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Customer experience + employee experience = ROI

Callminer

Our recent webinar with Kate Leggett, VP Principal Analyst at Forrester, dove into the impact of customer and employee experience on businesses’ bottom lines. Read on for a summary of the discussion.

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Contact centres: How to look after your employee’s mental health

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post from Julie Mcintosh, Chief Culture Officer at Kura, the largest independent outsourcer in the UK. The mental well-being of your employees […]. The post Contact centres: How to look after your employee’s mental health first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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The Best Social Media Channels for Customer Service

Shep Hyken

Social customer care may not be the most popular channel to deal with customer issues for most businesses, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. More and more customers are turning to social media to get help. More on why in just a moment. For now, let’s address why companies aren’t using social channels. . When a company tells me they don’t want to participate in social media customer care, I ask why.

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New at Intercom: Unlocking in-product messaging

Intercom, Inc.

?. At Intercom, we believe that in-product messaging will become the primary customer communication channel. Not only is it the only channel you have full control over, but it’s the best place to quickly sort out issues and share information with your customers in a swift, non-disruptive way. After all, if you’re trying to engage your customer or persuade them to take an action, the best and easiest place to do that is when they’re in the product itself – not a few hours or days late

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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27 experts and business leaders share tips for reducing product recalls

Callminer

Product recalls can have a dramatic impact on both a business's reputation and bottom-line. Read on to hear advice from industry experts on how to reduce product recalls.

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How customer success teams drive value through collaboration

Totango

Recent years have seen an astonishing rise in the popularity of subscription-based products and services. The world of ownership is being replaced by Spotify, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and a host of other on-demand services. And of course, customers can easily cancel the very second they become dissatisfied, lose interest, or feel they aren’t getting the value they expected. .

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Catch up with New at Intercom, our fall product launch event

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve just wrapped up another edition of New at Intercom to share our fall 2022 product launch with everyone. Meet the five brand-new product innovations that will drive up customer engagement this fall – including our biggest messenger update yet. The last year hasn’t been easy. The industry landscape is changing, the prospects of a global recession are ever-present, and everyone is struggling to get leaner, reduce costs, increase efficiency, and increase customer satisfaction and retenti

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You are (probably) not a tech company

Steven Van Belleghem

Back to the core. A while ago, I was invited to give a keynote for DPG Media in Belgium, which is one of the leading European media companies. They are truly known for their ability to reinvent themselves and their understanding of the possibilities of the digital world. But surprisingly enough, I heard their chairman Christian Van Thillo state the following in one of his talks: “We are not a technology company.

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Bringing Automation to Customer Service – 5 Chatbot Examples for Any Industry

Comm100

The life of chatbots in customer service has been turbulent. However, as bot technology has rapidly improved, so too has organizations’ readiness to adopt chatbots in their customer service operations. By introducing a chatbot, organizations are now expanding customer service availability, cutting costs, increasing team efficiency, so much more. In this blog, we’ll look at some of the best chatbot examples across industries, revealing how organizations are using automation and the benefits each

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Making the Story up as we Go

Conversation Agent

The “point of view in the American novel” was an assignment I relished during my course on American literature at the University of Bologna. I started the paper by describing a scene from Hitchcock’s Rear Window: A man in the semi-distance looking inside the apartment across and the yard below him. From the activities taking place in his view, the character develops a narrative piecing together clues made of body language and action.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Take customer engagement to a new level with our latest releases: A reinvented Messenger, Checklists, and more

Intercom, Inc.

Customer engagement is the lifeblood of internet business. In a competitive, ever-changing market, establishing deep relationships with your customers is essential for your business to thrive. . At Intercom, we understand that the best way to engage your customers is by delivering the right message, to the right person, at the right time. We’re committed to building a product that helps you understand your customers’ goals and solve their problems in a personalized, contextual way. .

