kommunicate
JUNE 18, 2022
Last Updated on June 18, 2022 “The vision for our assistant is to help you get things done.” These were the exact words used by Sundar Pichai in 2018 in his demo of Google Duplex, an AI-powered voice agent that is an added feature to Google Assistant. Sure enough, fast forward to four years later, [.]. The post 5 Ways AI Chatbots are Changing the USA Healthcare Industry appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.
OrecX
JUNE 22, 2022
For years, companies have been recording customer calls for quality assurance, compliance and risk mitigation. For those purposes, standard call recording solutions work fine. But, when you want to start analyzing your calls for customer insight like buying patterns, traditional call recording solutions don't always serve you the best. For call analysis, you require certain elements in a call recording system that not all recorders have.
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ShepHyken
JUNE 22, 2022
Not long ago, I wrote about calling your customer or an employee “honey.” It generated dozens of comments. One of our subscribers made a good point.? . He agreed that the lesson is about being “socially correct,” but perhaps we should look beyond the name that is used and instead consider the intent of the person using it. He was saying that the server may have intended to create a warm and friendly atmosphere, and calling a person “honey” was her way of doing it.
Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 18, 2022
Podcast Summary. A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. 5 Rules for Effective Customer Research That Make A Difference. Customer research is an essential part of any organization’s customer strategy.
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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.
CCNG
JUNE 22, 2022
Let’s make 2022 the year of Location Inclusion. What is location inclusion? To me, Location Inclusion means making sure everyone is valued, regardless of where they live and work. It is about creating a foundation where everyone in your organization feels like they belong and is included in activities no matter where they are located. It means creating equal access to information & people, equal access to roles & responsibilities regardless of time zone or zip code.
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ShepHyken
JUNE 21, 2022
The Cost of Bad Customer Service. The Impact of Bad Customer Service on Your Customers, Employees, and ROI. Shep Hyken interviews Christine Churchill, Founder and CEO of the Customer Service Institute of America (CSIA). She shares how organizations can identify, measure, and address issues to improve customer experience. Top Takeaways: Customers are smarter than ever before.
Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 23, 2022
It annoys me when I ask clients what their customers say, and they tell me what they learned in a survey seven years ago! That’s too bloody long to go between customer research projects. The world has changed enormously in the past two years, let alone the past seven. Customer research should be a priority every year. So, today I am covering the 5 Rules for Effective Customer Research That Make a Difference.
Contact Center Pipeline
JUNE 23, 2022
I had a conversation recently with Laura Sikorski, who is an independent consultant and leading contact center industry authority, on the critical topic of analytics. “An example of a lesson learned with analytics is the increased usage of the chat channel—about 20% per year since 2016.” Laura Sikorski Her expertise and work focuses on operations […].
Solvvy
JUNE 22, 2022
You’ve probably noticed that your customers are impatient. When they search your website for answers or reach out for customer service or support, they want answers now. Chatbots help you meet this demand by allowing your customers to type or ask a question and get an answer immediately. But the relevance of that answer can vary depending on the type of technology that powers the solution.
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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
Nicereply
JUNE 20, 2022
Optimizing the customer journey is one of the best ways to ensure your sales funnel converts well and maintains a high ROI. It also boosts customer satisfaction, increasing customer retention, loyalty, and overall brand affinity. So, how exactly can you optimize the customer journey? Touchpoint mapping is a great place to start. Touchpoint mapping involves tracing and outlining all touchpoints or interactions a customer has with your brand.
ChurnZero
JUNE 24, 2022
2022 continues to be a grave reminder that change is constant. With the “great resignation,” fluctuations of the public and private markets, and the omnipresent pandemic, we find ourselves continuously, and quickly, adapting to the shifting landscape. What does this mean for B2B SaaS businesses? How do you stack up against your peers? In our webinar, 2022 SaaS retention benchmarks , SaaS Capital Manager Director Rob Belcher shares the results from their 11th annual B2B SaaS benchmarking survey.
VirtualPBX
JUNE 23, 2022
While it may have taken awhile for consumers to fully understand and embrace QR Codes, we’ve collectively moved on from the early adoption phase. According to data from Statista, In 2021, 75.8 million smartphone users in the United States scanned a QR code on their mobile devices, up by 15.3 percent compared to 2020. Usage of mobile QR code scanners is projected to experience constant growth, reaching approximately 99.5 million users in the U.S. by 2025.
Call Experts
JUNE 23, 2022
Customer retention is a huge deal for your organization, so it’s important you put some effort into building a better customer rapport. This article will explain customer rapport, why it’s essential, and how contact centers can support your customer service efforts. . What Is Customer Rapport? Customer rapport is about establishing and maintaining a positive relationship with consumers.
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.
Education Services Group
JUNE 24, 2022
The Reason. The bridge looks old. It looks to have once been an operating railroad bridge, now reinforced and refurbished to serve its current purpose. My wife, Jenny, and I take our first step onto the bridge and start the trek to the middle; I can see off in the distance where they’ve set up canopies at what appears to be the bungee jump site. We get about 200 feet onto the bridge before Jenny lets go of my hand—apparently, I’m too clammy, but more importantly…why isn’t she?
