Callminer

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Investing in the right call center monitoring software is imperative for today’s call centers. Without call center monitoring, quality assurance can suffer, customer satisfaction inevitably wanes, and compliance issues can arise. But comparing and purchasing call center monitoring software isn’t as simple as it may seem. There are many variables to consider, and careful evaluation is necessary to find the right software to meet your call center’s unique needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

As a student of engineering you’re incentivised to write a lot and to read a lot. You’re expected to solve many well understood, discreet, simple problems, on paper, on sunny afternoons in late May and early June. This kind of learning has its place – it encourages discipline of thought and allows you to develop certain important muscles that will be useful for later – but to be successful as product engineer , you’ll also need to master a bunch of different skills.

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eglobalis

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Treating Customer Experience Silos Dysfunctional. The post Treating Customer Experience Silos Dysfunctional Syndrome, and Bridging it. 30 advice’s to Tear Down This Wall! appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Customer experience plays an important, if not the most important role in success of any business. Nearly all companies (89%) believe that customer experience will be their primary basis for competition. How do you stand in that competition? Customer experience management brings discipline to this somewhat vague and soft area: by establishing a systematic process for collecting, analyzing and acting on the customer feedback, you’ll be able to start taking the customer experience in control.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Without call center monitoring, quality assurance can suffer, customer satisfaction inevitably wanes, and call center compliance issues can arise. But it isn’t as simple as it may seem.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In sales, we often talk about how to write great email subject lines or best times to cold call. This helps, but in the world of SaaS it’s more important to communicate with your prospects when the timing is right for them to engage. Case in point: product announcement day. Great companies will spend a lot of time crafting sophisticated product announcements with gorgeous design and content, attracting a windfall of traffic to your marketing site.

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C3Centricity

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A recent post by John Ollila on Loyalty Lobby about customer journey maps and touchpoints in the leisure industry prompted me to share with you, an experience I had recently with the Hilton Group. And more importantly the lessons we can all learn from such disasters! Each year around Christmas time, my family get together for a weekend of fun somewhere in Britain.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The field of customer service is very close to my heart. As a young student I worked as a customer service representative, and as a “young” professional, I’ve dedicated myself to a solution that improves contact center interactions around the world. The customer service sector is unique in that it requires both companies and people to undergo continuous improvement.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

If your product is to survive and your business is to grow, improving your user onboarding must always be top of mind. There are two key reasons for this. First, onboarding is the one thing that every user of your product experiences. Secondly, just as Ruairí wrote recently , your onboarding strategy must adapt over time as your product and business evolve.

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Win the Customer

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Public relations disasters are many companies’ worst nightmares. Whether it’s a common mistake that leads to a temporary bad reputation or a bigger problem that affects the future of your business, negative PR can be hard to recover from. PR problems not only taints your brand name and personality, but can also eliminate customer loyalty and significantly decrease your profits and financial backing.

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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

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ProProfs

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Safety, security and adhering to compliance is the major concern of every organization in today’s high-tech world, as the organization’s reputation and financial standings entirely depend on them. Although businesses are trying hard to improve their compliance, the methods they usually follow are traditional and ineffective. To make their management system efficient enough, businesses need to adopt a capable LMS software that offers advanced and robust features.

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UJET

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Once thought of as a cost center, service and support are now front and center as two factors that can either make or break relationships with customers—and don’t just take our word for it. Here are 30 stats that emphasize why investing in great service isn’t just the right thing to do for your customers, but also your business.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

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Win the Customer

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Cloud contact center solutions are becoming the new standard for customer service. The cloud-based contact center market is growing at an explosive compound annual growth rate of 23.6 percent, on track to increase from $5.43 billion in 2016 to $15.67 billion by 2020, Markets and Markets projects. Demand for managed services that allow organizations to outsource their operations is driving this growth, especially in the consumer goods and retail industry.

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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.

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ProProfs

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Every business needs a strategic approach to drive e-commerce sales. Whether it is about using social networks to engage your customers or conducting discussions on a forum, it requires a lot of hard work to get the real profit out of your audience. Although some businesses still follow traditional methods of customer engagement and lead generation such as networking and advertising, they are too static, impersonal and, boring.

