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Best Practices in Social Callback – Use Cases

VHT

How fast can prospects or customers with questions get from your social media page to a customer support agent? If the answer isn’t, “with one click,” you’re not getting as much as you could be out of your social media presence or your call center. Fortunately, social callback makes the transition from a social media channel to voice channel as seamless as possible.

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How to Elevate Your Customer and Agent Experience

Contact Center Pipeline

The contact center world is getting increasingly more complex. New technologies and communication channels are coming out every year, and customers’ and employees’ expectations are growing as fast. It can be challenging to keep pace and keep everyone happy. Now might be a good time to reevaluate the tools that you are using at your […].

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4 Best Practices To Incorporate Wellness In Your Workplace

Customer Service Life

This post was originally published on CallCenter Weekly. In the contact center community, we understand the true value of a happy customer. We’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that we leave our customer satisfied. But – let’s consider this for a moment: In order to take the best care of others, we must first take the best care of ourselves.

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20 Call Center Pros Share the Most Undervalued Call Center Metrics and How To Better Leverage Them

Callminer

From essentials like average handle time to broader metrics such as call center service levels , there are dozens of metrics that call center leaders and QA teams must stay on top of, and they all provide visibility into some aspect of performance. Given the sheer number of metrics and KPIs that call centers could track, it’s no surprise that some metrics tend to go overlooked.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Are You Using This Powerful Sales Technique?

Beyond Philosophy

We all want to sell more. So how do we do this? A powerful sales technique exists that can help. The best sales organizations use it well; the worst, not so much. It is based on a psychological concept called reciprocity, and it might be what you need to get (or keep) your foot in the door. We discussed reciprocity in our recent podcast episode. Reciprocity is a concept in psychology that describes how people respond to a positive act with another one in return.

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Penny Reynolds Leads Seminar on Supervisor Performance with Call Center Coach

CX Global Media

There are people in the contact center industry that have more than persevered, they have thrived and positively impacted thousands of people along the way. Penny Reynolds, co-founder of The Call Center School, is one of those people in the contact center industry. Join her as she leads a seminar with Call Center Coach titled: How Do Your Call Center Supervisors Measure Up ?

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20 call center pros share the most undervalued call center metrics and how to better leverage them

Callminer

We asked 20 call center pros to share the most undervalued call center metrics. If you want to improve agent performance, check out their responses to find out if you’re overlooking important KPIs.

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How To Make Your Experience Convienent

Beyond Philosophy

What are the six strategies for making your experience convenient? Colin and Ryan interview Shep Hyken, Customer Service and Experience expert about his latest book “ The Convenience Revolution ‘ Shep reveals these strategies. The post How To Make Your Experience Convienent appeared first on.

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Amazing Business Radio: Sean McDade

ShepHyken

Listen To Your Customers… Or Die. How to Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold. Shep Hyken sits down with Sean McDade. They discussed how to create a consistent customer experience, why you should listen to your customers (and what to do with what they tell you), and how you can create a customer-centric organization. Top Takeaways: Sean defines being customer-centric as, “Consistently listening to customers and empowering your organization to take what customers are saying and do something about it.

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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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The 9 Best Ways to Win Back an Upset Customer

Steve DiGioia

when you have a love of service, it's not that hard to do. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Many service providers have lost sight of what really matters. It’s not the ROI, the seamless journey between touchpoints, or even the capacity to personalize the product or service we offer. It’s the ability to sustain relationships that will enable long-term viability and growth.

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4 Best Practices To Incorporate Wellness In Your Contact Center

Call Center Weekly

In the contact center community, we understand the true value of a happy customer. We’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that we leave our customer satisfied. But, let’s consider this for a moment: In order to take the best care of others, we must first take the best care of ourselves. Do you agree with the above statement? If we’re not taking care of ourselves, how the heck are we supposed to truly care for our customers?

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Announcing Medallia Partnership to Empower Voice of the Customer Insights

Callminer

CallMiner announced a partnership with Medallia, the leader in Customer Experience Management cloud technology.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of October 8, 2018

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. 10 Examples Of Amazing Customer Service Departments For Customer Service Week by Blake Morgan. (Forbes) These companies make customer service a crucial part of their culture, and it shows with rave reviews and happy customers.

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Gartner® Research: Boost Customer Service Performance with Smart Coaching Tools

Preparing for impactful coaching sessions shouldn't be a bottleneck to success. "Innovation Insight: Coaching Tech to Boost Customer Service Performance" from Gartner shows practical ways to turn this around. In the research, Gartner found that “customer service and support supervisors, who are responsible for coaching, often lack availability and only spend an average of 30% of their time on it.” 1 We believe this valuable resource offers an objective look at how technology can facilitate more

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Level Up Your VoC Program

CX Accelerator

Breaking free from survey mentality with unstructured customer feedback. It’s hard to say exactly when or how it happened, but the phrase “Voice of the Customer” (VoC) has become nearly synonymous with survey process. When we consider today’s customer, and the methods by which they exercise their voice, we can do so much more. Consumers are not as likely to fill out surveys as they once were.

