CCNG
JUNE 29, 2022
On a recent episode of CX Passport, Elaine Lee, Managing Director of ReynoldsBusbyLee and I discussed how it takes a real understanding of a real customer to know how to deliver the right customer experience. A key point for Elaine is how companies are undervaluing the contact center and the rich opportunities that exist there to gain customer insights.
Callminer
JUNE 29, 2022
It's important for contact centers to meet customers where they are and on their preferred channels. Read this blog to learn more about omnichannel contact center solutions.
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Cyara
JUNE 27, 2022
This article was originally published on Botium’s blog on February 9, 2021, prior to Cyara’s acquisition of Botium. Learn more about Cyara + Botium. A quick summary of 7 important DOs and DON’Ts when designing a chatbot testing strategy. We are continuously seeing teams ignoring those actually rather simple rules.
ShepHyken
JUNE 29, 2022
If you had to have surgery, would you rather go to the most skilled surgeon or the nicest surgeon? . I was at a party the other night and someone I met shared his opinion of the difference between a good doctor and a great doctor. A good doctor makes you well. A great doctor makes you well and calls you the next day to see how you’re doing. . I thought about that all weekend.
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Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 25, 2022
Breakthrough thinking: Why do we believe things that are not true? There was a car brand several decades ago in the UK called ŠKODA. It was a terrible car, much like Yugo was in the US. However, they have changed their image and today, my son wants to buy one. I told him the jokes we all used to have about ŠKODA and their low-quality construction (What do a ŠKODA and a baby have in common?
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Contact Center Pipeline
JUNE 29, 2022
In October 2021 I read that according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), cigarette sales were up for the first time in twenty years. My initial thought was that this was due to Work from Home (WFH). When I began to look into it, I found that in addition to increased cigarette sales, so were […].
ShepHyken
JULY 1, 2022
This week we feature an article by Prabhjinder Bedi, Chief Growth Officer at Tech Mahindra Business Process Services. He writes about the impact on the customer experience that metaverse will have on the travel industry and how customers and brands will navigate the new developments. Customer service in the travel industry begins when a person reveals an interest to explore and decides to travel.
Totango
JULY 1, 2022
Customer loyalty is a key to repeat business and referral generation for any business model. For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. This blog will look at why customer loyalty is vital for B2B SaaS businesses and how successful companies effectively cultivate it.
TechSee
JULY 1, 2022
The rising cost of diesel and gas are hitting the balance sheets of contractors and corporations around the world. This pain is felt particularly acutely in the field service industry, where transportation costs are often considered unavoidable. This creates a dual pressure on field service leadership, to both reduce demand wherever possible, and improve the efficiency of their performance across every step.
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aircall
JUNE 27, 2022
The connected business phone joins a rare breed of businesses, only 8 years after its creation. One year after reaching a $1bn valuation and six years after its 1st million dollar ARR, Aircall reaches centaur status with $100m ARR ( State of the cloud report 2022 – Bessemer Venture Partners ). Key success factors include: strengthened partnerships, global expansion, acceleration towards mid-market customers, and investing in R&D.
Lumoa
JUNE 30, 2022
If you want people in your organisation to appreciate the value of customer experience, you need to learn how to sell customer experience (CX) to those who are not dealing with it day in and day out. It’s a rather simple idea to understand, but not an easy thing to do in practice. And that’s why CX is an area of business that’s often underappreciated, undervalued, and overlooked.
AWS Machine Learning
JUNE 29, 2022
Large attention-based transformer models have obtained massive gains on natural language processing (NLP). However, training these gigantic networks from scratch requires a tremendous amount of data and compute. For smaller NLP datasets, a simple yet effective strategy is to use a pre-trained transformer, usually trained in an unsupervised fashion on very large datasets, and fine-tune it on the dataset of interest.
JustCall
JUNE 28, 2022
In this pandemic economy, more businesses are now left asking “how to build an SDR team that performs optimally” So, how do you do it? The business world has proven to be volatile and disruptive. Looking back just a few years ago, who could have imagined that remote work would become this popular? Fortunately, many businesses have proven to be ferociously adaptive and accommodating to the ongoing changes in the present economy.
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Spearline
JUNE 28, 2022
For the full live experience click here. Bring visibility to WebRTC applications using monitoring Watch a replay of our live webinar from Wednesday June 15 hosted by Tsahi Levent-Levi, Head of Product at testRTC , author of Bloggeek.me and Shóna O’ Donovan, Senior Customer Engagement Specialist at Spearline. This is part of our WebRTC webinar series.
