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Helping AI Help Agents: A Better Way to Use AI Applications in the Contact Center

Upstream Works

I’ve been reading This I Know: Marketing Lessons from UNDER THE INFLUENCE by Terry O’Reilly, and something he said really stuck with me. It was 2006 and it was way ahead of its time – providing omnichannel agent desktop capabilities long before the concept of “omnichannel” was formed.

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Guest Blog: Becoming a Blockbuster?

ShepHyken

Another example: BlackBerry dominated the business smartphone market. After many years of false starts then attempting to catch up to smartphone market leaders, a new device was just recently introduced, the BlackBerry KEYone, but it is marketed, manufactured, and distributed, not by Blackberry but by TCL.

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Marketing Operations Defined for Wikipedia, Part I

ClearAction

Marketing Operations Defined for Wikipedia, Part I Gary Katz. Marketing Operations definition as proposed updated content for Wikipedia, which would include the History of Marketing Operations and Marketing Operations Defined for Wikipedia, Part II. Please comment below to indicate your approval/suggestions.

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5 Facts to End the ROI Debate on Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

The short version is that a study by the CFI group tracked the share prices of the leaders of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) and the leaders National Customer Satisfaction Index, UK (NCSI) versus the broader markets. February 2006. By comparison, the S&P 500 returned only $93, a 7-percent loss. Why is this?

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“U.S. Employee Engagement Reaches Three-Year High.” Where Customer Experience and Value Delivery Are Concerned, Shouldn’t We Ask: ‘So What?’

Beyond Philosophy

As the job market becomes more competitive, it is possible that companies are putting more effort into engaging their current workers.” The consulting organization went on to conclude from these findings that “Recent trends suggest that improvements in engagement coincide with improvement in unemployment and underemployment.”,

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Keeping Core Values Top of Mind

Contact Center Pipeline

Hispanic market—in 2006. […]. By engaging staff and leaders in defining what your organization stands for. That was the approach taken by Listen Up Español Founders Craig Handley and Tony Ricciardi. The two launched the business—a bilingual call center for the U.S.

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A History of Customer Support Technology

TeamSupport

Though primarily used for outbound marketing campaigns, these systems also allowed for better organization and tracking of customer data. Companies began using Facebook for marketing and promotion shortly after the platform expanded beyond college students and was opened to the general public in September 2006.