CCNG
JULY 10, 2024
Introduction Contact Centers are transforming rapidly to meet the demands of a digital age. Navigating through technological advancements and shifting customer expectations, staying updated with the latest trends is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. The past year alone has witnessed remarkable changes, from the rise of generative AI to innovative tools empowering both agents and supervisors.
Vistio
JULY 8, 2024
Recruiting and retaining contact center agents has never been more challenging. With increasing call volumes and soaring customer expectations, agents are feeling more stressed than ever. On top of this, the rise in remote work and the high demand for talent across various industries mean top agents can easily transition to other contact centers or different fields altogether.
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TCN
JULY 10, 2024
The short answer is yes. Contact center software will aid in scaling operations within your company. However, the right contact center software that empowers you to deliver exceptional customer experiences while seamlessly scaling to meet your growing needs will make or break your business’s future success. That’s where TCN, a contact center software platform with […] The post Does Contact Center Software Allow My Business to Scale Operations?
ShepHyken
JULY 8, 2024
I couldn’t hold back. I told an employee to stop complaining about her fellow employees in front of us, her customers. Here’s the story. My wife and I were at a restaurant. The server seemed pleasant and professional, but as our food was delivered, we saw a different side of her. There was a mistake in the order. The side dishes we received were not the ones we chose.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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.
Enghouse Interactive
JULY 9, 2024
Explore the top Talkdesk alternatives in the CCaaS market. Discover why Enghouse stands out with its robust features, affordability, and exceptional support. This guide offers an in-depth comparison to help you choose the best CCaaS solution for your needs.
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Working Solutions
JULY 10, 2024
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, contact centers have shifted from being mere cost centers to becoming strategic assets vital for delivering exceptional customer experiences. The transition from traditional call centers to technology-driven contact centers has been marked by significant advancements in AI, automation, and analytics.
NobelBiz
JULY 9, 2024
What is a Telemarketing Call Center ? A lead generation call center is a specialized contact center dedicated to identifying and cultivating potential customers for a business. These centers use strategic communication techniques to create interest in a company’s products or services, nurturing potential clients into valuable leads. The goal is to streamline the sales process by ensuring that sales teams have a steady pipeline of qualified prospects.
SmartAction
JULY 10, 2024
ST. LOUIS, MO, July 10, 2024 Capacity , an AI-powered support automation platform relentlessly focused on improving the customer journey, has acquired CereProc and SmartAction, significantly expanding its voice and Contact Center offerings. Capacity empowers teams to do their best work and deliver valuable employee and customer experiences across channels.
TechSee
JULY 10, 2024
The initial promise of artificial intelligence was intriguing: machines capable of augmenting human tasks, enhancing productivity, and optimizing operations. As we stand on the cusp of a new era, the real breakthrough for AI lies not in merely augmenting our existing staff but in fully automated AI agents. AI agents will free valuable resources from mundane tasks.
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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.
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 12, 2024
Customers can tell you why they do something, But they might be wrong. It’s not that customers are stupid. No, it is quite the contrary. Customers’ thinking and decision-making are complicated; multiple things happen simultaneously. Sometimes, the reason customers do things is hidden, even from the customers themselves. In our penultimate masterclass episode, we explore how you can get at these hidden motivations when designing a Customer Experience that surprises and delights cust
ShepHyken
JULY 7, 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. This is What is Missing From Your Customer Experience Playbook by Anne Marshall (Entrepreneur) One-size-fits-all customer experience playbooks don’t exist — and for good reason.
Callminer
JULY 11, 2024
Text analytics is the process of extracting data from written texts to understand customer behavior and thoughts, aiming to improve customer experience. Read this blog to learn more.
AWS Machine Learning
JULY 10, 2024
Frontier large language models (LLMs) like Anthropic Claude on Amazon Bedrock are trained on vast amounts of data, allowing Anthropic Claude to understand and generate human-like text. Fine-tuning Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku on proprietary datasets can provide optimal performance on specific domains or tasks. The fine-tuning as a deep level of customization represents a key differentiating factor by using your own unique data.
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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
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 11, 2024
Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 85,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Sanjay Patel has a pickle, and he wants our help. It’s a simple question but a profound one: How do you get the senior exec to buy into your program? In other words, how do you deal with senior management?
