Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

Infusing artificial intelligence (AI) into processes is top of mind for business leaders and managers in all industries and across all job functions. Generative AI technologies truly have the power to change how we work and our ability to deliver a stellar customer experience (CX). Some of the most common uses of AI have been game changers: Virtual assistants like Siri guiding us on our way and finding information in an instant Fraud detection from our financial institutions Medical diagnoses an

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 21, 2024

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Sometimes, things go wrong despite your best efforts. This situation happens everywhere. Even the most well-managed companies will have things go wrong. So, it’s not a matter of if but when regarding a customer crisis.

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TCN

MARCH 20, 2024

If you’re in the realm of call centers, you know that flexibility is the name. The post Is Your Call Center Software Holding You Back? appeared first on TCN.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 19, 2024

Call center dashboards play a vital role in contact centers. Call center dashboards provide the kinds of insights and metrics that contribute to having improved agent performance and more successful campaigns. These digital command centers offer a comprehensive overview of operations, enabling supervisors to make informed decisions in real-time. Let’s delve deeper and explore the dashboard functionalities, key metrics, best practices, and their pivotal role in enhancing customer satisfacti

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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.

Vistio

MARCH 18, 2024

For contact center managers, trying to keep a full staff of experienced agent can feel like trying to fill a leaky bucket. High turnover rates are common, with many agents feeling overwhelmed, underprepared, or simply uninspired. But here’s a secret: it doesn’t have to be that way. A vital tool in our arsenal to tackle this issue is training—not just any training, but effective, confidence-boosting training techniques.

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JustCall

MARCH 21, 2024

Does your team constantly struggle to nail customer interactions? As a manager, you know the frustration all too well. – Your sales reps stumble over detailed product queries, derailing potential deals. Meanwhile, your support agents frantically search for resolutions to complex issues, testing customer patience. The outcome? Frustrated customers, missed sales opportunities, and a constant feeling of being overwhelmed.

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s face it — no one contacts your contact center to tell the person who answers the phone, text, or chat to tell your organization that they love your brand, service, or product. Most interactions that contact center agents have daily are to solve a problem or issue, adjust a payment, or ask a clarifying question. When customer interactions are the heartbeat of business operations, one crucial factor often takes center stage – agent morale.

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Calltools

MARCH 20, 2024

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized how contact centers streamline processes and serve customers. While not all contact centers utilize AI, learning how the technology can serve your employees and customers benefits growth. How Conversational AI Works Conversational AI uses several technologies to create human-like interactions. When a customer calls your contact center, automatic speech recognition (ASR) deciphers their spoken words and turns them into information that artificial intelli

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Ambs Call Center

MARCH 18, 2024

Your medical practice has finally decided on the need for a medical answering service. Maybe you’ve never had one before, or maybe you just simply don’t know what’s required.

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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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ShepHyken

MARCH 18, 2024

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 comments about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Do You Know Who Your Competition In Business Really Is? by Dan Gingiss (Dan Gingiss) Today, your customers compare you to every customer experience they have with every other brand.

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TechSee

MARCH 21, 2024

Over the last 12 months, our new AI-powered streamlined fiber customer installation solution has helped leading telecoms across North America automate millions of self-installs. boosting success rates while saving millions in call avoidance and dispatch costs. By popular demand, we are now offering this AI-automated guided flow as a packaged solution.

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Bill Quiseng

MARCH 20, 2024

A veteran of over 40 years in hospitality leadership, I was, until several years ago, a customer service/customer experience speaker. Unfortunately, I suffered a stroke in April 2021. So, I have slightly slurred speech and a dead right side. Since my stroke, I’ve gone from Mr. “Let’s be GREAT out there!” as GM/Managing Director to Mr. Invisible, sequestered alone with my wife in my San Diego apartment.

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ConvergeOne

MARCH 21, 2024

Before we navigate through the dynamic infrastructure landscape, it is imperative to define the very foundation upon which these technological advancements are built. Infrastructure, in its essence, encompasses the fundamental framework of interconnected systems and resources that enable the seamless flow of data, communication, and operations within an organization or across networks.

