Callminer
JANUARY 27, 2025
Effective call center agents are crucial in shaping customer experience and fostering brand loyalty. Read this blog for top tips to measuring and improving call center agent effectiveness.
NobelBiz
JANUARY 28, 2025
With the advancement of the contact center industry, benchmarks continue to shift and challenge businesses to meet higher customer expectations while maintaining efficiency. Whether you’re measuring agent performance or overall customer satisfaction, staying aligned with modern standards is key to success. In 2025, achieving the right benchmarks means understanding the metrics that matter, tracking them effectively, and striving for continuous improvement.
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CustomerServ
JANUARY 28, 2025
Africa is the talk of the call center community, and the region is well positioned as the next high growth market for business process outsourcing (BPO).
Callminer
JANUARY 29, 2025
AI is transforming the way call centers operate in numerous ways, including by automating quality monitoring and enabling companies to maintain rigorous quality standards. Learn how in this blog.
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Every year, $75 billion is lost to bad customer service — and your business could be bleeding loyalty without realizing it. AI is rewriting the rules. Imagine instant answers, 24/7 self-service, faster resolutions, and skyrocketing satisfaction scores. Companies like Amazon are already cashing in, and the technology is easier than you think — plug, play, and profit.
Calabrio
JANUARY 27, 2025
Customer Interaction Analytics How to Use Contact Center Speech Analytics Share Speech analytics solutions gather insights into the performance of contact centers and other operating areas within an enterprise.These solutions analyze recorded conversations, which means that they know what is happening in the contact center and can often identify what needs to be done to resolve the issues.
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ShepHyken
JANUARY 28, 2025
This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more: What role do loyalty programs play in enhancing customer engagement? How can companies leverage loyalty programs to generate additional revenue? Can loyalty programs drive repeat business without sacrificing the quality of customer experience? How can technology help create a seamless customer experience within a loyalty program?
AWS Machine Learning
JANUARY 28, 2025
Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is crucial as LLM-based systems become increasingly powerful and relevant in our society. Rigorous testing allows us to understand an LLMs capabilities, limitations, and potential biases, and provide actionable feedback to identify and mitigate risk. Furthermore, evaluation processes are important not only for LLMs, but are becoming essential for assessing prompt template quality, input data quality, and ultimately, the entire application stack.
TechSee
JANUARY 27, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than just automation; it’s about making smart decisions. That’s where AI Reasoning comes into play. Reasoning enables machines to think, learn, and make decisions based on data, experience, and context. In this blog post, I’ll explain what Reasoning is, why it matters in customer service, and how it elevates customer experiences.
3CLogic
JANUARY 28, 2025
When contact center solutions and customer relationship management platforms were first introduced to the market, they served distinctly different purposes. Contact centers handled calls and interactions, while CRM systems managed customer records and ticketing/cases/incidents. Over time, CRM and CCaaS solutions have evolved to increasingly encroach into each other's spaces, resulting in overlapping features and functionalities.
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ShepHyken
JANUARY 28, 2025
Some very popular business sayings are potentially detrimental to your organization. I recently wrote an article in my weekly Forbes.com column titled The Five Business Myths You Cant Believe. It met with plenty of positive feedback, so Im going to share those five myths with you, plus five more. Ive written full articles about some of these topics in the past.
AWS Machine Learning
JANUARY 31, 2025
Digital pathology is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, playing a critical role in healthcare delivery and pharmaceutical research and development. Pathology traditionally relies heavily on pathologist expertise and experience to conduct meticulous examination of tissue samples to identify abnormalities. However, the increasing complexity and volume of cases necessitate advanced tools to assist pathologists in making faster, more accurate diagnoses.
TeleDirect
JANUARY 30, 2025
The Legal Edge: Why Law Firms Benefit from Call Center Support For law firms, effective client communication is crucial for success, but managing a high volume of calls while focusing on casework can be overwhelming. This is why law firms need a call center to streamline client interactions, improve response times, and ensure seamless legal support.
ChurnZero
JANUARY 31, 2025
In 2024s Customer Success Leadership Study , 87% of participants said their teams use or have immediate plans to adopt AI. However, only 21% said they have purpose-built AI products in their CS tech stacks. Optimistically, we can infer a healthy picture of experimentation and pilot projects with AI point products. It makes sense to try point solutions, especially if your CS team is still figuring out other things like your renewal process and plays, or your adoption methodology.
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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
JANUARY 26, 2025
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. Verizon Customer Chief Talks Retail Customer Experience: It’s All About Personalization by Judy Mottl (Retail Customer Experience) Brian Higgins, chief customer experience officer at Verizon, offers insight on Verizons CX strategy and what makes for a rewarding, comp
AWS Machine Learning
JANUARY 27, 2025
Amazon has introduced two new creative content generation models on Amazon Bedrock : Amazon Nova Canvas for image generation and Amazon Nova Reel for video creation. These models transform text and image inputs into custom visuals, opening up creative opportunities for both professional and personal projects. Nova Canvas, a state-of-the-art image generation model, creates professional-grade images from text and image inputs, ideal for applications in advertising, marketing, and entertainment.
