Every business dreams of having countless satisfied and loyal customers. Once you’ve crossed a certain point, those people are more than just customers – they are enthusiastic promoters and brand advocates of yours, who wouldn’t dream of ever switching to another competitor. Of course, these types of customers are rare. And to acquire them, businesses have to pull out all the stops, and develop a strong focus on a critical area: customer success.

Research is clear: customer service is one of the biggest drivers of customer loyalty. In fact, 78 percent of U.S. consumers say customer service is important to loyalty, according to Netomi’s State of Customer Service 2020 report. Increasingly, customers expect support that is fast, personal, and effective. To deliver the experience that customers expect, companies are adopting AI to provide immediate resolutions that bring customer delight and business value.

Each day, we all communicate using a diverse range of methods to share our ideas, thoughts, emotions, and opinions. Communication is a beautiful thing that’s at the core of who we are. But it’s also very complex, and the threat of miscommunication is constantly looming. In fact, Dale Carnegie (the author of How to Make Friends and Influence People) stated that 90% of management problems are caused by miscommunication.

Congratulations. You’ve decided to prioritize agent experience as a key driver of customer success. This move positions your business to unlock the one true secret to a better customer experience: equipped, empowered, and engaged agents. Now, where do you begin? The genesis of this proactive change program is in prioritizing improved collaboration.

A new version of our iPhone/iPad app is available today that adds support for Apple's Critial Alerts. Added in iOS 12, Critical Alerts are special notifications that can bypass the device's mute switch and Do Not Disturb settings to generate audible alerts in emergency situations. This functionality is only available to applications that have applied to and been approved by Apple.

When teams bring together the right people, processes, and ideas from across their organization, they can accomplish amazing things together. Unfortunately not all teams work and communicate in the same tools, creating challenges for cross-functional collaborators and slowing down work on shared projects. This is especially true for technical and business teams whose highly interdependent work can get bogged down by a lack of visibility and repetitive, often duplicate, progress tracking.

Not long ago, handle time was the chief measure of customer support agent productivity. Managers optimized everything they could to lower costs (that is, time spent) by speeding up their teams’ calls. This, according to management consultants at Bain & Company, is what leaders do to make teams more efficient. Efficiency is producing the same with less. Productivity, by contrast, is producing more with the same.

With the upgrade to React Native 61 came the prospect of substantially improving performance of our Android app. How? Through the use of Hermes, Facebook’s new JavaScript engine. To say that we were excited is an understatement. And with that excitement came curiosity: How is this new JavaScript engine achieving performance boosts?

Customer expectations are higher than ever before, and your customers are scrutinizing your business more intensely than ever. They’re comparing their experience with your brand to the easy, fast, and personalized experiences they’re having with the best of the best. And it’s these customer-focused businesses that get to reap the benefits of renewed loyalty and competitive advantage.

Design Sprints are tricky enough with everyone in one room. How can they be done remotely? We’re here to share our proven framework, used dozens of times at JustMad. Note: We assume you’re familiar with the four-day version of the Design Sprint. If not, go ahead and check out this article. We’ll wait!

Growing awareness of attraction centers around the world, faster and more reliable transport systems, and internet booking are some of the reasons for the booming Travel and Leisure Industry. Over the years, tour operators and travel companies have improved touring experiences for leisure tourists by breaking barriers of language, currency, and costs of tours.

In most organizations, the highest-performing sales reps are eventually promoted to management. But being a manager is a much different job than being a rep. You can be at the very top of your trade, but that doesn’t necessarily make you a good leader. I experienced this firsthand when I moved into management. I was good at sales, but I wasn’t really good at leading. You’re not taught that it’s a completely different job that operates in a gray area every single day.

Everyone in the business world has had an experience where it didn’t feel like they mattered to a vendor or business. It’s a difficult feeling knowing your voice isn’t being heard, or even worse ignored by someone you’re trusting to meet your business needs. However, these situations can be avoided with your own customers by hiring support team members who legitimately care about them AND know how to properly display this care in conversations.

