Fonolo

JUNE 13, 2023

Today’s customers expect more from customer service. They want prompt, reliable, integrated service and they will not linger if it’s not readily available. Their patience is never shorter than when dealing with your call center. That’s why call-backs have become a contact center essential. If you leave callers on hold, your agents will hear the complaints and your social media timeline will show angry tweets.

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C3Centricity

JUNE 13, 2023

If you’re reading this, then you are probably eager to delight your customers and take your service to new heights. Well, you’re in the right place to learn how to give outstanding customer service. In this article, we will explore … The post 4 Ways to Empower Your Employees to Give Outstanding Customer Service first appeared on c3centricity.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 10, 2023

Your customers are having a relationship with your brand right under your nose. Do you know if it’s a strong, healthy one? Our connection with brands is much like any other relationship in our lives, with some being healthy while others are not. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for people to form codependent or dysfunctional relationships with brands.

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Calltools

JUNE 14, 2023

As a contact center owner or manager, your customer’s experience is at the heart of your operations. Equally as important as your agent’s experience , the customer experience (CX) involves your customer’s perceptions of your brand and how they feel about interactions with your contact center. Tracking KPI metrics can help your contact center to gauge the success of customer experience.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

A Customer Access Strategy is a well-documented, overall plan that guides your contact centre. It helps to think of it as a blueprint for your day-to-day operations. It is “a framework—a set of standards, guidelines and processes—describing the means by which … Continue reading → The post An Introduction to Customer Access Strategy appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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CCNG

JUNE 14, 2023

Think about the very best customer experience that you have ever had with a brand. Now, I will share with you one of my best experiences… Once when I was preparing for a vacation, I spent many evenings searching the web for the best pricing for our airplane flights. I finally booked our flights and decided to use mileage for one of us and a paid ticket for the other.

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Abby Connect

JUNE 12, 2023

Missed calls are expensive and most receptionist services promise 100% live answering. But when the quality, efficiency, and features don’t line up, live answering alone simply isn’t enough. Abby Connect isn’t your typical virtual receptionist or answering service. We call ourselves A.I.

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AnswerConnect

JUNE 13, 2023

Should you choose a physical office call center or a virtual call center to answer calls for your business (and what's the difference)? The post What’s the difference between a call center and a virtual call center? appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 13, 2023

I just heard an excellent motivational speaker, Antonio Neves , and one of his messages was called “The Last 30 Days.” He talked about visiting a marriage counselor with his wife, where they were asked to consider the question: Looking back over the last 30 days, if you asked your spouse to marry you again, would they say yes? He then spun that question to business and specifically talked about employment.

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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

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 15, 2023

Your brand is in a relationship with your customers. Like any relationship, some of them are healthy while others are not. Unfortunately, people often form codependent or dysfunctional relationships with brands. To help yours be more beneficial than not, we have five rules about how to build strong brand relationships with your customers. We all have relationships with brands.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 15, 2023

Upstream Works is excited to introduce you to our newest product offering – Upstream Works for Amazon Connect. We enhance Amazon Connect with a unified desktop, digital channel flexibility, seamless integrations and management simplicity The post Become Enterprise-Ready with AI appeared first on Upstream Works.

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Bill Quiseng

JUNE 14, 2023

Once every week throughout June, I offer each one of the Three Principles to Build Customer Loyalty. In this second week, I give you Principle Two: Create their Experience. QUI Takeaway: Customers pay for their experience, not your product or service. They buy with emotion and justify their decision with reason. Customers seek the best emotional value in their experience, not your logically reasonable price, product, or service.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 12, 2023

Top Takeaways: TextExpander allows you to access all of the things your team needs at their fingertips. It empowers teams to access the information they need to do their day-to-day, such as support responses, e-mail replies, sales pitches, and many more. It also enhances communication internally and externally, making it easy for your team to delight your customers with less effort in less time.

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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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VirtualPBX

JUNE 15, 2023

Effective communication plays a pivotal role in the success of any business. Recognizing this, VirtualPBX, a leading provider of advanced business communication solutions, is thrilled to unveil two groundbreaking texting features that are set to revolutionize inbound SMS and automated marketing capabilities. With the introduction of Text Forward and VirtualText Pro, VirtualPBX aims to empower businesses of all sizes with enhanced communication tools to engage their audience and drive customer sa

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Lumoa

JUNE 14, 2023

You’ve designed your NPS survey and emailed it to all your customers—and the results are in… but not those you were expecting. When it comes to gauging customer sentiment and loyalty, few metrics enjoy such widespread acclaim as the Net Promoter Score (NPS). Its lean and straightforward formula for measuring customer contentment has made this metric a veritable “gold standard” in the customer experience space.

