Transparent BPO

MARCH 26, 2019

The call center industry continues to expand globally as companies seek to balance labor availability, labor costs, geopolitical stability, and business climate says the Site Selection Group (SSG) in its latest location trend report, which identified regions showing the highest rates of growth. The report’s findings are as follows: Reshoring Taking Center Stage The demand […] The post Choosing Call Center Locations: Quality Over Cost the Deciding Factor New Report Says appeared first

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Nicereply

MARCH 5, 2019

“While things like beach vacations can give us pleasure, things like meaningful work can give us purpose.” We spend a lot of time at work. Specifically, the average person spends 90,000 hours at work over the course of their lifetime. Let’s put that into perspective. The average global life expectancy is 71.5 years. We spend about 26 of those years sleeping , which means we’re awake for roughly 45.5 years, or 390,580 hours.

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Comm100

MARCH 1, 2019

Hey Siri, Alexa, and OK Google have all become common commands in the emerging age of intelligent assistants. In less than fiv years, asking a chatbot to tell you the weather forecast or buy your groceries has transformed from something nobody thought possible to an everyday occurrence. Chatbot advancements over the years aren’t limited to just Google Home being able to turn your lights on and off (although that has certainly given Clappers a run for their money).

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InGenius

MARCH 28, 2019

Gamification helps organizations achieve their goals and reach new levels of success. It isn't a new concept. For years now, app developers have been turning to gamification to incentivize their users to stay active and teachers have been giving gold stars to their students for good behavior. Especially in the past few years, employers have been using gamification in the workplace as well.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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CX Accelerator

MARCH 14, 2019

When it comes to Customer Experience (CX) work, it takes a very special type of person to be successful. Consider all the skills required to thrive in the role.data crunching, storytelling, journey mapping, process improvement, change management, strategic thinking, influencing behaviors, project management.the list goes on. It's essentially impossible for any one person to be strong in all of these areas.

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Personalization Customer Experience Journey mapping Education 369

ShepHyken

MARCH 27, 2019

The other day I was driving by a Chick-fil-A restaurant at lunchtime. I was blown away by how many people were in the drive-through lane. There had to be at least 20 cars. I thought to myself, “That’s a long line. You really have to love Chick-fil-A to brave that line at lunchtime.”. Then I noticed they had four people on the lot taking orders from the people in the drive-through.

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Myra Golden Media

MARCH 6, 2019

Maya Angelou once said, “People will forget what you said. They will forget what you did. But, people will never forget how you made them feel.” That point right there – people will never forget how you made them feel – is why we created this course. This training is about never having your customers hang up with negative feelings about how you talked to them.

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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 20, 2019

Consumers are increasingly turning to virtual assistants to save time and effort in their personal lives. Similarly, chatbot technology offers considerable benefits internally to assist agents in delivering quick, accurate responses to customers, as well as streamlining followup tasks, communications, scheduling and HR requests. In Part 1 of this series, our experts discussed typical applications […].

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CX Global Media

MARCH 26, 2019

For many contact centers taking the leap to implement virtual agents to handle the simple and repetitive tasks is somewhat an easy decision to make. With improving the customer experience an imperative, alongside of controlling costs, the barriers of resistance become small. But for one contact center that implemented virtual agents, their call handle times quadrupled!

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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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Callminer

MARCH 19, 2019

Unified telecommunications is a solution in the communications world that allows businesses to get more out of their crucial tools and applications, by placing them in a streamlined environment.

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Telecommunications 207

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2019

Today, people appreciate good Customer Experience, but not enough to talk about it a lot. What gets them talking to people about your brand is having a unique Customer Experience with moments of Innovative Service, or an Innovative Customer Experience. In other words, a good Customer Experience is important, but an Innovative Customer Experience is better because your customers tell stories about it.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 26, 2019

From AI to “HIMI” Human-Inspired Machine Intelligence. Shep Hyken interviews Dr. Natalie Petouhoff. They discuss AI in business—what works and what doesn’t work, how it can help companies and employees succeed, and how we can best utilize it. They also discuss the need for diversity and inclusiveness in the workplace. In Shep’s Opening Monologue… He discusses the pros and cons of chatbots.

