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Why Real-Time Monitoring Is So Important in the Contact Center

Callminer

With real-time monitoring managers can act, not just react, and customer service, performance, and compliance issues can't slip through the cracks.

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Customer Experience Is More Important Than Advertising [Infographic]

Win the Customer

'Only 4% of customers trust advertising the most for service information, so can your good customer experience to help seal the deal with customers?

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5+ Effective Ways to Reduce Abandon Rates in Your Call Center

Fonolo

UPDATED JANUARY 2020. Lowering call abandonment in contact centers is what we do. It’s a primary benefit of our call-back software (and we’re proud of it) so you’ll forgive us for making this piece detailed… a round-up of what we’ll be covering today so you can skip the bits you already know. How to Reduce Abandonment Rates in Your Contact Center.

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The Good Stuff on Customer Success you should be Reading

Amity

Customer support and customer service have been around for decades. These were the necessary evils of the traditional sector – the old-model reactive break/fix cost center – to resolve problems resulting from breaks and service interruptions. The misconception with SaaS is that there is no longer a need for a team of this nature in today’s organization.

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An Introduction to AI in Customer Service

Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption has risen dramatically in the customer service industry over the last few years. But many contact centers have yet to implement AI. In this eBook, we give an introduction to how customer service leaders are using AI to improve their customer experience.

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Customer-Centricity Goes Beyond Customer Experience Management

ClearAction

Customer-Centricity Goes Beyond Customer Experience Management Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience management is necessary, yet insufficient. Traditionally, organizations have managed customer experience with a mindset of how the company is doing, in order to grow revenue. Consequently, surveys tend to ask more about the company than about the buyer, and customer programs typically emphasize excitement and urgency for new purchases and positive word-of-mouth.

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Happy Holidays from Your Friends at GetFeedback

GetFeedback

Happy holidays! Thank you for having helped us to create the next generation of mobile-ready online survey software.

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The Case FOR Customer Experience as a Business Strategy

Horizon CX

'Being a Customer Experience (CX) professional and having studied and practiced the art and the science of this wonderful CX discipline for over nine years now, (all within one organization) I pause to reflect on what the net result is of all the hard and dedicated work that we CX professionals have accomplished thus far and what we are yet to accomplish.

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How to Complain on Facebook and Twitter

Chad Schaeffer

What’s fun and exciting this week? My last post on “How Kroger Ruined, Then Saved My Daughter’s Birthday” was the third most popular post of all time here on No Fluff Social Media. Thanks to everyone who took the time to read it. I often write about how big companies can improve their customer care in social media and I got to thinking perhaps some of you would be interested to know how to complain or ask a question of those brands on Facebook or Twitter.

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How pre-answered caller authentication helps prevent telephone bank fraud

TRUSTID

Prevention vs. clean up. It’s a security question all financial institutions should ask themselves. When it comes to providing a trusted customer environment, banks are typically better at resolving problems stemming from non-predictive authentication and fraud than preventing them. That’s because they continue to allow criminals to get their foot in the door.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

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.

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PSIM ROI: The Hidden ROI of better security

Customer Interactions

'When a company invests in a solution such as PSIM the obvious reason is to improve security. But when’s the last time you heard “improved security” mentioned as a source of ROI? Yet, the potential ROI from security improvements can far outweigh any operational cost savings from PSIM. This is especially true in very sensitive industries where the cost of a security breach, the mishandling of a safety malfunction, or failure to comply with regulations can have huge financial imp

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Phonetics vs. LVCSR: Under the Hood of Speech Analytics

Callminer

Two approaches to speech recognition are commonly used in conversational analytics solutions: phonetics and LVCSR, each with their own pros and cons.

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Positive Employee Engagement Enables Great Customer Experience

Win the Customer

'Consistently delivering an exceptional customer experience requires creating employee engagement and culture that cultivates positive service actions.

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How to Eliminate Hold Time in Your Call Center

Fonolo

UPDATED: January 2020. The best way for a call center to stand out as a leader is through the customer experience. It’s no surprise that an exceptional experience leads to more satisfied consumers, who continue to spend more money. Most callers will begin subconsciously rating their customer experience from the beginning of the interaction, regardless of the channel; phone, web, social media, or mobile app.

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The Contact Center Manager’s Guide to AI

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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Stop Building Your Competitive Advantage and Start Building Your Customer Advantage

Amity

That’s when it’s back to the lab again, He better go capture the moment, And hope it don’t pass him by. Lose Yourself , Eminem. Competitive Advantage isn’t Sustainable. Power has shifted from vendors to customers. Using everyday digital technology, customers have ready access to information, people and resources. These empowered customers have higher expectations and lower loyalty than just a few years ago.

