Expivia

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Evolution of Customer Service Outsourcing: What You Need to Know The landscape of customer service outsourcing has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years. As we move further into the digital age, the way businesses interact with their customers has fundamentally changed, and with it, the role of call center outsourcing companies. Perhaps the most significant shift has been in the very nature of BPO companies themselves.

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Zappix

JULY 31, 2024

Contact centers have been at the forefront of customer interactions and support for decades. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the landscape of customer service has undergone a significant transformation. However, the key to success lies in striking the right balance between cutting-edge AI technologies and the irreplaceable human touch.

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TCN

JULY 31, 2024

Contact centers are businesses that continue to grow, especially with evolving technology. It is imperative to stay ahead of the game to ensure your business remains at the forefront of industry trends and innovations. The efficiency and effectiveness of the contact center hinges on leveraging advanced analytics to drive informed decisions and strategic improvements.

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CCNG

JULY 31, 2024

The Ethical Imperative of AI Design As artificial intelligence continues its rapid advance, it’s crucial that we grapple with ethical implications. AI systems are being deployed to make increasingly high-stakes decisions that impact human lives in fields like healthcare, criminal justice, and hiring. And even in fields like customer experience and marketing, which are not considered high-stakes, AI use is exploding and if not designed and monitored, can have unintended negative results.

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This comprehensive report explores the evolving landscape of customer and business expectations, with five key trends that will help you understand your customers and stay ahead of the competition. Discover how your peers are implementing AI to improve customer experience with granular insights into their CX investments and specific AI use cases. For the first time, customers prefer digital channels when interacting with a business.

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VirtualPBX

AUGUST 1, 2024

As the world comes together to celebrate the Olympics, businesses have a unique opportunity to engage with customers in a way that captures the spirit of the games. With the global attention on this major event, leveraging text messaging for real-time Olympic promotions and customer engagement can be a powerful strategy. Here’s how businesses can make the most of this opportunity.

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JustCall

JULY 31, 2024

Email has always been a preferred way of business communication. In fact, 72% of customers still prefer if brands communicate with them via email. But most companies still only use labels and filters to personalize and manage their emails. Worse, they share the passwords among team members or forward emails via bcc or cc. This soon translates into communication that lacks transparency, is redundant, or has sluggish handling time.

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ShepHyken

JULY 30, 2024

Let’s play a game. We can call it Lousy Service Versus Good Service , or a better title I came up with: The Dark Side Versus the Shep Side. The Dark Side of service is just bad. The opposite is what I teach in my CX keynote speeches and customer service training program. Here are some Dark Side and Shep Side examples: Dark Side: Making customers wait for long, unreasonable lengths of time.

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SQM Group

JULY 30, 2024

Understanding consumer behavior helps businesses create better products that meet the needs and preferences of their customers.

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Tethr

JULY 31, 2024

Discover essential tips to defend your business against churn risk using conversation intelligence in your contact center.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 2, 2024

Colin has a bone to pick. No, it’s not with cable providers this time. It’s with the tradespeople involved in his latest home reno project. They are living up to the poor reputation that precedes them, and he has a list of complaints. Key problems included inaccurate pricing, disdain for previous workers’ efforts, lack of collaboration, excessive use of jargon, and poor time management.

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ShepHyken

JULY 29, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comments about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Your Customer Experience Game Plan: Olympics Edition by Brittany Hodak (Brittany Hodak) In business, fostering a sense of belonging and enthusiasm among employees can lead to remarkable outcomes.

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TechSee

JULY 30, 2024

Welcome to “Dear Megan,” an advice column where innovation meets humor, and customer experience is sprinkled with a dash of wit. I’m Megan Saucier , your friendly guide through the ever-evolving landscape of technology. As the Director of Strategic Accounts at TechSee, I’ve had the privilege of working with tech giants like AWS, and many others.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 2, 2024

When natural disasters or cyberattacks strike, communications are often the first to be impacted. In response, Cisco NERVs are on 24/7 standby for rapid deployment, providing advanced and secure communications for emergency responders during disaster recovery.

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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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AWS Machine Learning

JULY 31, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to supporting the development of cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by companies and organizations across the globe. As part of this commitment, AWS Japan announced the AWS LLM Development Support Program (LLM Program), through which we’ve had the privilege of working alongside some of Japan’s most innovative teams.