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7 Great After-Call Survey Questions

Fonolo

After-call surveys give you rich insights into your call center’s day-to-day operations. They’re kind of like customer satisfaction surveys, except they’re sent to a customer immediately after an agent-customer interaction. Why does the immediate timing matter? There’s something special about the after-call survey’s authenticity. Think of freshly baked chocolate cookies right out of the oven.

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The age of Conversational CRM is here

Zendesk

Conversational CRM is the new way businesses are managing their customer relationships, relying on new channels (like web and mobile messaging), new technologies (like AI that goes beyond the buzz) and new methods of staying on top of conversations (like fresh interfaces designed for agents). Here’s the thing: Customers are people, and people don’t want to be treated like a ticket or a sale just because they’re talking to brands.

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11 Mistakes to Avoid When Creating Feedback Surveys

Zonka Feedback

Crafting effective customer feedback surveys is an art. To get feedback from your customers, you must think like them and make their feedback experiences smoother than they may be expecting.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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What are the Benefits of Omnichannel Customer Service?

Comm100

As consumer shift from the traditional customer service channels of phone and email towards newer digital channels, organizations are finding that they need to be available in more places, all at once. Live chat, social media, and SMS have all become popular customer service channels, and organizations need to keep up or be left behind. Omnichannel customer service platforms are making this transition easy, as they connect every digital channel together in one place.

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How to Promote Self-Service to Your Customers

TeamSupport

Most businesses maintain some sort of customer self-service tools, whether it’s a chatbot or guide bot framework or a collection of knowledge base articles. Chances are your business maintains some sort of a self-service option, but does your business do a good job of promoting that to your customers? Self-service provides customers the opportunity to solve a question on their own without directly involving your customer support team or help desk ticketing software.

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Why Video is the Untapped Jewel to Greatly Enhance Your Customers’? Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Why Video is the Untapped Jewel to Greatly Enhance Your Customers’ Experience. We created this newsletter in partnership with Streem. Have you ever used the word “doohickey” or “thingymajig” in a call with a contact center? I have. I didn’t know what the whatchamacallit was, but I knew it wasn’t working. Unfortunately, the expert at the contact center didn’t know what the doodad I described was either, so we were at an impasse.

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Top 5 Types of Customer Expectations

Zonka Feedback

One of the most important things a company can do is meet customer expectations. Businesses can lose money and face brand image issues if they don't take steps to ensure customer satisfaction. Meeting and exceeding customer expectations can be challenging, but making an effort in this direction will lead to better results down the road.

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Future-Proof Your Firm: Smarter Tech for Stronger Returns & Simpler Workflows

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Senior Sales Engineer

Is your tech stack working for you—or are you working for it ? 🤖 In today’s world of automation and AI, technology should simplify workflows—not add complexity. Seamless integration and interconnectivity are key to maximizing productivity, optimizing workflows, and improving collaboration. Join expert Joe Wroblewski for a practical and insightful session on how you can build a smarter, more connected tech stack that drives efficiency and long-term success!

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5 Digital Strategies that Increase University Enrollment

Comm100

The state of higher education is changing, and the way that admissions teams work to increase university enrollment must change as well. While digital recruitment strategies have levelled the field for some institutions, others may find it challenging adapting to the new landscape. To increase university enrollment, higher education institutions now need digital strategies to reach students where they are and how they want to connect.

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6 Ways to Reduce Call Center Shrinkage

Fonolo

Reducing call center shrinkage sounds like a no-brainer. If you schedule enough staff, give them the tools to do their job, and ensure they stick to a schedule, your problem is solved, right? Not so fast. For starters, everyone knows call center agents work very hard — but no one can be at their desk 24/7. At any given moment, your scheduled staff may be attending a meeting, taking a break, or arriving late because their kid missed the bus and they had to drive them to school.

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Why video is the untapped jewel to greatly enhance your customers experience

Beyond Philosophy

This podcast was created in partnership with Streem. Delta thinks I am a liar. Or at least it felt like they did on this phone call with me. If we had a video option, the entire experience would be better for both sides, and I would have the flight I wanted. Video can be the untapped jewel of your experience design, and we will explain why. The problem was a schedule change that put me out of Boston instead of Atlanta.