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Inbenta

JUNE 14, 2023

DALLAS – [June 14, 2023] – Inbenta, a conversational AI platform designed to optimize customer experience, today announced the appointment of Adam Rivera to Chief Legal Officer. As Chief Legal Officer, Rivera will be responsible for leading Inbenta’s legal, compliance, and regulatory oversight. Rivera joins Inbenta from DoorDash where he served as a senior privacy leader, heading a global privacy compliance team for the platform.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 11, 2023

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 comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. B2B Customer Experience Examples: Think Like A B2C by Dan Gingiss (Dan Gingiss) While B2B businesses are technically providing products and services to companies, they are selling to individual buyers who are consumers.

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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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Cisco - Contact Center

JUNE 13, 2023

Cisco’s partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) empowers customers and partners to leverage the agility and scalability of the cloud by running Cisco DNA Center on AWS.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 13, 2023

When it comes to business communication, one common issue you might face is having your numbers labeled as spam. Legitimate businesses find themselves grappling with the consequences of having their calls inaccurately classified as scams or spam. The intricate mechanisms behind call labeling and the factors influencing the classification of calls have become the focal point for contact centers striving to maintain effective communication with their clients.

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Inbenta

JUNE 12, 2023

June 8, 2023 By Brett Petersen, Head of Global Operations @ Inbenta “I want to ship a book to France” “I want to book a ship to France” The exact same words used in a different order can have a dramatic impact on the meaning of a sentence. Human language is fraught with homonyms, or words with double meanings. While an average person can easily detect the meaning of words using context clues, the same cannot be said of all Chatbot technology designed to engage your customers.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 15, 2023

Product usage data is one of the best tools customer success managers can use to anticipate customer needs, drive adoption, and increase expansion. It helps you read between the lines and tells you what your customer isn’t. That’s not to say your customers are intentionally withholding information. But they’re busy people with other priorities. Sometimes, they may not be aware that a problem or another solution even exists.

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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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kommunicate

JUNE 14, 2023

Last Updated on June 14, 2023 We are now going to teach you how to implement localization of the chat interface into both your Android and iOS app. You all know that by using Chatbot SDKs, developers can leverage features like NLP and integration with messaging platforms. Before we dive, let’s go over some basics. [.] The post SDK Localization Setup In Android & iOS – Your 2023 Guide appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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Cisco - Contact Center

JUNE 15, 2023

Farming communities in Africa have contributed the least to climate change , but they’re paying the greatest costs. Currently, only six percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated.

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Integrity Solutions

JUNE 13, 2023

Without question, retaining top talent today requires investing in making great managers. They are the key to employee engagement, satisfaction and retention. Manager behavior is a large driver of people leaving — or staying at — companies. According to research in MIT’s Sloan Management Review , toxic work culture is the biggest factor that leads to people quitting.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 15, 2023

There is an old saying that you can’t cut your way to profitability. With less budget to go around, some SaaS companies are merging customer success and account management into one function that’s responsible for an account’s business strategy, product adoption, and value realization, as well as its renewal and expansion. These newly formed teams are left scrambling to figure out how to combine consultative and commercial roles, processes, and technologies.

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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.

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Nicereply

JUNE 12, 2023

Good customer service training is one of the most important components of your support team’s success. Customer service isn’t just a box to check. It’s the pillar that enables customer success, unlocks customer satisfaction, creates brand loyalty, and propels organizations towards sustainable growth. And that means figuring out how to effectively train new customer service team members is mission critical.

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Cisco - Contact Center

JUNE 16, 2023

Cisco and Logicalis have partnered for over two decades, consistently delivering value to our mutual customers through a focus on innovation and service, combining Cisco world-class hardware and… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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LiveVox

JUNE 12, 2023

Organizations across various sectors are turning to industry clouds to address their unique challenges and requirements. Unlike traditional cloud platforms, industry clouds provide tailored solutions and templates designed specifically for sectors like finance, healthcare, and retail. We sat down with LiveVox CTO Patrick Summe to do a deep-dive on industry clouds, their benefits, how to […] The post Industry Cloud Solutions: Enhancing Data Security, Analytics, and Scalability for Your Busi

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