Contact Center Pipeline
DECEMBER 1, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic did disrupt the old normal of grabbing coffee and rushing into the office. Today it’s more like hitting the alarm and running to your work desk to log in to take calls. The pandemic did teach us new ways of adapting to the changing circumstances, and it taught most of us that […].
Callminer
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Call center metrics, including call tracking metrics, can make improving operations at your contact center much easier to manage. Read this blog for the top metrics to consider and measure.
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LiveVox
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
A motivated call center team can make all the difference for a company, so it's important to find ways to motivate your team and keep them engaged in their work. In this article, we share five tips to help you motivate your call center team and keep them happy. The post How to Motivate Your Call Center Team: 6 Hot Tips appeared first on LiveVox.
Advantage Communications
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Contact center artificial intelligence (AI) is a type of software that enables customer service reps to automate tasks, including customer support. This can be used to create a self-service system where customers can find answers to their questions without needing to speak to a customer service representative, dramatically improving the customer experience and improving efficiencies for customer support teams.
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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.
Babelforce
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Do you know your DTMF IVRs from your ACDs? Or your conformance rates from your utilization rates? There’s a lot of terminology to get your head around in call centers and customer experience. (Working with contact centers around the world, we know that better than anyone!). That’s why we’ve put together a glossary covering some key CX terms, with some links to further resources so you can become your company’s CX expert in no time.
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Balto
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
The call center industry has evolved dramatically in recent years, particularly with pretty incredible advancements in call center technology. From utilizing cloud call centers to self-service channels and the rise of AI software, a contact center is no longer a remote office with a few business phone lines. Customers nowadays have a set standard of expectations when they need to seek support or contact your sales team.
Babelforce
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
VoIP technology has made outbound calling more affordable than ever. It’s no longer a type of contact used only for high-value sales calls. But, this doesn’t mean you no longer need to think about how you make outbound calls. An effective outbound calling strategy will ensure you maximize your agent’s efficiency and outbound budget. In this post: What is an Outbound Calling Strategy?
Calltools
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
A properly configured dialer is a vital component to help support both call agents and customers. When a dialer works correctly, it helps to make calls easier for agents and provides a smoother experience for customers. The dialer configuration should take on the “heavy lifting” of calls, allowing agents to focus on converting leads and assisting customers more efficiently.
NobelBiz
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
After completing a purchase, your customer service department may be the only point of contact a consumer has with your organization. These interactions between a business and a client are restricted by many parameters. In order to deliver a successful customer service experience within your company, it is essential to put in place all the necessary components.
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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
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
A restaurant took its most popular item off the menu. It had been on there a long time, and the owner decided it was time to make a change, even though it was his guests’ favorite dish. . A company changed its invoicing terms. It wanted to tighten its terms to get paid sooner, with larger penalties for late payment. . A retail store changed its return policy.
CCNG
DECEMBER 1, 2022
We close out this series on how to use your professional network to get maximum value from your connections, peer-to-peer interaction, and the collective insight and experience of colleagues. The best-practices we’ve covered give you a great foundation for building, leveraging and sustaining a truly powerful professional network. We’ll leave you with one final thought and recap a full spectrum of strategies.
Beyond Philosophy
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
Recession is a natural step in the economic cycle, but it’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of the bad news. When economic downturn occurs, we all feel it. Corporations tend to cut back in a downturn, neglecting things like customer experience. To differentiate yourself from everyone else, you should double down on these services while others cut back.
Callminer
DECEMBER 2, 2022
CallMiner's VP of Product Innovation, Bruce McMahon, shares highlights from the 2022.12 release in his latest product innovation blog.
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.
ShepHyken
DECEMBER 2, 2022
This week, we feature an article by Steve Miller, Head of Customer Success at Cirrus , a contact center solution that helps companies engage with their customers. He shares the benefits of excellent customer experience for your customers and employees. It may seem like we are lurching from one crisis to another at the moment – and at the heart of it all is financial uncertainty.
Contact Center Pipeline
DECEMBER 2, 2022
TIS THE SEASON when it is time to reflect and anticipate. That’s what I do as the year comes to an end. I think about what was and what will be. The end of one year and the start of another seems to naturally inspire this. Contact Center Pipeline had a very good 2022. I […].
