Callminer

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

An efficient call center operation hinges on the ability of management to identify flaws in their systems and practices as well as execute improvement plans to fix these quickly. Fortunately, with a number of useful tools and techniques, team leaders can effect meaningful change based on observable and trackable data. However, the exact tools and approach you employ at your call center for this purpose should align with your center’s mission and personnel.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Bots, and the underlying AI that drives them, have become increasingly popular in many Customer Experience and contact center circles, and for good reason. Bots offer extended functionality and enable customers to find answers or support without the involvement of a live agent. Implemented and maintained properly, bots have the potential to significantly improve customer and employee experience.

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The Call Center School

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Part 2: Skills for Creating Optimized Schedules. "Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.". This quote from Stephen R. Covey, business author and successful entrepreneur, is not just for executives to internalize. It also applies to workforce managers. Workforce managers determine how many staff are assigned to a shift and which employee takes which specific shift.

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Steve DiGioia

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Your eyes were bugged-eyed open, and they darted back and forth hoping to see everything (but they never did). Sweat started, a little at first, then it seemed to flow from every pore and made your clothes stick to places you didn’t even know you had. Your hands tightly gripped the steering wheel while you prayed no one crossed your path and if they did, heaven help them.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Each week I read a number of 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. The Jury Is in on the Future of Customer Experience by Lisa Loftis. (CMSWire) Trends that if recognized and acted upon, can help companies shape their digital experience strategies for a decade to come.

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Win the Customer

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In today’s competitive marketplace, customer care isn’t merely an add on, it’s become an integral part of most business strategies. Entrepreneurs understand that high-quality customer care drives profits, increases customer satisfaction, and helps to secure and retain happy customers. . If you’re confident you have the right team members in place, you need to equip them with the best tools so they can be fully responsive to your customers’ needs.

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Certified Languages International

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In 2018, nearly 55 million people in the U.S. hit the road and headed to Grandma’s house, or a friend’s condo, or their roommate’s parents’ house to celebrate Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday centered around gratitude; traditionally it’s a time to relax and toast a successful harvest season. This has morphed over the years, of course, as we are no longer driven solely by agriculture, but our motivation to gather and eat with the people we care about most still holds true.

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Spearline

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

With the built-up excitement for Black Friday about to be unleashed at the end of the week across all retail stores and websites, it’s another sector that can easily get affected and should be prepared for the increase in traffic: Contact Centers. If you manage and run a contact center you should ensure your agents aren’t left in the dark and are proactively prepared for your customers during one of the busiest times of the year.

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Customercount

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Time to Show Your Gratitude Thank Your Top Customer Engagement Professional With a Nomination for CustomerCount® Customer Engagement Professional Resort Trades Award CustomerCount® and The Resort Trades invite you to show your gratitude by nominating top team members for the … Continue reading → The post Nominate your top team members for the CEP Award appeared first on CustomerCount.

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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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GetFeedback

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The complete list of the newest Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) industry benchmarks by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). .

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Guru

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Here at Guru, we are firm believers that you need sales documentation to build a kick-ass sales team. In fact, integrating thorough sales documentation into your processes will make your team’s selling spiel second nature and create the room for reps to have more meaningful, personalized conversations with prospects.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As we step into 2020, we see companies investing more in Customer Experience (CX) initiatives than ever. There is a clear business case to invest and improve CX – happy customers buy more, are easy to service and bring in new customers through recommendations. And, contact centers, being customer interaction hubs, are getting more preference and priority when it comes to CX investments.

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BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As the holiday season unfolds, we wanted to share the amazing words of gratitude that flow every day from our clients’ customers to our agents. Below you’ll find the best customer service kudos of 2019 (so far!) with quotes directly from the mouths of customers we interact with. MVP Agent. MVP Customer Kudos. This is hands-down the best customer kudos of the year.

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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 25, 2019

Marketing is a very important determinant of the success of a business. Contrary to the opinions of many, marketing has a lot to do other activities other than just advertising. It is everything to do with how a company or a business presents itself. How it does its branding, the quality of its services, how they are offered and so on. It is a combination of advertising and promotions and brand building.

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Chip Bell

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Thanksgiving. We all know it as a day of gratitude. That is the left side of the word. While the origin of the day goes back to 1536 during the reign of Henry the 8 th , in this country we associate it most with the Pilgrims in Plymouth in the early 1600s who carved out a day from their rugged quest for survival to express their gratitude for making it that far.

