Wed.Nov 20, 2019

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The State of the Onshore USA Call Center

CustomerServ

The US economy is experiencing a record-long expansion with unemployment at the lowest point in 50 years. For most businesses, a growing economy translates into greater prosperity. Consumer spending increases, the stock market and GDP rise, consumer sentiment is strong… all of which usually leads to an increase in the consumption of goods and services, higher profits and more innovation.

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How One CEO Made His Contact Center a Home

Convoso

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How Contact Centers Manage the Holiday Rush

Call Experts

The holiday season is here! People are running to get gifts from their favorite brands online and in-store. According to the National Retail Federation , more than 174 million Americans shopped between Cyber Monday and Black Friday in 2018. For reference, this count is almost 10 million higher than what we saw in 2016. In 2019, Salesforce forecasts a "sustained and solid U.S. digital revenue growth this holiday season at 13% year over year (YoY) — and total sales of $136B — from November 1 to De

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How a CX Maturity Model can transform your experience

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Author: Arnaud Dufournet - Chief Marketing Officer How a CX Maturity Model can transform your experience. Published on: November 20, 2019. Author: Arnaud Dufournet - Chief Marketing Officer Focusing on customer experience delivers clear benefits in terms of increased engagement, higher brand reputation and most of all increased revenues.

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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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A Dramatic Change Doesn’t Have to Be a Traumatic Change

ShepHyken

The word dramatic is a great word. When you use it to describe changes you make to improve customer service, it has a positive meaning. It sounds like you’re making big changes for the better. However, if you shorten the word to drama , it takes on an entirely different meaning—one that’s negative. Merriam-Webster’s definition for how the word is used in this context is that it is “a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces.”.

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True Confessions: The Trials, Tribulations, Agony, Ecstasy and Irony of 20 Years as an Independent Analyst

Contact Center Pipeline

Every November since I began writing this column in Contact Center Pipeline in 2011, I’ve written about veterans and veterans’ issues in the customer service profession. As a veteran myself, and a veterans’ advocate, it was something I wanted to do. But for this November issue, I’m doing something different. This column is going to […].

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LISTEN 2019 is “in the Books”

Callminer

This year’s annual LISTEN user conference was the largest yet with 413 attending the event! It's hard to believe it's "in the books!" Here's our wrap up!

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7 Effective Ways to Collect Customer Feedback through Social Media

GetFeedback

These days, businesses are investing more in perfecting the customer experience. . We are in a customer-centric economy, where customer opinion is held at the highest standard of value. That’s why collecting customer feedback is more important than ever. . Collecting feedback allows you to know what your customers think about your brand, your service, and your product; going beyond their simple likes and dislikes and helping you understand and evaluate where you can improve and where you stand a

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VOE Definition: What is a Verification of Employment (VOE)?

Callminer

Ensuring your company deals with and employs only the best candidates can prove to be a very tricky feat. Although there are many honest applicants to positions and potential commitments, there are, unfortunately, some applicants who are less than trustworthy. The information many people provide on their resumes has become more and more inaccurate as competition for jobs, loans, and other opportunities grows.

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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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Disruption -- the Good, the Bad and the Transformative

Cyara

Change and disruption are often feared…and for good reason. In fact, 88% of the companies that were on the Fortune 500 in 1955 no longer exist. That is a staggering statistic. Every industry, from healthcare to banking to retail to travel, has been transformed by technology. At last month’s Cyara Xchange event, we explored what disruption meant to customer experience and how to lead through it.

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7 Effective Ways to Collect Customer Feedback through Social Media

GetFeedback

Here are 7 effective (and some outside-the-box) ways to collect customer feedback using your business's social channels.

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Human Automation – What’s new?

teleopti

It’s time to discard the minutiae and start focusing on the future according to Dave Hoekstra. In his latest blog Dave explains that while human automation might be new to some, to others technology has been automating processes for many years. Over the last few months, the Teleopti/Calabrio team has been hard at work releasing new features to help contact centers manage resources more easily.

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New BCStrategies Podcast - Ribbon's Research on UC Buying Behaviors

Jon Arnold

I’m a market researcher by trade, and always being able to review new research about collaboration and the broader view of how new communications technology gets adopted in the workplace. Ribbon has been pretty curious too, and they recently conducted an extensive study on a global basis about buying behaviors around UC and collaboration technologies.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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An insight into the process of developing a product for a customer

Spearline

Could you tell us about your role here at Spearline? So I started in Spearline four and a half years ago, in June 2015, and I was a junior software engineer at the time. When I started, there were only four of us on the development team and we've grown into a team of over 15, it's great to see a big team grow and evolve. How did you fall into the role?

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Best of ACE 2019 Replay: Outbound Strategies and Best Practices

Aspect

Have you ever attended a conference and had an agenda crisis? Two sessions you wanted to attend, but you can’t be in two places at the same time. ACE 2019 was four days full of exclusive insights and interactive product sessions. With so much awesome content, maybe you experienced an agenda crisis there? Or maybe you were unable to join us. Last week we rolled out a solution, The Best of ACE 2019.

