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The Fusing of AI & Automation with Human Judgment in Call Center Success

Callminer

See the way users and AI mesh to complete tasks in order for AI to deliver the fullest benefits to employees, organizations, and the customers they serve.

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Built for You: How customer feedback informs what we ship

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom we believe great things can happen when you have a conversation. Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. So If you’ve ever asked yourself – how does my feedback add up to the features and updates that we build? Then this podcast has the answers.

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5 New Rules Guaranteed to Build Trust

Beyond Philosophy

5 New Rules Guaranteed to Build Trust. A lot of Behavioral Economics can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. When you choose to do business with a company, which do you prefer, Company A, that you trust, or Company B, that you don’t?

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Where are My Friends? Adjusting to Life as a Leader

Taylor Reach Group

By Peg Ayers. A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and. a little less than his share of the credit. John C. Maxwell. In my years in contact center leadership, my team and I debated many topics and searched for answers to such burning questions as, “Should we allow people to wear shorts to work?”, “Is one minute late REALLY late?

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

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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The Fusing of AI & Automation with Human Judgment in Call Center Success

Callminer

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From cost center to value driver: how support metrics are evolving

Intercom, Inc.

In the not-too-distant past, customer support was viewed as a cost center – a necessary, but non-profitable, part of a business. Today, more and more businesses are realizing the true bottom-line value that incredible customer service brings to a business – customer loyalty , retention, and advocacy to name but a few. In fact, customers don’t just seek out higher quality service – they’re willing to pay more for it.

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Why is Customer Perception Important?

Fonolo

Customer perception isn’t just important — it’s everything. If you’re not investing in brand perception management, you’re putting your business at serious risk. First, we’ll explore what customer perception is, before diving into some examples of why it’s so important. What is customer perception? The term, ‘customer perception’ is used to describe a consumer’s — or a group of consumers’ — feelings and thoughts about a brand.

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What is Customer Feedback Management (CFM)?

Callminer

See how customer feedback management is the increasingly technical process of sourcing feedback from customers and using it to inform business decisions.

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Enlist a Volunteer CX Army

Heart of the Customer

One thing about being in CX – you’re unlikely to have a huge staff. Typically, that’s deliberate. CX doesn’t – and can’t! – own the entire experience. That’s what all those other departments do. Your role is to influence them, and align the entire organization on CX objectives. We’re not yet ready to share the […]. The post Enlist a Volunteer CX Army appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Compensation Plans for Customer Success Managers

ClientSuccess

In the first post of this two-part series, I addressed a key question that often surfaces about who owns the renewal. In this post, I’ll address the most frequent question I’m asked by customer success leaders—what is the best compensation plan for Customer Success Managers (CSMs)? Compensation Plans for Customer Success Managers (CSMs). There’s wide debate in the customer success discipline regarding the best structure for a CSM compensation plan.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

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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The 10 Biggest Mistakes Your Call Center Agents Are Making Right Now

Fonolo

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Gone Virtual: Recap of the CETX Conference

Callminer

After months of organizing, and re-organizing, we’re proud to say that our first virtual Customer Engagement Transformation Exchange (CETX) was a success! With over a thousand registrants, our inaugural CETX and very first digital conference also marked one of our largest events to date. While it may not have been our typical, in-person experience filled with cocktail hours and outdoor activities, there was no shortage of entertainment and powerful and engaging insight from the customer experien

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How to Be the Brand Employees Can’t Live Without

The DiJulius Group

1. Feature Article How to Be the Brand Employees Can’t Live Without By John DiJulius, Chief Revolution Officer Hiring new employees should not be your top priority. Instead focus on creating an amazing internal culture with high morale and low turnover. High employee attention will produce high employee retention, which is much easier and. Read Full Article.

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How to Predict Customer Churn—And What to Do About It

Totango

To paraphrase the famous saying, there are only two things that are certain in business: churn and taxes. While it is impossible to completely avoid either, there is much you can do to limit the impact of both. And, in the case of churn at least, by learning from what you cannot avoid you can prevent yourself from suffering any loss that will do real harm.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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How to Get Started With a New Customer Success Platform

ClientSuccess

You’ve done your research, gone through the sales cycle, and made your decision. Now, the day is finally here – your team is finally implementing your new customer success platform. First of all, congratulations! Making the decision to invest in a customer success platform shows that your organization is 100% dedicated to the long-term success and growth of your customer base. .

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Gone Virtual: Recap of the CETX Conference

Callminer

After months of organizing, and re-organizing, we’re proud to say that our first virtual Customer Engagement Transformation Exchange (CETX) was a success!

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019: Leadership Lessons from a Legend!

The DiJulius Group

What does it take to be an exceptional leader? In today’s episode, Dave Murray talks with leadership expert Dr. Ken Blanchard as they discuss some key insights into servant leadership. The Ken Blanchard Companies has conducted amazing research since 1979. They have created so many amazing programs focused on developing great leaders, which is built.

