December, 2022

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Evolving the Contact Center

Contact Center Pipeline

The disruption never stops. Between supply chain issues, workforce shortages, natural disasters, and whatever is about to hit us next, disruption is everywhere – and it’s causing an abundance of unhappy customers. The worst part: disruption typically causes a spike in customer service needs, which magnifies customer experience (CX) issues for brands that are not […].

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25 benefits and best practices to get started with real-time analytics

Callminer

Companies today manage ever-increasing volumes of data. Read this blog for expert tips and best practices for getting started with real-time analytics tools.

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How Hyatt Has Made Call Centers More About Care

CCNG

Company Shifts Call Center Operations With a Focus on Guest Experience Call center operations have seen a dramatic shift for Hyatt Hotels Corp. in recent years as both the reasons for guests' calls and the methods for staffing have dynamically changed over the course of the pandemic. Speaking with Hotel News Now at Hyatt's Chicago headquarters, Jessica White, the company's senior vice president of global contact centers and guest experience, said even before the pandemic, "call center" was incre

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Embrace This Amazing Way Customers Evaluate You to Gain Success

Beyond Philosophy

People tend to be less sensitive to improvement the more things improve. 9Diminishing sensitivity is why what exceeded customers’ expectations and delighted them in your experience on its introduction becomes what customers expect and appreciate—but don’t celebrate—upon return. So, let’s look at what diminishing sensitivity today means to your experiences, the implications of it in your customer evaluations, and what you can do about it.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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The ROI of Customer Experience

The Petrova Experience

Knowing the ROI of customer experience helps to fund CX projects and make intelligent investments in customer experience. But a deeper examination into the question about CX return on investment gets to the heart of what customer experience means for your business, your customers, and your employees. When we look closely at the impact of customer experience across an organization, we see that it improves operational efficiencies, enhances employee experiences, generates loyalty, accelerates inte

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Customer Service: The Importance of Software-as-a-Service

Helpware

Customer service is now even better with software-as-a-service tools. SaaS helps companies deliver better customer experiences at much lower overhead costs.

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23 Ways to Create an Amazing Experience In 2023

ShepHyken

Happy New Year! I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions, which are often broken. Instead, I like setting and resetting my goals for the year, and in my world, those goals focus on delivering an amazing customer service experience. So, I’ve created a list of simple ways to deliver the experience that everyone wants. Here are 23 ways to help you and your teams provide an amazing customer experience in 2023. .

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Best Practices For A Powerful Professional Network: Part 9

CCNG

We close out this series on how to use your professional network to get maximum value from your connections, peer-to-peer interaction, and the collective insight and experience of colleagues. The best-practices we’ve covered give you a great foundation for building, leveraging and sustaining a truly powerful professional network. We’ll leave you with one final thought and recap a full spectrum of strategies.

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5 rules guaranteed to make you an effective leader

Beyond Philosophy

A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. Bad leadership leads to bad Customer Experience. To have a great Customer Experience, you have to have great leadership. It reminds me of rabbits.

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The Contact Center Manager’s Guide to AI

Step-by-step instructions on how to use AI for growth in your contact center Learn how AI can transform your contact center operations. In this ebook, dig into the different AI technologies, then see how each can help automate tasks, streamline service, and turn your contact center from a cost center to a profit house. Plus, we’ll give you practical tips on choosing the right AI tools, getting them up and running, and measuring their impact.

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How to track customer sentiment

Callminer

Customer sentiment is a crucial metric for every business. Read this blog to learn more about customer sentiment analysis and how it can help improve customer service, guide agent behavior, and more.

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Transforming Talent Management at Home

Contact Center Pipeline

Organizations are now well in their third year of operation in the remote or at-home/work-from-home (WFH) contact center environment. And they are working to devise sustainable workforce management (WFM) strategies. In today’s challenging job market, it’s crucial for organizations to attract, nurture, and retain quality talent. Paul Stockford of Saddletree Research had stated: “The effective […].

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A Brand New CX Accelerator

CX Accelerator

I can hardly believe it.but CX Accelerator has been a thing for five years. What started as a simple social experiment has made a real difference in the CX space. And the exciting part? We are just getting started. It's time to accelerate the mission of CX Accelerator in 2023. What mission, you ask? To equip, encourage, and connect Customer Experience professionals at every stage in their journey.