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Putting Customers First: If Not You, Who?

ClearAction

Putting Customers First: If Not You, Who? Lynn Hunsaker In all my years of meeting about customer responsibilities, I have never once been in the same room both with those who actually lead the move to customer centricity and with the people that prevent the move to customer centricity. There are two reasons for this: first, organizations don't think much about how the business [.

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Keep Agents at the “Right” Level of Busy

TASKE Technology

Last time we talked about ways to keep agents engaged during the holiday season. When call volumes peak, it’s important that agents continue to excel at customer satisfaction to gain new customers and retain existing ones through excellent customer service. When looking at your agents’ ability to perform well when call volumes peak, it’s also important to monitor how busy they are on an ongoing basis.

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Welcome to the Future of Online Surveys

GetFeedback

Now any company, anywhere can instantly create and distribute visually-rich, mobile-optimized, online surveys that work perfectly on smartphones.

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The State of Digital Customer Experience Report 2024

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.

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Quality and Consistency Wins Business and Drives Revenues

Horizon CX

'I like pizza. I think I’m among a majority of people who do. And, pizza I would say is as much a commodity as coffee—although people certainly have their preferences and favorites for sure. While I’m not here to debate the nutritional merits of pizza, I will admit that I have this craving I must satisfy every couple of weeks. Therefore, pizza has been a regular element of my diet.

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How Kroger Ruined, Then Saved My Daughter’s Birthday!

Chad Schaeffer

Happy Monday morning everyone! Throw away those Monday morning blues, it’s going to be a great week. I had a fantastic weekend but it almost turned disastrous! I love it when I can tell real life customer service stories here on my blog. Thanks for visiting this week. My daughter Sophia Rose turned 5 years old. We did the typical summer barbeque, with about 40 of our closest friends and family.

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How to turn telephone identity interrogations into better customer care

TRUSTID

How confident are you that the next time one of your call center agents answers the phone the call will be handled safely and efficiently? If your contact center still relies solely on a host of challenge questions to identify customers over the telephone channel, my guess is your security confidence level falls a few notches below where it should be.

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Three Ways Technology Can Make Cities Safer

Customer Interactions

'Pundits have long debated the root causes of crime and how to combat it, such as investing in education, early intervention, and programs to reduce unemployment. Those may be successful strategies from a social perspective, but what about technology? Can technology also be a safe-city enabler? Here are three ways that cites can apply technology to enhance safety: Leverage Existing Security Systems to their Fullest Potential – Let’s face it – government agencies already invest

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Your Roadmap to Successful AI Implementations in the Contact Center

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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Speech Analytics 101: What is Speech Analytics?

Callminer

Delivered as an enterprise software solution, speech analytics extracts information from customer conversations that might otherwise be lost.

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3 Reasons Customer Service Management Software is More Critical Today

Win the Customer

'Customer service management software and CRM focuses on providing more efficient ways to unify business activities to carry out more effective customer service actions contributing to a better service experience. Technology is helping businesses face many of the challenges they face as they try to maintain or build market share. One of the most helpful […].

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A Patent Explosion

ComputerTalk

How much protection does technology software need?

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The 3 Things Every Prospect Wants to Hear

Amity

Prospects invest a great deal of time researching the right solution. For some, it’s easier because they’ve got a hot tip on a must-have service – and if that’s your service then you’ve been working really hard at customer success! Throughout the evaluation process, a number of solutions (likely your competitors) are being considered, a few individuals from different departments are weighing in ( the average decision group consists of 5.4 people ) and the prospect is really kicking the tires on

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

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.

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Is Your Marketing Organization Ready to Change its MO?

ClearAction

Is Your Marketing Organization Ready to Change its MO? Gary Katz. It can sometimes be difficult to determine whether your company is ready to implement Marketing Operations. As described in 7 Deadly Sins of Marketing (previous blog post), Marketing Operations (MO) is an emerging discipline with the potential to significantly increase performance and accountability in complex marketing organizations.

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Three Tips for Keeping Agents Engaged During the Holiday Season

TASKE Technology

Many organizations are heading into one of the busiest seasonal peaks of the year. This timeframe–including Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Super Saturday, and the entire Christmas holiday shopping season–is an opportunity for your business to gain new customers and retain existing ones through excellent customer service. Let’s look at an example of what’s happened over the past couple of years.

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