Callminer

JULY 8, 2019

A customer experience analysis is an important tool for identifying potential shortcomings and improving the customer experience.

Customer Experience 207

Customer Experience 207

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2019

In 1898, American sales pioneer E. St. Elmo Lewis created the AIDA model to describe how customers buy. The AIDA model described four cognitive phases that buyers follow when accepting a new idea or purchasing a new product: A problem comes to the customer’s attention. This creates interest in the benefits of a product or service. The customer decides to buy the product.

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Gaming Entertainment Start-ups Sales 196

CX Accelerator

JULY 8, 2019

There are many ways to listen. People listen with their eyes, and with their hands (remember the movie: A Quiet Place ). Listening is a central process in the way people survive. If you are not actively listening, critical information is missed. In many cases, the actual words selected do very little to communicate the speaker's intended message. We must reach below the surface to capture the truth.

Gaming 175

Gaming Customer Service Customer Experience 175

Heart of the Customer

JULY 11, 2019

“All happy customers are alike; each unhappy customer is unhappy in its own way.” Okay, that wasn’t really my quote – I’m paraphrasing Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, where he wrote “all happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” But it does fit at least some companies’ experiences. This is especially […]. The post Stop Playing CX Whack-A-Mole appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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CX Customer Relationship Customer Satisfaction Customer Experience 128

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Contact Center

Callminer

JULY 10, 2019

By analysing every interaction for empathy, it’s possible to identify how your call center agents turn a difficult call into a good customer outcome.

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Contact Center 182

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers.

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Start-ups Sales Engineering Voice of the Customer 188

UJET

JULY 11, 2019

Support teams are arguably the most important part of the customer experience. Agents become the voice of the company when they interact with customers. These experiences can lead to repeat sales or a loss of a customer depending on that single interaction.

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Sales Customer Experience Customer Service 111

Return Customer

JULY 10, 2019

“The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.” Peter Drucker, better known as the father of management thinking, once gave us this beautiful gem of a quote. We have come a long way since the first industrial revolution and are now bursting with new products and services in crowded markets regularly.

Customer Service 109

Customer Service Social Media Customer Journey Map Non-Profits 109

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 8, 2019

Businesses put the Intercom Messenger on their websites because they want real-time communication with their users. To help the Messenger load as quickly as possible on the web, we recently worked on reducing the bundle size of our Messenger. A fast load time is important because it makes the Messenger feel like a natural part of the websites they’re on, rather than an add-on.

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Engineering 163

The DiJulius Group

JULY 10, 2019

What is the best customer service quote ever said? I love quotes. I am enamored with quotes. Quotes inspire me and make me think. I have been creating and collecting quotes on customer service and customer experience for over twenty years. The following is a list of the top customer service quotes by world renown. Read Full Article. The post What is the best customer service quote ever said?

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Customer Service Customer Experience 109

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.

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UJET

JULY 10, 2019

Support teams are arguably the most important part of the customer experience. Agents become the voice of the company when they interact with customers. These experiences can lead to repeat sales or a loss of a customer depending on that single interaction. As a company grows, introducing new features, products, and services, they can find themselves facing an increasing number of support requests.

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Compliance Engineering Start-ups Sales 111

Fonolo

JULY 10, 2019

Ah, the great outdoors. In Canada, we are blessed with an abundance of wildlife, majestic mountains, pristine lakes, and seemingly endless forests. Since the 1970s, if you were an experienced outdoorsman seeking to explore the authentic, raw, outdoors, then a trip to your local Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) was in order. Customers came to MEC stores to buy the best hiking, rock climbing, and back-woods skiing gear.

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Healthcare Retail Engineering Customer Relationship 103

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 10, 2019

Today we’re launching three huge updates to our Articles and Custom Bots products to help you scale your support with Intercom. These days, great customer support isn’t a nice to have – it’s table stakes. Giving your customers fast, personal support is essential to customer retention , transforms customers into advocates for your business and delivers a competitive advantage.

Start-ups 149

Start-ups Customer Retention Customer Service 149

Myra Golden Media

JULY 12, 2019

When my daughter was 13, we re-did her bedroom to give her a teenage look. She picked out modern furniture from Ikea, lovely bedding and fun art that perfectly matched her style. Six years later my teenage son, now 16, pointed out, “You guys owe me a new room. Sissy got a new room when she was 13 and I’m 16 with the same room I had when I was little.”.

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Contact Center Customer Service Customer Experience 95

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.

Actionable Insights

Totango

JULY 9, 2019

What’s your company’s most precious asset? It’s not your inventory, your stock options, or your intellectual property. It’s your customers. Your business can’t exist without them, and if you want your business to last, you’ve got to make them happy. In fact, customers are far more than just assets; your relationship with them forms the very foundation of your company.

Customer Experience 90

Customer Experience Social Media Customer Retention Start-ups 90

Fonolo

JULY 11, 2019

Text or talk? Voice conversations are still critical, but data shows that the former is becoming a bigger part of customer service interactions. This trend is driven partly by consumer preferences and partly by companies striving to lower costs. Companies are also leaning towards text because of the promise of increased automation, which is easier to do once a conversation has shifted to text.

