Sat.Jan 07, 2023 - Fri.Jan 13, 2023

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What is Social Customer Service? The Next Era of Support in the Call Center

LiveVox

What is social customer service? It’s exactly what it sounds like! Providing support, informational resources, and engagement to your customers over social media channels. We know it seems like WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and the like are places to share funny photos of your pets or humble brag about your family vacation to the Bahamas, but […].

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Customer Service Isn’t the Cost You Want to Cut

CCNG

“Your call / email / chat is important to us, but we are experiencing unusual volume at this time.” If you’ve had a reason to reach out to your mortgage company, cell phone provider, or favorite retailer, this might be the response you’ve received. I have spent hours contacting a cell phone provider over a billing error, and one month later, I still don’t have a resolution.

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Three Ways to Create an Employee Experience that Creates a Better Customer Experience

ShepHyken

Most everyone in the business world is familiar with the idea of customer experience (CX). And as popular as CX is, there’s a somewhat new concept that has been coming on strong for the past five years, and that’s the employee experience (EX). With the employment issues of the past two years, EX is as important, maybe even more so, than CX. You can’t have a consistent and predictable CX without an EX to support it. .

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Why Applying the Golden Rule to Customer Success Efforts Works

ClientSuccess

The concept of customer success continues to rapidly gain traction as businesses strive to improve their customer experience. To help organizations get the most out of this important function, there are now a variety of resources available: from websites and white papers to webinars, conferences and technologies. Here’s an overview of what we call the Golden Rule of Customer Success – 8 Guiding Principles: Understand customer needs, goals and motivations.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Ethical Cold Calling Strategies to Improve Conversions

Calltools

Despite its bad reputation, cold calling is one of the most effective marketing techniques that continues to deliver results. According to research by AI Bees , 82% of buyers agreed to a meeting after receiving a cold call. . Many call centers see promising results when agents use ethical cold-calling practices and successfully acquire new customers.

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Automated Answering Service vs Live Call Agent

TeleDirect

It doesn’t matter what industry you may be in—if you work with customers and clients of any type, you need to offer them proper support. Otherwise, they will not be loyal to your brand and might even spread the word to others about their negative experience. Unfortunately, many companies aren’t sure how to create a customer support strategy that suits their business and customers’ needs.

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No Excuses for Poor Disaster CX

Contact Center Pipeline

Disasters, like the recent holiday storms, are inevitable. How you plan, respond, but most critically inform and communicate with your employees and customers is what counts. This isn’t rocket science. And it is the foundation of the customer experience (CX). Customers and staff get it—both foreseen and unforeseen “events”. I’ve covered, been responsible for the […].

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25 use cases & examples of real-time analytics

Callminer

Read this blog to better understand what real-time analytics is and how it works, as well as 25 real world examples of how organizations across a range of industries benefit from real-time analytics.

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Amazing Business Radio: Carla Guzzetti

ShepHyken

B2B or B2C…CX is CX . Putting the Human Experience First as a Business Strategy. Shep Hyken interviews Carla Guzzetti, Senior Vice President for Experience and Product Messaging at Extreme Networks. She shares how companies can design a better experience, in B2B and B2C industries, by focusing on the individual needs of their customers and employees.

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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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An Authoritative view: Three Pioneers of CX predict big changes in 2023

Beyond Philosophy

Every so often, I get a chance to chit-chat with colleagues of mine about the future of customer experience. This time, my colleagues were pioneers in customer experience, Lou Carbone ( Experience Engineering.com) author of Clued In , and Joe Pine (StratgicHorizons.com) , author of The Experience Economy. We discussed what we see changing in CX. We all think we are at a turning point in the movement.

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Edging to the Brink of Change

Contact Center Pipeline

The year is 2023, and the contact center industry is on the brink of change. With new technologies and approaches being developed daily, it’s hard to predict what the next year will bring. However, there are a few things that we can be sure of. AI, Chatbots, and Automation Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and automation […].

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What is omnichannel customer experience analytics, and how should you use it?

Callminer

Understanding omnichannel customer experience analytics is essential to satisfying customers and maintaining a competitive edge. Read this blog to learn how to put analytics to use.

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Guest Post: How Can You Make Sure That Your Customers Feel Heard?

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Kathleen White, an independent business analyst for several small businesses. She writes about letting your customers know that they are important to you and your business by making sure that they feel heard. Running your own business can be amazing – you can control your own working hours and make all of the important decisions, but ultimately you are responsible for the success of the business.

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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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An Authoritative View: Three Pioneers of CX Predict Big Changes in 2023

Beyond Philosophy

What do you get when you put three old guys in front of microphones and ask them to talk about one of their favorite subjects? An authoritative view on just about anything. However, with three pioneers of Customer Experience involved, we have an authoritative view on the topic and predictions about what’s happening next. I recently hosted some special guests on the podcast to discuss what 2023 will look like in the Customer Experience space.

