Callminer
AUGUST 27, 2019
When it comes to measuring the patient experience in healthcare, good customer survey design is rare. And using mixed methods to uncover insights is rarer still.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 29, 2019
? ?. In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy.
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Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 25, 2019
Imagine you are selling a used car. Now, imagine your surprise that the person who wants to buy it is your brother. How would that be different from selling your vehicle to a stranger? Would you haggle as hard? (Now, to be fair, if it was my brother Neil, my answer is yes.). People act differently in various types of relationships and transactions. This distinction between these two types of situations is something that psychologists have studied, and the subject of our recent podcast.
Fonolo
AUGUST 29, 2019
Every year we ask: What can contact centers do to bolster their productivity, efficiency, and customer service offerings in the future? How can they survive and thrive in the face of so many variables? Well, it’s that time once again: We invited some of the top contact center experts from Ada , J Arnold and Associates , The Belding Group , Calzilla , Expivia , and other vibrant CX and CS avenues to offer us and you, our dear readership, their best pieces of advice for contact centers in this inc
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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.
Callminer
AUGUST 25, 2019
CallMiner has announced a partnership with DataRobot designed to accelerate AI capabilities within the contact and customer experience center.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 26, 2019
Today we’re releasing a brand new book, Intercom on Sales. If you work at a high-growth company, you’ve likely heard the saying, “What gets you to $50 million won’t get you to $100 million.” You could swap in any numbers you’d like, and the sentiment would still hold true: scaling sales is incredibly hard. I joined Intercom three years ago to do just that, to take our nascent sales team to the next level.
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Customer Service Life
AUGUST 30, 2019
Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay. This article was originally published on the FCR blog on July 17, 2019. Click here to read the original post. A childhood memory is etched in my brain. After spending a couple weeks at a friend’s cabin, we spent several hours on the final day cleaning. By cleaning I mean emptying trash, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, washing the linens, cleaning toilets, replacing paper products, and a whole lot more.
Uniphore
AUGUST 28, 2019
“I'm sorry, but I do not recognize that response.”. How many times have you heard that sentence while trying to pay a bill, change a service plan, update the address on one of your accounts, or get through to a customer service agent? The answer for most of us? Too many. Gartner predicts that by 2020 a customer will manage 85% of the relationship with an enterprise without interacting with a human, so how do you think your customers feel when they are misunderstood by your company's automated vo
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 29, 2019
Imagine a baby boomer, a Gen X’er, a Millennial, and a Gen Z’er walk into a bar. Sounds like the start of a joke, right? But think about it. How did they each choose the bar? Are they at the same place? What did they order? And if you were to ask them about their experience afterward, how would they answer? Their responses would be vastly different.
Totango
AUGUST 29, 2019
Your customers are your enterprise’s life’s blood. When you get a new customer, work to retain them and grow customer lifetime value. While the sales team will always be looking for new customers, retaining a current customer is far cheaper than finding a new customer to replace them. When you retain a customer, you’ve won a valuable patron who will be far likelier to want future sales or try new products. .
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.
Fonolo
AUGUST 27, 2019
Want to order pizza for dinner? It will be at your door in 30 minutes. Looking for a date? An app can help you find that special someone. Need some work done around the house? You can summon a handyman that same day. In today’s world, we don’t have to wait too long for just about anything. Today’s consumer doesn’t just want same-day delivery, they want same-day resolution to any inquiry or complaint they make with a company.
Myra Golden Media
AUGUST 29, 2019
You already know it’s best to not say words like “Unfortunately,” or a hard “no,” and you probably even know that you need to let angry customers vent for at least a few seconds, but there are some other things you should know before trying to get customers to accept your word as final, especially when you have to give customers bad news. I’m sharing three tactics from my handling demanding customers workshops to help you assertively (and politely) control challenging interactions with customers
Customer Service Life
AUGUST 26, 2019
This article was originally published on the FCR blog on July 3, 2019. Click here to read the original post and be sure to watch the video that goes along with it. Looking back on quarter two, the nonstop movement in the contact center technology space continues. My latest review of the updates and technologies I’ve seen over the past quarter covers a variety of areas including quality assurance and speech and text analytics, news from Zendesk and Freshworks, and some vendors to consider if emer
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.
C3Centricity
AUGUST 26, 2019
More than one year after the introduction of GDPR in Europe and the CCPA in California, I wondered what has changed. And more importantly, I got to thinking about customer privacy and how to build a mutually beneficial relationship whilst also respecting it. Customers don’t want to be automatically segmented and followed as they go about the web, viewing different sites.
UJET
AUGUST 26, 2019
Contact-Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS) providers like to make big promises. Some go as far as saying they have every currently available feature and tool and will fill all your support needs.
