BlueOcean

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Choosing a contact center outsourcer is a huge investment. Which is, of course, why you’re willingly subjecting yourself to the time constraints and stress of writing an RFP. Need some insight? We’ve compiled a list of up-to-date contact center RFP questions to help you ensure you’re making the most informed decision. Below you’ll find six key sections of questions: Company overview Agent Hiring & Management Contact Center Reporting Project Management Technology Pricing Company Overview Get

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Discover effective strategies to reduce inbound call volumes with advanced contact center solutions. Explore five key features, including omnichannel support, AI-powered virtual agents, and voice-enabled IVRs, and learn how Enghouse Interactive's CCaaS can enhance operational efficiency and customer experience.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Good customer service becomes noticeable for two reasons: A company or brand can be known for amazing customer service and experience. Customers may notice the employees’ attitude, how easy they are to do business with and more. But sometimes they don’t, because it’s expected. However, over time, customers will notice that there are never problems.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 17, 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: Getting customers to leave feedback is a challenge. However, that feedback is essential to managing your experience. So, what’s the secret here? An expert told me this: do it immediately, keep it fast, and keep it simple.

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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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TCN

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Traditionally, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies utilize their customer’s communication platform. However, data shows that 20% of the time, clients prefer the BPO to provide the solution. TCN offers all-in-one solutions tailor-made for your outsourcing needs. These solutions empower you to be there for your customers 24/7, anywhere and on any device while still being […] The post Contact Center Software Features Made Specifically for the BPO Industry appeared first on TCN.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more:    What is an OKR? How do customer-centric OKRs help teams focus on the right tasks? Why is it important for businesses to align their objectives with customer-centric goals? How does measuring customer behavior contribute to better customer satisfaction?

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Hurricane Debbie dumped 17 inches of water in Colin’s home. It was a traumatic experience, from wading through the murky water to the neighbor’s house—hoping not to encounter the alligators that usually hang out nearby—to watching a team of 12 recovery professionals sweeping through and gutting what remained inside after the water subsided. The experience has been emotionally draining, especially since they didn’t have flood insurance, making the cost of repairs overwhelming.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Bringing Visual AI to Salesforce Agentforce, Einstein Bots, and Flows In today’s fast-paced, customer-centric world, businesses must innovate to meet customer expectations. Despite a growing demand for personalized experiences, 61% of customers feel undervalued. Companies must invest in technologies that streamline service and deliver genuinely personalized interactions to demonstrate their worth.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2024

With recent advances in large language models (LLMs), a wide array of businesses are building new chatbot applications, either to help their external customers or to support internal teams. For many of these use cases, businesses are building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) style chat-based assistants, where a powerful LLM can reference company-specific documents to answer questions relevant to a particular business or use case.

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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.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 13, 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. How to Improve Customer Experience In Your Organization by Mike Henry (InMoment) Working to improve customer experience is an important part of CX management and something that organizations should be continuously striving for.

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Cisco - Contact Center

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Discover how Cisco Secure Firewall 7.4, now on the DoDIN Approved Products List, enhances network security with advanced threat detection, improved performance, and streamlined management.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of customer experience (CX), businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and foster customer loyalty. The integration of visual service and AI has emerged as a powerful solution, revolutionizing how companies interact with their customers and streamline their operations. Here, we will explore the transformative impact of visual service and AI, drawing insights from real-world examples and highlighting key strategies for

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Call Design

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, storytelling with data is more critical than ever. Numbers alone can feel cold and detached, but data can come alive when combined with a compelling narrative and thoughtful use of colour. To tell a compelling story with your Aspect WFM IDP data, it’s essential to visualise the data effectively. This means creating a straightforward narrative around how your forecasted data compares to actual results.

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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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Ambs Call Center

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Staying in touch with your customers is more important than ever in 2025. Whether you’re sending reminders, promotions, or urgent updates, you need a good mass texting service to get the job done right. But with so many options out there, how do you know which one is best for your business?

