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How to keep new users engaged with your welcome page

Intercom, Inc.

If you have an application or SaaS product, the welcome page that users see after signing up is much more than a cheerful “hello” to your users. Or, at least, it should be. The welcome page comes at a really critical time for your app. It’s during the onboarding period when new users will decide if you can follow through on the promises you made of saved time or increased revenue.

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Best Practices for Call Center Scripts: Expert Tips & Best Practices for Developing & Using Effective Call Center Scripts

Callminer

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Employee Happiness is the Key to an Excellent Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

What we know from early research on employee engagement is that if you have happy employees, chances are you’re going to have satisfied customers. My new ebook, Happy Employees Make Happy Customers , explores this concept in great detail. So how do you get happy employees and how does it affect Customer Experience? The answer is easy to say and harder to do.

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Simple Guidance for Building Rapport with Customers When You Have to Give Them Bad News

Myra Golden Media

When you can’t tell your customer exactly what they want to hear, maintaining a sense of rapport can be challenging. But it’s possible to give your customer lousy news with empathy and a positive slant. When you have to give a customer bad news, do it using the “Feel, Felt, Found Method.” This approach helps you to foster a sense of connection with customers, even when you can’t give them exactly what they want.

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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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A step-by-step guide to how we upgraded Elasticsearch with no downtime

Intercom, Inc.

Elasticsearch is a core technology at Intercom. It powers everything from article, conversation and user search to reporting, billing, message delivery and even our internal log management and analytics. Because Elasticserach has been at the core of Intercom for a long time , upgrading it is a challenging problem. Any version upgrade needs to be completely invisible to our customers.

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Find Out Why Customers Engage Through the Science of Conversation

Callminer

By implementing AI-powered speech analytics, organizations own the key that unlocks the science of conversation by filling a position that goes beyond human capabilities.

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Five Things You Can Do About the Telephone Experience Problem

Myra Golden Media

When I listen to phone calls ahead of training for contact centers, medical practices, and customer service departments, I spot five glaring problems in almost every company I work with. The Big Five Are: 1) Blunt, slang-like approach to asking questions, 2) Overtalking customers in an attempt to move the interaction forward, 3) No acknowledgment of the customer’s pain point, 4) Not listening, and 5)Missed rapport opportunities by not pacing.

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The Top 3 Customer Success Challenges and How to Beat Them

Totango

If you want your business to succeed, make sure your customers succeed. As the economy becomes more customer-centered, the need to foster customer success is more important than ever before. Achieving customer success means that your customers gain their desired value from your product and can use it to meet their goals long-term. Aligning your business goals with those of yours customers spells prosperity for your business for years to come.

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How to Understand Customers Preference

Beyond Philosophy

How to Understand Customers Preference. Have you ever noticed how some people put a lot of letters after their names in their signatures and bylines? Some of them go on for quite a while, like a second surname. It annoys me sometimes. Then, I remember that when I introduce myself, I often refer to my status on LinkedIn as one of the top 150 Business Influencers.

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What Wells Fargo (and the Rest of Us) Can Learn from Samsung

Heart of the Customer

“Who knows what happened to us two years ago?” Wells Fargo’s Chief Marketing Officer Jamie Moldafsky (I originally wrote about this here) “Who’s heard of our product, the Note 7? [pause] Yes, pretty much everybody, in every plane trip, for about a year.” Michael Lawder, SVP, Customer Care, Samsung Electronics America Both these speakers began their […].

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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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4 Things I Learned From Taking My Daughter to Work With Me at LinkedIn Learning

Myra Golden Media

For three years, my 19-year-old College Daughter has worked for my company as a Studio Tech. Lauren’s the genius behind our studio setup, teleprompter, camera, and audio. She also assembles workbooks and advises me on all things Millennial and Gen Y. Both of my kids get to travel with me for speaking engagements a few times a year – last year Lauren joined me in New York twice.

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Making Sense out of the RPA Market

DMG Consulting

Making Sense out of the RPA Market. The robotic process automation (RPA) market is growing rapidly, and new uses are being identified throughout enterprises continually. Hundreds of vendors around the world have entered the RPA segment, coming from many existing IT sectors such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), contact center infrastructure, workforce optimization, as well as dozens of start-ups that want to take advantage of the massive market opport

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Customer Service Infographic: What Are the 7 Service Triggers?

Customers That Stick

In November 2013, we released our concept of the 7 Service Triggers, a unique approach to discovering the most common hot buttons that affect broad segments of customers. The foundation of the 7 Service Triggers was built upon the idea that our customers do not come to us as a blank slate. Even if they are new to our business, they’ve had experiences with companies like ours before.

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5 Reasons Why Customer Support Systems are Essential to Great Businesses

TeamSupport

Customer support can be a challenge. Especially in the B2B (business-to-business) industry, the quick decisions your support team makes can have a profound impact on a customer relationship. Whether or not they make the right decision on the phone can be the difference between calming an upset customer or making them even more angry. One method businesses are utilizing to improve the number of positive customer interactions that happen every day is to leverage customer support systems.

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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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Software for Online Teaching: How Does It Help Teachers Tackle Modern Day Challenges

ProProfs

John Mitchell , the Chairman of the Department of Science at the Lincoln High School in Harrison in CountyWest Virginia was facing a problem. He had 125 classroom students and over 700 21st century students from around the world. Teaching them was not an easy task using conventional methods. He needed a mechanism for these students to visit his science website and take tests.

