Sat.Jul 28, 2018 - Fri.Aug 03, 2018

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Customer Care vs. Customer Satisfaction

Fonolo

We deal with a lot of buzzwords and phrases that saturate the customer service industry, some of which have become a little bit tired. One in particular that we really detest here at Fonolo is “Delight your customer”. Personally, when I hear that phrase, I experience a range of emotions. It seems to be healthy balance between shock (Why in the world would one use that phrase?

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Are you making this critical connection with your customers to strengthen relationships and drive loyalty?

Waypoint Group

Customer Success is typically defined as, “ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes while using your product or service.” If you’re relying on this explicit definition to drive retention and expansion then you’re missing a better opportunity. The key to scalably accelerating profitable growth is by creating truly loyal customers. And the shortest path to true loyalty is by demonstrating that the people within your company are listening.

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Promoting Mental and Physical Well-Being in Service Roles

CX Accelerator

Working in customer service or customer experience can take a massive toll on your physical and mental well-being. When combining the stress that comes with never-ending customer requests, pressure from all types of internal stakeholders, and the sometimes crippling weight of life outside of work, the result may be too much to bear. How can we create an environment that gives life instead of sucking it out of us?

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Improving Healthcare Customer Experience With Speech Analytics

Callminer

Here are four ways speech analytics assists healthcare providers with regulatory compliance.

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Why Tech-Forward Tax and Accounting Firms Have the Inside Track to the Future

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Sales Engineer Manager

Automating time-consuming manual tasks can save your firm hundreds of hours–and thousands of dollars. But it can also have longer-lasting benefits, like helping you attract and retain the next generation of CPAs, and we don’t need to tell you how important that is amid the current generational staffing crisis in the tax and accounting profession. You'll want to save your seat for this new webinar with industry expert Joe Wroblewski, where we'll explore how to: Maximize ROI with Cost-Effective Te

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License to sell: 5 strategies to hit your sales quota

Intercom, Inc.

In sales, there’s one number we obsess over – our quota. As soon as one month ends and another starts, we can’t help but ask, how am I going to hit my number? Yet for all the time we spend thinking about it, many of us don’t have a game plan. As an Inbound Sales Development Rep, I face the challenge of not having any control over the leads that get passed to me.

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Are Your Customers About To Dump You?

Beyond Philosophy

I have had the same mobile (cell phone) company in the UK for around 25 years. However, I am about to leave them—and they don’t know it. With my imminent departure on the horizon, I wondered how do organizations avoid customer defection? It turns out that customers usually indicate they are going to leave, and you can see it in their habits. I see it happen all too often as a global Customer Experience consultant.

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New research gives you 25 billion reasons to understand why customers say goodbye

Callminer

CallMiner published the CallMiner Index – a customer churn survey report that reveals a switching epidemic that is costing British businesses at least £25 billion a year.

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How Typeform’s Intercom app is growing value for users and the business

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve just unveiled our new publicly available Intercom App Store and rolled out a bunch of new features to make building apps on Intercom even easier at the same time. Among those features are tools and capabilities that enable anyone to build an app that can be used in the Intercom Messenger. We released a beta version of the features earlier this year to a small group of developers, including Typeform.

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26 Actionable Tips to Improve Your NPS Survey Response Rate

Retently

This article provides a list of actionable tips to improve your email survey response rates. Although it was written with Net Promoter Score© in mind, it is applicable to any customer satisfaction – CSAT, CES, regular multiple choice surveys, etc. Like every metric that depends on user-submitted data, NPS© gets more accurate as the audience size and survey response rate grows.

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Why Customer Experience Programs Fail

Beyond Philosophy

Colin Shaw and Prof. Ryan Hamilton discuss why customer experience programs fail. The episode explores the key issues and why too many CX programs fail to get results. Colin has led hundreds of successful programs and understands the key issues to avoid. Listen for actionable steps you can take today. The post Why Customer Experience Programs Fail appeared first on.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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New research gives you 25 billion reasons to understand why customers say goodbye

Callminer

Today, CallMiner published the CallMiner Index – a survey report that reveals a switching epidemic that is costing British businesses at least £25 billion a year. And most of the reasons are completely avoidable. Almost nine out of 10 people (84%) switched 1.91 suppliers each last year, with electricity suppliers hit the hardest. While these numbers are alarming, the report shows that the rate of switching last year is almost three times the average over five years (0.68 suppliers per person).

