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Today, in paying it forward, ask, “What can I do for you?”

Bill Quiseng

In 1976, while I was a 20-year-old student at Santa Clara University, CA, I became a part-time charter associate of Marriott’s Great America Theme Park. After graduating from college two years later, I joined Marriott Hotels and until 2021, I’ve been in full-service and luxury hotels and resorts. There was no such thing as CX, but I was doing more than serving to satisfy guests.

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LLM experimentation at scale using Amazon SageMaker Pipelines and MLflow

AWS Machine Learning

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, but they may not always generalize well to specific domains or tasks. You may need to customize an LLM to adapt to your unique use case, improving its performance on your specific dataset or task. You can customize the model using prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), or fine-tuning.

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3 Ways Contact Center AI Improves Operational Efficiency

Upstream Works

Our latest blog post outlines three practical applications of AI that will improve the agent experience and, in turn, improve CX. The post 3 Ways Contact Center AI Improves Operational Efficiency appeared first on Upstream Works.

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Investing in Small Business Sales Training

Integrity Solutions

In an increasingly complex and competitive business world, small businesses often face unique challenges that can hinder their growth and success. One of the most critical areas where small businesses can gain a competitive edge is by investing in their teams’ development, particularly through sales training. Small business sales training is not just about learning how to sell more products or services; it’s about transforming the mindset of your sales team, enhancing the value they

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The State of Digital Customer Experience Report 2024

This comprehensive report explores the evolving landscape of customer and business expectations, with five key trends that will help you understand your customers and stay ahead of the competition. Discover how your peers are implementing AI to improve customer experience with granular insights into their CX investments and specific AI use cases. For the first time, customers prefer digital channels when interacting with a business.

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Unifying Tech to Create Connected CX Journeys

Concentrix

On-Demand Webinar Unifying Tech to Create Connected CX Journeys In today’s digital age, delivering seamless and connected customer experiences across various touchpoints is critical to an organisation’s success. Join our panel of industry experts in this on-demand webinar as they explore strategies for unifying technology to create cohesive customer journeys that drive satisfaction and loyalty.

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How Test Automation Improves the Software Development Process

Unymira

Quality assurance plays an important role in day-to-day project work. It is used to test newly implemented functionality and ensure compliance with requirements and specifications.

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Acquire BPO Risk Management & Compliance Team Attends PhilSec 2024 

Acquire BPO

Manila, PH – Lianne Collantes, Acquire BPO’s Risk Management & Compliance Director, along with her dedicated team members, recently attended the prestigious PhilSec conference held on July 2-3, 2024. This prominent event brought together some of the brightest minds in cybersecurity, providing an unparalleled platform for knowledge exchange and networking.

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An introduction to contact center KPIs

Injixo

A call center is a data-rich environment. Compared to many other business functions, contact centers have an embarrassment of readily accessible data that can be used to measure performance. Data is typically collected at regular intervals and at a granular level. The challenge is often not about finding data for reporting purposes. It is about selecting the set of key performance indicators (KPIs) that are meaningful for your organization and help it to achieve its goals.

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Effective Strategies for Enhancing Customer Retention in Call Centers

Hodusoft

Effective Strategies for Enhancing Customer Retention in Call Centers “When the customer comes first, the customer will last.” This quote by Robert Half, one of the pioneers of specialized staffing services and the founder of the global human resource consulting firm bearing his name, is the shortest answer to the question “How to improve customer retention in call centers?

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Your Roadmap to Successful AI Implementations in the Contact Center

CX leaders are in a gold rush for AI, lured by the promise of cost savings and a revolution in service delivery. But simply deploying AI in your contact center isn't a magic bullet. There are hidden dangers that can derail your AI dreams. Recent incidents, such as the missteps of an AI chatbot deployed by Air Canada, have underscored the complexities and risks involved in leveraging AI in customer-facing roles.

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Building a Partnership with Your Contact Center Provider

TCN

Transactional contact center software provider and client relationships offer a multitude of limitations, including one-size-fits-all solutions, inadequate vendor support and unfavorable billing models. To overcome these hurdles, imagine your contact center software provider as an extension of your customer service team — not a vendor. This shift in perspective unlocks a world of possibilities.

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Warm Calling Tips for Outbound Contact Centers

Calltools

Warm calling allows your agents to connect with leads who have already shown interest in your products or services, making it an excellent way to drive sales and sign-ups. For even more powerful results, consider tools like a predictive or preview dialer. These technologies automate and enhance the dialing process, allowing agents to have more meaningful conversations with prospects.

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Navigating the Challenges of Data Security in BPO

Advantage Communications

Overcome data security fears! Learn proven strategies & security measures secure your sensitive information. Advantage Communication: Your BPO data shield.

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How to Improve CSAT Scores in Your Call Center

Tethr

Wondering what your call center can do to improve its CSAT scores? Start with these strategies.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Unifying Tech to Create Connected CX Journeys for Non-Attendees

Concentrix

On-Demand Webinar Unifying Tech to Create Connected CX Journeys In today’s digital age, delivering seamless and connected customer experiences across various touchpoints is critical to an organisation’s success. Join our panel of industry experts in this on-demand webinar as they explore strategies for unifying technology to create cohesive customer journeys that drive satisfaction and loyalty.

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Discover insights from Amazon S3 with Amazon Q S3 connector 

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Q is a fully managed, generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered assistant that you can configure to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, gain insights, and complete tasks based on data in your enterprise. The enterprise data required for these generative-AI powered assistants can reside in varied repositories across your organization.

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Business Process Transformation with Generative AI

Concentrix

Discover a new path to business process transformation using generative AI for low cost and low effort rapid prototyping.

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Boosting Salesforce Einstein’s code generating model performance with Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

This post is a joint collaboration between Salesforce and AWS and is being cross-published on both the Salesforce Engineering Blog and the AWS Machine Learning Blog. Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides customer relationship management (CRM) software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, ecommerce, analytics, and application development.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

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? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Unifying Tech to Create Connected CX Journeys

Concentrix

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Prepare Your Business Communication For Severe Weather

VirtualPBX

The US Department of State announced the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the peak months for hurricanes are from August to October , accounting for about 78% of tropical storm days, 87% of minor hurricane days, and 96% of major hurricane days, with early to mid-September being the most active period.

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UK Consumers Call on AI to Save “Broken” Customer Service as Businesses Fail on Expectations

CSM Magazine

The results of a new survey into the customer service industry have been released by CommBox. The survey reveals a growing call from UK consumers for brands to find ways to fix declining levels of customer satisfaction, particularly as customers become more unforgiving of poor service delivery. Commissioned by CommBox , a leading conversational AI-powered digital customer engagement platform, the survey of over 1,000 consumers and 250 managers in customer-facing organizations reveals an overarc