ShepHyken

MARCH 6, 2023

Top Takeaways: Human-centric CX design is all about communicating with customers, and this goes beyond a one-off survey. It is about regularly speaking with customers directly to deeply understand the customer. It is uncovering where they’re benefiting from your product and identifying barriers or pain points that they are experiencing. Bringing engaged customers who are utilizing your products and services into the design process can help shape great outcomes for your company.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 10, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Kathleen White, a business manager who helps organizations improve career opportunities and employee engagement. She writes about how companies can adopt a remote workforce and enhance customer service delivery. There’s no doubt that there are challenges to providing remote customer services, but with careful planning, they’re easy to overcome.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2023

The purpose of a Customer Success team is to help a company’s customers get the most value out of its product. The hypothesis is, if a customer maximizes the obtainable value, they will remain loyal and spend more with the company. This isn’t merely a theory. Case studies have shown loyal customers spend more— up to six times more —over the customer lifetime.

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JustCall

MARCH 16, 2023

A customer may forgive and forget a bad product, but they will never forget poor customer service. After all, people always remember how you made them feel. Customer support is notorious for not being helpful. Big brands like Amazon, Costco, Zappos, etc., are beloved by their customers owing to their wonderful customer support. And if you’re one of those businesses guilty of taking your customers for granted, then it’s about high time to reevaluate such a self-destructive strategy.

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JUST RELEASED! The Northridge Group’s State of CX 2023 Part II research report reveals that nearly half of consumers surveyed had knowingly spoken to a customer service associate working from home—and almost 75% of those respondents felt the associate's location did not impact the service or experience. So why do more than ⅓ of business leaders want contact center associates back in the office?

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Nicereply

MARCH 14, 2023

Being a support manager is a demanding job that requires constant learning. These 17 books contain critical lessons that every support manager will benefit from. Every customer support manager has a busy life. Priorities are constantly competing. But one should stand strong among all the others: to keep on learning. And what better way to expand your knowledge than picking up a book?

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TechSee

MARCH 7, 2023

As part of our Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day initiatives, we asked our own TechSee Super Women to highlight some of the amazing leaders in the technology, service, and support industries who inspire them, have helped grow their careers, or simply deserve to be celebrated for being awesome. 1. Elizabeth Parks, President, and CMO, Parks Associates – We never miss a new post or research from Elizabeth and her team.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 8, 2023

I love hearing about complaints and problems that are solved to the point that the customer wants to tell the world about the experience. That’s exactly what happened to Bill Paretti, one of our faithful Shepard Letter subscribers. He was so excited about what happened that he shared it with me, hoping I would share it with you. Here’s the short version of the story, followed by my commentary and the lesson we can take away from his experience.

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Lumoa

MARCH 9, 2023

In the world of customer experience, “customer empathy” is not just a buzzword, it’s a game-changer. Put simply, it means genuinely caring about the experience your customers have with your brand. And when you master this skill, you can create an emotional bond that sets you apart from the competition. Let me give you a real-life scenario of how it works in general.

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Fonolo

MARCH 16, 2023

Your contact center may run like clockwork, with engaged agents answering calls quickly, solving problems, and creating satisfied customers in record time. But without the contact center KPIs and metrics that managers use to measure the effectiveness of their operations, you’d never know for sure. KPIs matter. And they’re changing quickly. We asked contact center industry influencers to share their insights into the changing role of KPIs and shine a light on new metrics to watch.

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Attention government agencies and BPO partners! CXperts is your go-to solution for improving citizen experience. Our omnichannel and digital contact center solutions are designed to supply superior CX, reducing costs and maximizing efficiency. Plus, we are a Minority Owned Business (MBE). With our certifications, we are the perfect partner to help government agencies meet their CX goals and fulfill federal deal requirements.

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 28, 2023

Saint Louis Park, MN, March 28, 2023 – Outsource Consultants is once again honored to have made the fourth annual Financial Times ranking of The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies. This list, compiled with Statista, ranks companies from across North, Central and South America by their compound annual growth rate in revenue between 2018 and 2021. Honorees of the list have shown extraordinary growth, with a doubled median revenue among participants, up from $12.2 to $22.5 million, making this yea

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Upstream Works

MARCH 16, 2023

Upstream Works is excited to introduce you to our newest product offering – Upstream Works for Amazon Connect. We enhance Amazon Connect with a unified desktop, digital channel flexibility, seamless integrations and management simplicity The post 2 Ways AI Can Mitigate Fraud in Contact Centers appeared first on Upstream Works.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 15, 2023

Tens of thousands of AWS customers use AWS machine learning (ML) services to accelerate their ML development with fully managed infrastructure and tools. For customers who have been developing ML models on premises, such as their local desktop, they want to migrate their legacy ML models to the AWS Cloud to fully take advantage of the most comprehensive set of ML services, infrastructure, and implementation resources available on AWS.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 14, 2023

Or, In a recent Shepard Letter , I discussed the Trust Gap , which is the difference between an organization’s belief that their customers trust them and the percentage of customers who actually do. I’ve covered different gap concepts in the past, and it’s time to add yet another to the list, and that is the Loyalty Gap. By the way, this is a perfect time to mention International Customer Loyalty Month, which happens every year in April.

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Contact center leaders are skilled at balancing competing day-to-day priorities. They help others make informed business decisions, all while working to keep agents and customers engaged in positive experiences. Rapid access to the most relevant and actionable information is critical to managing agents, supervisors, and communicating with executive leadership to improve efficiencies and business outcomes.