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A Guide to Building Effective Product Feedback Loop

Zonka Feedback

Product Feedback is anything your customers tell about your product based on their experience with your product. It can be a simple comment like “Amazing! It’s super easy to use!” and also be a long testimonial or a long email complaining about a bug or poor interface.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

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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Searching for New Customer Success Software? Start Here! 

ClientSuccess

In today’s modern SaaS landscape, customer-focused teams constantly look for new ways to innovate and grow. Usually, this requires organization-wide investment in people, processes, and tools to make this happen. As customer success departments have expanded in scope and role in recent years, customer success software has emerged as a critical investment for SaaS organizations looking to grow their bottom line, better support their customers, and set employees up for success.

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Guest Post: Cultivate a Customer Service Online Training

Shep Hyken

This week, we feature an article by Christopher Jan Benitez, a freelance writer who specializes in digital marketing. He shares the importance of developing online training resources for your customer service team and how to implement one for the success of your business. Your customer service team must be an asset to your organization. They should help provide quick service , sustain positive customer relationships, and help address concerns prospects have from becoming one. .

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Journey Mapping Techniques To Put Customers At The Center Of Your Business

Doing CX Right

Kerry Bodine, co-author of Outside In and a globally recognized customer experience expert explains how to put the customer first and gain financial benefits by doing human-centered design and journey mapping the right way. Kerry and I dive into her famous book “Outside In” (a must-read) and discuss practical ways to apply human-centered design, and journey mapping the right way.

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33 Pre, During & Post Meeting Survey Questions to Measure Success

Zonka Feedback

Your team's productivity, morale, and development are all impacted greatly by the quality of your meetings. Measuring and monitoring the success of your meetings can provide you with the confidence that you're making progress toward your objectives. Conducting surveys is a tried-and-true method for learning their opinions. A well-designed survey through a reliable survey software can yield invaluable insights, while a poorly executed one will just frustrate participants.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

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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Announcing even more ways to support your customers: Here’s what’s new at Intercom

Intercom

Customer expectations are higher than ever, and businesses are struggling to keep up with the changing landscape of customer support. At Intercom, we’re committed to building a product that enables businesses to offer a world-class, personalized customer experience. As the world of customer support evolves, our product evolves alongside it. . Today at New at Intercom, our fall product launch event, we unveiled a host of exciting new products and features to help you and your team to build deeper

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Amazing Business Radio: Temy Mancusi-Ungaro

Shep Hyken

Creating Employee Morale Through Gifting. How Happy Employees Translate Into Happier Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Temy Mancusi-Ungaro, Chief Executive Officer of Reachdesk , a global data-driven gifting platform that helps teams send gifts at a large scale and measure their impact. He shares how companies can use gifts to create employee morale, nurture team connections, and ensure employee retention.

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What Is a Journey Health Score?

Heart of the Customer

Visualize, monitor, and manage your journeys with a customized metric designed around your needs, your organization, and your customers.

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5 Best Experience Management Metrics

ClearAction

5 Best Experience Management Metrics Lynn Hunsaker. Why are experience management metrics the #1 challenge year after year? Quantifying CX ROI is the top challenge, per Pointillist’s 2019, 2020, and 2021 studies. This means current experience management metrics are insufficient! (NPS, CSAT, FCR, Health / Effort Score, etc.) Interestingly, Employee Experience or Partner Experience can be substituted for CX below.

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Case Study: Key Insights on Wait Times and Customer Service

Faster response times mean happier customers Are your customers on hold too long? Nearly half of consumers find hold times unacceptable, and a quarter will leave your brand because of it. Our latest report reveals how companies are affected by wait times and the impact on customer satisfaction. Read the report to get insights into the impact of long hold times and areas for opportunities.