shows that your company is capable of inspiring loyalty.
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.
Uniphore
MAY 20, 2019
All industries encounter operational obstacles; those with call centers come across an extra set of issues during day-to-day operations. Read More.
Customer Bliss
MAY 23, 2019
“The caliber of the team here is remarkable, and I’ve never seen anything like it. So, that was the reason why I decided to join them. Now it’s been a little under two years, and I still feel the same way,” says Aurelia Pollet , the Vice President of Customer Experience at Exemplis. Exemplis is a B2B2C, which makes custom chairs and lounges for offices. .
The DiJulius Group
MAY 22, 2019
When asked, “How important is Customer Experience to the success of your business?” nearly every CEO rates it a 9 or 10. However, when asked, “How would you rate the resources you are investing into your customer experience?” most CEO’s rate it below a 5. Why is that? Because too many senior executives still view. Read Full Article. The post How Important Is CX To The Success Of Your Business?
Totango
MAY 23, 2019
When your goal is to grow your customer’s business, upselling becomes a means, not an end. That’s the advantage of working within a customer-centric environment. Your success depends on your customer’s success, so expansion becomes a necessity for both parties. Upsells are the result of the growth a customer has enjoyed because of your commitment to delivering lifetime value.
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.
ProProfs
MAY 23, 2019
Learning is more effective when it is active rather than passive. Yes, we are referring to eLearning, which is not confined to the ocean of words but is drawn from a number of skills involved like instructional design, education, visual design, presentations, storytelling, project management, and much more. With benefits like cost-effectiveness , environment-friendliness, improved retention, and flexibility, the trend of eLearning has taken over the entire world of learning in just a matter of a
Customer Bliss
MAY 22, 2019
In lieu of a regular Daily Dose video, I want to share with you an excerpt from a keynote I presented recently that focuses on the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. Would you roll your mother into a hospital hallway and then leave her there? You know that you wouldn’t.
The DiJulius Group
MAY 20, 2019
This guest article is brought to you by Jeff Mowatt, speaker at the 2019 Customer Service Revolution. Do your team members ever give you this excuse when your company loses a customer, “Our competitors are hammering us on price. That’s why we’re losing business.” It’s a convenient excuse that puts the blame on those nasty. Read Full Article. The post How to Move Customers Past Price appeared first on The DiJulius Group.
Gainsight
MAY 23, 2019
When it rains, it pours—products and features, that is! In addition to the exciting announcement of the Gainsight Customer Cloud at Pulse 2019 and new offerings that include Gainsight CDP, CX and RO, our product leaders also shared an incredible list of innovations to our existing products. In fact, with a product team that’s over 200 people strong, one of the things that Gainsight does best is we’re always thinking about how our products can add more value for our customers.
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
Customer Service Life
MAY 20, 2019
This article was originally published on the Talkdesk blog on March 15, 2019. Click here to read the original post. Looking back a decade or so ago, I was a customer service manager at a small SaaS (software as a service) company feeling my way through the contact center. For various reasons we signed on with an outsourcer to help grow our team and that’s where some significant growth for both me individually and the company I worked for began to take place.
Fonolo
MAY 22, 2019
Now that Game of Thrones has ended, you’re probably thinking, “What should I do with all of the extra time I have now?” Allow me to suggest something: It’s a great time to catch up on industry reading. There’s a large (metaphorical) stack of reports to go through here at Fonolo HQ, so let’s dive in! Below are four reports that we think are really worth your time.
ClientSuccess
MAY 23, 2019
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.
Totango
MAY 20, 2019
We know that customer data is at the heart of everything you do, and without it, it’s not only difficult to drive customer success, but it’s impossible to scale it. That’s why we’ve been working hard on some significant enhancements to our Integration Hub recently. To date, these enhancements have included things like the ability to upload aggregate usage data and targeted execution reporting.
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Provide Support
MAY 20, 2019
The importance of online customer reviews. Modern customers start their search of products or services with thorough analysis of information available on the Internet. They visit company’s Facebook and LinkedIn pages and read available online customer reviews. Thus it is important to create a strong online presence and maintain it by collecting customer reviews and testimonials.
Fonolo
MAY 21, 2019
If your feet are firmly planted in the customer service and experience industries, you’re probably as excited as we are about next month. Fonolo is pleased to announce that we’ll be making our triumphant return to Customer Contact Week (CCW), held this year from June 24-28 th at The Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Now in its 20 th (yes, 20 th !) year, the conference, considered the #1 event in the industry, is synonymous with education and inspiration in the customer service ecology.
ClientSuccess
MAY 20, 2019
CSMs Are Problem Solvers. Like diligent gardeners, Customer Success Managers (CSMs) excel at identifying problems and attacking them at their roots. Once one problem is solved, they move on to the next one, steadily weeding out every problem until only the healthy crops are left to flourish. But fundamentally, their focus is always on a problem. This is a solid strategy, but it’s not always the best approach to drive the metrics that matter in customer success.
SugarCRM
MAY 20, 2019
Technology is getting faster, and easier to use. As a result, everybody wants more from the companies that they do business with. Your expectations of a world-class customer experience are rising with every iPhone release or new chatbot you encounter. Whether you are the customer yourself, or the company working with the customer you want more from the technology sitting at the intersection of the customer and the company.
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
Qualtrics
MAY 22, 2019
Ask Jeanne Bliss, CEO and founder of Customer Bliss, what she does for a living and she’ll tell you she’s on ‘a crusade’. It’s one that has seen her give 2,000 keynotes, coach more than 20,000 execs around the world, and publish four best-selling books. Her mission? “To help people around the world do a better job of uniting their organization to improve lives and to grow their business admirably.”.
TeamSupport
MAY 24, 2019
A company website is important to any business. It’s your face and first impression to all different types of people – prospects, investors, researchers, and more – and putting the right content in front of the right role makes a difference. One role that falls into the “and more” category that isn’t prioritized often, but should be, is customers. With so many businesses increasing their emphasis on customer success (doing everything you can to ensure customers are successful with your business)
Steven Van Belleghem
MAY 21, 2019
DiDi. DiDi is the Uber of China. But it’ bigger. A LOT bigger. It counts more car-sharing rides a day than all the other companies of the same type in the world combined, … multiplied by two. That’s 25 million rides a day and 400 million customers in 400 cities worldwide. The beauty of that is that they have more data at hand than all their competitors (75 terabytes of data per day, to be exact), allowing them to better understand customers, and what they expect from mobility.
Help Scout
MAY 21, 2019
Understanding is often based on perspective. You know your company offers customers unique, valuable, and special services or products because you’re on the inside. The question you need to ask yourself is: Do potential customers know what I know? If the answer is no, don’t worry. That’s why we need value propositions. They help us to achieve clarity around our brand, enabling us to craft messages that can speak to customers in the language that makes sense to them.
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