A business can’t thrive without lead generation, however, the more leads you generate, the more selective you have to be in your pursuits. Sales rep don’t want to waste time chasing a large list of dead-end leads. That time could be spent nurturing more promising leads. Yet, when it comes to valuing leads, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Experience and gut instinct goes a long way, but they aren’t enough.

Distinguishing correlation from causation is one of the most frequent mistakes made in reasoning. These two words appear deceptively similar but identifying the difference between both can either make or break the process of creating a high-value product for your customers. Let’s dive right in as I review correlation vs causation psychology and describe the main differences between these two common terms.

Burnout is a serious problem, where individuals are emotionally, physically and mentally exhausted due to a prolonged and excessive period of stress. The symptoms may vary but you may feel emotionally drained, overwhelmed, and unable to meet your responsibilities. Research reveals that this phenomenon is prevalent in the tech industry, with more than half (57%) of those working in the sector reporting to feeling burnt out in their jobs.

For project management, there are tons of software options available, some of which are too heavy-weight for teams tackling smaller, well-defined projects. When picking the right software for your team, one of the biggest challenges is striking the right balance in terms of the benefits versus the time spent setting it up and managing the tool.

Image Source Before we go on to what features distinguish Teams from Slack and which collaboration hub you should use for your business’ internal/external communications, consider this: Microsoft is a Behemoth. Slack Technologies — Not so much. Though Microsoft Teams is the new kid on the block, things are already looking like David and Goliath between the two. Why? Because Microsoft Teams already has around 20 million daily active users whereas Slack has only 12 million.

With the new year setting in, you might have already identified new leaves to turn, and set your customer service objectives accordingly. Along with the goals that you have already framed, here are five questions that can help you reflect on your current support setup, ensure that you are on the right track, and fine-tune your objectives for the year.

The digital revolution has changed the way we find the information we need and how we get help. Now, you can find out everything you need with the swipe of a smartphone, including discovering how to hire a Jira expert. When it comes to the corporate world, the humble service desk has undergone quite the digital transformation too, helping users receive the right help in a timely manner.

Let’s check some criteria to help you choose the right solution! For sure the first main impact will be in pricing since Slack is more expensive than HipChat. For the video conference feature, for example, the former could roughly charge $8 per user on a monthly basis plan (includes this feature) while Hipchat´s users would be charged $2 By contrast, this solution costs our Rocket.Chat clients $3 per person per month.The great news?

In the past 3 years, the AI space has become so noisy that even seasoned executives struggle to cut through the jargon, making it challenging to deliver against an AI strategy. Support leaders face a series of roadblocks. The AI space overall isn’t accessible to the business stakeholders who want to leverage it for improved customer experience.

The emergence of bots, AI, and interactivity in messaging has transformed channels like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and iMessage from places we chat to platforms where we do business. Conversational business is only going in one direction—Gartner estimates that “by 2022, 70% of all customer interactions will involve emerging tools like chatbots, machine learning, and mobile messaging, up from 15% in 2018.”

Messaging has changed the way we communicate. Relationships big and small — from the personal to the political to the commercial – can be mapped out across conversations in the messaging apps almost everybody uses every day. In our annual conversational business report, State of Messaging 2020, we look at the biggest messaging stories from the past year, along with research, reporting, and predictions on how the future of messaging between brands and customers will play out.

Customers may not be interested in your customer experience software – but your company absolutely should be. When done right, a simple and sophisticated customer experience platform is a key tool for creating loyalty. For companies, it means being able to seamlessly communicate with customers across the channels they want – including email, chat, text, phone and social media. For customers, it fosters a sense of trust that they can reach you the way they want.

Every time the Help Desk phone rings, it costs your organization, money. One of the best methods for businesses to save money is to automate time-consuming tasks, which, of course, takes the cake when it comes to delivering support. It is important to invest in quality support for your employees, especially as it helps them be more productive. Let’s look at some of the cost metrics that workplace support incurs.

Mattermost 5.20 ships with new features designed to increase team productivity. Try these new features by downloading Mattermost 5.20 today.