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How Call Centers Manage the Holiday Rush

Call Experts

The holiday season is here! People are running to get gifts from their favorite brands online and in-store. According to the National Retail Federation, more than 174 million Americans shopped between Cyber Monday and Black Friday in 2018. For reference, this count is almost 10 million higher than what we saw in 2016. In 2019, Salesforce forecasts a "sustained and solid U.S. digital revenue growth this holiday season at 13% year over year (YoY) — and total sales of $136B — from November 1 to Dec

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How Would You Rate Your Company’s Client Experience? 3 Tips For Success  

ClientSuccess

Client experience, otherwise known as CX, is something you will hear often as you determine how to design and implement your product solutions for your clients. A positive client experience is crucial for long-term (and even short-term) success. In simple terms, the client experience is the interaction a person has with an organization and/or their product or service. .

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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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Creating a 360-Degree Agent Optimization Program

Playvox

Your customer service agents are arguably your most critical asset and certainly your most expensive. It only makes sense, therefore, to do everything you can to optimize their performance. High performing agents lead to higher customer satisfaction (CSAT) and net promoter score (NPS) scores, increased first call resolution (FCR) rates and successful selling.

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8 Surefire Ways to Reduce Your Answering Service Bill in 2020

Ambs Call Center

Like most, you know about the great benefits of using a telephone answering service. What you might not know are the secrets to getting the best service possible at the lowest cost. Here are eight tips to reduce your answering service bill.

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When Good Policies Are Worthless

Rudy Vidal Consulting

A few days ago, my friend Joan went to a natural-food market. It’s recently been in the news for over-weighing customers’ purchases and so, overcharging them. Joan found lentils were on sale for $1.99 and scooped up two pounds. At checkout, however, the cashier rang them up at $2.49. When Joan protested, the cashier said $2.49 was the price in the system, and there was nothing she could do.

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How Would You Rate Your Company’s Client Experience? 3 Tips For Success  

ClientSuccess

Client experience, otherwise known as CX, is something you will hear often as you determine how to design and implement your product solutions for your clients. A positive client experience is crucial for long-term (and even short-term) success. In simple terms, the client experience is the interaction a person has with an organization and/or their product or service. .

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Reimagining CX: How to Implement Effective AI-Driven Transformations

Speaker: Steve Pappas, Chief Strategist, Startup and Early Stage Growth Advisor, Keynote Speaker, CX Podcaster

As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.

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Cyber Monday/Black Friday Checklist for Retailers

Working Solutions

The post-Thanksgiving shopping season is almost here again, a time when most retailers focus on attracting their share of the customers who come out in greater numbers than at any other time of year. And for small and mid-size retailers, that can be a challenge. Offering customers an incentive to spend their hard-earned dollars on […].

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Connect with Pindrop @ re:Invent

pindrop

Pindrop will be in Las Vegas attending re:Invent 2019 from Dec 2nd-Dec 5th. As an official AWS Technology Partner, Pindrop is the industry-leading provider of contact center anti-fraud and authentication solutions for Amazon Connect. . We will be demoing the Pindrop’s solutions natively integrated with Amazon Connect during their 3rd Annual Partner Appreciation Event Tuesday, December 3 Location at the Aria.

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How User Onboarding Completes Customer Support - UserGuiding

JivoChat

Do you ever feel like you are not able to fully help customers that contacted your support? Like they were not completely satisfied even though you provided them with an effective solution? Like they were not completely **onboard**? Your support team might be missing some key components. One of these components could be efficient user onboarding. In this article, we will explain how user onboarding completes customer support. ## What is User Onboarding?

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Self-Service Can’t Stand Alone - Here’s Why

ChaseData

Today’s consumers are increasingly fond of the idea of self-service. From push-button prompts that make it easy to choose the reason why they’re calling to interactive, option-heavy menus that make speaking to a live human being mostly unnecessary, the current and future generation of consumers are in love with the idea of taking matters into their own hands.

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Decoding the Call Labeling and Blocking Process

Uncover the complexity behind call labeling and blocking with this infographic. Discover the intricate factors and entities that shape the fate of a call, from illegal activity to user feedback, and understand why numbers get labeled and blocked.

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CustomerCount Adds Keatext Upgrade to System

Customercount

CustomerCount has partnered with Keatext to incorporate the company's upgraded text analytics into its popular system as part of its suite of services. Continue reading → The post CustomerCount Adds Keatext Upgrade to System appeared first on CustomerCount.

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Enhance Your De-escalation Skills On Your Lunch Break – 30-minute training with knowledge checks and simulations

Myra Golden Media

How to Handle Difficult Customers. (with a focus on de-escalation). 30-Minute De-escalation Online Class to Help Your Employees Get Angry Customers to Back Down, Even Customers Who Want a Supervisor – with Video Teaching, Simulations, Knowledge Checks, and Practice Interactions. A customer support specialist said “In regards to your eLearning course, your coaching has immensely helped me with a few difficult calls these past three weeks.

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Black Friday Retail: How Offline and Online Will Live in Harmony

LiveChat

Can you feel it, coming in the air tonight? It’s a big holiday season for retail. Bigger than 80’s hair. We hacked the mainframe and found the secret data – this could be The Trillion Dollar Season. Join LiveChat for a week of articles and videos dedicated to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Sell better online and offline. Make it rain. Supercenters and ecommerce jungles appear to be taking over.