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Atlassian and Coda on creating personalized customer experiences at scale

Intercom, Inc.

For fast-growing and enterprise organizations, the ability to personalize customer communication in a way that’s scalable is business critical. We know that customer expectations are higher than they’ve ever been , so the experiences you create for them are ultimately going to be what wins or loses their attention – and what moves the needle for your business.

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The impact hateful and toxic social media content has on your customers and people and what to do about it – Interview with Joel Bailey of Arwen

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Joel Bailey, the Product & Service Director at Arwen, a technology platform that uses AI to remove unwanted content from social media […]. The post The impact hateful and toxic social media content has on your customers and people and what to do about it – Interview with Joel Bailey of Arwen first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Technical basics series: Bayesian inference 101

Callminer

All statisticians use Bayes’s theorem, even frequentists. What makes you a Bayesian is in how you interpret it. The CallMiner Research Lab breaks it down in this new blog.

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Top 10 Customer Service Stories of 2021

Shaun Belding

The Top 10 Customer Service Stories for 2021 This year’s Top 10 Customer Service Stories for 2021 is kind of special for us, as it represents a rebound from the previous year where positive stories were few and far between. The Bad News The bad news is that 2021 picked up where 2020 left off […]. Shaun Belding | www.beldingtraining.com. Shaun Belding: Author, Entrepreneur, Speaker - Keynote speaker and customer service blog.

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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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Lessons from The Overlook: Know when to leave

Inside Customer Service

Note: Lessons from The Overlook was a periodic update on lessons learned from owning a vacation rental property in the Southern California mountain town of Idyllwild. It was a hands-on opportunity to apply some of the techniques I advise my clients to use. This will likely be the last one. You can find past updates here. Here's the short version: Sally and I sold The Overlook.

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Built for you: Next-generation surveys, ditching hold times with Switch, and more

Intercom, Inc.

March was a big month at Intercom. St. Patrick’s Day celebrations returned, more and more of our teams were able to work from the office, and we hosted our first ever global virtual event, New at Intercom – bringing together our leaders and customers under one virtual roof. They shared industry trends, customer insights, and revealed some game-changing products that will transform your business.

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10 Customer Service Stories of 2021

Shaun Belding

The Top 10 Customer Service Stories for 2021 2021 picked up where 2020 left off in terms of being a tough year. The impact on customer service was no different If you are looking to improve your customer service for 2020, you needn’t look any further than these 10 fantastic customer service stories from 2019 […]. Shaun Belding | www.beldingtraining.com.

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Customer Service Is More Important Than Price

Shep Hyken

“Is customer service more important than price?” . That’s exactly what we asked more than 1,000 consumers in our customer service research. The response was that 58% said, “Yes.” And just to make sure, we asked a similar question later in the survey, “Would you pay more if you knew you would receive great customer service?” Once again, 58% said, “Yes.” .

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Engineering at Intercom: Highlights from my first two years

Intercom, Inc.

One of the joys of an engineering career is how varied it can be – the size, industry and above all culture of any company entirely determines what an engineering job actually looks like on a day to day basis. But that variety also brings a challenge – when considering engineering job opportunities, how do you know what you’ll actually be doing?

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9 Customer Retention Strategies to Use in 2022

CommBox

For a business to be profitable, it is important to be able to attract customers. You can use different channels and ways to find buyers. Engage the best marketers. But it won’t matter if you don’t use customer retention techniques. This is an excellent method that will allow you to save your promotion budget and increase brand loyalty. This article will talk about ways to help you retain your clientele in 2022.

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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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Top 5 Customer Experience Trends to Consider in 2022

Hodusoft

Top 5 Customer Experience Trends to Consider in 2022. In recent years, businesses have realized the impact that customer experience has on the growth of their businesses. To make sure that their companies stick out in the market, they do everything to ensure that their customer experience is optimal. A recent survey by PwC found that 86% of buyers are ready to pay more for better customer experience.

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Six Best NPS Software Solutions for 2022

Totango

The number of NPS software providers has proliferated as the importance of tracking Net Promoter Score (NPS) has been realized by a growing number of enterprises. This raises the question, how do you find the best NPS software solutions? In this guide, we’ll help you tackle this issue. First, we’ll cover what NPS software is and what features are important so that you know what to look for when selecting a solution.

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Embodying Values in Business

Conversation Agent

Dame Anita Lucia Roddick founded The Body Shop out of a desire to make ends meet in 1976. Her husband had left for the Americas for two years to ride a horse from Buenos Aires to New York. You can still find some interviews she’s given online. Listening to her talk, she sounds like a sort of Dame MacGyver, someone who can use the tools she has at her disposal to make things happen.

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5 Skills and Traits Every Call Center Leader Should Have

Fonolo

What comes to mind when you think of the ideal call center leader? Organized? Professional? Inspiring? While those are certainly beneficial, the right candidate needs a lot more than that to make it as a successful call center leader. If you want your agents to consistently meet company goals, you must invest in the right leaders, including managers and supervisors.

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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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It’s A Wrap: Insights from Four CRS Clearwater Keynote Presentations

Execs In The Know

Wrapping up just last week, Customer Response Summit (CRS) Clearwater, Florida (March 28–30, 2022) was a CX leader’s paradise — one with lots of incredible views, unique insights, and many learnings — along with more than a few decorative flamingos to remind us to stay flexible, stand by your flock, embrace your passion for customer experience, and always be fabulous!

