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What’s behind the 2021 M&A boom for conversation analytics (and how to navigate it successfully)

Callminer

CallMiner, CTO, Jeff Gallino, unpacks the recent M&A activity around conversation analytics, answering “why now?” and providing input for how to navigate this complex landscape.

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Announcing multichannel transactional messaging: Make sure your customers get the message

Intercom, Inc.

We’re excited to announce that you can now send transactional messages using Intercom, empowering you to send all your customer messages from one easy-to-use platform. And because it’s Intercom, we’ve reimagined what “transactional messaging” looks like. In addition to email, you can now choose from a range of conversational message types – like push notifications, in-product messages, banners – so you can engage and inform your customers in the right place, at the right time, using the channel

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5 types of misleading data that hurts customer service

Inside Customer Service

How long does it take to create a merchandise display? This is an important question for a retailer with thousands of stores. Each week, stores received instructions to create new merchandise displays along with the estimated time they took to build. Staffing decisions were centralized. The corporate office estimated how much labor each store needed for the week and created a staffing plan.

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Top 4 Best Practices for Call Routing

Fonolo

Some companies have long contact pages, with hundred phone numbers linking to every department or important person. Imagine scrolling through that list, getting the wrong number, and having to try another one. How frustrating! A call routing system is the industry standard solution to this. Also known as an automatic call distributor (ACD), this tool receives inbound calls and connects them to the department or representative that can best support them.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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23 experts share their favorite call center ideas

Callminer

We share input from business leaders and call center experts on the most impactful call center innovations that can transform your call center KPIs, processes, and improve results.

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Keeping the market in mind: What makes product marketing successful at Intercom?

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we believe the best products are built with the market in mind. That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . This isn’t always the case across the industry. Product marketing looks different in every company, but one common trend is that many product marketing managers (PMMs) feel undervalued.

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3 Reasons Your Call Center is Missing Benchmarks

Fonolo

If sales and profits are up, business is good, right? Usually, yes. But customer success leaders know that performance isn’t always based solely on profit. Call center managers must be aware of industry trends, customer needs, and the latest call center technology. Market research helps, but it isn’t enough. That’s where benchmarking comes in. Benchmarking helps call centers compare their operations and processes to other call centers.

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Multiple Workstyles May Signal the Need for New Compensation Plans at Many US Contact Centers

Taylor Reach Group

by JD Fairweather. After several months of remote working – a workstyle many contact center leaders would have deemed impossible to implement a year and a half ago – employers are finding it difficult to lure staff back into the office. The Delta variant notwithstanding, it seems that employees are far too settled into the routine of managing teams, work, and calls to return to onsite employment anytime soon.

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7 Moments, 7 Customer Feedback Questions for Better CX

Experience Investigators

What are the Best Customer Feedback Questions to Ask? I talk and write a lot about customer feedback. If you’ve read my article on Listening Assessments or downloaded our free Customer Interview Guide resource , you know I love customer feedback that tells a story and contextualizes our other data. When I talk with folks about customer feedback, one thing I often hear is “What questions should we be asking customers?

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How Is Data Analytics Reshaping Construction Data?

Customer Think

We live in an increasingly connected world, and we’re using more data than ever before to solve problems and understand the world around us. The same is true of the construction industry, which relies on data analytics platforms like ITLytics to make design decisions, improve efficiency, and even prevent accidents. From crowd-sourced design software to […].

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The Pragmatic Path to Composability: Creating Efficient Commerce Systems

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker

Brands used to look for a commerce platform that could do everything. But over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, so they added, and added, and added— and now it's essential that these vendors work well together. That’s composable, and it’s important to get it right. Customers and your board expect you to be in new channels and to adapt quickly to market change.

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Amazon Sets the Standard for Every Business

Shep Hyken

I’ve written about this before. Our customers are smarter than ever when it comes to customer service and receiving a great customer experience. They no longer compare us only to our direct competitors, but instead, to the best service they have received from any company, large or small, global or local. These companies are setting the bar higher. They are forcing everyone in business to up their game, and that’s great for us as customers. .

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The top frustrations of customers and agents are the same – Interview with Jeff Nicholson of Pega

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Jeff Nicholson, Global Leader, CRM Strategy for Pega, where he heads up the company’s CRM market strategy and vision worldwide. Jeff joins […]. The post The top frustrations of customers and agents are the same – Interview with Jeff Nicholson of Pega first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning: What’s the Difference (Plus Use Cases)

Uniphore

Learning is complex. What does it take for a person to learn a language, for example? If it’s a modern language, the student buys a book, takes a class or downloads an app. In each option, the student receives specific instruction for mastering part of the language, including feedback from the teacher, checking answers in the book or interacting with the app’s interface.

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Customer Retention and Strategies That Work

Customer Think

When you have invested the time and money to acquire a brand-new customer, you lose on the full revenue capacity of that individual if they leave, or churn, earlier than preferred. By minimizing the rate of churn, companies prosper and grow quicker. When most companies think about how to speed up growth, generally their first […].

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Guest Post: Maximize Productivity with a Customer Experience Management Platform

Shep Hyken

This week we feature an article by Apira Giriharan, a Marketing Manager from Blackchair with extensive knowledge of all matters related to CX solutions. She writes about how contact center agents can maximize productivity and provide a better customer experience. Contact center agents are often hampered by a lack of data and resources, which undermines their productivity. .

