ShepHyken
JANUARY 23, 2024
Duplicate or triplicate (or more) effort is a waste of time! If you’re making your customer go through the same process multiple times, you’re creating a negative customer experience. I recently had to get an MRI for a medical issue and was asked to fill out some online forms before my appointment. (And in case you’re concerned, don’t worry. I’m okay!
Callminer
JANUARY 22, 2024
Despite all the buzz around AI, most business leaders still struggle to fully understand it. This blog answers six common AI questions to help you understand how it's used in the CallMiner platform.
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VirtualPBX
JANUARY 23, 2024
Guest Blog If you deal with large volumes of data – like call centers tend to – you may find yourself a target of cyber criminals and your cybersecurity may be at risk. The trouble with cybersecurity is that it’s only ever as good as its weakest point. When you have a large number of staff, the possibility that one of them might turn out to be the weakest point can be significant.
Connect
JANUARY 22, 2024
Download the 2024 contact centre buyer’s guide by Genesys for insight on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping businesses, providing growth opportunities and prompting crucial decisions about contact centre deployment strategies. While immediate benefits come from incremental advances like automation and digital channels , sustained innovation demands more.
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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.
SharpenCX
JANUARY 22, 2024
Successful agents set customers up to be successful, themselves. We're talking through 13 reasons why agent success matters to your customers.Find out why the success of your contact center agent is important to delivering a positive customer experience.
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Totango
JANUARY 22, 2024
This year, the customer success (CS) industry faces a critical choice — either assume the role of strategic growth driver by adopting revenue goals for the business, providing greater accountability to customers, and forming tighter cross-functional alignment with partners—or stick to the status quo, maintaining business as usual and leaving untapped potential on the table.
TeamSupport
JANUARY 22, 2024
Businesses are continually seeking innovative ways to enhance efficiency and improve the overall customer experience. One such transformative tool that has gained prominence is automation. In this blog, we will delve into the intricacies of automation, exploring its benefits, applications, and the core components that drive effective customer service automation.
TCN
JANUARY 24, 2024
Picture this: you’re coaching a basketball team, and they’re playing their state championship game. There. The post How Can I Implement Ongoing Training with My Agents? appeared first on TCN.
Lumoa
JANUARY 24, 2024
Have you ever traveled to a country where you didn’t speak the language? If you have, you must know how exhausting it can be to get help with the simplest of requests. I remember spending over 40 minutes trying to get change for a €20 bill in Paris until a kind stranger finally understood what I was asking for. After that frustrating experience, I had a newfound appreciation for customers who have to deal with unresponsive customer experience (CX) teams that fail to act on customer feedback!
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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
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 26, 2024
This has been created in partnership with YouGov. Our listeners will enjoy $ 500 off their first survey from YouGov. Click here. Customer research has some big problems. You might think the big problem with customer research is not asking the right questions. But it isn’t. Then, surely it’s asking the wrong people the wrong way, right? But that’s not it either.
ShepHyken
JANUARY 22, 2024
Top Takeaways: Staying ahead of industry trends involves embracing technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a critical role in analyzing and improving customer service. AI can offer companies access to valuable insights into customer behavior and preferences, adding value to the customer journey. Organizations need to know what data and information they should be measuring and tailor it to the processes that make sense to their business.
AWS Machine Learning
JANUARY 26, 2024
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications built around large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to create and accelerate economic value for businesses. Examples of applications include conversational search, customer support agent assistance , customer support analytics , self-service virtual assistants, chatbots , rich media generation , content moderation , coding companions to accelerate secure, high-performance software development , deeper insights from multim
VirtualPBX
JANUARY 25, 2024
In the dynamic and ever-evolving landscape of communication technology, traditional methods frequently find themselves gradually supplanted by the emergence of newer, more advanced alternatives. Among these longstanding methods is the Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) lines, which has served as a cornerstone in the realm of telecommunications for decades.
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.