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Optimizely’s Claire Vo on the power of product experimentation

Intercom, Inc.

If you ask Claire Vo to describe product managers with one adjective, it’s greedy. It’s a term that Claire, VP of Product Management at Optimizely , uses endearingly. After all, PMs want more adoption for their product and more usage of their features, and it’s that greed that drives them to continuously experiment with new and better solutions.

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How to Update Your Marketing with a Customer First Strategy

C3Centricity

“Never miss an episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.”. All marketers know their marketing 5Ps, but how do you update your marketing when you adopt a customer first strategy? Here are some tips and ideas for you to adopt – or adapt. People. This is the easiest of the marketing 5Ps for a customer centric organisation to adapt because a customer first strategy is all about your customers.

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3 Ways to Collect a More Genuine Customer Feedback

Provide Support

Genuine customer feedback creates opportunities for companies to earn more loyal customers, those who know that they can speak out about their problems and that they will be addressed. It also helps to: measure customer satisfaction. improve products and services. show that you value customers’ opinions. create the best customer experience. establish reliable source of information to other consumers. collect data that helps taking business decisions.

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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9 call center problems supervisors have to avoid

UJET

The term “call center” doesn't necessarily have the best connotation. Customers will only use that word when referencing a support experience that was, let's say, less than enjoyable.

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Meet the Intercom App Store: Helping customers and partners grow

Intercom, Inc.

It’s rare that one product manages to solve all of your needs or the needs of your customers – no matter how extensive or well designed it is. We all use a plethora of tools to collaborate, communicate and get our work done on a daily basis. Each product used is only one tool of many at our disposal. At Intercom, we believe that tools should be adaptable to your needs and not the other way around.

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How Tin Can Compliant LMS Helps Startups Grow Significantly

ProProfs

Did you know 70% of startups fail to achieve their goals? The reason behind that could be: Lack of commitment, passion, and motivation. Lack of focus. Lack of good mentorship. Lack of domain-specific business knowledge such as finance, operations, and marketing. E mployees aren’t skilled enough to perform specific tasks. Majority of startups feel that one of the reasons for their failure could be hiring of the incompetent or underskilled resource due to time or monetary constraints.

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What You Can Learn About Chat From Amazon’s Chat Agents

Myra Golden Media

Last week I worked with a fantastic new client in Cleveland on the chat customer experience. After my workshop in Ohio, I chatted with Amazon about a problem with my Kindle Oasis. I immediately made screenshots of my chat and sent the images to my Cleveland client. My hope is that my takeaways might help my customer as they prepare to go live with chat in just a few weeks.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

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.

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4 Contact Center Tools and Updates From Q2

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on July 5, 2018. Click here to read the original and to see a video version. It’s been an interesting quarter in the contact center technology space. Before jumping into some of the cool tools I’ve seen recently, let’s first run through four updates from technologies I’ve mentioned in the past. Zendesk just announced their new omnichannel platform.

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NPS Pop-Ups—Low-Cost, Yet Low-Quality

Heart of the Customer

This is a guest post written by one of our very own Lead Consultants, Jean Fasching. A friend of mine who’s new to NPS research recently shared that she was frustrated with the response rate (less than 1% of those asked) from a B2B, NPS (Net Promotor Score) question recently added to her company’s website. […]. The post NPS Pop-Ups—Low-Cost, Yet Low-Quality appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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6 Ways to Use B2B Customer Success Solutions to Crush the Competition

TeamSupport

Competing in the business world can create excitement. Winning a hard-fought deal over a top rival can be a huge morale boost and lead to new opportunities for your company that weren’t possible before. But, what happens when a competitor comes for one of your key accounts? In this scenario, it’s not up to the sales team to provide the victory, but instead the onus falls squarely onto the customer success group.

