Mon.Oct 02, 2023

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Turning Customer Support from a Cost Center into a Revenue Generator

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Outsourcing customer service and support functions can be an effective strategy for businesses, especially startups, to offload non-core tasks and focus on their core competencies. It can be beneficial as it allows companies to provide 24/7 support and access to properly trained professionals, even if they are not direct employees of the company.

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Great Customer Service: The Rent Paid for Loyalty

TechSee

In the world of customer loyalty, service is the currency paid. It’s a fundamental truth backed by decades of research – when mistakes happen, customers expect service providers to step up and help them make the most of their offerings. The rare 30-year customer embodies this loyalty, having been part of the company’s successes and growing pains.

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Enhancing Customer Engagement: The Power of Call Center Outsourcing

AnomalySquared

In today's fast-paced business world, customer engagement has become a crucial factor for the success of any organization. Engaged customers are more loyal, spend more, and promote your brand to others. While there are various strategies to improve customer engagement, one that stands out is call center outsourcing. Here we'll explore how outsourcing your call center operations can be a game-changer in enhancing customer engagement.

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The Comprehensive Guide to Using an Integrated Ticketing System: Cloud-Based Solutions

NobelBiz

In the domain of contact centers, the paramount focus lies in ensuring streamlined and effective communication with clients. Integrated ticketing systems serve as the backbone for achieving this feat. When approached from a contact center perspective, these systems not only manage and monitor customer inquiries but also harmonize the operational flow, thereby optimizing customer experience.

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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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Grow Your Managed Services Business with AI-Driven Managed Intelligent Workspaces

Cisco - Contact Center

Many Cisco partners have achieved outstanding success selling managed Meraki-based services to their SMB customers in support of fast and dependable connectivity.

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Introducing two new Conversational AI Services 

Nuance

… Introducing two new Conversational AI Services Read More » The post Introducing two new Conversational AI Services appeared first on What’s Next blog.

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Build an end-to-end MLOps pipeline for visual quality inspection at the edge – Part 3

AWS Machine Learning

This is Part 3 of our series where we design and implement an MLOps pipeline for visual quality inspection at the edge. In this post, we focus on how to automate the edge deployment part of the end-to-end MLOps pipeline. We show you how to use AWS IoT Greengrass to manage model inference at the edge and how to automate the process using AWS Step Functions and other AWS services.

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Investing in your success scaling SMB sales like never before

Cisco - Contact Center

Co-authored by Stephen Lawrence , Head of Global SMB, Distribution & E-commerce Marketing Cisco Partners, have we got news for you!

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SmartAction Unveils New Go-To Market Team: A Triumphant Trifecta to Drive Growth and Customer Satisfaction

SmartAction

FORT WORTH, Texas, August 8, 2023 SmartAction, a leading provider of AI-powered virtual agents for customer-obsessed brands, is thrilled to announce the appointment of its dynamic go-to-market team, a strategic alliance aimed at accelerating new growth opportunities and bolstering customer satisfaction. The team will be spearheaded by three industry experts: Ashley Bard as Head of Marketing, Jay Lee as Head of Sales, and Aaron Acree as Head of Channel.

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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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Powering the Experience-Driven Institution

Cisco - Contact Center

The new school year is starting, students and faculty flock back to campus excited for the upcoming year of learning, connecting, and challenges to overcome.

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SmartAction Partners with Henry Schein to Bring AI-Powered ‘Virtual Agents’ into Medical Practices

SmartAction

FORT WORTH, Texas, September 21 , 2023 SmartAction, a leading provider of AI-powered virtual agents for customer-obsessed brands, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Henry Schein, Inc., through which the companies will collaborate to bring cutting-edge AI technology to healthcare providers looking to automate their voice channel administrative activities.

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API Summit 2023 by Kong Sessions Now Available On-demand

Cisco - Contact Center

When our DevNet team found out about sponsoring API Summit by Kong (or as I like to say “The artist formerly known as Kong Summit”) we jumped at the chance.

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The Importance of Call Center Etiquette

Global Response

Does call center etiquette matter? The short answer: yes. The long answer? Consider these two scenarios : On one hand, you have Company A. They have a call center and provide quick, efficient service to their customers, but their agents are known for being hasty, serious and unfeeling. If you have an easy question, you’ll likely get a solution quickly; but if you have a more complicated problem, you shouldn’t expect any sympathy or accommodation from them.

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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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Cisco’s Digital Impact Office powers digital inclusion across the globe

Cisco - Contact Center

Russell (Rusty) Smith is a Senior Director in Cisco’s Digital Impact Office I grew up in a small town. My mom worked as an assistant for the city administrator.

