Callminer

APRIL 16, 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) is about to transform every segment of our economy.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2018

There is an infinite amount of advice for startups, but if I had to boil it down to just 10 essentials, these are the most crucial principles for starting up that every founder needs to understand from an early stage. You need a vision. You need to run a good beta. You need world class onboarding. You need to know who your real competitors are. You need to understand the four forces.

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Start-ups 223

C3Centricity

APRIL 17, 2018

Everyone is talking about customer first strategies and why they are important. However walking the talk is a different matter! An interesting article on NewMR by Ray Poynter prompted this post. He spoke about the differences between customer focus and customer centricity and the often times confusion between the two terms. That is why I tend to speak about customer first rather than customer centricity these days.

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Lumoa

APRIL 17, 2018

We have been talking a lot about how important it is to take actions on customer feedback. Customer feedback is the essential unlimited source for development and inspiration for the whole company. As mentioned by Lincoln Murphy, " You can focus on adoption, retention, expansion, or advocacy; or you can focus on the customers' desired outcome and get all of those things.

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Callminer

APRIL 20, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is evolving. Change isn’t necessarily bad, but it certainly is confusing when you have to cut through the noise and determine which best practices and trends will launch your contact center ahead of the competition. As a CX leader, you also need to know which technologies will help you achieve your core objectives in managing the customer experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 16, 2018

The nature of marketing at a software company is that it’s easy to have a highly data-driven view of everything you do, and overlook hard to measure things like building a brand. Brand is the emotional connection you establish with your customers and those whom you would like to become customers. This leads to a tunnel vision focus on optimizing funnels and growth hacking button colors, and ignores investing time in equally important tasks, like creating emotional connections with your customers

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UJET

APRIL 19, 2018

Until recently, it was assumed that technology would replace people in customer support. Now it's clear that technology alone isn't enough. Modern customers want the organizations they work with to be their advocates, to be accountable and proactive when it comes to their needs and goals. Customers want their experience with a brand to be personalized and intimate.

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Callminer

APRIL 19, 2018

This post will help you zero-in on those technologies and best practices proven to produce Customer Experience results.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2018

I came to Intercom from a company with a culture of heavyweight engineering processes. It was a well-oiled machine with battle-tested and often updated procedures. From an engineering perspective, it successfully kept you focused on coding. Tasks were always well-described in Jira, with clearly defined expectations. Designs came in and were exported to HTML so you didn’t have to worry about using Sketch.

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Fonolo

APRIL 19, 2018

You may think that watching movies and television shows is something you do for sheer amusement – providing little educational value. Well, think again! I know I recently spoke about the importance of reading vs. watching television in my latest blog on the top customer experience books , but let’s not completely underestimate the power of the tube.

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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.

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Comm100

APRIL 17, 2018

One often overlooked aspect of customer service is sourcing customer feedback. What many managers don’t understand is that customers are often willing to give feedback to brands they have done business with and some, in fact, are eager to do so! Many companies do not take advantage of this and end up missing out on a chance to understand what their customers really want.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 14, 2018

Why are you getting so many complaints? What are the hidden reasons customers complain? How can you identify what the hidden reasons are and reduce the number of complaints you receive? The post Why Am I Getting So Many Customer Complaints? appeared first on.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers.

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Customer Service Life

APRIL 16, 2018

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on March 30, 2018. Click here to read the original. I’m quite fond of the names of a couple members of our Workforce Management Team at FCR — Jeremy Grogan and Jeremy Conway. In fact, I often get copied on emails requesting a detailed schedule analysis or staffing projection, and after a momentary panic attack, realize one of the other Jeremys was the intended recipient.

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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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Customer Bliss

APRIL 18, 2018

In light of the recent Starbucks incident that occurred in Philadelphia, when a store manager called the police on two black men for trespassing , I thought it relevant and important to talk about unconscious bias, and its impact on customer and employee experiences. Listen to how I discussed this situation with Marketplace Morning Report, the morning after the incident.

