Help Scout

JULY 13, 2021

Sometimes the customer service teams who are supposed to be solving problems somehow manage to make them so much worse instead. These are their stories — along with some tips to help you avoid ending up on this list next time we update it! 1. Running from responsibility The root of many terrible customer experiences is a company that is happy to collect money from a transaction but not to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 13, 2021

Sometimes your Customer Experience requires you to outsource a portion of it to a third party. Maybe it’s an installer or a tow truck service, or even an entire call center, but whatever or whoever it is, this part of the experience is not under your control. Today, we will examine whether this is a good idea or not. We discussed this topic of outsourcing on a recent podcast , where my co-host shared a story about his friend who ordered a trampoline.

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The DiJulius Group

JULY 13, 2021

Across the United States, companies are struggling with hiring and retaining quality employees. Unemployment rates are high but still there is a labor shortage. With many open positions, it’s very difficult to get people to apply and show up for interviews. The market is hot! It’s more important now than ever before that you have. Read Full Article.

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Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. In the old days, growing your business was easy. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. But that was before the internet made it possible to deliver highly customized items.

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Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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DemandJump

JULY 13, 2021

It is estimated that only about 60% of businesses have a documented content strategy. What’s more, many brands report that their hurdle to developing a strategic approach to content is due to a lack of business processes or leadership failing to make it a priority.

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Advantage Communications

JULY 13, 2021

New customer service strategies and innovative contact center technologies are changing the game when it comes to improving the customer experience (CX) and achieving new call center efficiencies.

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NobelBiz

JULY 13, 2021

The first thing we look at when we speak of VoIP telephony is the price of a call per minute. This is definitely the fundamental factor to be taken into account. However, if you're not considering other variables, that doesn't really make much sense. The conditions of usage offered by provider differ significantly, so you will not find them difficult to understand.

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Middlesex Consulting

JULY 13, 2021

Introduction The primary difference between a manufacturing department and an OEM is that the manufacturer makes and sells the product and the OEM makes, sells, and services the end product. For example, Ford is an OEM when it sells complete cars and trucks, but the manufacturing department delivers engines to other manufacturers after the sales […].

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ShepHyken

JULY 13, 2021

Authentic Customer Conversations. Collecting, Sharing, and Acting on Customer Knowledge. Shep Hyken interviews Jason Ten-Pow, CEO and President of ONR, the CX consulting firm he founded in 2009. They discuss how businesses can create long-term and sustainable revenue and profits by talking to their customers. Top Takeaways: When businesses take the mundane transactions to the experiential, customers come to see what they will do next.

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Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Vanilla Forums

JULY 13, 2021

Brand advocacy is one of the most powerful marketing programs you can implement. Since Bain and Company identified that organizations with advanced brand advocacy scores grow 2.5 times faster than their competitors, businesses around the world have been scrambling to launch and develop strategies to promote customer advocacy.

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ShepHyken

JULY 13, 2021

Authentic Customer Conversations. Collecting, Sharing, and Acting on Customer Knowledge. Shep Hyken interviews Jason Ten-Pow, CEO and President of ONR, the CX consulting firm he founded in 2009. They discuss how businesses can create long-term and sustainable revenue and profits by talking to their customers. Top Takeaways: When businesses take the mundane transactions to the experiential, customers come to see what they will do next.

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MyCustomer

JULY 13, 2021

Engagement Debunking the myth that CX & EX are linked.

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ShepHyken

JULY 13, 2021

Authentic Customer Conversations. Collecting, Sharing, and Acting on Customer Knowledge. Shep Hyken interviews Jason Ten-Pow, CEO and President of ONR, the CX consulting firm he founded in 2009. They discuss how businesses can create long-term and sustainable revenue and profits by talking to their customers. Top Takeaways: When businesses take the mundane transactions to the experiential, customers come to see what they will do next.

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Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Conversocial

JULY 13, 2021

With vaccination programs rolling out across the world, employers everywhere have been wrestling with the conundrum of how to keep staff safe, whether or not to offer ‘hybrid working’ and when exactly to reopen their offices - well according to a professor at Mays Business School in Texas, they might as well not bother. If Anthony Klotz is correct, the ‘Great Resignation’ means there will be fewer employees to worry about for a lot of companies.

