Sat.Jul 07, 2018 - Fri.Jul 13, 2018

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Making things people want

Intercom, Inc.

The problems people encounter in their lives rarely change from generation to generation. The products they hire to solve these problems change all the time. If you’re building a new product, it’s because you believe you can create a better solution that people will want to use because it delivers a better outcome. A strong understanding of the outcome customers want , and how they currently get it, is essential for you to succeed in product development.

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Leveraging Best Practices to Empower Your Agent Workforce

Callminer

In a world where customer experience is more important than ever, call centers must empower their agents to exceed customer expectations at every touch point.

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Japan: The Land of Amazing Service Culture

CX Accelerator

My favorite story coming out of the FIFA World Cup thus far is how Japan, fresh off defeat to Belgium, left a wonderfully clean locker room and a "thank you" note. Full story here. How amazing is that? This picture of them bowing to their fans may give you goosebumps. Having recently visited Japan CX for myself, these wonderful moments come as no surprise at all.

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When Employees Misuse Their Authority Over Customers

Customers That Stick

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An Introduction to AI in Customer Service

Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption has risen dramatically in the customer service industry over the last few years. But many contact centers have yet to implement AI. In this eBook, we give an introduction to how customer service leaders are using AI to improve their customer experience.

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5 customer acquisition strategies for winning new customers

Intercom, Inc.

You can spend months working on a great idea, pour tons of time and energy into crafting the perfect marketing, but without customers your business will cease to exist. All future growth hinges on one thing – customer acquisition. While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

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Business Value and ROI of Customer Experience: The Step-by-step Guide 

Lumoa

Most business leaders believe that customer experience will be the key driver for their company’s competitiveness going forward. However, when it comes to the actual customer experience management, things get difficult. It is not too difficult to listen to the customer. Companies receive real time feedback in massive volumes, if they only start listening to their customers.

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How to Get Your Team to Deliver Consistent Customer Service

Customers That Stick

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Launch to sell — leverage sales enablement to maximize product launches

Intercom, Inc.

Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches.

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11 Types of Difficult Customers Infographic

TeamSupport

Customer relations are very important to all businesses. Building positive relationship with your customers can do wonders, because customers want to have a positive relationship with you, and if you're lucky they will actively work to maintain it Of course, businesses also put in considerable time and effort into making a relationship rewarding and enriching for both parties.

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Are You Making The Most Of Scarcity As A Marketing Strategy?

Beyond Philosophy

We discuss the key principle of scarcity with guest Professor Kelly Goldsmith, Ph.D., Professor of Marketing at Vanderbuilt University. Kelly is a behavioral scientist who examines consumers’ responses to uncertainty and scarcity, uncovering and explaining seemingly paradoxical effects. The post Are You Making The Most Of Scarcity As A Marketing Strategy?

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

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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Read Along with iQor!

iQor

Reading Is (Always) In.

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Elad Gil on catapulting into hyper growth

Intercom, Inc.

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more.

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8 Ways To Tweak Your Team Learning Approach To 3x Outcomes

ProProfs

. Developing a learning culture is an integral part of maximizing team talents, streamlining processes, increasing innovation and growth, and creating a positive and successful organizational environment. This, along with the proliferation of ultracapable free LMS software solutions should be to the advantage of businesses and other institutions. Evidence mounts, however, that some organizations luck out on pursuing a culture of learning while others seem to thrive on it.

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Lesson #1: Everyone Wants To Be Customer-Centric, But No One Knows What That Means

PeopleMetrics

The following is an excerpt from Listen Or Die by Sean McDade, PhD. Listen to any company in almost every industry, and you’ll undoubtedly hear phrases like customer-centric and customer-focused touted as top priorities. But what does that exactly mean? When leaders of a company fail to explain or provide specific examples of what it really means to be customer-centric, employees often see these words as little more than corporate platitudes.

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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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“You’re not elevating human connection unless you’re creating those positive experiences unique to each customer,” an interview with Devin Anuzis of Benchmark Senior Living

Heart of the Customer

Devin Anuzis is Corporate Manager, Customer Experience at Benchmark, the leading provider of senior living services in the Northeast. Serving as the “voice” of the customer program, Devin manages multiple feedback channels and deciphers the feedback for company stakeholders to ensure the customer’s voice is clearly heard and considered in all decisions.

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Launch to sell – leverage sales enablement to maximize product launches

Intercom, Inc.

Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches.

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Surveying the Omnichannel Landscape

Customer Service Life

Omnichannel is a word that’s mentioned often in customer support circles and it’s fascinating to see what existing cloud-based platforms like Zendesk and Salesforce are doing to make this a reality. You may want to check out the recent announcement from Zendesk on this topic and also Salesforce’s decision to discontinue Desk.com and transition to Service Cloud Lightning by March 2020.

