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A Comprehensive List of Resources for the Contact Center Sourcing Process

BlueOcean

Your organization is ready to find a new contact center outsourcer. What’s your next step? We’ve compiled a list of the most helpful outsourcing resources, in order from discovery to launch. We’re here to help! Read on! Is It Time to Outsource? 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Maybe your organization is so early in the discovery phase that you’re not sure if you’re actually going to outsource at all.

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Breaking the Paradox of False Consensus: A Journey to Better Decision-Making

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: Have you ever heard of the Abilene Paradox? This happens when everybody agrees to do something that nobody wants to do. Today, we will discuss how to avoid this situation in your organization.

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Why customer service trainers should avoid learning styles

Toister Performance Solutions

I bet I can diagnose your learning style with three questions. Where do you sit when you attend an in-person meeting? What do your eyes do when you're explaining something? How do you take notes in a training class? It was a fun trick I discovered as a new trainer. I usually got it right to the mild amusement of my learners. Years later, I was chastened to learn my hocus-pocus wasn't real.

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Business Tax Deadline: IRS Fax Submission Simplified

VirtualPBX

When the tax season rolls around, businesses are faced with the crucial task of meeting their tax filing deadlines. Each entity, whether it be an S Corp, Partnership, LLC, C Corp, or Sole Proprietorship, has its own set of deadlines to adhere to, adding complexity to the already stressful process of tax filing. In this blog, we’ll explore two efficient options for submitting faxes to the IRS before the business tax deadline, ensuring compliance and peace of mind for business owners.

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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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Redefining Network Management: The Advantages of Cisco Managed Campus for MSPs

Cisco - Contact Center

In an era where the digital landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are facing the challenge of keeping up with complex networking demands while ensuring… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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“Build for Better” – Revolutionize Sustainability with AI, Observability, and Cisco Tech

Cisco - Contact Center

Dear Developers and Innovators, As the Vice President of an organization deeply committed to technological advancements and environmental sustainability, I am thrilled to announce an exciting coding… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Chatbot Pros & Cons in Customer Service & Support

Comm100

Chatbots have become a ubiquitous part of customer service and support. As businesses strive to meet the ever-increasing expectations of their customers, the adoption of chatbots has emerged as an essential move to enhance service delivery and operational efficiency. This blog takes a closer look at how chatbots are transforming the customer service landscape, outlining the key chatbot pros for businesses and for customers.

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Healthy and Inclusive Learning Spaces

Cisco - Contact Center

As the father of three neuro-diverse children, I’ve seen firsthand the impact that classroom conditions can have on learning.

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Your Customers Deserve Quality CX No Matter Where They Are: Why Global Number Testing Is Tricky, But SO Important

Cyara

Using international numbers can create complex challenges for your contact center. Learn how automated number testing can improve your business' CX.

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The Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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AI Maturity Model: Is Your Company Ready for AI?

Helpware

Is business-oriented AI truly a game-changer for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)? How big is its impact today? How relevant will it be in 5-10 years? Is my company prepared to embrace this tech? As these questions circle the minds of decision-makers in every industry, the purpose of AI maturity models is to provide clear answers to such queries.

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Complexity drives more than security risk. Secure Access can help with that too.

Cisco - Contact Center

Modern networks are complex, often involving hybrid work models and a mix of first- and third-party applications and infrastructure.

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Business Tax Deadline: IRS Fax Submission Simplified

VirtualPBX

When the tax season rolls around, businesses are faced with the crucial task of meeting their tax filing deadlines. Each entity, whether it be an S Corp, Partnership, LLC, C Corp, or Sole Proprietorship, has its own set of deadlines to adhere to, adding complexity to the already stressful process of tax filing. In this blog, we’ll explore two efficient options for submitting faxes to the IRS before the business tax deadline, ensuring compliance and peace of mind for business owners.

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How to Make a Great First Impression Over the Phone: 4 Tips

Abby Connect

First impressions can make or break a potential relationship with your customers When you talk to customers, new clients, or people in your community, how you act can make a huge difference. Studies show that it takes just seven seconds for someone to form a first impression.

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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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How to Do Role Plays that Totally Suck

Vistio

By Jeremy Watkin I’ve worked in a variety of contact center environments and managed contact center teams for a couple of decades at this point. I’ve successfully helped to train scores of new hires — many of whom became fully proficient and remained with the company for years. Never considering myself to be an expert in training I’ve often wondered if some new hires achieved full proficiency in spite of me.

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The seven steps of a successful customer success book shift

ChurnZero

Every customer success leader has encountered or will eventually encounter a book shift: the process of reassigning accounts between different customer success managers. While simple in concept, a book shift is a complex and challenging project, with an array of stakeholders and moving parts that require skillful management and—ideally—an experienced hand.

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Case Study: Saving Money on Concession Expenses for the Top Vacation Rental Marketplace

24-7 InTouch

IntouchCX’s AI and automation solutions, including Laivly, help global brands save on costs and drive efficiencies, all while ensuring accuracy and customer satisfaction. We collaborated with our partner, a top vacation rental marketplace, empowering agents and a newly created Expense Approval Team to approve “make goods” with speed, accuracy, and confidence while saving money and preserving customer satisfaction scores.

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Green Spark Environmental Cleans Up Job Management with BigChange

CSM Magazine

Environmental management company Green Spark is using the latest cloud and mobile technology to boost sustainable business growth. A specialist in pollution prevention, including drainage services, Green Spark works with some of the UK’s largest brands, on a national scale. Green Spark introduced the BigChange job management system to improve the flow of information between field staff, using the mobile app, and the back-office.

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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The journey of PGA TOUR’s generative AI virtual assistant, from concept to development to prototype

AWS Machine Learning

This is a guest post co-written with Scott Gutterman from the PGA TOUR. Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) has enabled new possibilities for building intelligent systems. Recent improvements in Generative AI based large language models (LLMs) have enabled their use in a variety of applications surrounding information retrieval. Given the data sources, LLMs provided tools that would allow us to build a Q&A chatbot in weeks, rather than what may have taken years previously, and

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Best practices to build generative AI applications on AWS

AWS Machine Learning

Generative AI applications driven by foundational models (FMs) are enabling organizations with significant business value in customer experience, productivity, process optimization, and innovations. However, adoption of these FMs involves addressing some key challenges, including quality output, data privacy, security, integration with organization data, cost, and skills to deliver.