ShepHyken

MAY 19, 2024

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. 99% of Consumers Rely on Online Reviews Before Making Purchases by Jon McDonald (CardRates) Reviews offer insight that an online description can’t and provide feedback from customers who have used or previously purchased the product of interest.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 17, 2024

Quality assurance is crucial in Customer Experience Management, and assessing call center operations provides valuable insights into an organization’s customer-centricity. The subject of today’s episode is the result of our None of Use is Clever as All of Us feature. One of our listeners, Jamie Scott of Evaluate Agent shared his thoughts on Quality Assurance and the problems organizations have regarding this area.

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TeamSupport

MAY 21, 2024

The Future of TeamSupport AI is Here. TeamSupport is thrilled to announce its latest suite of AI-powered tools, built to increase agent efficiency and help your team take customer support to the next level. TeamSupport’s AI Assist incorporates the latest conversational AI technology, acting as a seasoned copilot to help agents close tickets faster, bringing faster, more satisfying resolutions to customers with less tedious manual work for agents.

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VirtualPBX

MAY 16, 2024

Simply put, when you or someone from your company makes a call, this is an outbound call , meaning the call is going out of your office or team space. In contrast, if someone calls you or someone in your company, this is an inbound call , meaning that it is coming in for someone at your company to answer. Call and contact centers make inbound and outbound calls, and most businesses will deploy a mix of both to optimize efforts and maximize efficacy.

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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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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 20, 2024

Automation is a significant driving force behind speed and an enhanced user experience. Ultimately, what matters to users is the experience they have with the systems and applications being used. By removing manual bottlenecks, systems can operate at their optimal capacity, delivering the desired outcomes efficiently.

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Select VoiceCom Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Select VoiceCom is celebrating Mother’s Day this whole month of May, honoring our hardworking moms from different campaigns and departments with more than just a day of appreciation. In this month-long celebration, SVC prepared a simple treat to bring smiles to the faces of our 220 mom employees. We pampered our supermoms with chic gift bags of custom beauty must-haves—brushes, mirrors, and scrunchies—so they can always look fabulous despite their hectic schedules.

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Totango

MAY 17, 2024

Some believe AI is overhyped. Others think we are already in the midst of transformation. The reality is that most of us sit in the middle. A recent poll taken during the Higher Logic Super Forum SPARK conference in April says 61% of CS professionals sometimes use AI platforms alongside other systems, while 11% always leverage AI in various instances and workflows.

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delighted

MAY 20, 2024

When it comes to getting high survey response rates , nothing beats out a survey that meets your users right where they are, on your website or in your app. However, web surveys can be notoriously finicky to implement well, often requiring multiple rounds with designers and developers to get a survey that looks native and triggers seamlessly. Our new Web Widget for Surveys makes it unbelievably easy to set up a native pop-up survey.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 20, 2024

Discover how Cisco XDR's MITRE ATT&CK mapping strengthens your security operations. Learn to identify security gaps and improve your cybersecurity posture.

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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? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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Tethr

MAY 15, 2024

Elevate your agent analytics with conversation intelligence! Learn how to measure, coach, and improve agent performance for exceptional CX.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 16, 2024

This post is co-written with HyeKyung Yang, Jieun Lim, and SeungBum Shim from LotteON. LotteON aims to be a platform that not only sells products, but also provides a personalized recommendation experience tailored to your preferred lifestyle. LotteON operates various specialty stores, including fashion, beauty, luxury, and kids, and strives to provide a personalized shopping experience across all aspects of customers’ lifestyles.

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SQM Group

MAY 16, 2024

Effective communication is the cornerstone of excellent customer service. Specifically, the ability to offer a genuine apology when things go wrong plays a crucial role in managing customer relationships and upholding the company's reputation.

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A Better Answer

MAY 21, 2024

Choosing between a virtual receptionist service and employing in-house staff is a pivotal decision that impacts a business's operational costs, efficiency, and ability to scale. This comparison illuminates the financial nuances of each option, breaking down the components such as initial setup costs, ongoing expenses, and the potential for scalability.