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Retently

APRIL 19, 2018

Lifecycle emails are an important part of forming, developing and strengthening the relationship between your business and your customers. Done right, they can help you develop a closer connection between your customers and your product, increasing your customer lifetime value (CLV). The reason these types of emails are called “lifecycle emails” instead of simply “emails” is that they’re designed and crafted to achieve a specific objective at a specific point in the customer’s lifecycle.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 20, 2018

Once customers move from planning to implementation, they pass across a metaphorical Rubicon. People justify their thinking and it is then difficult to change their decisions. How do you recognize this and what can you do? The post The Rubicon Model and How To Use It To Your Advantage appeared first on.

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Heart of the Customer

APRIL 16, 2018

B2B journeys are different from those of consumers. Consumer relationships are often anonymous – how many Coke customers have ever met somebody from the company? As ironic as it sounds, business relationships are much more personal. I’ve never met anybody from most of my consumer relationships. I know nobody from Soda Stream, Dell, J. Crew, […].

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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

Customer Satisfaction

Comm100

APRIL 16, 2018

A long-held belief is that exceptional customer service will bring with it extraordinary loyalty. This is something we’ve always believed to be true and accurate. After all, the customer is always right, right? This idea is so ingrained in us that 89 of 100 leaders surveyed flat out stated that their primary goal was to exceed customer expectations.

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Totango

APRIL 18, 2018

We understand your need to get results faster. That’s why we’ve launched Spark – the only goal-oriented customer success platform that accelerates the results of your CS initiatives. If you’re a Customer Success Manager, you need to target and execute activities that will have the biggest impact in the shortest amount of time. And as an Executive, you need visibility to know that everything is on track to meet business goals.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 17, 2018

Facebook is a glimpse into the future for most businesses. Colin Shaw and Professor Ryan Hamilton discuss the recent controversy and the implications. What can we learn from the Facebook scandal? What are they doing with data? What action should we be taking? The post Facebook mistakes: What can we learn? appeared first on.

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Customer Service Training

APRIL 20, 2018

What's the difference between customer service and customer experience? Thoughts and video's here.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 18, 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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Start-ups Customer Experience 48

Totango

APRIL 18, 2018

We understand your need to get results faster. That’s why we’ve launched Spark – the only goal-oriented customer success platform that accelerates the results of your CS initiatives. If you’re a Customer Success Manager, you need to target and execute activities that will have the biggest impact in the shortest amount of time. And as an Executive, you need visibility to know that everything is on track to meet business goals.

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Kerry Bodine

APRIL 17, 2018

A face-to-face workshop with your employees and your customers can be an organization-changing experience. But getting in a room with customers isn’t all roses. Leaders who are new to the customer workshop approach are usually apprehensive about three things: “No one will want to come!” This is by far the most common—but unfounded—fear. Customer recruiting always presents logistical challenges, but we’ve never failed to find customers who are enthusiastic about attending.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 16, 2018

Top Workplace Best Practices for Contact Centers . The workforce is a “mash-up” of diverse multi-cultural and multi-generational personnel. Organizations that want to attract and retain top talent and be considered employers of choice need to use workforce best practices to engage employees and let them know that their contributions are important to the mission of the company, so they feel good about going to work.

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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

Retail

Provide Support

APRIL 17, 2018

Did you know that 51 percent of U.S. employees are looking for a new job? Why? Aren’t they satisfied with their salary? Don’t they like their old laptops? Can’t they bear long traveling to and from office? Or maybe their chief isn’t empathetic enough? It’s quite a difficult task to find the one who cares only about material values when deciding on a job.

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Customer Service 40

ClientSuccess

APRIL 17, 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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Start-ups Customer Relationship Customer Experience 40

Confirmit

APRIL 16, 2018

For quite some time, the default assumption has been that an organization’s Customer Experience (CX) team should be the exclusive owners of initiatives to listen to the Voice of the Customer (VoC) and improve the Customer Experience. However, as CX has become more critical, progressive businesses are realizing it is everyone’s job to focus on tracking and improving the customer experience.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 16, 2018

Question: We’re trying to schedule the right number of agents for our new digital channels through our current workforce management (WFM) application, but the forecasts and schedules are not very accurate. We’ve had our WFM solution about 10 years and it’s provided good results in the past. What’s the issue? Answer: Historically, WFM solutions were designed to forecast volumes and schedule contact center agents to handle inbound calls only.

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