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Outgrowing Contact Center Growing Pains

Contact Center Pipeline

Most of us understand the idiom “growing pains” as it relates to the stresses of actual physical human growth in ourselves and/or in our children. It is also a reference to experiencing challenging and painful times in our personal and professional lives.

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Here’s Why Voice Channels Will Remain Evergreen in Call Centers

CCNG

In theory, the more channels available, the less that voice — and therefore humans — will matter. But people still want to connect with people. With all the investment in technology and AI in call centers, where does that position human-to-human conversations? Omnichannel technologies, defined as those which provide a seamless customer service experience across channels, have seen major growth in popularity over the past few years.

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The Loyalty Gap: The Difference Between Repeat Customers and Loyal Customers

ShepHyken

Or, In a recent Shepard Letter , I discussed the Trust Gap , which is the difference between an organization’s belief that their customers trust them and the percentage of customers who actually do. I’ve covered different gap concepts in the past, and it’s time to add yet another to the list, and that is the Loyalty Gap. By the way, this is a perfect time to mention International Customer Loyalty Month, which happens every year in April.

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Customer Service Experience: Does Customer Service Matter?

AnomalySquared

The most impressive characteristic I have observed since Covid hit us in 2020, was our country's ability to adapt and overcome. Sure, the political landscape had intensified but in the face of adversity, America’s business leaders found a way to navigate unchartered waters, pivot, and flourish.

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The State of Customer Experience 2023 Report: Part 2

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?

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4 out of 5 organizations have not increased their customer satisfaction since 2010!

Beyond Philosophy

I’ve followed the American Customer Satisfaction Institute (ACSI) results since I started Beyond Philosophy in 2002. Guess what? It’s at an all-time low for the last 17 years. When you consider all the resources organizations and individuals have put into customer experience and the voice of the customer, I wonder… was it worth it? We asked Forrest Morgeson, assistant professor of marketing at the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University and the director of resea

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10 Shopify Chatbots You Can’t Live Without In 2023

kommunicate

Last Updated on March 14, 2023 Chatbots have taken over the customer service domain. They can address customer queries faster, easier, and with more accuracy than human agents. As chatbots become more intelligent and capable with every passing day, the volume of chatbot-led conversations is also increasing day by day. According to the latest data [.

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Lost and Damaged Reputation: Consequences of Poor Customer Service

JustCall

A customer may forgive and forget a bad product, but they will never forget poor customer service. After all, people always remember how you made them feel. Customer support is notorious for not being helpful. Big brands like Amazon, Costco, Zappos, etc., are beloved by their customers owing to their wonderful customer support. And if you’re one of those businesses guilty of taking your customers for granted, then it’s about high time to reevaluate such a self-destructive strategy.

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CX4Now: Contact Center KPIs that Matter

Fonolo

Your contact center may run like clockwork, with engaged agents answering calls quickly, solving problems, and creating satisfied customers in record time. But without the contact center KPIs and metrics that managers use to measure the effectiveness of their operations, you’d never know for sure. KPIs matter. And they’re changing quickly. We asked contact center industry influencers to share their insights into the changing role of KPIs and shine a light on new metrics to watch.

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Chatbot Pricing: How Much Does a Chatbot Cost in 2023?

HelpCrunch

Budgeting is tough (coming from a person who’s bought four different cardigans just this month). Business budgeting is even more daunting. You can’t just suddenly cut your spendings and order fewer take-outs to make ends [ … ] The post Chatbot Pricing: How Much Does a Chatbot Cost in 2023? appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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How Government Services Can Provide Better Citizen Satisfaction & Experience

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.

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What is conversation intelligence?

Callminer

Read this blog to better understand conversation intelligence, how it works, its benefits, and what to look for when selecting a conversation intelligence platform.

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A Five-Star Experience with Katie Mares

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: In this episode of Amazing Business Radio, Katie Mares shares the five steps to executing a 5-star experience. Understand that what you say and how you say it matters. Choose words that elevate the experience. Speak to your customers in a way that is engaging and sincere. Use your customer’s name. Dale Carnegie said, “A person’s name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

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Upleveling Contact Center QM to the Analytics Age

Contact Center Pipeline

Exceptional customer experiences (CXs) are critical to short- and long-term business success. Because of this, it’s instrumental to have a detailed understanding of what occurs during each customer interaction and along the customer journey. In fact, these insights have shifted from nice-to-have to need-to-have.

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2 Ways AI Can Mitigate Fraud in Contact Centers

Upstream Works

Upstream Works is excited to introduce you to our newest product offering – Upstream Works for Amazon Connect. We enhance Amazon Connect with a unified desktop, digital channel flexibility, seamless integrations and management simplicity The post 2 Ways AI Can Mitigate Fraud in Contact Centers appeared first on Upstream Works.

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Improve Contact Center Outcomes with Key Insights

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.

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Visual AI For Service Automation: A Primer

TechSee

Artificial intelligence (AI) is designed to automate manual tasks and processes. As the leader in computer vision solutions for the service industry, we at TechSee work with large organizations to help them utilize AI to automate service for their products. Since everyone begins a journey with the first step, we present a list of the core terms to help you understand how visual AI automation works.

