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The #1 Guide To Customer Experience Conferences in 2022

With customer experience becoming more important than ever, interactive customer experience conferences are the need of the hour. Whether it’s a virtual experience, in-person event or a hybrid summit, companies are reimagining customer journeys to reduce friction, accelerating the shift to digital channels, and providing for new safety requirements. With the ongoing global crisis, many organizers have switched to hybrid and virtual conferences.

5 open source Intercom alternatives to consider in 2022

Intercom has become an industry standard for talking to customers via live chat. In its 10 year history, Intercom set the bar for customer engagement with SaaS businesses pretty high. However, open source challengers are on the rise. The indisputable advantages of open source software over its proprietary counterparts have experts looking for open source alternatives to Intercom, too.

What is a customer service specialist?

A customer service specialist is one of the people a customer will interact with when they make a purchase of a product or service from a company. The role requires many skills, but perhaps the most important are interpersonal skills and a thorough knowledge of the company’s customer care policies. In this article, we’ll look at what customer service and customer experience are, how they interact, and then go into more detail about the typical tasks of a customer service specialist.

7 laws of UX to improve the experience of IT managers

Besides features, integrations, and needs, #userexperience is crucial when selecting products, build custom solutions, or design usability studies. Tools that abide by #uxlaws increase their chances of adoption since they are based on utility, ease of use, and efficiency notions. Whether you're on the creator or the user side, Matt Beran - Invgate Product Specialist - listed 7 #lawsofux needed to make a wise decision. Find examples of each one of them in the video!

Keeping a Detailed Hardware Inventory: Best Practices

Hardware and asset management is not easy even in relatively small organizations with 20 or 30 employees. As the size of the organization increases, it becomes difficult to keep track of all the laptops, printers, and other hardware used by the employees. This is where a detailed hardware inventory of IT assets becomes useful. A hardware inventory can help you keep track of all devices and equipment owned or used by your organization.

Webinar Demo: Unlocking your IT Helpdesk with chatbot for Hybrid workplace

Learn how 80% of repetitive IT Support issues & requests can be automated for your employees faster, instantly using IT Helpdesk Chatbot. Augment your IT Helpdesk team with Slack or Microsoft Teams chatbot and app workflow automation, from Workativ.

How To Conduct An Effective Customer Service Performance Review

Conducting an impactful customer service performance review sets the stage not just for the evaluation and growth of your team members but can also identify larger trends within your support strategy. However, many pieces make up an individual’s customer support career development, and it can get difficult to track them regularly. You’ve got performance metrics to pay attention to, career growth, and paths of interest for your customer service representatives.

7 Laws of UX to Improve the Experience of IT Managers

The process of looking for a suitable software to work with doesn’t involve its functionalities and integrations alone. It’s not limited to your company and your own needs, either. Finding a tool that does everything you want is the ultimate goal, but if the layout is confusing or if the learning curve is too steep, the dream can rapidly become a nightmare. For that reason, besides features and needs, you should also focus on the laws of UX.

Product Customization: Benefits, Examples, & Tips

Imagine opening your Netflix account and seeing four independent Turkish television shows, an advertisement for a German horror movie, and three movies you’ve already seen, but didn’t really like. Not very helpful, right? Fortunately, Netflix has customized their product to offer personalized recommendations in a way that will please their users, and keep them coming back for more.