TeleDirect
OCTOBER 1, 2022
What Is a Positive Call Center Environment? Whether your business’ call center is in-house or outsourced, one thing is clear: a positive, fair working environment is paramount to your success. But what is a call center environment? And what makes for a positive one? The term “contact center environment” refers to the atmosphere and culture present within your call center team.
Callminer
OCTOBER 5, 2022
It’s time organizations view surveys as only one customer feedback channel – not the only channel. Read on for three conversation intelligence use cases to upgrade your feedback mechanism.
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ShepHyken
OCTOBER 1, 2022
This week, we feature an article by Dmitry Dragilev, Founder of the keyword and SEO tools, TopicRanker.com , JustReachOut , and Chief SEO Geek. He shares how to get your customer service, sales, and marketing teams in sync. One of the most overlooked struggles for any business’s customer experience is getting every team on the same page. . I saw this at my startup JustReachOut.
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how sales and customer service combine to create an experience – hopefully a positive one. And then, by coincidence, one of our loyal subscribers, Heidi Reslow, shared a story about someone buying a new car. As I read the story, I realized the salesperson didn’t just sell a car. She created an experience for her customer.
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HelpCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
If you typed “How to write chatbot scripts” in your search box, you must have recognized the value and benefits a chatbot is going to bring to your business. Indeed, chatbots are huge resource savers [ … ]. The post Chatbot Script Examples and Writing Tips for Customer Service appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.
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Advantage Communications
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Selecting a vendor to work with when outsourcing your customer service program is a huge decision and entails a lot of research and consideration. A request for proposal (RFP) helps simplify the decision-making process.
CCNG
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Each time you engage with your network you are also building (or eroding) your reputation. Paying attention to professional etiquette goes a long way toward adding value and longevity to your network. Good manners and common courtesy are essential when dealing with those that you wish to help and ask for help. The most important forms of professional etiquette are honesty, punctuality, propriety, and diligence.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 1, 2022
When it comes to the behavioral sciences, I love their take on memory. I love it so much, that we did a podcast mini-series on it in three parts. In the first part , we talked about why memories are essential to experiences, when we use them to decide sometimes, and how memories form. The second part covered how memories are connected and the different types of memories we have.
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 6, 2022
This week, we feature an article by Zhecho Dobrev, leading principal consultant at Beyond Philosophy and author of The Big Miss: How Organizations Overlook the Value of Emotions. He shares the value that customer emotions bring to a company. How much value ($$$) do closer customer relationships and specific customer emotions bring to your business? I know you would say, “of course that these are important, and we focus on them,” but have you calculated how much value they actually bring?
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.
LiveVox
OCTOBER 5, 2022
During a recession, contact centers and call centers are still in high demand. But how does an economic downturn effect the industry?
ChurnZero
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Are Customer Experience and Customer Success really the same? If not, what are the differences that set them apart? Perhaps, more importantly, how can businesses leverage both of these practices to improve customer retention and reduce churn?
NobelBiz
OCTOBER 5, 2022
NobelBiz | Blog. How to Measure the Return On Investment (ROI) Of Your Contact Center Solution?
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Winning the World Cup in Customer Experience. The Link Between Soccer (Football) and Customer Service. Shep Hyken interviews Gregorio Uglioni, a customer experience specialist, host of CX Goalkeeper , and author of Customer Experience 4 (CX4). He shares how customer service teams can implement lessons and best practices that organizations can learn from soccer teams and their fans.
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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.
TeamSupport
OCTOBER 4, 2022
A customer can expect everything from the ordinary to the seemingly impossible. But whether or not a customer is asking you to take them to the Moon or provide a simple reporting apparatus, your business needs to be able to meet their expectations in at least some manner, or risk the consequences. So in the cases where a customer is asking for something you can't provide, whether that's faster response times or new features (or a trip to the Moon with Wallace and Gromit), your business needs to
LiveVox
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Frontline supervisors may be your company’s greatest resource for driving customer innovation & revenue growth. Here’s how #ContactCenter #analytics transforms this pivotal role from tactical to strategic.