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MyCustomer

JULY 13, 2021

CLooking for your next step in the world of customer experience? Every week, MyCustomer scours the internet to find the latest CX job. 13th Jul 2021. By Neil Davey Managing editor.

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kommunicate

JULY 13, 2021

In a chatbot flow, there are situations where you need to refer to the previous messages and continue the flow involving follow-ups and confirmations. To design such conversations, Dialogflow allows creating secondary intents called Follow-up intents. What is a follow-up intent? A follow-up intent is a child of its associated parent intent. In other words, [.].

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ClientSuccess

JULY 13, 2021

Modern CSMs working in the SaaS industry wear a lot of hats – and we mean a lot. They’re project managers, act as a liaison between customers and other teams, escalate incidents and issues, keep customers moving forward in their project plans, and are responsible for the general well-being of customer account health. There is no shortage of things to do, which is excellent for providing day-to-day value.

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Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

With online fraud on the increase, companies must take action to make sure they meet the updated version of the Payment Services Directive, PSD2, which will mandate Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), later this year. Adam Bromage-Hughes, Technical Director at Encoded , takes a closer look at the directive and discusses why SCA is so important for companies and customers.

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kommunicate

JULY 13, 2021

In a chatbot flow, there are situations where you need to refer to the previous messages and continue the flow involving follow-ups and confirmations. To design such conversations, Dialogflow allows creating secondary intents called Follow-up intents. What is a follow-up intent? A follow-up intent is a child of its associated parent intent. In other words, [.].

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CSM Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

The hospitality industry experienced the detrimental impact of the UK’s lockdown restrictions. While most businesses could continue working from home, the hospitality industry was left dwindling throughout lockdown. Pubs, bars and restaurants closed their doors, and many companies lost irreparable amounts of revenue throughout the last year and a half.

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Helpware

JULY 13, 2021

Building a call center team requires a clear chain of command and escalation procedures, we'll show you how to create the optimal customer support apparatus.

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Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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Solvvy

JULY 13, 2021

When customers think about you and your brand, they rarely think only of the products you sell. Instead, the experience they’ve had with your company gets factored in – heavily. Let’s say you love Dell computers, for example. But if someone asks you how you feel about Dell, you’re more likely to think of the three hours you spent on the phone being passed around between different customer support representatives.

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Optimove

JULY 13, 2021

The post 83% of segments containing less than 0.4% of customers in their database appeared first on Optimove.

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MyCustomer

JULY 13, 2021

FToday’s business owners understand that their success is inextricably linked to the customer experience, and yet many are still falling at. 14th Jul 2021. By Jason VandeBoom CEO and Founder.

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Gainsight

JULY 13, 2021

If there’s a word in business that’s used more often than “ churn ,” it’s almost certainly the word “scale.” The influence and importance of scale can be both a burden and a blessing. Scaling is critical to every business, and every company begins with the idea that it can create a great product. However, when they turn their attention to driving growth , their primary challenge will be scaling in a way that drives true efficiency.

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Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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MyCustomer

JULY 13, 2021

SWhile 2020-21 will forever be seen as a devastating period for physical retailers, this time of upheaval continues to be a significant. 14th Jul 2021. By Chris Daplyn Managing Director, UK.

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Strikedeck

JULY 13, 2021

Jason Hoe, Director of Customer Success at Revionics, discusses how a business designs value that profoundly impacts customer success (CS) and its desired outcomes in an interview with Vincent Manlapaz. The post Making an Impact During these Unprecedented Times — In an interview with Jason Hoe, Director of Customer Success at Revionics first appeared on Strikedeck | Customer Success Platform.

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Magellan Solutions

JULY 13, 2021

Government Tasks & Why E-services Are Needed For Them. E-service innovations during Covid-19 stemmed from the urgent need to share information about the virus. Governments and businesses not familiar with communicating a constantly changing message of this magnitude grappled with solutions. They pursued building eservices portal and mobile apps, using social media and relying on instant messaging.

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