Mon.Jul 22, 2019

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Time Zones In Contact Centers

Integra

Since several years ago, a good part of the call center services of the Hispanic countries (including bilingual services) are located in Central America. This is because in they provide a wide offer and the operating costs are the lowest in the market. This implies, however, that several contacts are in countries with different time zones or simply in different areas of a country with multiple time zones.

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Five factors to simplify customer experience

Avaya

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has transformed customers into fickle buyers. Extensive digitization has indeed changed the way we live, work and play, and there are a plethora of positives, including that it has given us, the customers, significant power. To see this in action, we don’t need to look past the impact a single tweet can have on an organization’s customer experience (CX) strategy.

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4 Types of Toxic Workplace Cultures

Andrew Mcfarland

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “toxic culture?” Many people think of an abusive boss or co-worker where the abuse is emotional, physical, or worse. In fact, other types of toxic workplace cultures are just as bad.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of July 22, 2019

ShepHyken

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. 8 Tips for Improving Social Media Customer Service by Fara Haron. (Smart Customer Service) The quickly evolving social media landscape has forced companies to work harder to maintain a positive customer experience, as 83 percent of people have higher digital customer

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

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.

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Call center agent feedback: Tips & best practices for providing effective agent feedback

Callminer

These 25 expert tips and best practices will help you deliver more effective, targeted feedback for better results in your call center.

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[Infographic] How to Run a Voice of the Customer Program

GetFeedback

A Voice of the Customer (VoC) program captures, analyzes and reports on all customer feedback associated with your company. . It’s the heartbeat of any customer experience (CX) program. In fact, brands can’t meet or exceed expectations without having an established VoC program in place. That’s because, without customer feedback, you won’t know where to begin to improve your customer experience. .

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Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Stop Sending Bad Surveys

Interaction Metrics

In the United States, healthcare is a $3.5 trillion a year market and employs 1 in 8 Americans. For a market with huge impact and under tremendous scrutiny, you would expect medical organizations to take an interested, data-driven approach to measuring the patient experience (PX). In other words, you would expect their patient surveys to be relevant, well-written, and to the point.

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The Herculean Tasks of Intraday Management

Pipkins

Ever have one of those days when it feels like the gods are just out to get you? Does controlling your intraday activities make you feel as if you are doing penance for some great sin? Mythology tells of how Hercules was given twelve labors to accomplish before he could be forgiven for killing his family. WFM analysts face that many challenges at least once a week, and they didn’t kill anybody.

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Call Scripts: 6 Golden Rules to Satisfy Your Customers

VocalCom

Call scripts help agents feel prepared when customers call your brand for service. Providing guidelines that outline your company’s conversational style and call protocols can reduce agent stress and ensure a consistent experience for all customers regardless of whom they speak to. Here are six golden rules for creating call scripts that satisfy your customers’ needs while still providing a gentle human touch.

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The Verint Experience Index: Retail

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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Call Journey presents disruptive innovations in AI and analytics at the Genesys G-Summit Melbourne

Call Journey

Paul Humphrey, Call Journey CEO, showcases the power of voice data at one of Australia’s largest gathering of visionaries, partners and leaders in technology. From back-to-back conferences and events in the United States, Call Journey, the innovator in Conversation Analytics, heads back home to Australia to attend the Genesys G-Summit which will be held at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne on July 30-31, 2019.

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Sales Knowledge Playbook: 3 Ways to Reimagine Your RFP Process

Guru

We’ve all been there—an RFP (request for proposal) comes across your desk and you’re met with equal parts excitement and nausea. It’s a process that’s well established, and one that’s simply unavoidable when selling enterprise software.

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[Infographic] How to Run a Voice of the Customer Program

GetFeedback

Infographic and cheat sheet on how to run a successful Voice of the Customer (VoC) program that will help improve customer experience across your brand.

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Next Stop - Newark and VOICE 2019 - and My Preview Q&A

Jon Arnold

If you follow me, you’ll know by now that I’ll be at VOICE 2019 this week, and I’ll be flying to Newark shortly. This will be my first time both to Newark as a visitor and to this event, and it should be a great week. Details on what I’ll be up to are in my recent blog posts, and here in my Event Calendar. As a preview, the folks at VOICE 2019 just did a Q&A with me, and that’s running now on their event blog page.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Stop Sending Bad Surveys

Interaction Metrics

In the United States, healthcare is a $3.5 trillion a year market and employs 1 in 8 Americans. For a market with huge impact and under tremendous scrutiny, you would expect medical organizations to take an interested, data-driven approach to measuring the patient experience (PX). In other words, you would expect their patient surveys to be relevant, well-written, and to the point.

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Anticipate Your Customers’ Needs—Before Your Competitors Do

Concentrix

Learn how predictive modeling can help you develop a wider reach than ever before. The post Anticipate Your Customers’ Needs—Before Your Competitors Do appeared first on Concentrix.

