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10 ways to transform your enterprise with conversation intelligence

Callminer

Conversation intelligence unlocks the hidden value within contact centers, transforming them from cost centers to essential drivers of business growth. Read this blog to learn more.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of October 21, 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. How To Make Your Customer Strategy Fun by Chip Bell (Forbes) Is your organization about fun? How often do your customers giggle?

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My House Was Recently Flooded! This Taught Me How to Treat Customers in Distress

Beyond Philosophy

Hurricane Debbie dumped 17 inches of water in Colin’s home. It was a traumatic experience, from wading through the murky water to the neighbor’s house—hoping not to encounter the alligators that usually hang out nearby—to watching a team of 12 recovery professionals sweeping through and gutting what remained inside after the water subsided. The experience has been emotionally draining, especially since they didn’t have flood insurance, making the cost of repairs overwhelming.

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Is Your Business Scalable?

CCNG

We moved into our current home in Frisco, Texas about 18 years ago. It was a fairly new neighborhood. There are sidewalks around the perimeter of the community with a hedge row that provides a barrier between the road and the homes. This is where we have walked for many years. When we first moved in, there were several feet between the hedge and the edge of the sidewalk.

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The State of Digital Customer Experience Report 2024

This comprehensive report explores the evolving landscape of customer and business expectations, with five key trends that will help you understand your customers and stay ahead of the competition. Discover how your peers are implementing AI to improve customer experience with granular insights into their CX investments and specific AI use cases. For the first time, customers prefer digital channels when interacting with a business.

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Integrating Visual Service and AI: Iteration to Transformation

TechSee

In the rapidly evolving landscape of customer experience (CX), businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and foster customer loyalty. The integration of visual service and AI has emerged as a powerful solution, revolutionizing how companies interact with their customers and streamline their operations. Here, we will explore the transformative impact of visual service and AI, drawing insights from real-world examples and highlighting key strategies for

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The Best Customer Feedback Survey Incentives

Genroe

Sitting with management at the final review for your customer survey questionnaire someone is going to ask about the incentive for survey completions. It’s a good question but what is the right answer? It depends on a lot of factors. In this post we’ll examine the research and add it to our experience over 20 […] The post The Best Customer Feedback Survey Incentives appeared first on Genroe | Customer Experience | Net Promoter Score.

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Why Handling Mistakes Well Is a Key to Amazing Customer Service

ShepHyken

Good customer service becomes noticeable for two reasons: A company or brand can be known for amazing customer service and experience. Customers may notice the employees’ attitude, how easy they are to do business with and more. But sometimes they don’t, because it’s expected. However, over time, customers will notice that there are never problems.

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Earned, Not Given: Cisco Firewall earns spot on Department of Defense Information Network Approved Product List

Cisco - Contact Center

Discover how Cisco Secure Firewall 7.4, now on the DoDIN Approved Products List, enhances network security with advanced threat detection, improved performance, and streamlined management.

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Unlocking Service Tech Adoption: A People, Process, and Technology Approach

TechSee

In the ever-evolving landscape of customer experience (CX), businesses are constantly searching for innovative ways to enhance service operations. A key challenge lies in successfully integrating new technologies and ensuring tech adoption by service technicians. TechSee’s approach to optimizing service tech adoption is to focus on the people, processes, and technology involved.

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Your Roadmap to Successful AI Implementations in the Contact Center

CX leaders are in a gold rush for AI, lured by the promise of cost savings and a revolution in service delivery. But simply deploying AI in your contact center isn't a magic bullet. There are hidden dangers that can derail your AI dreams. Recent incidents, such as the missteps of an AI chatbot deployed by Air Canada, have underscored the complexities and risks involved in leveraging AI in customer-facing roles.

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Telling a Story through Intra-Day Performance Data: Let’s NOT talk numbers!

Call Design

In today’s data-driven world, storytelling with data is more critical than ever. Numbers alone can feel cold and detached, but data can come alive when combined with a compelling narrative and thoughtful use of colour. To tell a compelling story with your Aspect WFM IDP data, it’s essential to visualise the data effectively. This means creating a straightforward narrative around how your forecasted data compares to actual results.

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5 Best Mass Texting Services for 2025 (and How Much They Cost!)

Ambs Call Center

Staying in touch with your customers is more important than ever in 2025. Whether you’re sending reminders, promotions, or urgent updates, you need a good mass texting service to get the job done right. But with so many options out there, how do you know which one is best for your business?

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The Secret to eBay’s Phenomenal Customer Experience with Derek Allgood

ShepHyken

This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more:    How does enhancing the employee experience contribute to a phenomenal customer service experience? How can businesses balance automated customer service solutions with human interactions? What strategies can support remote customer service employees in delivering consistent experiences?

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Supercharge Your AI Data Center Infrastructure with New Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

Cisco - Contact Center

Powered by Cisco Silicon One G200 technology and capable of delivering high-density 800G fabrics, Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches are engineered to meet the demands of next-generation leaf-and-spine… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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TechSee Announces Visual Remote Assistance with AI (VRAi) for Salesforce

TechSee

Bringing Visual AI to Salesforce Agentforce, Einstein Bots, and Flows In today’s fast-paced, customer-centric world, businesses must innovate to meet customer expectations. Despite a growing demand for personalized experiences, 61% of customers feel undervalued. Companies must invest in technologies that streamline service and deliver genuinely personalized interactions to demonstrate their worth.