TeleDirect
JANUARY 30, 2025
How Outsourcing Simplifies Operations for U.S. Companies Facing Hiring Challenges Hiring and managing in-house teams can be a significant administrative burden for U.S. companies, leading to high costs, compliance complexities, and operational inefficiencies. Outsourcing simplifies these challenges, allowing businesses to streamline operations by leveraging external expertise.
Return Customer
JANUARY 31, 2025
When it comes to any type of business, great customer service is key to making more money. If you run an online store, its even more important. Great customer services will help you stand out from the competition and turn occasional shoppers into loyal customers. Modern shoppers want more than good products. They expect a shopping experience that feels personal and memorable.
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Start building the AI workforce of the future with our comprehensive guide to creating an AI-first contact center. Learn how Conversational and Generative AI can transform traditional operations into scalable, efficient, and customer-centric experiences. What is AI-First? Transition from outdated, human-first strategies to an AI-driven approach that enhances customer engagement and operational efficiency.
Interaction Metrics
JANUARY 31, 2025
Finding the right customer satisfaction survey company can make or break your ability to measure customer satisfaction and gain actionable insights. The best firms do more than simply collect customer feedbackthey help you interpret data, identify pain points, and enhance customer satisfaction. This guide covers the top customer satisfaction survey companies of 2025.
AWS Machine Learning
JANUARY 31, 2025
This is a guest blog post co-written with Jordan Knight, Sara Reynolds, George Lee from Travelers. Foundation models (FMs) are used in many ways and perform well on tasks including text generation, text summarization, and question answering. Increasingly, FMs are completing tasks that were previously solved by supervised learning, which is a subset of machine learning (ML) that involves training algorithms using a labeled dataset.
CSM Magazine
JANUARY 28, 2025
Gone are the days of relying solely on demographic data and periodic surveystoday’s businesses have access to AI-driven customer insights, a game-changer for growth. By leveraging AI, companies can make decisions rooted in data, improve customer satisfaction, and ultimately grow their revenue. Here’s how to use AI customer insights to drive meaningful growth in your business.
Balto
JANUARY 28, 2025
In a landscape flooded with AI vendors, picking the right partner isnt just importantits essential for survival. AI is evolving at lightning speed, and the vendors that drive value now will separate the industry leaders from the laggards. But heres the truth: Most AI projects fail because companies bet on technology, not results. The difference? The right AI partner focuses on outcomesdeploying quickly, iterating often, and proving value at every step.
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In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.
Injixo
JANUARY 31, 2025
Contact center forecasting is the cornerstone of planning. And it can be challenging, especially for beginners. There are several call center forecasting methods to learn. And as your planning capabilities mature, stakeholder expectations about results like forecast accuracy will start to grow as well. Its common to focus entirely on the short-term forecasting that forms an input to the scheduling process.
AWS Machine Learning
JANUARY 28, 2025
In production generative AI applications, responsiveness is just as important as the intelligence behind the model. Whether its customer service teams handling time-sensitive inquiries or developers needing instant code suggestions, every second of delay, known as latency, can have a significant impact. As businesses increasingly use large language models (LLMs) for these critical tasks and processes, they face a fundamental challenge: how to maintain the quick, responsive performance users expe
CSM Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2025
Setting up a bookkeeping system is a crucial step for any startup. A well-organized bookkeeping system helps you track your financial health, manage cash flow, and prepare for tax season. Heres a step-by-step guide to help you establish an effective bookkeeping system for your startup. 1. Understand the Basics of Bookkeeping Before diving into the setup, its essential to understand some basic bookkeeping concepts: Double-Entry Accounting: This method records each transaction in two accounts, ens
Concentrix
JANUARY 28, 2025
Cairo (Jan. 28, 2025) Today, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, the Egyptian Prime Minister, witnessed the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) and global technology and services leader Concentrix. The event was attended by Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, and Mr.
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Momentum Telecom
JANUARY 31, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is already changing the way we work. However, the technology also comes with considerable data security and privacy concerns. Maximizing your investment in AI means navigating these roadblocks without compromising on privacy and data security for sensitive company info, customer data, and proprietary information.
AWS Machine Learning
JANUARY 29, 2025
Generative AI can revolutionize organizations by enabling the creation of innovative applications that offer enhanced customer and employee experiences. Intelligent document processing , translation and summarization, flexible and insightful responses for customer support agents, personalized marketing content, and image and code generation are a few use cases using generative AI that organizations are rolling out in production.
CSM Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2025
Excellent customer service isnt just a nice-to-have for online wholesale storesits a necessity. But how do you deliver that level of care when transactions happen entirely online? Its simpler than you might think. Small shifts in communication, support, and responsiveness can create loyal customers who choose your store every time. Understanding Customer Needs in Online Wholesale Understanding your customers needs is the foundation of providing exceptional service.
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