Callminer

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Read this blog to understand the value of measuring and analyzing voice of the customer (VoC).

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s no secret that when it comes to support, customer expectations are higher than ever before – but how are support leaders and teams adapting to these increased demands? Our recent report showed that while 73% of support leaders say customer expectations are increasing, only 42% of them believe that they’re actually meeting those expectations. That’s a significant gap between expectations and reality – and one that it’s all too easy for your support team to fall into.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

In job descriptions and resumes, there are new required skills for candidate’s resumes in Behavioral Science. These jobs might be the most important new jobs in business today. But why? Behavioral science and the scientists that use it will tell you that understanding the “why” of what customers do has become table stakes in some industries today.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It’s easy to get complacent in the call center, taking customer queries one after the other. The Executive Guide to Improving Call Center Metrics. If this sounds familiar, it’s probably time to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. By revisiting your business’ goals and values, you can make a much-needed pivot to improve the impact your call center has on your company — and more importantly, your customers!

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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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Myra Golden Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Guide customers to the next step, or bring down the temperature in interactions, and slash talk time by explaining three things: Here’s what we know Here’s what we’ve done Here’s what’s next. Was This Helpful? I’m asking you because my newsletter offers ideas like this all the time. If you’re not yet subscribed, sign up here.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

There’s a delicate balance any product strategy needs to master: On the one hand, to build a successful business, you need to design features that set your company apart — your core of innovation. On the other, no customer will sign up for a product if there isn’t a solid foundation on which to innovate on. But how do you strike that balance? And how do you get everyone on board?

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Steven Van Belleghem

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Did you know that Nordstrom once refunded a customer for a tire while it didn’t even sell tires? One of the reasons that Nordstrom has been successful for almost 120 years is that the staff is trained to strive to get you a “yes” to anything you request. In 1975, a man returned to a store with four snow tires in the bed of his truck. He bought the tires at a tire shop several weeks before, and he needed to return them.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Totango, Inc., the largest and fastest-growing customer success platform, today announced that G2 has recognized the company as one of the Top 50 Best Software Companies for 2021. G2, the largest software marketplace and review platform, annually names its list of best software companies based on authentic, timely reviews from real users. “We are honored to be named to G2’s prestigious Top 50 Software list for 2021,” said Guy Nirpaz, CEO and Founder of Totango.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A lot has happened in the last 12 months. The world experienced exponential change and began navigating its way towards the “new normal,” and the way that companies support and engage their customers has rapidly evolved. Here at Intercom, we doubled down on building and shipping features across our conversational support and engagement solutions that would fundamentally shift how our customers communicate with their own.

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Kerry Bodine

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I’m a strong proponent of including a short description of the customer persona on each journey map. (Otherwise, how do you know whose journey is being represented?) That practice often brings up a question during client conversations: To what degree should our personas represent different races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, etc.? It’s Black History Month here in the United States, and that seems the perfect time to answer this question in a public forum.

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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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Astute

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

How do integrations help add context to your disparate data sources and help you better understand and boost CX? We take a look in this post. The post How Customer Data Integration Leads to CX Mastery appeared first on Astute.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As a successful, scaling customer success department, your team needs the right tools and resources to be successful. Over the past few years, customer success teams have migrated off sales-focused CRM and project management platforms to solutions that are custom built from the ground-up for customer success teams to better manage customer accounts.

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TeamSupport

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Marketing to your chosen demographic is important, particularly for a growing business; choose the right target market and effectively market your product to those individuals, you’re on the path to success. It’s an essential component of the company business plan, but what is a B2B Buyer Persona, and why is it an important component of your company?

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Totango

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A customer success strategy is a proactive plan for guiding your clients to outcomes that satisfy their needs. When your customers enjoy more value, your product adoption rates rise and customer retention rates go up. This promotes success for your company as well as your customers. In this guide, we’ll lay out a seven-step customer success strategy you can use to promote winning outcomes for your clients: Prioritize a culture of customer success.

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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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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

When public market investors aren’t busy going long or short on GameStop, they are bidding up cloud stocks to all-time highs. There has never been a better time to be a public software company. But in any frothy environment, you can find a mix of cream rising to the top—and dirt along for the ride. How do you identify the signal from the noise in cloud stocks?

