ShepHyken
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Happy New Year! I want this year to be your best year ever for creating amazing customer service and experiences. And for everything else, too! But as it applies to the customer experience, I thought it would be fun to share some ideas we need to do more of. With that, here are 10 ideas. Many, if not all, will apply to you and your business. Do more in 24!
Bill Quiseng
OCTOBER 25, 2023
QUI QUESTION: Customer service is a performance art. Are you Oscar-worthy? Movie actors like Sandra Bullock, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Dwayne Johnson, and Keanu Reeves act to be happy, sad, scared, scary, or angry. Yet, we, as the audience, believe they are genuinely real. The actors may “act their part”, but they are so good that we, as the audience, believe they are real.
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Fonolo
JANUARY 19, 2023
If call center retention keeps you up at night, you’re not alone. In the era of the “great resignation” and in an industry with record staff turnover, employee retention is on every manager’s mind. The numbers are sobering. According to the 2021 ICMI report, a contact center’s average employee turnover rate was 58% per year. This figure is about 10 percent higher than the US average employee attrition rate of 47.2%.
Nuance
MARCH 6, 2023
The global public attention that greeted the launch of ChatGPT has highlighted that we’re at a pivotal moment in the development of AI. As pioneers in contact center AI, it’s exciting to see the emergence of advanced open AI models that can augment our existing innovations with powerful new capabilities. We’re delighted to introduce conversation [.] The post Nuance is revolutionizing the contact center with GPT technology appeared first on What’s next.
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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.
Contact Center Pipeline
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
One of the best, most insightful articles on customer service I’ve read in some time – one that pinpoints the inherent conflict or dialectic between investing in excellent customer service and keeping costs low and prices attractive to customers – appeared in Vox.
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Fonolo
MARCH 16, 2023
Your contact center may run like clockwork, with engaged agents answering calls quickly, solving problems, and creating satisfied customers in record time. But without the contact center KPIs and metrics that managers use to measure the effectiveness of their operations, you’d never know for sure. KPIs matter. And they’re changing quickly. We asked contact center industry influencers to share their insights into the changing role of KPIs and shine a light on new metrics to watch.
Callminer
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Bruce McMahon, VP of Product Management, shares updates from the 2023.09 release including enhancements to bulk export API capabilities, giving customers even more control over their data.
Lumoa
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Our A to Z Guide to Customer Experience Definitions and Terms covers everything you need to know, from clear definitions of key terms to a comprehensive overview of the topic.
The Northridge Group
MARCH 14, 2023
If healthcare managers and small-to-medium-sized business (SMB) healthcare practitioners can agree on anything, it’s that acquiring new patients is both costly and challenging. Conversely, retaining existing patients is far more achievable and economically viable, especially in the ultra-competitive modern healthcare marketplace. There are many different tactics that health providers can use to improve patient retention rates in 2023.
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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.
Cisco - Contact Center
JANUARY 10, 2023
As a change agent serving the financial services industry for over 20 years, it is a great privilege to collaborate with Bank, Insurance, and Wealth Management institutions to devise and execute digital transformation strategy, solve complex business problems, and leverage technology to strengthen business results. Ending a chaotic 2022 with the Federal Reserve in their December meeting raising interest rates to control inflation another 50 basis points following four consecutive 75 basis point
Cyara
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Our expectations for services and the customer journey we experience have changed a lot over the past number of years. We now expect these services much more quickly.
Bill Quiseng
MAY 3, 2023
Business leaders are happy because customers were satisfied with their product or service. But that’s not good enough. Satisfied customers feel that their experience was good, not better, just average. Nobody raves about average. And satisfied customers will not return as soon as they find an experience that is better or a price that is less expensive.
AWS Machine Learning
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformational technologies of our generation and provides opportunities to be a force for good and drive economic growth. The growth of large language models (LLMs), with hundreds of billions of parameters, has unlocked new generative AI use cases to improve customer experiences, boost employee productivity, and so much more.
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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.
JustCall
MARCH 23, 2023
Introduction CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software refers to a tool that businesses can use to record and store key customer information to use when building a relationship with leads or prospects. CRM helps streamline your work. It aids you with better management of your sales and marketing clients by clubbing your workflows, business processes, and client interactions into a single-view interface.
Jon Arnold
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Last week was my fifth go-round as Chair of the Future of Work Expo in Ft. Lauderdale, and given my travel schedule, this is the first chance I’ve had to get this recap done. As good as the 2022 edition was, this was even better, and am expecting nothing less for 2024. Speakers are already asking about coming back, and am keen to start mapping out the program.