Hodusoft
JUNE 30, 2022
Advantages of a Business Telephone System for Growing Your Small Business. In the era of fierce digital competition, communication is the key to success for businesses, especially the small ones. Among all the communication channels and methods, the telephone system for business is the quickest and the most preferred medium for businesses. Not only does it prove to be a vital asset for remote teams to effectively communicate with customers, prospects, and each other, but it also contributes to t
AWS Machine Learning
JUNE 29, 2022
RStudio on Amazon SageMaker is the industry’s first fully managed RStudio Workbench in cloud. You can quickly launch the familiar RStudio integrated development environment (IDE), and dial up and down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, making it easy to build machine learning (ML) and analytics solutions in R at scale. RStudio on SageMaker already comes with a built-in image preconfigured with R programming and data science tools; however, you often need to customiz
Netomi
JUNE 27, 2022
Globally, the cost of living is skyrocketing – in the US, inflation hovers near a 40-year high, topping Americans’ concerns for the country, while Canada’s official inflation rate rose at a 6.8% annual pace this past April, a new 31-year high. Prices for everyday necessities – food, shelter and gas – are on the rise, as the COVID-19 pandemic is driving up the costs of raw materials and impacting global supply chains.
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inSided
JUNE 27, 2022
When Ken Aponte first joined CRM software company Copper back in December 2020 as their VP of Customer Success, he noticed one thing: retention wasn’t where it needed to be. One year following the launch of the Copper Community , their community sees steady, linear growth, with retention following the same trend.
MiaRec
JUNE 27, 2022
Last week, my team and I felt really blessed to be able to go to Cisco Live in Las Vegas for the first time in two years — a sentiment that was felt by many of the other conference participants and echoed by Cisco CEO, Chuck Robbins, when he came on stage for the keynote.
AWS Machine Learning
JUNE 29, 2022
With the growth in adoption of online applications and the rising number of internet users, digital fraud is on the rise year over year. Amazon Fraud Detector provides a fully managed service to help you better identify potentially fraudulent online activities using advanced machine learning (ML) techniques, and more than 20 years of fraud detection expertise from Amazon.
Kapta Customer Success
JUNE 27, 2022
As an account management leader, there are a wide variety of responsibilities to manage. Between improving client relationships, growing your business revenue, and prioritizing consumer retention, there is so much more to becoming a successful account manager, or key account manager.
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Playvox
JUNE 28, 2022
During the global pandemic, customers massively turned to digital communications, and, according to consumer studies , this change is here to stay. While presenting a tremendous opportunity for business growth, this trend also creates challenges for contact centers. Customers now expect to do business with an omnichannel contact center that delivers consistent and seamless customer experiences regardless of the channel they use.
delighted
JUNE 30, 2022
This post is a guest contribution by Emma Kimmerly, Partner Marketing Lead at Friendbuy. Every brand loves a happy customer, and knowing that you have recent buyers who love your product enough to give you positive feedback is a great feeling. But your happiest customers can do more than provide validation and direction – they can also become significant revenue drivers for your business through a referral program.
AWS Machine Learning
JUNE 30, 2022
In part 1 of this series, we demonstrated how to resolve an Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URL from a corporate network using Amazon private VPC endpoints without traversing the internet. In this post, we will continue to build on top of the previous solution to demonstrate how to build a private API Gateway via Amazon API Gateway as a proxy interface to generate and access Amazon SageMaker presigned URLs.
Jon Arnold
JUNE 29, 2022
Am back now from last week’s Future of Work Expo in Fort Lauderdale, and from all accounts, it was our best one to date. I’ve been conference Chair for four years running, and we’ve got a really good mix now of familiar companies and ones you don’t know, and I think that reflects how broad the FOW moniker has become. The first two days focused on workplace FOW themes, where we talked as much about HR, soft skills and culture as we did about how technology can support the hybrid work model.
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Totango
JUNE 28, 2022
The primary mission of a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is to foster growth, attract new leads, and increase sales by effectively communicating the value the company’s products and services can provide. But during an economic downturn , when companies are cutting costs and putting a halt on investing in new products, the CMO’s focus has to switch from facilitating growth through new customers to promoting growth via the company’s current customer base. .
JivoChat
JUNE 29, 2022
By doing a C# course, you will be able to learn how to code using this programming language. If you are a developer, that’s the opportunity to expand your knowledge and master one more code, which can help boost your career and stand out in your area. . If you are looking to start your career as a developer, you will find C# courses created for beginners and don’t require experience.
AWS Machine Learning
JUNE 30, 2022
You can access Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks from the Amazon SageMaker console via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authenticated federation from your identity provider (IdP), such as Okta. When a Studio user opens the notebook link, Studio validates the federated user’s IAM policy to authorize access, and generates and resolves the presigned URL for the user.
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