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What is Call Blending and how does it help your Call Center?

NobelBiz

Contact centers have consistently been early adopters of technologies that improve interactions between agents and customers. One of the most impactful advancements in recent years is call blending. But what exactly is call blending, and why is it becoming an essential tool in call centers? What is Call Blending? Call blending is a dynamic call center strategy that merges inbound and outbound call operations into a seamless workflow.

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Unlocking the Power of Empathy: Addressing Vulnerability in the Contact Centre

CSM Magazine

I hosted a really thought-provoking panel discussion recently at Sabio’s Disrupt event in London, joining executives from across sectors to explore the critical topic of vulnerability in the contact centre. The panel, featuring leaders from global tech, outsourcing, financial services, and nonprofit organisations, delved into the evolving definition of vulnerability, its impact on colleagues and customers, and the role that cutting-edge technology plays in creating a more empathetic an

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Benefits of Answering Machine Detection With Predictive Dialing

Calltools

Leaving a voicemail is often a waste of time for sales agents—who would rather connect with leads over the phone and move them through their sales funnels. When used with a predictive dialer , Answering Machine Detection (AMD) might solve this issue. It determines whether a human being or an answering machine picks up a call from your team members. By filtering out voicemails, agents can spend more time on calls answered by humans, improving productivity in your contact center.

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The Cost of Surprising the Customer

ShepHyken

Surprising customers with something they weren’t expecting doesn’t have to be expensive. In many cases, it can be very inexpensive or even free. For example, surprising a couple with a cake and candle when they are celebrating at a restaurant costs a tiny fraction of the meal but greatly impacts the evening. For years, I’ve shared the story of a cab driver who surprised his customers with a newspaper, a bottle of water and a side trip to see a famous local landmark.

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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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How Does Color Psychology Impact Customer Service?

CSM Magazine

Did you know that the colors used in your customer service environment can significantly impact how customers perceive and interact with your brand? So much so, that 80% of consumers believe that color increases brand perception during the customer experience. In this article, we’ll delve into the science of color psychology and examine how it can be leveraged to enhance customer service.

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How to unleash the power of Social Influence on Customer Buying behaviour

Beyond Philosophy

A Master Class Part 3: Unlocking The Psychology of Customer Experience Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Welcome to the third episode of our Master Class series on the Psychology of Customer Experience. This series is designed to explore the foundational concepts of the behavioral sciences.

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The Role of Advanced Analytics in Improving Customer Experience

Vistio

Advanced analytics, leveraging the power of AI and big data, have become crucial tools in understanding and enhancing customer interactions. Vistio harnesses this technology to not only decode customer needs but also to empower contact center agents, transforming them from novices to experts swiftly. This article explores the significant role that advanced analytics play in improving the quality of customer service, detailing how it enables personalized interactions, optimizes operational effici

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Deep Dive into Automated AI Modeling: Unlocking Visual AI in Customer Service

TechSee

In the dynamic realm of customer service, where time is of the essence and flawless interactions are a must, we are thrilled to introduce a major update and game-changing innovation: TechSee’s enhanced automated AI modeling. This cutting-edge feature is a significant stride in accuracy and speed, equipping businesses with the ability to provide unmatched service and support experiences to their customers.

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Transforming Customer Support with a User-Friendly Ticketing System

TeamSupport

In the fall of 2020, POMS Corp., a leader in the manufacturing industry, decided that enough was enough. For years, the POMS support team had battled a ticketing system that seemed to create more problems than it solved. Support requests were frequently buried and lost, only to resurface too late. Some tickets were even left unanswered, leading to unsatisfied customers and frustrated team members.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

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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The AI Race Is On! Get Ahead By Avoiding These Surprisingly Simple Mistakes

Beyond Philosophy

This has been created in partnership with NICE. AI is a significant development in experience management, but many organizations need help with its implementation. While experimenting with AI, like ChatGPT, offers a glimpse of its potential, it’s challenging to understand how AI fits into the broader tech stack and business systems. In today’s episode, Elizabeth Tobey , (Head of Marketing for Digital and AI for NICE ) NICE , an AI platform, shares insights on effectively using AI to enhanc

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The Essential Guide to WFM – Key Features to Look For

CCNG

Workforce management (WFM) can feel like a whirlwind of constant change. From trying to keep up with HR on training, to supporting operations with retention needs, and more, there’s often little time left to talk to IT about the features you need in your next WFM platform. …And that’s if you even know where to start! Dan Smitley put together his essential guide to WFM features – separating the core features from the nice-to-haves – to help you make a more informed choice when comparing WFM vendo

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of May 27, 2024

ShepHyken

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. Is Your Net Promoter Score Biased? by Alex Bitca (Retently) Is your Net Promoter Score a reliable metric for judging what customers think of your business, or is it biased?