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Live chat is everywhere. It’s the most popular digital customer service channel, and everyone knows the basics of what live chat is. But what many people don’t know is just how many ways it can be used for different goals, in different industries. From sales and lead generation, to engagement and loyalty, live chat is an incredibly flexible tool. To show you some of the ways live chat can be used, and how it can benefit both your customers and agents, here are our top 5 live chat examples to ins

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TeamSupport

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A playbook for delivering the ultimate customer service experiences. The customer experience is the new marketing. That’s what Micah Solomon, best-selling author, customer service industry consultant, and Forbes contributor, asked as he opened a recent webinar based on his new book , Ignore Your Customers (and They’ll Go Away): The Simple Playbook for Delivering the Ultimate Customer Service Experience.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

What is customer churn ? The answer directly relates to your success at retaining customers and maintaining revenue levels. Read on to learn what you need to know about what customer churn is and how to calculate it. What Is Customer Churn? A Definition. Customer churn is the percentage of customers lost over a given time frame, typically a month. It is sometimes called customer attrition, customer turnover or customer defection.

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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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The Contact Company

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Customer service, and exceptional customer service at that, is no longer appreciated; it’s expected. As such, brands are needing to go that little bit farther to really ‘wow’ their customers. […]. The post Customer Service: How to Wow your Customer appeared first on The Contact Company.

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Hodusoft

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Nowadays, businesses can support multiple channels of customer engagement which include web, voice, email, digital, and more. However, customers these days expect a more advanced customer experience within a single interaction. To meet their expectations, businesses use technologies that support multiple channels within a single interaction, which is known as the complete omnichannel customer experience.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Offering live chat on your website is a no-brainer if you want to provide accessible and fast support to your customers. It’s fast become the most popular digital channel for customers and agents alike whose experiences are both improved by it. But before you jump into choosing your live chat software , you need to decide if you want hosted or self-hosted live chat.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Valentine’s Day is traditionally thought of as a holiday for couples to celebrate their love, but it’s also simply a special day to show appreciation to those who are important to you – including your customers! While you may not be able to hand-deliver any sweet treats to your customers this year, we can help you send a little digital token of appreciation to them this Valentine’s Day with three FREE email templates that can be customized and ready to send in less than 15 minutes.

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Zendesk

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

When you think about the future of customer service and how it affects your organization, consider where exactly your support team fits into your business. With an effectively integrated CX department, the DNA of your business can pivot away from exclusively managing customer concerns and more towards benefiting the bottom line. Plus, as your approach to customer service matures, the complexity of your customers’ issues increases.

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The Contact Company

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Customer service, and exceptional customer service at that, is no longer appreciated; it’s expected. As such, brands are needing to go that little bit farther to really ‘wow’ their customers. Here are our top 5 customer service ideas to wow your customer… 1. Follow up One of the best ways to really wow your customer is to ensure that you follow up.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We understand just how difficult customer service and support can be. It’s one of the hardest and most thankless jobs around – all too often, a dull ‘thank you’ is their only reward. And 2020 only made it harder. Customer enquiries soared as panicked customers bombarded teams with questions, many of which had never even been asked before. Amidst all this, agents were also tackling the switch from an office to home working environment that posed a lot of challenges for almost everyone.

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Knowmax

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

How to maintain customer loyalty?

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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

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Zendesk

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

How did your life change during lockdown? Whether you spent it muting and unmuting yourself in meetings on Zoom, or logging your kids into online classrooms, it comes as no surprise that digital interactions have surged to an all-time high according to Zendesk’s Customer Experience Trends 2021 report. Regardless of whether or not companies were ready, the pandemic accelerated the digital technology adoption timeline from five years to three months.

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Ameyo Callversations

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

2020 ended the debate whether call centers should move to the cloud. With its inherent flexible features, cloud call center software saw a significant adoption in 2020. Sales, service, and collection departments have moved to remote work environments, paving the way for adopting cloud call center software at length. What led to cloud solutions’ tremendous growth can be simplified into three segments: Scalability, Security, and Integration Capabilities.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Top customer success teams share a growing theme: their own operations team. . I first became a CS Ops leader in 2014, and I’ve seen time after time the value of the software, enablement, templates, data, and more that I’ve helped provide. What’s the first question I ask any CS Ops leader, though? “What do you do ?” CS Ops can feel gratingly vague to understand since it lacks the long history and norms of our go-to-market cousins in Sales Ops and Marketing Ops.

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Knowmax

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Steps to create decision tree for your contact center.

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