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Elevating the Ordinary: How Pride Transforms Your Work

ShepHyken

I love seeing amazement in action. I was at the airport last week with a friend who accidentally spilled his soda. Within moments, an airport employee came over with a bucket and mop to clean up the spill. My friend apologized for making a mess, and the woman’s response surprised both of us. She said, “My name is Laura, and it is my pleasure to clean up your spill.

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Are Automation and AI the Same Thing in the Contact Center?

CCNG

If you received a penny for every time you heard “automation” or “AI” in the contact center, you could pay off the national debt in about a month. These terms are thrown around and used interchangeably. However, understanding the differences between these technologies is crucial for any organization striving to optimize operations in its contact center.

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Privacy vs. Personalization: Striking the Right Balance to Drive Success

Beyond Philosophy

Personalization is an excellent tactic for your marketing efforts. However, only some people like this personalization; some feel they’re being watched. Therefore, it is important to remember that context and who’s doing the personalizing matter. Picture this: Colin’s at his go-to fishing store, Discount Tackle. The manager knows him, we chat, and he recommends a lure.

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A secure approach to generative AI with AWS

AWS Machine Learning

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the customer experience in industries across the globe. Customers are building generative AI applications using large language models (LLMs) and other foundation models (FMs), which enhance customer experiences, transform operations, improve employee productivity, and create new revenue channels.

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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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Bill Quiseng - Untitled Article

Bill Quiseng

QUI QUOTE: Instead of giving incentives to your customers who fill out your surveys, offer rewards and recognition to your people who deliver service so GREAT customers rave about them on your surveys and social media. Customers pay for their experience, not your product or service. And it’s THEIR experience, not yours. Customers seek the best emotional value in their experience.

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Cisco Telemetry Broker (CTB) 2.1 Launch

Cisco - Contact Center

The ability to generate NetFlow from devices that do not natively produce it along with significant storage efficiency and improved workflows make for a significant update to CTB.

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How to Tap into Your Customers’ Hidden Motivations To Gain True Success

Beyond Philosophy

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: One of the things I talk about a lot with clients is customer emotions. The reason I do is because over half of any experience is highly influenced by customer emotions, which, among other things, motivate customers to act.

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3 Ways AI Improves Agent Experience

Upstream Works

Our latest blog post outlines three practical applications of AI that will improve the agent experience and, in turn, improve CX. The post 3 Ways AI Improves Agent Experience appeared first on Upstream Works.

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Customer Service Foundations Training Plan

Toister Performance Solutions

This training plan is for customer service managers and trainers. It helps you use the Customer Service Foundations course on LinkedIn Learning with your team. Make sure everyone has access to LinkedIn Learning before you begin. Customer Service Foundations focuses on the three essential skills : Rapport Understanding (includes listening) Solving (includes serving upset customers) The course is ideal for people new to customer service.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

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

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Manage your Amazon Lex bot via AWS CloudFormation templates

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Lex is a fully managed artificial intelligence (AI) service with advanced natural language models to design, build, test, and deploy conversational interfaces in applications. It employs advanced deep learning technologies to understand user input, enabling developers to create chatbots, virtual assistants, and other applications that can interact with users in natural language.

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Cisco and Nutanix: A 360-Degree Partnership Where 1 + 1 = 3

Cisco - Contact Center

Cisco enters strategic partnerships like the one with Nutanix in order to leverage our strengths in data center infrastructure with the complementary strengths of industry leaders.

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People, Process & Technology and the Intersection of AI: Part 2

The Northridge Group

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 2 of our series, we hear thoughts from industry experts Petra Seals, The Northridge Group’s Managing Principal and Patrick O’Hara, NRG Managing Director of Service Delivery, regarding the risks an organization takes w

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Call Listening in Contact Centers: Time for a Change

Tethr

Traditional call listening is inefficient. Here are several ways you can use technology to effectively scale your call listening and improve agent performance.

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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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Blue Ocean Wins 2024 Silver Stevie® Award for Contact Center Provider of the Year

BlueOcean

Blue Ocean, a world-leader in customer care solutions, was awarded a Silver Stevie® Award in the “Contact Center Outsourcing Provider of the Year” category at the 18th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. This is Blue Ocean’s fourth Stevie Award. The company received a Bronze Stevie in 2017, a Silver Stevie in 2019, and another Silver Stevie in 2020.

