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Your Mood Has a Massive Effect on Your Decision Making. Here’s why.

Beyond Philosophy

Various motivational biases and emotions shape customer experiences, emphasizing the need for a holistic approach to designing experiences. For example, the customer’s mood significantly impacts the customer’s decision-making processes. Today’s discussion highlights why understanding the customer’s mood and managing customer emotions helps you achieve your desired experience outcomes.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of June 10, 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. Customer Loyalty Stats in 2023: Loyal Customers Spend More! by Jeff Beckman (The Tech Report) Consumers do not usually just focus on the function and appearance of a product when purchasing products.

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Simplify the Complicated (Part Three)

ShepHyken

This is the third article this year about the concept of simplicity. Why? It apparently resonates with our subscribers, as there have been many comments and emails. Consider these quotes: It was either Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Pascal, Cicero, or some other famous smart person who said, “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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The importance of brand experience in contact centers

Callminer

Contact centers are responsible for more than simple answering customer phone calls or live chats. Read this blog to learn about the connection between brand experience and contact centers.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Concentrix Debuts on the Fortune 500® List

Concentrix

Company ranks 499 on the Fortune 500® list,based on 2023 revenue NEWARK, Calif. (June 4, 2024) – Concentrix Corporation (NASDAQ: CNXC), a global technology and services leader, today proudly announces its debut on the prestigious Fortune 500® list, securing the 499th position.

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The Secret to Winning the AI Race is simple; avoid these simple blunders

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: This has been created in partnership with NICE. AI is a massive new development in experiences. Unfortunately, it also creates enormous problems for organizations that don’t know what to do with it.

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Momentum Announces Availability of PSTN Calling and Conferencing for Microsoft GCC High

Momentum Telecom

New Offering Ensures Secure and Compliant Collaboration for Agencies and Contractors ATLANTA, June 4, 2024 – Momentum , a leading global managed services provider, is excited to announce the availability of PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) Calling and Conferencing services for Microsoft Teams for Government Community Cloud (GCC) High. This release marks a significant milestone in providing secure, reliable, and compliant collaboration solutions tailored for U.S. government agencies and c

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Bringing the Cisco AppDynamics + Splunk Better Together story to Cisco Live

Cisco - Contact Center

In three months since the Splunk acquisition, Cisco and Splunk have been hard at work with new use cases and integrations. Find out what's being announced at Cisco Live US 2024.

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Streamline custom model creation and deployment for Amazon Bedrock with Provisioned Throughput using Terraform

AWS Machine Learning

As customers seek to incorporate their corpus of knowledge into their generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications, or to build domain-specific models, their data science teams often want to conduct A/B testing and have repeatable experiments. In this post, we discuss a solution that uses infrastructure as code (IaC) to define the process of retrieving and formatting data for model customization and initiating the model customization.

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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 automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Tethr and Awaken Intelligence Join Forces as Creovai

Tethr

Tethr and Awaken Intelligence are merging to become Creovai, bringing together best-in-class conversation intelligence and real-time agent assistance.

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Guest Post: The Four Phases of Contact Center Maturity

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Joe Walsh, GoTo ‘s Vice President of Product Marketing. He discusses the Four Phases of the Contact Center. To keep up with increasing customer demands and new technology, businesses must continue to evolve. They need to mature their contact centers to help deliver the best customer service possible and ensure they’re not wasting time and resources.

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Post-purchase survey questions you can ask customers after checkout

delighted

It’s crucial to survey customers at various points throughout their buying journey, especially after they make a purchase. Post-purchase surveys allow businesses to collect valuable insights about their marketing efforts, the products or services they provide, and the overall customer experience. In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about effectively surveying customers after a purchase with the right post-purchase survey questions.

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Best of the Best: Cisco Customer Advocate Awards: Americas 2024 Winners

Cisco - Contact Center

Cisco's Customer Advocate Awards are back! Cisco Advocates are change makers and innovators, and we recognized the finalists at Cisco Live in Las Vegas. To wrap-up, we're celebrating our winners.

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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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Build RAG applications using Jina Embeddings v2 on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning

Today, we are excited to announce that the Jina Embeddings v2 model, developed by Jina AI, is available for customers through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to deploy with one click for running model inference. This state-of-the-art model supports an impressive 8,192-tokens context length. You can deploy this model with SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub with foundation models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built ML solutions that you can deploy with just a few clicks.