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Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Stop Sending Bad Surveys

Interaction Metrics

In the United States, healthcare is a $3.5 trillion a year market and employs 1 in 8 Americans. For a market with huge impact and under tremendous scrutiny, you would expect medical organizations to take an interested, data-driven approach to measuring the patient experience (PX). In other words, you would expect their patient surveys to be relevant, well-written, and to the point.

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Better Business Growth, Superior Customer Service & More: How a Call Center Benefits Your Business

TeleDirect

From effortless business growth to streamlined customer service, an expertly outsourced call center is the ideal tool to boost productivity. While most firms lack the internal resources to effectively implement and manage a customer contact center, today’s business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions – including TeleDirect’s highly flexible, affordable call center platform – provide exceptional performance across a wide variety of industries.

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

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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Top 3 Change Management Guidelines for Your CCM Migration

Quadient

Recently, I wrote about how Quadient’s new AI, ML and NLP-based technology can help in the RFP writing process by reading through thousands, or even millions of your customer communications to analyze how your applications can be best grouped as you create the customer communication portfolio of the future. Now that we have some rough architectural diagrams and a good feel for rules and content reassembly, let’s explore how that helps you get to the next phase of your journey.

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How Connect Helped a Large UK Bank Division Move from Traditional Telephony to the Cloud

Connect

Connect helped part of a large UK bank to implement a fully managed Cloud service while educating and empowering its team to ensure smooth adoption. Here’s how. With the help of Connect, an Internet-branded bank successfully moved from a traditional telephony solution (Avaya on-premise kit) to the Cloud (Amazon Connect) for the first time in its history.

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How Does an Effective Coaching Strategy Improve Revenue and ROI

Playvox

Thinking of investing in a coaching tool for your business? If so, you’re bound to have questions and concerns. How do you know this will actually pay off and bring in more money? Will you actually earn enough extra revenue to justify the expense?

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How Connect Helped a Large UK Bank Division Move from Traditional Telephony to the Cloud

Connect

Connect helped part of a large UK bank to implement a fully managed Cloud service while educating and empowering its team to ensure smooth adoption. Here’s how. With the help of Connect, an Internet-branded bank successfully moved from a traditional telephony solution (Avaya on-premise kit) to the Cloud (Amazon Connect) for the first time in its history.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

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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Monica Patel: From the IT crowd to RingCentral AVP of Marketing

Infinity

As part of the “In Conversation With” blog series, we aim to bring you the very best industry insights from top executives, across the globe. This week, we’re speaking to Monica Visconti-Patel, AVP, EMEA Marketing at RingCentral. Since arriving in London in 1996, Monica has been a tech-mad enthusiast. Heading up her team at RingCentral, she delivers what she calls “mathematical ninja techniques, a feverish work discipline, and a commitment to data”.

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Creating a custom theme

Stratifyd

Ghost comes with a beautiful default theme called Casper, which is designed to be a clean, readable publication layout and can be adapted for most purposes. However, Ghost can also be completely themed to suit your needs. Rather than just giving you a few basic settings which act as a poor proxy for code, we just let you write code. There are a huge range of both free and premium pre-built themes which you can get from the Ghost Theme Marketplace , or you can create your own from scratch.

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Quiq Named one of 2019’s Best Tech Startups in Bozeman

Quiq

For the second year in a row, Quiq has been featured as one of the best tech startups in Bozeman. The Tech Tribune started the series with the mission to “recognize and honor the most exemplary young companies all across the country, companies that too often do not get a well deserved turn in the spotlight.” The full list for Bozmena, MT can be viewed on The Tech Tribunes site, 2019 Best Tech Startups in Bozeman.

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Apps & integrations

Stratifyd

There are three primary ways to work with third-party services in Ghost: using Zapier, editing your theme, or using the Ghost API. Zapier You can connect your Ghost site to over 1,000 external services using the official integration with Zapier. Zapier sets up automations with Triggers and Actions, which allows you to create and customise a wide range of connected applications.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

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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66 countries and counting. Welcome Bahrain and The UAE to Spearline fixed line testing!

Spearline

At Spearline, we are always trying to replicate your customers' call experience. Diversity of coverage is crucial - you need to know that your numbers are being tested against a wide range of global networks. We are therefore delighted to welcome The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain to Spearline fixed line testing. UAE. The UAE fixed ISDN line with Etisalat is now fully operational and available to all Spearline customers.

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Organising your content

Stratifyd

Ghost has a flexible organisational taxonomy called tags which can be used to configure your site structure using dynamic routing. Basic Tagging You can think of tags like Gmail labels. By tagging posts with one or more keyword, you can organise articles into buckets of related content. When you create content for your publication you can assign tags to help differentiate between categories of content.

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ID R&D Simplifies Enterprise Integration and Cross-Channel Enrollment for Voice Biometrics with IDVoice v2.7

CSM Magazine

Newest version of ID R&D unifies enrollment across channels with a 10X increase in biometric matching speed. ID R&D , the award-winning biometric solutions provider offering AI-based voice, behavioral, and anti-spoofing user authentication capabilities, today announced the newest release of its voice biometric solution, IDVoiceTM version 2.7.