CCNG

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Poorly managed contact center quality controls can greatly impact your business, and the consequences are staggering. This article is the first in a series exploring the risks of substandard contact center QA practices. Quality Assurance: Your Strategic Weapon Against Customer Service Disasters In the fast-paced world of customer service, the quality of interactions between agents and customers is paramount.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

My friend Norman Beck sends me interesting articles and stories on a regular basis. Recently, he shared the story of a wealthy customer who entered a luxury store and asked to see a $25,000 chess set. The customer wasn’t dressed well, and the salesperson made the assumption that she couldn’t afford to buy it. The customer walked away, but before leaving the store, she visited the owner’s office, who also happened to be a close friend.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Contact center AI can revolutionize the agent experience by automating tasks and process. This blog highlights three use cases. The post 3 Ways Contact Center AI is Redefining the Agent Experience appeared first on Upstream Works.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 85,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: I have been dealing with a load of tradespeople on my kitchen renovation. The excuses they devise for why something can’t happen are amazing. Today, we will look closer at excuses regarding why people give them and what you can take away from that exchange.

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Preparing for impactful coaching sessions shouldn't be a bottleneck to success. "Innovation Insight: Coaching Tech to Boost Customer Service Performance" from Gartner shows practical ways to turn this around. In the research, Gartner found that “customer service and support supervisors, who are responsible for coaching, often lack availability and only spend an average of 30% of their time on it.” 1 We believe this valuable resource offers an objective look at how technology can facilitate more

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For the BPO industry, there’s a seismic shift underway. Traditionally seen as cost centers, BPOs are now leveraging AI to transform into strategic value drivers. Read more in this blog.

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Select VoiceCom Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Select VoiceCom employees and company leaders came together last Wednesday to celebrate the blessing ceremony of the newly expanded office on the 5th floor of the i1 Building, Cebu IT Park, Apas, Cebu City. The 5th-floor office is another step forward for us to accommodate our growing team and clientele. With this additional space, we want to show how dedicated we are to supporting more employees and businesses as they thrive in what they do best, no matter their profession or industry.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

CloudInteract announces new senior hires to support UK growth and US expansion, as it sets sights on supporting an industry predicted to grow to over USD 22 billion by 2030. CloudInteract , a rapidly growing, UK-based provider of customer experience (CX) platforms, announces a range of senior hires to support its UK growth plans and expansion into the US market.

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Advantage Communications

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding the Burst Imagine a scenario: your e-commerce store is gearing up for the holiday shopping season, or your travel agency is preparing for the summer rush. During these periods, your customer inquiries and demands skyrocket. This is where a burst in customer support requirements occurs. Instead of scrambling to hire and train a large in-house team for a temporary surge, businesses are increasingly turning to outsourced customer support burst services.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Personalization is a developing area in Customer Experiences. With AI driving what could be possible, many of you might be wondering how you can best leverage its capability in yours. To that end, we invited our special guest, Graham Hill, Ph.D., to explore the rapidly evolving field of Personalization in Customer Experiences. With decades of experience in customer relationship management (CRM) and Customer Experience , Hill shares valuable insights into how personalization, particularly with th

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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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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more:    Why are customer expectations rising in today’s market? How can AI enhance customer service experience? How can businesses effectively implement AI in customer service? Why is transparency when using AI in customer interaction? How can businesses balance between AI and human support?

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In the field of technology and creative design, logo design and creation has adapted and evolved at a rapid pace. From the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt to the sleek minimalism of today’s tech giants, the visual identities that define our favorite brands have undergone a remarkable transformation. Today, the world of creative design is once again being transformed by the emergence of generative AI.

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AnswerConnect

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Are tenant calls or property emergencies stacking up? Our blog uncovers why property management businesses benefit from a 24/7 answering service. Read now! The post Why property management businesses need an answering service appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.

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Cisco - Contact Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Learn why Cisco Routed Optical Networking has been deployed by more than 200 customers who have increased capacity, reduced energy consumption, and lowered network costs complexity, and footprint.

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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.

