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Boost Employee Engagement by Creating a Coaching Culture Where your Agents Thrive

SharpenCX

Phones are ringing back to back. You’ve got an inbox full of unread emails. Agents are calling out to you, escalating calls with upset customers who will only speak with the manager. Some days it seems like your agents can’t. Read More. The post Boost Employee Engagement by Creating a Coaching Culture Where your Agents Thrive appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software.

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13 Types of Customers and How to Deal With Them

CrazyCall

Today, we are going to talk about the types of customers you can get in contact with your brand. I will guide you through types one by one and provide hints on how to keep any types of consumers happy. Table of contents. How can we establish types of customers? What types of customers are there? Moreover, how can you make them happy? Can you keep all types of customers happy?

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3 Ways an AI-Powered Knowledge Base Changes the Game for Reps and Customers

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Are You Ignoring a Key Part of Your Digital Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

Think about the last time you shopped online but decided not to buy. Were you just browsing, or was there something about the user experience that made you hesitate? For example, you may have felt frustrated by a complicated process for creating an account, or irritated because you couldn’t find basic information such as size charts or a returns policy.

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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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Predictive Customer Support

ShepHyken

In the old days – and even in modern times – if a customer wanted help or support, they picked up the phone and called for help. A (hopefully) friendly and competent customer service professional, also known as an agent or representative, would answer the question or resolve the problem. Today there are many ways to connect with a company. There’s the traditional phone call, email, messaging, instant chat, social channels like Twitter and Facebook, and many more.

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Managing Different Personalities in the Contact Center: The Platinum Rule

Contact Center Pipeline

Early in my management career, I followed the Golden Rule: Treat others as I would want to be treated. I believed that if I treated everyone the way I would want to be treated, it meant I was a great manager. Yet, I had significant conflicts with some members of my team. Often, I felt […].

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How Can We Measure Customer Emotions in Our Digital World

Beyond Philosophy

How Can We Measure Customer Emotions in Our Digital World. When you think about the Olympic medalists on the podium during the awards ceremony, who do you think is happier, the silver medalist or the bronze? Objectively, you might say the silver medalists because, after all, they came in second and the other competitor was third. Objectively, the silver medalists had a better outcome and should be happier.

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Amazing Business Radio: Ford Blakely

ShepHyken

A Passion for Convenience. Striking a Balance Between Business and Consumer Needs. Shep Hyken interviews Ford Blakely. They discuss pursuing your passion, creating convenience, and balancing technology with a human connection. The Interview with Ford Blakely: When faced with a problem, it’s important to approach it from the standpoint of convenience.

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4 Secrets About Human Tone In Chat That Nobody Will Tell You

Myra Golden Media

Chat support is not supposed to be rote like an ATM transaction. The idea is to insert a personal tone so you can build rapport and even delight customers. I have my clients do four things in chat interactions to make them more human. 1. Use “I” and “We” personal pronouns because they instantly make the tone personal. 2. Acknowledge customer concern, meaning speak to your customer’s pain point, “I realize this has been frustrating for you.” 3.

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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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LISTEN 2019 Keynote Speakers Lineup Announced!

Callminer

We are excited to announce the keynote lineup for our annual speech analytics user conference, LISTEN, November 4-6, 2019.

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How Your Customers’ Identity Issues Are Affecting Your CX

Beyond Philosophy

I get surprised sometimes by how many qualifications and degrees people list at the end of their name. Some of them might go on for half an hour! I find myself wondering why they want me to know all that. However, I often refer to the fact that LinkedIn recognizes me as one of the top 150 business influencers. I am proud of that. It occurred to me that it is the same thing.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of June 24, 2019

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Customer Clairvoyance: I Never Knew I Always Wanted This by Chip Bell. (Forbes) Dartmouth business school Vijay Govindarajan and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma describes three barriers to brand survival in a changing world.

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Leveraging the Voice of the Employee to Improve Engagement

Contact Center Pipeline

Enough with the big survey event! If you’re looking to improve employee engagement (and who isn’t, these days?), a simple annual questionnaire doesn’t cut it. Employees expect to have a voice in their organization, and smart companies realize that listening to their ideas can improve business outcomes: a win-win. Creating a culture where the Voice […].

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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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See You at Customer Contact Week in Las Vegas

Callminer

CallMiner is excited to return to Customer Contact Week as a sponsor, exhibitor, and workshop host featuring expert insights and customer testimonials for leveraging interaction analytics in enterprise-level CX strategy! We will have hosting activities at our booth #213 throughout this week’s event in Las Vegas at the Mirage Hotel and Casino. Tuesday, June 25 2:15 – 4:45 p.m Master-class Level Workshop.

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How to Lower Bounce Rate & Boost Conversions with Live Chat Software

ProProfs Blog

It’s true that managing a website is not just about updating content every single day; rather it is all about improving its performance by optimizing quite a few variables like conversion rate, visitor count, search engine ranking, bounce rate etc. There is no denying that luring the attention of your audience through all the noise and innumerable distractions isn’t easy at all.