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Top 15 Software Development Metrics to Track in 2024

Helpware

As much as at its core programming revolves around 1's and 0's, quantifying the performance of development teams is a far more complicated story than one number can tell. Measuring and tracking development efficiency has been an ongoing topic of debate and one of the most difficult parts of any engineering manager’s job. The long-held belief is that development processes come with too many moving parts and that there’s often not a clear link between input and output which makes development more

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Delivering More Customer Delight, Not More AI Hype

Help Scout

Today we’re announcing two brand new AI features from Help Scout: AI drafts and AI answers. We’re so excited for you to try them, but it’s also important for us to keep it real about what they’ll change and what they won’t.

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Inbound vs. Outbound Call Centers

SQM Group

Although most companies have multiple contact channels available to their customers, the most frequently used channel is still the phone.

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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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It’s Time to Take Control of Experiences and Transform Infrastructure Operations for AI

Cisco - Contact Center

Cisco Networking Cloud has made phenomenal progress toward continuous intelligence, predictive analytics, and automated remediation over the past 12 months. At Cisco Live 2024, we show how new additions help customers transform the world with AI-native operations, assurance, secure networking, and infrastructure for AI.

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Attract more business with a Spanish answering service

AnswerConnect

Consumers trust you more when you speak their language. Discover how a Spanish answering service can help you tap into a new client stream and win more work. The post Attract more business with a Spanish answering service appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.

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The Not-So-Secret Ingredient for Achieving 97% IVA Intent Accuracy

Interactions

How Interactions Has Built a Winning Combination of Humans and Technology In the world of Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs), a 97% intent accuracy rate is remarkable — we won’t shy away from saying it. But what’s as important as touting this metric is explaining how we achieve it for our clients. IVA vs. IVR vs. Interactions First, a quick explainer on where Interactions falls within Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) systems.

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10 Tips To Increase Ecommerce Checkout Page Conversions

OctopusTech

The conversion and cart abandonment rates of e-commerce websites largely depend on the Ecommerce checkout page’s design and optimization. With specific considerations, including reduced form fields, faster page speed, a mobile-first approach, multiple payment methods, and a clear call to action, organizations can design a flawless checkout process. Here, we will tell you 10 informational tips to Increase e-commerce checkout Page Conversions and take your business to the next level!

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Tethr and Gladly Team Up to Strengthen CX

Tethr

Learn how conversation intelligence solution Tethr and customer service platform Gladly work together to improve the agent and customer experience.

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Cisco Live 2024: Ensure Digital Resilience, Pervasive Security, and Simpler Operations

Cisco - Contact Center

How do you effectively manage experiences if you no longer own all the infrastructure? The answer is at the heart of new operational innovations and infrastructure announced at Cisco Live 2024. They’re all part of the Cisco Networking Cloud platform.

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Top 5 Services to Increase Genuine Engagement on Instagram

CSM Magazine

Instagram is more than just a social media platform; it’s a powerful tool for brands to connect with their audience. Genuine engagement is crucial for building a loyal following and ensuring long-term success. This article explores five top services that can help you increase real interactions on Instagram by providing authentic followers, views, and likes.

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RISE with SAP: Tips to streamline SAP Cloud licensing

Unymira

SAP describes itself as “The Cloud Company” and has greatly expanded its range of cloud-based solutions in just a few years. With the introduction of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and, in particular, RISE with SAP, the German software giant has underpinned its cloud-first approach.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints? With customer experience automation, organizations can leverage AI and automation to make it faster and cheaper to provide a superior customer experience acro

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15 Surprising Benefits Of Website Redesign For Businesses

OctopusTech

Interested to know how having a web redesign can be helpful? Well, strap in because we’ll be getting right into it here. In the business world of the twenty-first century, your website is like your shop. It is where people interested in your offer come to see what is happening. Hence, it must look and perform its best as it is a representation of the company.

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Making Calls to The UK? There’s A New KYC Requirement you should know about.

JustCall

Hello you all, especially those making calls to the UK! There’s been an important update in the KYC process for getting UK phone numbers. We want to ensure you have all the information you need to navigate this smoothly. What is the new regulation? The UK government has implemented new regulations that apply to all phone number providers in the country.

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Security, the cloud, and AI: building powerful outcomes while simplifying your experience

Cisco - Contact Center

Read how Cisco Security Cloud Control prioritizes consolidation of tools and simplification of security policy without compromising your defense.

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