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 15, 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. Beat Your Best Quality Scores – 15 Quick Wins by Megan Jones (Call Centre Helper) Improving quality scores in customer service is an ongoing process that requires dedication, effective communication, and continuous training.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) technology holds the promise to revolutionize gene editing technologies, which is transformative to the way we understand and treat diseases. This technique is based in a natural mechanism found in bacteria that allows a protein coupled to a single guide RNA (gRNA) strand to locate and make cuts in specific sites in the targeted genome.

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Banking sales strategies are being redefined: Here’s how to pivot your customer relationships. While every industry grapples with the volatility of the economic environment and market conditions, banking and financial services organizations are dealing with specific challenges emerging from multiple disruptive forces: These challenges include: Maintaining an acceptable margin in a volatile yield curve market.

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Cisco - Contact Center

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

There are many integrations made available by Cisco Security and their tech partners, improving cybersecurity posture and defenses of mutual customers.

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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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Interactions

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In an era where customer experience (CX) can make or break a brand, companies are increasingly turning to technology and strategic partnerships to stay ahead. A collaboration between a leading insurance provider and Interactions stands out as a prime example of how innovative approaches can transform customer engagement, drive significant cost savings, and empower customers.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This post is co-written with Pradeep Prabhakaran from Cohere. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a powerful technique that can help enterprises develop generative artificial intelligence (AI) apps that integrate real-time data and enable rich, interactive conversations using proprietary data. RAG allows these AI applications to tap into external, reliable sources of domain-specific knowledge, enriching the context for the language model as it answers user queries.

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C3Centricity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CPG leaders (Consumer Goods Companies) understand that delivering exceptional consumer experiences is crucial for distinguishing their brands. A customer-first strategy has emerged as a pivotal approach to business success in every industry, prioritizing customers’ needs, preferences, satisfaction and delight across all facets of an organisation.

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Cisco - Contact Center

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

As the U.S. Congress thinks about the parameters of a 2025 tax package, several areas could significantly shape innovation in AI and cybersecurity and serve as a catalyst for beneficial technology breakthroughs.

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Discover a new approach to reducing contact center attrition with our in-depth eBook. After analyzing 20+ academic studies, we highlight overlooked causes like lack of leadership trust, emotional labor, and job shock, and introduce the Attrition Velocity metric to better understand attrition's real cost. Our guide doesn't stop at diagnosis; it offers actionable strategies and tools to address these issues head-on.

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Interactions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Seizing the Opportunity: Why Interactions is the Future of Conversational AI As the world leader in Conversational AI solutions for customer support, Interactions stands at the forefront of innovation and excellence. The recent announcement that Microsoft-owned Nuance will reach its end of life on December 31st, marks a significant shift in the landscape of Conversational AI.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In recent years, FM sizes have been increasing. It is important to consider the massive amount of compute often required to train these models. The compute clusters used in these scenarios are composed of more than thousands of AI accelerators such as GPUs or AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia , custom machine learning (ML) chips designed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate deep learning workloads in the cloud.

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OctopusTech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Magento is one of the go-to options for eCommerce stores, as it is the 3rd most popular eCommerce platform after Shopify or WooCommerce. It provides many tools and convenient plugins that make it easy to create and manage an eCommerce store. That’s why Magento handles around $155 billion in sales every year through eCommerce stores, and it’s growing 33% every year.

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Cisco - Contact Center

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Cisco’s vision for the future of Europe’s digital infrastructures. Cisco’s vision for the future of Europe’s digital infrastructures.

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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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Interactions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Seizing the Opportunity: Why Interactions is the Future of Conversational AI As the world leader in Conversational AI solutions for customer support, Interactions stands at the forefront of innovation and excellence. The recent announcement that Microsoft-owned Nuance will reach its end of life on December 31st, marks a significant shift in the landscape of Conversational AI.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Amazon Bedrock Agents offers developers the ability to build and configure autonomous agents in their applications. These agents help users complete actions based on organizational data and user input, orchestrating interactions between foundation models (FMs), data sources, software applications, and user conversations. Amazon Bedrock agents use the power of large language models (LLMs) to perform complex reasoning and action generation.

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Kapta Customer Success

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Let's Talk Retention If you are part of an account management team you are probably hyperaware of how important retention is. It’s one of those vital metrics that can be likened to a compass in the vast ocean of customer relations—it guides strategy, informs service improvements, and ultimately measures our success in maintaining fruitful relationships with clients.

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