Fonolo
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
New call center managers have a lot to wrap their minds around. Coming in fresh to a new company allows you to implement improvements and make real change happen. But with the opportunity to grow comes with, well, growing pains. Overhauling your call center operations can seem outright impossible without a little guidance and know-how. Whether you are that new call center manager or a seasoned pro who wants to pick up some new ideas, we’ve packaged everything you need to know to help you improve
AWS Machine Learning
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
We’re thrilled to announce that Stability AI has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to power its state-of-the-art AI models for image, language, audio, video, and 3D content generation. Stability AI is a community-driven, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) company developing breakthrough technologies. With Amazon SageMaker , Stability AI will build AI models on compute clusters with thousands of GPU or AWS Trainium chips, reducing training time and cost by 58%.
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!
CallSource Insights
DECEMBER 2, 2022
How Local Services Ads work, why they’re great for local businesses, and how to optimize your Local Services Ads for better results. Today’s local customer not only seeks convenience on their path to purchase but there is an underlying expectation for it. There are few things more convenient than having the internet at your fingertips to search for a desired product, service, or business at any given time. .
Contact Center Pipeline
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Find Out What the Data Reveals. Change. It’s inevitable, as they say. But over the past few years it’s felt like the world as we know it has been transforming at lightspeed. During the early days of the pandemic, the digitization of customer interactions accelerated by three to four years, with three times as many […].
Lumoa
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
The Ecommerce industry has seen an impressive development in recent years. Not only are online retailers enjoying massive revenue from their customers (expected to be over $6 trillion in 2022 ), but the platforms themselves are also becoming increasingly sophisticated. Now, technologies such as AI and machine learning are driving highly personalized customer experiences.
ChurnZero
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts. At the time, I was a sales engineer, and my job was to close deals and move on to the next prospect.
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.
Russel Lolacher
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with speaker and Police Chief of the Mountain View Police Department Chris Hsiung on how communication and creating connection within an organization can improve workplace culture. A few reasons why he is awesome – He’s a speaker and writer on engagement, and the Police Chief of the Mountain View Police Department, rising through their ranks over the last 20 years.
kommunicate
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Last Updated on November 29, 2022 We have not, thankfully, seen any of the nightmare scenarios envisaged by science fiction. But the reality is that we now rely on many AI-powered (artificial intelligence) systems. In fact, some estimates state that 76% of companies are now using some form of automation to make their business operate [.]. The post Chatbot Strategy: Increasing Customer Engagement Through Messages appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.
VirtualPBX
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Thought Leadership With Linh England, Customer Service and Texting Expert. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and we have major tips for text alerts for businesses. Texting is one of the easiest ways to alert your customers of any Holiday events, closures, wait times, or appointments. There is no need for businesses to be afraid of text messaging.
CallSource Insights
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
A strong reputation is key to a business’s success. Quick Summary: While it may not generate revenue directly, your company’s reputation is the foundation for all of your local word-of-mouth marketing efforts. Your business reputation is what will build trust and loyalty among customers, and it’s also one of the first things that potential customers will take into consideration when deciding whether or not to do business with you.
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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.
ConvergeOne
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
For both technology implementation and processes, rigidity and a lack of cohesiveness simply cannot be part of the modern digital enterprise. As technology research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) notes, today’s digital infrastructure architectures are transforming from silos to flexible resources. IDC describes the digital infrastructure ecosystem as encompassing ubiquitous deployment, autonomous operations and cloud-native technology.
kommunicate
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Last Updated on December 2, 2022 Zendesk acquired Zopim in 2014 to rebrand it as Zendesk Chat. So, what IS Zendesk chat? Zendesk chat is a live chat software popular with businesses of all sizes worldwide. Zendesk chat also refers to software enabling your customer support team to engage with customers with automated bots. Customers [.]. The post Choosing Between Zendesk Chat’s Answer Bot and Third-Party Chatbot Integrations appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.
Fonolo
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Call center managers know that choosing effective software is key to success. With the right tools on board, your contact center can increase agent happiness and productivity, while hitting your KPIs and running an efficient operation that scales with ease. . But how do you buy the call center software and choose from the countless options in a very competitive marketplace?
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