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Whoever said “the customer is always right” didn’t hear this about this story. Fox News just posted an update to a 2021 story about a man arrested for pointing an AK-47 at an employee at a pizza shop in Knoxville, Tennessee. The short version of the story is this. A customer walked into a Little Caesars restaurant and became angry when he was told he would have to wait a few minutes for a pizza.
Fonolo
JANUARY 17, 2023
If there’s one thing managers need to understand about digital transformation, it’s how artificial intelligence is changing CX in the contact center. The cost savings AI offers makes the move to more automation inevitable. Gartner reports that AI chatbots alone can save the contact center industry up to $80 billion in annual labor costs by 2026. By 2031, the savings could grow to $240 billion.
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!
Callminer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Today's conversation intelligence solutions are applying GPT and LLMs, and organizations must carefully evaluate building in-house solutions. Read this blog to learn why.
Lumoa
JANUARY 31, 2023
Customer experience plays an important, if not the most important role in the success of any business. Nearly all companies (89%) believe that customer experience will be their primary basis for competition. How do you stand in that competition? Customer experience management brings discipline to this somewhat vague and soft area: by establishing a systematic process for collecting, analyzing, and acting on customer feedback, you’ll be able to improve customer experience altogether.
Comm100
JANUARY 23, 2023
2023 looks to be a year of great change in customer experience (CX). With economic uncertainty ahead, some organizations are asking employees to make do with fewer resources, while others are increasing CX investment. This is all occurring against a backdrop of incredibly high CX expectations across industries and ever-developing technology. To help make sense of the year ahead and plan for the ever-shifting CX landscape, we’ve asked five experts in the field for their CX predictions for 2023. 1
Cisco - Contact Center
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Across the United States, local communities, transportation departments, and transit, port, and turnpike authorities are seeking new and better ways to deliver on their mission-critical objectives to… Read more on Cisco Blogs
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kommunicate
JANUARY 19, 2023
Last Updated on January 20, 2023 The year is 2012. Customer queries are coming into the call center of one of Italy’s biggest car insurance providers. There is a bevy of call center agents, all speaking rapidly on their phones, all looking haggard. Customer queries are on the rise, and the operations manager sees no [.] The post Evolution of Bots in 2022 And Future Trends appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.
Bill Quiseng
JUNE 28, 2023
For many years, there has been a stranglehold “Profits over People” mentality for healthcare leaders. These “Profits over People” traditionalists care about their hospital’s labor, research, and equipment costs, Medicare reimbursements, pharmaceutical companies’ payments in cash and in-kind gifts, and their patients’ payments more than they do their patients.
AWS Machine Learning
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service provided by AWS that offers developers access to foundation models (FMs) and the tools to customize them for specific applications. It allows developers to build and scale generative AI applications using FMs through an API, without managing infrastructure. You can choose from various FMs from Amazon and leading AI startups such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, and Stability AI to find the model that’s best suited for your use case.
COPC
JUNE 9, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the customer experience (CX) industry, offering businesses new opportunities to enhance their operations. This blog article discusses the importance of employing multiple types of AI, implementing effective controls and guardrails, and adapting specific roles within the CX organization. By embracing these strategies, your business can maximize the benefits of AI and thrive in the rapidly evolving CX landscape.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
ConvergeOne
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Aims Community College is one of the most progressive community colleges in Colorado, with more than 200 degree and certificate programs, including everything from healthcare to aviation and agriculture. The college specializes in flexible education offerings, including day and evening classes, online course options, and top-rated faculty, serving over 8,000 students across four campuses in northern Colorado.
ShepHyken
MAY 30, 2023
“Please put me back on hold. I want to keep listening to the music,” said nobody, ever – unless they were listening to the hold music at the Kansas City Foot and Ankle medical practice. The owner of this four-office podiatry practice with seven doctors and 25 staff members, Dr. Mark Green, has always focused on creating a positive, unique and frictionless patient experience.
Fonolo
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The on-going contact center conversion to SIP trunking technology has been an industry success story. Why? For starters, using SIP technology to enable voice and video calls, messaging, and data transmission saves money: up to 50% more, according to Gartner analysts. And SIP trunking is super-flexible; it makes it easy for contact centers to add advanced features like speech analytics, Web Call-Backs (formerly Visual IVR), and conversation scheduling from third-party vendors.
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