Fonolo

JUNE 13, 2023

Today’s customers expect more from customer service. They want prompt, reliable, integrated service and they will not linger if it’s not readily available. Their patience is never shorter than when dealing with your call center. That’s why call-backs have become a contact center essential. If you leave callers on hold, your agents will hear the complaints and your social media timeline will show angry tweets.

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C3Centricity

JUNE 13, 2023

If you’re reading this, then you are probably eager to delight your customers and take your service to new heights. Well, you’re in the right place to learn how to give outstanding customer service. In this article, we will explore … The post 4 Ways to Empower Your Employees to Give Outstanding Customer Service first appeared on c3centricity.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 10, 2023

Your customers are having a relationship with your brand right under your nose. Do you know if it’s a strong, healthy one? Our connection with brands is much like any other relationship in our lives, with some being healthy while others are not. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for people to form codependent or dysfunctional relationships with brands.

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Calltools

JUNE 14, 2023

As a contact center owner or manager, your customer’s experience is at the heart of your operations. Equally as important as your agent’s experience , the customer experience (CX) involves your customer’s perceptions of your brand and how they feel about interactions with your contact center. Tracking KPI metrics can help your contact center to gauge the success of customer experience.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

A Customer Access Strategy is a well-documented, overall plan that guides your contact centre. It helps to think of it as a blueprint for your day-to-day operations. It is “a framework—a set of standards, guidelines and processes—describing the means by which … Continue reading → The post An Introduction to Customer Access Strategy appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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CCNG

JUNE 14, 2023

Think about the very best customer experience that you have ever had with a brand. Now, I will share with you one of my best experiences… Once when I was preparing for a vacation, I spent many evenings searching the web for the best pricing for our airplane flights. I finally booked our flights and decided to use mileage for one of us and a paid ticket for the other.

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Abby Connect

JUNE 12, 2023

Missed calls are expensive and most receptionist services promise 100% live answering. But when the quality, efficiency, and features don’t line up, live answering alone simply isn’t enough. Abby Connect isn’t your typical virtual receptionist or answering service. We call ourselves A.I.

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AnswerConnect

JUNE 13, 2023

Should you choose a physical office call center or a virtual call center to answer calls for your business (and what's the difference)? The post What’s the difference between a call center and a virtual call center? appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 13, 2023

I just heard an excellent motivational speaker, Antonio Neves , and one of his messages was called “The Last 30 Days.” He talked about visiting a marriage counselor with his wife, where they were asked to consider the question: Looking back over the last 30 days, if you asked your spouse to marry you again, would they say yes? He then spun that question to business and specifically talked about employment.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 15, 2023

Your brand is in a relationship with your customers. Like any relationship, some of them are healthy while others are not. Unfortunately, people often form codependent or dysfunctional relationships with brands. To help yours be more beneficial than not, we have five rules about how to build strong brand relationships with your customers. We all have relationships with brands.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 15, 2023

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 Become Enterprise-Ready with AI appeared first on Upstream Works.

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AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 16, 2023

At SambaSafety , their mission is to promote safer communities by reducing risk through data insights. Since 1998, SambaSafety has been the leading North American provider of cloud–based mobility risk management software for organizations with commercial and non–commercial drivers. SambaSafety serves more than 15,000 global employers and insurance carriers with driver risk and compliance monitoring, online training and deep risk analytics, as well as risk pricing solutions.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 12, 2023

Top Takeaways: TextExpander allows you to access all of the things your team needs at their fingertips. It empowers teams to access the information they need to do their day-to-day, such as support responses, e-mail replies, sales pitches, and many more. It also enhances communication internally and externally, making it easy for your team to delight your customers with less effort in less time.

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Bill Quiseng

JUNE 14, 2023

Once every week throughout June, I offer each one of the Three Principles to Build Customer Loyalty. In this second week, I give you Principle Two: Create their Experience. QUI Takeaway: Customers pay for their experience, not your product or service. They buy with emotion and justify their decision with reason. Customers seek the best emotional value in their experience, not your logically reasonable price, product, or service.

