ShepHyken

MAY 13, 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. 8 Keys to Making Customer Service a More Positive Experience by Martin Zwilling (Inc. Magazine) With the advent of the internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have change

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 10, 2024

A Master Class Part 2: Unlocking the Psychology of Customer Experience In this episode, we continue exploring the psychology behind Customer Experience, focusing on the role of memory. Customer loyalty hinges on how memories are formed and retained. Therefore, understanding memory formation is crucial for designing impactful experiences. Memory formation begins with encoding, where new information is processed and stored in the mind.

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CCNG

MAY 8, 2024

Customer calls provide invaluable insights into customer experience, call center processes, service quality, and emerging trends within the industry. However, due to the high call volume, manual analysis of these calls becomes impractical, which prevents revealing such insights. Speech analytics emerges as an effective solution to automate this analysis process.

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Callminer

MAY 8, 2024

Forrester Research has named CallMiner a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Real-Time Revenue Execution Platforms, Q2 2024 report.

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TechSee

MAY 9, 2024

As customer expectations continue to evolve, businesses are increasingly turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance Customer Experience (CX). Leading AI-driven solutions, especially those empowered with visual AI , can analyze and summarize customer interactions, predict behaviors, streamline resolutions, and personalize experiences at scale.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 13, 2024

I am thrilled to see numerous talented and trailblazing Cisco colleagues featured in CRN's 2024 Women of the Channel List. These women are at the forefront of channel thought leadership, and their dedication to our partners' success is a testament to the exceptional caliber of our partner program.

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Call Design

MAY 14, 2024

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of receiving positive feedback on a schedule you just published and ideally hearing that you’ve done a good job. Unfortunately, during my time as a Scheduler, these interactions were often few and far between. Thankfully Workforce Planning has evolved over the years, with a greater focus now on employee engagement rather than just maximising performance.

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 14, 2024

For many in sales, negotiation is one of the most challenging aspects of the job. More often than not, these salespeople approach negotiation as a win-or-lose endurance game, a contentious battle that pits two opposing sides against each other. “Winning” means convincing the customer to accept your point of view—even if the outcome isn’t necessarily in the customer’s best interest.

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VirtualPBX

MAY 8, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, traditional POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) lines are fast becoming obsolete. This transition holds significant implications for various sectors, including homeowner associations (HOAs), apartments, and condominium communities. To understand the impact of this shift and explore AirDial for HOAs, I had the privilege of speaking with Justin Goodpaster, a POTS Line Replacement Expert.

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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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Bill Quiseng

MAY 13, 2024

Your brand is not a result of your marketing actions. Your brand is the result of customers’ perceptions of your customer service actions. On social media, customers are talking about you whether you like it or not know it or not. World-class or no class. And if they’re not talking world-class or no class, they’re simply not talking about it all. So, when it comes to your customers and customer service, don’t be just good.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 9, 2024

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) have made these technologies a transformative force across industries. According to a McKinsey study , across the financial services industry (FSI), generative AI is projected to deliver over $400 billion (5%) of industry revenue in productivity benefits. As maintained by Gartner , more than 80% of enterprises will have AI deployed by 2026.

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Toister Performance Solutions

MAY 9, 2024

The feedback session was going poorly. A quality assurance analyst was reviewing a contact center agent's calls. The agent was upset about her quality score. The agent bristled at receiving zero points for friendliness. The analyst pointed out that the agent sounded disinterested. Irritated at times. There was no warmth in her approach. "Well, that's friendly for me," was the retort.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 8, 2024

Learn how Cisco is bringing on-prem and cloud security together into a unified platform to marry the power of Cisco Secure Firewall and Multicloud Defense.

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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 Better Answer

MAY 13, 2024

Customizing an answering service involves fine-tuning it to meet the unique demands of different industries, such as legal, real estate, and e-commerce. This process is crucial for businesses aiming to enhance customer satisfaction, improve operational efficiency, and stand out in a competitive market. By identifying specific needs, evaluating current services, and implementing targeted features, companies can create a more personalized and effective communication channel.

