December, 2023

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Do More In ‘24: Ten Customer Service and CX Tips for the New Year

ShepHyken

Happy New Year! I want this year to be your best year ever for creating amazing customer service and experiences. And for everything else, too! But as it applies to the customer experience, I thought it would be fun to share some ideas we need to do more of. With that, here are 10 ideas. Many, if not all, will apply to you and your business. Do more in 24!

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Five 2024 AI trends for the contact center and beyond

Callminer

As we venture into 2024, AI for the contact center, CX and other business applications continues to evolve rapidly. Read this blog for five AI trends impacting organizations in the year ahead.

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Preparing Your Business for 2024: Leveraging Call Center Outsourcing for Success

AnomalySquared

As we approach the dawn of 2024, businesses are gearing up for a new chapter filled with opportunities and challenges. In this rapidly evolving landscape, staying ahead of the curve is crucial for sustained success. One strategic move that can significantly impact your business's efficiency and customer satisfaction is outsourcing your call center operations.

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Elevating your customers’ contact center experience

Callminer

The experience your customers have with your customer service center can have positive and negative impacts. Read this blog to learn how what customers expect our of their contact center experience.

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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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Mastering Escalation Management: Harnessing Tech in Modern Call Centers

NobelBiz

Have you ever wondered how call centers manage the overwhelming number of customer calls, especially those tricky situations that require immediate attention? The secret lies in effective escalation management, a crucial aspect often overlooked. In this article, we’ll explore how technology can be a game-changer in managing call escalations, ensuring swift and satisfactory resolutions.

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Win the Customer, Not the Argument

ShepHyken

In a confrontation with a customer, you have a goal: win the customer , not the argument. I’ve written about this before, and it’s worth coming back to this topic from another angle with a different example. First, an interaction with a customer should never result in an argument. The best people in customer service, sales, or any frontline customer-facing job avoid escalating a confrontation to the level of a dispute.

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Mastering Call Flows: Enhancing Customer Experience and Operational Efficiency

NobelBiz

Call flows play a vital role in seamlessly directing customer calls to the right place within your organization. They act as pathways that guide calls from the very beginning to a successful resolution, ensuring a seamless and efficient customer experience. Effective call flow management has the potential to revolutionize customer service, sales, and overall business operations.

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Unleashing the Power of AI vs. Human Touch: Which Delivers a Superior Customer Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

Unleashing the Power of AI vs. Human Touch: Which Delivers a Superior Customer Experience ? I often say, “None of us are as clever as all of us.” However, sayings are more useful when they can spur action. So, we have a proposition for you: If you have something you want to say about experiences or technology, statistics, or reports, feel free to share them via video.

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Build vs. buy: Leveraging generative AI for conversation intelligence

Callminer

Generative AI is extremely powerful, but when it comes to TCO it’s important to understand the implications of building your own AI-powered conversation intelligence solution vs. licensing one.

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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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QUI QUOTES Reminders about Leadership and Employee Engagement.

Bill Quiseng

English writer Samuel Johnson said, “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed”. So, I encourage you to remind yourself and your colleagues every day about each one of these fifteen QUI QUOTES about leadership and employee engagement. ASSETS Your employees are not your most important assets. It is about how your employees FEEL about you and your company.

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2023 Wrapped – Multi Sensory AI & Remote Assistance Year in Review

TechSee

The latest technologies, trends & insights about Customer Service & Support of Things, for contact center and field service professionals.

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How Any Business Can Adopt a Hospitality Mentality

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: The hospitality mentality is a mindset that focuses on treating every customer as a valued guest, going beyond their expectations, and providing exceptional service. This mindset can be applied to every organization in any industry. A hyper-personalized experience is making the customer or guest feel like they are the only one that matters, even if it is only for a brief period of time.

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ISO 42001: A new foundational global standard to advance responsible AI

AWS Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformational technologies of our generation and provides opportunities to be a force for good and drive economic growth. The growth of large language models (LLMs), with hundreds of billions of parameters, has unlocked new generative AI use cases to improve customer experiences, boost employee productivity, and so much more.

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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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6 Incredibly Important Learnings from 2023 Critical to Apply in 2024

Beyond Philosophy

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and time for one of our favorite traditions: looking back on what we learned. Each of us has three things we learned in the past year that we think can help all of us moving forward into 2024. Reflection is a key part of the growth process. That’s why we are excited to continue our tradition of reflecting on the past year and what we learned during it.

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Leveraging product intelligence to improve customer experience

Callminer

Understanding how customers use and feel about the products they buy is critical. This blog looks at how product intelligence can help companies make better decisions about products and improve CX.

