Callminer

MAY 23, 2023

Companies that want to improve customer service in the call center may not know where to begin, so we've created a list of 25 tips from call center experts.

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CCNG

MAY 24, 2023

CCNG member Dan Smitley shares his thoughts on what we’re going to do once the bots take over the world. A bit of a hyperbole but it’s a great starting point for a very timely conversation. Dan talks about how contact centers are changing and how technology is playing a major role in this transformation. He discussed the use of bots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies that are revolutionizing the industry.

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COPC

MAY 23, 2023

Most contact centers recognize the importance of team leaders. However, the team leader role is also one of the most overlooked from a skills development perspective. This article uses insights from the following research to reveal the quantifiable impact of contact center team leaders on employee satisfaction, retention and performance. COPC Inc. US Employee Engagement Research Report COPC Inc.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 20, 2023

Journey Maps can be useless exercises. That’s right…we said it. However, these often-used tools don’t have to be as useless as they usually are. Journey Maps are only useless if you don’t include the customer’s emotional journey in them. Emotional journeys are the “squishy stuff” associated with why customers buy from you.

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ShepHyken

MAY 24, 2023

You’ve probably experienced this. No matter how hard you try to please some customers, they aren’t happy. It’s frustrating, but at the same time, it’s reality. And speaking of reality, no matter how good you are at creating an amazing customer experience, the customer’s perception counts. Their perception is their reality. I once went to an amazing restaurant – at least, I was told it was amazing.

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Fonolo

MAY 23, 2023

Customer service is all about meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Contact center managers know this implicitly. But did you know that hyper-personalization in the contact center is one of the best ways to delight your customers? It’s true! Customers want to feel seen. Deloitte reports that 90% of people are attracted to hyper-personalized advertising content, and customers are quickly coming to expect it.

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Bill Quiseng

MAY 24, 2023

A wife walks into the living room where her husband is reading. She leans over and whispers “I love you.” Nothing. She repeats louder, “I love you.” Complete silence. She stares at him and asks, “I say I love you a LOT to you. You NEVER say I love you back. Why is that?” Her husband turns to her and declares, “Look, I told you I loved you when we got married.

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Tethr

MAY 24, 2023

These four strategies are the keys to building customer loyalty for any type of business here in the digital age. Read more.

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Global Response

MAY 22, 2023

Who first comes to mind when you consider the most valuable voices in your business? Perhaps you think of the CEO or COO, or other C-Suite leadership. Perhaps it’s a particularly effective visionary among your management staff. Perhaps you consider your on-the-ground employees the foundation of your vision. But what about your customers? How valuable are their voices to your business?

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 25, 2023

Journey Mapping is an excellent tool in experience design efforts. However, I often complain that they do not include the emotional journey, which is essential to designing an experience that engages emotionally with customers in a way that promotes customer loyalty. So, today, we will look at how you can incorporate the concepts we often talk about in this newsletter into your Journey Mapping efforts.

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ShepHyken

MAY 22, 2023

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 comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. To Drive Customer Retention, Don’t Neglect Culture by David Ducharme and Nick Furman (Gallup) Neglecting culture affects your teams and your customers.

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Avoxi

MAY 26, 2023

Discover the key differences between inbound and outbound call centers in this guide.

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ClearAction

MAY 25, 2023

Growth via Massive Customer Experience Savings Lynn Hunsaker Customer experience savings are NOT about automation or slashing value to customers! That’s a recipe toward many unexpected costs. Whenever you think about savings, think about value expansion. Your enterprise goals are to continually increase value to investors, so by definition, you must continually increase value to customers.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 22, 2023

Generative AI is in the midst of a period of stunning growth. Increasingly capable foundation models are being released continuously, with large language models (LLMs) being one of the most visible model classes. LLMs are models composed of billions of parameters trained on extensive corpora of text, up to hundreds of billions or even a trillion tokens.