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7 Ways Call Centers Can Help With Online Reputation Management

Global Response

Managing the reputation of your brand isn’t easy—and when you add the internet into the mix, it gets ever harder. Consider just some of the factors that make this challenging: Things move quickly on the internet, and virality—for better or for worse—can be achieved literally overnight. The volume of online interactions can be impossible for small teams to manage.

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Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix: A Simpler Path to Hybrid Multicloud Is Here

Cisco - Contact Center

From golf clubs to cars, the world is becoming more hybrid every day. That’s especially true with hybrid work.

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Are phone calls going away?

DMG Consulting

Are phone calls going away? Donna Fluss discusses a frequent question she receives about whether or not phone calls will be a thing of the past. The post Are phone calls going away? appeared first on DMG Consulting.

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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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BigChange Announces Walkthrough Guides to Ease New Software Roll-Out

CSM Magazine

BigChange has announced ‘Walkthrough Guides’ to make it easier to introduce new software. As companies switch from paper or older software systems, using new software can be daunting for staff, so BigChange has developed simple pop-up guides to take new users through the software step-by-step. BigChange is an all-in-one job management system that typically replaces a series of separate systems.

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DMG Consulting Releases Special Edition Report – Generative AI: A New Paradigm for Contact Centers and Customer Service

DMG Consulting

MEDIA ALERT DMG Consulting Releases Special Edition Report – Generative AI: A New Paradigm for Contact Centers and Customer Service Use cases, advantages, risks, what’s real, and what’s next Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office, and real-time analytics market research and consulting services What: Releases Special Edition Report, Generative AI: A New Paradigm for Contact Centers and Customer Service When: Today, 27 September 2023 Where: Available at the DM

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The Frontline Experience Gap

Horizon CX

The Frontline Experience Gap – Competence, Supervision, and Data by Scott Gilbey “I help identify customer and employee experience gaps that adversely impact the frontline. Then we create opportunities by fixing those gaps. Experience improves and so does P&L. The frontline experience gap has three dimensions—Competence, Supervision, and Data and here I am at the frontline with the following scenarios for you to consider.

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The Power of Personalization: Unlocking the 13% Opportunity for Brands

Working Solutions

In today’s hyper-competitive business landscape, delivering exceptional customer experiences is not just a nice-to-have; it’s a necessity. The bar for customer expectations is continually rising, and consumers are demanding more personalized interactions with the brands they engage with.

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Reimagining CX: How to Implement Effective AI-Driven Transformations

Speaker: Steve Pappas, Chief Strategist, Startup and Early Stage Growth Advisor, Keynote Speaker, CX Podcaster

As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.

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How Employees Body Language Impacts Customer Service

Ann Michaels and Associates

An employee’s body language can have a significant impact on customer service. Nonverbal cues, such as facial expressions, gestures, posture, and tone of voice, can convey a lot of information to customers and influence their perception of the service they receive. How Employees’ Body Language Can Impact Customer Service First Impressions : When a customer interacts with an employee, the initial impression is often formed based on body language.

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A Day in the Life of CX is better with YOU!

Cisco - Contact Center

It is CX Day , and it is time to celebrate!

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Code Llama code generation models from Meta are now available via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning

Today, we are excited to announce Code Llama foundation models, developed by Meta, are available for customers through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to deploy with one click for running inference. Code Llama is a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) capable of generating code and natural language about code from both code and natural language prompts.

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How to Cut Churn Rates in Half: A Churn Reduction Playbook

SmartKarrot

In today’s highly competitive business landscape, retaining customers has become more critical than ever. Churn—the rate at which customers stop using a product or service—is a challenge many businesses face. But, with the right strategies and approach, you can significantly reduce churn rates and drive long-term customer success. In this post, we list out 15 key points in a customer life-cycle journey to cut churn rates by half. 1.

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Contact Center Dialers Demystified

Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.

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Build an end-to-end MLOps pipeline for visual quality inspection at the edge – Part 1

AWS Machine Learning

A successful deployment of a machine learning (ML) model in a production environment heavily relies on an end-to-end ML pipeline. Although developing such a pipeline can be challenging, it becomes even more complex when dealing with an edge ML use case. Machine learning at the edge is a concept that brings the capability of running ML models locally to edge devices.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating Effective Playbooks for Your Customer Success Team

SmartKarrot

In the outcome-driven world, creating a customer success playbook that resonates is not merely a strategy; it’s an art. It requires vision, knowledge, determination, and iterations to get a highly effective playbook. A well-crafted playbook serves as a north star for customer success teams that produce consistent results. Based on the business, organization maturity, and past experiences playbooks can be very different in serving the same needs.