Call Design

JUNE 22, 2020

Contact centre changes are never an easy venture, but it’s crucial to embrace an opportunity for change. While the world is slowly returning to normal after a global pandemic, now is the time to identify how your contact centre can be improved. For some organisations, there may be an influx of calls from customers asking about your services. Your team will need to be ready, so it’s essential to streamline your operations to address the needs of your customers and provide the touchpoi

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Nicereply

JUNE 23, 2020

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

It’s not just great communication skills that make a customer support operator great at their job. 62% of customers say that a representative’s knowledge and resourcefulness play a key role in creating a good experience. That means being consistent at learning and acquiring knowledge can help you shape a customer’s journey better. But, where to start?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 24, 2020

Get ready to do a little math. While not my typical lesson, this is very important. It’s about customer retention—which can lead to customer loyalty. Loyal customers are important to all businesses regardless of industry or size—large, small, B2B or B2C. Most businesses know their numbers, but do they know the right numbers? It’s easy to measure customer satisfaction at different levels.

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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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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption across nearly every line of business, and contact centers are no exception. In times like these, the most pressing matters are keeping your workforce moving forward and your workplace culture healthy. As Chief Operating Officer of Televerde, I lead hundreds of contact center employees across 10 global […].

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GetFeedback

JUNE 24, 2020

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 25, 2020

Regardless of your business, and no matter how hard you try to do the best for them, there will be situations where you have an upset customer who is dissatisfied with your product or service. Day in and day out, we must strive to provide the optimal experience for each customer interaction. But is this realistic? When things don’t go as planned, our customers become upset and we have failed in their eyes.

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Tethr

JUNE 24, 2020

A strong relationship between Employee Experience (EX) and Customer Experience (CX) matters. When they work together, EX can drive CX to success. Developing EX strategies and reevaluating them periodically is as critical as doing so for CX. Customer experience is a customer’s entire journey with your brand. CX all comes down to how a person feels about the experience of interacting with your company.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 20, 2020

General Show Notes: Have you ever driven a long way to a vacation, perhaps with kids in the backseat, and heard the whining query, “are we there yet?” Have you ever wanted to ask that question yourself? It turns out there are good reasons for that. It’s called the Return Trip Effect, and we discuss it on this episode of The Intuitive Customer.

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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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Myra Golden Media

JUNE 23, 2020

I was just on my YouTube channel reading comments. Andrea’s comment made me put down my cup of tea – “I am struggling. Sometimes I get cursed out five or six times back to back. I’m starting to sound like a robot. ” Like many customer service professionals, Andrea is experiencing what I now call the “COVID-19 Effect.” Customers are on edge about their money, whether to wear a mask or not, and from cabin fever.

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 22, 2020

In my recent post, “ 3 Reasons Why We Let Businesses Take Us For Granted ”, I asked these questions, “Do we not value ourselves enough as a customer to expect the best or at least average service? But what about indifferent service? Why is it acceptable? In today’s post, I expand on one of those reasons: “low price shoppers”. Here’s my story…. While shopping, you see a brightly colored cell phone sticking out of the back pocket of an employee or your waiter has a pack of cigarettes in his front

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ShepHyken

JUNE 26, 2020

This week we feature an article by Daryna Lishchynska, a Content Manager at BotsCrew. She shares research and information on how brands can transition their services to online platforms during COVID-19. *This article was previously posted on BotsCrew’s blog. The outbreak of COVID-19 has made a massive impact on most of the businesses – from grocery stores to luxury goods brands.

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CCNG

JUNE 26, 2020

With so much being shared around work-from-home over the past 45 days, we wanted to bring you some insights from our member The Northridge Group, Tina Suthers, senior consultant CX. In this brief video clip Tina focuses on how to support your people during this transition, with some best practices around employee communication, leveraging video tools, the importance of increasing employee engagement and other tips to keep things positive and productive.

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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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Callminer

JUNE 22, 2020

QA metrics refer to the data your company uses to measure performance. Interestingly, QA metrics can vary significantly by industry, since they reflect performance as defined by that industry.