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Cisco - Contact Center

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Powered by Cisco Silicon One G200 technology and capable of delivering high-density 800G fabrics, Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches are engineered to meet the demands of next-generation leaf-and-spine… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Connect

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When a team attempts to collaborate on a project, only to be hindered by a slow, unreliable network, the frustration is bound to mount. This is the reality for many internal users grappling with a poor network user experience (NUX). Fortunately, the emergence of AI-driven networks offers a powerful solution that can significantly enhance both NUX and customer experience (CX).

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2024

With the advent of generative AI and machine learning, new opportunities for enhancement became available for different industries and processes. During re:Invent 2023, we launched AWS HealthScribe , a HIPAA eligible service that empowers healthcare software vendors to build their clinical applications to use speech recognition and generative AI to automatically create preliminary clinician documentation.

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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.

Ambs Call Center

OCTOBER 14, 2024

A virtual receptionist is a real person who answers your phone but who isn’t stationed in your facility. They are, in essence, virtually present. But even though you can’t see them sitting there at your front desk, they’re always available to take your calls whenever you need them to.

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Cisco - Contact Center

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Generative AI applications are driving the demand for high-performance networking with AI/ML clusters in cloud provider environments. Cisco is introducing new 800G innovations to address these demands and improve outcomes.

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Select VoiceCom Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Maria Erika Redido and Roselyn Bacsal were recognized as August’s and September’s SVC Titans. It’s truly amazing to see such exceptional talents dedicated to their jobs despite the challenges of their roles. Erika and Rose were honored for their stellar work performance at SVC’s 16th anniversary, Beyond Epic @16, held at the Apex Super Club on September 21, 2024.

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CustomerServ

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The insurance industry, traditionally a brick-and-mortar pillar of financial stability and protection for millions, is changing dramatically. Rising consumer expectations, digital-first experiences, and technology developments are all forcing insurers to reshape and modernize their customer service strategies.

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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.

Customer Experience

Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Discover the top 11 must-have CCaaS features to elevate your contact center's performance. Learn how Enghouse solutions can enhance customer interactions, streamline operations, and boost satisfaction.

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Cisco - Contact Center

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Gain expert insights on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and learn how to access it with Cisco Services as Code. Check out this co-authored blog to learn more.

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Avoxi

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Global Voice for Zoom: Enhancing International Telecom for Zoom Enterprise and Contact Center Customers It’s no secret that Zoom has grown to great heights when it comes to video and now even voice. When reviewing the market for unified communications as a service (UCaaS) and contact center as a service (CCaaS), Zoom is now seen… The post Global Voice for Zoom: Enhancing International Telecom for Zoom Enterprise and Contact Center Customers appeared first on AVOXI.

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C3Centricity

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Executives and business owners of mid-sized CPG companies face a unique set of challenges that differ from those of startups or larger enterprises. These challenges stem from the need to balance growth, operations, and innovation while competing with both larger firms and more agile startups. Here are the top ten challenges mid-sized consumer goods companies face, real-world examples of businesses that have successfully overcome these obstacles, and expanded solutions explaining how to implement

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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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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 15, 2024

We’re excited to announce the release of SageMaker Core , a new Python SDK from Amazon SageMaker designed to offer an object-oriented approach for managing the machine learning (ML) lifecycle. This new SDK streamlines data processing, training, and inference and features resource chaining, intelligent defaults, and enhanced logging capabilities. With SageMaker Core, managing ML workloads on SageMaker becomes simpler and more efficient.

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Cisco - Contact Center

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For a fifth consecutive year, Gartner has recognized Cisco as a Leader in SD-WAN security and performance—we feel the heart of platform-level secure networking.

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Totango

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Key takeaways : Sales leaders should ask potential customers about the outcome they need to achieve to be successful. Starting with an outcome focus makes it easier for sales leads to kick off an entire customer lifecycle, rather than just a quick handoff. An outcome-first approach is the foundation of a customer-led growth motion, where new logos are seeded with the potential for retention, upsell, and expansion.

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