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 25, 2024
You might recall how I like to say, “None of us are as clever as all of us.” Recently I decided that I would like to leverage the power behind that phrase. So, we asked you, our readers to submit your thoughts, ideas, reactions, lists, or whatever else you have to offer, that we can then discuss. Sound fun? Then, click here to learn more and submit.
ShepHyken
JANUARY 21, 2024
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. The Three Top Trends That Will Shape Customer Service and Support in 2024 by Fager – Keller – Quaglietta – Ross (MyCustomer.com) Gartner’s Brad Fager, Eric Keller, John Quaglietta, and Kathy Ross discuss the topics and issues that will define the next 12
Cisco - Contact Center
JANUARY 24, 2024
When Cisco U. was released for general availability last year, we quickly realized we had developed an experience that was built around the user. But more than that, Cisco U.
AWS Machine Learning
JANUARY 22, 2024
Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that enables automatic extraction of text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents, surpassing traditional optical character recognition (OCR). It can identify, understand, and extract data from tables and forms with remarkable accuracy. Presently, several companies rely on manual extraction methods or basic OCR software, which is tedious and time-consuming, and requires manual configuration that needs updating when the form changes.
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!
ConvergeOne
JANUARY 23, 2024
With customer experience at the core of its mission, Press Ganey set out to design a cloud-hosted, self-service platform that would give providers access to dashboards with insights and advanced analytics. This platform would help providers improve safety, clinical excellence, workforce engagement, and the patient experience. C1 helped Press Ganey drive transformational change with a new digital analytics and reporting platform, cloud infrastructure, and a team of 130 engineers to manage it.
Joe Rawlinson
JANUARY 22, 2024
Building local brand awareness is just as important as creating a strong online identity. It enables you to attract nearby customers to your business and build a strong reputation for being credible and trustworthy. Local brand awareness is particularly important for smaller businesses that are trying to grow in their chosen industries. However, it’s something that every brand can benefit from and should think about.
Cisco - Contact Center
JANUARY 22, 2024
Imagine having visibility into the internet—including cloud and service providers—and being able to measure the impact on your applications, services, and users.
SQM Group
JANUARY 25, 2024
Unlock the power of recognizing customer service agents' achievements to boost morale, enhance engagement, and create a positive work environment for a satisfied team.
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.
Cyara
JANUARY 26, 2024
The omnichannel customer experience (CX) is quickly becoming the norm, and consumer expectations are likely to continue rising. According to data from Retail Dive , 88% of Gen Zers expect a mix of digital and physical interactions with brands.
Tethr
JANUARY 26, 2024
Generative AI offers exciting opportunities for contact center leaders but also brings data privacy risks. Here's how we're addressing them.
Cisco - Contact Center
JANUARY 24, 2024
January 24 is the International Day of Education , celebrating what the United Nations describes as a “fundamental human right” and “the bedrock of societies, economies, and every person’s potenti… Read more on Cisco Blogs
Playvox
JANUARY 25, 2024
Warren Buffet said “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management?
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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.
Outsource Consultants
JANUARY 24, 2024
The global BPO industry underwent a major transformation in 2023, and 2024 promises to be just as dynamic. New players are emerging, prices are shifting, and traditional outsourcing hotspots are evolving. To stay ahead of the curve, it’s important to understand the key trends shaping the BPO landscape. That’s why Outsource Consultants has put together a sneak peek into just some of the regional trends highlighted in our 2024 BPO Market Trends and Pricing eBook.
Balto
JANUARY 25, 2024
Balto uses generative AI to revolutionize QA call scoring St. Louis – Balto, the first company to provide real-time guidance to contact centers, unveils the latest leap forward in QA automation for contact centers: Balto QA Copil ot. Joining a fleet of real-time guidance, coaching, and notetaking tools, Balto QA Copilot allows users to auto-score calls based on natural language criteria — without constraining limitations or templates.
Cisco - Contact Center
JANUARY 24, 2024
In an era where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, ensuring a secure digital future for future generations has become a key concern.
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