Cyara

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the world of customer service, you could argue that nothing matters more than efficiency. According to a survey by Genesys , 54% of customers say resolving their issue on the first try is the most important service outcome, while 50% say getting a fast response is their top priority. More respondents chose those two outcomes than any other, including friendly service, knowledgeable agents, and brand trustworthiness.

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Tethr

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated quality management frees up time for contact center managers and improves agent coaching.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Are you struggling to boost customer satisfaction, enhance agent efficiency, or increase lead generation in your contact center? So, as a call center owner, manager or supervisors how do you tackle these difficult challenges and improving the overall performance within your contact center? The key to achieving these goals lies in implementing strategic call center campaigns.

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Nicereply

JANUARY 17, 2024

In today’s hyper-connected world, where customers wield more power than ever before, businesses face an unrelenting challenge: customer complaints. Did you know that, on average, dissatisfied customers will share their negative experiences with 9-15 people ? That’s a remarkable ripple effect that no company can afford to ignore. Handling customer complaints effectively is not merely customer service; it’s the foundation of building lasting customer relationships and fostering b

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A high-quality customer experience creates loyal customers for years to come and makes for an easy win against businesses that are competing on other factors like price and quality. We partnered with ContactBabel to uncover the biggest hurdles businesses face when trying to improve CX and offer practical suggestions to overcome them.

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Comm100

JANUARY 17, 2024

Lean into Automation – Transforming Customer Service with AI & Human-Bot Harmony In a world where immediacy and personalization have become the cornerstones of brand communication, the realm of customer service is undergoing a revolutionary transformation. This transformation is rooted deeply in the integration of advanced automation and artificial intelligence.

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Vistio

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we’ve entered 2024, let's analyze how starting, stopping, and keeping particular practices can reshape the customer service industry. It is a lens that we can use to understand how these principles are changing the customer service landscape.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 15, 2024

When customers shop in physical stores, they might have several questions about a product: Is it available in a different size? What’s the warranty? If there is no one to answer their questions, there’s a good chance they’ll walk out of the store. The scenario is now much the same for online customers who increasingly expect a seamless, personalized experience.

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 17, 2024

Revolutionizing Customer Engagement: The Power of UCaaS Contact Center Software The term ‘UCaaS’ has been in the modern telephony lexicon for quite some time now. It’s the acronym for Unified Communications as a Service. Even though it’s a recent technological innovation, its origins can be traced back to the late 1880s, i.e. the days of the telegraph.

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Vistio

JANUARY 17, 2024

While customer journey mapping is a strategic investment for contact center management, what factors should you consider before committing resources to the project?

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Workforce challenges are accelerating, and leaders must be prepared. According to Gartner, “Executives today face a volatile business environment, sustained talent shortages, rapid technological advancements and intense change fatigue in the workforce.” 1 In 9 Future of Work Trends for 2025, Gartner reveals nine critical workforce trends that will define 2025 – from AI’s impact on productivity to evolving leadership roles and talent shortages.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 19, 2024

We want to hear from you. Simply record a video with your thoughts, ideas, reactions, lists, or whatever else you have to offer, and we might discuss it on the podcast. It’s called None of Us Are As Clever As All Of Us. To learn more, click here. Justin Stafford ( justin@customersmarts.co ), founder of a Customer Smarts shared how sports can teach us how to improve your Customer Experience.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 15, 2024

Top Takeaways: Shep’s Comment: Some may not see this as a customer service or CX interview. I beg to differ. This is about the performance of your people. If they are on the frontline, dealing with customers, you want an elite performer, not just a competent performer. I know you will enjoy this episode! Elite performance in business and sports involves an emphasis on mindset mastery and deliberate practice.

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Callminer

JANUARY 18, 2024

When you understand what’s affecting brand sentiment positively, you can work toward honing in on those features for continued improvement. Read more in this blog.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 14, 2024

We have big time news for CX Accelerator! We've been on the path to establish the organization as a non-profit to help amplify our mission of equipping CX professionals on every stage of their career journey. A HUGE piece in this puzzle is the creation of our Board of Directors. Please join me in welcoming Matt Lyles , Juanita Coley , Jim Rich , Sally Mildren and Justin Robbins who have graciously offered to serve in this way.