Spearline
JUNE 20, 2022
See why testRTC , is the world’s most powerful WebRTC testing and monitoring platform, for companies serious about WebRTC! WebRTC is an important focus for us today and how Spearline plans to future proof communications for our customers. About Us Spearline provides quality assurance tools for business communication services, allowing you to proactively manage your inbound and outbound voice and communications services.
Russel Lolacher
JUNE 19, 2022
In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with management consultant, executive coach and speaker Liz Kislik on the importance of compassion in the workplace. A few reasons she is awesome – She is the president of Liz Kislik Associates LLC for 3 and a half decades – offering management consulting, executive coaching and other services to help organizations grow (including American Express, Girls Scouts and Staples).
Kapta Customer Success
JUNE 21, 2022
Strong sales and account management leaders can pave the way to innovative, customer-centric workflows and organizational changes. But as you're reorganizing how your team operates, tracking your KPIs and metrics , and even investigating internal sales processes, it's just as important to take a moment and evaluate your department's tools as it is to assess your goals.
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!
CSM Magazine
JUNE 19, 2022
We all know we need to strive for positive customer experiences and do everything we can to avoid negative customer experiences. What many CX leaders fail to consider, however, is the relationship between your customer experience and your bottom line. What is a “Bad” Customer Experience? Depending on your team and the products you support, your challenges may be different.
ChurnZero
JUNE 21, 2022
You may have heard of sales enablement, but Customer Success enablement might be a new term for you. Although it’s an important concept and role in the Customer Success space, it hasn’t quite gained the traction it needs to be in the spotlight. That’s why we’ve put together this guide to not only define Customer Success enablement but also outline the key tenets of the term and share some best practices for creating an impactful Customer Success enablement initiative.
Concentrix
JUNE 21, 2022
Cloud migration can feel daunting to many companies. Concentrix makes migrating your contact center to the cloud easy! The post How to Secure Buy-In for Cloud Migration appeared first on Concentrix.
Call Design
JUNE 20, 2022
Unlocking productivity within a contact centre through the utilisation of intelligent automation is key to quantifying how automation and artificial intelligence has provided an unprecedented return on investment. As contact centres strive to streamline operations, improve customer experience and create work environments conducive to success, the deployment of intelligent automation is reinforcing the optimal blend of human skills and technology.
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.
CSM Magazine
JUNE 23, 2022
ASAPP the AI Cloud company has made a number of announcements recently for its AI services. Today the company announced availability of AutoTranscribe and claims it to be “the most accurate , real-time, speech-to-text transcription service” for call centres. “ASAPP has a dedicated team of natural language processing (NLP) and speech researchers who are advancing state-of-the art in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and task-oriented dialogue,” said ASAPP Chief Scientist Ryan McDonald who previo
Nuance
JUNE 23, 2022
This post is co-authored by Charles Lamanna, General Manager, Business Applications Platform, Microsoft. Since Microsoft and Nuance joined forces earlier this year, both teams have been clear about our commitment to putting our customers first. Microsoft and Nuance are dedicated to ensuring our products complement each other, accelerate better business outcomes, and continue to deliver value well into [.
AWS Machine Learning
JUNE 24, 2022
Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon Forecast offers the ability to generate forecasts on a selected subset of items. This helps you to leverage the full value of your data, and apply it selectively on your choice of items reducing the time and effort to get forecasted results. Generating a forecast on ‘all’ items of the dataset restricted you from the freedom to have fine-grained controls over specific items that you wanted to forecast.
Helpware
JUNE 21, 2022
How important is company culture? Is it just a matter of boosting employee morale so they can perform their work better? Is it setting up the workplace in such a way as to make it conducive to productivity and ideas generation? Or, is it instilling a set of values that make employees respect, trust, and empathize with co-workers? If it is, is company culture simply a means to an end?
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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.
SharpenCX
JUNE 20, 2022
Today’s call centers are achieving great gains in efficiency and call deflection with AI, but many are missing out on its most impactful capabilities. While the majority of AI’s applications and benefits are often narrowly focused on customer experience — which is truly important — AI has the potential to transform the agent experience as well. And with the current workforce challenge of recruiting and retaining employees, optimizing AI to support both customers and agents can be a game-changer
Toister Performance Solutions
JUNE 23, 2022
My first customer service interaction didn't end well. I was sixteen and had been on the job for 15 minutes. An irritated customer approached and I said the wrong thing. He stormed out of the store. It was a terrible feeling to see a customer literally walk out the door. In that moment, I vowed to learn everything I could to prevent that from happening again.
AWS Machine Learning
JUNE 23, 2022
Organizations moving towards a data-driven culture embrace the use of data and machine learning (ML) in decision-making. To make ML-based decisions from data, you need your data available, accessible, clean, and in the right format to train ML models. Organizations with a multi-account architecture want to avoid situations where they must extract data from one account and load it into another for data preparation activities.
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