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How Micro-learning Can Improve Your Business

ProProfs

Micro-learning, as its name suggests, is the consumption of the educational materials in short and focused bursts using innovative eLearning software and systems. In today’s tech-based corporate world, this type of learning can be the solution to the boring training programs your company had been arranging to train employees. Even in your life, there was a time where you might have experienced a lot of boring training sessions.

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Future-Proof Your Firm: Smarter Tech for Stronger Returns & Simpler Workflows

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Senior Sales Engineer

Is your tech stack working for you—or are you working for it ? 🤖 In today’s world of automation and AI, technology should simplify workflows—not add complexity. Seamless integration and interconnectivity are key to maximizing productivity, optimizing workflows, and improving collaboration. Join expert Joe Wroblewski for a practical and insightful session on how you can build a smarter, more connected tech stack that drives efficiency and long-term success!

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Google Launches Contact Center AI

Fonolo

Google made a major announcement at their “Cloud Next” event with the launch of Contact Center AI. It was the second time this month that the contact center world was rocked by a Google announcement. The first time was with the announcement of Duplex, an automated natural language system that could call companies, on behalf of a customer, and handle simple tasks like making appointments.

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Best Customer Experience Article from the Month of July 2018

Comm100

The picks on this month’s series of best CX Posts cover a wide variety of topics focused mostly on the future of customer experience and the trends that are shaking up the industry. Here are the top five picks from the month of July; The Impact of Failing to Close the Feedback Loop. Ian Luck critically explains the detrimental effects that companies suffer when employees at different levels: executive, managerial, and front-line fail, to close the feedback loop.

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How Has CX Evolved and How Should it Impact Your Company’s Growth and Leadership?

Customer Bliss

“A very small increase in customer retention can yield a huge impact on profitability.” Today’s guest, Rob Markey , reminds us of this important concept which he attributes to Fred Reichheld — both of whom co-authored the book, The Ultimate Question 2.0, How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World. Rob Markey is a partner at Bain & Company and leads the customer strategy and marketing practice.

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DMG Consulting Releases 2018 Robotic Process Automation Product and Market Report

DMG Consulting

DMG Consulting Releases 2018 Robotic Process Automation Product and Market Report. 8/1/2018. Market demand is high as opportunity and addressable market for RPA continues to grow. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2018 Robotic Process Automation Product and Market Report.

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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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How a Furniture Retailer Boosted Customer Experience with Call-Backs

Fonolo

The CX industry is an incredibly dynamic one. Its ever-changing nature means that, in order for businesses to thrive, adapting new technologies and meeting contemporary customer desires are absolute musts. Putting an end to long hold times via our call-back solutions is certainly a part of this dynamic process, and we see the tremendous impacts of it every day with our customers.

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Arm Ltd. Buys Treasure Data CDP

Customer Experience Matrix

Customer Data Platform vendor Treasure Data today confirmed earlier reports that it is being purchased by Arm Limited , which licenses semi-conductor technologies and is itself a subsidiary of the giant tech holding company SoftBank. The price was not announced but was said to be around $600 million. The deal was the second big purchase of a Customer Data Platform vendor in a month, following the Salesforce ’s Datorama acquisition.

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Q&A From My Webinar on The Business Case for Service Design

Kerry Bodine

This morning I delivered a webinar called The Business Case for Service Design , part of Rosenfeld Media’s day-long virtual conference on The Business Case for Design. (Even though the live event has ended you can still sign up for the conference and watch the recordings.). I started out by sharing a Venn diagram with my thoughts on the relationship between User Experience, Customer Experience, and Service Design.

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Customer Engagement is an Enterprise-wide Imperative

ClearAction

Customer Engagement is an Enterprise-wide Imperative Lynn Hunsaker. Does customer engagement rely solely on Marketing, Sales, Success or Service strategies? When the CEO of Air New Zealand made the mindset shift replacing We Fly Planes with We Fly People 1 , the whole company began to focus on empowering customer engagement. Keeping the aircraft clean, adjusting policies and processes, smoothing hand-offs — everything behind-the-scenes as well as customer-facing was seen in a customer-focu

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

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.