Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As your sales organization grows, your tech stack almost always does too. But figuring out which sales tools you should buy and invest in – let alone what each tool even does – can be a daunting task. This is especially true when you consider the seemingly endless list of sales tools to choose from. With at least 830 vendors in the space and more being added daily, building your tech stack can quickly become an overwhelming exercise, even for the most experienced of us in sales operations.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I was fascinated by a story about the cost of complaints based on a study by the Institute of Customer Service. The research suggested that time wasted by customers making complaints, and the cost to businesses and their suppliers in dealing with them, cost the UK economy £190bn a year in lost productivity. Jo Causon, the Institute’s chief executive, said companies should deal with problems promptly and get the balance right between technology solving the issues and human interaction with

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

I don’t go to a store looking for a product these days. What’s more, it occurred to me a couple of years ago that I no longer Google products that I want to buy; I “Amazon” them. I suspect many of you do the same. In many ways, Amazon-ing products is a result of the digital transformation. We have stores where we can purchase things, and then we have their online channels where we are buying things also.

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Return Customer

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Telegrams first gave way to the telephone which were then made obsolete by smartphones. Everything around us is evolving and so is customer service. Most businesses today have three or four channels of communication that allows customers to reach to them via phone, email, live chat and so on. But instead of waiting for problems to appear and then go about solving them, why not anticipate customer demands in advance?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We recently launched Answer Bot , an intelligent chatbot that provides precise answers to customers and which successfully resolves 29% of your most common frequently asked questions, right there in the Intercom Messenger. It was the culmination of a huge amount of work by multiple product teams, and vast amounts of research by our machine learning experts.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I was fascinated by a recent story about the cost of complaints. I believe technology, particularly speech analytics can help in three ways.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Good customer service is crucial to the success of any business. It also happens to be one of the hardest things to ‘get right’, even for the most seasoned of brands. Imagine spending eight hours a day fixing problems you didn’t cause in the first place. Now imagine that your hands are tied in a million different ways and you’re unable to resolve the bulk of the customer complaints that are on the rise.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Our conversational chatbot, Answer Bot , is designed to do more than chat. Its purpose is to let you scale your business faster and more efficiently. How? By automatically and instantly resolving your customers’ most common questions, so your team can focus on the conversations only humans can resolve. If you are using Intercom or live chat on your website already, you’ve probably received a number of conversations where customers just say “Hello” or “Hi”, and then it’s up to your team to figure

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Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There are a lot of smart — very smart — individuals managing and directing Call and Contact Centers today. Yet these bright, bright people still manage from time to time to do things that defy understanding. This is my top ten list of really dumb things that smart call and contact center executives do. If you have any dumb things to add to the list let me know or comment below. 1.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

My local diner has a menu that looks like a spiral-bound book. “Breakfast served all day!” it says, before presenting me with four pages of breakfast fare, then another six that seem to span the globe. Fried chicken and waffles. Burritos. Spaghetti and meatballs. On a recent visit, I planned on having a sandwich, but the menu gave me pause. Maybe I really wanted breakfast.

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Myra Golden Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Want to set yourself up for success each time you interact with a customer? In my newest training course for LinkedIn Learning, I help customer service reps establish a genuine, human connection. I share simple techniques that can help you kick off a conversation in a way that makes your customers feel respected, listened to, and at ease. Join me and learn how to keep the conversation flowing by yielding to customers and pacing their words and expressions.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

We believe that shipping is our company’s heartbeat and that we should ship frequently with small incremental changes. This principle enables us to get feedback and iterate quickly. However, until recently we couldn’t apply the same philosophy to our APIs. We weren’t able to fix bugs, improve the functionality of our APIs or even keep up with our constantly growing products.

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The DiJulius Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The Mount Rushmore of Customer Service Leaders Who are the greatest Customer Service Leaders of all time? The following is a list of the 10 greatest Customer Service Revolutionaries who had the most influence and dramatically changed businesses in all industries. These changes are still being felt decades later. 1.Walt Disney The Father of. Read Full Article.

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Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Last week I wrote about the Gartner CX Pyramid, an interesting maturity model. This week I’ll go into how to use journey mapping best practices to move up the model based on Gartner’s description of the model on their public website. Selecting the right journey mapping approach requires you to understand where you are on […]. The post Moving up Gartner’s CX Pyramid with Journey Mapping appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

How do you make health care more personal and customer-focused? This is a topic that comes up in my interview with Antoinette Taranto , Chief Customer Officer at The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Antoinette leads this state department that provides public health insurance to the citizens of Colorado through their Health First Colorado Medicaid program and the Child Health Plan Plus; they cover approximately 1.3 million people in the state.

