Contact Center Pipeline

APRIL 13, 2021

Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, customers have found themselves in completely different circumstances, and support organizations have had to field new requests and new questions—often unprecedented and even unimaginable. How support organizations react and respond is paramount to ensure delivery of a winning customer experience but also to keep employees engaged during chaotic […].

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CCNG

APRIL 13, 2021

Contact Center solutions have evolved significantly over the last two decades. Before 2005, the vast majority of contact center software was On-Premise based and highly fragmented. At around that time, Cloud-based solutions began gaining popularity, but the first Cloud-based solutions were still point solution-oriented and didn’t offer integration between systems so businesses had to deal with multiple vendors and configure back-end integrations themselves.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 13, 2021

Great CX Drives Trust & Engagement. How Customer Support Tools Can Impact Your Internal and External Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Ali Ray, VP of Customer Experience at Slack. They discuss how customer support tools can positively impact the customer experience. Top Takeaways: Slack is an online customer support tool that brings all the people who have the customer at the center of their work together.

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TechSee

APRIL 13, 2021

Is customer service a cost center or a profit center? If you answered ‘cost center’, right now is the perfect time to challenge that assumption. Read on to learn four reasons why this is the case – and how to make the shift within your company. The traditional outlook on customer service. A cost center is a function or department – like customer service – that costs your business money to operate but doesn’t actively generate revenue.

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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.

Fonolo

APRIL 13, 2021

Managing call spikes during peak periods in your call center can seem like an insurmountable challenge. Whether you’re in retail, healthcare, or the financial industry, understaffed contact centers coupled with increased call volumes create stressful moments for you and your agents. The ROI of Call-Backs for your Call Center. If this sounds familiar, never fear: call overflow handling is here.

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HelpCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Success has so many natures. It stands for a plan that achieves great results, can be limited, athletic, academic, or personal. Customer success, though, has a lot more of those. I mean, a business needs [ … ]. The post 8 Customer Success Best Practices You Should Adopt appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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Cyara

APRIL 13, 2021

Today marks a momentous occasion in the world of test automation. There’s a new on-ramp into the fast-lane that will help navigate you straight toward flawless customer experiences! We are excited to announce the official launch of Cyara Call Explorer, a brand new feature included across the Cyara Automated CX Assurance Platform. This new feature was built for two reasons: Make it easier to shift from manual to automated testing by eliminating a forced behavior change.

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Advantage Communications

APRIL 13, 2021

Did you know that acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing customer? In fact, there’s not many more important things for the growth and profitability of your organization than customer loyalty.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 13, 2021

With Customer Success being one of the top emerging departments in software companies around the globe, you might be considering a career in this industry, but you also might be wondering which role is right for you. . To help answer some questions you might have around the Customer Success job market, we created this overview that will describe what the different career paths are that you can pursue, with descriptions for each role and the industry salaries. .

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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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Noble Systems

APRIL 13, 2021

The Supreme Court’s Facebook v. Duguid decision (released April 1, 2021) has generated a rash of predictions pointing towards a coming surge in robocalls. An easy internet search quickly identifies a number of articles with splashy headlines, seemingly declaring that is will soon be open season for robocalling. This argument was also promulgated by Duguid against Facebook in its case , indicating that adopting Facebook’s position would unleash a torrent of robocalls.

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Working Solutions

APRIL 13, 2021

We all know that the key to any successful business is making your customers happy, so they continue to choose your products and services, right? Making authentic connections is not always easy but it is always worth the effort. As client service agents, the most important quality in an effective agent is empathy. Knowing how […].

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Call Design

APRIL 13, 2021

The Role. In this role you will be responsible for delivering Aspect WFM training and consulting for both new and existing customers of Call Design at one end of the spectrum to consulting with customers around industry best WFO practices at the other. Key duties and deliverables. Prepare, research and deliver WFM training (product and generic) in a classroom format.

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delighted

APRIL 13, 2021

Stay on top of post-support followup with Delighted + Freshdesk, Gorgias, Teamwork, and LogRocket. These free integrations make it easier than ever to incorporate real-time customer feedback into your help desk and product experience platform, so all of your customer conversations are in one place. The Delighted + Freshdesk integration. Add a quick and easy post-support touchpoint to your customer conversations with Delighted + Freshdesk.