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Helpware

MAY 14, 2024

Are you tired of juggling the demands of different IT projects and constantly trying to do more with less? You are not the only one. A Clutch study found that over 37% of small businesses currently outsource at least one business process, with IT services making the top of the list. This number grows even larger when we look at enterprises, about 90% of Fortune 500 companies outsourcing at least some portion of their IT needs.

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Outsource Consultants

MAY 14, 2024

In the second episode of The Bald + The Beard , hosts Tom Luther and Andrew Griffiths continue their exploration of outsourcing in the customer experience (CX) sector, this time focusing on the pervasive myths about losing control when outsourcing and how strategic partnerships can actually enhance operational control and data security. Key Takeaways Choosing the Right Outsourcing Partner Matters: It’s not just about handing off tasks; it’s about finding a partner who aligns with you

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Bill Quiseng

MAY 8, 2024

The customer is not always right. But the customer is ALWAYS YOUR customer. Listen intently, respond empathetically, apologize, and do whatever it takes to resolve the problem, even if it means having to go with your customer to your competitor. Contrary to popular customer service mantras, when all alternatives don’t work, DON’T fire the customer.

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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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Tethr

MAY 8, 2024

Learn about the differences between keyword spotting and contextual search in conversation intelligence platforms for contact centers.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 14, 2024

When Strategy and Planning Manager Wendy S. joined Cisco full-time, she knew she had access to incredible benefits she now leans on for support and well-being.

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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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Ambs Call Center

MAY 9, 2024

You're juggling patient care and coordination with colleagues while managing a mountain of sensitive information. Sound familiar ? When every second and detail matters, the last thing you need is to worry about the security of your communication. Data breaches, PHI leaks, and the dreaded HIPAA violation. The solution: HIPAA compliant texting. With nearly a century of experience in handling medical calls, we’ve helped a few medical practices ditch the pager and embrace HIPAA compliant texting.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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MiaRec

MAY 11, 2024

In my past life, I was a QA manager in a large contact center. One thing that frustrated me the most was the high agent turnover. Not only do you constantly have to train new agents, which often leads to less-than-ideal customer experiences, but you also see the personal toll it takes on an agent. The constant stress and lack of work-life balance can result in agent burnout.

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Call Design

MAY 15, 2024

SYDNEY, Australia, 16 May, 2024: Call Design, a leading provider of workforce optimisation solutions, has announced a new strategic partnership with ProHance, an enterprise-grade operations enablement and analytics platform that provides insights for smarter decisions in complex, distributed and hybrid workforces. Call Design has built an international business focused on workforce optimisation solutions and is excited to work with ProHance to offer more advanced optimisation technology to the b

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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 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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In 2022, businesses recognized the value of optimizing their contact center operations to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and meet the rising expectations of their customers. However, only 10% of customers believe that experiences have significantly improved over the past year, making productivity a non-negotiable metric for success. To empower agents to do more with less, this report highlights the leading pain points that prevent efficiency and establish a framework for maximizing p

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C3Centricity

MAY 12, 2024

Today, most markets are saturated, and companies are fighting for the same customers. This is why organisations should no longer aim for customer satisfaction but rather delight. But how can you delight your customers so they remain loyal? With fewer and fewer differences between the products and services offered, many companies have realised that they can – and should – differentiate by improving their customer experience.

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Outsource Consultants

MAY 8, 2024

History of Outsourcing in Colombia: A Rising Star Colombia has a surprisingly long history as a player in the outsourcing game. It all started back in… 1981: Colombia became one of the very first destinations in Latin America for U.S. companies looking to outsource. This early wave put Colombia on the map for outsourcing. While demand dipped after this initial boom, Colombia stayed within the spotlight.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 13, 2024

When applications are constrained by insufficient resources, the result is poor application performance or even outages. Cisco Full-Stack Observability can help you scale up or down to ensure you have enough resources to support workloads.

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