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Customer-Centric Marketing: Align for Growth Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric marketing has several layers of meaning. The most popular layer means personalization of communications, toward increasing customer lifetime value. Without the other vital layers, though, much potential customer lifetime value will be squandered. First Layer: All Customer Touch-Points.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s the top contact center trends to watch for in 2019. And we’ve got you covered. So many storylines, so little time. And as in any classic comic book, the storylines are familiar and sometimes predictable, but we foresee them taking captivating turns in the new year. As the sun sets on 2018, contact center superheroes should watch for the plots, characters, and villains within them.

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Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Last week I discussed Gartner’s CX Pyramid and its approach to evaluating your customer experience. Yesterday’s post discussed how to use journey mapping to help you move up the first three levels. Today, I’ll talk about using journey mapping to move to the top of the pyramid – the Proactive and Evolution levels. Getting to […]. The post Move to the Top Levels of the Gartner CX Pyramid with Journey Mapping appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In my new Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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TeamSupport

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It usually requires a special kind of person to succeed in customer service. These individuals are in constant contact with customers, which makes them symbols of how a business performs. Good customer service employees are eager to help; bad ones are eager for the day to be over. If you’re a customer service manager looking to hire new agents, or if you’re an agent looking to do better at your job, there are certain traits to look for and improve upon.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Some quick history: 10 years ago, I attended a conference called Emerging Communications (eComm). It was an eccentric and inspiring collection of people focussed on the next chapter of voice and telecom technology. (It came on the heels of the “Voice 2.0” movement but with a broader vision.) The shared vision there was that a wave of innovation was coming because communication functionality would soon be as easy to access as web functionality (I’ll circle back to “the vision” at the end of this

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Myra Golden Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This week has been dedicated to customized customer service eLearning for some of my favorite clients. Well, all of my clients are my “favorite.” People often ask me how we put together our tailored online training for clients. So, I decided to take you behind the scenes. Read on to see how we create custom video training. It all starts with a Discovery Discussion, where I learn about what my client wants to accomplish with the training.

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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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Kate Nasser

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Thanking customers w/ more than simple thank yous is essential for business success. Thank them with because of you statements. Insights from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post Thanking Customers w/ These Because of You Statements || #CX #CustServ appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

You have your FAQs written, your chat platform up and running, and your customer service team trained and ready to go.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Good customer service is crucial to the success of any business. It also happens to be one of the hardest things to ‘get right’, even for the most seasoned of brands. Imagine spending eight hours a day fixing problems you didn’t cause in the first place. Now imagine that your hands are tied in a million different ways and you’re unable to resolve the bulk of the customer complaints that are on the rise.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We’ll just come out and say it: customer marketing conversations and campaigns aren’t always the smoothest for customer success teams, nor do they tend to foster winning retention statistics. While many customer success managers (CSMs) are well-versed in the day-to-day activation and implementation conversations with customers, introducing them to additional services, turning them into advocates, and having upsell conversations, their customer marketing strategies and results can often fall shor

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

If your customer has been through the online FAQ, searched the product manual, tried finding a solution on Youtube but still needs help, their next step is a call to your customer service team. The quality of agent service they receive reflects directly on your supervisory and management teams. If customer service resolution isn’t meeting company goals don’t assume your customer service agent is an idiot.

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Steven Van Belleghem

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

#1 The Arrival of the Retail Ecosystem: Tencent, Carrefour, and others. I’ve seen so much this year in the evolution of retail, and it is already starting to shake things up. It’s really exciting for both customers and retailers, but it can also be a bit intimidating if you don’t know what you’re looking at. By now, there are hardly any standalone players remaining in the retail market.

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ProProfs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Gone are the days when employee training was restricted to the four walls of a room, boring lectures dominated the conference halls and learners waited eagerly for breaks. With the rapid advancements in technology, traditional employee training has undergone massive metamorphosis, giving rise to the online learning management system. Given the bouquet of benefits it offers, web-based LMS has created a buzz across industries.

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Myra Golden Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Now you can give your employees even more great skills for delivering the best customer experience and for handling difficult customer situations. Sign up for my email list and learn specific tips, approaches, and phrases to help your employees help your customers.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

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