Tethr

MAY 22, 2024

Learn how you can use Tethr’s sentiment analysis for contact centers to tap into customer conversation insights that drive CX improvements.

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Injixo

MAY 23, 2024

In today's fast-paced work environment, it seems like every office worker's calendar is packed with appointments. Coordination is crucial, and as the world around us becomes increasingly complex, it requires even more attention. This holds true for customer service as well. Team meetings, one-on-one discussions, and training sessions all need to be integrated into an already hectic daily routine.

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NobelBiz

MAY 21, 2024

While the role of call centers is crucial in customer service, companies often choose between inbound and outbound call centers. Each of these call centers come with unique functionalities, benefits, and challenges. This article explores the definitions, success KPIs, benefits, and considerations for both inbound and outbound call centers, helping you determine the best approach for your business needs.

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Amplifai Coaching Category

MAY 22, 2024

Overwhelmed by call center analytics? Discover practical solutions to common challenges. Learn how to effectively analyze data, leverage AI, and implement targeted strategies to improve agent performance, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.

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AI has transformed how enterprises deliver customer service, enabling faster engagement, problem-solving, and cost savings. However, traditional AI Agents often rely on rigid conversation flows, risking customer trust when conversations stray from predefined paths. These limitations prevent businesses from fully realizing AI’s potential for cost-efficiency and productivity.

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TCN

MAY 22, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, contact centers are on the front line for addressing customer queries, The post How to Use Analytics to Maximize Your Contact Center Performance appeared first on TCN.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 23, 2024

Navigating the labyrinth of customer support demands precision – like a captain steering through foggy waters with only the stars for guidance. A robust dashboard is your North Star, keeping your efforts aligned and efficient. It’s not a mere luxury; it’s an essential gear in today’s relentless customer service seas. Consider this: What makes a dashboard not just adequate, but outstanding?

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Helpware

MAY 21, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of customer service, the true competitive advantage lies in embracing the synergy between cutting-edge technologies and the irreplaceable human touch. Businesses that successfully navigate this balance not only drive digital transformation but also cultivate deeper, more meaningful connections with their customers. This is the impact of digitizing customer experience.

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TeamSupport

MAY 23, 2024

In the digital age, where instant gratification is the norm, immediate responses to customer inquiries can make or break a brand's reputation. This rings especially true for software companies. Jackrabbit Technologies , an online class management software provider catering to children's activity centers, learned this firsthand. Before their partnership with TeamSupport began in 2011 , Jackrabbit relied solely on emails to handle customer support.

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ShepHyken

MAY 19, 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. 99% of Consumers Rely on Online Reviews Before Making Purchases by Jon McDonald (CardRates) Reviews offer insight that an online description can’t and provide feedback from customers who have used or previously purchased the product of interest.

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Every year, $75 billion is lost to bad customer service — and your business could be bleeding loyalty without realizing it. AI is rewriting the rules. Imagine instant answers, 24/7 self-service, faster resolutions, and skyrocketing satisfaction scores. Companies like Amazon are already cashing in, and the technology is easier than you think — plug, play, and profit.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 24, 2024

A Master Class Part 3: Unlocking the Psychology of Customer Experience In the third episode of our Master Class series on the Psychology of Customer Experience, we delve into how other people influence our behavior. Understanding these theoretical dynamics is practical, empowering you to design effective Customer Experiences. Robert Cialdini’s research on influence is a cornerstone of understanding social dynamics and persuasion techniques.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 21, 2024

This post is co-written with Aurélien Capdecomme and Bertrand d’Aure from 20 Minutes. With 19 million monthly readers, 20 Minutes is a major player in the French media landscape. The media organization delivers useful, relevant, and accessible information to an audience that consists primarily of young and active urban readers. Every month, nearly 8.3 million 25–49-year-olds choose 20 Minutes to stay informed.

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TeamSupport

MAY 21, 2024

The Future of TeamSupport AI is Here. TeamSupport is thrilled to announce its latest suite of AI-powered tools, built to increase agent efficiency and help your team take customer support to the next level. TeamSupport’s AI Assist incorporates the latest conversational AI technology, acting as a seasoned copilot to help agents close tickets faster, bringing faster, more satisfying resolutions to customers with less tedious manual work for agents.

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delighted

MAY 20, 2024

When it comes to getting high survey response rates , nothing beats out a survey that meets your users right where they are, on your website or in your app. However, web surveys can be notoriously finicky to implement well, often requiring multiple rounds with designers and developers to get a survey that looks native and triggers seamlessly. Our new Web Widget for Surveys makes it unbelievably easy to set up a native pop-up survey.