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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Contact Center

Fonolo

Change seems to happen slowly and then all at once. The same holds when considering how artificial intelligence is changing the contact center. . You probably know at least a bit about AI and automation. Tools like interactive voice response (IVR) and smart call routing are tried and true ways to save time and money – and offer better service. They are also popular advancements in automation that employ varying degrees of AI.

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Americas FSI Digital Commentary: 3 Ways to Accelerate Digital Strategy in 2023

Cisco - Contact Center

As a change agent serving the financial services industry for over 20 years, it is a great privilege to collaborate with Bank, Insurance, and Wealth Management institutions to devise and execute digital transformation strategy, solve complex business problems, and leverage technology to strengthen business results. Ending a chaotic 2022 with the Federal Reserve in their December meeting raising interest rates to control inflation another 50 basis points following four consecutive 75 basis point

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 1-9-2023

ShepHyken

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. Customer Experience Predictions for 2023 by Dan Gingiss. (Dan Gingiss) It’s a new year, so why not start it off right with some powerful customer experience predictions from the world’s foremost experts?

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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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Meet our January Wall of Fame Author: Sangeeta Bhatnagar

Contact Center Pipeline

Area of expertise: Building Emotionally Intelligent and Adaptable teams. Developing human capital through diverse tools and techniques. What is your background in the industry? I have worked in the Contact Center industry in various roles supporting CX and EX. I started off as an agent at an Answering Service in high school and market research […].

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Redacting PII data at The Very Group with Amazon Comprehend

AWS Machine Learning

This is guest post by Andy Whittle, Principal Platform Engineer – Application & Reliability Frameworks at The Very Group. At The Very Group , which operates digital retailer Very, security is a top priority in handling data for millions of customers. Part of how The Very Group secures and tracks business operations is through activity logging between business systems (for example, across the stages of a customer order).

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Service Automation Comes to Mobile Apps With the VI Mobile SDK

TechSee

Since launching just six months ago, millions of customers and technicians have used TechSee’s Visual Intelligence’s (VI) AI to successfully set up their devices, visually troubleshoot issues, and confirm successful resolutions to all sorts of issues. The savings and CX impact has been incredible. Visual AI has dramatically improved everything from end-user self-service containment rates to NPS and first-time-fix rates in the field.

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Guest Post: How Can You Make Sure That Your Customers Feel Heard?

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Kathleen White, an independent business analyst for several small businesses. She writes about letting your customers know that they are important to you and your business by making sure that they feel heard. Running your own business can be amazing – you can control your own working hours and make all of the important decisions, but ultimately you are responsible for the success of the business.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Understanding the options for call recording in Microsoft Teams

Eptica

Date: Friday, January 13, 2023 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Understanding the options for call recording in Microsoft Teams Published on: January 13, 2023 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Recording calls and other customer service interactions is key for compliance, quality control and improving the overall experience.

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Building a Unified Network for the Jacksonville Jaguars

ConvergeOne

The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Florida. As the organization tackles growing business needs, it requires a partner like ConvergeOne to support the upcoming transition of all its football operations and networks into a brand-new building with the development of a unified, next-generation infrastructure that defines network modernization.

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A New Strategic Approach For Field Service Leaders in 2023: Visual Engagement Technology

TechSee

Increasingly, field service leaders are looking at new visual engagement technologies to improve their operational efficiency and customer and agent satisfaction. At its core, these technologies have a simple premise – a picture is worth a thousand words. The proliferation of incredibly capable smartphones and IoT devices enables today’s field organizations to better support, guide, optimize and even virtualize their operations. .

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Top 5 Customer Service Articles of the Week 1-9-2023

ShepHyken

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. Customer Experience Predictions for 2023 by Dan Gingiss (Dan Gingiss) It’s a new year, so why not start it off right with some powerful customer experience predictions from the world’s foremost experts?

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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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Meet Spearline at Enterprise Connect 2023!

Spearline

We are excited to let you know that Spearline will be exhibiting at this year’s Enterprise Connect event in Orlando, Florida, from March 27th to 30th 2023, and we can’t wait to talk to as many of you as possible at booth #1227. About Enterprise Connect Enterprise Connect brings corporate IT decision makers together with the industry’s vendors, channel partners, analysts and consultants to focus on the issues central to enterprise communications and collaboration.

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VirtualPBX Podcast: How To Grow & Optimize Your Business

VirtualPBX

In this Financially Free Journey podcast episode, Rachel Anderson guest appears and dives deep into the various marketing channels and strategies you can use to grow and optimize your business. Rachel is the Chief Marketing Officer and general go-to resource for emerging trends, platforms, and how best to leverage them at VirtualPBX. After receiving her BFA at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, Rachel has moved from the Bay Area to Peru, New York, Minnesota, and now Philadelphia, Penn

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Supercharge your success with ChurnZero’s new Customer Success AI™

ChurnZero

No matter what your role in Customer Success, creating and ideating on new content, strategies and engagements is key to the customer relationships you build and the results you drive. This essential aspect of your job can also be one of its most time-consuming. That’s why, today, ChurnZero launched Customer Success AI , an incredible way to supercharge your customer communications and develop impactful new approaches to the work you do.

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