Retently
AUGUST 26, 2019
In order to genuinely understand customers and increase retention, businesses need to focus a big part of their resources and manpower on customer feedback. The way someone approaches feedback can make or break their business. In this guide, we’ll show you just how valuable customer feedback can be, and give some actionable tips on how to collect and act on it.
Customer Service Life
AUGUST 28, 2019
This article was originally published on the MaestroQA blog on June 6, 2019. Click here to read the original post. If you had to choose, what would you say are the absolute most important items on your quality form? As I work with new clients, I’m often asked that question and I usually list four items. Communication Skills – How well did the agent communicate the message?
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
Lumoa
AUGUST 25, 2019
Sometimes, asking your customers for open-ended feedback can be better than giving a long survey to answer. When you ask for open-ended feedback, the respondent usually comments on what they experienced to be the most critical things in the interaction they just had with your company.
UJET
AUGUST 25, 2019
Contact-Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS) providers like to make big promises. Some go as far as saying they have every currently available feature and tool and will fill all your support needs. Let’s go down the list: Voice. IVR. Web chat (desktop and mobile). Email. Text (SMS/MMS). RCS ready. In-app VoIP. In-app Chat. In-app text. Visual IVR. Chatbots. Artificial intelligence.
The DiJulius Group
AUGUST 28, 2019
How One Franchisee Disrupted Own Industry Like many, the carpet cleaning industry has dramatically changed over the last decade. At one time it was a booming business to be in, until hardwood floors became all the rage in home building and remodeling. As a result of the dramatic lose of revenue; the knee jerk reaction. Read Full Article. The post How One Franchisee Disrupted Own Industry appeared first on The DiJulius Group.
Totango
AUGUST 27, 2019
In today’s customer-centered economy, focusing on short-term customers is an outdated business model. Instead, enterprises must nurture every customer relationship to increase retention and customer lifetime value (CLV). . Customer lifetime value is the net profit acquired from a customer throughout a company’s relationship with them. The easiest way to calculate CLV is to multiply the annual profit gained from a customer by the average length of time of customer retention.
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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.
TeamSupport
AUGUST 30, 2019
Can you truly tell how a customer feels about your business? There are many different tactics that attempt to acquire this information, such as customer reviews and NPS (net promoter score), which may or may not provide an accurate assessment of overall satisfaction. Did you catch them on a bad day when they left an NPS rating? Did they write an odd review as someone was looking over their shoulder?
ClientSuccess
AUGUST 28, 2019
Customer success is a constantly changing and growing role for most companies. While the focus of customer success was only expanded into its own role a decade or so ago, it has really begun to pick up speed and expand in the last few years. Customer success is now one of the driving forces behind recurring revenue for SaaS organizations. As the role itself has become more important, the metrics and processes associated with the role have started to pick up as well.
Fonolo
AUGUST 28, 2019
It was hard to turn anywhere last week and not see news or commentary about Avaya. Their CEO announced that Avaya is in “advanced discussions with multiple parties” for a “strategic transaction” and that the process will be concluded in 30 days. As the behemoth of the call center industry, with $3B in revenue and 150,000 customers, whatever this move will be, it will have broad repercussions.
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 27, 2019
In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. Buying an extended warranty sometimes feels like burning money to me. If I don’t buy it, I need it. If I do buy it, I need it one minute, one hour or one day after the warranty runs out, and if I do call just a bit after it runs out, the answer is, “Sorry, the warranty is over.̶
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
CSM Practice
AUGUST 26, 2019
A while back, I sat down with Paul Piazza for a fireside chat at one of our PulseLocal Silicon Valley Customer Success event series. At that time, Paul Piazza had already had multiple Customer Success systems deployed and configured. In this conversation, Paul shares lessons learned from his own experience implementing Customer Success software solutions.
Totango
AUGUST 26, 2019
Continuing on the journey of providing more value to Portfolio managers, this sprint we are releasing set of features to help drive productivity. Information Request Forms is our newest tool, which enables teams to achieve end to end workflows within Totango by asking the specified team members to fill in the relevant data in context and in time. Imagine that your sales team has signed a new customer (Yay!
Fonolo
AUGUST 27, 2019
Want to order pizza for dinner? It will be at your door in 30 minutes. Looking for a date? An app can help you find that special someone. Need some work done around the house? You can summon a handyman that same day. In today’s world, we don’t have to wait too long for just about anything. Today’s consumer doesn’t just want same-day delivery, they want same-day resolution to any inquiry or complaint they make with a company.
ClientSuccess
AUGUST 27, 2019
Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful. Each day we learn from the trenches what it takes to make clients happy and successful.
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