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Myra Golden Media

MARCH 6, 2019

The first thing I read on my iPhone this morning was the interestingly trending Gayle King interview with R&B singer R. Kelly. In the interview, the singer cries, rants at the camera, beats his chest, and stands, towering over Gayle King with warlike body language. The CBS This Morning crew stopped the interview to give R. Kelly the chance to compose himself.

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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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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 13, 2019

With consumers increasingly expecting anywhere, anytime access to conduct simple transactions, more businesses are deploying chatbots to handle routine and repetitive customer service tasks. Automation has enormous appeal as an efficient, affordable option for companies that lack the human staff to effectively manage the workload in the contact center (one of the top 3 challenges […].

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CX Accelerator

MARCH 14, 2019

When it comes to Customer Experience (CX) work, it takes a very special type of person to be successful. Consider all the skills required to thrive in the role.data crunching, storytelling, journey mapping, process improvement, change management, strategic thinking, influencing behaviors, project management.the list goes on. It's essentially impossible for any one person to be strong in all of these areas.

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Personalization Customer Experience Journey mapping Education 182

Callminer

MARCH 11, 2019

While asking for direct feedback is a critically important component of measuring customer sentiment, surveys have several limitations for VOC tracking in your contact center.

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Analytics Contact Center Surveys Feedback 207

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 8, 2019

One thing many positive Customer Experience stories people tell have in common is they involve a moment that surprised and delighted customers. Customer loyalty consultants refer to it as Innovative Customer Experience, and it is the key to getting your customers to talk about your experience to everyone they know. Author, speaker, and customer loyalty expert Dr.

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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 13, 2019

You’ve heard of the concept of Pay It Forward. Many people use the phrase to describe doing a good deed for someone with no other expectation than that person doing something nice for someone else and so on, creating a chain of good deeds. Don’t pay it back. Pay it forward. Some people don’t realize that the Pay It Forward movement was started by a movie of the same name, which was based on a book by Catherine Ryan Hyde.

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Myra Golden Media

MARCH 25, 2019

Let me ask you something. If you’re pissed off at your partner, and you’re yelling, maybe even cursing, and in response they say… nothing. How do you react? Do you calm down? Or does their silence make you more intense? Me? I talk more. Louder. My attitude gets fierce. What I don’t do is back down or tranquilize. Turns out, if you give your customers the silent treatment when they’re going off on you, they can get fierce, too.

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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 21, 2019

Contact centers need performance management tools to manage their operations. Too often, the dominant “tool” is Excel. Unfortunately, when individuals export and manipulate data to produce (pretty) reports, recipients may not understand, embrace or accept the findings. Moreover, without well-defined processes for what to do with the information, the impact falls short of potential.

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ProProfs Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

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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!

Customer Experience

Callminer

MARCH 31, 2019

Call center regulations are complex and stringent. Here's what a panel of 22 experts had to say about what they’d change about call center regulations.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 25, 2019

At British Telecom (BT), we were buying a CRM system. I was leading the project and we had 15 people around the table to make this choice. It was a significant decision for a lot of money. So, as it was a business decision, you would think we were logical about it. However, we weren’t. We were irrational about it. Your customers are irrational, too.

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B2B CRM B2C Education 332

ShepHyken

MARCH 6, 2019

Winter travel can be stressful with the concern of weather-related delays and cancellations. On a recent trip that had a connecting flight, I was notified the night before that my first flight was going to be delayed, which made me worry about missing my connection. I called the airlines and they suggested changing my connecting flight to a later one, which I was happy to do.

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Myra Golden Media

MARCH 18, 2019

I’m working from home today, enjoying having my college-daughter here for the week, and the freedom of my son’s clear high-school calendar during Spring Break. But, predictably, my teenagers are upstairs with eyes on screens, probably with unbrushed teeth. So, I’m in my home office. I’ve promised myself no more than two hours work.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. No longer. Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues.

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ProProfs Blog

MARCH 27, 2019

The promise of a delightful customer support experience comes with the responsibility of actually delivering it consistently. Just buying and installing the latest customer support software onboard does not automatically mean that you will provide a great experience to your customers. There are various things that need to be taken into account besides the use of a support tool that will make or break the experience for a customer.

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Callminer

MARCH 24, 2019

The event featured speakers from CallMiner experts and customers Cabot and DLG who shared their stories of analytics success.

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