LiveVox
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In the realm of contact centers, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the game with its intelligent prowess. AI’s transformative capabilities are changing the contact center industry quickly, enabling businesses to elevate customer experiences to new and exciting heights. In this article, we present an AI overview and what’s changing in 2024.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Top Takeaways: Self-service is becoming more than just enabling customers to attempt to resolve their own issues. Customers want a self-directed experience where they have control over how they are served and can resolve their issues in the way they want. The pandemic has accelerated the normalization of digital experiences and digital tools. The lockdown has changed our customers’ perspective on how they want to spend their time.
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Interaction Metrics
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is the most well-known customer satisfaction metric used by two-thirds of the Fortune 1000 companies. But it’s also easy to misunderstand and misuse. Created in 2003 by Fred Reichheld of Bain & Company , the Net Promoter Score (NPS) asks: “How likely are you to recommend us to a friend or colleague?” Customers answer on a 0-10 scale.
Callminer
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Emotion analytics is just one tool that businesses can use to better understand their customers’ needs. Read this blog to learn the business benefits of detecting customer emotions, FAQs, and 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.
24-7 InTouch
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
In the ever-changing world of digital commerce, the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies are revolutionizing the way businesses interact with their customers by reshaping the shopper experience. From improving customer experience (CX) to streamlining processes and enhancing security, automation has become an indispensable tool for e-commerce brands.
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Help Scout
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Learn how AI features can transform a traditional help desk into a proactive, efficient, and highly responsive support system tailored completely toward helping your team (and your customers).
Cisco - Contact Center
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
This year’s Cisco Partner Summit was filled with announcements, awards, and portfolio updates.
LiveVox
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Financial services is already a complex industry, and delivering exceptional customer care while resolving complex issues isn’t just a goal—it’s an art. As contact center managers, you’re at the forefront of this endeavor, navigating the intricacies of financial service issues while upholding the highest customer support standards.
NobelBiz
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
In an era defined by digital communication, mastering the art of business calls is non-negotiable. Welcome to the definitive guide on setting up a Virtual Phone System (VPS) – your ticket to seamless, efficient, and customer-centric communication. Whether you’re a startup, a growing enterprise, or an established business, understanding and implementing a VPS is a game-changer.
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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
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
Every time I turn my television on, I regret it. Is it the programming? Is productivity wasted? Wistful feelings of stardom never pursued? No. I regret buying my Sony TV. The menu system is not very intuitive. It’s slow. The settings seem to change without warning. This bloody thing drives me around the bend. Watch Colin talking about this on YouTube: Subscribe to our YouTube channel here to see all the latest videos!
CCNG
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
A Rock-Solid Recognition Program is key to fostering an infectious environment of consistent improvement and achievement. The core of any organization's success resides with its employees. They want to be in the know, understand how their contributions affect the bigger picture, and know that their leaders value them. Creating a Rock-Solid Recognition Program is the 1st step in showing employees that they are valued.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
If it’s working fine, why mess with it? Well, whatever “it” is may work just fine, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be better. This idea came to me as I read an article about United Airlines changing the way passengers board the plane. Most airlines put passengers in groups and call them in order. United will continue doing this but make changes to some of the groups.
Callminer
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
Read this blog to learn how real-time guidance allows customer service agents to optimize the time they spend with customers by receiving in-the-moment suggestions to improve an interaction.
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
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
Regret is a powerful emotion. One might not think it has a place in a marketer’s messaging toolbox. However, you might be surprised to learn that in addition to being a powerful emotion, it can also be a powerful tool. The reason we regret things depends on the situation. We can regret a purchase we made. We can regret a purchase we didn’t, too. What we regret and how we respond to it requires understanding how regret happens.
