Callminer

DECEMBER 19, 2018

As CallMiner continues to grow, we are committed to also growing our community support through charitable donations and volunteer activities.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Just ask Sujan Patel, one of today’s most well-known experts in growth. Sujan has seen first-hand just how powerful chatbots can be – greater efficiency, accelerated sales cycles and better customer experiences. Sujan’s no stranger to finding the cutting edge in growth. As the co-founder of WebProfits , he’s led marketing strategy for the likes of Intuit, LinkedIn and Salesforce.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Water and train companies in the U.K. have come under fire recently over their lousy customer service. What do these two seemingly-unrelated industries have in common? Both are monopolies, and a monopoly is almost always bad news for the customer. Water service to homes in the U.K. is provided by regional companies that each hold a monopoly on their own territory.

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Customer Service Life

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We’re moving faster than ever before to make the customer experience WOW-tastic. Customer service agents are expected to turn into an octopus by growing 8 arms to handle all the different contact points, quickly respond to chats, SMS, social media, phone calls and emails. All the hats they wear can’t even stay put on their heads because there are just too gosh darn many.

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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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Myra Golden Media

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Everybody thinks to train employees on the company’s applications and products and to give them basic phone skills. But very few people in customer service actually get the training they need to get an angry customer to back down, politely control conversations with ramblers and skillfully handle the customer who demands to speak with a supervisor. I want to talk to you about why your employees can’t seem to de-escalate intense interactions.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It has been a year of extraordinary growth at Intercom. Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Meanwhile, Intercom, the company, welcomed hundreds of new hires across the organization and opened a new office in Sydney.

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Intercom

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Live chat is a powerful tool , but only when it’s used properly. If you want to support customers with live chat, you’ll need to make smart decisions about where it’s added to your site, how your customer service team will use it, and how it integrates with your other support processes. We’ve put together this guide to help you not only successfully implement live chat on your website, but also to offer the right kind of experience for your customers.

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Myra Golden Media

DECEMBER 17, 2018

No one likes to deliver bad news to customers, but for a lot of us, giving bad news is a regular part of business. You know the feeling – you probably get nervous, or you have to transfer a call to your supervisor because the customer won’t accept your word as final. It’s time to figure out how to fix that! For more than 20 years, through my workshops, I’ve worked with customer service professionals just like you who struggle with how to say things to customers that they don’t

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Email is one of the most effective channels that a business can use to reach its customers. And if done right, it’s also one of the most useful. You might think we’re all about live chat here at Intercom, but we’re true believers in building relationships with users no matter the medium. Email marketing remains an incredibly valuable way of communicating with customers at every stage of their lifecycle, whether you’re a thriving SaaS company or up-and-coming small business.

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C3Centricity

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This shorter than usual post was inspired by a great question on Quora about how to get new clients. Although my original answer was for a web design company, most of my ideas are relevant whatever industry or profession you are in. I therefore wanted to share my answers to the question in the hope of being of help to businesses large or small. First let me say that if you’re struggling to grow, then you’re not alone!

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 21, 2018

There is a great deal of information in academia that can help your business, but how do you access it? How do you read it? How can you apply this to your customer experience? Colin will reveal how you can benchmark your performance against other companies to determine how you are doing in the new world of behavioral economics and customer experience.

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Heart of the Customer

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As defined by RationalWiki, “survivorship bias is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone tries to make a decision based on past successes, while ignoring past failures. It is a specific type of selection bias.” Applied to CX, it’s when you focus only on existing customers and ignore those who have left. Let’s look at an example. There’s a national sports bar which saw its CX scores continually improving. […].

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Lumoa

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Net Promoter Score in the eyes of a marketer. We had a discussion with Bill Macaitis, a man behind Slack, Zendesk and Salesforce marketing about what NPS surveys can bring to your company.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We did it! We made it to the last blog post of 2018. 135 blog posts. Over 5000 Twitter followers. New initiatives. A new platform. New patents. New partnerships. New customers. It has been a busy, extraordinary year for Fonolo’s growth across channels and industries, made possible by the ongoing hard work of our dedicated employees, partners, and clients.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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ProProfs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

A number of enterprises often complain that they don’t get the desired results from employee training. Continued reliance on legacy systems is to be blamed for getting less-than-optimal outcomes as outdated training tools and processes are counterproductive. In such a situation, switching to the ProProfs learning management system (LMS) can prove extremely advantageous to organizations across a spectrum of industries.

