Contact Center Pipeline
MARCH 21, 2023
Some call it the new normal. However you describe the evolving work environment, retail and call center managers know one thing for sure: the industry landscape has changed at lightning speed, and the changes keep coming.
ShepHyken
MARCH 21, 2023
Top Takeaways: Failing to listen to the customer communicates apathy and rudeness. It tells the customer that you do not care enough to engage. Heather Younger shares her 5-step framework on how to listen better: Recognize the unsaid. Look at the nonverbal cues. Listen for pauses and voice inflections. Sense what is happening in the environment. If you don’t recognize what your customers are not telling you, you leave blind spots that hinder you from fruitful listening.
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Lumoa
MARCH 21, 2023
Nowadays, most people search for information online. You read blog posts and research articles if you want to learn more about a specific topic. Although it makes sense to search for information online where you can find up-to-date answers to specific questions, what about getting a more comprehensive understanding by reading a book about the topic.
ShepHyken
MARCH 21, 2023
In a recent interview with Katie Mares, author of CustomHer Experience: The Importance of Tailoring Your Brand Experience to the Female Customer , we talked about creating a five-star experience. Mares had some excellent ideas, and here they are, followed by my commentary. By the way, even though Mares’ expertise is in selling to female customers, these ideas work for everyone.
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CX leaders are in a gold rush for AI, lured by the promise of cost savings and a revolution in service delivery. But simply deploying AI in your contact center isn't a magic bullet. There are hidden dangers that can derail your AI dreams. Recent incidents, such as the missteps of an AI chatbot deployed by Air Canada, have underscored the complexities and risks involved in leveraging AI in customer-facing roles.
kommunicate
MARCH 21, 2023
Last Updated on March 21, 2023 Messe Duesseldorf GMBH is one of the 5 most successful trade fair organizers in the world. With humble beginnings as a small wooden hut that conducted trade fairs in the city of Duesseldorf. Incorporated in January 1947 as Nordwestdeutsche Ausstellungsgesellschaft mbH (NOWEA), the trade fair company soon grew from [.] The post Messe Duesseldorf Reduced Repetitive Queries by 65% by Automating With Kommunicate appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.
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Totango
MARCH 21, 2023
In today’s challenging economic climate, teams must ensure they are utilizing the right initiatives to protect and grow customer loyalty. Enter customer success operations: a data-driven process that helps organizations understand how their initiative performance impacts key business results – ultimately safeguarding revenue for long-term growth.
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 21, 2023
Amazon SageMaker customers can view and manage their quota limits through Service Quotas. In addition, they can view near real-time utilization metrics and create Amazon CloudWatch metrics to view and programmatically query SageMaker quotas. SageMaker helps you build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models with ease. To learn more, refer to Getting started with Amazon SageMaker.
Cisco - Contact Center
MARCH 21, 2023
Business architects help business leaders assess status and business capabilities and to identify underlying systemic patterns.
Helpware
MARCH 21, 2023
Marketing’s evolvement from traditional to digital represents the latest stop of a long journey. Throughout history, marketing kept pace with the market’s tendencies to develop new tastes and preferences. And when the pandemic changed consumers’ purchasing habits yet again, digital marketing came to the rescue.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.
Cisco - Contact Center
MARCH 21, 2023
When unplanned disruptions occur, an offshore drilling platform can struggle with multiple weeks of non-productive time.
JivoChat
MARCH 21, 2023
Learning how to create a poll on Facebook is very useful for doing market research and getting to know your audience better. You can make polls about different topics, including discovering the type of content your public wants to see on your Facebook page, for example. Check out the article to know more about it. Where You Can Create Polls on Facebook As useful as the Facebook poll feature is, unfortunately, this tool isn’t available for personal profiles to publish polls in their timeli
ConvergeOne
MARCH 21, 2023
Contact centers have notoriously had the highest attrition rate of all the departments within an organization, but now more than ever, agents aren’t available to replace those leaving. The number of open requisitions is at an all-time high. Talent shortages and retention are the top challenges facing these departments. The agents who remain are stressed and are considering leaving within three years of their start date.
Comm100
MARCH 21, 2023
With more options than ever before for customers, switching brands is easy. Organizations need to take every advantage they can get, and providing excellent customer service has become one of these key differentiators. 99% of customers believe that companies need to improve their service and support and there’s plenty of scope to do so. In this article, we’ll look at six game-changing customer service improvement strategies that businesses can introduce to enhance their customer service and gain
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Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.