Momentum Telecom
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Acquisition Propels Momentum’s Growth and Position in Collaboration Market ATLANTA – November 21, 2023 – Momentum , a leading global provider of managed services and next-gen managed network solutions, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of G12 Communications , a Seattle area-based provider of voice-enabled and Operator Connect Microsoft Teams solutions. “This strategic acquisition marks a significant milestone for Momentum.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 19, 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. 5 Ways to Track Customer Satisfaction by Foundever (Foundever) Satisfied customers are more likely to remain loyal to a brand, to recommend its goods and services to friends and family and are more likely to show forgiveness after a single disappointing customer experience.
Bill Quiseng
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Many CX professionals have advocated CX as strategies such as AI, online, self-service, telephone, and face-to-face customer support, customer journey mapping, the Peak End Rule, NPS, CSAT, CES, or other CX metrics, and many innovative technologies to improvetheir customers’ experiences. And they’ve done it so often for so long that “CX” has been the traditional term of many business professionals to explain customer experience management.
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!
Real Blue Sky
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Unlocking Growth: The Power of Adaptation and Innovation Introduction In the current economic climate, where unpredictability is the only constant, businesses are grappling with the reality of tightened budgets and a future that’s hard to forecast. It’s a time when growth strategies of the past may no longer bring the same results, and the quest for sustainability can seem like an uphill battle.
AWS Machine Learning
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
This is a guest post by A.K Roy from Qualcomm AI. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL2q instances, powered by Qualcomm AI 100 Standard accelerators, can be used to cost-efficiently deploy deep learning (DL) workloads in the cloud. They can also be used to develop and validate performance and accuracy of DL workloads that will be deployed on Qualcomm devices.
Lumoa
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In many companies, even though customer experience is regularly measured, data transformation becomes challenging for many reasons. For instance, it is expensive, resource-intensive, and requires expertise. But it is no longer a challenge, thanks to modern technologies like martech tools and back-office solution software and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in customer feedback analysis.
Bill Quiseng
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
Print Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Today, for those of us in or from the United States, we celebrate Thanksgiving. So I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation and gratitude for the many who helped me as I recover. Some of you may know that I suffered a stroke in April 2021. When I retired, I was planning to be a customer CARE speaker and then everything went south.
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.
VirtualPBX
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Gobble gobble, VirtualPBX family! As we gear up for the feast of gratitude, we’re excited to share how our cutting-edge VoIP services, coupled with calling tracking for Black Friday, can add a dash of cheer to your Black Friday sale. Picture this: You’ve got your turkey in the oven, the pumpkin pie aroma fills the air, and your customers are dialing in to snag those unbeatable deals.
AWS Machine Learning
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
For decades, Amazon has pioneered and innovated machine learning (ML), bringing delightful experiences to its customers. From the earliest days, Amazon has used ML for various use cases such as book recommendations, search, and fraud detection. Similar to the rest of the industry, the advancements of accelerated hardware have allowed Amazon teams to pursue model architectures using neural networks and deep learning (DL).
Cisco - Contact Center
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In the security industry, there is a constant, undeniable fact that practitioners must contend with: criminals are working overtime to constantly change the threat landscape to their advantage.
Comm100
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Despite its ubiquity, AI has been underutilized in government affairs. While many lawmakers have weighed the antitrust implications of AI, not many in the public sector have sought out ways in which the technology can improve governance. This could be blamed on the median age of lawmakers (58 for the House of Representatives, 65 for the Senate) or a culture of technophobia.
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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.
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. The AI-powered voice assistants of today offer a seamless experience, reaching a virtual assistant, in seconds, that can answer customer intentions with just a few words.
AWS Machine Learning
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
When a customer has a production-ready intelligent document processing (IDP) workload, we often receive requests for a Well-Architected review. To build an enterprise solution, developer resources, cost, time and user-experience have to be balanced to achieve the desired business outcome. The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a systematic way for organizations to learn operational and architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and
Cisco - Contact Center
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Each year, Cyber Monday has this amazing ability to sneak up on us. I’m willing to bet that I’m not the only one in the U.S. with that lingering summer-just-ended feeling.
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