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Re: IgniteTech acquired Khoros to rebuild it. Here’s what that looks like.
AngeloAntoline you didn't even log into the right account to post this comment. It looks like you're just some random community member defending IgniteTech. A quick search shows you're the CMO of IgniteTech, and if you would have used the AngeloA account (mentioned as contributor in this post), at least you would show up in this thread as a "Khoros" employee. I think this is part of the whole frustration with this acquisition, yes AI is widely used, but there are only so many people who have community experience, let alone community platform experience. People who know every nuance, quirk, and duplicated account / SSO issue were just let go from your team. True experts who built and supported a previously platinum, top-of-the-line product. When people see a product we used to love be acquired by people who have already gutted another community-adjacent platform, folks are gonna be mad and pick it apart. So really the obvious use of AI in this post seems like the least of IgniteTech's worries. I would think.2020 Customer Awards: Tealium - All-Ways Connected
Company: Tealium Company background: At Tealium, customer data is in our DNA. We have been at the forefront of delivering trusted customer data orchestration solutions to enterprises for over a decade. Tealium was started in 2008 with the promise to provide a better way for companies to collect, unify and leverage their customer data. Our products have pioneered new categories for Tag Management Systems and Customer Data Platforms. The Tealium Customer Data Hub now encompasses tag management, an API hub, a customer data platform, and data management solutions that enable organizations to leverage real-time data for creating insight and building personalized digital experiences across every organizational team, technology, and customer touchpoint. Contact: Kristen Meren Title: Senior Community Manager Related URLs: https://community.tealiumiq.com/ Kudos Category: All-Ways Connected 1. Tell us about your digital customer experience: When and why did digital customer experience become a focus and priority for your organization and what technology(ies) did you decide to implement to help you, and what problem(s) does it help solve? Being a marketing technology company, Tealium’s vision is to deliver delightful digital customer experiences. We’re lucky to have the internal tools and capabilities to implement our own software to use in our community. Not only do we use our own product, but we have integrations with Slack and Salesforce as well. Our digital CX strategy was perhaps not prepared for the amount of growth that our company accomplished over the past couple years. This likely sounds similar to many organizations who try to keep up with exponential growth without losing that human touch and solid customer experience. The truth is, as a company expands, more software platforms come into employees’ use, more teams are built out, and knowledge remains “tribal” as there was previously not a need to document when the company was smaller. As our teams and our customer base grew, it became more apparent that we had to make processes simpler for our employees to contribute in the community, while enhancing our communications with our customers. These are the three technologies that our team have focused on to improve our customers’ digital experiences. Slack - TKB Feedback The background: Our company heavily uses Slack to communicate amongst coworkers and to help get customers’ problems solved. Slack is an ingrained part of Tealium’s culture, with over 30,000 messages sent daily. The way we stay connected: TKB Feedback comments trigger an event in Tealium, which triggers a Slack webhook, which posts the feedback message into the community support Slack channel. The technical writing team then reviews the feedback to see if there are ideas to improve the article. (see Image A) Salesforce - Badging & Roles The background: We use Salesforce as our CRM platform, where we have both prospect and customer information. Salesforce is used widely in our company, from sales and marketing, to education and enablement. The way we stay connected: By the time we had Khoros’ Support connect our community to Salesforce, we’d totally revamped our roles, ranks, and badges. This meant we could now sync all that user information into Salesforce.This information enables our Marketing and Customer Success teams to target certain users for recruiting conference speakers, messaging folks who are product certified, etc. Tealium AudienceStream - Onboarding Emails The background: Our own product, AudienceStream, uses a visitor stitching technology that constructs comprehensive and actionable customer profiles. Using the data within these profiles makes it simple to identify milestones that can then be used to create audiences. These audiences can be leveraged in any integrated system to deliver a consistent and relevant customer experience. The way we stay connected: Once a community user is registered, they are automatically added to our onboarding audience, and an email is triggered from Pardot. The first email prompts users to complete their profile, the second gives users tips for getting information, and the third encourages users to get badges and rank up. We set these emails up to be triggered once registration is complete, then 15 days later, and the final message arriving 30 days after registration. 2. What are the benefits of having an integrated community and social media management platform for your organization? How does it improve your strategy for digital customer engagement? There are lots of benefits of having our community software integrated with Slack, Salesforce, and AudienceStream. Simple process for customers to submit feedback (see Image A) Feedback immediately shown to team in community Slack channel (see Image B) Quick turn around to review and edit articles based on user reviews Easily badge users who may have a particular qualifier in Salesforce We’ve badged conference speakers and attendees, as well as product certified users (see Image C) Allow other parts of our company to easily access user info saved in community (roles and badges) Create a nurturing onboarding track with personalized messages to new community users Unified data across the platforms we use: Khoros Community, Salesforce, and Tealium 3. What are your digital results? Please provide your business outcomes and results because of your digital customer experience approach in quantifiable metrics (e.g. revenue, Net Promoter Score, cost savings, brand reputation). 55% increase in unique TKB visitors (YTD 2019 vs 2020) Email campaigns all remain above industry standards: Onboarding emails avg open rate is 30% Onboarding emails avg click rate is 4% Over 40 community users badged as Tealium product certified Over 250 community users badges as Tealium conference attendees or speakers Image A Image B Image C2020 Customer Awards: Tealium - Best-in-Class: Community
