Global Response

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Does call center etiquette matter? The short answer: yes. The long answer? Consider these two scenarios : On one hand, you have Company A. They have a call center and provide quick, efficient service to their customers, but their agents are known for being hasty, serious and unfeeling. If you have an easy question, you’ll likely get a solution quickly; but if you have a more complicated problem, you shouldn’t expect any sympathy or accommodation from them.

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Global Response

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Managing the reputation of your brand isn’t easy—and when you add the internet into the mix, it gets ever harder. Consider just some of the factors that make this challenging: Things move quickly on the internet, and virality—for better or for worse—can be achieved literally overnight. The volume of online interactions can be impossible for small teams to manage.

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AnomalySquared

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In today's fast-paced business world, customer engagement has become a crucial factor for the success of any organization. Engaged customers are more loyal, spend more, and promote your brand to others. While there are various strategies to improve customer engagement, one that stands out is call center outsourcing. Here we'll explore how outsourcing your call center operations can be a game-changer in enhancing customer engagement.

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CustomerServ

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) remain two of the hottest topics in call centers. The promise of AI and RPA to solve service issues and reduce labor costs is gradually becoming a reality.

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Call Experts

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations. It bridges your business and customers, handling inquiries, resolving issues, and building lasting relationships.

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Avoxi

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Guide Contact Center Phone Numbers: Best Practices to Optimize Your Global Reach In today’s highly interconnected world, businesses are facing challenges aligning who they need to contact with the best way to reach them. And part of the problem is a seemingly very simple piece of the puzzle – your business phone numbers. When juggling… The post Contact Center Phone Numbers: Best Practices to Optimize Your Global Reach appeared first on AVOXI.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the world of customer loyalty, service is the currency paid. It’s a fundamental truth backed by decades of research – when mistakes happen, customers expect service providers to step up and help them make the most of their offerings. The rare 30-year customer embodies this loyalty, having been part of the company’s successes and growing pains.

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SQM Group

OCTOBER 4, 2023

AI can be applied in various ways to automate post-call surveys and integrate with call center Quality Assurance (QA) processes.

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JustCall

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Introduction If you’re running a business, you’ve probably felt the sting of customers leaving, right? It’s a challenge we all face, no matter how big or small a venture is. When customers bid goodbye, it can throw a wrench in our growth and earnings. One powerful solution that businesses can fall back on for customer churn prevention is conversation intelligence.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Like many of you, our listener Brian Williams is grappling with the additional costs of doing business in our era of sustained inflation. He and his colleagues are in a pickle, and they asked for our help. Williams and the company wondered if they should raise prices or add additional fees to cover it. Since I am sure many of you have been wondering along the same lines, I wanted to share what we discussed about this business problem here, too.

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CCNG

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In 1979, a relatively unknown band, The Buggles, released their hit song “Video Killed The Radio Star”. Of late, I see many CX practitioners worrying that this song will become the anthem of an industry lost to artificial intelligence (AI). WILL AI KILL THE CX STAR? I THINK NOT. The advent of AI, especially generative AI, has placed the CX world on the very brink of a revolution unlike anything else we have ever seen before… Well, except for process automation… Oh, and the internet… And the PABX

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Top Takeaways: Outsourcing customer service and support functions can be an effective strategy for businesses, especially startups, to offload non-core tasks and focus on their core competencies. It can be beneficial as it allows companies to provide 24/7 support and access to properly trained professionals, even if they are not direct employees of the company.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. Without it, you risk taking a hit to your CSat scores, your brand loyalty, and your bottom line. But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business? And how do offshore solutions, interpreters, and texting play a role?

