Beyond Philosophy
APRIL 25, 2024
Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Once upon a time… These four words are the unmistakable beginning of a story, and if there is one thing we humans love, it’s stories. We love them in our news, in our dinner conversations, and even in our commercials.
Callminer
APRIL 24, 2024
Consumer Duty requirements were launched by the UK’s FCA in June 2023 and represent legally binding regulation for financial services. But what does this actually mean? Read this blog to learn more.
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ShepHyken
APRIL 23, 2024
I was talking to a friend the other day. He purchased an expensive new car just eight months ago. Unfortunately, the car turned out to be a “lemon,” and he has taken it back to the dealer multiple times for various problems. The car has spent more time at the repair center than in his garage. If it were me, I’d ask the dealer to replace the car. Apparently, he has more patience than I do and was giving the dealer another chance to fix the car.
TechSee
APRIL 22, 2024
In today’s fast-evolving service landscape, companies are continuously innovating to improve customer experience (CX). However, the true potential of investing in CX innovation often remains untapped due to barriers that hinder adoption. For CX enhancements to truly impact your business, they must be readily adopted by both customers and service agents.
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C3Centricity
APRIL 23, 2024
As we all know and, unfortunately, have probably also experienced, every dollar in our marketing expenditure must be justified, and we have to prove our marketing ROI or risk budget cuts! Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) face the dual challenges of managing budget constraints while also demonstrating the return on investment (ROI) of their marketing initiatives.
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ShepHyken
APRIL 22, 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. 4 Ways to Scale up Convenient CX for Modern Customers by NICE (NICE) The easier things are for your customers, the better they are for your organization.
Cisco - Contact Center
APRIL 22, 2024
When we introduced our first compute platform in 2009 with Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers , there was a fair amount of snickering from industry watchers and established server vendors.
AWS Machine Learning
APRIL 19, 2024
Amazon Personalize is excited to announce automatic training for solutions. Solution training is fundamental to maintain the effectiveness of a model and make sure recommendations align with users’ evolving behaviors and preferences. As data patterns and trends change over time, retraining the solution with the latest relevant data enables the model to learn and adapt, enhancing its predictive accuracy.
Integrity Solutions
APRIL 19, 2024
Mastering the human side of selling is key to sales success, but what does phrase that mean exactly? At its essence, humanizing the sales experience is really about personalization. It’s about asking questions from a place of genuine curiosity, listening, fully absorbing what you’re hearing and then being willing and able to pivot in whatever direction the customer’s answers take us.
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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
A Better Answer
APRIL 22, 2024
Outsourced answering solutions represent a strategic approach for businesses aiming to enhance customer service and manage operational costs effectively. By partnering with an external service provider, companies can efficiently handle high call volumes, guarantee 24/7 customer accessibility worldwide, and streamline communication processes. This method is particularly beneficial for entities ranging from small local businesses to expanding enterprises with a global customer base.
The Northridge Group
APRIL 22, 2024
In our 3-part series: People, Process, & Technology — and the Intersection of AI, we have asked industry leaders in technology, people and process management to explain what AI is, what it isn’t, and how it can be a benefit (and a curse) in each area. In Part 3 of our series, we hear from Leslie O’Flahaven, professional write, coach, and speaker.
Cisco - Contact Center
APRIL 22, 2024
Imagine juggling multiple remotes for your entertainment system, each controlling a different device and requiring endless button presses to achieve a simple task.
BlueOcean
APRIL 24, 2024
The concept of ESG has had its place in the business world for a couple of decades, but it is only recently that it has become mainstream. One of the more complex aspects of upholding the standards a company values is ensuring its vendors are similarly committed. This holds especially true in the world of outsourced customer service, where your vendor is literally representing your brand and your values.
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.
AWS Machine Learning
APRIL 22, 2024
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is purpose-built to accelerate foundation model (FM) training, removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in managing and optimizing a large training compute cluster. With SageMaker HyperPod, you can train FMs for weeks and months without disruption. Typically, HyperPod clusters are used by multiple users: machine learning (ML) researchers, software engineers, data scientists, and cluster administrators.
