Sat.Jun 22, 2019 - Fri.Jun 28, 2019

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Boost Employee Engagement by Creating a Coaching Culture Where your Agents Thrive

SharpenCX

Phones are ringing back to back. You’ve got an inbox full of unread emails. Agents are calling out to you, escalating calls with upset customers who will only speak with the manager. Some days it seems like your agents can’t. Read More. The post Boost Employee Engagement by Creating a Coaching Culture Where your Agents Thrive appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software.

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13 Types of Customers and How to Deal With Them

CrazyCall

Today, we are going to talk about the types of customers you can get in contact with your brand. I will guide you through types one by one and provide hints on how to keep any types of consumers happy. Table of contents. How can we establish types of customers? What types of customers are there? Moreover, how can you make them happy? Can you keep all types of customers happy?

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3 Ways an AI-Powered Knowledge Base Changes the Game for Reps and Customers

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Are You Ignoring a Key Part of Your Digital Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

Think about the last time you shopped online but decided not to buy. Were you just browsing, or was there something about the user experience that made you hesitate? For example, you may have felt frustrated by a complicated process for creating an account, or irritated because you couldn’t find basic information such as size charts or a returns policy.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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Predictive Customer Support

ShepHyken

In the old days – and even in modern times – if a customer wanted help or support, they picked up the phone and called for help. A (hopefully) friendly and competent customer service professional, also known as an agent or representative, would answer the question or resolve the problem. Today there are many ways to connect with a company. There’s the traditional phone call, email, messaging, instant chat, social channels like Twitter and Facebook, and many more.

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Managing Different Personalities in the Contact Center: The Platinum Rule

Contact Center Pipeline

Early in my management career, I followed the Golden Rule: Treat others as I would want to be treated. I believed that if I treated everyone the way I would want to be treated, it meant I was a great manager. Yet, I had significant conflicts with some members of my team. Often, I felt […].

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How Can We Measure Customer Emotions in Our Digital World

Beyond Philosophy

How Can We Measure Customer Emotions in Our Digital World. When you think about the Olympic medalists on the podium during the awards ceremony, who do you think is happier, the silver medalist or the bronze? Objectively, you might say the silver medalists because, after all, they came in second and the other competitor was third. Objectively, the silver medalists had a better outcome and should be happier.

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Amazing Business Radio: Ford Blakely

ShepHyken

A Passion for Convenience. Striking a Balance Between Business and Consumer Needs. Shep Hyken interviews Ford Blakely. They discuss pursuing your passion, creating convenience, and balancing technology with a human connection. The Interview with Ford Blakely: When faced with a problem, it’s important to approach it from the standpoint of convenience.

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4 Secrets About Human Tone In Chat That Nobody Will Tell You

Myra Golden Media

Chat support is not supposed to be rote like an ATM transaction. The idea is to insert a personal tone so you can build rapport and even delight customers. I have my clients do four things in chat interactions to make them more human. 1. Use “I” and “We” personal pronouns because they instantly make the tone personal. 2. Acknowledge customer concern, meaning speak to your customer’s pain point, “I realize this has been frustrating for you.” 3.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

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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LISTEN 2019 Keynote Speakers Lineup Announced!

Callminer

We are excited to announce the keynote lineup for our annual speech analytics user conference, LISTEN, November 4-6, 2019.

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How Your Customers’ Identity Issues Are Affecting Your CX

Beyond Philosophy

I get surprised sometimes by how many qualifications and degrees people list at the end of their name. Some of them might go on for half an hour! I find myself wondering why they want me to know all that. However, I often refer to the fact that LinkedIn recognizes me as one of the top 150 business influencers. I am proud of that. It occurred to me that it is the same thing.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of June 24, 2019

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Customer Clairvoyance: I Never Knew I Always Wanted This by Chip Bell. (Forbes) Dartmouth business school Vijay Govindarajan and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma describes three barriers to brand survival in a changing world.

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Leveraging the Voice of the Employee to Improve Engagement

Contact Center Pipeline

Enough with the big survey event! If you’re looking to improve employee engagement (and who isn’t, these days?), a simple annual questionnaire doesn’t cut it. Employees expect to have a voice in their organization, and smart companies realize that listening to their ideas can improve business outcomes: a win-win. Creating a culture where the Voice […].

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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See You at Customer Contact Week in Las Vegas

Callminer

CallMiner is excited to return to Customer Contact Week as a sponsor, exhibitor, and workshop host featuring expert insights and customer testimonials for leveraging interaction analytics in enterprise-level CX strategy! We will have hosting activities at our booth #213 throughout this week’s event in Las Vegas at the Mirage Hotel and Casino. Tuesday, June 25 2:15 – 4:45 p.m Master-class Level Workshop.