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How to Easily Design and Run Your Customer Journey

Totango

Mapping out your customer journey is not an easy task. It can be complicated and messy and difficult to see the path forward. When you finally get it all mapped out, then you have to figure out which tools to use to activate it – and it might even be outdated a week later! Shouldn’t there be an easier way? Meet the Customer Experience Canvas. This new tool from Totango is the first and only solution that enables you to visually design, build, run, measure and iterate on any customer journey in r

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Design of Story, the Sensual Way

Conversation Agent

This photograph by Helmut Newton for Pirelli, the Italian group famous for its iconic and sensual calendars, never made it to a calendar. If the project had come to completion twenty-one years ago, there would be another prize out there for icon hunters to chase — the first, and only, Pirelli calendar made in Italy by Newton. Pirelli Italia asked Newton to envision the Calendar in the spring of 1985.

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What is customer rapport? (+8 ways to build it)

Zendesk

More and more companies are realizing the power of customer relationships. 31 percent of business leaders surveyed in the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report 2022 say driving stronger customer relationships is a top priority this year. But the question is, how can companies create connections with their customers? It isn’t easy. Without the right techniques, customer interactions can feel forced, and you risk misunderstanding consumers and their needs.

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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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Maintaining Staff and Improving Speed to Competency During the Great Resignation

Execs In The Know

Technology changes impact all facets of a business. For contact centers, this also includes staffing and operations. Digital transformation poses distinct operational challenges for the contact center that go beyond the customer and agent experience; we’ll address two of those challenges here. While contact centers are increasingly turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for a variety of reasons, these technologies are not a silver bullet for everything, nor are they a complete so

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Best AI Chatbot Features to Deliver Expectational Customer Service

Ameyo Callversations

AI chatbot solutions are leading the way in providing exceptional customer service to businesses worldwide. They play a major role in delivering consistent and engaging customer experiences across eCommerce, retail, banking, insurance, and travel. Close to 79% of global contact centers will invest in AI to improve reach, productivity, and data analytics capabilities over the next few years.

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Atea unifies its international IT service desks with Puzzel

Logicalware

Atea is the leading provider of IT infrastructure solutions in the Nordic and Baltic regions. Its team of nearly 4,000 consultants work with businesses to help them design, implement and operate complex IT solutions using hardware and software from the world’s top technology vendors. The company also provides a range of IT support services, including onsite consultants and a 24/7 Service Desk.

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Improve customer experiences with AI and conversational service

Zendesk

. . . It’s impossible to overstate the importance of customer service. 73 percent of companies now report a direct link between customer service and business performance, according to our 2022 Customer Experience (CX) Trends Report , and 60 percent of customers will now walk away after just one bad experience—a 22 percent jump from the previous year.

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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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What is customer lifetime value?

Execs In The Know

The metrics you use to track your organization’s growth help shape strategic decisions and inform stakeholders of key challenges you may be facing. One metric commonly tracked by businesses is customer lifetime value (CLV). CLV is a great way to keep track of your customers’ overall perception of your brand, but it can also serve to signal gaps in the omnichannel customer experience, revenue you may be leaving on the table, improvements that can be made in marketing, and more.

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Best AI Chatbot Features to Deliver Expectational Customer Service

Ameyo Callversations

AI chatbot solutions are leading the way in providing exceptional customer service to businesses worldwide. They play a major role in delivering consistent and engaging customer experiences across eCommerce, retail, banking, insurance, and travel. Close to 79% of global contact centers will invest in AI to improve reach, productivity, and data analytics capabilities over the next few years.

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Switch on the next generation of phone support

Intercom

When it comes to customer support, there’s no substitute for the personal approach. Now more than ever, businesses are looking for a way to scale that personalized support. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Intercom Switch: the easiest way to move inbound call volume to messaging. Phone support has been carrying that personal touch for support teams for decades.

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11 customer retention metrics every support team should track

Zendesk

Consumers can be fickle, and it doesn’t take much for them to walk out the door. According to the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report 2022 , 61 percent of customers would leave a company for its competitor after just one bad experience—a 22 percent jump from last year. It’s now more important than ever for support teams to track customer retention metrics.

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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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What is Call Center Quality Monitoring and Why is it Important?

Fonolo

“This call may be monitored for call center quality assurance.”. Anyone who’s ever called a contact center would recognize this familiar line —and for good reason. Call quality monitoring is an essential piece of the puzzle when it comes to increasing and maintaining high customer satisfaction (CSat) scores. Quality management is also a great way to find holes in a call center agent’s skill set and address them head on with specific training.

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CX in financial services

MyCustomer Experience

CIt’s hardly a surprise that organisations across industries are prioritising Customer Experience (CX) as key to their strategies in the. 6th Apr 2022. By Smoke CI.

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How to Set Industry NPS Benchmarks and Why It Matters

Lumoa

Net Promoter Scores are always an interesting topic of conversation, and industry NPS benchmarks even more so. The NPS system was created by Fred Reichheld and his team at Bain & Company and Satmetrix Systems in 2003 to help companies improve their marketing strategies to better serve customers’ needs with real, verifiable data that they could analyze and act on.

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Do You Need a CX Vision?

Heart of the Customer

“One of the first things you do when you stand up a CX program is to create a CX vision.” It’s said so often that it’s pretty much a cliché. It just seems to make sense. It also aligns with John Kotter’s 8-step change management program. I wrote about this a few years ago, and […]. The post Do You Need a CX Vision? appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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.