TCN
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Managing a contact center is a lot of responsibility, which is why it is important to provide resources to keep your business running smoothly while also keeping your agents happy. To lighten the load, here are six ways to boost agent efficiency, which will, in turn, support your contact center’s overall success. 1. Equip agents […] The post Six Ways to Boost Agent Efficiency appeared first on TCN.
NobelBiz
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
The customer service world is evolving rapidly alongside advancements in technology. Contact centers are now tasked with handling more calls per hour while delivering a seamless customer experience, optimizing costs, and maintaining quality. The secret weapon? Automation. By implementing automation, contact centers can simplify complex workflows, streamline tasks for both agents and customers, and create a more efficient and enjoyable experience for everyone.
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CSM Magazine
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Contact center agents spend a significant amount of time glued to computer screens, managing customer queries, and ensuring efficient service delivery. While the role is essential for maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction, it often exposes agents to eye strain—a common occupational hazard that can lead to discomfort, reduced productivity, and even long-term vision problems.
CSM Magazine
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
A fresh wave of enterprise-grade tools are helping businesses keep customers happy. Scott Yelton, senior director of product development for Windstream Enterprise, takes a closer look. Not long ago, analysts at PwC provided their simple formula for businesses to grow revenue and build loyalty with customers: “ Experience is everything. Get it right. ” While they may understand that formula, plenty of companies across a broad range of industries don’t appear to be following it.
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Vistio
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
The way we access and share information in the workplace is changing—fast. Yet, many contact centers are still clinging to their outdated knowledge bases like travelers refusing to give up paper maps in a world of GPS. Sure, they technically “work,” but are they efficient? Do they empower agents to deliver exceptional service? The short answer is no.
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ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 18, 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. ‘Good Experience Builds Loyalty’: Chewy’s CEO on Meeting Customer Demand by Robert Safian (Fast Company) As artificial intelligence transforms customer service and workplace tools, many companies still struggle to capture that elusive human connection.
AWS Machine Learning
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a crucial technique for improving the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated responses. The effectiveness of RAG heavily depends on the quality of context provided to the large language model (LLM), which is typically retrieved from vector stores based on user queries. The relevance of this context directly impacts the model’s ability to generate accurate and contextually appropriate responses.
Interaction Metrics
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Improving customer service is more crucial than ever in 2024. Research shows that customers are 2.4 times more likely to stick with a brand when their issues are resolved quickly, yet over half will abandon companies that fail to anticipate their needs. This blog will explore how to improve customer service, common pitfalls to avoid, and metrics that ensure your efforts are on the right track.
Callminer
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
CallMiner's, Bruce McMahon, shares key product updates from Q4 2024. New AI capabilities, including CallMiner AI Assist, add to the long list of AI advancements that CallMiner has delivered in 2024.
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What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Top Takeaways: Companies spend $80 billion to $90 billion each year on marketing, but only $8 billion annually on customer service. How much can bad customer service cost your business? It could cost you your business. Only one out of every 26 customers who have a complaint will let you know. Instead, they will tell everybody else. The best marketing you can have involves your customer walking out the door after an amazing experience, and talking about you with everyone else.
AWS Machine Learning
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI. The recent announcement of batch inference in Amazon Bedrock enables organizations to process large volumes of data efficiently at 50% less cost comp
Win the Customer
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
In an era dominated by artificial intelligence and automation, it’s easy to overlook the power of human connection. As businesses increasingly rely on digital channels to interact with customers, the importance of empathy in customer service has never been greater. By prioritizing empathy, companies can foster stronger relationships, improve customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive business growth.
Interactions
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
The Conversational AI (CAI) landscape is transforming at lightning speed, driven by advancements in Generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs). As enterprises seek new ways to automate processes, enhance customer interactions, and optimize employee productivity, conversational AI solutions have become essential to achieving these goals. However, in a crowded and competitive market, finding the right CAI partner that aligns with your organization’s objectives can be challenging.
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Totango
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
In a world where customer expectations are sky-high and data complexity is ever-increasing, Totango Unison is the game-changer that customer success and post-sales teams have been waiting for. Imagine a tool that not only predicts customer churn with laser precision but also unlocks new avenues for growth, ensuring your business thrives in today’s competitive landscape.