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The C²Perform Index (C2PI) is a free, quarterly research report built by support practitioners that analyzes over 100 million customer support and contact center interactions across more than 30 countries. The Q1 2025 edition reveals a 153 % year‑over‑year surge in coaching sessions, a 21 % rise in eLearning completions, and early indications of improved knowledge retention and faster internal communication.

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A Better Answer

MAY 21, 2024

Choosing between a virtual receptionist service and employing in-house staff is a pivotal decision that impacts a business's operational costs, efficiency, and ability to scale. This comparison illuminates the financial nuances of each option, breaking down the components such as initial setup costs, ongoing expenses, and the potential for scalability.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 22, 2024

In the world of online retail, creating high-quality product descriptions for millions of products is a crucial, but time-consuming task. Using machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) to automate product description generation has the potential to save manual effort and transform the way ecommerce platforms operate. One of the main advantages of high-quality product descriptions is the improvement in searchability.

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MiaRec

MAY 22, 2024

Are you looking to automate your quality management by automatically scoring all of your calls and streamlining your QA processes? Then you probably came across both Level.ai and MiaRec and wondered how both solutions compare. Here at MiaRec, we have helped hundreds of organizations worldwide improve contact center efficiency and customer experiences.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 22, 2024

The new 2024 Global Networking Trends Report is a compelling look at networking readiness among global IT organizations. We heard from 2,050 IT professionals in 13 countries about their investment strategies and the advanced architectures and capabilities they believe will prove transformational within the next two years.

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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Help Scout

MAY 20, 2024

Two very different approaches to the application of technology in pursuit of a particular goal, the outer edges of the responses that individuals and companies have to every new technology. Between Bjorn Borg and The Borg.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 21, 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) models have emerged as a promising approach to enhance the capabilities of language models by incorporating external knowledge from large text corpora. However, despite their impressive performance in various natural language processing tasks, RAG models still face several limitations that need to be addressed. Naive RAG models face limitations such as missing content, reasoning mismatch, and challenges in handling multimodal data.

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MiaRec

MAY 22, 2024

Are you looking to automate your quality management by automatically scoring all of your calls and streamlining your QA processes? Then you probably came across both Level.ai and MiaRec and wondered how both solutions compare. Here at MiaRec, we have helped hundreds of organizations worldwide improve contact center efficiency and customer experiences.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 20, 2024

Discover how Cisco XDR's MITRE ATT&CK mapping strengthens your security operations. Learn to identify security gaps and improve your cybersecurity posture.

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What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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OctopusTech

MAY 23, 2024

More than 80% of B2B businesses agree that SEO produces better quality leads than online advertising, and over 70% of B2B businesses claim that SEO boosts sales more than PPC. In order to close a deal, B2B companies must nurture leads and communicate with potential clients over several interactions. Because of this, B2B SEO is now more concerned with lead generation than with actual sales.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures for large language models (LLMs) have recently gained popularity due to their ability to increase model capacity and computational efficiency compared to fully dense models. By utilizing sparse expert subnetworks that process different subsets of tokens, MoE models can effectively increase the number of parameters while requiring less computation per token during training and inference.

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Interactions

MAY 21, 2024

If you missed the recent Interactions webinar with Opus Research , don’t worry – we’ve got you covered. Joe Kuhn, Solutions Architect at Interactions, dropped some serious knowledge bombs during the Q&A session, and we’ve rounded up his answers into a one stop guide. So, let’s dive right in! Authentication: The Gatekeeper of Secure Transactions Q.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 24, 2024

Meraki APIs allow businesses to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks, and configure and deploy networks quickly at a scale. Developrs can leverage API operations to retrieve performance metrics, monitor network health, analyze traffic data and create custom reports to gain insights into the network usage.

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In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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Help Scout

MAY 22, 2024

Customer-obsessed businesses grow faster and retain more customers. Check out this article for actionable steps to build a more customer-centric organization.

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Working Solutions

MAY 24, 2024

In the dynamic and ever-growing pet industry, understanding spending habits and the pivotal role of exceptional customer service is essential for success. Annual spending on pets in the U.S. reached a staggering $147 billion in 2023, with both dog and cat owners investing an average of around $1500 per year.

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Interactions

MAY 21, 2024

If you missed the recent Interactions webinar with Opus Research , don’t worry – we’ve got you covered. Joe Kuhn, Solutions Architect at Interactions, dropped some serious knowledge bombs during the Q&A session, and we’ve rounded up his answers into a one stop guide. So, let’s dive right in! Authentication: The Gatekeeper of Secure Transactions Q.

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