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TechSee

JUNE 23, 2020

Customer experience (CX) is a space where innovative AI applications are being deployed at a rapid rate to deliver effortless, multi-sensory journeys across a range of voice, video and text modalities, apps, and other digital touchpoints. This emerging approach is known as multiexperience (MX). MX gives customers a greater degree of choice over how they interact with a brand.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 23, 2020

The Future of Customer Feedback. How to Get the Most Out of Your Customer Feedback Today and Beyond. Shep Hyken interviews Martha Brooke , founder of Interaction Metrics. They discuss effective strategies to getting useful customer feedback as well as the future of customer feedback. Top Takeaways: In unprecedented, chaotic and uncertain times, customer interactions are more valuable.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 23, 2020

Forbes defines the Net Promoter Score (NPS) as an index used to determine how willing customers are to recommend a brand, product or service. Most brands rely on software developers, such as Zendesk, to create this poll. The answers create a popular metric used to evaluate the customer experience. Customers rank the probability of their […].

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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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Callminer

JUNE 24, 2020

Learn what makes customer analytics so powerful in providing actionable developmental insights to growing companies.

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Aspect

JUNE 23, 2020

In the post-COVID-19 era, how can your workforce management team plan for use of your contact center facilities to meet all applicable state safety restrictions, provide confidence to staff who may be reluctant to return to a facility, while at the same time provide records of employee workspace assignments for each moment over time to assist in contact tracing if that becomes a necessity?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 22, 2020

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. What do Gen Z shoppers really want? by Mike Roberts. (Retail Customer Experience) Mike Roberts, chief creative officer at Green Room Design, a brand and retail consultancy, maps out what Gen Z consumers are all about and the experience design innovations that connect

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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 24, 2020

Assessment tools have been an industry standard in human resources management for a while. At times, this may feel cold and very corporate, as one of the beauties of Homo sapiens is that we’re all very unique and also different. Whether it’s personality assessments, skills assessments, or Google’s famous gauntlet of intelligence tests, as managers, […].

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Cyara

JUNE 26, 2020

I’m so excited to share that Cyara is included in the just published report: The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Functional Test Automation Suites, Q2 2020. As Diego Lo Giudice wrote in his blog on this Wave, “…being among the top 15 players in the market in a Forrester Wave™ evaluation is always a win. Why? Because the vendors are being compared with a peer group of test automation vendors that form, based on Forrester’s research, the top 15 performers among all.”.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 24, 2020

As a manager, you own 70% of your employees’ engagement at work. . Your agents show up each day, plop down in their seats in the office or at home, and immediately start helping customers. And it’s up to you, manager, to keep them engaged in their role. To help them progress their careers. And, to motivate them to keep doing better for your customers.

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The Call Center School

JUNE 25, 2020

As a follow-up to our first e-book, The Call Center School has a new guide: " How to Make Your Own Quick & Easy E-Learning." This beginner's guide gives you step-by-step instructions to create a basic e-learning video. If you need to create custom e-learning within the constraints of time, resources, or budget, then this guide is for you. You don't need special software or knowledge to follow the instructions.

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Alorica

JUNE 22, 2020

Post-pandemic plans for digital transformation should include omnichannel communications, automation, and agent-assisted AI models. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby talked with Colson Hillier, the CMO at Alorica, provider of Business Process and Customer Satisfaction Outsourcing solutions, about digital transformation projects in the post COVID-19 era. The following is an edited transcript of their.

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Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.

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Guru

JUNE 25, 2020

When CX is all hands on deck. Picture this — the Support Manager for a food delivery company wakes up, phone flooded with Slack notifications. Overnight, her entire support team was eliminated: their offshore BPO had shut down due to COVID-19, and none of the agents were equipped to work from home. Meanwhile, support requests came rushing in, as shelter in place orders took hold, food delivery demand shot up at an unprecedented scale, restaurants scrambled to shift their operations to keep up, a

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Talkdesk

JUNE 24, 2020

Now that you have successfully onboarded your agents and deployed an effective development strategy , it’s time to think about the final — and some would say the most important — step. You’ve invested time and resources turning your tenured agents into highly effective customer service professionals. You need to protect that investment by retaining them long term with the right strategy to keep them engaged, happy and highly productive.

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pindrop

JUNE 23, 2020

Fraudulent activity in the IVR has become a tool for more sophisticated fraudsters and scammers to gain sensitive data that puts contact centers and financial institutions at risk. . Fraudsters often use IVR systems to mine and validate information, which they subsequently leverage to commit fraud at various other touchpoints downstream. As fraud tactics evolve to adapt to the changing landscape in which businesses are operating, sophisticated technology solutions can help contact centers proa

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