VirtualPBX
JULY 12, 2024
Starting a business is an exciting venture, but ensuring its success requires more than just a great idea. It involves strategic planning, effective communication, and a dedicated team. In this blog, we will explore the keys to a successful business. From choosing the right business phone number to developing a robust marketing plan, these foundational elements will help guide you on the path to business success.
Callminer
JULY 8, 2024
Technology allows for businesses to offer numerous contact methods to customers. Omnichannel customer support creates a bridge between each support channel to provide a cohesive customer experience.
AWS Machine Learning
JULY 10, 2024
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that helps you implement the entire Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow from ingestion to retrieval and prompt augmentation without having to build custom integrations to data sources and manage data flows, pushing the boundaries for what you can do in your RAG workflows. However, it’s important to note that in RAG-based applications, when dealing with large or complex input text documents, such as PDFs or.txt files, queryin
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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.
MiaRec
JULY 11, 2024
Call centers generate enormous volumes of data, but without the right tools to make this data accessible, they are known to starve for insights. And I should know because I was a contact center team leader for years. One of my biggest frustrations was that I always spent a large portion of my day tediously evaluating my agents using mind-numbing scorecards.
ChurnZero
JULY 9, 2024
Last month, Jared Orr made three strong recommendations, from a CSM’s perspective, for customer success leaders looking to help their CSMs succeed. I wanted to complement his suggestions with three of my own, written from the perspective of a VP of customer success. In both cases, we’re addressing the findings of the 2024 CSM Confidential Report , which reveals that while CSMs are generally happy, motivated, and dedicated in their roles, the majority are struggling with heavy workloads and goals
Bill Quiseng
JULY 10, 2024
QUI TAKEAWAY: Customers pay for their experience, not your product or service. The customer’s best value in their experience is one that is “just perfect.” Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect … for your customers. Don’t be just good. Be GREAT out there!
AWS Machine Learning
JULY 11, 2024
In the diverse toolkit available for deploying cloud infrastructure, Agents for Amazon Bedrock offers a practical and innovative option for teams looking to enhance their infrastructure as code (IaC) processes. Agents for Amazon Bedrock automates the prompt engineering and orchestration of user-requested tasks. After being configured, an agent builds the prompt and augments it with your company-specific information to provide responses back to the user in natural language.
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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.
MiaRec
JULY 11, 2024
In June 2023, we published an article that compared lexicon-based with Machine Learning or NLP-based Sentiment Analysis. Now, a little more than one year later, we have made another huge leap forward with Generative AI-based Sentiment Analysis!
CSM Magazine
JULY 12, 2024
The next evolution of human-machine interaction could bring about real, unprecedented synergy between humans and machines – with CX as the obvious beneficiary, writes Avaya’s Tvrtko Stosic. Traditionally, people have interacted with technology via strict, well-defined commands used to complete narrowly specified tasks. In customer service cases, this resulted in traditional IVRs, through which customers gave commands via touchtone user interfaces to get at their desired information or to perform
AnswerConnect
JULY 9, 2024
The customer journey is rarely easy. But with these tips, you can master the four stages of the sales cycle, streamline sales and boost your bottom line. The post How to master the 4 stages of the sales cycle and maximize profits. appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.
AWS Machine Learning
JULY 10, 2024
Responsible AI is a longstanding commitment at Amazon. From the outset, we have prioritized responsible AI innovation by embedding safety, fairness, robustness, security, and privacy into our development processes and educating our employees. We strive to make our customers’ lives better while also establishing and implementing the necessary safeguards to help protect them.
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.
Cisco - Contact Center
JULY 9, 2024
AI without security poses significant risks, including data compromise and manipulation. Cisco encourages partners to prioritize security by design, transparency, and continuous monitoring to ensure AI's safe and effective integration into our lives.
Ambs Call Center
JULY 12, 2024
So, you've probably been shopping for an answering service, and you keep seeing the term "minutes". Sure, you get that its referring to how many minutes you use monthly for when you answer a call. But, while the idea is simple, figuring out just how many minutes of service you'll need can be a bit trickier. And what are the other factors that would increase or decrease the number of minutes you use?
Select VoiceCom Blog
JULY 11, 2024
Select VoiceCom named Rojel Lunzaga the SVC Titan of the Month for June. He was the first-ever top performer to receive this prestigious award for his outstanding performance and dedication in the Facilities and Safety department. Rojel lived up to the title of the best among the rest, as he rose above the steep competition. This impressive mark only proved that he’s a talented and committed employee who contributed greatly to SVC’s success.
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