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Customer Service Life

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on November 21, 2018 for Thanksgiving. Click here to read the original post. If you’re having trouble finding something to be thankful for, try emailing a thousand or so of your friends and colleagues and ask them to share what they’re thankful for. That’s what I did recently here at FCR for the fourth year in a row and I sure enjoyed reading the 187 responses.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 18, 2018

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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The DiJulius Group

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It is a shockingly high percentage of companies that look at customer service as an expense rather than an investment. Whether you are a two-man start up or a Fortune 500 company, customer service affects every portion of your business, and investing in it is mandatory for your success. No matter how great your merchandise. Read Full Article. The post 5 Ways to Improve your Customer Service appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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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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CSAT.AI

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Sick of hearing about the gig economy yet? If you haven’t heard the term likely you’ve been living under a proverbial rock. Is the gig economy rising? That depends on which source of data you read. Still, the customer service gig is rising. Tell Me What You Want. Workers want more freedom over their work. Ever hear the term work-life balance? Yeah, that.

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UJET

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Phone support is a time-tested customer support channel and has consistently remained the most common way for customers to interact with companies.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 20, 2018

“Our lives as human beings are made up of moments,” said Dan Heath in my interview with him earlier this year. As business leaders, if we can understand and think about this, we can really work to identify moments in an operation where you can stand out and be memorable. One of my most popular podcast episodes of this year features Dan Heath, co-author of the book, The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact.

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ProProfs

DECEMBER 19, 2018

What is that one thing that gives you an edge over your competitors? Is it your world-class infrastructure, your global presence or the fact that you are a well-established firm? If your competitors also possess these differentiators, then you don’t have an edge. Your firm may be operating out of a modest warehouse or a posh skyscraper building. It may have been incepted decades ago or it is relatively new to the market.

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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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Kate Nasser

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Information technology (IT) teams can transform customer experience w/ these steps even w/ high demand. Insights from IT customer service coach Kate Nasser. The post Reach Out to Transform Customer Experience in IT | #CIOs #CFOs #CX appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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TeamSupport

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The fundamental principles that define effective customer service apply across all industries and business types. But certain distinctive characteristics of the business-to-business (B2B) environment can have a huge influence on your approach to training customer service staff. Many B2B companies provide complex, high-value, and business-critical solutions where poor customer support can have significant performance implications for customers.

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 20, 2018

There’s nothing quite like the promise of a new year to get your customer success team invigorated and rejuvenated. While end-of-year planning is the perfect place to rethink game plans and ensure your strategy is in line with your company’s corporate goals , it’s also a time of opportunity and forward-thinking. The beginning of a new quarter and a new year is the perfect time to nail down parts of your customer success strategy that might have been difficult or confusing in the past.

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ProProfs

DECEMBER 17, 2018

According to the “ Grade Increase ” report by Babson Survey Research Group, enrolment in online courses rose rapidly between fall 2015 and 2016 as compared to the previous three years. Public colleges and universities experienced the largest growth of about 7.3 percent in online course enrolment during this period. This implies that approximately two-thirds of all online students enroll in public school programs.

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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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Provide Support

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Live chat has become integral part of modern e-commerce websites. No matter whether you are a large retailer or run a small business, live chat feature added to your website will help you not only interact with your customers in real time but also engage prospects while they are browsing your store. In this blog post you will find useful recommendations for choosing the right chat window for your website. (.).

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Hodusoft

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Call centers must be upping their game on an ongoing basis just to keep up with trends and satisfy ever rising customer expectations. Technology helps and since call centers are essentially powered by software, it follows that using the latest instead of sticking to legacy Call Center software solutions will help them achieve their goals. 2019 could see trends that will become more widely adapted as a way to deliver customer satisfaction and achieve more.

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Confirmit

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Customer feedback has long been used by organisations as a way of surfacing insights to help them refine and improve their support, services and products. Whether by way of surveys, focus groups, social media or a combination thereof, customer feedback has long provided a rich vein of information to mine. And as customer experience has become an increasingly significant competitive differentiator, so these insights have become more valuable.

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Help Scout

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Sure, we follow our fair share of best practices here at Help Scout. We can’t be innovating all the time. Some tools just work. That’s why we keep them in the toolbox. The problem with following best practices, however — as Jay Acunzo writes in his excellent new book, Break the Wheel — is that “Just because something is the most common approach doesn’t mean it’s the best approach for us.

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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.

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