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6 Things Contact Center Agents Are Too Afraid to Tell Their Managers

Fonolo

Lots of conversations happen daily at your contact center. But do you know what’s being left unsaid? An open, communicative work environment is the key to a healthy and vibrant work culture. Saying you have an open-door work policy is easy; making sure that your contact center agents feel comfortable voicing their concerns to management is much more challenging.

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Differentiate Your Brand Through Proactive Customer Service

Contact Center Pipeline

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5 Strategies for CX Excellence

PeopleMetrics

After writing my book, Listen or Die , which outlined 40 lessons that turns customer feedback into gold, I often got the question: "what are the small handful of strategies that provide the biggest impact or provide the most insight on driving CX excellence?". Here they are! Measuring the customer and employee experience is a continuous process, not an event.

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4 Ways to Reduce Agent Turnover in Your Contact Centre

Call Design

One of the most significant challenges that contact centres face is an incredibly high rate of agent turnover, creating a cyclical problem where the Learning and Development team is continuously training new agents for them only to stay with the company for a couple of months. This can be expensive. In this blog, we have four strategies for contact centres that are hoping to retain their agents and reduce turnover.

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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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Would You Fight to Make Your Customers Happy?

ShepHyken

These are the kind of people—and the kind of company—you want to do business with. First, a little background. I was having a conversation with a colleague and came up with the idea that you shouldn’t have to fight with a company to get your problem resolved or for them to make you happy. They should want to make you happy. Just a couple days later I saw this idea in action, but with a twist.

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Guest Post: How to Attract New Business During COVID-19

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Derek Goodman, entrepreneur and creator of Inbizability. He shares some tips on how to gain new customers during difficult economic situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Just a few months ago, your business was as busy as ever. But now, with offices closed and business forced online due to COVID-19, many companies have watched work dry up.

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The Big Mistake People Make with AI

Beyond Philosophy

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Truth in Teamwork: How cross-functional collaboration drives remote resolutions

TechSee

Many enterprises struggle to deliver excellent customer care and suffer from a range of operational inefficiencies due to a lack of inter-departmental communication and cross-functional collaboration. Their agents and technicians are effectively siloed. A rep may promise a customer next-day service but then field service cannot provide a technician.

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24 Marketers, CX Experts & Analytics Pros Reveal the Most Creative Uses of Predictive Analytics to Improve the Customer Experience

Callminer

Marketers, analytics pros, and CX experts named these the most innovative ways companies are leveraging predictive analytics to improve customer experience.

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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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That Bride’s a B*tch

Steve DiGioia

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard those words from one of my wedding coordinators. “She’s so high maintenance”, “She’s nasty”, “She calls me a million times a day, I can’t take it anymore”, or the obvious one – “She keeps telling me everything must be perfect. “That bride’s a b*tch!

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The Big Mistake People Make With Artificial Intelligence

Beyond Philosophy

The Big Mistake People Make with AI. Business leaders of today have to understand the technology of tomorrow. Specifically, one would be wise to understand what AI is, how it works, and what problems it can solve for your business. This episode of The Intuitive Customer is a conversation with Bikram Ghosh, associate professor of marketing at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, Tucson about AI in business today and what is possible for your business processes.

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COVID-19 Impact: Recalibrating Human & AI Roles in the Contact Center, Part 1

Contact Center Pipeline

As the global economy gradually reopens under evolving guidance and safety protocols for companies, employees and customers, business leaders are contemplating a vastly altered vision of the future of work from just a few months ago. For many service and support operations, the sudden impact of COVID-19 exposed critical flaws and vulnerabilities in processes and […].

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5 Benefits Of An API Integration In Your Contact Center

Callminer

Contact centers often utilize APIs to create an agent dashboard that combines sales and service information in one central location, introducing gamification initiatives.