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C3Centricity

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Totango recognized as CS leader in G2 Winter 2024 reports

Totango

We are delighted to share that Totango was recognized in the G2 Winter 2024 reports for its exemplary performance in the customer success software category. These awards reflect superior engagement and commitment from our users, who continue to highlight and share the key aspects of Totango and our software they find most beneficial. The best of both worlds: unmatched enterprise-grade implementation and usability The G2 Winter 2024 reports ranked Totango as the number one customer success softwa

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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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The Link Between Sales and Customer Experience

ShepHyken

Customer service and customer experience (CX) are more than what happens after the sale. It’s not just a department to call when there is a problem. It actually begins long before a customer ever makes a purchase. Then, there’s the experience during the sales process and what happens after the sale, which could include a typical customer support call and more.

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Fine-tune Llama 2 using QLoRA and Deploy it on Amazon SageMaker with AWS Inferentia2

AWS Machine Learning

In this post, we showcase fine-tuning a Llama 2 model using a Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method and deploy the fine-tuned model on AWS Inferentia2. We use the AWS Neuron software development kit (SDK) to access the AWS Inferentia2 device and benefit from its high performance. We then use a large model inference container powered by Deep Java Library (DJLServing) as our model serving solution.

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How Implementing AI in CX Can Be the Good, Bad, and Ugly

Beyond Philosophy

This year has been the year of AI. We hosted the Global Customer Service Experience Director of Alvarez & Marsal Alex Mead ( alexmead@sky.com ) recently to talk about it, and I wanted to share what we discussed here with all of you, too. One thing I appreciate about Mead is how his opinions make me think. For example, I asked him about the short-term implications of AI, meaning in the next one to five years.

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Response Etiquette for Public Customer Comments

Customer Service Life

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Nothing can derail a perfect day in the contact center like a public comment from a customer calling your company out for a feature or service that you lack or something you failed to do. Whether it’s on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Instagram, or some other public forum, a good public rant is almost sure to get the attention of everyone in the company.

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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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Using AI to Delight Your Customers With More AI (Authentic Interactions)

C3Centricity

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our daily lives and has revolutionized how we interact with technology and businesses. This post discusses how to use AI to enhance customer experience with another AI, authentic interactions. Over the past year, the AI landscape has witnessed a significant shift from AI versus AI competitions to AI working in collaboration with AI.

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How to convince managers to reinforce customer service training

Toister Performance Solutions

You're a customer service trainer. You care deeply about helping employees develop customer service skills. It bothers you when employees' managers aren’t nearly as invested. These managers take a "fix my people" approach. The manager delegates customer service training to you and expects you to do all the work. They fail to reinforce the training and employees quickly go back to their old habits.

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Empowering Employees to Create Customer Moments That Matter

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: A brand is not just about a name. It’s about being united and joining together under a common set of values. It starts with leadership defining who you are as an organization and what you stand for. Then, it is reinforced daily throughout the organization through empowerment and recognition. Creating an organization’s positive and supportive culture is key to delivering extraordinary experiences.

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Identify cybersecurity anomalies in your Amazon Security Lake data using Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

Customers are faced with increasing security threats and vulnerabilities across infrastructure and application resources as their digital footprint has expanded and the business impact of those digital assets has grown. A common cybersecurity challenge has been two-fold: Consuming logs from digital resources that come in different formats and schemas and automating the analysis of threat findings based on those logs.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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How Unleashing AI to Transform CX Can Be for The Better or Worse!

Beyond Philosophy

This year has undeniably been dominated by the rise of AI, bringing both positive and negative outcomes. We host Alex Mead , Global Customer Service Experience Director of Alvarez & Marsal ( alexmead@sky.com ), to discuss this crucial topic and its implications for experiences. Mead envisions that AI will significantly reduce customer effort in their experiences.

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Auto Call Summary: 3 High-Impact Ways It Can Streamline Your Insurance Contact Center Operations

MiaRec

While almost all insurance companies have adopted some form of "traditional" AI and have felt somewhat let down by the lack of transformative change that was promised in the past, there is no doubt that Generative AI has kicked off a tidal shift across the industry that will far surpass previous expectations.

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How Aims Community College Reduced Phone System Workload by 30%

ConvergeOne

Aims Community College is one of the most progressive community colleges in Colorado, with more than 200 degree and certificate programs, including everything from healthcare to aviation and agriculture. The college specializes in flexible education offerings, including day and evening classes, online course options, and top-rated faculty, serving over 8,000 students across four campuses in northern Colorado.