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The Northridge Group

MARCH 14, 2023

If healthcare managers and small-to-medium-sized business (SMB) healthcare practitioners can agree on anything, it’s that acquiring new patients is both costly and challenging. Conversely, retaining existing patients is far more achievable and economically viable, especially in the ultra-competitive modern healthcare marketplace. There are many different tactics that health providers can use to improve patient retention rates in 2023.

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Fonolo

MARCH 2, 2023

No stranger to change, the contact center industry has been ahead of the curve throughout the global pandemic. We consulted nine industry experts to tell us all about it – and discuss the state of the contact center in 2023. Word: Contact centers are technology leaders! While the world was pivoting from on-site to hybrid and remote workspaces, contact centers were also embracing cloud technology and upskilling agents to be among the first-generation of AI-native workers.

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 9, 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, work-from-home models spread throughout the call center industry. Some BPO providers were fortunate enough to have a remote work infrastructure in place before the COVID-19 pandemic, but many had to quickly adapt to new quarantine regulations. As a result, many call centers were forced to make short-term adaptations to their employees’ working processes in a blink of an eye.

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JustCall

MARCH 23, 2023

Introduction CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software refers to a tool that businesses can use to record and store key customer information to use when building a relationship with leads or prospects. CRM helps streamline your work. It aids you with better management of your sales and marketing clients by clubbing your workflows, business processes, and client interactions into a single-view interface.

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In this eBook, you’ll learn how companies are using advanced conversational AI solutions, like Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant, to deliver actionable service and assist their contact center agents in both voice and digital channels. You’ll also see how our easy-to-use, low-code bot-building environment makes for quicker and more flexible conversational AI deployments that deliver an immediate ROI.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 8, 2023

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service. With SageMaker, data scientists and developers can quickly and easily build and train ML models, and then directly deploy them into a production-ready hosted environment. Sagemaker provides an integrated Jupyter authoring notebook instance for easy access to your data sources for exploration and analysis, so you don’t have to manage servers.

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Concentrix

MARCH 29, 2023

Enhances Concentrix’ position as a leader in $550B+ growing CX market Adds clients in attractive growing markets, further diversifying our marquee client list Significantly expands footprint in Europe, Latin America, and Africa Expands breadth and global reach of high-value services and digital capabilities Strengthens support for clients and staff, combining complementary cultures Accretive to revenue […]

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Nuance

MARCH 6, 2023

The global public attention that greeted the launch of ChatGPT has highlighted that we’re at a pivotal moment in the development of AI. As pioneers in contact center AI, it’s exciting to see the emergence of advanced open AI models that can augment our existing innovations with powerful new capabilities. We’re delighted to introduce conversation [.] The post Nuance is revolutionizing the contact center with GPT technology appeared first on What’s next.

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AnomalySquared

MARCH 14, 2023

The most impressive characteristic I have observed since Covid hit us in 2020, was our country's ability to adapt and overcome. Sure, the political landscape had intensified but in the face of adversity, America’s business leaders found a way to navigate unchartered waters, pivot, and flourish.

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For years now, contact center admins and supervisors have leveraged bots to improve customer and employee experiences but we are at the beginning of a completely new paradigm regarding increased speed and efficiency. Implementing a modern contact center solution, powered by AI, can give contact centers a competitive advantage. While integrating AI is necessary to provide high-quality digital customer service, it is only a piece of the communication platform puzzle.

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Inbenta

MARCH 13, 2023

By Jordi Torras, Chief Innovation Officer, Inbenta In just a few months, ChatGPT has captured the interest of hundreds of millions of users and the imagination of businesses the world over. The Generative AI platform’s meteoric rise is understandable – a new and transformative AI tool capable of fixing code, responding to questions, writing emails and articles, and everything in between, is now widely available to the public.

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Toister Performance Solutions

MARCH 2, 2023

This blog is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Is burnout gripping your contact center? A worldwide survey of contact center agents revealed 59 percent are at risk of burnout, including 28 percent who face a severe burnout risk.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 10, 2023

Online fraud has a widespread impact on businesses and requires an effective end-to-end strategy to detect and prevent new account fraud and account takeovers, and stop suspicious payment transactions. Detecting fraud closer to the time of fraud occurrence is key to the success of a fraud detection and prevention system. The system should be able to detect fraud as effectively as possible also alert the end-user as quickly as possible.

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Avoxi

MARCH 30, 2023

Don't panic! Call spikes happen. Learn easy call queue management strategies to get your contact center call queues under control.

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Speaker: Michael McMillan - Customer Experience Expert, TEDx Speaker, and Author

Are you looking to elevate your CX support strategy? Customers who have a seamless buying experience, from speaking with sales and purchasing the product to easily finding support, are more likely to return to your organization and recommend it to others. With the numerous changes in the market, it is critical that your CX strategy can evolve and better support your customers regardless of where they are in their journey.

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Abby Connect

MARCH 15, 2023

A customer calls. Your receptionist answers and makes a fantastic first impression on your behalf—they’re charming, well-informed, and manage to forward a happy, engaged potential customer to your phone line. But what happens next is up to you. Can you cinch the deal, or will you fumble the pass?

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HelpCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

At a certain point in time, businesses start to think about ways to organize, manage, and retain the knowledge that has accumulated over years. Not only does it help to keep better control over the [ … ] The post Knowledge Base vs Wiki: How to Choose What’s Right for You? appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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LiveVox

MARCH 17, 2023

Are you surprised when your customers don’t share your rosy view of your company’s customer experience? You’re not alone. Many businesses struggle with the gap between their expectations and reality. In this video, Roy Atkinson explores some ways to close that gap and improve your customers’ satisfaction. Roy Atkinson currently serves as CEO of Clifton […] The post LiveVox CX Reflex Episode 2: Reality vs.

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