Voiptime
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Business is always about money. And to surely know where your loyal customers are doing business with your company and where they are switching to another brand. Thus, you need to collect relevant data regarding your call center customer experience (CX). How much data do you actually need? The answer is resounding: you don’t need the carloads of data yourself and your staff.
Callminer
OCTOBER 27, 2022
A solid core of loyal customers is essential to any growing company. Read on for our list of strategies to improve CX and boost retention.
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Totango
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Your customer success team structure forms the organizational backbone supporting your CS strategy. A well-designed structure can help you streamline your operations for greater efficiency to deliver your customers better results. In this blog, we’ll share some of the most important keys to effective CS team organization: We’ll look at what we mean by customer success and CS team structure.
Global Response
OCTOBER 27, 2022
An inbound call center is specifically designed and trained to handle the variety of incoming communications, quickly identifying customer needs and resolving each contact to grow your relationships with customers. How well your inbound call center delivers exceptional service can significantly impact your brand image and your bottom line. And increasingly, customer contacts aren’t just calls.
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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.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Promises are the most personal and binding of commitments, and therefore are to be made carefully, kept fully, and broken only in the most extenuating cases and with thorough explanations. So, when a company, its contact center, and its agents makes and keeps its promises to help its customers, and in an industry that has […].
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TeamSupport
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Providing honest, good customer service is a low-bar to clear – or so it seems. A good customer service platform really just has to do one thing, put the customer first. On the outside, it looks like a simple grade-school high jump competition. The bar is low, it looks easy to jump, but once you get into all the technicalities of the Fosbury Flop, it starts to get a smidge dicey.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 27, 2022
We’ve got a pickle. I love a pickle. Tonya Dunn, an insurance professional, wants to know why her Customer Experience efforts aren’t moving the numbers. She wants to know what we think they should do. For those who don’t know, Tonya listens to our podcast and is using our “I’m in a Pickle” feature. The pickle is a business problem with which she wants help.
Balto
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Conversation intelligence (CI) software is a tool that can record, transcribe, and analyze speech in sales and customer service calls and chats to improve customer experience. It enables two functions that would’ve been impossible for revenue teams to achieve without the help of technology: extracting meaningful insights from phone calls at scale and providing real-time agent support.
Callminer
OCTOBER 24, 2022
In CallMiner’s continued work with mortgage lenders and financial institutions, we’ve identified four key use cases for conversation intelligence technology. Read this blog for more.
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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.
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The Awesome Responsibility is a concept I came up with a number of years ago. It describes the role an employee has when interacting with a customer. In that moment, one person in the company represents everything about the company. When people walk away from doing business with a company, they will often say things like, “I enjoy doing business with them ,” or, “ They are so helpful.” .
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Brands have never been more accessible to their customers than they are today. Whether it’s through a voice call, chatbot, or WhatsApp, or via a company’s mobile app, website, or good old-fashioned email – there’s never been as many options for customers to interact with a brand. But after what can only be described as […].
Fonolo
OCTOBER 26, 2022
When you think of improving your call center motivation, do you dream of near-perfect customer satisfaction scores ? Impeccable customer service and experience? To get a real sense of how things are going, don’t just look at your customers; look at your agents. If they’re motivated, your customers will likely feel satisfied. If not? Everything goes downhill.
Avoxi
OCTOBER 28, 2022
When to Use Webhooks vs APIs for App Data Sync In the fast data-driven world we live in, it’s critical to provide your teams with a holistic view of cross-departmental data. To do so, integrating your CRM system and other business applications is key– and an easy task with low-code no-code platforms specifically designed for… The post When to Use Webhooks vs APIs for App Data Sync appeared first on AVOXI.
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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.
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 28, 2022
This week, we feature an article by Rupert Jones, a financial independence geek who believes in the power of networking. He shares how learning a second language can help support teams communicate and serve their customers. Learning a second language can provide a lot of benefits for you in all aspects of life. You will be able to see new people, adapt to new situations, and take advantage of bilingual opportunities.
AWS Machine Learning
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Monitoring machine learning (ML) predictions can help improve the quality of deployed models. Capturing the data from inferences made in production can enable you to monitor your deployed models and detect deviations in model quality. Early and proactive detection of these deviations enables you to take corrective actions, such as retraining models, auditing upstream systems, or fixing quality issues.