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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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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Sometimes it’s a “processing” fee. Sometimes it’s called an “admin” fee. We have even seen it labeled “convenience fee,” a refreshingly candid explanation for it. However, they are always additional fees, and if you have them in your pricing, they might have terrible implications for your customer experience.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing fields like search engines, natural language processing (NLP), healthcare, robotics, and code generation. The applications also extend into retail, where they can enhance customer experiences through dynamic chatbots and AI assistants, and into digital marketing, where they can organize customer feedback and recommend products based on descriptions and purchase behaviors.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 1, 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. Speed Doesn’t Equal Success: The Limitations of AHT as a KPI by Othmar Mueller Von Blumencron (VIPdesk Connect) While top-notch products and services remain vital, the spotlight in recent years has undeniably shifted to the customer experience as a pivotal factor distinguis

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 4, 2023

11 Ways to Reducing Communication Costs with Internet Telephony Solutions In today’s competitive landscape, cost efficiency has become a key driver of profitability and sustainability. Managing the cost per call is a paramount challenge for contemporary businesses across various industries. As per industry standards, an acceptable cost per call could range anywhere from $2.70 to $5.60.

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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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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the domain of contact centers, the paramount focus lies in ensuring streamlined and effective communication with clients. Integrated ticketing systems serve as the backbone for achieving this feat. When approached from a contact center perspective, these systems not only manage and monitor customer inquiries but also harmonize the operational flow, thereby optimizing customer experience.

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Genroe

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It’s Tuesday afternoon and you’ve just been handed a stack of customer feedback forms with a wealth of information and data to analyse before Friday. You look at the forms; there are numbers, scales, and paragraphs upon paragraphs of commentary. You pause for a moment to breathe. Where do you begin? What can you even […] The post The Critical Differences: Qualitative vs.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Claron Kinny, Content Specialist at Beaconstac , the one-stop solution for all things QR. He writes about the strategies and tools to build customer loyalty. Building and maintaining customer loyalty is more critical than ever in today’s highly competitive business landscape. In 2023, businesses face unique challenges in understanding and retaining their customer base.

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VirtualPBX

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In today’s digital age, businesses are constantly seeking effective communication channels to connect with their customers. Text messaging has emerged as a powerful tool in this regard, offering convenience and accessibility. However, when it comes to choosing a text messaging number, businesses often face a dilemma: should they opt for toll-free numbers or local text numbers?

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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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Cisco - Contact Center

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Have you ever been at a party and enjoyed the sampler platter so much that you kept going back for more? Just me? That’s okay. Today, I’ve prepared a s morgasbord* of the latest Cisco U.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Large language models (LLMs) have captured the imagination and attention of developers, scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and executives across several industries. These models can be used for question answering, summarization, translation, and more in applications such as conversational agents for customer support, content creation for marketing, and coding assistants.

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LiveVox

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Financial services technology has become a beacon of innovation, revolutionizing how banks engage with their customers. In this article, we’ll explore how these tech-forward strides are reshaping the financial industry, leading to enhanced customer experiences and unprecedented growth. Embracing innovation as a cornerstone of your CX Visionary banks are propelling customer experiences to new heights […] The post Tech-Forward Banking for 2023: Enhancing Customer Experience And Financi

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Helpware

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Marketing is a cornerstone of thriving businesses, perpetually evolving with each technological leap. With the swift rise of AI, marketing strategies and approaches have undergone a significant transformation. In our recent conversation with Helpware VP of Marketing, Alexei Piskunov, he unveiled intriguing insights about the trajectory of this evolution, prevalent trends, and the horizon ahead.

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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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Cisco - Contact Center

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have seen widespread adoption across enterprise and government organizations. Processing unstructured data has become easier with the advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and user-friendly AI/ML services like Amazon Textract , Amazon Transcribe , and Amazon Comprehend. Organizations have started to use AI/ML services like Amazon Comprehend to build classification models with their unstructured data to get deep insights that they

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LiveVox

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In financial services, each interaction carries a lot of weight, so the art of segmentation is a powerful ally. It enables a tailored approach that resonates with each customer’s unique needs. In this dynamic landscape where digital transformation intertwines with personalized experiences, effective segmentation is the beacon guiding you to success.

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