Transparent BPO
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Transparent BPO Profiles the Leading Candidate This Year By Steve DiBari, VP Operations, Transparent BPO The workplace today is unrecognizable. For decades, workplaces experienced minor changes and occasionally flirted with seismic shifts. And then the pandemic arrived, and all bets were off. Since then, we’ve had ‘The Great Resignation’ only to be outdone by […].
Quality Contact Solutions
OCTOBER 4, 2022
For businesses to be successful, it’s essential to determine how to get quality leads. You know your target audience, but what’s the best way to reach them? In today’s business culture, there are so many ways you can go about the crucial lead generation process. These include paid advertising, social media, email marketing, and many more strategies.
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!
NobelBiz
OCTOBER 5, 2022
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Toister Performance Solutions
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Average handle time, or AHT, is an important metric in contact centers. It measures the average length of a call. Many contact center leaders track AHT closely because shaving even a few seconds off the average call could allow the contact center to handle more volume without adding staff. A Customer Service Tip of the Week subscriber recently wrote to ask my advice on reducing AHT in his contact center.
Lumoa
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Here are the improvements we have brought to Lumoa in the past month. Share data with other users. We want everyone to be able to act based on the voice of the customer. Due to this, we made a few changes to how Dashboards and Cards can be shared with others: Your Private Dashboard can now be shared with other users – for example, this lets you make a template to give new users for easy onboarding ; Cards can now be linked and shared among your coworkers – this lets you quickly sprea
VirtualPBX
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Unplanned emergencies due to inclement weather and other situations can happen anytime. Unfortunately, most businesses don’t think about a communication plan for emergencies until it’s too late. Amid the commotion and uncertainty, sending emergency notifications via a VoIP communications provider can help your business be more prepared on how to message your employees and customers quickly during these unexpected events.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Russel Lolacher
OCTOBER 3, 2022
In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with Executive Career Strategist Maureen McCann on taking the right steps for your career transition. A few reasons she is awesome – She’s the owner of Promotion Career Solutions, an 11x Canadian Certified Career & Job Search Strategist, 15x award-winning executive resume writer, an instructor and Senior Board Member at Career Professionals of Canada, as part of their Career Development Certification program, published career resea
ChurnZero
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Why is it that the need for operations in marketing and sales is never questioned, yet Customer Success isn’t given the same allowance? Organizations invest in MQL and SQL processes without fail. But they stop short of extending that same support to CS generate high-intent leads. Even though CSQLs have a lower customer acquisition cost, faster rate of return, and high close-rate, says Tony D’Auria, industry principal at Valuize, a customer lifecycle consultancy.
NobelBiz
OCTOBER 3, 2022
NobelBiz Partners with Customer Dynamics to Step Up the Compliance Game in the CCaaS Sector: Omni+ powered by Safe Select, allows you to operate safely in the TCPA world. The post Omni+ Powered by Safe Select: Complete CCaaS Outbound Compliance appeared first on NobelBiz®.
VirtualPBX
OCTOBER 1, 2022
For many professionals and larger businesses, fielding over 20 business calls in a day is an easy task. However, this can quickly become a hassle for small businesses and ultimately hurt the bottom line. But do not worry! There is a solution to helping you field more calls. A phone menu for small business is your answer to routing calls efficiently and effectively.
Speaker: Steve Pappas, Chief Strategist, Startup and Early Stage Growth Advisor, Keynote Speaker, CX Podcaster
As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.
AWS Machine Learning
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Face-off Probability is the National Hockey League’s (NHL) first advanced statistic using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence. It uses real-time Player and Puck Tracking (PPT) data to show viewers which player is likely to win a face-off before the puck is dropped, and provides broadcasters and viewers the opportunity to dive deeper into the importance of face-off matches and the differences in player abilities.
Fonolo
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Skills-based call routing sounds super technical! While there is a tech side to it, at its heart, skills-based call routing is all about peopl e. Still with me? Picture this: Y ou’re the coach of a soccer team. The opposing team is about to make a penalty kick, trying to score on your goalie. In net, you need the best of the best to ensure a goal isn’t scored.
Working Solutions
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Are you training your customer service agents to speak to callers with your company’s specific tone and voice? If not, you are missing out on an opportunity to elevate brand awareness and connect with your customers in an authentic and transparent way. Consumers now choose the companies they purchase from based on what the brand […].
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