CCNG

AUGUST 14, 2024

After about a year as a Project Manager at an outbound BPO in Oregon, I was promoted to Site Director for the company’s new Seattle location. With the first sixty seats operational, I was the second employee at the site, responsible for staffing and operating the facility. This was my first experience making hiring decisions, so I took a methodical approach, ensuring that each applicant was consistently measured against the same criteria.

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5CA

AUGUST 14, 2024

Imagine walking into your favorite store, where the staff greets you by name, knows your preferences, and is genuinely excited about helping you find exactly what you need.

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TCN

AUGUST 14, 2024

Compliance within the contact center must be adhered to. Customers, agents and managers want to feel secure and work within their rights. Thankfully, several compliance laws have been enacted to protect their users. However, compliance can be a hassle, especially when the standards shift from year to year. But keeping up with a moving target […] The post Building a Culture of Compliance: Training and Education in Contact Center Environments appeared first on TCN.

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Vistio

AUGUST 12, 2024

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a trend but a strategic necessity. However, as contact centers embrace AI, a new challenge arises: how to strike the right balance between technology and human interaction. Achieving this balance is crucial, as both elements play unique and indispensable roles in delivering exceptional customer service.

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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.

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Ambs Call Center

AUGUST 15, 2024

Is managing property maintenance requests and tenant inquiries becoming overwhelming? If you're looking for a more efficient way to handle the day-to-day challenges of property management, you're in the right place.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 12, 2024

This blog explores the paradigm shift brought about by AIOps, which combines the power of AI and automation to streamline IT operations, enhance decision-making, and drive proactive problem resolution.

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Totango

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We hit 115% of our target across Totango + Catalyst in Q1 on our expansion number, and that was largely due to the CSMs and the focus they put in along with the work that we’re doing with our account executives. The partnership that we have is working.” Customer renewals are the lifeblood of any subscription-based business, directly impacting your company’s revenue, growth, and long-term success.

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Interaction Metrics

AUGUST 14, 2024

Each interaction your customers have with your company’s representatives gives them either a positive or a negative view of your company. In other words, your customer service is either promoting your brand or driving your customers away. If you’re not sure how your customers perceive your customer service, it’s time for a customer service consulting firm.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 15, 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: Organizations must constantly answer an interesting question: how much friction is good for their experience? It might seem like the answer will always be “none at all,” but it isn’t. Today, let’s talk about friction in Customer Experiences and when it is—and isn’t—bad.

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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.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 11, 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. Rethinking Customer Interactions to Boost Customer Experience by Harvard Business Review (Harvard Business Review) Simply put, customer experience (CX) has the power to make or break business success.

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Callminer

AUGUST 14, 2024

One of the most obvious benefits of AI is its potential to improve CX. Learn how AI has revolutionized companies' ability to engage with customers, analyze data, and make strategic decisions.

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Bill Quiseng

AUGUST 14, 2024

QUI TAKEAWAY: You can’t satisfy customers with disengaged employees. Start there. CARE for your people first. COMMUNICATE openly, interactively, frequently, and continuously any information your people need and want to know. Listen empathetically to their concerns, questions, and complaints. Express compassion and encouragement. APPRECIATE your people’s roles and responsibilities.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 16, 2024

In this episode, we explore the role of AI in customer experiences and whether it will replace human interaction. Ali Cudby , CEO of Alignment Growth Strategies , shares insights on leveraging AI to build customer relationships effectively. We discuss practical AI tools that enhance customer experiences and streamline efficiency. There are a couple of helpful AI tools Cudby mentions.

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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.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 15, 2024

QnABot on AWS (an AWS Solution) now provides access to Amazon Bedrock foundational models (FMs) and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock , a fully managed end-to-end Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow. You can now provide contextual information from your private data sources that can be used to create rich, contextual, conversational experiences.

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Callminer

AUGUST 12, 2024

Businesses often rely on CX automation to help customers quickly and conveniently at different points in the customer journey. Read this blog to learn how automation plays an important role in CX.