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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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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 16, 2024

Learn how Cisco and Nutanix deliver operational ease, adaptability, and robust infrastructure through complete simplicity, complete flexibility, and complete resiliency delivered in the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix solution.

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Helpware

MAY 21, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of customer service, the true competitive advantage lies in embracing the synergy between cutting-edge technologies and the irreplaceable human touch. Businesses that successfully navigate this balance not only drive digital transformation but also cultivate deeper, more meaningful connections with their customers. This is the impact of digitizing customer experience.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 15, 2024

ONNX is an open source machine learning (ML) framework that provides interoperability across a wide range of frameworks, operating systems, and hardware platforms. ONNX Runtime is the runtime engine used for model inference and training with ONNX. AWS Graviton3 processors are optimized for ML workloads, including support for bfloat16, Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), and Matrix Multiplication (MMLA) instructions.

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Tethr

MAY 22, 2024

Learn how you can use Tethr’s sentiment analysis for contact centers to tap into customer conversation insights that drive CX improvements.

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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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Concentrix

MAY 22, 2024

June 20, 2024 | 3:30PM – 9:00PM CET Join the European Trust & Safety Community! As Trust and Safety is becoming a major concern for digital players all over the world, sharing experience and best practices with actors faced with common challenges is key to developing the industry on a regional level.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 15, 2024

Over the last 40 years, Cisco has built one of most sophisticated and extensive Go-to-Market (GTM) engines in the industry. Today, we are taking the next step in that mission.

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Amplifai Coaching Category

MAY 22, 2024

Overwhelmed by call center analytics? Discover practical solutions to common challenges. Learn how to effectively analyze data, leverage AI, and implement targeted strategies to improve agent performance, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.

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FluentStream

MAY 22, 2024

When was the last time you had a really amazing customer experience? I mean, like so good that you told a friend or wanted to hug the person who helped you? You felt so appreciative because someone heard you, helped. Read More The post FluentStream’s Award-Winning Customer Service: Putting Customers First, Always appeared first on FluentStream.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Zappix

MAY 22, 2024

Burlington, MA (May 22, 2024) ( Businesswire )– Zappix, a leading provider of Digital Patient Engagement Solutions, today announced it has been named a Top 10 Patient Experience Solution Provider for 2024 by Healthcare Tech Outlook Magazine. This recognition underscores Zappix’s dedication to driving digital transformation in healthcare and delivering a superior patient experience.

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TCN

MAY 22, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, contact centers are on the front line for addressing customer queries, The post How to Use Analytics to Maximize Your Contact Center Performance appeared first on TCN.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 17, 2024

Secure Client Management capabilities aren’t going away with the SecureX EOL, the functionality is simply migrating to the Cisco Security Cloud Control service.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Are you tired of the same old SEO tactics that seem to get you nowhere in the vast digital landscape? It’s time to move beyond keywords and tap into the strategic power of professional SEO. In the ever-evolving world of online content, staying ahead of the game requires a fresh approach. Let’s explore how a seo expert can elevate your digital presence and drive tangible results. 1.

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The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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Interaction Metrics

MAY 16, 2024

Can you read your customers’ minds? I didn’t think so — which is why you’re reading about customer experience research firms. Pick the right firm, and you’ll understand your customers and get inside their heads! Over 100 years ago, Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford advised, “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle.” This observation ignited the auto indu

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Help Scout

MAY 20, 2024

Two very different approaches to the application of technology in pursuit of a particular goal, the outer edges of the responses that individuals and companies have to every new technology. Between Bjorn Borg and The Borg.

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DMG Consulting

MAY 15, 2024

This is the first in a series of videos that will explore how AI in enhancing things in contact centers across the globe. The post 10 Topics in our A.I. Series appeared first on DMG Consulting.

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