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Why I wrote ‘The Offer You Can’t Refuse’

Steven Van Belleghem

The world needs perspective and positivism. The world is currently in need of perspective, of hope, of positive signals. Because of Covid-19 many people have lost loved ones, have suffered themselves or worried about the health of their family members. On top of these personal losses, Covid-19 has taken away a big part of our social life, it has ruined entire industries and replaced our world of personal freedom with a world of rules and regulations.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

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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Know your ‘Knowledge’: From Tacit to Explicit

Knowmax

Know your ‘Knowledge’: From Tacit to Explicit.

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New TeamSupport CEO sees wide open market for us to attack

TeamSupport

This article was originally published Aug. 28, 2020 at 3:56pm EDT to Dallas Business Journal. As Pete Khanna interviewed with TeamSupport before he became CEO, there were no in-person chats. Instead, it was all handled over videoconferencing, a new experience for him amid COVID-19. [“In my mind, you actually had more quality interactions during this process than you had in the past, because back then, people felt like you only had a certain amount of time to cover a lot of information, and they

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Contact Center WFO Solutions In the Future

DMG Consulting

Contact Center WFO Solutions In the Future. The contact center WFO suite market has performed well in both good and challenging economic times. It has outperformed most other contact center IT segments during economic slowdowns and recessions because of its ability to reduce operating costs while improving the customer experience and enhancing agent engagement.

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Your three favorite summer insights videos

Steven Van Belleghem

The following videos were the three most popular ones during the last few weeks. AI Filters create the need to invest urgently in branding. Three customer benefits you can create thanks to technology. Bringing the human touch in a digital customer experience. The post Your three favorite summer insights videos appeared first on Steven Van Belleghem.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

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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Why is Closing the Feedback Loop important?

Zonka Feedback

Collecting Customer Feedback has become a necessary task for most of the businesses as this is the only way to know what your customers think and feel about you and how much they are satisfied with your products and services. Customer Feedback is important for any organization to grow.

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Top 5 Reasons Tech-Touch Customer Success Solutions Are a Win-Win

Totango

You can deliver more value in one targeted message than you can in an entire afternoon of aimless conversation. That is the idea behind tech-touch customer success solutions: thoughtful, relevant, value-driven communication delivered only when it has a positive impact on the customer. When your enterprise starts to fulfill its growth potential, it becomes impossible to greet every customer with one-on-one attention.

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Is digital customer service solution another way of saying omni-channel?

DMG Consulting

Question: I’ve heard a lot about digital customer service solutions. Isn’t this just another way of saying that it’s omni-channel? Answer: Digital customer service (DCS) consists of more than adding digital servicing channels to contact centers, which has slowly been happening for years. It’s about meeting customers in their channel (or channels) of choice and conducting an ongoing discussion with them which enhances the customer experience and builds brand engagement.

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The core message of ‘The Offer You Can’t Refuse’

Steven Van Belleghem

Social challenges. Society is looking increasingly towards companies to help tackle society’s problems. People’s trust in the companies is greater than their trust in the government, as revealed by an annual study by the American PR and marketing advice bureau Edelman. Companies like Unilever, Danone, Salesforce, Nestlé and many others now have very clear climate objectives, which are in keeping with the societal ambition to limit the effects of global warming.

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

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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6 Ways to Collect Feedback on your Website

Zonka Feedback

Do you want to know why your visitors abandon your website? Do you know if your customers are happy with your website or not? What is the best way to know their views? Analyzing your website will help you understand what is lacking. Will that be sufficient? No, the best way to gather Customer Feedback is by directly asking them and ensuring you encourage different practices to collect feedback on your website.

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Part 3: Using Data from Reports to Improve B2B Customer Support

TeamSupport

We began this blog series with Part 1 on how to use reports from your B2B customer support software solution to interpret key data and implement strategies as a result. In Part 2 we explored how to use reporting to determine how happy your customers are and what to do if they’re not. We conclude this series with Part 3 where we walk you through how to make strategic business decisions based on trends.

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5 Ways to Increase Revenue With CRM Software

SugarCRM

Five Ways You Can Drive Revenue From Your CRM. Customer relationships form the heart of every successful business. Companies grow and thrive by developing strong, meaningful relationships with their customers and using that rapport to cut through the noise of an overcrowded, overstimulated market. Whether you work in a B2B or B2C industry, modern customers want to be treated like the unique individuals they are.

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What makes a great customer service employee?

The Customer Service Blog

I’ve just been reading an excellent article by Anneke Steenkamp of Zendesk. Anneke suggests that the perfect customer service employee has five main qualities: loyalty; good employee traits; natural problem solving skills; conscientiousness; and persuasiveness. I have reproduced the article below and acknowledge the ownership of the copyright in this article is held by Anneke Steenkamp and Zendesk.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

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.