ShepHyken

MARCH 6, 2023

Top Takeaways: Human-centric CX design is all about communicating with customers, and this goes beyond a one-off survey. It is about regularly speaking with customers directly to deeply understand the customer. It is uncovering where they’re benefiting from your product and identifying barriers or pain points that they are experiencing. Bringing engaged customers who are utilizing your products and services into the design process can help shape great outcomes for your company.

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Steve DiGioia

MARCH 20, 2023

“So, you’re telling me that THIS customer is more important than all the rest?” And that I should give them preference over everyone else that walks in the door?” Read 3 Reasons Why Successful Teams Earn Your Trust. “But they’re a VIP” , she kept on saying. Now she’s starting to annoy me… I was having a conversation with a few of my old hotel friends and we were discussing some of the silly things that have happened to us over the years.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 10, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Kathleen White, a business manager who helps organizations improve career opportunities and employee engagement. She writes about how companies can adopt a remote workforce and enhance customer service delivery. There’s no doubt that there are challenges to providing remote customer services, but with careful planning, they’re easy to overcome.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2023

The purpose of a Customer Success team is to help a company’s customers get the most value out of its product. The hypothesis is, if a customer maximizes the obtainable value, they will remain loyal and spend more with the company. This isn’t merely a theory. Case studies have shown loyal customers spend more— up to six times more —over the customer lifetime.

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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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JustCall

MARCH 16, 2023

A customer may forgive and forget a bad product, but they will never forget poor customer service. After all, people always remember how you made them feel. Customer support is notorious for not being helpful. Big brands like Amazon, Costco, Zappos, etc., are beloved by their customers owing to their wonderful customer support. And if you’re one of those businesses guilty of taking your customers for granted, then it’s about high time to reevaluate such a self-destructive strategy.

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Callminer

MARCH 31, 2023

Bruce McMahon, VP of Product Management, highlights CallMiner's latest platform enhancements, including new speaker measures by talk time percent and duration, and hierarchy filtering in Alert.

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Management 352

Lumoa

MARCH 9, 2023

In the world of customer experience, “customer empathy” is not just a buzzword, it’s a game-changer. Put simply, it means genuinely caring about the experience your customers have with your brand. And when you master this skill, you can create an emotional bond that sets you apart from the competition. Let me give you a real-life scenario of how it works in general.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 8, 2023

I love hearing about complaints and problems that are solved to the point that the customer wants to tell the world about the experience. That’s exactly what happened to Bill Paretti, one of our faithful Shepard Letter subscribers. He was so excited about what happened that he shared it with me, hoping I would share it with you. Here’s the short version of the story, followed by my commentary and the lesson we can take away from his experience.

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Fonolo

MARCH 16, 2023

Your contact center may run like clockwork, with engaged agents answering calls quickly, solving problems, and creating satisfied customers in record time. But without the contact center KPIs and metrics that managers use to measure the effectiveness of their operations, you’d never know for sure. KPIs matter. And they’re changing quickly. We asked contact center industry influencers to share their insights into the changing role of KPIs and shine a light on new metrics to watch.

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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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The Northridge Group

MARCH 14, 2023

If healthcare managers and small-to-medium-sized business (SMB) healthcare practitioners can agree on anything, it’s that acquiring new patients is both costly and challenging. Conversely, retaining existing patients is far more achievable and economically viable, especially in the ultra-competitive modern healthcare marketplace. There are many different tactics that health providers can use to improve patient retention rates in 2023.

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Healthcare Technology Self service Analytics 145

Upstream Works

MARCH 16, 2023

Upstream Works is excited to introduce you to our newest product offering – Upstream Works for Amazon Connect. We enhance Amazon Connect with a unified desktop, digital channel flexibility, seamless integrations and management simplicity The post 2 Ways AI Can Mitigate Fraud in Contact Centers appeared first on Upstream Works.

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 28, 2023

Saint Louis Park, MN, March 28, 2023 – Outsource Consultants is once again honored to have made the fourth annual Financial Times ranking of The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies. This list, compiled with Statista, ranks companies from across North, Central and South America by their compound annual growth rate in revenue between 2018 and 2021. Honorees of the list have shown extraordinary growth, with a doubled median revenue among participants, up from $12.2 to $22.5 million, making this yea

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JustCall

MARCH 23, 2023

Introduction CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software refers to a tool that businesses can use to record and store key customer information to use when building a relationship with leads or prospects. CRM helps streamline your work. It aids you with better management of your sales and marketing clients by clubbing your workflows, business processes, and client interactions into a single-view interface.

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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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ShepHyken

MARCH 14, 2023

Or, In a recent Shepard Letter , I discussed the Trust Gap , which is the difference between an organization’s belief that their customers trust them and the percentage of customers who actually do. I’ve covered different gap concepts in the past, and it’s time to add yet another to the list, and that is the Loyalty Gap. By the way, this is a perfect time to mention International Customer Loyalty Month, which happens every year in April.