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Nuance

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Randy Rohmer, Director Commercial Operations of MaxQ AI, shares his insights about how MaxQ AI-driven algorithms aim to meaningfully help reduce misdiagnosis and healthcare costs by making artificial intelligence intrinsic to the diagnostic process for time-sensitive and life-threatening conditions. MaxQ AI is at the forefront of Medical Diagnostic AI.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It’s important to map out and monitor your customers’ journey to ensure you and your team are doing everything in your power to increase retention and lower churn rates. . That’s why we’ve compiled some of the best customer journey analytics that customer success teams and CSMs should track so everyone – from executive leadership to CSMs – can better understand the end customer. #1 Customer Retention Rate.

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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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Nuance

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What’s your favorite thing about fall? The amazing colors of the autumnal leaves? The spiced pumpkin lattes? Or maybe the return of Nuance IQ? That’s right—the hub for AI innovation news and insights is back for another edition. In the summer, we focused on AI-driven contact center transformation, but for our fall edition we’re diving […] The post It’s back!

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Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As the gospel of Customer Success is spreading like wildfire in the corporate world, executives are realizing that they need to act fast to incorporate it into their organizational structure. But to their own detriment , some of these executives aren’t fully committing to the importance of Customer Success. Instead, they’re simply “rebranding” their Account Managers as Customer Success Managers with little to no training or transition.

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Nuance

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What’s your favorite thing about fall? The amazing colors of the autumnal leaves? The spiced pumpkin lattes? Or maybe the return of Nuance IQ? That’s right—the hub for AI innovation news and insights is back for another edition. In the summer, we focused on AI-driven contact center transformation, but for our fall edition we’re diving […] The post It’s back!

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Wowdesk Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A quintessential front-line tool for a company to let customers reach out to them, helpdesk system has become a kind of a binding demand for a brand looking to experience appreciable growth trajectory and improve its bottom-line factors. Why? Well, market equity and growth is all about happy bunch of customers. Right from the time a customer approaches a brand for utilizing its service/using products to the after-sale period which is focused on complaint resolution/query discussions, a customer

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It’s important to map out and monitor your customers’ journey to ensure you and your team are doing everything in your power to increase retention and lower churn rates. . That’s why we’ve compiled some of the best customer journey analytics that customer success teams and CSMs should track so everyone – from executive leadership to CSMs – can better understand the end customer. #1 Customer Retention Rate.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As a business owner, you’ll agree that starting your business wasn’t easy at all. It took a lot of time and resources to get it running. Completing the first phase of development which is getting the business on the ground successfully is a self- esteem booster. The second phase revolves around winning customers. Successful businesses all over the world follow a set of proven methods to win more customers.

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Waterfield Technologies

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A primary issue when integrating multiple channels and services in your contact center is creating a seamless, cohesive solution. Today we are able to create and implement an extensive, all-in-one […]. The post Deliver Cohesive Business Results in your Contact Center appeared first on Waterfield Technologies.

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Jon Arnold

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I’ve been doing a fair number of webinars lately, and the next one is on the hot topic of CCaaS - contact center as a service. This time around, the sponsor is CoreDial , and it’s being hosted by Channel Partners Online. Aside from providing my own perspectives, I’ll be reviewing highlights from some recent research by CoreDial about how channel players are approaching the contact center market with SMB customers.

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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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ChaseData

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Ah, Black Friday. Once an unofficial American-exclusive holiday, this day-after-Thanksgiving kickoff to the holiday shopping season has gained traction in recent years all over the world. It seems that everyone wants to get in on the fervor - and possible frustration - of the season. If you work in an inbound contact center, you understand the challenges that Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and other major retail event holidays can put on customer service representatives.

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MicroAutomation

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In the world of Customer Service, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest buzzwords of 2019, followed closely by Robotic Process Automation (RPA). True AI utilizes “models” that learn and adapt to customers, self-optimizing over time. Moving to AI is challenging not only from the technical perspective, but also from the business perspective as […].

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bold360 Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The importance of frontline, customer-facing employees cannot be understated. As the people who directly engage with customers on phone or in person, they are at the forefront of your company as the face of your brand. That’s why new global research from Ovum is creating buzz by uncovering what these employees are faced with and how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver a better customer experience.

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