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Totango

AUGUST 13, 2024

“If you invest in the post-sale, and you have somebody that can focus just on the digital journey, you’re going to keep more customers, and you’re going to expand them, because they’re going to have a better experience.” – Katie Yagodnik, Director, Customer Success Operations and Digital Programs, Totango + Catalyst Customer success operations (CS Ops) can be the “wizard” behind the scenes of your customer-centric strategy.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 14, 2024

We are bringing our Networking, Security, and Collaboration teams together as one organization led by Jeetu Patel as he takes on an expanded role as Cisco’s EVP and Chief Product Officer.

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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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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 13, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) provides an opportunity for improvements in healthcare by combining and analyzing structured and unstructured data across previously disconnected silos. Generative AI can help raise the bar on efficiency and effectiveness across the full scope of healthcare delivery. The healthcare industry generates and collects a significant amount of unstructured textual data, including clinical documentation such as patient information, medical history, and test result

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Joe Rawlinson

AUGUST 15, 2024

How can you make your business even more successful than it is? That’s a good question, and one that we think you should be answering as often as you can. If you want to have any hope of taking your business further that it’s current state, you must have the ambition to do so. If you don’t, then there is no way that you are ever going to see the higher levels of success, and that would be a shame.

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Select VoiceCom Blog

AUGUST 12, 2024

Select VoiceCom has achieved a remarkable milestone of being a Great Place To Work®-certified company. It’s undeniable proof that our employees love working for SVC, not only because we have a certification but because we put our people first. At SVC, we’re all about helping our team grow, both personally and professionally. More importantly, we make sure they feel good and happy, not just at work but in their free time, too.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 15, 2024

Cisco’s advanced AI features help SMBs boost productivity, enhance security, and optimize hybrid work, leading to smarter workplaces and a competitive edge in the digital world.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2024

Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant that helps enterprises unlock the value of their data and knowledge. With Amazon Q, you can quickly find answers to questions, generate summaries and content, and complete tasks by using the information and expertise stored across your company’s various data sources and enterprise systems.

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Ambs Call Center

AUGUST 14, 2024

Is managing employee absences and unexpected call-offs causing major disruptions in your operations? If you’re tired of the chaos and are ready for a streamlined solution, you're in the right place.

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Management 82

Helpware

AUGUST 13, 2024

Strange as it may seem, when some people think of business process outsourcing (BPO), they still picture just one thing—bustling call centers in far-off lands or those dreaded late-night customer service calls. But the thing is that outsourcing is so much more than that. It’s a powerful tool—or you can call it a secret weapon—that both small businesses and large corporations are skillfully wielding to improve business operations, cut costs, and delegate non-strategic functions to be able to focu

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Select VoiceCom Blog

AUGUST 13, 2024

Rhea Stephani Mira was recognized as SVC Titan of the Month for July 2024, standing out among her fellow top performers. Since joining Select VoiceCom in October 2021, Rhea has consistently shown professionalism, integrity, and excellence as a client-dedicated call center agent. At 27, she has proven herself to be much more than just a pretty face and friendly voice.

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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.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 14, 2024

Effective customer support, project management, and knowledge management are critical aspects of providing efficient customer relationship management. ServiceNow is a platform for incident tracking, knowledge management, and project management functions for software projects and has become an indispensable part of many organizations’ workflows to ensure success of the customer and the product.

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VirtualPBX

AUGUST 15, 2024

As part of our newest product, Contact Center, we recently released a powerful Call Tagging feature. As avid users of our own products and services, our Marketing and Sales teams were quick to jump on the opportunity to improve their processes and reports with Sales call tags. Call Tagging has the ability to deliver significant gains for businesses, like: Improved Call Organization : Tags help categorize and label calls based on various criteria (e.g., inquiry type, department, urgency).

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 15, 2024

Universities need advanced security architectures for effective incident response. Discover how XDR solutions enhance visibility and resilience in complex tech landscapes.

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