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As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 16, 2024

OpenAI Whisper is an advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR) model with an MIT license. ASR technology finds utility in transcription services, voice assistants, and enhancing accessibility for individuals with hearing impairments. This state-of-the-art model is trained on a vast and diverse dataset of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 14, 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. Consumer Trust Languishes at 2016 Levels by MarTech Cube (MarTech Cube) Consumers’ trust in the organizations they do business with has not recovered from its pandemic decline.

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Callminer

JANUARY 14, 2024

Financial services teams must maintain sky-high CX and EX standards in 2024, despite major challenges. Explore the top four 2024 financial services CX trends.

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HelpCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2024

When you’re building a website, adding some catchy content might not be enough. Think about the most important asset your business has: customers. Every time they land on your website, they’ll have questions to ask. [ … ] The post 11 Best WordPress Live Chat Plugins to Use in 2024 appeared first on The HelpCrunch blog.

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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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AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 17, 2024

Geospatial data is data about specific locations on the earth’s surface. It can represent a geographical area as a whole or it can represent an event associated with a geographical area. Analysis of geospatial data is sought after in a few industries. It involves understanding where the data exists from a spatial perspective and why it exists there.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 14, 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. Consumer Trust Languishes at 2016 Levels by MarTech Cube (MarTech Cube) Consumers’ trust in the organizations they do business with has not recovered from its pandemic decline.

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VirtualPBX

JANUARY 17, 2024

Over the holidays, we unveiled our latest game-changing feature — Add-Ons. These power-packed enhancements seamlessly integrate with the VirtualPBX platform, offering users unparalleled flexibility and convenience. With the Starter, Flex, Pro, and Premier plans, admins can enable Add-Ons directly from the dashboard, providing a hassle-free and user-friendly experience.

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ConvergeOne

JANUARY 16, 2024

There’s nothing like a chatbot that can’t answer your questions or listening to endless on-hold music to wait for a customer service representative. These scenarios, however, are reflective of today’s customer service environment.

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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.

AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 19, 2024

In this post, we demonstrate how to use neural architecture search (NAS) based structural pruning to compress a fine-tuned BERT model to improve model performance and reduce inference times. Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are undergoing rapid commercial and enterprise adoption in the areas of productivity tools, customer service, search and recommendations, business process automation, and content creation.

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MiaRec

JANUARY 15, 2024

You receive hundreds if not thousands of calls every day. But do you know what your customers are calling about? Since the introduction of Voice Analytics in 2021, MiaRec has been at the forefront of using Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and Machine Learning to turn the massive amounts of raw data a contact center produces every day into valuable insights.

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AnswerConnect

JANUARY 16, 2024

Check out these actionable tips to earn customer loyalty, increase repeat purchases, and encourage long-term growth for your small business. The post Building trust with your customers: Essential steps for small business success appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.

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Real Blue Sky

JANUARY 19, 2024

Kudos to Embrace Texas for hosting another fantastic “Santa’s Little Helper” event! The evening at Chase Oaks Church – Legacy Campus in Plano, TX, was a hit, bringing smiles to over 160 children from foster, adoptive, and kinship-care families. As supporters of Embrace Texas, we at Real Blue Sky were thrilled to see such joy and excitement.

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Discover a new approach to reducing contact center attrition with our in-depth eBook. After analyzing 20+ academic studies, we highlight overlooked causes like lack of leadership trust, emotional labor, and job shock, and introduce the Attrition Velocity metric to better understand attrition's real cost. Our guide doesn't stop at diagnosis; it offers actionable strategies and tools to address these issues head-on.

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SQM Group

JANUARY 18, 2024

Despite its promising potential monumental advancement, gaining customer trust in AI is a considerable challenge that needs to be addressed.

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Cisco - Contact Center

JANUARY 17, 2024

How can Ansible help people building simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CML)?

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COPC

JANUARY 15, 2024

COPC Inc. has partnered with Centrical to bring you the Improving Contact Center Retention Series, where we explore how organizations can reduce early attrition. This second installment of the series will offer insights into onboarding best practices for new employees.  We will focus on the importance of the first 90 days, reasons new hires leave during this period, and tips to increase the likelihood of a new hire becoming a long-time employee.

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