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Heart of the Customer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

One thing we CX-ers have in common: we love our metrics. Go to any CX conference, and the room that’s filled to overflowing is probably talking about metrics. Metrics are comfortable for us. Whether we’re talking Net Promoter Score, Customer Effort Score, or good old customer satisfaction, survey metrics give us something to share with […]. The post Your Quest for Survey Data May Be Hurting Your Company appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Myra Golden Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I overhead one of my employees saying to an upset customer, “Sir, I work in our corporate office. I had nothing to do with the problem you’re talking about.”. She attempted to get the customer to calm down. But you know what? That didn’t calm the customer. Her words made the customer even more intense. I pulled my employee aside, and I explained to her that she was escalating the situation with the very words she hoped would get the customer to back down.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Source: Alex Knight. It’s hard to remember a time when Chatbots weren’t a hot (albeit, polarizing) topic in the customer service and tech industries. From customized Chatbots on major brand websites to Siri and Alexa in our own homes, it seems like Chatbots have entered the discussion (and our lives) for good. There’s a reason why we’re so attracted to Chatbots (or at the very least, drawn into the conversation): Chatbots promise to do many things.

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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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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

“ Our customers’ lives and our lives are made up of moments,” says Dan Heath , co-author of The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact in today’s episode. Do you think about how you can create remarkable moments for your customers? Dan and I talk about what a power moment is, the recipe for creating one, and how these experiences affect us in our personal and business lives.

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Customer Experience often lives within Marketing, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the two are always aligned. There is even more room for disparity when CX lives in departments other than Marketing. Today we're talking about your advertising and marketing versus your customer experience, and the importance of making sure that the experience being advertised to your customers is consistent with what your customers actually experience when interacting with your brand.

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CX Journey

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay Don't believe everything you read or hear on the Internet. Yea, I know. Your mom probably warned you about that, but I'm just going to reiterate. It's a fact. Sometimes well-meaning folks put themselves out there as experts in a field and then think they can provide expertise about an unrelated (or perhaps, ancillary) field, knowing/assuming their followers will buy into what they are saying.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

How Do We Get Our Customers to Talk? The post How Do We Get Our Customers To Talk? appeared first on.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Is your organization taking the time to improve its employees lives? When you improve the lives of your employees, you’re also taking the right steps to improve the lives of your customers. In an article recently featured in Retail Drive, “ Why Best Buy is Investing in Employees ,” Corinne Ruff shares how Best Buy’s determination to invest in its employees is driving growth and success for the company.

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Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on January 31, 2018. Click here to read the original. Whether it was as a frontline customer service representative or as a manager working with my team or speaking with escalated customers, there were challenges almost daily that exercised my ability to bounce back in order to remain effective at my job.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Rumors broke on Friday that Twilio will be launching its own call center product called “Flex” next month. If true, this would be a major shake-up of the cloud call center world. There are already many cloud call centers available, but this one is different. First, Twilio has strong financial resources to develop and market this new product. Second, Twilio has an advantage over most other competitors in that it runs a massively scaled, global telephony network.

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Taylor Reach Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

By: Peg Ayers, MBA, CCXP. “What you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying.”. – Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Do as I say, not as I do.” Nobody says it aloud. But it’s illustrated every day when people give rules and advice to others that they don’t follow themselves. New supervisors can be especially prone to this, caught up as they are in their newfound success and power with shiny titles and salaries to go with them.

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Provide Support

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Customer Self-Service and Its Value. In any interaction, allowing another person to take the initiative and choose the terms of communication tends to empower them and enhance their experience. This is the main reason why customer self-service is so popular nowadays, as well as the main reason why it adds so much to the value of your brand. Aside from this, it is quite potent as a tool of reducing your company’s overhead, providing significant time-efficiency as well as allowing your customers t

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

(Editor’s note: the following post originally appeared on DestinationCRM.com ). Last year, we shook things up a bit in the CRM industry by busting five common CRM myths. It was a good manual to help organizations be aware (and more skeptical) of the rhetoric of bloated traditional CRM vendors. However, as the CRM industry changes quickly, more CRM myths have popped up.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches , welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help 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.

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Chip Bell

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

“Set the table” was a directive that triggered a nightly dining room chore when I was growing up. Sometimes my sister got the table setting task; it meant I would be washing the dishes after the meal. I learned early that the knife and spoon were to be placed to the right of the dinner plate with the cutting edge of the knife turned toward the plate.

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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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