OctopusTech
APRIL 24, 2024
Think of the Shopify platform as a virtual marketplace where you open your own “shop.” It is like having an e-commerce store at the center of an online mall with traffic from all corners of the world. For each organization or organization interested in going through the e-commerce route, it’s important to know how much Shopify costs. It is all about learning the terrain of financials.
Helpware
APRIL 23, 2024
Client relationship management (CRM) revolves around cultivating robust, enduring connections between clients and providers. Although small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often prioritize acquiring new leads, nurturing meaningful partnerships with well-suited clients can prove to be a transformative element in their success journey.
Cisco - Contact Center
APRIL 23, 2024
Believe it or not, it’s been over four years since Cisco last updated the CCNA certification. In the fast-paced world of networking, that is a long time.
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!
SharpenCX
APRIL 24, 2024
Learn how contact centers can prepare their CX for the AI future by incorporating usable AI into their agent experience.
AWS Machine Learning
APRIL 24, 2024
The Amazon EU Design and Construction (Amazon D&C) team is the engineering team designing and constructing Amazon warehouses. The team navigates a large volume of documents and locates the right information to make sure the warehouse design meets the highest standards. In the post A generative AI-powered solution on Amazon SageMaker to help Amazon EU Design and Construction , we presented a question answering bot solution using a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline with a fine-tune
Integrity Solutions
APRIL 23, 2024
High-performing Sales organizations go beyond hiring for “measurables” and have well thought out plans, processes, coaching and salesperson development strategies in place. The annual NFL Draft is always full of intrigue for many reasons. The real-time drama unfolds as teams select what they consider to be the best 256 college football prospects over a three-day period.
Working Solutions
APRIL 25, 2024
In an era where technology continually transforms customer engagement, making informed and strategic technology investments is not just an option; it’s a necessity for any forward-thinking business.
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.
Cisco - Contact Center
APRIL 19, 2024
Cisco’s 7th annual Partner Innovation Challenge has ascended to global prominence, captivating partners from an astounding 96 countries and distributing over $3.3 million USD in collective rewards.
CSM Magazine
APRIL 25, 2024
In today’s fast-paced market, businesses across the UK face numerous hurdles in attracting and retaining customers. With the advent of digital technology and social media, customer expectations are higher than ever. Businesses must navigate these waters carefully to build a loyal customer base. Here are some of the biggest challenges businesses encounter and strategies to overcome them.
Interactions
APRIL 19, 2024
At the heart of every customer-centric business lies the quintessential question: “How can we improve and optimize the customer experience?” Recently, we hosted a workshop at Frost & Sullivan for the best and brightest in the CX industry. We asked the participants to work through the development of a transformation strategy , and identify the priorities, challenges, and use cases for leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) in contact center transformation.
Tethr
APRIL 24, 2024
Learn how to improve your call center coaching and give agents valuable feedback with these effective tips and real-life examples.
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Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.
FluentStream
APRIL 24, 2024
Businesses often rely on call centers to manage customer inquiries, support, and sales, especially when they are in growth mode. This was the case for Oakview Dermatology, which specializes in providing comprehensive medical and cosmetic dermatology services. With a strong. Read More The post Oakview Dermatology: Enhancing Customer Service and Scaling Operations with FluentStream’s Call Center Solutions appeared first on FluentStream.
Cisco - Contact Center
APRIL 19, 2024
In a few days, we’ll be at Hannover Messe to show some of the amazing work we’ve been doing on our Cisco Mobility Services Platform with our Private 5G partners, Nokia and Logicalis.
CSM Magazine
APRIL 24, 2024
Regardless of the product or service a company provides, its emotional connection with customers is truly important, since it gives the impression that your business has a face and nature, and it cares for people, being determined to create value for them. This mindset starts from a point where companies question themselves about how they look at their customers.
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