Callminer
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
Frank Sherlock, CallMiner's VP of International, will be at Credit Connect’s Technology Think Tank on Nov. 17, 2022 for a session on how economic change has impacted customer engagement.
Steve DiGioia
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Wrestlers talk about, “knowing their place on the card.” This means that since they’re not the “headliner” or in the main event, they understand that they are a supporting act for the overall benefit of the show. They still have a job to do and must perform well. They must get the audience riled up and engaged in the action. They’ve learned from the veterans.
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Customer Service Life
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Image by www_slon_pics from Pixabay. This article was originally published on CustomerThink and is being reposted with permission from the editor. A customer contacts us with an apparent product issue. With a bit of digging, we discover a larger bug or problem that may need to be addressed by engineering. Before reporting to engineering we get a sense of how many customers are impacted by the issue.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
An important goal of a good customer experience is to make the customer feel special. That special feeling can come in many different forms. I was reading an article about customer retention, and it prompted me to start a list of ways to make customers feel special, want to come back, and even want to share their experience with friends, family, and colleagues.
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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?
AnomalySquared
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
As previously featured by the Progress in Lending Association.
Customer Contact Central brings together the best content for Contact Center and Customer Service professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Callminer
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Call center metrics, including call tracking metrics, can make improving operations at your contact center much easier to manage. Read this blog for the top metrics to consider and measure.
CX Accelerator
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Collaboration with Ben Motteram and Nate Brown To transform an organization into one that is more customer centric is a complex task that requires many different skills. Customer experience is multi-disciplinary. Those who succeed in the profession do so because they possess a number of different skills or are part of a team comprised specialists in each skill.
Contact Center Pipeline
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Navigating the legal landscape has always been challenging for employers in the contact center industry, but a wave of new laws affecting hiring and management practices will complicate matters further. Handling these additional requirements introduces more challenges for centers as they struggle to recruit and retain employees amidst shrinking labor pools and the Great Resignation. […].
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
A restaurant took its most popular item off the menu. It had been on there a long time, and the owner decided it was time to make a change, even though it was his guests’ favorite dish. . A company changed its invoicing terms. It wanted to tighten its terms to get paid sooner, with larger penalties for late payment. . A retail store changed its return policy.
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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.
Fonolo
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
High call volumes are three words that can strike fear into the heart of any call center professional. Without the right preparation, even the most established operations can find themselves struggling with call demand, and trying to stay afloat when faced with an onslaught of customer queries. The occasional call spike is hardly cause for concern — however, if your call center agents are struggling to manage daily volumes , you risk a lot more than a few abandoned calls.
HelpCrunch
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Let me flash a little discovery of mine. Did you know that the human brain can process 11 billion bits of information every second? That’s quite impressive! From here, I would like to simulate a [ … ]. The post 8 Knowledge Management Benefits That Tip The Scale for Businesses appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.
Callminer
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced and accessible, it is essential to employ both human service and automation in the contact center. Read on for steps to balance your CX approach.
AWS Machine Learning
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
We’re thrilled to announce that Stability AI has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to power its state-of-the-art AI models for image, language, audio, video, and 3D content generation. Stability AI is a community-driven, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) company developing breakthrough technologies. With Amazon SageMaker , Stability AI will build AI models on compute clusters with thousands of GPU or AWS Trainium chips, reducing training time and cost by 58%.
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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.
Eptica
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Date: Thursday, November 24, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Why contact centres are choosing the cloud for adding new functionality. Published on: November 24, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Increasingly contact centres are migrating to the cloud for the ability it gives them to deploy new technology, faster and with greater ease.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Serve and Sell Your Customers with An Amazing Digital CX. Creating the Digital Experience That Builds Trust with Your Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Tim Hughes, co-Founder and CEO of DLA Ignite , and co-author of Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers. He shares how organizations can establish a strong digital brand identity, share knowledge, and create lasting relationships with their customers through social media platforms.
