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25 Experts Reveal the Top Things Customer Self-Service Systems Do to Hurt Customer Experience

Callminer

Read this blog to learn what can go wrong with self-service systems and how these issues can hinder the customer experience.

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Solving the customer success equation: Nick Mehta on delivering value at scale

Intercom, Inc.

Few are better placed to explain the concept of customer success than Nick Mehta. As CEO of Gainsight , he has done more than most to popularize the category in the B2B SaaS world, and these efforts recently culminated in the company being acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.1 billion. Nick’s belief that business is personal underpins his outlook, and he takes a “human-first” approach in his role.

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The 5 Rules of Measuring and Managing Customer Emotions

Beyond Philosophy

When I was in corporate life, my boss asked me to improve the Customer Experience and do it for the least cost. I remember thinking, “Ok. Sure, but….what is a Customer Experience?” Nobody knew back then. I defined it for myself as the mix of rational and emotional parts of an interaction with a customer, which later became my first book, Building Great Customer Experiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

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Top Ten Worst Companies to Call in 2020 #onholdwith

Fonolo

2020 was the year that companies finally realized that nobody escapes a call surge. At first, we thought it would be unfair to measure companies in a crisis with the same yardstick we use in less ‘unprecedented’ times. But then again, life isn’t fair. And it isn’t fair to keep your customers waiting on hold endlessly — especially during a crisis.

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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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Another Way to Say ‘No’ to a Customer

Myra Golden Media

In my De-escalation Academy today, I taught how to politely yet firmly say ‘no’ to a customer. I call the method “U S A.” I’m sharing with you the very teaching from today’s workshop. Try out U S A and let me know how it works for you. For more ideas like this, check out De-escalation Academy. Practice the U S A Method.

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Help desk metrics: Elevate your customer support with the right insights

Intercom, Inc.

Modern customers expect quick, personal, and effective service. To provide this, you must understand how your customer experience stacks up against these expectations. This is where metrics can be invaluable, giving clarity on performance, and circumventing potential issues. But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team?

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The True Role of AI in the Contact Center

Fonolo

AI has been making a relentless assault on the contact center for several years. But it wasn’t until 2020 that its true role became clear. And — it’s not quite what you’d expect. Read All the Contact Center Trends Here: Contact Center Trends 2021. Contact Center Execs Had Been ‘Back-Burnering’ Upgrades. Artificial intelligence has been around for a while now, but many contact centers have yet to integrate it.

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Will Pre-Pandemic Buyer Assumptions Prevent Recovery And Rebound In 2021?

Buyer Persona

Over time, we can build assumptions about how things work. How things are supposed to be. Or we cement assumptions about what people think. Or how we expect people to behave. Oftentimes, we can create an over-reliance on past data and experiences to shape our assumptions about the present and the future. . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , many organizations will need to ask these critical questions: .

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Lessons from the boardroom: Karen Peacock on leadership in a crisis

Intercom, Inc.

When we think of corporate leadership, we instantly picture CEOs and executive teams, but the role played by boards is often glossed over and underappreciated. Last week, our CEO Karen Peacock joined a panel at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech Virtual conference to discuss how boards are responding to the current moment, from the perspective not just of managing Intercom, but also from insights gleaned as a member of the board of Dropbox.

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Customer Experience Planning: Ask These Reflection Questions

Experience Investigators

Within the natural cycles of any business, there are times that offer a chance to review, reflect and recharge. Some of the most common moments include: The end of the calendar year. The end of your fiscal year. As you wrap one quarter and prepare for the next. Before budgeting season. Any time changes demand you assess and adjust your goals, strategy, and tactics.

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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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Customer Success Team Accountability Gets You Closer to Your Goals

Totango

Customer Success team accountability isn’t something you just worry about figuring out later once your CS team is up and running. As a manager, when your organizational best practices and your customer’s goals align with your employee’s actions and responsibilities, you have the perfect conditions for growth. . In order to nurture this growth, customer success teams must have improved visibility to monitor progress and review customer insights.

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10 fantastic Belgian examples of great Customer Experience in the horrible 2020

Steven Van Belleghem

Foodmaker. Like a lot of restaurants, the pandemic had a devastating effect on Lieven Vanlommel’s healthy fastfood restaurant Foodmaker. The number of sold meals dropped from 100.000 to 10.000 and at the very beginning, they were looking at a loss of 1 million euros per week. But they turned the tide around with their brand new Vedge-bags concept: healthy mealboxes in several types and sizes that can be ordered online and delivered at home.

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Part 2: Increase Revenue Using Automated Customer Support Alerts

TeamSupport

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced ways that customer support can identify sales opportunities using ticket automation triggers in your TeamSupport B2B customer support solution. Ticket automation triggers allow you to set up multiple search parameters, identify certain keywords, and automatically take action, or multiple actions on a ticket, including sending alerts to specific team members when appropriate.

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Creative ways to stay connected with remote coworkers (that aren’t a virtual happy hour)

Zendesk

As the months of remote work add up, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to partake in the virtual coffee dates and happy hours we relied on in the early days of the pandemic. Zoom fatigue is setting in, and it often feels better to simply opt out of the activities that aren’t required. Of course, we all need to make choices about how we spend our energy right now.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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Best Value Software awarded to Zonka Feedback by Software Suggest Recognition Awards Fall 2020

Zonka Feedback

We've built Zonka Feedback to be one the easiest Customer Feedback Software and Survey App for companies to adopt in their business. We, at Zonka Feedback, are committed towards our customers and strive to always give them the best value. This fact has been well-recognized by the popular and independent online platform Software Suggest.