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ShepHyken

MAY 26, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Zsuzsa Kecsmar, CMO and Head of Partnerships of Antavo , a software company that manages brand loyalty and retention programs. She writes about next-generation loyalty programs and how they can enhance customer experience. In an ever-evolving marketplace, traditional loyalty programs are facing increasing challenges in capturing and retaining customer attention.

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SQM Group

MAY 25, 2023

Agent self-coaching creates ownership for improving agent performance. The more agents turn to themselves for the answers, the more self-confident they become.

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MiaRec

MAY 23, 2023

Considering that 83% of companies have already experienced more than one data breach, it is more than likely that your contact center is next. In fact, cybercriminals often target contact centers first.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 23, 2023

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and simple-to-use intelligent search service powered by machine learning (ML). Amazon Kendra offers a suite of data source connectors to simplify the process of ingesting and indexing your content, wherever it resides. Valuable data in organizations is stored in both structured and unstructured repositories. An enterprise search solution should be able to pull together data across several structured and unstructured repositories to index and search on.

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ShepHyken

MAY 22, 2023

Top Takeaways: There has been significant progress in artificial intelligence (AI), like chatbots and ChatGPT capabilities. This has always been seen as high-potential technology, but in the last few months, it has been used in a more demonstrative way to address challenges faced by contact centers, especially in the post-pandemic environment. Generative AI and other forms of self-service provide a win-win solution for organizations and customers.

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NobelBiz

MAY 25, 2023

Are you looking to optimize your call center’s efficiency and streamline your business’s data management process? If so, it’s crucial to find the right call center software vendor that integrates with a customer data platform (CDP). But with so many options available, how do you choose the right one? In this article, we’ll explore how to evaluate call center software vendors for CDP solutions and the essential features to look for.

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MiaRec

MAY 26, 2023

If your customers are not responding to post-call surveys, how will you know how they feel about your contact center? Understanding your Voice of the Customer (VoC) is essential to improving contact center operations.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 23, 2023

The seeds of a machine learning (ML) paradigm shift have existed for decades, but with the ready availability of virtually infinite compute capacity, a massive proliferation of data, and the rapid advancement of ML technologies, customers across industries are rapidly adopting and using ML technologies to transform their businesses. Just recently, generative AI applications have captured everyone’s attention and imagination.

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VirtualPBX

MAY 24, 2023

In today’s digital age, businesses are constantly striving to provide the best customer experience while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. One essential aspect of customer satisfaction and compliance is offering a simple and efficient method for customers to opt out of receiving further communications. The “Text STOP to Opt-Out” method is not a choice but a necessity to fulfill TCPA requirements.

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ChurnZero

MAY 25, 2023

Customer renewals are the lifeblood of a subscription business. Responsibility for renewals often falls to the Customer Success (CS) team. For example, survey research shows about half (50.2%) of all CS teams surveyed are directly responsible for customer renewals. It doesn’t end there either. While renewals are a central aspect of CS work, many Customer Success Managers (CSMs) have a mandate for upsells.

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Method:CRM

MAY 23, 2023

Everyone knows that sending invoices is crucial to getting paid for your products or services. So there’s nothing more frustrating than doing everything right in the invoicing process but still having to wait forever for payments. But here’s what many businesses don’t realize. When you send a generic invoice with nothing on it but the total amount due, you miss out on your full revenue potential.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 25, 2023

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and intelligent search service that enables users to search unstructured and structured data using natural language processing (NLP) and advanced search algorithms. With Amazon Kendra, you can find relevant answers to your questions quickly, without sifting through documents. However, just enabling end-users to get the answers to their queries is not enough in today’s world.

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AnswerConnect

MAY 23, 2023

Discover common mistakes to avoid and tips for creating job satisfaction in remote teams, plus helpful tools and resources. The post The importance of culture for remote teams and how to cultivate it appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 24, 2023

Cisco Learning and Certifications organization has been dedicated to our learners, partners, and customers, transforming their careers and businesses for almost 30 years.

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