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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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VirtualPBX

APRIL 13, 2021

As we continue to expand our Business SMS feature, customers have asked more about how they can monitor their business text messaging usage. We often respond to these questions by pointing them to Zapier – the data automation service we have built an application for and which you can get started using for free. Today’s blog will focus on the basics of how to use Zapier.

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Totango

APRIL 13, 2021

When was the last time you purchased something without checking multiple online reviews about it first? Whether you’re purchasing a new vehicle or a new pair of shoes, you’re likely to spend some time reading reviews or watching videos of real people’s experiences with the product. Today, most of us know better than to buy a car without test driving it.

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Edify

APRIL 13, 2021

Omnichannel is a buzzword we’ve been hearing a lot about for years. What does it really mean? And why is it imperative that omnichannel becomes the norm when it comes to our customer service experiences?

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 13, 2021

At the most basic level, businesses partner with SaaS vendors to solve a problem. Over time, however, these relationships can become strategic partnerships that can actually drive the future success of both organizations simultaneously. As a main point of contact for many customers, CSMs are often one of the first sounding boards for customer ideas, opinions, and questions. .

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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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ConvergeOne

APRIL 13, 2021

I consult with companies from many markets that are scattered across the United States, and most of them had to pivot last year when the COVID pandemic hit. Scrambling for answers for a remote workforce, some were better prepared than others. Almost universally, they took budgets they had for things like data center and sank those funds into remote workforce initiatives.

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Quality Contact Solutions

APRIL 13, 2021

No matter what line of work you are in, challenges can present themselves at any given moment, and telemarketing companies are no exception. These challenges take a toll on our overall happiness, and when that happiness starts to dive, it begins to collect some of our most important attributes that impact success to drag with it on its way down. Productivity and job satisfaction.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 13, 2021

Being a Customer Success Manager (CSM) is a non-stop learning process that requires hands-on management at every stage. At its most basic, customer success seems simple; however, in practice, it is complex and challenging as it should help to satiate every customer’s needs. . One of the critical aspects of customer success is relationship building.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

TieTa , an Oxfordshire-based business, has just relaunched, with a promise to ‘take the stress out of customer service.’ . Founded by Caroline Walton and her team, TieTa was previously the customer service arm of one of the UK’s largest short term lenders, helping over 300,000 customers through their loan applications, collections and quality monitoring over an 8 year period.

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Speaker: Steve Pappas, Chief Strategist, Startup and Early Stage Growth Advisor, Keynote Speaker, CX Podcaster

As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.

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LiveVox

APRIL 13, 2021

Digital communication channels, including SMS, email, and webchat, now play an integral role in the omnichannel customer journey, helping to expand customer self-service options and enabling contact centers to handle high volumes of support tickets with limited agent capacity. According to a recently commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, however, two out of every three […].

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

CRM software is the medium through which you can build connections with your existing customers and prospects in a personalized manner rather than the old and traditional contact management practices. Businesses nowadays can’t ignore the benefits of the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software altogether. What is Customer Relationship Management software?

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 13, 2021

By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing. These days it can be easy to feel like we’re in a constant state of information overload. The 24-hour news cycle combined with social media and the ability to Google anything always at our fingertips makes it difficult to escape the relentless barrage of information. This can also make it difficult to discern what information is genuinely important and worthy of our time.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

Starting a business is not easy, and scaling is even harder as it requires hard work, persistence, and of course, a solid strategy. Creating an impressive product is just the first step. If you want your SaaS startup to grow, you need to understand data and have solid marketing knowledge, all with the purpose of making your software more attractive to your target customers.

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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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TCN

APRIL 13, 2021

We wonder what Marty McFly would say if he got out of the DeLorean and. The post An Integrated Infrastructure Call Center for the 21st Century appeared first on TCN.

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Strikedeck

APRIL 13, 2021

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Anita Toth talks about how businesses can avoid painful pitfalls that will cost them more time and money. The post Making an Impact During These Unprecedented Times – Anita Toth, Chief Churn Crusher at Anita Toth Inc. first appeared on Strikedeck | Customer Success Platform.

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PanTerra

APRIL 13, 2021

How awesome is it that we live in an age where all of our communications devices work together in a seamless, all-encompassing fashion that, just 20 years ago seemed unfathomable! With desktop phone integration and, even better, cloud integration, we have so much more flexibility than ever imagined.

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