Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes . Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents. AI – Finds What’s Been Overlooked. Back office support.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Which customer service blog posts helped to shape the last decade for you? . When we look back at the customer support industry in 2010, we see a very different beast to the one we work in today. Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020. Shep Hyken.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We talked with him before on our podcast a month ago about how emotions drive customer behavior. This week, we dive a little deeper into this concept and explore how emotions affect the insights we get from Customer Science. Customer Science is a relatively new development in the area of customer strategy.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #4 of 4 The MORE you know. How AI-Enabled Super-Agents Improve CX. As we saw in yesterday’s webinar, both enhancing the Customer Experience (CX) and understanding the Voice of the Customer (VoC) are inextricably linked… for the better.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #1 of 4: The Customer Experience. Customer Perception = Their Reality. How is it evaluated by your customers – do they think it’s good, bad or are they indifferent? Because that approach is not reflective of the customer’s overall experience.

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Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 27, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Video outperforms all other communications methods when agents and customers need to quickly resolve an issue. This blog will provide some insight into the benefits that can be extracted from video along with how. Blog #2 of 4: It’s NOT just another channel.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 13, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Understanding Why Transforms the Customer Experience. Blog #2 of 4: Seeking th e Root Cause and Affecting the Right Outcome. Most AI-based platforms or processes leverage a finite and discrete data set from which to extrapolate ‘understanding’.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This week we feature an article by Darcy Alexander who shares a checklist to guide us through the process of selecting the best CX vendors for our customer experience initiatives. When embarking on a customer experience (CX) change initiative, there are few decisions more critical to success than selecting the right vendor.

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Tethr

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Here are our top ten blogs of 2020: 10. Make QA Matter: Introducing Tethr’s Agent Impact Score (AIS). This year, we introduced the Agent Impact Score (AIS), a new way to measure the criteria that will make a difference to your company’s performance. Power and Tethr collaborate to fuel customer experience insights.

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 30, 2017

This week we feature an article by Shaista Haque who writes about the top technology trends of 2017 that she believes will disrupt customer experience benchmarks. What comes to your mind when I talk about businesses revolutionizing their technology experience? Shep Hyken.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2022

The late Steve Jobs said at a 1997 Apple World Worldwide Developers Conference, “You’ve got to start with the Customer Experience first and work backward towards the technology.” However, customers are changing how they have experiences these days, and organizations that don’t keep up will be left behind.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated many aspects of our work and personal lives. From driving assistance to data analysis to chatbots, generative AI (GenAI) is finding its usefulness in a host of ways across all industries. One of the most impactful uses is how AI is transforming customer experience (CX).

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Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 13, 2021

AI, Teams UC and Video. . Better Together to Optimize CX. . Blog Series #1 of 4: New decade! For some, it’s more of the same, but better. Customer First” drives success. Customer service has become the top business priority. will have extended Teams to their contact center for voice and 31.1%

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Technology, human behavior, Customer Experience are intersecting through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and taking marketing in a new direction. To understand how it requires a better understanding of what the inventor of the hashtag Chris Messina’s calls Conversational Commerce.

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Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes. Blog #4 of 4: Key Findings and Where to Focus Your Optimization Efforts . Data Drives Customer Satisfaction.

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Comm100

MAY 25, 2022

Further social upheavals amongst workers and customer expectations have also occurred. Ultimately, customer service and contact centers have not been immune to these changes. In this article, we’ll look at some of the new challenges that have emerged to impact contact centers.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 12, 2022

Customer Science is an exciting new variant of Customer Experience. One of the crucial ways that the science is more powerful is the quality of the customer data you feed into the process. I came to this realization in a discussion I had recently with a voice of customer expert. It Starts with Customer Science.

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3CLogic

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lately, artificial intelligence (AI) is at the core of any customer-centric digital transformation. Strategies not centering around AI and automation are quickly neglected by executive leaders. In other words, two-thirds of an agent's time is spent on call notes and summarizations, instead of helping the next customer.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

TechSee’s Annual Influencer List For a second year, everyone at TechSee is proud and excited to share our annual list of influential leaders in the space of digital customer service. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback last year, so we’re back with another edition – this time even bigger and better!

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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

There was a reason you did it in the first place – he said there was a point where you slammed your fist on the table and said, “There must be a better way!” The contact center was even more complicated. There were too many different customer needs and too many inconsistencies.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 17, 2023

Many years ago, I read a book that changed my life, The Experience Economy by Joe Pine, founder of Strategic Horizons. As a pioneer in the experience movement, Pine has a new customer strategy concept that we discussed on a recent podcast, so I thought I would share what we learned here as well. It is a significant hole.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides an unprecedented opportunity to revolutionize the call center experience for the 59% of your customers who prefer telephone communication. We’re not talking about the time-consuming interactive voice response (IVR) of the past that provided a less-than-optimal customer experience.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 19, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Constant Learning Improves AI Recommendations. Blog #3 of 4 With context, AI seeks to improve more quickly than ever. Analyzing all feedback via AI. Aggregating. But, relying on that only provides one dimension (layer) of an answer.

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3CLogic

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In today’s digital world, your competitors are no more than a click away, drastically increasing the importance of delivering personalized customer experiences (CX) on the first go. If your contact center isn’t embedded within your CRM or service management platform — such as ServiceNow or SAP — it’s time to raise an eyebrow.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call center optimization is a strategic approach that focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of call center operations. When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 31, 2023

As 2023 unfolds, a key theme for contact center leaders to watch is reinforcing the connection between customer experience (CX) and agent experience (AX). CX must always remain the primary focus for the contact center –this recent blog post identified two 2023 trends that will have a major impact on CX.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To drive business, attract new clients, and retain existing ones, financial institutions must invest in improving their customer experience. Enhancing your customer experience is important not just because it will increase customer loyalty and satisfaction but because customers also expect it.

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Grab a cup of coffee, snuggle up in a comfy chair, and get ahead in the customer service industry. Discover how you can continue to deliver the best customer experience and how you can better lead your call center. Articles to Help you Deliver the Best Customer Experience: .

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Calabrio

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

These changes in consumer behavior and expectations, combined with new technologies, are starting to completely transform the contact center. We’ve entered an era where simply keeping abreast with the latest contact center tech advances is not enough. The consumer experience is becoming easier, faster and more personable.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Companies such as Google and Amazon are continually bringing new iterations of conversational AI technology into the mainstream and integrating different applications of machine learning into our everyday lives. Conversational AI is making the contact center and customer service industries better than ever.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 15, 2024

When customers shop in physical stores, they might have several questions about a product: Is it available in a different size? The scenario is now much the same for online customers who increasingly expect a seamless, personalized experience. But it also allows agents to handle several customer queries at once.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2023

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. How do you keep your loyal customers? How do you keep your loyal customers? My Comment: This excellent article focuses on strategies and tactics to consider for your call center.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 30, 2024

Are you struggling with overcoming Call Blocking for your Call Center Business? It’s clear by now that maintaining uninterrupted channels for outbound calling is vital for any business that is aiming to grow, especially call centers. That being said, call center blockage is one of the critical issues in customer service.

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s face it — no one contacts your contact center to tell the person who answers the phone, text, or chat to tell your organization that they love your brand, service, or product. Most interactions that contact center agents have daily are to solve a problem or issue, adjust a payment, or ask a clarifying question.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business? The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated. And what about offshore?

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Mitel , a company that works with teams by supporting their communications and technology needs so that they can provide the best customer experience possible. 2023 will be all about customer lifecycle management (CLM). They share their top 5 unified communications predictions for 2023.

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