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Call Center Training: Empowering Agents for Success

Vistio

In the fast-paced world of customer service, providing exceptional experiences for customers is essential. And at the heart of delivering excellent customer service lies well-trained call center agents. These agents are the frontline representatives who interact with customers, address their concerns, and provide solutions. But training call center agents can be a daunting task.

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Three Red Flags Your Contact Center is Falling Behind and How to Get Back on Track

3CLogic

In today’s digital world, your competitors are no more than a click away, drastically increasing the importance of delivering personalized customer experiences (CX) on the first go. Case in point, PWC highlights that a staggering 32% of customers would walk away after just one bad interaction , underscoring the significance of meeting your customers' needs on the first try — every time.

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How many customer support agents do I need on live chat?

Provide Support

To find out how many customer support agents you need for live chat you need to make thorough analysis of your customer service needs and audience.

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AI in CX Automation: It’s Not All or Nothing

TechSee

Customers expect a seamless and personalized experience from every business in today’s digital age. As a result, companies are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance their customer experience (CX). AI-powered CX automation can help leadership automate routine customer tasks, personalize customer interactions, and automate customer service at scale.

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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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Navigating Digital Communications in Contact Centers

TCN

In the ever-changing world of contact centers, digital communication stands as the foundation of interactions. The post Navigating Digital Communications in Contact Centers appeared first on TCN.

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AI is the Tailwind for 2024 Contact Center Technology Investments

DMG Consulting

AI is the Tailwind for 2024 Contact Center Technology Investments On an annual basis, DMG Consulting conducts a worldwide survey of enterprise, customer experience (CX), contact center, and customer service executives and managers to ask about their top business priorities and technology investment plans for the following year. The survey we conducted in December 2023 captured this information for 2024.

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AI in Call Centers: Benefits, Trends, and Solutions

Helpware

Always quick to adopt new technologies, the call center industry rapidly accepted changes by using call center artificial intelligence solutions in their CS processes. This includes everything from managing simple inquiries to assisting agents in tackling complex issues, underlining the role of artificial intelligence for call centers.

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What Anti-Robocall Measures Can Call Centers Expect in 2024?

Calltools

The battle against illegal and unethical robocalls continues to rage on. Powerful legislation, call center improvements, and sophisticated blocking apps have slowed but not stopped the onslaught of spam and scam calls and texts. Consumers have long been frustrated by what they see as a lack of progress, despite numerous FCC-led efforts. So what will 2024 offer to finally stop these costly and infuriating calls?

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Why AI Practice Partners Outshine One-on-One Role Play in Call Center Training

Vistio

Call centers are hubs of customer interaction and service, where agents handle numerous calls, each with unique challenges. The need for effective communication, prompt problem-solving, and a positive attitude cannot be overemphasized. Therefore, it is vital for call centers to invest in proper training and rehearsals to ensure their agents are well-prepared for diverse customer issues.

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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 to Connect With Your Customers on an Emotional Level and Drive Brand Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

Practicality is essential. Great ideas you can’t do anything with in the real world are a waste of time. Bob Black, one of our avid podcast listeners, likes our concepts about eliciting particular customer emotions. But he doesn’t know how to do that in practical steps. So, this episode gives them to him. Bob isn’t alone. Numerous organizations struggle with eliciting specific emotions in their customers.

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Rip the Band-Aid Off Communication

ShepHyken

It’s time to come back to a very important topic in customer service and customer experience. It also falls under leadership and management. The topic is communication and transparency. I was recently interviewed by Megan Jones, an editor for Call Centre Helper magazine. We were talking about how to turn Moments of Misery™ into Moments of Magic ™. Her story is an interesting one.

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Human Resilience: Root of Organizational Success Today -Part 1

CCNG

Organizational Resilience Through Human Resilience  “Resilience” has become a buzzword for the times. You’ve likely heard it enough to surmise that having more is better, but what exactly is it and why does it matter? While resilience relates to many aspects of business - organizational, economic, logistic, and technological, they are all predicated on the essential one: individual human resilience.

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Maximizing customer experience in the omnichannel era

Callminer

Uncovering channel-specific insights can ensure a seamless customer journey, as well as driving business improvements that make a difference in EX and CX. Read more in our blog.

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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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Master the Art of Language: How to Transform Other People’s Opinion of You

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Let’s begin this week’s issue with a test. I am going to share a British idiom, and you are going to determine what it means. It’s simple enough, yes? We will be on the honor system, so score yourself as you go along.

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Reimagining Customer Loyalty Programs

ShepHyken

This episode of  Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken  answers the following questions and more:    What are the latest trends in loyalty programs? How has the traditional concept of loyalty program evolved? How do loyalty programs impact a customer’s purchasing decision? How can companies effectively track and utilize customer data to drive loyalty?