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Customer Service 267

Fonolo

MARCH 2, 2023

No stranger to change, the contact center industry has been ahead of the curve throughout the global pandemic. We consulted nine industry experts to tell us all about it – and discuss the state of the contact center in 2023. Word: Contact centers are technology leaders! While the world was pivoting from on-site to hybrid and remote workspaces, contact centers were also embracing cloud technology and upskilling agents to be among the first-generation of AI-native workers.

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HelpCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Our life is a challenge from the offset. First, we learn how to crawl and walk. Then, it’s time to socialize with other kids in kindergarten and school where we fight for a place in [ … ] The post 8 Customer Service Challenges Harming Your Bottom Line [+ How to Conquer Them] appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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Customer Service 124

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 15, 2023

Tens of thousands of AWS customers use AWS machine learning (ML) services to accelerate their ML development with fully managed infrastructure and tools. For customers who have been developing ML models on premises, such as their local desktop, they want to migrate their legacy ML models to the AWS Cloud to fully take advantage of the most comprehensive set of ML services, infrastructure, and implementation resources available on AWS.

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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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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 9, 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, work-from-home models spread throughout the call center industry. Some BPO providers were fortunate enough to have a remote work infrastructure in place before the COVID-19 pandemic, but many had to quickly adapt to new quarantine regulations. As a result, many call centers were forced to make short-term adaptations to their employees’ working processes in a blink of an eye.

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Concentrix

MARCH 29, 2023

Enhances Concentrix’ position as a leader in $550B+ growing CX market Adds clients in attractive growing markets, further diversifying our marquee client list Significantly expands footprint in Europe, Latin America, and Africa Expands breadth and global reach of high-value services and digital capabilities Strengthens support for clients and staff, combining complementary cultures Accretive to revenue […]

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Marketing 121

Nuance

MARCH 6, 2023

The global public attention that greeted the launch of ChatGPT has highlighted that we’re at a pivotal moment in the development of AI. As pioneers in contact center AI, it’s exciting to see the emergence of advanced open AI models that can augment our existing innovations with powerful new capabilities. We’re delighted to introduce conversation [.] The post Nuance is revolutionizing the contact center with GPT technology appeared first on What’s next.

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Inbenta

MARCH 13, 2023

By Jordi Torras, Chief Innovation Officer, Inbenta In just a few months, ChatGPT has captured the interest of hundreds of millions of users and the imagination of businesses the world over. The Generative AI platform’s meteoric rise is understandable – a new and transformative AI tool capable of fixing code, responding to questions, writing emails and articles, and everything in between, is now widely available to the public.

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HelpCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

The life of a customer service representative isn’t always cakes and ale. Here you are, sitting at your desk, catching every client’s issue, and telling them how to proceed with the product. In fact, this [ … ] The post Customer Service Knowledge Base: The Definition and Lifehacks for Building One appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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Customer Service 118

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 10, 2023

Online fraud has a widespread impact on businesses and requires an effective end-to-end strategy to detect and prevent new account fraud and account takeovers, and stop suspicious payment transactions. Detecting fraud closer to the time of fraud occurrence is key to the success of a fraud detection and prevention system. The system should be able to detect fraud as effectively as possible also alert the end-user as quickly as possible.

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kommunicate

MARCH 17, 2023

Last Updated on March 17, 2023 A Salesforce research says that 89% of the customers who liked a company’s customer service are likely to make a repeat purchase. The era of “build a great product, market it well, and the customers will come” is over. It is 2023. Customers talk. And, to make matters worse, [.] The post 5 Productivity Tips Your Customer Support Agents Will Thank You For In 2023 appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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Toister Performance Solutions

MARCH 2, 2023

This blog is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Is burnout gripping your contact center? A worldwide survey of contact center agents revealed 59 percent are at risk of burnout, including 28 percent who face a severe burnout risk.

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Avoxi

MARCH 30, 2023

Don't panic! Call spikes happen. Learn easy call queue management strategies to get your contact center call queues under control.

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Fonolo

MARCH 21, 2023

SIP and VoIP are two acronyms often used by call center managers who sort of know what they mean, but also sort of… don’t. Fair enough! Acronyms abound in the call center universe. It can be very tricky to navigate the intricacies of call center management and technology, and often, the language used just makes things more confusing. When it comes to VoIP and SIP, the terms are often used interchangeably, but they are different, and knowing these differences can add strength to your call

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HelpCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

As a customer, I like this slogan and use it quite often when facing poor customer service. “The customer is always right” gives a strange feeling of satisfaction and empowerment. Above all, it’s a strong [ … ] The post The Customer is Always Right. Or are They? appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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