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Amazing Business Radio: Amy Brown

ShepHyken

The Power of Listening to Your Customers . Using Conversational Data to Enhance the Customer Experience . Shep Hyken interviews Amy Brown, founder and CEO of Authenticx , a software that listens, analyzes and activates customer voices at scale. She shares findings from Authenticx’s Customer Voices Report and how organizations can use data to drive customer experience strategies.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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4 Effective Contact Center Development Ideas

Fonolo

Entrepreneur and CRM expert Bobby Darnell describes business development as a “contact sport.” He’s right! When it comes to contact center development, what Darnell means is that you must engage. You can’t passively improve a call center. . As leaders and managers, you need to get down and dirty with metrics, KPIs, and agent performance to run a successful contact center.

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Wow! It’s Been an Interesting Year! This is What We Have Learned

Beyond Philosophy

As 2022 draws to a close, I like to reflect on the year and what I have learned. I shared them on a recent podcast and thought I would share them here with you, too. Lesson #1: You can never go back to the way things were. You can only progress into something new. We have been waiting for things to return to normal for the past couple of years. First, there was COVID and the lockdown, then came the supply chain issues (predicated by said lockdown), labor issues, a war, rising inflation rates, a

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What is product innovation and why is it important?

Callminer

Read this blog to better understand product innovation, including new product development, and best practices for getting it right with conversation intelligence.

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Top 5 Posts in December

Contact Center Pipeline

Throughout December, our readers have focused on two big topics over on the blog: how to provide the best customer experience via an omnichannel approach and navigating the challenges of recruiting, training, and retaining the best agents. Tom shares with us his top three guiding principles for creating positive change for both the agent and […].

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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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3 Main Challenges Field Service Leaders Face in 2023

TechSee

Today’s field service leaders face a growing number of challenges, many of them not dissimilar to those faced by their predecessors. However, the simultaneous arrival of economic, operational, and technical challenges is straining many field service organizations. In this post we will examine the trends shaping these challenges, and why leaders are increasingly adopting new strategic approaches to overcome these challenges.

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Guest Post: Is Your Customer Journey Aligned with Brand Expectations? If Not, It Could Be Costing You Sales

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Nick Bandy, Chief Marketing Officer at LiveVox , an omnichannel platform that helps brands seamlessly communicate with their customers. He shares how you can align your customer’s journey with their brand expectations. The customer journey is essential to any company’s success. And in today’s digital age, customer service is now more important than ever before.

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7 Highly Effective Call Center Improvement Strategies

Fonolo

Call center leaders are always looking for ways to take their operations to the next level. But the question is: what does that next level look like for your business? That all depends on the goals your contact center sets. Success will look different for every organization. It’s up to you to set those standards and provide the right support and motivation for your call center team to achieve them.

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New Year’s Resolutions: Why Some People Win, But Most People Lose

Beyond Philosophy

Many of you are no doubt considering your New Year’s Resolutions. You have probably done this more than once. Unfortunately, like many of you, I have made and broken many New Year’s resolutions. Today, we will talk about why this happens and how you can manage these influences to a better outcome in 2023. A typical New Year’s resolution is to lose weight.

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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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Three ways conversation intelligence can improve brand experience and the bottom line

Callminer

From campaign strategy, to crisis management, to brand sentiment, read about three ways CMOs can leverage conversation intelligence to understand customers' brand experience.

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It All Starts with the Why!

Contact Center Pipeline

“Adaptability is an essential quality for successful leaders. Without it, you could remain too rigid and not allow yourself to get ahead of the curve or shift when you notice that what you are doing is no longer working.” —Monica Thakrar, Forbes “The ability to be able to adapt to adverse circumstances, to un-learn old […].

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Victor Midgley

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

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Amazing Business Radio: Diane Hopkins

ShepHyken

The Chief Moment Officer . Building a Customer-centric Culture From the Frontlines to the C-suite. Shep Hyken interviews Diane Hopkins, Certified Experience Economy Expert, CEO of ExPeers Consulting and author of Unleashing the Chief Moment Officers. She shares how to leverage the insights of your frontline staff to design customer experiences and create a customer-centric culture. .

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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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7 Step Action Plan for Call Center Development

Fonolo

Call center leaders have their work cut out for them. From training new recruits to briefing executives and monitoring customer satisfaction levels, the days move fast. Sometimes, it’s hard to find the time to map out call center development goals. . Maybe you have an old action plan from last year that you loosely stick to, but it could use a revamp.

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Beyond Philosophy - Untitled Article

Beyond Philosophy

Have you ever wondered why things go viral or, better yet, how you can make your #content gain millions of views and shares? If so, then you are in the right place because we are going to share the secrets of how to go viral on social media. Frame it Properly. So, let’s say we have a story we want customers to hear. We might send a press release to see if reporters will pick up the story.

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28 mistakes to avoid when measuring customer churn

Callminer

In order to keep valued customers as long as possible, organizations must identify when customers leave and why. This blog looks at the common mistakes made when measuring customer churn.

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