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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 13, 2024

In part 1 of this blog series, we discussed how a large language model (LLM) available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart can be fine-tuned for the task of radiology report impression generation. Since then, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced new services such as Amazon Bedrock. This is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon throu

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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 7, 2024

In 2007, there was a study from the University of Maryland proving that internet-connected systems were attacked every 39 seconds on average. Today, that number has grown more than 60%.

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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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Ambs Call Center

MAY 6, 2024

This blog was originally published on 7/10/16 and has been updated for relevance. When a business decides they need to hire a phone answering service or virtual receptionist, they are often anxious to start right away.

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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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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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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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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 6, 2024

The RSA Conference is here again, and I am thrilled about the opportunity to connect with our #CiscoPartners, customers, and colleagues old and new.

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CustomerServ

MAY 10, 2024

The call center is one of the initial points of contact between a brand and its customers. As such, it plays a pivotal role in shaping the customer experience (CX) strategy. Internal call centers, operated by a brand’s employees, offer a sense of control over the CX ecosystem. However, in-house operations are resource intensive and require a substantial investment.

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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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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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CSM Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

The key to truly standout service? It’s all about how closely organizations stick to their promises, spelled out in Client Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Think of these not merely as contracts but as guarantees – heartfelt assurances about the service level clients can expect. To keep those quality levels sky-high, mentoring our agents isn’t just important—it’s absolutely necessary.

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Concentrix

MAY 7, 2024

Excerpt / Short descriptor (when applicable): (150 char max, w/ spaces and must include CTA language, such as discover, learn more, etc.) Discover Next-Generation Care (NGC) by Concentrix, in collaboration with Salesforce. Revolutionize customer engagement with tech-powered strategies.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 6, 2024

By now, I hope you have had a chance to learn about the first-of-its-kind, groundbreaking solution we recently announced : Cisco Hypershield.

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TeleDirect

MAY 6, 2024

What is an outbound call center, and how can it help a business grow? Your friends at TeleDirect have all the information you need for success. Get started today! What is an Outbound Call Center? Chances are, you’ve heard of a call center or a contact center. These are platforms where a business can direct all of its customer communication. Some businesses run these platforms from within their own premises, while others outsource to a remote provider.

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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.

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MAY 6, 2024

The customer service industry has long been exploring the potential of AI, with hundreds and thousands of providers already crowding the market and promising various benefits. Further, the recent boom of Generative AI has exponentially changed the landscape, and the rapid pace of development has left CX and customer service leaders grappling with a new set of challenges.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

In the modern digital landscape, customer service has transcended traditional interactions to become a key competitive differentiator. As businesses strive to provide seamless and secure customer experiences, the use of premium proxies has emerged as a critical tool in achieving these goals. Understanding Premium Proxies Premium proxies are specialized servers that act as intermediaries between users and the Internet.

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Concentrix

MAY 7, 2024

Discover how one of the largest insurance companies in the world achieved $3.2M annual savings by transforming the IVR experience via natural language.

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