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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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Cisco - Contact Center

MARCH 20, 2024

I am proud to introduce you to our learning event. Cisco U. Spotlight! And it is all happening On April 24, 2024 , at 8:30am Pacific. What’s Cisco U. Spotlight all about? Cisco U.

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AnswerConnect

MARCH 19, 2024

Looking for the USP to differentiate you from your competitors? Discover why 24/7 customer service is crucial to stand out and grow your business in 2024. The post How to grow your business with 24/7 customer service. appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 22, 2024

This post is co-written with Matt Middleton from Contentful. Today, jointly with Contentful, we are announcing the launch of the AI Content Generator powered by Amazon Bedrock. The AI Content Generator powered by Amazon Bedrock is an app available on the Contentful Marketplace that allows users to create, rewrite, summarize, and translate content using cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence (AI) models available and accessible through Amazon Bedrock in a simple and secure manner.

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ConvergeOne

MARCH 19, 2024

The advent of Generative AI (GenAI) has led to a technological transformation that we have not seen since the birth of the Internet. Its impact on intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs) has been no less profound, significantly expanding the scope of what IVAs can achieve and the impact that they can have across any organization. However, as organizations attempt to implement new GenAI-based IVAs, they are still struggling to effectively deliver AI-based capabilities that result in tangible busine

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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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Cisco - Contact Center

MARCH 22, 2024

The quest for life’s meaning has been a constant throughout human history. Finding our personal purpose is essential for our emotional well-being and fulfillment as human beings.

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MiaRec

MARCH 21, 2024

An organization's contact center is producing an enormous amount of data every day, but traditionally these insights have been inaccessible. For example, contact center managers would get random glimpses into what is going on by evaluating a tiny fraction (2-5%) of their calls. However, now with Generative AI, contact centers can automatically score 100% of their call volume, allowing them to identify patterns and trends that would otherwise be invisible, such as subtle changes in an agent's per

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Tethr

MARCH 20, 2024

Don’t let manual processes bog your customer service down. Discover how technology helps transform after call work (ACW) in call centers.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 19, 2024

Love them or hate them, in business, as in life, transitions are inevitable. On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about the process of sourcing a strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. Usually, we focus on the buying cycle or key decision-making elements to consider, but the fact is, choosing your new strategic partner is just the first step in a long dance together.

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Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MARCH 18, 2024

What do you get when you combine the full power of the network with market-leading security and observability solutions? More customer value and an amazing partner ecosystem. It’s official!

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SQM Group

MARCH 19, 2024

Discover the top 10 customer service greetings for call center agents to ensure a smooth and friendly experience from the start.

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Comm100

MARCH 20, 2024

In an era where public trust in government institutions is understandably sensitive, the need for robust and transparent communication strategies has never been more critical. When done right, digital communication offers governments and agencies the opportunity to build, maintain, and restore trust. Through this medium, they can engage with citizens in real-time, provide 24/7 assistance, and disseminate accurate and accessible information.

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OctopusTech

MARCH 22, 2024

As automation revolutionizes business operations, Chatbots have become a powerful marketing tool. Chatbots are artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistants that simulate human conversations with customers through messaging apps. With their ability to automate responses and deliver personalized experiences, Chatbots have become essential to modern marketing strategies.

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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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Cisco - Contact Center

MARCH 18, 2024

Join the guided tour outside the Security Operations Center, where we’ll discuss real time network traffic of the RSA Conference, as seen in the NetWitness platform.

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C3Centricity

MARCH 21, 2024

It is a well-known fact that when budgets get tight, marketing is usually one of the first departments to suffer cuts, and market research in particular! Why is this? I believe it is because their ROI is longer-term and often difficult to prove. They therefore make the perfect target for sweeping reductions. A few years ago, I was asked to talk on this topic at the Planung&Analyse conference in Frankfurt.

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Concentrix

MARCH 18, 2024

JOIN US AT GOOGLE NEXT 2024 IN LAS VEGAS! Win a New Google Pixel 8 Pro Phone! Stop by Booth #331 to Enter. Enter to Win April 9-11, 2024 During Expo Hours Thanks for your interest! Want to share the experience?

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