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Millennial Generation Customer Service – The Ultimate Guide

TechSee

A day in the life of a Millennial. Ashley rolls over, checks her Fitbit Ionic to see the quality of REM sleep she experienced last night, and reaches for her iPhone to scan her messaging apps and social networks. She tweets about her sleep quality and messages her roommate that her share of the rent has been paid with Venmo. On her way out, she checks with Alexa whether her shoes have been shipped by Amazon, grabs her ear buds, sets her smart home security system, and rides her electric scooter

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Get Your First 100 Customers Faster with Live Chat

ProProfs Blog

First 100 customers. Sounds like an easy target? But, is it so? According to a study by Bureau of Labor Statistics , only 4% startups make it to the second year, 3% to the third year; 9% crawl upto fourth year and only 3% cross their wooden year (fifth anniversary). The above-mentioned statistics indicate that completing the target of 100 customers is a tough task for most of the startups.

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QA in an Omnichannel World

Contact Center Pipeline

Customers expect choices when they need to reach out for service or support. They want to interact with brands via their preferred channel, be it voice, text, chat, social media or email. Companies generally are doing their best to accommodate customers’ access demands by adding more digital channels to their lineup. However, in the rush […].

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The State of Digital Customer Experience Report 2024

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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How to deliver exceptional Digital Customer Experience?

Customer Guru

Before we begin our discussion into digital customer experience and how it must be improved, we must first understand what it is to be digital. In today’s world, the word digital has various meaning. While for some, digital is a new way of doing business, for others, it is an innovative way of catering to their audience, while still others believe that it is being connected to everyone at all times.

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What is a Deal Desk and How Can it Improve Sales Efficiency?

aircall

If there’s one word fast-growing companies need to consider above all else, it’s “ fit.”. Which use cases match your product best? Who does your product aim to help in the short term? What types of customers do you want to attract in the long term? Attracting ideal customers isn’t a task for a single department. Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Marketing all need to think about what types of customers they want to engage.

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Taylor Reach to assist global currency leader in acquiring new telephony for contact centers

Taylor Reach Group

Taylor Reach assists currency investment firm in acquiring new telephony platform. The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., announces a new telephony project for a world leader in international currency exchange. Working with individual and corporate investors, as well as handling foreign exchange transactions for businesses, creates a highly demanding customer experience environment.

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Effective Customer Service Strategies from the World’s Biggest Brands

Fonolo

The rise of digital commerce and the growth of social media have given consumers powerful tools to share their thoughts and feedback with brands. The ability for customers to tout their distinct opinions with far-reaching audiences is a new phenomenon that has shifted the way brands must think and operate. Excellent customer service must become a central component of companies’ strategies if they hope to survive and thrive in this digital age.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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20 Strategies for Creating a Seamless Customer Service Experience

Relay Blog

The first goal of customer service is to make a customer’s experience with your business. The post 20 Strategies for Creating a Seamless Customer Service Experience appeared first on Relay.

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Trends in Healthcare… Some May Surprise You

Contact Center Pipeline

In June, I attended the Healthcare Call Center Times Conference in Pittsburgh. It is always a well-attended event with great speakers and attendees of the highest caliber. As evidenced by the conference, healthcare is among the fastest-growing contact center verticals in the market. All the major vendors are in hot pursuit! Many of today’s healthcare […].

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Customer Self-Service and the Role of Cloud Contact Centers

Win the Customer

The customer service landscape is changing, with technology allowing customer service to shift from call centers and direct contact solutions to self-service technology. . “Customers have begun to use, and in some cases even prefer, non-agented interactions,” says Ian Jacobs, principal analyst at Forrester. “They use knowledge bases, FAQs, mobile customer self-service, chatbots and peer-to-peer communities in increasing numbers.”.

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[Infographic] Leverage an emerging workforce for call center talent

Liveops

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt. To attract top talent, you need to think like top talent. Call center leaders are under ever-increasing pressure to attract and retain top talent, yet a relatively simple solution is available. It comes down to recognizing that the same old limited approach to sourcing talent, then expecting your new hires to come to your bricks and mortar just doesn’t work that well.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Why You Should Keep Your Head in the Clouds

Aspect

It’s become obvious that cloud solutions are no longer just an element of the future. Many organizations are realizing that with its maturity the potential drawbacks have disappeared. Security is robust, integration with third-party solutions is seamless and reliability is a given. Gartner recently forecasted global public-cloud revenue will grow by over 21 percent this year. .

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Introducing the Customer-Powered Enterprise—A New Model For Unlocking Growth Through Your Customers

Influitive

It’s been five years since Influitive published the Advocate Marketing Playbook. Since then, it’s been downloaded over 5,700 times. Hundreds of companies followed those proven plays to achieve success in developing powerful advocate programs. But another interesting evolution happened. We witnessed amazing creativity and innovation as individuals at these companies took the principles of advocate.

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UK Customer Experience Award Goes to Concentrix

Concentrix

Transitioning Client to Social Media Powerhouse Wembley, UK – Concentrix Won the UK Customer Experience award in the category of Best New Improved Product or Service. The post UK Customer Experience Award Goes to Concentrix appeared first on Concentrix.