Cisco - Contact Center
MARCH 21, 2023
The urgency around addressing the European Union’s cyber shortcomings is well founded.
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 21, 2023
As organizations grow in size and scale, the complexities of running workloads increase, and the need to develop and operationalize processes and workflows becomes critical. Therefore, organizations have adopted technology best practices, including microservice architecture, MLOps, DevOps, and more, to improve delivery time, reduce defects, and increase employee productivity.
CSM Magazine
MARCH 21, 2023
Post-purchase support is an integral feature of digital marketing which all e-commerce stores should consider. So, how does it work? What are the benefits for a business? More importantly, how does it fit into an overall marketing strategy? Integral part of e-commerce When purchasing something online, help should be available if needed. However, not all businesses provide the same level of after sales support.
Cisco - Contact Center
MARCH 21, 2023
I’ve lived in Atlanta proper most of my life yet over the course of my Cisco career, all 20 years of it, I’ve worked remotely from home in a financial services industry role covering a broad geo… Read more on Cisco Blogs
Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions
Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!
Select VoiceCom Blog
MARCH 21, 2023
Are you ready for the next disruption? No one could’ve predicted the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its global outbreak in 2020 showed business leaders the importance of being prepared for any scenario. But health crises aren’t the only things to watch out for, as the business landscape is changing fast. With many people working remotely , financial experts see the risk of a global recession looming as artificial intelligence (AI) is set to antiquate thousands of jobs in the coming years.
JivoChat
MARCH 21, 2023
Learning how to create a poll on Facebook is very useful for doing market research and getting to know your audience better. You can make polls about different topics, including discovering the type of content your public wants to see on your Facebook page, for example. Check out the article to know more about it. Where You Can Create Polls on Facebook As useful as the Facebook poll feature is, unfortunately, this tool isn’t available for personal profiles to publish polls in their timeli
Netomi
MARCH 21, 2023
From product recommendations to one-on-one personal shopping and customer support to order management, the use cases for ecommerce chatbot solutions are endless. This is why the eCommerce industry was one of the first industries to embrace chatbots and conversational AI virtual assistants, and why it’s more important than ever for companies in this industry to deploy the best eCommerce chatbots to assist their customers.
CSM Magazine
MARCH 21, 2023
Hiring and onboarding remote employees can be difficult. Not only do you need to find the right person for the job, but you also have to ensure that person is who they say they are. This means verifying that their identity matches up with their work history and credentials. Hiring and onboarding remote employees can be difficult. Hiring and onboarding remote employees can be difficult.
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Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints? With customer experience automation, organizations can leverage AI and automation to make it faster and cheaper to provide a superior customer experience acro
NobelBiz
MARCH 21, 2023
In the contact center world, efficiency is paramount, hence the importance of progressive dialer software. Every call center manager avidly searches for tools and methods to improve their contact center performance further and provide everything their agents need to achieve their highest productivity. And a progressive dialer is one way to achieve this.
Cisco - Contact Center
MARCH 21, 2023
Episode 38 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 38 Fascinating laser research projects you wish you thought of, with Juliet Gopinath.
NobelBiz
MARCH 21, 2023
The First Contact Resolution Rate (FCR) is a crucial KPI for measuring the effectiveness and quality of your customer service. This indicator is regarded as one of the most influential metrics for measuring customer service effectiveness. And to enhance it, you will need to select the appropriate tools and develop a practical management approach. When a problem arises, the customer expects a quick and efficient resolution.
CSM Magazine
MARCH 21, 2023
As more and more people conduct business online, there is an increasing demand for sustainable practices in the digital realm. Consumers are more aware of their environmental impact and expect the companies they engage with to be mindful of their ecological footprint. It may seem as if running a sustainable online business is only about energy usage.
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.
Nicereply
MARCH 21, 2023
What challenges can Customer Success teams face during the implementation of artificial intelligence? According to McKinsey & Company , 52% of respondents at companies reported: their organizations invest more than five percent of their digital budget in artificial intelligence. Furthermore, 63% say they expect to increase investments in AI in the next three years.
TCN
MARCH 21, 2023
ST. GEORGE, Utah – March 21, 2023 – TCN, Inc., a global provider of a. The post TCN Operator Wins 2023 TMCnet CUSTOMER Product of the Year Award, Presented by CUSTOMER Magazine appeared first on TCN.
Cisco - Contact Center
MARCH 21, 2023
When my family and I moved to Franklin County, N.C., in 2020, I always passed by the volunteer fire station. I knew that if I had a fire at my house at 2 a.m.
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