November, 2024

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Five Reasons Why Customers Leave

ShepHyken

I was recently hired as a keynote speaker to talk to a group of financial advisors about client service. One of the topics of the meeting was a discussion about why a client would leave. The most obvious reason might be that the financial advisor gave bad advice, and the client lost money. But let’s assume the advisor is smart, the advice is sound, and the return on investment meets expectations.

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From Trends to Transformation: The AI-First Contact Center

CCNG

A convergence of technology, labor, business, and consumer trends is fundamentally reshaping customer service, demanding a new strategy for success. At the same time, rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are transforming technology and redefining how we live, work, and communicate. Just as the internet of the 1990s evolved into today’s world of smartphones, social media, connected devices, and remote work, AI is now drawing a line between our pre-AI past and a future where it is as int

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CallMiner Product Innovation Series: Q4 2024

Callminer

CallMiner's, Bruce McMahon, shares key product updates from Q4 2024. New AI capabilities, including CallMiner AI Assist, add to the long list of AI advancements that CallMiner has delivered in 2024.

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Demystifying Visual AI: Empowering CX with Sight and Intelligence

TechSee

In the realm of customer experience (CX), the fusion of visual technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to a transformative force: Visual AI. But what exactly is it, and how does it redefine the way businesses interact with their customers? Let’s explore its capabilities and its profound impact on CX operations. What is Visual AI Visual AI , also known as computer vision, is a subfield of artificial intelligence that enables computers to interpret and understand the vis

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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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Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management is now available in GA

AWS Machine Learning

Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management , with new features that provide enhanced options for configuring your prompts and enabling seamless integration for invoking them in your generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management simplifies the creation, evaluation, versioning, and sharing of prompts to help developers and prompt engineers get better responses from foundation models (FMs) for their use cases.

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What Will Your Customers Give Up for a More Convenient Experience?

ShepHyken

Imagine this … you’re running tight on time for a meeting and want to grab a cup of coffee. Do you choose to stop at the café that serves delicious coffee and has the friendliest barista but a long line, or do you use the office machine that serves an acceptable, decent cup in under a minute? If, on that day, time is important and you don’t want to make others wait, the answer is probably the fastest – as in more convenient – choice, not the best coffee or the friendliest service.

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Employee Engagement – Are Leaders Assuming Employees Are Engaged?

CCNG

Successful employee engagement is subjective. True employee engagement is a moving target with an ebb and flow—it’s constantly changing. An employee’s view of employee engagement is based on their last interaction with their manager, hearing the CEO’s company address, or their interaction with HR or the benefits department. Surveying employees twice a year isn’t a dynamic way of measuring true employee engagement.

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It’s Time To Have A Real Conversation About The Quality Of Digital Life

Cisco - Contact Center

Cisco and the OECD have launched the Digital Well-being Hub to explore the relationship between technology and individual well-being. The hub aims to understand how digital transformation impacts life satisfaction, mental health, digital skills, and civic engagement and more. By crowdsourcing insights and using OECD data, it seeks to inform policies for an inclusive, secure, and sustainable digital future.

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What is speech analytics? Definition, benefits, and use cases

3CLogic

How did that conversation really go? Behind every engagement hides a mountain of data, simply waiting to be leveraged for an in-depth performance analysis. In today’s contact centers, the amount of data available isn’t a problem; the crux is to find the time and resources to efficiently gather, consolidate, and analyze the information for actionable insights and optimization opportunities.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

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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Track, allocate, and manage your generative AI cost and usage with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning

As enterprises increasingly embrace generative AI , they face challenges in managing the associated costs. With demand for generative AI applications surging across projects and multiple lines of business, accurately allocating and tracking spend becomes more complex. Organizations need to prioritize their generative AI spending based on business impact and criticality while maintaining cost transparency across customer and user segments.

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The AI Revolution & Creating Super Agents

Upstream Works

This post is a summary of Upstream Works CEO, Rob McDougall's talk at Fall ’24 AI/COMM titled The AI Revolution in CX. The post The AI Revolution & Creating Super Agents appeared first on Upstream Works.

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The Evolving Role of AI in Customer Service with Cisco’s Anurag Dhingra

ShepHyken

This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more:    How can businesses bridge the gap between customer expectations and satisfaction? What role does artificial intelligence play in enhancing customer service interactions? What are the benefits of proactive communication in customer service? How can AI-driven tools support customer service agents in delivering better service?

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Training Plan for Phone-Based Customer Service

Toister Performance Solutions

This plan will help you train employees who serve customers over the phone. It guides you through the Phone-Based Customer Service course on LinkedIn Learning. Make sure your team has access to LinkedIn Learning before you begin. Phone-Based Customer Service focuses on essential phone skills: Building rapport Exceeding expectations Solving problems The course is ideal for anyone who serves customers over the phone.

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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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Connectivity at the top of the world: Preserving the past, partnering for the future

Cisco - Contact Center

Highlighting Cisco's partnership with an extraordinary community in Utqiaġvik, Alaska that's breaking down barriers to create new access to education, technology, and opportunity.