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VirtualPBX

JUNE 15, 2023

Effective communication plays a pivotal role in the success of any business. Recognizing this, VirtualPBX, a leading provider of advanced business communication solutions, is thrilled to unveil two groundbreaking texting features that are set to revolutionize inbound SMS and automated marketing capabilities. With the introduction of Text Forward and VirtualText Pro, VirtualPBX aims to empower businesses of all sizes with enhanced communication tools to engage their audience and drive customer sa

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AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 15, 2023

Dive into Deep Learning ( D2L.ai ) is an open-source textbook that makes deep learning accessible to everyone. It features interactive Jupyter notebooks with self-contained code in PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, and MXNet, as well as real-world examples, exposition figures, and math. So far, D2L has been adopted by more than 400 universities around the world, such as the University of Cambridge, Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and Tsinghua U

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ShepHyken

JUNE 11, 2023

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. B2B Customer Experience Examples: Think Like A B2C by Dan Gingiss (Dan Gingiss) While B2B businesses are technically providing products and services to companies, they are selling to individual buyers who are consumers.

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Inbenta

JUNE 14, 2023

DALLAS – [June 14, 2023] – Inbenta, a conversational AI platform designed to optimize customer experience, today announced the appointment of Adam Rivera to Chief Legal Officer. As Chief Legal Officer, Rivera will be responsible for leading Inbenta’s legal, compliance, and regulatory oversight. Rivera joins Inbenta from DoorDash where he served as a senior privacy leader, heading a global privacy compliance team for the platform.

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SQM Group

JUNE 15, 2023

Optimize agent efficiency and effectiveness in delivering cost-effective customer service with Call Center Performance Management.

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AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 13, 2023

This is a guest post by Dr. Naoki Okada, Lead Data Scientist at BrainPad Inc. Founded in 2004, BrainPad Inc. is a pioneering partner in the field of data utilization, helping companies create business and improve their management through the use of data. To date, BrainPad has helped more than 1,300 companies, primarily industry leaders. BrainPad has the advantage of providing a one-stop service from formulating a data utilization strategy to proof of concept and implementation.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 13, 2023

When it comes to business communication, one common issue you might face is having your numbers labeled as spam. Legitimate businesses find themselves grappling with the consequences of having their calls inaccurately classified as scams or spam. The intricate mechanisms behind call labeling and the factors influencing the classification of calls have become the focal point for contact centers striving to maintain effective communication with their clients.

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Inbenta

JUNE 12, 2023

June 8, 2023 By Brett Petersen, Head of Global Operations @ Inbenta “I want to ship a book to France” “I want to book a ship to France” The exact same words used in a different order can have a dramatic impact on the meaning of a sentence. Human language is fraught with homonyms, or words with double meanings. While an average person can easily detect the meaning of words using context clues, the same cannot be said of all Chatbot technology designed to engage your customers.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 15, 2023

Product usage data is one of the best tools customer success managers can use to anticipate customer needs, drive adoption, and increase expansion. It helps you read between the lines and tells you what your customer isn’t. That’s not to say your customers are intentionally withholding information. But they’re busy people with other priorities. Sometimes, they may not be aware that a problem or another solution even exists.

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AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 13, 2023

Last week, Technology Innovation Institute (TII) launched TII Falcon LLM , an open-source foundational large language model (LLM). Trained on 1 trillion tokens with Amazon SageMaker , Falcon boasts top-notch performance (#1 on the Hugging Face leaderboard at time of writing) while being comparatively lightweight and less expensive to host than other LLMs such as llama-65B.

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kommunicate

JUNE 14, 2023

Last Updated on June 14, 2023 We are now going to teach you how to implement localization of the chat interface into both your Android and iOS app. You all know that by using Chatbot SDKs, developers can leverage features like NLP and integration with messaging platforms. Before we dive, let’s go over some basics. [.] The post SDK Localization Setup In Android & iOS – Your 2023 Guide appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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ConvergeOne

JUNE 13, 2023

To implement an infrastructure strategy, perform enterprise architecture reviews carefully. A well-designed strategy needs a solid roadmap.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 15, 2023

There is an old saying that you can’t cut your way to profitability. With less budget to go around, some SaaS companies are merging customer success and account management into one function that’s responsible for an account’s business strategy, product adoption, and value realization, as well as its renewal and expansion. These newly formed teams are left scrambling to figure out how to combine consultative and commercial roles, processes, and technologies.

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AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 13, 2023

This post is co-written with Jad Chamoun, Director of Engineering at Forethought Technologies, Inc. and Salina Wu, Senior ML Engineer at Forethought Technologies, Inc. Forethought is a leading generative AI suite for customer service. At the core of its suite is the innovative SupportGPT technology which uses machine learning to transform the customer support lifecycle—increasing deflection, improving CSAT, and boosting agent productivity.

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