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ChurnZero

JULY 31, 2024

“Meet your customers where they are.” If you’ve ever been in any type of customer-facing role during your career, I’m positive you’ve heard this phrase countless times. So, where are your customers? Are your customers living inside their email inboxes? Well, we hope they are, because we really want them to open and read and click all the emails we send them!

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Totango

JULY 31, 2024

“In a PLG motion… you’re helping people to use the product more effectively, and ultimately, to upgrade to a paid experience. [In] the enterprise sale, you start by signing on the dotted line, so different expectations and skills are needed.” – Karen Budell , Chief Marketing Officer, Totango + Catalyst Shifting from a product-led growth (PLG) model to an enterprise sales motion is a significant move for any SaaS company.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 1, 2024

Discover how smart technology is revolutionizing our understanding of the oceans and aiding fishermen, with innovative gear that collects vital data to help navigate changing seas and support sustainable fishing practices.

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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.

Bill Quiseng

JULY 31, 2024

English writer Samuel Johnson said, “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed”. So, this week, I encourage you to remind yourself and your colleagues of this: Customers pay for their experience, not your product or service. They buy with emotion and justify their decision with reason. Customers seek the best emotional value in their experience, not your logically reasonable best price, product, or service.

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AWS Machine Learning

JULY 30, 2024

Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, permission aware generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant built with enterprise grade security and privacy features. Amazon Q Business can be configured to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on your enterprise data. The native data source connectors provided by Amazon Q Business can seamlessly integrate and index content from multiple repositories into a unified index.

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Ambs Call Center

AUGUST 2, 2024

Are you a property owner or manager struggling to fill vacancies and connect with the right tenants? In today’s competitive property management industry, finding effective advertising strategies for property management companies can feel like an uphill battle, especially when everyone’s trying for attention online.

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Cisco - Contact Center

JULY 31, 2024

Cisco Defense Orchestrator is designed to simplify the management of secure firewalls. With the introduction of Cisco CDO APIs, we enable Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) to unlock unprecedented levels of operational efficiency.

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Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Outsource Consultants

JULY 30, 2024

The Dominican Republic has become a major player in the call center and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. Here’s a look at its impressive rise: 1990s: The Seeds are Sown 1995 marked a turning point for the BPO industry in the Dominican Republic. Favorable government policies and a growing pool of educated workers led to the establishment of the first major call centers in the Dominican Republic.

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AWS Machine Learning

JULY 30, 2024

Intuit is committed to providing its customers innovative solutions that simplify complex financial processes. Tax filing can be a challenge, with its ever-changing regulations and intricate nuances. That’s why the company empowers millions of individuals and small businesses to comprehend tax-related information effortlessly and file with full confidence that their taxes are done right.

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Ambs Call Center

AUGUST 2, 2024

Discover how the buyout of your answering service could negatively impact your business operations and customer relationships with these 4 key effects.

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Cisco - Contact Center

JULY 31, 2024

Cisco partnered with BBC StoryWorks’ Human Component series to showcase three of our nonprofit partners who are using technology to create human connections. Read—and watch—to be inspired by their impact.

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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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Integrity Solutions

JULY 31, 2024

Money and incentives matter, but they are only part of the sales retention story. The pace of transformation and continual shifting conditions in the business environment over the past few years have made us all feel like we’re on a roller coaster ride — and you can be sure there will be many more ups and downs and twists and turns ahead.

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AWS Machine Learning

JULY 30, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, the demand for audio and video content is skyrocketing. Organizations are increasingly using media to engage with their audiences in innovative ways. From product documentation in video format to podcasts replacing traditional blog posts, content creators are exploring diverse channels to reach a wider audience. The rise of virtual workplaces has also led to a surge in content captured through recorded meetings, calls, and voicemails.

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OctopusTech

JULY 30, 2024

Magento headless commerce refers to running the Magento ecommerce platform in a decoupled architecture where the front-end presentation layer is separated from the back-end layer. In this model, Magento acts as a headless content management system (CMS) and commerce engine that exposes content and business logic through APIs and allows you to build customizable front-end experiences.

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