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Bring legacy machine learning code into Amazon SageMaker using AWS Step Functions

AWS Machine Learning

Tens of thousands of AWS customers use AWS machine learning (ML) services to accelerate their ML development with fully managed infrastructure and tools. For customers who have been developing ML models on premises, such as their local desktop, they want to migrate their legacy ML models to the AWS Cloud to fully take advantage of the most comprehensive set of ML services, infrastructure, and implementation resources available on AWS.

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VENDOR ROUNDTABLE: Contact Center Forecast: Increased Cloudiness?

Contact Center Pipeline

There has been a debate over the past decade whether the core contact center solutions e.g., routing, dialing, workforce optimization (WFO) should be subscribed to and accessed from the cloud. Or whether they are best licensed and installed on-premise.

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Leverage Healthcare Technology to Enhance Patient Retention

The Northridge Group

If healthcare managers and small-to-medium-sized business (SMB) healthcare practitioners can agree on anything, it’s that acquiring new patients is both costly and challenging. Conversely, retaining existing patients is far more achievable and economically viable, especially in the ultra-competitive modern healthcare marketplace. There are many different tactics that health providers can use to improve patient retention rates in 2023.

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The Complete Guide to Conversational AI for Your Business

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.

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Tags in Your Ticketing System: How, Why, and When to Use Them

Customer Service Life

Image by Irfan Ahmad from Pixabay In a world of social media, especially Instagram, I fear that we’ve fallen into a belief that more hashtags is better. Think about the last time you scrolled through the ‘gram and landed on a post that included a 100-character description followed by at least twice that character count in hashtags. I’m not sure I can really fault that person since hashtags are totally free.

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ChatGPT will Revolutionize Conversational AI, Just Not the Way You Think

Inbenta

By Jordi Torras, Chief Innovation Officer, Inbenta In just a few months, ChatGPT has captured the interest of hundreds of millions of users and the imagination of businesses the world over. The Generative AI platform’s meteoric rise is understandable – a new and transformative AI tool capable of fixing code, responding to questions, writing emails and articles, and everything in between, is now widely available to the public.

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5 Great Call Center Agent Retention Strategies

Fonolo

We’ve all heard about the human touch and how important it is in the CX and call center spaces. Your customers want thoughtful and empathetic service, and that’s not something you can get from technology alone. Skilled agents are key to delivering a great customer experience, and agent retention is vital to a healthy contact center. Why do call centers struggle with retaining their agents?

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After the Pass-Off: Closing the Call After the Receptionist

Abby Connect

A customer calls. Your receptionist answers and makes a fantastic first impression on your behalf—they’re charming, well-informed, and manage to forward a happy, engaged potential customer to your phone line. But what happens next is up to you. Can you cinch the deal, or will you fumble the pass?

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Using AI to Empower Contact Center Agents and Improve CX and EX

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.

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LiveVox CX Reflex Episode 2: Reality vs. Expectation & Bridging The CX Gap In Your Business

LiveVox

Are you surprised when your customers don’t share your rosy view of your company’s customer experience? You’re not alone. Many businesses struggle with the gap between their expectations and reality. In this video, Roy Atkinson explores some ways to close that gap and improve your customers’ satisfaction. Roy Atkinson currently serves as CEO of Clifton […] The post LiveVox CX Reflex Episode 2: Reality vs.

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Select for passion, not past performance.

Bill Quiseng

Instead of “Hire for attitude, not aptitude” or “Hire for personality, train for skills”, remind yourself when you recruit to Select for passion, not past performance. You hire an employee. At some point, before employees start or while they begin working, they may think that you could be a top-down, one-way, “I know everything, you know nothing” command-and-control dictator.

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6 Tips for Maintenance During Your Certification Journey

Cisco - Contact Center

So you’re certified. That’s great! But once you have that certification, you need to maintain it. Luckily, you have options to keep it current, level up, or branch out into other technical areas.

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Is Answering Your Own Phone Hurting Your Business

Abby Connect

Incoming calls are referrals, customers, leads, partners… and sometimes the calls are solicitors, scammers, spammers, and mistakes. When the phone rings it’s either an opportunity or a complete waste of time (and more time than you think). That’s a pretty big gamble.

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Ramping-up Your Digital CX Strategy: Adaptation of Omni Channel and Conversational Support

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.

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How to bounce back stronger after a customer champion leaves with Ali Cudby

ChurnZero

Losing a customer champion is the single biggest leading predictor of customer churn. “It’s good news and it’s bad news,” says Ali Cudby , founder and CEO of Alignmint Growth Strategies. “It’s good news because it’s a line in the sand. You know when it happens and can get ahead of it. But it’s bad news because it’s risky.” An unmanaged key contact change has a 51% chance of churn in 12 months, according to research from Sturdy , a customer intelligence platform.

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Email digests: The easiest way to stay on top of feedback

delighted

There’s no question that the experiences customers have with your brand make an impact on your bottom line. In fact, recent data from the XM Institute shows that consumers are 2.6x more likely to purchase after a 5-star experience than after a 1- or 2-star experience. What’s more, they’re 3.7x more likely to recommend a company after that 5-star experience.

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Cisco Modeling Labs 2.5: Now with Resource Limiting

Cisco - Contact Center

Whether you’re using a large virtual machine or beefy hardware server, running labs with a lot of nodes or labs with resource-hungry nodes in Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) can require a lot of memory/RAM… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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