Fonolo
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Whether you’re diving into a new industry or looking to brush up on your skills, training courses can benefit professionals at any stage of their career. This is especially true for contact center and customer service professionals – after all, customer behavior is constantly shifting, and it’s critical for businesses to meet their expectations. Fortunately, e-learning has made call center management courses more accessible than ever.
HelpCrunch
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Learning is crucial to our very existence. Just like our bodies require food to nourish, our minds need information and continued learning to stay nutrient. That is why, even when we become more experienced, we [ … ]. The post 14 Best Customer Service Blogs to Follow in 2022 appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.
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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.
aircall
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Ever since I joined Aircall, it has been a rollercoaster ride. One of my most memorable experiences so far was when I got the opportunity to be a part of a virtual hackathon experience during my first month at Aircall. Hackathons are an exciting time in an engineering team’s life. The surreal energy encourages innovation, collaboration, and team bonding.
Transparent BPO
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
The answer may lay with your clients and agents. It’s on everyone’s lips. They all seem to be talking about it – from the C-suite to the kitchen table and every business journal is unpacking the advantages of letting employees work from home. And you and your leadership teams are asking, “will work-from-home work for […]. The post Do Work-From-Home Agents Work for You?
Eptica
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Date: Friday, November 18, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager 10 top tips for a winning customer service knowledge management system. Published on: November 18, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Using knowledge effectively is key to driving excellence in customer service, particularly as queries become increasingly complex and information changes ever faster.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Here is another customer service horror story about a woman who was so fixated on a process that it almost cost her “customer” his life. . My friend Jerry went to the emergency room of his local hospital. He was in excruciating pain. Something in his abdominal area was not right. He truly felt like he was going to die. . Doubled over in pain, he limped through the waiting room to the registration desk and begged to see a doctor.
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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.
Fonolo
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Contact centers’ conversion to SIP trunking technology has been an ongoing industry success story. Why? For starters, using SIP technology to enable voice and video calls, messaging and data transmission saves money: up to 50% according to Gartner analysts. And SIP trunking is super-flexible; it makes it easy for contact centers to add advanced features like speech analytics, Visual IVR , and scheduled call-backs from third-party vendors.
Avoxi
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Using Cloud Communications to Tackle eCommerce Customer Pain Points The global eCommerce industry is expected to reach $5 trillion by the end of 2022. And while there’s more money than ever to be made from eCommerce sales, there are also more challenges for brands to remain competitive. Supply chain issues, inflation, rising competition– there are… The post Using Cloud Communications to Tackle eCommerce Customer Pain Points appeared first on AVOXI.
Interactions
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Over the last three years, Covid has transformed the contact-center industry into a work-from-anywhere (WFA) world. Millions of agents now work outside the traditional walls of a care center. . It’s a win for business cost efficiencies and worker flexibility. But it opens a can of worms for meeting compliance requirements and it impacts millions of care agents supporting hundreds of thousands of businesses. .
Transparent BPO
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Manage expectations after moving a domestic contact center The time has come – you’ve grown to the point that it’s time to outsource your contact center. The fate of your brand is now in the hands of contact center agents thousands of miles away. And your customers’ satisfaction rides on the ability of agents in […]. The post Switching Gears: Moving Your Contact Center Nearshore/Offshore appeared first on Transparent BPO.
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.
Tethr
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Tethr’s newest machine learning capabilities enables you to build structured insights with incredible ease, speed and accuracy. Speech analytics and conversation intelligence platforms help companies understand their customer experience. Standard conversation intelligence and speech analytics platforms all rely on humans to program and write code in order to detect events in your conversations.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
This week, we feature an article by Deniz Kuran, Head of Marketing at Idiomatic , an organization that helps companies understand their customers by translating customer feedback into actionable data. She discusses the difference between transactional and relational customer service. Effective customer service should contribute to a positive relationship between the organization and the customer.
Fonolo
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Whatever the size of your contact center, there will likely come a time when you notice your numbers slipping and employees losing steam while their productivity fizzles. In a world still managing pandemic burnout and fears around health and safety, it’s easy for processes to become disjointed and for management to stop pushing for growth. Sounds like a good time to shake things up!
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