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Guest Blog: “Zhuzhing Up” Humans in the Contact Center

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Chris Connolly that discusses h ow assistive AI blends with human-only qualities to create a new category of “superagents.”. Technology replacing humans. That’s what we all fear. Yet bank employees did not disappear with the advent of the ATM. Airline agents are still at check-in counters to guide passengers after self-service kiosks and to arrange complicated ticketing.

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Top 5 Posts in June

Contact Center Pipeline

Summer has officially arrived and with it a few hot topics to add to your contact center reading list. Top blog posts in June included a look at work-life balance challenges in the contact center; customer expectations for a more personalized experience; how to improve communication and collaboration effectiveness and efficiency using tools you may […].

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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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AI Customer Service: Today’s Most Transformative Technologies

TechSee

Artificial intelligence (AI) – the science that deals with the creation of human-like learning and reasoning capabilities – has been catapulted into the spotlight in recent years. It seems like every company in every industry wants to harness the power of AI to enhance operations and positively impact the lives of their customers. Applications based on AI are already visible in healthcare diagnostics, transportation, entertainment and education, to name but a few, and now the customer service in

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Ask NPS Questions Using a Storytelling Approach

GetFeedback

When you write a story, what is the first thing you should think about? Your audience. The same holds true for your Net Promoter Score survey. Really, writing a survey question is just another type of storytelling. You can use your creative writing skills to make your NPS question more effective and increase your survey response rate. After all, “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon,” according to Brandon Sanderson, author of “The

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200+ Survey Question Examples For Your Feedback Forms

ProProfs Blog

If you want the right answers, ask the right questions. But what exactly are the RIGHT questions? In this article, we tell you just that. To make your survey design process easier, we have compiled a comprehensive survey question bank that covers the most basic questions to the most detailed ones across industries. Not just the questions, we’ve also handled how to collect those right answers.

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Has Your CX Lost The Human Touch?

PeopleMetrics

The CX space has seen significant movement over the last few years – between multibillion-dollar acquisitions, advancement in AI, and continuously evolving core software, the industry is experiencing a renaissance. Yet despite these technological advancements, it appears that many of those charged with leading these initiatives are too focused on polished, buzzword - laden tools , and are in turn losing focus of why these programs exist in the first place – t o enhance the c ustomer experience.

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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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What is Prospecting? 6 Sales Prospecting Methods You Can Easily Use to Get More Customers

CrazyCall

You’re are working hard, trying to build the best product. Your developers, marketers, and business people are doing their best to make the company thrive. Yet, there is no sign of new customers willing to give your company a try…. No matter how daunting that must be, there is a way to get crowds eager to make use of your offer and even refer it further outside!

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The Lowdown on Downloads: 3 Customer Service Apps to take on your Summer Travels

Fonolo

Back in 2009, Apple filed for a trademark on its buzz-worthy phrase, “There’s an app for that.” Almost a decade later, there’s no shortage of apps cluttering up the Android and Apple marketplaces. While many factors are at play here, the growth of the mobile app market has been partly driven by the fact that more and more businesses are integrating mobile apps into their customer service strategies.

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Cut Through The Chatbot Hype To Find The Right Conversational AI Solution For You

Ian Jacobs

In this short take, I discuss the lessons learned from evaluating 14 vendors for the Forrester New Wave™: Conversational AI For Customer Service, Q2 2019. Check out the video below. For more insights, Forrester clients can dig into the full evaluative research here. And if you have more questions, reach out via inquiry.

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How AI Takes Call Tracking Reports to Next Level

DialogTech

If you aren’t reporting on callers, or only use basic call tracking reports, these will open your eyes to what AI can do.

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

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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Why Do You Need to Rethink Your Customer’s Journey

ProProfs Blog

Customer journey mapping has become such a buzzword in business that 34% of companies are already implementing it into their customer service. However, the idea behind mapping the customer journey is quite intuitive. It’s an abstract thing that helps you visualize how customers are converting. While innovative at the time the idea was introduced, the sales funnel has changed a lot with technology.

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Application Ecosystems and the Future of the Contact Center

Avaya

Digital transformation is about creating experiences that matter, but what does this look like within the contact center? Effortless self-service, agent augmentation, interaction insights, smart pairing…nowhere close to what one vendor alone offers today. This is where we see the benefits of an application ecosystem approach, which allows organizations to flexibly assess and adopt the technologies and changes needed for providing incredible customer and agent experiences.

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Webinar: Contact Center Self-Service and AI

Taylor Reach Group

Webinar Contact Center AI and Self Service Colin Taylor. By Colin Taylor. Recently, Taylor Reach CEO and Chief Chaos Officer gave a live webinar for Call Centre Helper on Contact Center AI and Self-Service. Check out the recorded webinar HERE. Follow Taylor Reach and Colin Taylor on Twitter at @Taylor_Reach and @colinsataylor. To find out more about how Taylor Reach can help your company with AI and Self-Service in the call center, CLICK HERE to schedule a free consultation.