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Start with Hiring People Who Show Humanity at Work

Customer Bliss

A little while after Indra Nooyi was named the CEO of PepsiCo, she traveled home to India to visit her mother. The morning after she arrived, piles of visitors began pouring into her mothers’ home. They walked past Nooyi and straight to her mom where they congratulated her on her daughter’s accomplishment. They praised her for her ability to raise a daughter who would become CEO.

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Ecommerce Marketing Tips to Increase Sales and Grow Your Business

Aquire

Starting an ecommerce business is never easy. Running a successful one even less so. That’s why we’ve decided to compile a list of 13 awesome ecommerce marketing tips that will grow your business. Increasing online sales is the key goal of most businesses, regardless of their size. Whether you run a small retail business or are employed by an ecommerce giant like Google, boosting sales through online channels takes the same level of effort and dedication.

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Business Communication: What You Need to Know About VoIP Security

Customer Think

Have a business VoIP phone system but worried about VoIP security? Here is a detailed post to help you understand how to best keep your voice over IP phone system safe and secure. How to Protect a VoIP Phone System? To protect your voice over IP phone system, you must first understand the common threats […].

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Amazing Business Radio: Dan Gingiss

Shep Hyken

The Experience Maker. Creating Consistent Exceptional Customer Experiences. Shep Hyken interviews Dan Gingiss, an international keynote speaker, coach, and author of The Experience Maker. They discuss how to create experiences that customers want to talk about. Top Takeaways: An Experience Maker is that person in an organization that wears the customer hat at all times.

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How to Prepare Your Organization for the Evolution of Work

Conversation Agent

“Great organizations have one thing in common: great managers.” This was the finding on a research by Bain & Company circa 2008. The authors reported four management principles that are essential to achieving breakthrough performance. If you're a nonprofit manager (it hold for companies of any kind), they found your 1) costs of serving should always decline; 2) market position determines your options; 3) clients and funding pools don’t stand still; and 4) simplicity gets results.

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How to Write a Tier 2 Support Job Description + 5 Examples

Help Scout

Tier 2 support team members are the folks responsible for handling technical escalations and more advanced inquiries that are beyond the skills or knowledge of your first level customer service representatives. When supporting a highly technical product, a tier 2 team may handle implementation and core product guidance. In contrast, the tier 2 team supporting a retail product may handle lower priority bugs, dispute resolutions, or triage, as their skills are less about product knowledge and more

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5 Powerful Marketing Trends to Keep You Ahead of your Competitors

Customer Think

Digital marketing has advanced a lot in the last few years. And with the outbreak of the pandemic and the mandatory isolation it brought along, the internet and digitization became an indispensable part of our lives. Unlike ever before, 2020 saw a massive leap in digitalization. Everything went online. Working from home became the new […].

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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CustomerTalk: Norwegian CCaaS provider Puzzel expands into Netherlands market

Logicalware

Following the announcement of Puzzel’s expansion into the Netherlands, CEO Frederic Laziou sat down with CustomerTalk to chat about the latest trends in customer service and our vision for the future. Norwegian company Puzzel , an innovative specialist in cloud-based contact centres, has invested heavily in recent years to offer a flexible and scalable online solution to organisations of all types and sizes that want to optimise their customer services and customer experiences.

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Integration haven

Zendesk

Here are the newest integrations from Zendesk to help your team provide great experiences. BigCommerce by agnoStack. BigCommerce by agnoStack (Support) makes it possible to view and manage Order data from your BigCommerce Store. Allow agents to instantly view historical customer orders as soon as they open a ticket. Get basic order details (as well as order line items, real-time shipping updates, and payment transactions.

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Personalized Customer Service: The Basics

Aquire

Think about a local bakery in your neighborhood (if you’re lucky enough to have one). What does a small business like that do better than other businesses? If we had to pick one thing (apart from freshly baked goods), it’d be personalized customer service. Thanks to their lower sales volumes, small businesses can easily get to know who their customers are and what they want.

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How to Use Reciprocity Marketing to Boost Customer Engagement And Sales

Customer Think

You reap what you sow. You get what you give. Do good things, and good things will happen to you. These old adages have been moral guidelines for centuries, but it turns out that karma is also a pragmatic business approach. In a classic study by behavior expert Robert Cialdini, restaurant diners who were given […].

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Customer Support Rep Job Description: Template and Examples

Help Scout

Customer support representative is one of the most common jobs on the market for individuals looking to work in technology, so the job description you write for your open role needs to be exceptional in order to attract applications from exceptional candidates. It’s important for your job description to clearly reflect your company’s needs and the requirements of the role.

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Do-not-reply emails: Pros, cons, and best practices

Zendesk

Anyone on a support team will tell you that responding to every customer inquiry is tough, especially if you’re working for a small business with limited resources. Using a do-not-reply email—a special type of account that’s unable to receive incoming messages—may seem like a tempting way to lessen that volume. It’s true that do-not-reply emails have their perks, and they may have a place in your business model.

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10 Best Practices for Effective Customer Data Management

Aquire

In a world awash with information, customer data management has become more important than ever. And the potential benefits of this big data revolution are huge — for both companies and customers alike. It’s driving the personalization of customer interactions and helping businesses make better, data-driven decisions. But managing and safeguarding all this data brings its fair share of challenges.

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5 Challenges Faced During Custom Software Development and Their Solutions

Customer Think

The IT industry is very vast, complex and dynamic. Software development is an integral aspect of the industry. It is influenced by numerous factors, including market conditions, growing complexities, changes in technology trends, and growing challenges faced during software development. Software developers from different business landscapes and domains face different challenges.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.