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Using Customer Feedback to Drive Company Growth with Michelle MacCarthy

ShepHyken

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.

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HOW TO PREVENT AGENT APATHY

CCNG

As a contact center leader, you’re always looking for ways to improve performance and keep your agents happy. Despite the creativity of your approaches or the generosity of your rewards and incentives, you've likely come across a particular challenge: apathy.

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5 Reasons You Should Use Cloud Calling in 2023

Calltools

The cloud has revolutionized almost every sector in the last decade or so, including the call center industry. With worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services to total $591.8

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Should You Outsource Your Contact Center?

Real Blue Sky

There are many reasons to consider whether to outsource your contact center. Cost is only one of them. Before the internet, customer service was typically limited to a brick-and-mortar storefront, letter-writing, or a phone call to customer service.

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How to Build an AI-Powered Contact Center as a Service Platform

Trusted by over 750 customers across industries, the LinkLive AI -Powered Contact Center platform empowers businesses to deliver trusted experiences through voice, video, chat, secure email, and more channels.

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Setting Up Your Reps for Success

Contact Center Pipeline

The retail industry has always been marked by its unpredictable sales peaks and valleys—and that can make managing retail customer service a significant challenge.

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Conversational AI: Trends to Watch in 2023

SmartAction

After several years of steady growth, 2023 marks the year when the global conversational AI (CAI) market should really take off. Analysts expect CAI adoption to expand more than 22% this year alone, with longer term growth likely to exceed $14 billion by 2025.

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Types of Contact Centers: Discussed in Detailed

JustCall

Given the fact that contact centers are where most of the customer activity happens, this department needs robust tools and solutions to handle the load.

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In eCommerce, World Class Customer Service Is Not Optional

CSM Magazine

eCommerce has broken down barriers when it comes to consumerism and largely moved the vendor-buyer transaction to a faceless digital one.

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State of the Credit Union Contact Centers

Strategic Contact

In recent years, we have had the pleasure of being immersed in the credit union industry. We’ve fielded comprehensive benchmarking surveys that cover contact center operations, metrics, technology, and resiliency.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enhance your professional development and lifelong learning.

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Guest Post: Top Tips for Companies Providing Remote Customer Service

ShepHyken

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.

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The Power of Customer Empathy in Supercharging Your Customer Experience

Lumoa

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.

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Discover True Value of an MBA: Just a Piece of Paper or a Must Have?

Beyond Philosophy

One of our listeners, Clive Hearst has a bit of pickle he needs our help with today. He wants to know whether he should invest the time and money in getting his MBA. He wants to know what the true value is of an MBA, and whether it is a must-have for his career. The answer depends on a few things.

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23 Inspiring Women to Watch in 2023

TechSee

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.

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The 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index

Ventana Research named Verint an Exemplary Leader in the 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index, leading in multiple categories including Adaptability, Manageability, Usability and Product Experience. Download the Index.

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Complaints and Problems Are Opportunities to Show How Good You Are

ShepHyken

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.

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How to use the customer retention rate formula

Callminer

Read this blog to learn how to use the customer retention rate formula, common variations, and how you can put it to use in your organization

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Nuance is revolutionizing the contact center with GPT technology

Nuance

The global public attention that greeted the launch of ChatGPT has highlighted that we’re at a pivotal moment in the development of AI.

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Gain Deeper Insights into your Cisco SD-WAN Deployments with NWPI

Cisco - Contact Center

Imagine that you’ve built a house and invested time, money, and effort into it for a long time.

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How Mature Are Your Digital Experiences? A Step-by-Step Guide to Improved CX

Read about Verint’s Digital Maturity Model, where we share real tactics and strategies to improve CX, based on what has worked for our clients around the world.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of March 6, 2023

ShepHyken

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.

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Buyer's guide: How to choose the best NLP software

Callminer

This blog reviews what natural language processing is and explores expert tips and best practices for choosing the best NLP software for your business

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How to Address Ageism in the Workplace with Patti Temple Rocks

Russel Lolacher

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with author, speaker and age inclusivity advocate Patti Temple Rocks on ageism in the workplace, what it look like and how to address it.

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Celebrate Pi Day With Cisco Learning (We’re Saving You a Slice)

Cisco - Contact Center

Behind the scenes at Cisco, Pi Day is something we plan out weeks—even months—in advance. This year, we’re bringing back our Pi Day sale on learning products at the Cisco Learning Network Store. And w… Read more on Cisco Blogs Learning Cisco Certifications Cisco Learning Network continuing educatio

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?

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Why Your Chatbot Needs a CMS Integration To Enhance Business Operations

kommunicate

Last Updated on March 11, 2023 Chatbots have become an integral part of modern businesses, providing efficient and personalized customer support. This includes providing quick answers to customer inquiries, and delivering personalized recommendations based on customer preferences.

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Five tips on AI prompt writing (with real world Customer Success examples)

ChurnZero

Are you interested in using AI to make your Customer Success job easier? If so, this article is for you! We’ll walk through how to write prompts to help you better serve your customers, with examples you can add to your CS toolkit.

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Cloud+Remote=Profits

Contact Center Pipeline

The COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption has required businesses to adjust to managing a remote workforce while necessitating massive investments in cloud computing.

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Secure Equipment Access: more uptime, fewer truck rolls, remote access control

Cisco - Contact Center

It was a pleasure to connect with so many customers and partners at Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam last month.

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Marketing-Led COVID-19 Growth Strategies: 2022 and Beyond

More than two years in, COVID-19 is far from over. Businesses are tasked with beating pre-COVID numbers, making marketing crucial. This is your time to create brand awareness, bring in the best leads, and play a vital role in new and existing profit.

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Real-time fraud detection using AWS serverless and machine learning services

AWS Machine Learning

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.

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Creating an Action Plan For Your Customer Feedback Strategy

Lumoa

Customer feedback is a direct line to how your consumer base feels about your business and its products. It’s invaluable information that enables you to address problems, make changes where necessary, and give your customers more of what they love.

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Safely Continuing Customer Contact

Contact Center Pipeline

Customers require, and demand, excellent service, support, and sales assistance. But when disasters threaten and strike, they may not be able to receive them by contact centers in a timely manner, or not at all. Hence the need for a sound business continuity strategy.

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