I remember it like it was yesterday, but it was 20 years ago. As I approached my boss’s desk, I saw her do something amazing: she made a smaller window appear on top of her screen, displaying the icons of her open applications. She quickly toggled and selected another. In an instant, she’d gone from Outlook to Excel. No mousing around, no hunting to open the app. I squawked. What the heck was that? That, my friends, was my alt-tab Eureka! moment.

Freshbooks is a cloud-based software that provides accounting services to its users. The application is geared towards small businesses and self-employed professionals, enabling them to track their financials by logging on to their accounts. At its core, Freshbooks is a straightforward application that eliminates paperwork by automating tasks like invoicing, organizing expenses and client follow-ups.

Identifying the attributes that constitute a qualified lead can be a complicated process, especially if your product caters to a wide variety of customers. Your sales reps need a clear and structured strategy to ensure their lead qualification process is both consistent and reliable. A lead qualification checklist establishes the criteria and step-by-step framework your team needs to ensure the leads they work have the highest probability of becoming future customers.

Lots of companies say they’re customer focused. But are they really? The fact is, most companies think more about profits than how they treat their customers. That makes sense on the surface–after all, any business needs to be profitable to stay afloat. But in the long run, it’s much healthier for the bottom line to put customer needs in focus. A single angry customer can create a social media firestorm with a complaint.

Why is it essential to meet the demands of Gen Z employees who are the latest entrants in the workplace? By 2020, an estimated 50 percent of the world’s workforce will be millennials, which means that by now, most organizations are already seeing an influx of Gen Z workers. The new generation of office-goers co-exist with several generations of co-workers, but the difference between older and new generations are in their priorities, complexities, and challenges.

Apps from Donut, Drift, Halp, Simple Poll and Zapier have seen home run upgrades, courtesy of their new home tab in Slack

Mortgage like other financial services involves meticulous bookkeeping and outreach. Mortgage CRM tools and Automated Mortgage Marketing and Management tools are disrupting the mortgage market. The accelerated rise in automation and digitization in the mortgage process has already become the norm for the progressive real estate and loan professionals operating in the mortgage market.

When you’re a part of a customer-facing team, it is easy to feel bogged down by the sheer volume of customer queries or complaints you need to resolve. C-level executives who head customer experience and customer service functions feel similar heat too, when customer ratings drop. On such days, you might have needed that extra bit of motivation to really drive you… and that’s completely normal! A shot of espresso could work one day, a pizza can do the trick on another.

At the pace that technology continues to change, it’s clear that the coming decade will continue to bring technological advances that evolve not only how we work, but the very nature of work itself.

Information Technology Pulling together data-informed presentations was costing our sales team time. Enter the Midas Touch app, which delivers them in Slack in minutes

For SaaS businesses, no metric matters more than monthly recurring revenue (MRR). That’s because they rely on recurring revenue to run their business. MRR is how they track whether that revenue is growing, plateauing, or declining. And following that trend, they can predict future sales revenue and adjust their budget as needed. Read on to learn how MRR is calculated and how SaaS companies can leverage it to create more accurate sales forecasts and better budgets for their business.

Product managers: ever feel like there’s a disconnect between you and your remote developers? If you find that you’re struggling to work together effectively, it may be because your developers aren’t telling you what you really need to know about your shared and individual workflows. I chatted with some remote developers in the Arc.dev remote community to find out what the top barriers to successful collaboration are – and what product managers can do to overcome them.

All companies strive towards having a strong corporate culture. People make a business what it is, so keeping them happy, motivated, and positive has an impact on operations that is difficult to measure and describe. A great culture fuels a level of growth and productivity that all businesses want to achieve. When it comes to customer support, a corporate culture can have a wide array of impacts. Here are some ways good and bad corporate cultures impact customer support operations.

Storage Almost Full! ‘To Ensure normal use, please delete files to free up internal storage space.’ I am sure you receive a ‘storage full’ warning once in a while unless your device is equipped with a cloud file-sharing system. Receiving these storage warnings can be frustrating, especially when you’ve important files that you cannot risk losing. That’s where File Sharing Sites come into the picture.