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AI Customer Service: Today’s Most Transformative Technologies

TechSee

Artificial intelligence (AI) – the science that deals with the creation of human-like learning and reasoning capabilities – has been catapulted into the spotlight in recent years. It seems like every company in every industry wants to harness the power of AI to enhance operations and positively impact the lives of their customers. Applications based on AI are already visible in healthcare diagnostics, transportation, entertainment and education, to name but a few, and now the customer service in

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Guest Blog: “Zhuzhing Up” Humans in the Contact Center

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Chris Connolly that discusses h ow assistive AI blends with human-only qualities to create a new category of “superagents.”. Technology replacing humans. That’s what we all fear. Yet bank employees did not disappear with the advent of the ATM. Airline agents are still at check-in counters to guide passengers after self-service kiosks and to arrange complicated ticketing.

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Top 5 Posts in June

Contact Center Pipeline

Summer has officially arrived and with it a few hot topics to add to your contact center reading list. Top blog posts in June included a look at work-life balance challenges in the contact center; customer expectations for a more personalized experience; how to improve communication and collaboration effectiveness and efficiency using tools you may […].

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Reimagining CX: How to Implement Effective AI-Driven Transformations

Speaker: Steve Pappas, Chief Strategist, Startup and Early Stage Growth Advisor, Keynote Speaker, CX Podcaster

As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.

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Has Your CX Lost The Human Touch?

PeopleMetrics

The CX space has seen significant movement over the last few years – between multibillion-dollar acquisitions, advancement in AI, and continuously evolving core software, the industry is experiencing a renaissance. Yet despite these technological advancements, it appears that many of those charged with leading these initiatives are too focused on polished, buzzword - laden tools , and are in turn losing focus of why these programs exist in the first place – t o enhance the c ustomer experience.

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What is Prospecting? 6 Sales Prospecting Methods You Can Easily Use to Get More Customers

CrazyCall

You’re are working hard, trying to build the best product. Your developers, marketers, and business people are doing their best to make the company thrive. Yet, there is no sign of new customers willing to give your company a try…. No matter how daunting that must be, there is a way to get crowds eager to make use of your offer and even refer it further outside!

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The Lowdown on Downloads: 3 Customer Service Apps to take on your Summer Travels

Fonolo

Back in 2009, Apple filed for a trademark on its buzz-worthy phrase, “There’s an app for that.” Almost a decade later, there’s no shortage of apps cluttering up the Android and Apple marketplaces. While many factors are at play here, the growth of the mobile app market has been partly driven by the fact that more and more businesses are integrating mobile apps into their customer service strategies.

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Cut Through The Chatbot Hype To Find The Right Conversational AI Solution For You

Ian Jacobs

In this short take, I discuss the lessons learned from evaluating 14 vendors for the Forrester New Wave™: Conversational AI For Customer Service, Q2 2019. Check out the video below. For more insights, Forrester clients can dig into the full evaluative research here. And if you have more questions, reach out via inquiry.

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Contact Center Dialers Demystified

Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.

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How AI Takes Call Tracking Reports to Next Level

DialogTech

If you aren’t reporting on callers, or only use basic call tracking reports, these will open your eyes to what AI can do.

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Why Do You Need to Rethink Your Customer’s Journey

ProProfs Blog

Customer journey mapping has become such a buzzword in business that 34% of companies are already implementing it into their customer service. However, the idea behind mapping the customer journey is quite intuitive. It’s an abstract thing that helps you visualize how customers are converting. While innovative at the time the idea was introduced, the sales funnel has changed a lot with technology.

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Application Ecosystems and the Future of the Contact Center

Avaya

Digital transformation is about creating experiences that matter, but what does this look like within the contact center? Effortless self-service, agent augmentation, interaction insights, smart pairing…nowhere close to what one vendor alone offers today. This is where we see the benefits of an application ecosystem approach, which allows organizations to flexibly assess and adopt the technologies and changes needed for providing incredible customer and agent experiences.

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Webinar: Contact Center Self-Service and AI

Taylor Reach Group

Webinar Contact Center AI and Self Service Colin Taylor. By Colin Taylor. Recently, Taylor Reach CEO and Chief Chaos Officer gave a live webinar for Call Centre Helper on Contact Center AI and Self-Service. Check out the recorded webinar HERE. Follow Taylor Reach and Colin Taylor on Twitter at @Taylor_Reach and @colinsataylor. To find out more about how Taylor Reach can help your company with AI and Self-Service in the call center, CLICK HERE to schedule a free consultation.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Customer Service Provocations – How to Assist Efficiently

OctopusTech

With increasing market challenges, customer service jobs are becoming tougher. Dealing with different people and trying to meet their expectations is not an easy task. It takes patience, sharp intellect and wisdom to navigate through the various customer moods. And after all the hurdles provide a professional service. Customer service has become an essential part of a company.

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How to Bridge the Customer Experience Gap Across the Organization

GetFeedback

Watch this on-demand webinar and learn how to launch a cross-functional CX program that enforces customer-centric strategies across departments.

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De-weaponizing personal information

TRUSTID

Our personal information is valuable to us. It’s the data that uniquely identifies who we are. Collectively, its value should only be if any worth to each person it’s associated with. Unfortunately, in today’s high remote environment, it can be used against us. Once criminals discovered they can use other people’s data to impersonate them online or over the telephone to access their personal and financial accounts, personal information has become a valuable commodity for fraudsters everywhere.