Comm100

OCTOBER 26, 2022

To improve customer service, there’s only one place every company should start – meeting customers’ expectations. Today’s consumers have ever-changing and ever-rising customer service expectations, and organizations must meet these expectations if they are to continue growing their business. With this in mind, we will look at some customer service best practices that help teams and agents provide this consumer experience.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Awesome Responsibility is a concept I came up with a number of years ago. It describes the role an employee has when interacting with a customer. In that moment, one person in the company represents everything about the company. When people walk away from doing business with a company, they will often say things like, “I enjoy doing business with them ,” or, “ They are so helpful.” .

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Contact Center Pipeline

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Promises are the most personal and binding of commitments, and therefore are to be made carefully, kept fully, and broken only in the most extenuating cases and with thorough explanations. So, when a company, its contact center, and its agents makes and keeps its promises to help its customers, and in an industry that has […].

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When you think of improving your call center motivation, do you dream of near-perfect customer satisfaction scores ? Impeccable customer service and experience? To get a real sense of how things are going, don’t just look at your customers; look at your agents. If they’re motivated, your customers will likely feel satisfied. If not? Everything goes downhill.

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Lumoa

OCTOBER 26, 2022

After a couple of years of hiatus, many Customer Experience Conferences are going back to live events, as you have already seen in late 2022 – or at least they are trying to. There are nonetheless also many options for those who are still not ready to travel and meet people, as organizers have become better and better at offering an experience that is comparable to face-to-face interactions.

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VirtualPBX

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What if missed appointments could be a think of the past? At VirtualPBX, we understand that your company’s time is valuable and not to be wasted. If you’re looking for a super-efficient way to keep your customers and patients in the loop about upcoming appointments and events, consider utilizing our all-in-one business texting app, VirtualText.

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JivoChat

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Are you looking for blog name ideas to start publishing your articles on the internet? Coming up with a name can be a challenging task, and that’s for a reason. How your blog will be called should be aligned with how you want your brand to be perceived. It needs to be in synchrony with the brand’s identity. Check out the blog to know more about it: How to Choose a Blog Name.

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MiaRec

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Service (CMS) has issued some new major changes to the compliance rules and guidelines that will apply to Medicare Advantage and Part D plans. The new CMS requirements will apply to all independent insurance agents and are set to take effect starting in 2023.

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Global Response

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Managing call center operations for a luxury brand demands that you hold every component of customer service to a higher standard. Today’s consumers expect fast, precise problem resolution when they dial into a contact center, and according to Retail Doc, patrons of luxury brands are much quicker to take their business elsewhere if they feel that they aren’t receiving the service they demand.

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Voiptime

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In this issue, you'll also discover: 1) How to ensure customer loyalty by keeping the top level of customer service; 2) What do loyal customers want to see in your services? Hint: Forget about tricks and gimmicks because customers are too smart; 3) How to negotiate with callers to ensure customer journey? 4) How to use customer feedback to improve customer expectations?

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Global Response

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Outsourcing a call center often raises many questions businesses must answer, including: Who is the best outsourcing contact center to partner with? Where will the outsourced call center team be located? How will an outsourced contact center partner protect my data? How much does outsourcing customer service cost? These are all relevant concerns that need to be addressed.

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Jon Arnold

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This is stop two of three during my current travel run, and it sure has been good. I’ve been involved with SCTC for a few years now - Society of Communications Technology Consultants - and even though I’m an analyst, there’s a lot in this community that’s good for my business. Their annual conference is mostly for members, so it’s not really a public event, but the challenges facing consultants aren’t all that different from mine as an independent analyst.

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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The understanding of technology has become a little clearer but also the urgency of transforming has become much more important, and the urgency drives the intent. More and more organizations have realized that they have to break down the silos and being open to cloud-native, cloud strategies is probably one of the best ways to go there. The post VIDEO: Breaking down silos with secure cloud strategies appeared first on NobelBiz®.

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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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Nicereply

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Holidays can easily become a stressful time of the year. Learn how to communicate reduced service hours while keeping your CSAT as high as possible. Ahead of us is one of the most beautiful seasons of the year, but also one of the busiest. Before you sit down with your family at the table, make sure your customer support representatives, as well as your customers, will enjoy the same peace and well-being.