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Gross Retention vs. Net Retention: What’s the Difference?

Totango

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points. Similarly, to be successful, an enterprise needs to be able to prevent churn and increase revenue growth.

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How to create steps of service (and why you need them)

Toister Performance Solutions

I love In-N-Out for its remarkable consistency. The service is the same every time I go. There's a warm and friendly greeting. The cashier takes my order and confirms it. They conclude the transaction by handing me my receipt, telling me my guest number, and thanking me. It always happens. Each step has a purpose. The greeting establishes rapport and makes me feel welcome.

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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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Automate mortgage document fraud detection using an ML model and business-defined rules with Amazon Fraud Detector: Part 3

AWS Machine Learning

In the first post of this three-part series, we presented a solution that demonstrates how you can automate detecting document tampering and fraud at scale using AWS AI and machine learning (ML) services for a mortgage underwriting use case. In the second post , we discussed an approach to develop a deep learning-based computer vision model to detect and highlight forged images in mortgage underwriting.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of February 5, 2024

ShepHyken

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. Bad Customer Service Puts $3.7 Trillion in Sales Annually at Risk by Bruce Gil (Quartz) Bad customer experiences could cost organizations around the world $3.7 trillion annually, according to new research by the experience management company Qualtrics.

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Hand-in-hand, not handoff: How a three-legged stool approach fuels growth

Totango

What’s on customer success’s in-and-out list for 2024? In: A hand-in-hand, three-team approach to customer success where Sales, CS, and Marketing work together to guide customers through the entire customer journey. Out: The old-school Sales-to-CS handoff. No more “Here’s your customer success manager, see you never!” emails from the sales rep. Totango Chief Marketing Officer Karen Budell refers to this cross-functional effort as the “three-legged stool” approach, and as she recently explained

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Product News – January 2024

Lumoa

Lumoa Product News for January 2024 Hey everyone! Lovely seeing you again, back with more exciting Lumoa updates! We have had a doozy of a month, with lots of features that we think will make Lumoa better for you. Let’s get started! GPT Summaries Improvements The AI that we use to create GPT summaries has been refined and improved, thanks to your feedback!

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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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Accenture creates a regulatory document authoring solution using AWS generative AI services

AWS Machine Learning

This post is co-written with Ilan Geller, Shuyu Yang and Richa Gupta from Accenture. Bringing innovative new pharmaceuticals drugs to market is a long and stringent process. Companies face complex regulations and extensive approval requirements from governing bodies like the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A key part of the submission process is authoring regulatory documents like the Common Technical Document (CTD), a comprehensive standard formatted document for submitting applications,

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Navigating the SMS Landscape: Compliance, Strategy, and Innovation

NobelBiz

SMS (Short Message Service ) has become a pivotal channel in the contact center industry. This article, inspired by insights from Holly Depies , contact center software consultant and SMS expert at Nobelbiz aims to unravel the complexities of SMS marketing, from compliance hurdles to strategic innovations, equipping you with the knowledge to transform your SMS campaigns into potent engagement tools.

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The Benefits of Having Human Customer Service Representatives in the Shipping Industry

CSM Magazine

AI-powered chatbots have made significant progress in customer service over the years. However, there is still a lot of room for improvement, especially in the shipping and logistics industry. This was highlighted by the recent DPD chatbot incident where a malfunctioning chatbot received a lot of negative media attention. Although digital customer service solutions can be quick and efficient, they often offer generic and automated responses that are not personalised to individual customers.

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Congratulations to Cisco’s 2024 CRN Channel Chiefs!

Cisco - Contact Center

This is always an exciting time of year at Cisco. Today not only marks the start of Cisco Live EMEA, it’s also the release date of the 2024 CRN Channel Chiefs list.

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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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Deploy large language models for a healthtech use case on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

In 2021, the pharmaceutical industry generated $550 billion in US revenue. Pharmaceutical companies sell a variety of different, often novel, drugs on the market, where sometimes unintended but serious adverse events can occur. These events can be reported anywhere, from hospitals or at home, and must be responsibly and efficiently monitored. Traditional manual processing of adverse events is made challenging by the increasing amount of health data and costs.

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Introduction to CX 101.

Bill Quiseng

Welcome to CX 101. Today’s course is a prerequisite for business professionals in the B2C or hospitality industry. It’s an elective for the B2B or the online/digital industry. This is not a customer service training class. Training is finite, usually one to three days. And training is top-down, one-way “I know everything, you know nothing” instruction.

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Best Practices for Automated Conversational AI Testing in 2024

Cyara

For some time now, contact centers have felt the pressure building to adopt or upgrade their existing conversational AI solutions. In 2023, the dam finally broke. After ChatGPT went mainstream, it quickly became clear that conversational AI would forever change the way brands interact with their customers.