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8 Customer Experience Trends for 2021

Steven Van Belleghem

E(verywhere)-Commerce. A long time ago, we had to ‘go to a place’ to shop. When the internet kicked in, we were able to shop from the comfort of our own home, and later even on our mobile phones outside of our houses. But we still had to ‘go’ to a place, albeit virtual. Increasingly, we are moving into an era where everything is commerce and we will be shopping from our streaming channels, videos, social media and messaging and even from billboards in the street.

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Part 1: Increase Revenue Using Automated Customer Support Alerts

TeamSupport

Here at TeamSupport we talk a lot about tools you can use to gauge customer sentiment and measure the overall health of the relationship you have with each of your customers. Why is this important? Because of the high-value nature of B2B (business-to-business) customers, missing the signs that one may be unhappy or at risk of leaving can prove costly.

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BoxyCharm revitalizes, rejuvenates the customer experience with Sunshine

Zendesk

Here’s an eye-opening fact: the beauty-products industry is worth more than $500 billion a year. That’s on par with the global sports industry, the entire German construction market, and is roughly three times the value of the video game industry. From mascara to masks, eyeshadow to eyeliner, the average person spends thousands of dollars per year on a beauty regimen.

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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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Multiple Choice Survey Questions: Advantages and Disadvantages

Lumoa

As every customer experience professional knows, surveys represent an invaluable tool for improving the customer experience , by understanding the strong and weak points about your business, and ultimately boosting revenues. Questions posed in surveys tend to take a range of different forms, with the most popular being multiple choice questions. However, although widely used, multiple choice questions alone are not always able to produce the helpful data you need to make smart business deci

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The 5 Rules for Measuring and Managing Customer Emotions

Beyond Philosophy

The Five Rules for Measuring and Managing Customer Emotions. A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. Ignoring emotion in your Customer Experience strategy is a big mistake and one you can’t afford to make.

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Unleash Your Customer Service Team’s Full Potential with Virtual Agents

UJET

Elite athletes, like teammates in any field, require a rock-star teammate in order to reach their full potential. Michael Jordan had Scottie Pippen. Peyton Manning had Marvin Harrison. Babe Ruth had Lou Gehrig—the list goes on. Contact centers have more in common with sports teams than you might think. And there’s a very simple way to unlock each of your customer service agent’s full potential—give them a rock-star number two player.

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7 Best Digital Customer Journey Steps to Inspire Loyalty

Totango

Now, perhaps more than ever before, retaining customer loyalty is the key to maintaining a thriving business. In today’s web-based business world, clients are able to view other product choices with astonishing ease, while competitors are constantly prowling for new customers with high profile marketing campaigns. Compounding both of these factors are the economic effects of COVID-19, which have caused a significant number of companies to reduce their budgets over the course of the 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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Customer Voice Speaks the True Customer Experience | #CX #Leadership

Kate Nasser

Listen to the customer voice if you want your business to thrive. Customer experience insights from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX #Leadership. The post Customer Voice Speaks the True Customer Experience | #CX #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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I pulled out my Afro pick and fluffed out my curls to teach psychological priming in De-escalation Academy!

Myra Golden Media

I pulled out my Afro pick and fluffed out my curls to teach psychological priming in De-escalation Academy! My students learned how to nudge customers to accept their word as final with psychological word choice! Get your team enrolled in the next De-escalation Academy!

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Unleash Your Customer Service Team’s Full Potential with Virtual Agents

UJET

Elite athletes, like teammates in any field, require a rock-star teammate in order to reach their full potential. Michael Jordan had Scottie Pippen. Peyton Manning had Marvin Harrison. Babe Ruth had Lou Gehrig—the list goes on. Contact centers have more in common with sports teams than you might think. And there’s a very simple way to unlock each of your customer service agent’s full potential—give them a rock-star number two player.

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DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report

DMG Consulting

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. 12/2/2020. Red-hot sector seeing rapid growth, driven by companies’ pandemic-related needs. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report.

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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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Customer Voice Speaks the True Customer Experience | #CX #Leadership

Kate Nasser

Listen to the customer voice if you want your business to thrive. Customer experience insights from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX #Leadership. The post Customer Voice Speaks the True Customer Experience | #CX #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Your Quick Start Guide to Understanding Customer Success Software

ClientSuccess

Over the last few months, customer success teams – and the unique relationships they have with customer contacts – have been thrust into the spotlight of the SaaS world. CSMs have been hard at work managing their customer accounts throughout the tumultuous months 2020 and, in many cases, keeping their organizations afloat until new sales can catch back up.

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When to ask the NPS Question?

Zonka Feedback

The best time to ask an NPS Question is sometime after a transaction, a purchase, a delivery or a meaningful interaction. When the customers' experience is fresh, they are in a better position to share the exact emotions and perceptions with a high accuracy of the responses. The success of any survey depends on the response rate of that survey. And when it comes to Net Promoter Score survey, the response rate means everything!

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5 Ways to Reimagine and Revolutionize Your Business Model

The DiJulius Group

Ready for 2021? We’ve all been impacted by the pandemic but what makes your business stand above the crowd is your ability as the leader to Reimagine and Revolutionize your business model. So, how do you do that? How to Reimagine Your Business Model Transition from defense to offense. The emotional impact of the pandemic. Read Full Article. The post 5 Ways to Reimagine and Revolutionize Your Business Model appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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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.