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.
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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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?
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!
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
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!
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
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.
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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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.
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
Cisco - Contact Center
JULY 10, 2024
Stay ahead of sophisticated cybersecurity threats with the trifecta effect of integrating XDR, SIEM, and SOAR. Learn how integrating these technologies can enhance your organization's security.
AWS Machine Learning
JULY 11, 2024
Large language models have become indispensable in generating intelligent and nuanced responses across a wide variety of business use cases. However, enterprises often have unique data and use cases that require customizing large language models beyond their out-of-the-box capabilities. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon th
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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.
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.
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.
Cisco - Contact Center
JULY 11, 2024
Simplify Your Remote Work Security and Systems with These 5 Tips If you frequent our blog, you know how often we talk about remote work and how it’s here to stay.
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