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15 Best Live Chat Outsourcing Companies in India 2024

OctopusTech

1. OctopusTech One of the fastest-growing live chat outsourcing BPO companies in India is Octopus Tech. With years of experience at the highest level of the industry, they can help your customers with a variety of questions in real-time, make product decisions, and troubleshoot technical problems. In addition to chat assistance, the chat service provider specializes in nonvoice services like email support, telemarketing, lead creation, and inbound and outbound call center services.

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NUX: The unsung hero of your customer experience

Connect

When a team attempts to collaborate on a project, only to be hindered by a slow, unreliable network, the frustration is bound to mount. This is the reality for many internal users grappling with a poor network user experience (NUX). Fortunately, the emergence of AI-driven networks offers a powerful solution that can significantly enhance both NUX and customer experience (CX).

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Using Amazon Q Business with AWS HealthScribe to gain insights from patient consultations

AWS Machine Learning

With the advent of generative AI and machine learning, new opportunities for enhancement became available for different industries and processes. During re:Invent 2023, we launched AWS HealthScribe , a HIPAA eligible service that empowers healthcare software vendors to build their clinical applications to use speech recognition and generative AI to automatically create preliminary clinician documentation.

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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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Scaling Cloud Network Infrastructure for the AI Era

Cisco - Contact Center

Generative AI applications are driving the demand for high-performance networking with AI/ML clusters in cloud provider environments. Cisco is introducing new 800G innovations to address these demands and improve outcomes.

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5 Ways Advanced Inbound Contact Center Software Reduces Call Volumes

Enghouse Interactive

Discover effective strategies to reduce inbound call volumes with advanced contact center solutions. Explore five key features, including omnichannel support, AI-powered virtual agents, and voice-enabled IVRs, and learn how Enghouse Interactive's CCaaS can enhance operational efficiency and customer experience.

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Maria Erika Redido and Roselyn Bacsa Named August and September’s SVC Titans

Select VoiceCom Blog

Maria Erika Redido and Roselyn Bacsal were recognized as August’s and September’s SVC Titans. It’s truly amazing to see such exceptional talents dedicated to their jobs despite the challenges of their roles. Erika and Rose were honored for their stellar work performance at SVC’s 16th anniversary, Beyond Epic @16, held at the Apex Super Club on September 21, 2024.

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Navigating the Future of Insurance Customer Service: Trends, Challenges, and Solutions

CustomerServ

The insurance industry, traditionally a brick-and-mortar pillar of financial stability and protection for millions, is changing dramatically. Rising consumer expectations, digital-first experiences, and technology developments are all forcing insurers to reshape and modernize their customer service strategies.

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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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Deploy a serverless web application to edit images using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning

Generative AI adoption among various industries is revolutionizing different types of applications, including image editing. Image editing is used in various sectors, such as graphic designing, marketing, and social media. Users rely on specialized tools for editing images. Building a custom solution for this task can be complex. However, by using various AWS services, you can quickly deploy a serverless solution to edit images.

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Top 3 Tips to Automate Your Data Center with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Cisco - Contact Center

Gain expert insights on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and learn how to access it with Cisco Services as Code. Check out this co-authored blog to learn more.

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CCaaS Features – The 11 Must-Haves in Your Contact-Center-as-a-Service Solution

Enghouse Interactive

Discover the top 11 must-have CCaaS features to elevate your contact center's performance. Learn how Enghouse solutions can enhance customer interactions, streamline operations, and boost satisfaction.

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Beat Deadlines: Get Writing Help Now

CSM Magazine

Meeting academic deadlines is a challenge that every student faces. Whether it’s essays, research papers, or final projects, the pressure to deliver quality work on time can be overwhelming. In today’s fast-paced educational environment, managing your time effectively and staying on top of your assignments is crucial for success. Fortunately, technology and online resources have made it easier than ever to get the help you need to not only meet but beat those looming deadlines.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Global Voice for Zoom: Enhancing International Telecom for Zoom Enterprise and Contact Center Customers

Avoxi

Global Voice for Zoom: Enhancing International Telecom for Zoom Enterprise and Contact Center Customers It’s no secret that Zoom has grown to great heights when it comes to video and now even voice. When reviewing the market for unified communications as a service (UCaaS) and contact center as a service (CCaaS), Zoom is now seen… The post Global Voice for Zoom: Enhancing International Telecom for Zoom Enterprise and Contact Center Customers appeared first on AVOXI.

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Top 10 Challenges of Mid-Sized CPG Companies: Insights, Statistics and Real-World Solutions

C3Centricity

Executives and business owners of mid-sized CPG companies face a unique set of challenges that differ from those of startups or larger enterprises. These challenges stem from the need to balance growth, operations, and innovation while competing with both larger firms and more agile startups. Here are the top ten challenges mid-sized consumer goods companies face, real-world examples of businesses that have successfully overcome these obstacles, and expanded solutions explaining how to implement

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Cisco Is a Five-Time Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SD-WAN

Cisco - Contact Center

For a fifth consecutive year, Gartner has recognized Cisco as a Leader in SD-WAN security and performance—we feel the heart of platform-level secure networking.

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