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LiveVox

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Not all scary stories involve monsters and ghosts. You don’t even need a haunted house or an abandoned, decrepit warehouse in the middle of nowhere to set a spooky scene. Some of the most chilling tales actually take place in call centers as these tales from the contact center crypt will show. Depending on who […]. The post AHHHHH! Customer Service Call Center Horror Stories appeared first on LiveVox.

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Education Services Group

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Customer Success leaders often run into a recurring theme when meeting with Customer Success Managers (CSMs): CSMs seem to be weighed down in tactical conversations with their customers and leave every call feeling they are adding little or no value to the business partnership. They often report that customers only want to speak about lacking product features, support problems, or roadmap items.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Most companies are already sitting on thousands of conversations filled with actionable feedback that could help them prioritize issues and dramatically improve customer experience. Where are these golden nuggets hiding? In their support tickets. Data from feedback like support tickets can be incredibly powerful. However, making sense of these tickets on a larger scale is getting increasingly difficult as the volume keeps growing with new channels like live chat.

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Skybridge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

‘Tis the season for spooks, scares, and spine-tingling surprises. And while most of us enjoy greeting the unknown at our front door on Halloween night, no one is amused by an unexpected nightmare experience with customer service. What happens when your customers reach out to you? Is it a treat? Or a bad dream that’s impossible to shake off? Here are three of the most horrifying encounters sure to send your customers running away, screaming.

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Vistio

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Understanding what matters to agents is important, now more than ever. If agents aren’t satisfied with their work or connected to their contact center’s culture, they can find opportunities that better suit their needs elsewhere. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to measure agent satisfaction so contact center leaders could prevent turnover and improve agent performance?

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Pricing can make or break a business. It’s one of the most vital aspects of any product or service, and it can be difficult to get right. There are a lot of factors to consider when pricing your products or services, and it’s important to create a pricing strategy that works for your business. This article will cover three of the core steps for creating an effective pricing strategy—one that is not only profitable but sustainable in the long term.

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inSided

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If you didn’t know, Gainsight, throughout its history, has always been a Community company. In fact, we’ve had one since 2015. Initially, it was dubbed the Pulse Community as a way to continue the dialogue between like-minded Customer Success individuals far beyond our annual conference.

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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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Dialer 360

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Auto insurance is not that some people think about frequently. Those who have automatic payments set up may only think about renewing a policy once or twice a year. This is wonderful news for you. You may make the insurance policies you sell appear like winning proposals that consumers won’t want to miss with the correct timing and pitch. You can have significant success in selling policies with a cold calling method as long as you offer good value, and a reasonable price, you can get real

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference is a purpose-built inference option that makes it easy for you to deploy and scale machine learning (ML) models. It provides a pay-per-use model, which is ideal for services where endpoint invocations are infrequent and unpredictable. Unlike a real-time hosting endpoint, which is backed by a long-running instance, compute resources for serverless endpoints are provisioned on demand, thereby eliminating the need to choose instance types or manage scaling poli

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The classic business proverb, 80% of your sales originate from 20% of your clientele, holds true for most firms. Therefore, handling these priceless things with more caution would be sensible. However, far too often, companies do not have a set process in place for developing these crucial client relationships. When a sale is closed, the work is not finished.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Today Amazon SageMaker announced the support of Grid search for automatic model tuning , providing users with an additional strategy to find the best hyperparameter configuration for your model. Amazon SageMaker automatic model tuning finds the best version of a model by running many training jobs on your dataset using a range of hyperparameters that you specify.

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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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CCNG

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A strong professional network is a great asset and a powerful tool that can support, expand and sustain your success. But, we should never forget that our network is ultimately a set of relationships, and in the end it’s all about people helping each other. Here are three ways you can put that perspective into action. Be thoughtful about who is in your network and the best way to connect with them.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In just 5 years, tens of thousands of customers have tapped Amazon SageMaker to create millions of models, train models with billions of parameters, and generate hundreds of billions of monthly predictions. The seeds of a machine learning (ML) paradigm shift were there for decades, but with the ready availability of virtually infinite compute capacity, a massive proliferation of data, and the rapid advancement of ML technologies, customers across industries now have access to its transformationa

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