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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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Customer Care Versus Gossip – Tip #8

Steve DiGioia

The other day I heard some people complaining about poor customer service. Each shared their complaints about a past shopping trip that irked them enough to commit the story to memory (those are the worst kinds). One person complained that the store’s workers spent too much time talking to each other and seemed to not care that she was waiting in line.

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Bridging the Gap Between Product and CX

GetFeedback

Three ways for CX and Product teams to work better together in optimizing the customer experience.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of July 20, 2020

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of 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. 5 Customer Experience Trends Thet COVID-19 Is Only Accelerating by Stephen Fioretti. (SmarterCX) The current pandemic is a clear example of a disruption that, in many cases, is accelerating trends that were already happening.

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What is Customer Value?

Callminer

This article helps define customer value, its importance within any growing organization and how to enhance the value it offers those it serves.

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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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Healthcare Contact Centers: Readiness ROI and What’s Next

Contact Center Pipeline

WFH… work from home. Everyone knows this acronym by now. Just about everywhere you look, people are “working from home.” Yet, this is not the way it was intended to happen! While many folks at all levels in all industries are working from home, this article focuses on contact center agents within healthcare environments moved […].

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Five trends to adopt Post-Covid

Peter Lavers

Peter Lavers recently participated in a Customer Attuned online panel discussion on “adapting to the new normal” He summarised the session with an outline of five trends that need to be addressed in our board rooms and ops planning meetings: Data & insight driven – have you noticed how “the data” and “the science” have come to the forefront during the pandemic?

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5 Low-Budget Ways to Improve Customer Experience in 2020

Guru

Providing great customer experience is vital in our modern world. A recent survey found that 66% of consumers rate experiences over price when they make a purchasing decision. Now is the time to look at the customer experience you provide and determine how you can spruce it up — even if you are on a tight budget.

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Termination Letter Examples for Call Centers & Customer Service Pros

Callminer

This article will go over a few key elements of a well-drafted termination and touch on the primary types of termination letters that exist.

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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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How to Give Feedback to Remote Agents

UJET

Every agent on your team can use feedback to improve, increase efficiency, and learn how to move into specialized customer service roles. Sometimes, it can be difficult for agents to always know where they can improve their skills and supervisors should be offering feedback and building growth plans for agents. But how can you give feedback to agents in the best way possible?

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Create a Code of Conduct Incident Line with Node.js

Nexmo

Having a Code of Conduct as a community organizer is only one part of the story—having well-thought-out ways to report and respond to bad behavior is also vital. At events I’ve run in the past, a phone number has been one way provided to attendees—they can either call or text the number and it forwards on to several organizers who have the responsibility to be available to deal with any issues.

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How to Succeed in Leadership, Marketing, Innovation and Insight

C3Centricity

Although I love quotes, especially about how to succeed, I love success even more. Do you? One of my favourite quotes on the topic of success comes from Winston Churchill during his address to the Harrow School (UK) during WWII in 1941. It was one of his shortest speeches but probably one of his most quoted. He said: “Never give in, never, never, never, never” If you are interested, you can read his full speech – which is not a lot longer!

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Why you need to personalize the employee experience

TELUS International

Attracting, engaging and retaining top talent is a key priority for most brands. Discover how you can better personalize the employee experience.

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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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SpendHQ's Focus on CX Hastened the Sales Process by 20% with GetFeedback

GetFeedback

Discover how SpendHQ uses GetFeedback to automate key interactions and aggregate feedback throughout the customer journey. Learn how the company creates a great customer experience to drive value for its customers from start to finish.

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What you need to know about internal customer service

Toister Performance Solutions

"I won't give you that report." The report tracked the percentage of successful credit card offers made by each sales rep in our contact center. The initiative was created by the marketing department, and a marketing manager controlled access to the report. This was more than twenty years ago, when large reports were printed and distributed as physical copies.

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The Upside Of Customer Experience Improvement In A Down Economy

McorpCX

There's not a lot of upbeat coverage in the media today. COVID-19 statistics and related trends, business closures, social distancing woes, stock market gyrations — it feels like so much is out of our control.