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Three Pillars of AI for Contact Centers

DMG Consulting

Three Pillars of AI for Contact Centers. 5/22/2019. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a very broad concept and set of technologies, which must be targeted to a specific challenge in order to be effective. This means that the solution must utilize at least one of three pillars of AI for the contact center: natural language understanding/generation/processing (NLU/NLG/NLP), machine learning and real-time analytics.

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How Johnson & Johnson Creates Value for Customers and Employees

Customer Bliss

How does a global consumer brand create value for its customers, consumers, and employees? In today’s episode, we talk to Chester Twigg , the first global chief customer officer at Johnson & Johnson. Chester shares that he was approached for the role because there was an internal recognition that it was a position that could truly add value to the business and the organization, to drive a more global consistency around selling.

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Principles by Ray Dalio (a One Win Book Review)

Customers That Stick

In this One Win Book Review, we take a look at Principles by Ray Dalio. Check out the video below to hear Adam’s one win that you can take away from Principles to improve your organization’s customer experience and customer service. About Principles. FROM THE PUBLISHER: In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City.

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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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4 Tips to Get Value From Contact Center Quality Scores

Customer Service Life

Image by Amanda Powers from Pixabay. This article was originally published on CustomerThink on April 3, 2019. Click here to read the original. I have two scenarios for you regarding contact center quality assurance. In the first, imagine a manager or supervisor listening to a phone call and using a set of criteria to grade that call. They then add up all of the points and deliver that evaluation to the agent who handled the call.

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Are multi-channel and omni-channel contact centers the same?

DMG Consulting

Question: I used to hear about multi-channel contact centers, now it’s omni-channel. Are they the same thing? Answer: While there are some surface similarities – both terms refer to contact centers that support customer interactions in more than one voice and/or digital channel – the differences are significant. Multi-channel contact centers manage each channel (e.g., voice, email, short message service (SMS)/text, chat, social media, messaging, etc.) in silos.

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The 2019 Learning Management System Forecast

ProProfs

Teaching in the Internet age means we must teach tomorrow’s skills today – Jennifer Fleming. They say that a person is as good as dead the day they stop learning as it stunts their personal growth. Today, there are so much information and knowledge available for us to absorb that no person can ever say that they know everything! As times change, people change and so do the ways of doing things.

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How to Prepare your Call Center for Cyber Monday and Black Friday [Guide]

Fonolo

While Black Friday and Cyber Monday may seem a long ways off, smart retail contact center and call center leaders are already planning for the variety of challenges this period poses. In 2018, Black Friday pulled in $6.2 billion in online sales and Cyber Monday saw $7.8 billion in sales (both record highs). Given these numbers, it’s unsurprising that calls to businesses rose more than 375% over the past two holiday seasons.

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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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Exposure is What You Die from in the Desert

CX Journey

If you're a speaker, thinking about becoming a speaker, an event organizer, or considering hosting an event in the near future, you'll definitely want to read this. And even if you're none of the above, please continue reading. And feel free to share this whitepaper with anyone you believe will benefit. I recently asked for feedback from speakers about their experience with event organizers and about their speaking experience, in general.

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How Creative Brands Make Customers Feel Good

CSAT.AI

As I write this, Tony Bennett is singing “Make Someone Happy” which I realize is the essence of this post and the point of customer experience. If you make customers feel good they are likely to stay and more likely to share, like, subscribe, re-post and buy more. Make Customers Feel Good Through Unique Experiences. Customers don’t just want products they want experiences.

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Five (invisible) kings of the frictionless customer experience

Steven Van Belleghem

KBC. I absolutely love the example of the KBC Mobile app that allows you to park in any Q-Park-parking without the need for a ticket, payment or any manual action. The only thing that you need to do – once – is to link your car’s licence plate to your existing account in KBC Mobile, and that’s it. After that, you can drive in and out of the parking’s buildings without doing anything: the barriers open automatically, and when you leave, the amount of your stay at the parking is automa

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Nurture Customer Rescue Artists

Customer Bliss

In my 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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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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The Secret Sauce to Achieve Outcomes with Journey Mapping

CX Journey

In today's post, I reveal the secret sauce for journey mapping success. Are you ready? There's a lot of bad press out there about journey mapping. And there's a lot of bad journey mapping (or what people think is journey mapping ). A few months ago, I shared my six-step journey mapping process. Remember, journey mapping isn't just a tool, it's also a process.

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DMG Consulting Releases 2019 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report

DMG Consulting

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report. 6/5/2019. New-gen solutions are the future of this mature sector. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 16th annual Contact Center Workforce Optimization (WFO) Market Share Report.

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How To Build Trust With Your Team

The DiJulius Group

The World At Your Service Celebrity Cruises’ service vision statement is “The World At Your Service.” Given that philosophy, it is no surprise that they have been selected as “Best Premium Cruise Line.” However, Celebrity, a client of The DiJulius Group, understands that the employees must experience world-class service on the inside first, long before.

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What is Brand Image and how you measure it

Qualtrics

In 2006, Blake Mycoskie witnessed the hardships children without shoes had in Argentina, and developed Tom’s shoes , a company that gives one pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair sold. You’ve most likely heard about this brand and their mission. Since the company’s conception, they’ve given away 60 million pairs of shoes in 70 countries. They’re a leader in corporate responsibility and have inspired other companies to create products with similar business models.

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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.