TCN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Since telephones were invented, individuals have been selling, explaining and promoting products, services and ideas. The post A Brief History of Call Center Agents appeared first on TCN.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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 comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Partnering in Complex Times: Turning to the Experts for Best-In-Class Customer Experience by Harvard Business Review. (Harvard Business Review) Years ago, in the legacy, on-premises world of siloed call centers, in-house CX management was much simpler.

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Momentum Telecom

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Connectivity is king when it comes to running a successful business, so finding a fast, reliable networking solution is a top priority for many IT leaders. As cloud and hybrid work adoption rise, more companies are switching from multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) – the long-time standard in networking – to software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN).

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Working Solutions

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What is a BPO? BPO stands for Business Process Outsourcer If you are interested in taking your customer experience to another level, you may consider partnering with a Business Process Outsourcer (BPO). BPOs can handle various parts of a client’s operations to help improve functions like customer service and foster long-term brand loyalty. And most […].

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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.

ClearAction

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Gratitude Grows Gains from Employee Experience Strategies Lynn Hunsaker. An attitude of gratitude is the source of growth personally and in relationships with fellow employees. Gratitude nurtures common courtesy that’s central to diversity and inclusion. Ironically, when we appreciate differences, we’re more likely to discover commonalities.

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ConvergeOne

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, automation creates channels of communication, streamlining a faster response time between parties. Second, automation avoids downtime and repetitive tasks by using digital assets that manage projects to specific ends and means. Third, automation not only supports your team’s efforts, but also prioritizes the most important clients through its allocation of resources tailored to their needs.

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Jon Arnold

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Got one more stop on my run of travel to industry events - to Dallas, for Mavenir’s analyst event. Since early October, pretty much every week up til now, I’ve been going somewhere to one, sometimes two events. Every one has been worthwhile, so while it feels like a grind, that’s how the business goes, and if anything, I’m well-informed about the state of things in my world.

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Selmo

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First call resolution is one of the most important call center metrics you can measure. Calculating First Contact Resolution (FCR) can be straightforward, but only when you have collected the data.

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LiveVox

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Outbound contact center software can be a tedious process. From outdated data to upset customers, an outbound calling campaign can be difficult to successfully get through with little to no hiccups. Having the right outbound tech stack is a must for contact centers that wish to maximize their efficiency. That’s why it’s important for outbound […].

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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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Abby Connect

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Have you heard? Abby Connect recently launched a new web portal and app, and it’s a hit! Customers are already saying great things about the simplified Status Update feature, the new Dashboard, the ease of Global Search, and more. But we know change can be tricky and you’re busy.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Share on Twitter. Share on Facebook. Share on LinkedIn. Share on Email. We know soft skills are important for the contact center. They build rapport between customers and agents, establish empathy for both parties, and increase liking and brand loyalty. But can they cause harm if harnessed incorrectly? Harvard professor and behavioral research scientist Alison Wood Brooks has spent her life studying interactions between humans.

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Vistio

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Watch to the full podcast here: Or click here to just listen to the audio. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Delighted to introduce you to Dave Seaton of Seaton CX. Dave’s consulting firm works with B2B companies to measure, manage and improve their customer experiences. He focuses on leadership, emotional intelligence and getting buy-in for CX. His weekly newsletter CXPRESSO is for brave CX leaders who want to learn about how to score buy in, how to spur executives to action, how to cultivate a customer-

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Kapta Customer Success

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Top Key Account Managers (KAMs) continually build their skills and knowledge. Research shows that without consistent coaching, feedback, and reinforcement, KAMs will quickly forget what they learn.

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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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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

If you’ve ever signed up for a new app or service, you know the feeling of excitement (and maybe a little bit of trepidation) that comes with starting something new. That’s why it’s so important for businesses to have a good onboarding process in place — to help new users feel excited and confident about using the product. A good onboarding process will teach new users the basic functionality of your product and how to get the most out of it.

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Netomi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Preview in new tab. In today’s digital-first world, and an era of remote and hybrid workplaces, the number of SaaS solutions used by companies on a daily basis is overwhelming – in 2021, organizations worldwide were using an average of 110 SaaS apps! The “SaaS sprawl” created by the widespread adoption of SaaS solutions – from personal productivity tools to business applications – is real.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

TechSee teams with TELUS International to bring live computer vision to market in engagement centers. New York, NY, November 10, 2022 — TechSee today announced a technology partnership with TELUS International, a leading digital customer experience (CX) innovator that designs, builds, and delivers next-generation solutions, including artificial intelligence (AI) and content moderation, for global and disruptive brands.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Cambridge, MA, United States (On-site) Organization: Volta Labs, Inc. As a Director of Customer Success, you will create efficient processes for managing all pre- post-sales technical support; including phone & e-mail support, lab-based troubleshooting, knowledge database, and interface with CRM. Establish both leading and lagging KPIs to enhance customer advocacy.

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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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MiaRec

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

If you're reading this, it means you've been invited to try MiaRec's Conversational Analytics Platform. Congratulations! You're about to experience one of the most advanced Conversational Analytics Platforms in the market today. To help you make the most of your trial period, here are some tips for you.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The decisions your business makes during the account onboarding process can be crucial for determining the future success of an account. Account onboarding can help your business address customer queries and concerns related to the value your products and services can provide them. Therefore, successful and effective account onboarding helps customers determine exactly how your business’s offering will provide them with the expected value and achieve their desired outcome.

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Russel Lolacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with author, speaker, CEO and empathy advocate Rob Volpe on the steps we can take to create a more empathetic workplace. A few reasons why he is awesome – He’s the CEO and Chief Catalyst for Ignite 360, a market research, insights and strategy firm, he’s the author of TELL ME MORE ABOUT THAT – Solving the Empathy Crisis One Conversation at a Time.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Today, we are launching Amazon SageMaker inference on AWS Graviton to enable you to take advantage of the price, performance, and efficiency benefits that come from Graviton chips. Graviton-based instances are available for model inference in SageMaker. This post helps you migrate and deploy a machine learning (ML) inference workload from x86 to Graviton-based instances in SageMaker.

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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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aircall

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Online and offline, high-velocity sales (HVS) has been trending in sales strategy conversations. Partly because it promises laser-focused sales productivity insight but also for the general time savings it brings in pipeline management efficiency. Which salesperson would say no to that? That’s the HVS elevator pitch. But it’s important to get beneath the surface-level benefits of high-velocity sales to understand essential best practices and things to consider.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler helps you understand, aggregate, transform, and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from a single visual interface. It contains over 300 built-in data transformations so you can quickly normalize, transform, and combine features without having to write any code. Data science practitioners generate, observe, and process data to solve business problems where they need to transform and extract features from datasets.

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