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Developing a Modern CX for the Modern Consumer

Topdown

The customer experience is multifaceted and takes into account every interaction that a customer has with a brand and organization. How customers engage and interact with various organizations on the market is also a part of the customer experience. The customer experience is an extremely important aspect in running any business. The ways in which brands deliver a high-quality customer experience, though, have had to evolve alongside the rest of the marketplace over the years.

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Maximize Managed Services: Cisco ThousandEyes Drives MSPs Towards Outstanding Client Experiences 

Cisco - Contact Center

IT related outages and performance issues can inflict significant financial and operational harm on businesses, especially in critical sectors such as finance, healthcare, and e-commerce.

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Don’t Drop the Call: A Guide to Political Call Center Procurement

Outsource Consultants

Political campaigns are a whirlwind of activity, and with this year’s election approaching, securing the right call center partner is crucial. Here’s why political call center procurement is unique, and what to consider when making your choice: Target the Right Audience, Through the Right Channel, at the Right Time Not all call centers are created equal.

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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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AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024: Accelerate innovation with generative AI on AWS

AWS Machine Learning

AWS was delighted to present to and connect with over 18,000 in-person and 267,000 virtual attendees at NVIDIA GTC, a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference that took place March 2024 in San Jose, California, returning to a hybrid, in-person experience for the first time since 2019. AWS has had a long-standing collaboration with NVIDIA for over 13 years.

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8 Voice of Customer Keys to CX ROI

ClearAction

8 Voice of Customer Keys to CX ROI Lynn Hunsaker Voice of Customer is the basis for customer-centricity. And it should be the basis for how your business is run. Whatever is out of sync with customers costs you a lot in tied-up resources and lost opportunities. These are revenue roadblocks. Therefore, Voice of Customer should be very good at driving changes to the business, accordingly.

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When Good Isn’t Enough: Developing Customer Care that Exceeds Expectations

Interactions

How Can the Bar be Raised to Surpass Customer Expectations? In a world of high demands and countless inquiries, meeting consumer expectations isn’t just a goal; it’s a commitment. A dedication to understanding your customers ensures that every interaction is personalized and purposeful, alleviating the pain of lengthy wait times and ensuring each conversation is met with effective, personalized assistance.

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Calling All Past Alumni to Test their Strength and Compete

Cisco - Contact Center

Join the competition of a lifetime on May 2, 2024. Where alumni who had the spark to train hard can compete on the grandest stage of all: the Cisco-Athlon.

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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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Building Skills for the Sport of Support

Help Scout

As we venture into this next season of support, where AI will make our landscape more competitive and providing human support will become more demanding, what kinds of skills should we be developing?

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Predictive Customer Service: AI’s Role in Anticipating Needs

Comm100

AI is reshaping countless industries and services, and customer service is one such area that is changing for the better. Its main benefit is in allowing organizations to provide predictive support to their clients, catering to their needs 24/7 to address their concerns proactively. In this article, we will discuss how the combination of AI and human intuition can be applied to a range of sectors to help solve problems preemptively.

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7 First Call Resolution Best Practices for Contact Centers

Tethr

Establish these first call resolution best practices to reduce operational costs and improve the customer experience.

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Top Features to Look for in Customer Support Solutions

TeamSupport

In the digital age, where customer expectations are higher than ever, providing exceptional customer support is not just an option; it's a necessity. As businesses scramble to keep up with growing demands, the right customer support solution becomes a pivotal asset. It's not just about solving customer issues but creating a seamless, responsive, and personalized service experience that can significantly impact your brand's reputation and your bottom line.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Cisco Secure Access Wins Global Security Service Edge Customer Value Leadership Award

Cisco - Contact Center

It’s one thing to claim leadership in cloud security; it’s another to have that leadership acknowledged by industry experts.

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Why Call Center Location Matters

Ambs Call Center

A common question from people looking to hire a US Based Answering Service is “Where are you located?” Yet usually this isn’t the real question on their minds. They have a different concern, often several. But they don’t know how to ask it. Or they fear they might not be politically correct to voice what is on their mind.

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Zappix and GTS Launch Advanced CX and Call Center Capabilities for North American Enterprises and Government Sectors

Zappix

BURLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES, April 17, 2024 / EINPresswire.com / — Zappix and GTS have launched their advanced Customer Engagement Solutions and Call Center Operational Enhancements for North American enterprises and government clients, marking a significant step forward in customer service and operational efficiency. A key highlight of the partnership is the joint deep integration work achieved with Cloud Contact Center Solutions including Genesys Cloud and Amazon Connect.