AWS Machine Learning
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
This post is part of an ongoing series about governing the machine learning (ML) lifecycle at scale. To view this series from the beginning, start with Part 1. This post dives deep into how to set up data governance at scale using Amazon DataZone for the data mesh. The data mesh is a modern approach to data management that decentralizes data ownership and treats data as a product.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Im always impressed when someone truly loves their job and does more than expected. And thats exactly what happened on a recent cross-country American Airlines flight. Heres what happened: I fell asleep shortly after takeoff, and the meal service was over by the time I woke up.My very friendly flight attendant informed me that the hot meal wouldnt taste very good after being cooked for so long and that they were out of the cold meals.
CSM Magazine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
As a customer service manager, you know just how crucial it is to take good care of your team. Employee wellbeing equates to happier and more productive representatives who provide better customer service, and it also means you can keep working with top talent for longer. That’s why it’s important to ensure they work in comfortable environments and stay in good physical health.
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Workforce challenges are accelerating, and leaders must be prepared. According to Gartner, “Executives today face a volatile business environment, sustained talent shortages, rapid technological advancements and intense change fatigue in the workforce.” 1 In 9 Future of Work Trends for 2025, Gartner reveals nine critical workforce trends that will define 2025 – from AI’s impact on productivity to evolving leadership roles and talent shortages.
VirtualPBX
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
As a property manager in charge of ensuring safety for tenants and residents, you’re well aware of the importance of elevator emergency communication systems. Whether you’re managing commercial properties, residential building communities, or overseeing an HOA, you need reliable elevator phone solutions to keep your elevators compliant and operational.
AWS Machine Learning
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
As generative AI models advance in creating multimedia content, the difference between good and great output often lies in the details that only human feedback can capture. Audio and video segmentation provides a structured way to gather this detailed feedback, allowing models to learn through reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and supervised fine-tuning (SFT).
ChurnZero
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Nothing in customer success causes CSMs to catch “feelings”, as Naomi Aiken puts it, as reliably as losing a customer. Churn often brings feelings of shame, blame, and frustration in its wake, making it hard to analyze and learn from the loss. But what if you could break the cycle? A former ChurnZero CSM and team leader, and now the founder of Techtonic Lift , Naomi has developed the Outcomes Club format for learning from churn.
CSM Magazine
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
In today’s fiercely competitive market, loan providers that go beyond mere transactions to build genuine connections with their clients will soar above the rest. Picture yourself stepping into a loan provider’s office with a mix of hope and apprehension. You’re on a quest to fulfill a dream—perhaps buying your first home or expanding your small business.
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Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.
24-7 InTouch
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
With purchases just a click away, there is a growing need for quick and efficient support. Brands that rely solely on interactive voice response (IVR) risk lower customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores. The inefficiency and high cost of voice agents can also cause revenue loss. In response to these challenges, many companies have incorporated SMS deflection as a strategy to enhance CSAT and optimize operations. 63% of people would rather message than call customer service or email 66% of people are
AWS Machine Learning
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Companies across all industries are harnessing the power of generative AI to address various use cases. Cloud providers have recognized the need to offer model inference through an API call, significantly streamlining the implementation of AI within applications. Although a single API call can address simple use cases, more complex ones may necessitate the use of multiple calls and integrations with other services.
ChurnZero
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
The SaaS industry was hit hard in late 2022 through 2024. Shifts in market dynamics led investors to favor financial stability and profitability over “growth at all costs,” putting retention at the center of most businesses. The metrics of retention (gross revenue retention or net revenue retention) are now cemented as the qualifying metrics when investors and boards ask about a company’s health.
CSM Magazine
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the end of year holidays are all clustered into the busiest time of year, creating an annual problem for every manager that is responsible for delivering great service to customers. This peak season is especially important for retailers and e-commerce brands, but many associated industries also see a sharp increase in business as the year winds down.
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SQM Group
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Equipping agents with the best assurance statements to help them navigate challenging conversations with confidence.
The Petrova Experience
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
With the holiday season fast approaching, it is a smart time to seek lessons from retail customer experience leaders and laggards. At the root of those lessons is the importance of honoring customer promises and creating a holistic experience across your business (whether retail or any other sector). We have a billion-dollar example to share, from seasonal favorite and retail customer experience leader, Macy’s.
Upstream Works
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Discover how to reduce AI complexity while enhancing CX with a balanced approach in part two of our AI Revolution series. The post Reduce AI Complexity & Keep Humans in the Middle [Video] appeared first on Upstream Works.
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