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Live chat services: how to reduce cart abandonment & drive sales

AnswerConnect

Read our latest article to find out how live chat services can boost sales and reduce cart abandonment in your e-commerce store. Improve your checkout now! The post Live chat services: how to reduce cart abandonment & drive sales appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.

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Enhance customer support with Amazon Bedrock Agents by integrating enterprise data APIs

AWS Machine Learning

Generative AI has transformed customer support, offering businesses the ability to respond faster, more accurately, and with greater personalization. AI agents , powered by large language models (LLMs), can analyze complex customer inquiries, access multiple data sources, and deliver relevant, detailed responses. In this post, we guide you through integrating Amazon Bedrock Agents with enterprise data APIs to create more personalized and effective customer support experiences.

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Product News – October 2024

Lumoa

content Lumoa Product News for October 2024 Hey everyone! Lovely seeing you again, back with more exciting Lumoa updates! We have had a doozy of a month, with lots of features that we think will make Lumoa better for you. Let’s get started! Introducing Netigate EX! We spoke recently about how Netigate CX can help you capture the entire feedback lifecycle, and now we can do the same for your Employee Experience data: Automated Survey creation and distribution Report and analysis on Employee

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

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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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of November 11, 2024

ShepHyken

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. 15 Strategies for Effective Customer Service Resolutions by Pratik Salia (Knowmax) Handling customer conflicts well isn’t just about resolving issues—it’s your chance to turn frustrated customers into long-term customers.

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Top OCR-Driven Customer Service Innovations for Modern Businesses

Joe Rawlinson

Customer service goes beyond responding to queries or concerns. It focuses on making each interaction impactful. Companies today are leveraging a range of technologies to streamline these interactions. This means shorter response times and improved resolution rates. Card scanning solutions not only make these processes more efficient but also significantly boost client satisfaction and loyalty.

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Cisco and Our Partners: Moving Forward as One

Cisco - Contact Center

Celebrate the future of technology from Partner Summit 2024! Discover the Cisco 360 Partner Program and One Cisco initiative, empowering partners to drive AI transformation and deliver unparalleled customer outcomes.

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The Truth About Call Center Outsourcing—Benefits, Disadvantages & Cost

Ambs Call Center

Choosing between an American and an offshore call center can be more complicated than it first appears. The simple fact that draws many businesses to offshore call centers is that they’ll save them money.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

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.

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Transcribe, translate, and summarize live streams in your browser with AWS AI and generative AI services

AWS Machine Learning

Live streaming has been gaining immense popularity in recent years, attracting an ever-growing number of viewers and content creators across various platforms. From gaming and entertainment to education and corporate events, live streams have become a powerful medium for real-time engagement and content consumption. However, as the reach of live streams expands globally, language barriers and accessibility challenges have emerged, limiting the ability of viewers to fully comprehend and participa

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4 CX Tech Trends for 2025 that Contact Center Leaders Just Can’t Ignore

Enghouse Interactive

Discover the top CX tech trends for 2025 with Frost & Sullivan, including hyper-connected contact centers, AI automation, and VoC insights.

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Guest Post: The AI Revolution in Customer and Employee Experience

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Andy Watson, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Customer Experience at RingCentral. He shares how AI is transforming customer and employee experiences by enhancing efficiency, engagement, and satisfaction through generative AI, chatbots, and real-time support. The AI revolution is here—and it’s transforming how businesses interact with customers and support their employees.

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Stan Store Vs Shopify: Which Platform Is Best For 2025?

OctopusTech

Success in the e-commerce space depends on several factors, including the choice of the platform. While the choice of Stan Store vs Shopify may seem complicated, the two platforms offer different set of benefits to users. Knowing the differences between the two can help you make a better decision and propel your business forward. Stan Store vs Shopify – An Overview Stan Store and Shopify are two popular e-commerce platforms used for various reasons.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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Introducing Zero-Friction Wireless for Smarter Workplaces

Cisco - Contact Center

The new Cisco Wi-Fi 7 access points are more than just upgrades. Our high-end 9176 and 9178 models represent a fundamental reimagining of what’s possible in wireless networking.

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5 Best Practices for Mass Texting—Dos and Don’ts and Benefits

Ambs Call Center

Mass texting is becoming an essential tool for modern business communication. Part of its mainstay is that it's so versatile. Whether it's keeping your customers informed or your employees informed, texting offers an immediate way to reach them. Plus, the high open rates (98%!) and ease-of-use make it a favorite for businesses.

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Principal Financial Group uses QnABot on AWS and Amazon Q Business to enhance workforce productivity with generative AI

AWS Machine Learning

Principal is a global financial company with nearly 20,000 employees passionate about improving the wealth and well-being of people and businesses. In business for 145 years, Principal is helping approximately 64 million customers (as of Q2, 2024) plan, protect, invest, and retire, while working to support the communities where it does business and build a diverse, inclusive workforce.

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