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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CCNG

MARCH 8, 2023

As a contact center leader, you’re always looking for ways to improve performance and keep your agents happy. Despite the creativity of your approaches or the generosity of your rewards and incentives, you've likely come across a particular challenge: apathy. As soon as an agent starts “just going through the motions” rather than engaging with customers, interaction quality plummets—and so do customer satisfaction scores.

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Calltools

MARCH 8, 2023

The cloud has revolutionized almost every sector in the last decade or so, including the call center industry. With worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services to total $591.8 billion this year, according to Gartner, it’s likely more call center managers will invest in cloud technologies that improve performance and day-to-day operations.

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Real Blue Sky

MARCH 6, 2023

There are many reasons to consider whether to outsource your contact center. Cost is only one of them. Before the internet, customer service was typically limited to a brick-and-mortar storefront, letter-writing, or a phone call to customer service. The result is the customer service call center was seen largely as a cost center; it was part of the cost of delivering goods or services.

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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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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 9, 2023

The retail industry has always been marked by its unpredictable sales peaks and valleys—and that can make managing retail customer service a significant challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent repercussions (like supply chain disruptions and staffing shortages) have made it even more difficult to plan for and predict spikes in customer service.

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SmartAction

MARCH 7, 2023

After several years of steady growth, 2023 marks the year when the global conversational AI (CAI) market should really take off. Analysts expect CAI adoption to expand more than 22% this year alone, with longer term growth likely to exceed $14 billion by 2025. What are the key drivers of this explosive growth in the CAI market? Let’s take a closer look at the top CAI trends to follow – both in 2023 and beyond.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Given the fact that contact centers are where most of the customer activity happens, this department needs robust tools and solutions to handle the load. To help businesses manage call volumes in addition to keeping their efforts goal-aligned, they can choose from various types of contact center solutions. Through this blog, let’s understand the types of contact centers that exist to make business functions easy.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

eCommerce has broken down barriers when it comes to consumerism and largely moved the vendor-buyer transaction to a faceless digital one. Despite this, customer experience remains key, with one Ipsos survey reporting that a huge 85% of online shoppers would not return to an ecommerce vendor who had provided poor service. There are three main arms to providing excellent customer service in the ecommerce sphere, and the most crucial of these is, undoubtedly, the speed and accuracy of delivery,

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Strategic Contact

MARCH 9, 2023

In recent years, we have had the pleasure of being immersed in the credit union industry. We’ve fielded comprehensive benchmarking surveys that cover contact center operations, metrics, technology, and resiliency. We’ve facilitated advisory group meetings and roundtables in which CU contact center leaders discuss significant accomplishments, challenges, and plans.

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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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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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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 4, 2023

One of our listeners, Clive Hearst has a bit of pickle he needs our help with today. He wants to know whether he should invest the time and money in getting his MBA. He wants to know what the true value is of an MBA, and whether it is a must-have for his career. The answer depends on a few things. It might surprise you to know I don’t have an MBA.

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Callminer

MARCH 6, 2023

This blog reviews what natural language processing is and explores expert tips and best practices for choosing the best NLP software for your business.

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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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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 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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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 8, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption has required businesses to adjust to managing a remote workforce while necessitating massive investments in cloud computing. A highly flexible workforce supported by adaptive infrastructure enables businesses to be more effective and efficient, helping them optimize profits under unpredictable economic conditions.

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Callminer

MARCH 8, 2023

Read this blog to learn how to use the customer retention rate formula, common variations, and how you can put it to use in your organization.

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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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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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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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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 7, 2023

Customers require, and demand, excellent service, support, and sales assistance. But when disasters threaten and strike, they may not be able to receive them by contact centers in a timely manner, or not at all. Hence the need for a sound business continuity strategy.

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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 10, 2023

Last Updated on March 11, 2023 Chatbots have become an integral part of modern businesses, providing efficient and personalized customer support. This includes providing quick answers to customer inquiries, and delivering personalized recommendations based on customer preferences. However, to truly enhance the capabilities of your chatbot and provide a seamless customer experience, it is essential [.

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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.

ChurnZero

MARCH 10, 2023

Are you interested in using AI to make your Customer Success job easier? If so, this article is for you! We’ll walk through how to write prompts to help you better serve your customers, with examples you can add to your CS toolkit. Top tips include how to consider the customer perspective, use consistent language and formatting, and the best structure for efficient, effective results.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MARCH 9, 2023

Behind the scenes at Cisco, Pi Day is something we plan out weeks—even months—in advance. This year, we’re bringing back our Pi Day sale on learning products at the Cisco Learning Network Store.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 8, 2023

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service. With SageMaker, data scientists and developers can quickly and easily build and train ML models, and then directly deploy them into a production-ready hosted environment. Sagemaker provides an integrated Jupyter authoring notebook instance for easy access to your data sources for exploration and analysis, so you don’t have to manage servers.

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TeamSupport

MARCH 9, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and digital world, messaging has become an increasingly popular form of communication for customers. It is important for companies to adapt to their customers' preferences in order to provide the highest levels of satisfaction, gain more customers, and provide the best customer experiences. That’s why we’re excited to announce the addition of two new messaging channels to our live chat software: WhatsApp and Google Business Messages.

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Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.

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24-7 InTouch

MARCH 8, 2023

Our Director of Inclusion, Sustainability, and Community, Darlene Hunter, offers invaluable insight into the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. While this work is crucial to the everyday lives of all people, International Women’s Day offers a perfect opportunity to highlight what advancing and supporting women can do for individuals, businesses, and communities alike.

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ConvergeOne

MARCH 7, 2023

Now, in 2023, we’ve seen the “old ways” of technology, and I don’t think we’re ever going back. And this isn’t just impacting the tech-first, well-funded startups. We’re talking about everything. The cloud has changed how we operate in many ways. And this time, cloud computing and the atmosphere of early 2000s tech will cause some disruption. Here are some of the key trends we see.

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Russel Lolacher

MARCH 6, 2023

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with author, speaker and age inclusivity advocate Patti Temple Rocks on ageism in the workplace, what it look like and how to address it. A few reasons why she is awesome — she is a speaker and consultant with 4 decades of experience in marketing, PR and advertising. She is the author of the book I’m STILL Not Done: It’s Time to Talk about Ageism in the Workplace” which was named one of INC Magazine’s 9 Books every Professional Should

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