Sat.Jun 24, 2023 - Fri.Jun 30, 2023

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Key Stages in Cloud Contact Center Migration

Cyara

Cloud contact center migration can be a complex and challenging journey. Businesses that choose to follow this path can gain many benefits. Those that don’t, might not. According to CX Today , the CCaaS (Contact Center as a Service) space will grow to $19.8 billion by 2031, putting it on a 16.8% annual growth rate.

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The Challenges of Maintaining and Upgrading Call Center Infrastructure

NobelBiz

Managing a call center goes beyond delivering exceptional customer service. It requires a deep understanding of the importance of call center infrastructure to maintain a seamless operation. A well-designed infrastructure serves as the backbone of the call center, encompassing various components such as hardware, software, networks, and communication systems.

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Embracing Conversational AI for Contact Center Success in 2023

SmartAction

Why wait? Embrace automation for contact center success in 2023! Are you ready to take your contact center to the next level? In today’s fast-paced world, delivering efficient and effective support while maintaining high customer satisfaction levels is crucial. So, why are some contact centers still hesitant to implement AI? Let’s address the common objections and show you how to overcome them with conversational AI and virtual agents.

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Customer Experience does not equal customer service!

CCNG

Customer Experience. I see those two words together often and, frequently, I want to quote Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride, "I do not think it means what you think it means".… Customer Experience does not equal customer service. Someone much smarter than me, but I don't know who, said "Customer service is what happens when your customer experience fails".

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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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Why successful customer service strategy is important [Infographic]

Provide Support

Statistics show that successful customer service strategy is one of most important things businesses should pay attention to.

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Unveiling the Future of the Contact Center: Highlights from CCW Las Vegas 2023

JustCall

Thousands of contact center leaders and professionals from around the globe gathered at one of the largest contact center event series from June 19th-22nd, 2023 for Customer Contact Week at Caesar’s Forum in Las Vegas. As the customer experience in the contact center is undergoing a major transformation, the JustCall team — together with the Helpwise and CallPage teams — participated at CCW Vegas, unveiling groundbreaking solutions and tackling the pressing challenges confronting the modern co

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AI in Customer Service: Chatbots and ChatGPT are just the Start

TechSee

AI is rapidly becoming a critical tool in customer service. While initial conversations now focus on improving chatbots with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, this is just the start of what AI can and will offer. AI will streamline, augment and, in many cases, automate the customer experience and improve customer satisfaction. Getting there will require a broader perspective on service.

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Harnessing the Power of CX Technology and Human Interaction in Customer Service

Interactions

It’s not news to CX industry professionals that customer service expectations constantly change. Faced with that reality, brands must adapt their approach to customer service to meet them. Today that means harnessing the power CX technology and human interaction. This hybrid approach combines the efficiency and convenience of AI-driven solutions with the empathy and understanding that human agents provide.

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Customer Service Practices for Building Customer Loyalty

CSM Magazine

Having customers that are loyal to your brand is the dream. After all, they’ll become the backbone of your business and ensure you have repeat sales. Studies show that a 5% increase in customer retention can lead to an increase of between 25% and 95% in revenue. It makes sense then that promoting customer loyalty should be on every business’s to-do list.

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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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How Simple Can You Make Your Business?

ShepHyken

Simplify the Customer Experience I love good barbeque. I live in St. Louis, which is famous for some of the best BBQs in the world! Really! We have a number of restaurants that have competed in worldwide competitions and come back with the first-place trophy. My friend Norman Beck loves BBQ, too. Living in Texas, he’s also exposed to some of the best BBQ in the world, although I’ll argue it’s second to St.

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The astounding reason customers buy that they keep a secret

Beyond Philosophy

You wouldn’t think to look at it that The Magic Castle hotel in Los Angeles has been ranked in the top ten hotels on TripAdvisor, but it has. A converted apartment building has turned its unassuming appearance into an excellent experience for its guests, and how they do it isn’t that big of a thing, quite the opposite. It’s the little things make a big difference in their customer satisfaction.

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Sentiment analysis & machine learning: 2023 guide

Callminer

Sentiment analysis and machine learning have become crucial tools for gauging the customer experience. Read this blog to learn how your business can leverage sentiment analysis.

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18 Ways to Make Your Customers Feel Loved and Appreciated

Steve DiGioia

We have studied ways to best serve our customers ad nauseam. We use numerous metrics to gauge customer sentiments. We sit through seminar after seminar to learn the latest tactics to enhance the customer experience and spend thousands of dollars on certification courses signaling to our peers our “expertise”. And countless experts have built impressive careers by writing books, making speeches, and hosting training courses and podcasts.

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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 Never Lose an Employee Again with Joey Coleman

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: You can only expect to deliver a remarkable customer experience if you have remarkable employees. People think that customer experience and employee experience are two different silos. The better way to look at it is that they are two sides of the same coin because we need to work on both. The first 100 days are the most important time in the entire relationship with an employee.