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Customer Service Retail Gaming Contact Center 73

Customer Service Life

JULY 8, 2019

Image by Robin Higgins from Pixabay. This article was originally published on the ICMI blog on May 13, 2019. Click here to read the original. Picture Adam Sandler in The Wedding Singer when his ex-fiancee explained why she left him at the altar the day after their wedding. His response was, “Jeez, you know, that information might have been a little more useful to me yesterday.”.

Contact Center 73

Contact Center Customer Service 73

Myra Golden Media

JULY 10, 2019

I’m working with a utility company in the northeast. All of my customer service workshops begin with what I call a Discovery Discussion – a video conference where I discover the problem my client needs me to solve. For my utility client, the discussion showed the most pressing issue was that Representatives didn’t know how to keep interactions focused and productive.

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Customer Service Customer Experience 81

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

Customer Satisfaction

Comm100

JULY 11, 2019

No matter what kind of work you do, it’s getting harder and harder to steer clear of conversations about how artificial intelligence is poised to change everything. If it feels like the mid-90’s all over again to you – when it seemed every conversation was about the World Wide Web and the Information Superhighway (thank you Al Gore) – I get it. Here’s the plain truth: as real and as revolutionary as the Internet was in the 90s, so will be the case for AI in the coming years, in what’s being hail

Contact Center 69

Contact Center AI Artificial Intelligence Social Media 69

CSAT.AI

JULY 10, 2019

Quick take: Channel the brand voice right in your customer service experience by knowing: Company Personality Style Guide Communication Style Customer Base Resolution Style. There are many challenges to outsourcing to a contact center. One of those challenges is channeling the company vibe so the customer service experience fits the brand. Company Personality.

Contact Center 69

Contact Center Sentiment Analysis Gaming B2C 69

SurveySensum

JULY 12, 2019

Customer experience management is crucial for your business. Highly important. In fact, if you ignore the significance of great customer experience in your business operations then you might have to pay a price by losing your customers. As per a report by Dimensional Research, 52% of customers continued to use more products or services from a company after having a positive customer experience, and 51% recommended the company to others.

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Customer Retention Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Unstructured Data 68

Gainsight

JULY 11, 2019

Our mission is to prove that you can win in business while being human first. So we want to put the spotlight on some of those humans helping Gainsight win in business! This time around, let’s meet our VP of Market Development, Hayley Jean Farr , and hear from her in her own words. Tell us a bit about yourself and what your role is at Gainsight.

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Sales 66

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Customer Service

Totango

JULY 11, 2019

You wouldn’t throw your money away on the street, would you? Or drop it down the garbage disposal? If you’re not working hard to retain customers, you may as well—because you’ll be losing money. A one-time customer is a lost revenue opportunity. Instead of becoming a loyal customer who spends money and gives good word-of-mouth advertising, the one-time customer is there one moment and gone the next.

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Customer Retention Social Media Customer Acquisition Start-ups 63

Myra Golden Media

JULY 11, 2019

One morning I was using the kiosk at the airport to check-in for my flight. Self-service check-in is something I do, all of the time. I like using self-service, and most of the time, I know what I’m doing. But on this day, something went wrong, and I wasn’t able to print my ticket. An employee with the airline noticed I was stuck. She walked over and asked if I needed help with anything.

Customer Experience 63

Customer Experience Customer Service 63

TeamSupport

JULY 12, 2019

In the business world, knowledge is power. A team of bad ass, knowledgeable employees will impress even the most difficult customers. However, finding the right people to build a team like this isn’t easy and can take a lot of time. In many companies, knowledge is acquired through direct experience. A senior employee that has been working on a product for a long time will know it inside and out.

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Technology Technology 56

Gainsight

JULY 9, 2019

It’s basically the holy grail of subscription business: how can you accurately and scientifically predict whether a customer is going to renew or not? Seeing the future of your revenue base gives you the ability to better forecast your financials, take action on risky renewals, and—you probably don’t need me to convince you how incredibly gamechanging it would be to pull up a dashboard with a clear likelihood-to-renew score.

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Machine Learning Start-ups Technology Technology 65

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

Retail

Totango

JULY 11, 2019

You wouldn’t throw your money away on the street, would you? Or drop it down the garbage disposal? If you’re not working hard to retain customers, you may as well—because you’ll be losing money. A one-time customer is a lost revenue opportunity. Instead of becoming a loyal customer who spends money and gives good word-of-mouth advertising, the one-time customer is there one moment and gone the next.

Customer Retention 63

Customer Retention Social Media Customer Acquisition Start-ups 63

Myra Golden Media

JULY 12, 2019

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Customer Experience 54

Customer Experience 54

Comm100

JULY 9, 2019

How does your contact center handle new starter training and onboarding? In my experience, most businesses fall into three camps: Trial by fire – give agents a manual to read, then throw them on customer queries and hope for the best. Outsource to colleagues – make training another agent’s responsibility, ask the new starter to shadow them, and expect the new hire to be ready in a week or so.

AI 49

AI Contact Center Start-ups Machine Learning 49

Gainsight

JULY 11, 2019

As a B2B SaaS company, your customer success strategy can be your best sales strategy. And I don’t just mean for expanding customers through upsells and cross-sells (farming). I mean for acquiring net-new customers. I’m talking about hunting. Your customer success strategy can be your best customer acquisition strategy. Here’s how I measure “best customer acquisition strategy” in this context: Win Percentage.

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B2B Customer Acquisition Machine Learning Sales 45

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