Callminer

OCTOBER 3, 2019

There are many characteristics that successful call center representatives share, some being more important than others. Additionally, there are some characteristics that will be more important based on the needs and functions of a particular call center, although many traits are universal to all who work in a call center setting. Things like showing up on time, willingness to learn, and a generally good attitude are things all call center reps should possess.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Myra Golden shares some tips on how to handle difficult conversations with clients. You already know it’s best to not say words like “unfortunately,” or a hard “no,” and you probably even know that you need to let angry customers vent for at least a few seconds, but there are some other things you should know before trying to get customers to accept your word as final, especially when you have to give customers bad news.

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Ansafone

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Organizational Silos that Hurt Customer Experience With the very best of intentions, most organizations structure themselves into silos. This happens when companies segment people on the basis of skillset into different departments and roles. Although this focused framework can be healthy for a business, it can also lead to many problems. Simply consider the fact that “silo mentality” … How Customer Engagement Silos Are Holding You Back Read More » The post How Customer Engagement Silos Ar

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A Better Answer

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The outsourcing world is divided into different service sectors, and two of these sectors are the most crucial to success: call center services and virtual assistant services.

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CrazyCall

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Why cure when you can prevent? You might have heard that question before. Perhaps it was one of those elderly-eternal-knowledge sentences that p**s you off but can’t be denied. Of course, your grandma was relating to diseases and the fact that it’s much better to eat healthily and not get sick than get sick and then cure the disease with drugs. Believe it or not, but the same rule applies to customer service.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A friend of mine recently told me about their bad experience at a restaurant. The server was very nice and extremely apologetic about the problems that happened throughout the evening—but there were still problems. The food took a long time to get to the table. When it got there, it wasn’t prepared properly. On the next attempt, the food came out uncooked.

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Steve DiGioia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In celebration of Customer Service Week (October 7-11, 2019), this post focuses on the customer service professionals who make it all possible. Many hold the title but never seem to accomplish the task. Some tout the certification letters after their name but can’t put their knowledge to use. Others, sadly, haven’t a clue and chase away more customers than they help.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Some of the most successful call center representatives share some important and valuable characteristics to look for when hiring call center talent.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first days and weeks are so critical when it comes to employee engagement and helping the employees buy in to the mission of their new company. Imagine the employee that shows up to a new job, is ushered to an office where they sit alone for hours poring over paperwork, waits a week for IT to set them up with a computer, and goes hours without meaningful human interaction with colleagues.

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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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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 4, 2019

This week we feature an article by Dwayne Charrington who writes about how to engage your customers in personalized, meaningful, and relevant ways. What is most important for any business today? Customers, employees, lead generation, or profit. Well, the best answer is customer engagement. No business can survive without engaging its customers. These are not only customers but brand loyals.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The days of long-term customer brand loyalty to brands are over. Today, consumer stickiness is far more dependent upon people’s specific experiences and the level of service they receive. Some turnover must always be expected – that’s the nature of competition, after all – but a high churn rate due to substandard customer service is unacceptable, and often entirely avoidable.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Gain an understanding of data mining, including data mining techniques, tools for data mining, and data mining best practices you should know.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first days and weeks are so critical when it comes to employee engagement and helping the employees buy in to the mission of their new company. Imagine the employee that shows up to a new job, is ushered to an office where they sit alone for hours poring over paperwork, waits a week for IT to set them up with a computer, and goes hours without meaningful human interaction with colleagues.

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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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Contact Center Pipeline

OCTOBER 4, 2019

No matter the size of your contact center, your team is focused on making sure you have the right number of agents to process the transactions within the targeted grade of service while controlling the cost of providing that service. In smaller centers, proper staffing can be an even more acute challenge and a priority […].

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REVE Chat Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Customer engagement is a strategic objective that needs to align with your organizational vision. Having a strong focus on engaging with users and customers, by interacting with them consistently throughout their life cycle, should be one of the key focus for the teams and business metrics. . “ 63% of customers say that organizations should make getting to know them better a top priority” Customer experience is an important part that contributes to the success (or failure) of a busin

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 2, 2019

No matter what product or service you offer, seeing a new customer experience success with said offering is what it’s all about. First of all, it’s proof positive that your service provides the value you’ve aimed for it to provide. . More importantly for your business, helping your customers succeed will lead to increased satisfaction—which, in turn, leads to increased engagement, improved retention, and potential brand evangelism.