If you play PC games online, it’s safe to assume that you are familiar with Discord. If not, this article can be a great resource because Discord has some of the best screen-sharing features, which can benefit both gamers and non-gamers. You and up to 9 friends can simultaneously screen share on the discord server. At one time, 10 Discord users can conduct a live video chat, while they all are sharing their desktop screens, simultaneously.

Wire continues to be a force to be reckoned with when it comes to winning awards - this time around as a finalist for the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2020. The recognition comes in at a time of unprecedented growth – gaining regognition in both the technology and business categories. At the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Wire is in the final for two awards in business categories.

Did you think you would see a day when brands would use WhatsApp to have service conversations with customers? Or that customers would actually prefer not speaking to human agents? The unpredictable nature of technology means that you should always be on the lookout for emerging trends, or you’ll face the risks of dealing with obsolete processes.

As engineering teams grow, obvious difficulties arise. It’s simple math. You can’t keep up with everyone, and everything, in the same way as you did when the team was small. To maintain the high level of impact you’ve always had, your ways of working need to change.

Dropbox is a cloud-based file hosting service that stores a variety of documents in one platform. What makes Dropbox unique is its ability to store large files in different formats without relying on disk space. Users can access data by downloading the application into their computers or by simply logging on to their accounts. Initially, this web-based storage system was created to eliminate the dilemma of sharing files via the internet.

Slack is a cloud-based instant messaging platform that replaces internal communication overhead, such as emails, through chat rooms (known as channels). Each message is organized by topic, department, projects, private groups, and more into these channels enabling users to respond according to their priority. What makes Slack unique is that it promotes one-on-one team collaboration and that allows the user to resolve a problem right away, eliminating unanswered emails and high response times.

In order to grow your business, revenue needs to exceed the costs of running your company. This may seem like a “Thank you Captain Obvious” concept. But the truth is, accurately calculating revenue to plan for future expenses and growth is not as cut and dried as you may think.That’s because there are different types of revenue, each one requiring a unique revenue formula to calculate.

How many times have you thought to yourself “if only this could be automated…”? Chances are high that if you’re already thinking about it, there’s a way to do it. With Scoro Zapier integration, there are unlimited ways of bringing automation to your work. All you need is a bit of creativity and courage to start tackling that automation monster that has been appearing a little frightening so far. We can ensure you – it’s not!

The ever-rising demand for digital-first engagement has made customer experience a major brand differentiator in 2020. This demand for customer experience has encouraged an ‘influencer’ culture, which has CX leaders from various industries share best practices and innovative thoughts. Customer experience influencers like Neil Patel, Shep Hyken, and Jeanne Bliss are looked up to for guidance by companies and individuals wanting to provide to their customers moments of delight.

Hitting your sales quota every month means knowing how to work smarter, not harder. Oftentimes, this means knowing which leads to chase first. Sales reps who have mastered this skill typically use lead scoring to guide their actions. Usually calculated on a numeric scale, lead scoring helps reps identify people who are most likely to buy their product or service and weed out those who are least likely. It makes you wonder why everyone isn’t scoring their leads, right?

“You can use the free version of Slack for as long as you like and there’s no limit to the number of members who can be invited.” That’s what Slack’s pricing page reads once you get started. In all their PRs and advertisements', Slack has time and again claimed that their free tier offers an unlimited number of users. In short, Slack unapologetically mentions that there is no limit. You can add ‘as many people’ as you want to. But is it really true?

As we enter into 2020, looking back into 2019, let’s delve into a report from SDI to know about the expectations of service desk professionals for the coming months. The report provides specific data about the service desk – the benefits and struggles with ITSM tools, also outlining key trends, pain areas, and the priorities for 2020 for professionals. One of the key trends seems to be the uptake in AI and chatbot technologies.

Go is an extremely opinionated programming language. import something in a file that’s not used? It won’t compile, and there’s no flag to override. While there are workarounds, the end result remains the same: Go files are never cluttered by unused imports. This is true for all Go code everywhere, making every Go project more accessible. Not all Go opinions are enforced by the compiler.

San Francisco, CA – February 3, 2020 – Asana, Inc. announced today that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to the proposed public listing of its common stock. The public listing is expected to take place after the SEC completes its review process, subject to market and other conditions.