The Northridge Group

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By rethinking how your organization approaches customer support, you can transform your call center into a loyalty center that reduces churn and boosts Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV). Here are four tips for turning your call center into a loyalty center: 1. Prioritize the Experience Customer support agents are trained to solve problems as efficiently as possible so they can handle the next call in the queue.

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AnomalySquared

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In today's fast-paced business world, customer engagement has become a crucial factor for the success of any organization. Engaged customers are more loyal, spend more, and promote your brand to others. While there are various strategies to improve customer engagement, one that stands out is call center outsourcing. Here we'll explore how outsourcing your call center operations can be a game-changer in enhancing customer engagement.

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Call Experts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Behind the Scenes: A Day in The Life of a Call Center Agent Have you ever wondered what is it like for the call center agent answreing my phone when I partner with Call Experts? In this comprehensive blog post, we’ll take you on a journey through the world of call center agents, exploring the key performance metrics and the qualities that define a top-notch call center agent.

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Tethr

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Learn how your call center can use predictive analytics to keep up with and proactively help your customers.

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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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TCN

OCTOBER 25, 2023

If you are looking to gain or maintain a competitive edge in the call center. The post Predictive Dialers: The Non-negotiable Tool for Call Center Success appeared first on TCN.

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Cyara

OCTOBER 26, 2023

What Makes IVR Performance Testing interesting? Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems are typically the first thing that a customer experiences when phoning a contact center. IVRs provide the customer with an initial greeting. They then direct the call based on specific inputs from the caller. The conversational flow gathers these and pre-programmed system messages prompt further inputs from the caller.

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SQM Group

OCTOBER 12, 2023

SQM Group's customer service research shows that building customer rapport is the second biggest driver for achieving high call center Csat.

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MiaRec

OCTOBER 7, 2023

"Did the agent say their name?", "Did they get consent for recording?", "Did the agent resolve the matter on the first call?" and many other questions are standard call scoring questions that contact center supervisors try to answer every day. With hundreds or even thousands of calls to get through, making call scoring for quality assurance as efficient as possible is key.

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Call Experts

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations. It bridges your business and customers, handling inquiries, resolving issues, and building lasting relationships.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Like many of you, our listener Brian Williams is grappling with the additional costs of doing business in our era of sustained inflation. He and his colleagues are in a pickle, and they asked for our help. Williams and the company wondered if they should raise prices or add additional fees to cover it. Since I am sure many of you have been wondering along the same lines, I wanted to share what we discussed about this business problem here, too.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Whoever said “the customer is always right” didn’t hear this about this story. Fox News just posted an update to a 2021 story about a man arrested for pointing an AK-47 at an employee at a pizza shop in Knoxville, Tennessee. The short version of the story is this. A customer walked into a Little Caesars restaurant and became angry when he was told he would have to wait a few minutes for a pizza.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This blog explores why you shouldn’t rely solely on LLMs to unveil insights in customer conversations, and offers other AI techniques that deliver conversation intelligence advantages.

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Bill Quiseng

OCTOBER 25, 2023

QUI QUESTION: Customer service is a performance art. Are you Oscar-worthy? Movie actors like Sandra Bullock, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Dwayne Johnson, and Keanu Reeves act to be happy, sad, scared, scary, or angry. Yet, we, as the audience, believe they are genuinely real. The actors may “act their part”, but they are so good that we, as the audience, believe they are real.

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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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TechSee

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the world of customer loyalty, service is the currency paid. It’s a fundamental truth backed by decades of research – when mistakes happen, customers expect service providers to step up and help them make the most of their offerings. The rare 30-year customer embodies this loyalty, having been part of the company’s successes and growing pains.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service provided by AWS that offers developers access to foundation models (FMs) and the tools to customize them for specific applications. It allows developers to build and scale generative AI applications using FMs through an API, without managing infrastructure. You can choose from various FMs from Amazon and leading AI startups such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, and Stability AI to find the model that’s best suited for your use case.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A listener, Irene Beard, is starting her own company. She’s always believed in a strong brand, but how can she plan what people take away from her brand? Since we discussed this on a recent podcast, and I thought many of you might have the same problem, I thought I would also share our insight on this topic here. Before we get into that, I thought I would mention that Beard contacted us as part of our “I’m in a pickle!

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The title of this article may sound like a lesson in sales, but it’s much bigger than that. It’s about the entire customer experience. If a promise to provide value in the CX is built into a company’s mission and values statements, it potentially becomes part of the culture. Imagine if your organization were bold enough to state that the value it delivers to customers would make price irrelevant.

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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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Callminer

OCTOBER 10, 2023

From inflation to climate change, this blog explores the top trends impacting modern insurers, and how these teams can improve customer experience while reducing costs.

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Bill Quiseng

OCTOBER 18, 2023

QUI TAKEAWAY: If you advertise “Satisfaction Guaranteed”, what would you do differently? Do more. Do better. Do it now. When it comes to your customers and customer service, don’t just be good. Be GREAT out there! You are happy because customers were satisfied with their purchase of your product or a resolution with your service. But that’s not good enough.

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C3Centricity

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Do you always need the market research studies you run? You might have seen a recent post of mine on LinkedIn where […] The post Do Less Market Research But Know Much More About Your Customers first appeared on c3centricity.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Today, we are excited to announce Code Llama foundation models, developed by Meta, are available for customers through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to deploy with one click for running inference. Code Llama is a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) capable of generating code and natural language about code from both code and natural language prompts.

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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.

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I want to let you into a little secret. I’ve learned to ask customers a question over the years. Ready to know what it is? Has anything changed since the last time I spoke to you? This question is a good one. Customers change their minds on many occasions. If you think they are still where they were two weeks ago, when you last spoke, you might be surprised that things have changed.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“Curiosity killed the cat.” According to Wikipedia , this saying first appeared in a 1598 play, Every Man in His Humour , by English playwright Ben Johnson. The following year, Shakespeare used a similar quote in Much Ado About Nothing. The intent behind this saying is “to warn of the dangers of unnecessary investigation. …” In other words, be careful pushing for more information.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Customers are the bedrock of any successful business, so providing excellent customer experience is crucial. Read this blog for important elements to consider when selecting the best CX software.

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Customer Service Life

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Early in my career as a contact center manager, I did many things that make me cringe nowadays. One such thing was requiring my team to end every call by asking customers, “Is there anything else I can help you with.” I rode that high horse for a long time — even marking team members down on their quality evaluations for failing to end calls with that simple question.

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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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Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Brent Cogswell, Head of Customer Success at Schneider Electric, shares the organization’s principles and milestones for building a customer success strategy that unites the company and their customers around a shared mission. “It became our mission to get rid of the spreadsheets and bring all the data and telemetry into one tool, so customer success could control outcomes for our customers and positively affect recurring revenue and growth.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In today’s information age, the vast volumes of data housed in countless documents present both a challenge and an opportunity for businesses. Traditional document processing methods often fall short in efficiency and accuracy, leaving room for innovation, cost-efficiency, and optimizations. Document processing has witnessed significant advancements with the advent of Intelligent Document Processing (IDP).

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 12, 2023

If you have too much to do because you’ve agreed to do too many things, then you could suffer from a cognitive bias identified and explained by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky called the Planning Fallacy. Today, we look at why this happens and what you can do about it in the future. The Planning Fallacy is rooted in optimism and affected by how we think about the future.

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