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Totango

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Being a customer-centered enterprise means acting as a trusted advisor and helping your customers get greater business value from your product. The aim is to create customer lifetime value by nurturing sustained expansion over time for mutually beneficial growth. But sustained growth is hard to achieve without a clear path forward. . Customer journey optimization is a way of not only mapping the stages of customer progression but also identifying ways to add customer value along the way.

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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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Interactions

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Traditionally, automation has seemed like the next-best option to a live representative. It’s something that call centers needed in order to handle large call volumes, but it was not necessarily something that was embraced. It was the lesser of two evils: make your customers wait on hold for 30 minutes until a live agent is available, or allow them to maybe get their task done with an IVR. .

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Eptica

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Author: Pascal Gauvrit - CTO Could you be doing more to understand your customers? Published on: October 02, 2019. Author: Pascal Gauvrit - CTO In the run-up to N ational Customer Service Week , which begins on 7 th October, we’re sharing our thoughts and experiences on the key themes highlighted during this celebration of the importance of the industry.

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Concentrix

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Recognition highlights strategic initiatives to engage growing, diverse workforce Fremont, CA – Concentrix was recognized in the 2019 Comparably Award for Happiest Employees. “Happiness at work is an important metric that should be used when determining who we want to work for and how we want to work,” said Comparably CEO Jason Nazar. “Providing your workforce.

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C3Centricity

OCTOBER 1, 2019

We all know how extremely demanding consumers have become in recent years. The offers of constant innovation and novelty have made us all more impatient and critical. Today we want things better, faster and sometimes cheaper as well. And customer satisfaction is becoming insufficient to drive growth alone. Companies need to deliver more, a lot more!

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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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Spearline

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In this episode of the Spearline podcast, Kees interviews Customer Engagement Manager JJ Barry about his role with the company, CX Day and the importance of customers. Later in the episode, Josh is joined in studio with members of the Product Team, Carl Naysmith and Deirdre Hurley, where they discuss more about CX Day, understanding the customer and the Spearline platform.

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Totango

OCTOBER 3, 2019

When you’re a customer, you don’t want to feel like just another face in the crowd. Customers want to know that you understand their unique business goals, even if you have vast numbers of subscribers. That’s why your enterprise needs to give customers the personalization they demand if you want to survive and grow in today’s customer-centered economy.

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Embedding a learning culture helps you and your staff keep up with changing market trends, and keep your products and services relevant to the current market. As a business owner in the 21st century, you are fully aware that today’s trending innovations, and market ideas, is tomorrow’s “Has been.” Things are evolving faster than it takes individuals to wrap their head around it, and the only way to keep up is by ensuring learning continues for you as a business owner, and

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Strikedeck

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Christina Wong, (Director of Customer Success and Support at Badger Maps), talks about achieving measurable results through authentic , genuine engagements with customers.

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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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Integra

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We believe you need to have only one system in order to manage all your interactions and keep your data safe and accessible. This and much more with uContact. The post All-in-One and up in the Cloud appeared first on Contact Center Software - Integra CCS.

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Some 78% of financial executives think their work is going to change over the next five years because of new digital business trends. Members expect to interact with a credit union the same way they order groceries or toilet paper. But, as we move into 2020, there’s some worry about the certainty of the economy toward the back half of the year. More than two-thirds of CFOs in the U.S. are predicting a recession, according to a study from Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook.

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OrecX

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

State call recording laws in the United States can vary greatly from one state to another. Thirty six states have one-party consent rules while the remaining states have an all-party consent policy. As many of your U.S. based conference calls can consist of parties from multiple states, it is important to understand the laws from each state. Here are some resources to help you understand the state call recording laws : MWL Law - Laws on Recording Conversations in all 50 States.

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