Company: Tealium Company background: At Tealium, customer data is in our DNA. We have been at the forefront of delivering trusted customer data orchestration solutions to enterprises for over a decade. Tealium was started in 2008 with the promise to provide a better way for companies to collect, unify and leverage their customer data. Our products have pioneered new categories for Tag Management Systems and Customer Data Platforms. The Customer Data Hub now encompasses tag management, an API hub, a customer data platform, and data management solutions that enable organizations to leverage real-time data for creating insight and building personalized digital experiences across every organizational team, technology, and customer touchpoint. Contact: Kristen Meren Title: Senior Community Manager Related URLs: Tealium Learning Center TLC Experts Portal TLC Blog Lithy category: Best-in-Class: Community 1. Describe your community(s) and how you decided to start a community or grow/change it? (user request, Khoros suggestion, internal idea, etc.). The Tealium Learning Center went about a year without a Community Manager back in 2018. While the community was full of current product documentation and even some great product ideas, our fundamental knowledge of our users and how we could better connect and engage them was lacking. Once we brought a dedicated Community Manager back into the mix, we were able to begin expanding upon our already robust documentation with more content and engagement with our customers. With lots of docs in our TKBs and little user info in hand, we began operating under the motto “get the right information to the right people more quickly”. We wanted the community to become the first stop our users would make to ask questions and get relevant content before they ended up in our Support queue. Luckily, our Search Term metrics in Community Analytics showed that community members were already having some success finding the right documentation they needed. Building our strategy knowing this, we decided to create more content, and to learn more about our users and what they want to read or engage with while doing so. To get started, we agreed all our campaigns would fall under one of the three fundamental pillars of community: Create Killer Content Drive Engagement Build Internal Advocacy 2. Tell us about how you made it happen? Did you stage it first? Who got an early look? How did you drive adoption? Did you get executive buy-in? Did you have any key iterations? Once we decided on the pillars for our community, each project we have taken on fits within at least one of the pillars. This helps us assess which initiatives would have the most impact, and also helps us align with the proper people to help us put the pieces in place. Additionally, we hired another Community Manager! We went from no CMs, to two seasoned SaaS CMs so we could act on the following projects: Create Killer Content Created a quarterly newsletter for our community members, with all the top conversations and content from prior months (see Image A) Published an ongoing series of TLC Tips, or tips to help users get acquainted with the community and Khoros platform Created a blog and began getting internal writers to contribute (one year later, we have our first customer blog post!) Continued supplying the great product documentation our users have become accustomed to Drive Engagement Created a series of three onboarding emails for new community users (see Image B) Updated Khoros notification emails to match our other communications (see Image C) Created a Profile Completion component with the help of Grazitti (thank you Parshant and team!), encouraging users to complete their profile, then badging users when they do so (see Image D) Reinvigorated our Experts program with new perks; including added attention, a logo, Expert-only polos, and an upgrade to Group Hubs (see Image E) Better utilized Khoros’ escalation feature to reduce minutes to first response for unanswered questions Totally revamped our gamification strategy with a fresh set of simple and relatable ranks, as well as new badges to encourage and nurture participation from our users Build Internal Advocacy Our initiatives to create killer content and drive engagement helped us foster internal connections with our Marketing, Customer Success, Education, and Engineering teams We now have 11 blog posts from our own Team Tealium employees, with contributions from the four different teams mentioned above Engaged our CS team as we would our Experts and they agreed to decrease the time in escalations to Support for unanswered questions Hosted custom Lunch ‘n Learn sessions with smaller internal teams to better understand how individual teams could better use the community and its resources 3. What were the results? Tell us how it impacted your customer experience or the outcomes you seek as a business. Please include metrics if possible. Because we were able to strategically grow toward our goals in engaging our customers and getting them more relevant information faster, we are now able to use the “bones” of what we did for our customers in our internal, employee-only community. Some metrics to highlight what we have done in the community over the past year: 6% decrease in minutes to first reply (Jan-April 2019 vs 2020) 42% increase in average click rate for search terms (Jan-April 2019 vs 2020) 45% increase in questions with answers marked as solutions (Jan-April 2019 vs 2020) 55% increase in unique TKB visitors (Jan-April 2019 vs 2020) 38% increase in unique community visitors (Jan-April 2019 vs 2020) TLC blog had 22 posts and almost 8,000 post views by end of year 2019 Email campaigns all remain above industry standards: Onboarding emails avg open rate is 30% Onboarding emails avg click rate is 4% Newsletter avg open rate is 25% Newsletter avg click rate is 5% We are beyond excited to continue on this path of connecting with our customers through content and nurturing our Experts. We are in the process of replicating many of the community features in our Employee Portal in Khoros, because of the growth we have seen. There is now buy-in from our executive team to utilize the new Employee blog, add all-company documentation to TKBs, and highlight some of our greatest employees. Hopefully, around this time next year we will be able to show some pretty stellar results on that front of the community as well. Image A Image B Image C Image D Image E