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Dynamic video content moderation and policy evaluation using AWS generative AI services

AWS Machine Learning

Organizations across media and entertainment, advertising, social media, education, and other sectors require efficient solutions to extract information from videos and apply flexible evaluations based on their policies. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has unlocked fresh opportunities for these use cases. In this post, we introduce the Media Analysis and Policy Evaluation solution, which uses AWS AI and generative AI services to provide a framework to streamline video extraction and eval

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Your Roadmap to Successful AI Implementations in the Contact Center

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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Interactions and Kyndryl Partner to Deliver Craveable IT Support Experiences

Interactions

Interactions and Kyndryl have a lot in common; we’re both technology leaders in our respective fields, work with the world’s most recognizable brands and are obsessed with the success of our customers. Naturally, a partnership makes sense. Today, that idea becomes a reality. Together, Interactions and Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, are announcing the availability of Kyndryl Interactive AI for Service Desk , a dynamic IT support service that blends Artificial In

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Momentum Receives 2024 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award

Momentum Telecom

Momentum’s Microsoft Teams Phone Recognized for Exceptional Innovation in Unified Communications ATLANTA, May 30 — Momentum announced today that TMC , a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities with in person and digital marketing campaigns, has named Momentum’s Microsoft Teams Phone as a 2024 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award winner. “We are incredibly honored to have Momentum’s Microsoft Teams Phone recognized as the 2024 Unified Communicati

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How to set up a customer education program from scratch 

ChurnZero

Customer education is essential for the success of your product. If your customers don’t understand your product, they will not use it. However, not all companies have roles dedicated to customer education, and when customer education does become a priority, it can feel overwhelming to build a customer education program from scratch. It doesn’t have to be.

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Implementing Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock in support of GDPR (right to be forgotten) requests

AWS Machine Learning

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) right to be forgotten, also known as the right to erasure, gives individuals the right to request the deletion of their personally identifiable information (PII) data held by organizations. This means that individuals can ask companies to erase their personal data from their systems and from the systems of any third parties with whom the data was shared.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

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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Customer Service Coaching: How to Develop, Motivate and Retain Your Employees

CSM Magazine

Why do people leave their customer service jobs? Even if they are well paid and have good benefits, many will wave goodbye as they walk out the door, never to return. They don’t leave because they want more money or better benefits. They don’t leave because they don’t like their jobs or their coworkers. They leave because their managers and supervisors are not coaching, nurturing, recognizing, or motivating them.

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Revolutionizing Education in South Australia: Strong Networks, Strong Learning

Cisco - Contact Center

The South Australian Department for Education collaborates with Cisco Meraki to transform education statewide by implementing robust network solutions that enhance learning opportunities, especially in remote areas.

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Product News – April 2024

Lumoa

Lumoa Product News for April 2024 Hey everyone! Lovely seeing you again, back with more exciting Lumoa updates! We have had a doozy of a month, with lots of features that we think will make Lumoa better for you. Let’s get started! Topics can now be created with GPT Lumoa has had an AI that can create Topics based on what your customers are talking about for some time.

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CBRE and AWS perform natural language queries of structured data using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning

This is a guest post co-written with CBRE. CBRE is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 130,000 professionals serving clients in more than 100 countries. Services range from financing and investment to property management. CBRE is unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to realize value across the entire commercial real estate lifecycle—from guiding investment decisions to managing buildings.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

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.

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5 Best CRMs for Property Management in 2024

Ambs Call Center

Property management CRM software is changing the game for property managers everywhere. By diving into this innovative world, you can revolutionize the way your real estate business operates. Streamlining tasks, boosting efficiency, and simplifying complex processes - what's not to gain?

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From Trend to Mainstay: The Unstoppable Force of Managed Services

Cisco - Contact Center

Get ready to go beyond and explore new paths to success with partner managed-ready solutions designed to enable greater efficiency, operational scale, innovation, and open new market opportunities!

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How to Measure Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)

Tethr

Learn how to measure CSAT effectively with traditional methods and discover innovative new approaches to boost your insights.

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Vitech uses Amazon Bedrock to revolutionize information access with AI-powered chatbot

AWS Machine Learning

This post is co-written with Murthy Palla and Madesh Subbanna from Vitech. Vitech is a global provider of cloud-centered benefit and investment administration software. Vitech helps group insurance, pension fund administration, and investment clients expand their offerings and capabilities, streamline their operations, and gain analytical insights. To serve their customers, Vitech maintains a repository of information that includes product documentation (user guides, standard operating procedure

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

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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Interactions and Kyndryl Partner to Deliver Craveable IT Support Experiences

Interactions

Interactions and Kyndryl have a lot in common; we’re both technology leaders in our respective fields, work with the world’s most recognizable brands and are obsessed with the success of our customers. Naturally, a partnership makes sense. Today, that idea becomes a reality. Together, Interactions and Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, are announcing the availability of Kyndryl Interactive AI for Service Desk , a dynamic IT support service that blends Artificial In

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Jumpstart your studies for ENNA with Network Assurance Prep

Cisco - Contact Center

Preparing for the Cisco Enterprise Network Assurance (ENNA) exam can be a challenge. Make it easier by signing up for free network assurance prep today.

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Driving Digital Transformation with Generative AI

Concentrix

Webinar | July 25, 2024 11:00 AM EST Driving Digital Transformation with Generative AI Register Now Generative AI technology is revolutionizing how organizations operate, interact with their employees, and customers This evolving technology empowers creativity, automation, and efficiency through streamlining processes, removing mundane tasks from humans, and providing insights quickly for strategic decisions.