CSM Magazine
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The holiday season is fast approaching, and with it comes all the inevitable chaos – fun-filled vacations, visits with family, and partaking in beloved time-honored traditions. While fun and worthwhile, these festive endeavors mean more employees will be spending time out of the office. While time away from work during the holidays has tremendous benefits for the employee who is out of office, it can actually negatively impact fellow coworkers who are left behind to pick up the slack.
Lumoa
OCTOBER 26, 2022
After a couple of years of hiatus, many Customer Experience Conferences are going back to live events, as you have already seen in late 2022 – or at least they are trying to. There are nonetheless also many options for those who are still not ready to travel and meet people, as organizers have become better and better at offering an experience that is comparable to face-to-face interactions.
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!
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 24, 2022
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 comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. PwC Leader: Why Retailers Must Balance Digital-driven Experiences With Human-led Interaction by Judy Mottl. (Retail Customer Experience) In the past year, one in four consumers have stopped buying or using a retailer due to a bad experience with a product or customer servic
Inbenta
OCTOBER 27, 2022
More than a million digital retail transactions happen every day. The impact of e-commerce is far and wide, rippling from small businesses to global enterprises. Online marketplaces have been on the rise since the mid-1990s with the launch of well-known sites like Amazon, Alibaba, and many more. Today, we know that there are at least 2.14 billion digital buyers, which represents 27.6% of the 7.74 billion global population.
Momentum Telecom
OCTOBER 24, 2022
You may be familiar with a small subset of Momentum’s services – but you and your customers can benefit from knowing about our role as a managed cloud service provider. Why? Because you want the best for your customers, and many of them want to take advantage of the cloud. Your reputation is linked to your partners’ reputations – so you only want to partner with experienced and reliable managed cloud service providers.
MiaRec
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The way we communicate has changed drastically in recent years, and as the way we communicate changes, so too must the tools we use to support and improve those interactions.
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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.
AWS Machine Learning
OCTOBER 27, 2022
With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives becoming more important for companies, our customer, one of Greater China region’s top convenience store chains, has been seeking a solution to reduce food waste (currently over $3.5 million USD per year). Doing so will allow them to not only realize substantial operating savings, but also support corporate sustainability goals.
kommunicate
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Last Updated on October 27, 2022 85% of shoppers prefer mobile applications over mobile websites for online shopping (Forbes). Let that sink in. Mobile has become the staple channel for consuming information and carrying out everyday tasks. For customers, mobile apps offer a simple and convenient way of shopping with every product they want available [.].
IdeasUnlimited
OCTOBER 24, 2022
USA’s mainstreet has always been the bedrock of its robust economy. While major corporations tend to steal the spotlight in business news, SMB’s continue to silently grow, innovate and offer products and services that enterprises capitalize. A healthy startup culture is what gave rise to Silicon Valley which produced some of the most well known brands such as Microsoft, Google and Oracle.
MiaRec
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Service (CMS) has issued some new major changes to the compliance rules and guidelines that will apply to Medicare Advantage and Part D plans. The new CMS requirements will apply to all independent insurance agents and are set to take effect starting in 2023.
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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.
Upstream Works
OCTOBER 28, 2022
By: Rob McDougall, CEO, Upstream Works Software. Many contact centers have a large focus on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications to provide a level of AI-assisted services via the website. Many companies, when they think of conversational AI, think of chatbots as a default. But – changing demographics aside – one of your largest communication channels is likely still email.
Call Design
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Digital transformation and intelligent automation are helping the contact centre industry accelerate growth, achieve operational excellence, and drive superior customer satisfaction. Intelligent automation empowers agents by maximising their time and helps engage and motivate them to meet KPIs thus improving your customers’ experience. Often the reputation of a contact centre lies in the hands of its agents, therefore, ensuring they have the skills and ability to provide a high-quality customer
Fonolo
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Call centers need all their parts in order to run smoothly. But what happens when you’re missing members of the team? It won’t be long before you encounter some serious problems. Absenteeism, otherwise known as absence rate, is arguably one of the most overlooked call center metrics. This percentage figure reveals the amount of unapproved or unplanned time agents spend away from their work.
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