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Apple Business Chat: Strengths and Weaknesses

Fonolo

It’s been a year since Apple announced “Business Chat”. The company staked out an audacious goal: to become the preferred channel for customer service communication. A year ago, Facebook, a competitor on this front, was reeling from weeks of bad press over privacy issues. But now, Facebook stock has hit a new all time high, with those transgressions seemingly forgotten by the market.

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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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Tactics To Implement in Your First Six Months Leading CX in the Telecommunications Industry

Customer Bliss

Over the past two years, the CX leaders and CCOs that I’ve spoken with have shared great actionable advice and tactics to help you transform the culture of your organization to be customer-driven. In this episode, you’ll hear from two brilliant leaders who’ve led CX work in the telecommunications industry. Charlotte Dunsterville , Chief Customer Officer of Sure International Telecom, and Patricia Pedhom Nono , former general manager of customer service & customer experienc

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How Intercom helped a bootstrapped SaaS business punch above its weight

Intercom, Inc.

In order to make bootstrapping work, you need to be scrappy, ruthlessly prioritizing your actions and avoiding non-essential expenses. Having one tool that helps you do all your most important work – sales, marketing and support – makes life so much easier. We’ve been pretty vocal about our love for Intercom as we’ve grown Ad Reform and Userfeed , our profitable, bootstrapped SaaS businesses over the last year.

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Streamlining your CRM will please your customers—and your agents

UJET

“Hold on just one moment,” the customer service agent says.

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See the Winners of Fonolo’s 2018 Customer Experience Excellence Awards

Fonolo

It’s that special time of year. Put your hands together and give it up for the 2018 winners of Fonolo’s Customer Experience Excellence Awards! Each year, Fonolo takes pause and looks at the big CX picture, studying the work of the best and brightest contact centers across all industries and regions. It awards those that shoot for the stars by significantly reducing hold times and thus winning the hearts of clients.

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The Future of Customer Engagement: How AI is Reshaping Contact Centers

51% of contact center leaders have already integrated AI into customer interactions. Those leveraging AI for conversation analysis are seeing faster resolution times, improved customer satisfaction, and reduced agent burnout. Ready to learn more about how AI is transforming the contact center landscape? Download our full report to discover key trends, implementation strategies, and the most critical KPIs for measuring AI success in contact centers.

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The Uberization of Workforce Management

DMG Consulting

The Uberization of Workforce Management. In 2015 DMG introduced the concept of adaptive real-time forecasting and scheduling to the market to help companies begin the process of rethinking their contact center staffing challenges. We called this concept the “uberization” of workforce management, as it was conceived with the intent of balancing the “power” between companies and their employees.

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How Can You Leverage GDPR to Improve Customer Experience?

Customer Bliss

As modern day consumers of digital media, you’ve probably already encountered numerous privacy policy updates through various alerts and newsletters. All of these updates are related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that was passed in the European Union this May. But the GDPR now essentially serves as the world’s largest protection for digital privacy rights because of the borderless nature of the Internet.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Month of June 2018

Comm100

Continuing our series of the best customer service posts on the web from May , I’m going to look at some standouts from last month that caught my eye. There is no specific theme here aside from a focus on improving the customer experience. Take a look at this month’s picks, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did! From the Dentist’s Chair. Dan Gingiss is a contributor with Forbes, and he wrote an excellent post about providing an exceptional customer experience.

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6 Common Customer Service Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs

TeamSupport

In business, sometimes making the wrong decision is worse than making no decision at all. This is especially true when it comes to the customer service industry. With customers being the foundation of so many businesses, going against their needs can be a make or break decision. And, in the fast-paced technology age we live in, making the wrong call is costlier than ever before.

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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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Stay Positive w/ These Positive People Skills Beliefs | #CustServ #CX

Kate Nasser

Say these positive people skills beliefs to yourself daily to deliver consistently great customer service. By Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX #Video. The post Stay Positive w/ These Positive People Skills Beliefs | #CustServ #CX appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Aligning Customer Success With Customer Experience Company-Wide

Waypoint Group

On June 19 th , 2018, a few of us Waypointers attended the inaugural Customer SuccessCon Denver, hosted by Mikael Blaisdell’s Customer Success Association. Our own Steve Bernstein was joined by Paul Piazza, Senior Director of CS at Reciprocity Labs, for a chat centered around driving a Customer-centric culture and enabling CSMs to collaborate with the rest of the company to drive the right improvements.

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100 Miles in the Saddle for Anthony Nolan

Confirmit

Hot on the heels of walking 65km through the Brecon Beacons to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, I am putting my body through another challenge later this month. I suspect this makes me the very definition of the phrase “glutton for punishment”, but there we have it. In the usual Confirmit way, though, I won’t be going it alone.

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6 Common Customer Service Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs

TeamSupport

In business, sometimes making the wrong decision is worse than making no decision at all. This is especially true when it comes to the customer service industry. With customers being the foundation of so many businesses, going against their needs can be a make or break decision. And, in the fast-paced technology age we live in, making the wrong call is costlier than ever before.

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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.