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This is our time for a Patient CARE Revolution!

Bill Quiseng

For many years, there has been a stranglehold “Profits over People” mentality for healthcare leaders. These “Profits over People” traditionalists care about their hospital’s labor, research, and equipment costs, Medicare reimbursements, pharmaceutical companies’ payments in cash and in-kind gifts, and their patients’ payments more than they do their patients.

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34 experts share their favorite examples of new product innovation

Callminer

Learn more about new product innovations and review some of the most influential innovative products in recent times, according to business experts.

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6 Ways to Improve Omnichannel Customer Experience

Lumoa

A marketing strategy with an 89% retention and an even better purchase rate – sounds unreal, right? But with an omnichannel marketing strategy, these numbers are quite achievable. In fact, several companies, ranging from media to finance, are already investing in an omnichannel customer experience to boost their sales and revenue. For example, Target, one of the top US retail chains, improved its pickup sales with an omnichannel campaign.

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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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How Customer Expectations Are Related To Customer Satisfaction

TeamSupport

Does your customer service software help you measure customer expectations? Understanding the relationship between customer expectations and customer satisfaction is crucial to business success. Companies must grasp, understand, and manage customer expectations effectively in order to deliver experiences that meet or exceed them. When they do, businesses can use that momentum to enhance customer satisfaction, build stronger customer relationships, and drive business success.

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The Power of Real-Time Feedback to Drive Business Success

C3Centricity

In today’s fast-paced and customer-centric business environment, gathering real-time customer feedback and engaging in social media conversations are both vital practices.

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How EVE Detects Malicious Uses of Trustworthy Cloud Services

Cisco - Contact Center

To evade detection, attackers will often live-off-the-land by using pre-installed binaries like powershell.exe and communicating with legitimate cloud services like dl.dropbox[.]com.

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Crafting an Unforgettable Brand Experience: Key Strategies for E-commerce Entrepreneurs

JivoChat

In the competitive world of E-commerce, going the extra mile and leaving a lasting impression on customers is paramount. A recent study revealed that 94% of consumers think of brand experience as a key factor influencing their purchase decision. With countless options at their fingertips, consumers seek more than just products—they crave an unforgettable brand experience.

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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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Team Management in a Time of War Crisis

Helpware

When the war in Ukraine unfolded on February 24, 2022, it jolted global businesses with operations in the country like an unexpected earthquake. Multinational corporations faced the dual challenges of ensuring their employees' safety and keeping business operations running. We hope that by sharing our experience and the lessons we've learned in navigating through such challenging circumstances, we can help other businesses fine-tune their crisis management strategies.

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Good Customer Service vs. Great Customer Experience

SmartAction

When it comes to customer service, most people believe that good customer service means receiving timely assistance to resolve any issues that may arise with a product or service. However, there is a deeper definition of customer service that many people fail to consider, and that is the overall customer experience. To understand this better, let’s look at an example.

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Webex first collaboration suite with EU Cloud Code of Conduct Level 3 adherence

Cisco - Contact Center

Cisco is proud to announce that Webex by Cisco (Webex) – comprising Webex Meetings, Webex Messaging, and Webex Calling – is the first collaboration and conferencing solution to achieve Level 3 adh… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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How AI is Redefining the BPO Industry: Operational Insights, Efficiency Gains, & Actionable Tactics

LiveVox

Adopting AI technology offers compelling reasons for BPO companies to enhance their operations and decision-making processes. By leveraging AI-powered tools, BPOs can delve into vast amounts of data, extract valuable insights, and uncover trends that drive operational improvements. The post How AI is Redefining the BPO Industry: Operational Insights, Efficiency Gains, & Actionable Tactics appeared first on LiveVox.

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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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How Education Technology Transforms Student Experiences

JivoChat

As the world evolves quickly in the digital age, the transformative power of technology also penetrates every aspect of our lives, including education. Nowadays, classrooms are no longer confined to traditional textbooks and lectures alone. Instead, an exciting wave of Education Technology (EdTech) has ushered in a new era, redefining the way students learn, engage, and interact with knowledge.

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3 Digital Tools to Help Managers Build a Positive Remote Contact Center Environment

SharpenCX

Remote work is here to stay, and that means contact centers are adapting to the opportunities and challenges presented by this new way of working. Some of those opportunities include more flexibility and well-being for agents. And that’s important because happy agents are 3.3x more likely to feel empowered to resolve customer issues. The challenges, though?

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Cisco and Intel Demonstrate Interoperability for Open RAN

Cisco - Contact Center

Cisco and Intel validate interoperability between Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 Switch and Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters that feature enhanced timing capabilities for faster and lower cost … Read more on Cisco Blogs

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