Upstream Works
APRIL 19, 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 3 Reasons Some Contact Centers are Hesitant to Adopt AI appeared first on Upstream Works.
CCNG
APRIL 19, 2023
Does your contact center jokingly reference certain teams as “Bad News Bears”? I may be dating myself, but this 1976 movie depicts a little league baseball team of rejects and misfits that possess little work ethic and pride. They are a careless and lackluster team with a sarcastic coach who grows frustrated with the responsibility to produce a respectable team.
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Real Blue Sky
APRIL 17, 2023
The contact center is the primary hub of contact between your organization and your customers. Ken Blanchard is credited with reminding us to “Take care of your customers or someone else will.” It is critical that contact centers operate effectively to efficiently meet customer expectations. Continuous improvement is essential for customer operations to remain competitive in today’s fast-paced omnichannel environment, yet in practice, we see organizations are not applying a continuous i
SQM Group
APRIL 18, 2023
Learn about call center technologies that can help companies transform the way they deliver customer service more efficiently and effectively.
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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.
ShepHyken
APRIL 17, 2023
Top Takeaways: We go to healthcare providers to address a big problem; our health. Some healthcare practitioners know how to treat symptoms and illnesses; however, they are falling short of making the patients feel like they are human beings with respect and dignity. When patients receive great customer service from their healthcare providers, not only do they provide better reviews, fewer complaints, and malpractice claims, but they also have better clinical outcomes.
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Fonolo
APRIL 18, 2023
Is your contact center staying on top of advancements in AI and automation ? There’s a lot to learn, but these sophisticated new tools can improve your operations in so many ways. New KPIs offer next-level insights into operations. Real-time agent assist helps agents understand customers’ emotions. Chatbots and call-backs create rewarding self-service experiences for customers.
Working Solutions
APRIL 19, 2023
Companies are becoming increasingly aware of the power of customer experience, particularly as it pertains to initial interactions with an organization. Typically these interactions occur via the call center, making this a focal point for continued improvement.
CustomerServ
APRIL 18, 2023
Remember the old saying, "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM"? Truer words were never spoken, especially in the call center outsourcing industry where the age-old debate of big vs. small vendor is a mainstay conversation.
Playvox
APRIL 19, 2023
Excellent time management is crucial in a contact center. Being able to strategically plan and prioritize tasks not only ensures your customers get the service and support they need in a timely manner, but it also increases agent productivity, decreases overall stress, and improves job satisfaction. Contact center solutions can dramatically change the way your organization operates and functions.
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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
Beyond Philosophy
APRIL 20, 2023
I have made many mistakes in my life, I’ll admit. However, mistakes are not all bad. Sure, the mistake part is trouble, but you learn a lot from them. I have made a couple of good calls, too. Starting this newsletter, for one, if, for no other reason than I might share what I learned with all of you. So, let’s start at the bottom, my worst decisions, beginning with… Watch Colin talking about this on YouTube: Subscribe to our YouTube channel here to see all the latest videos!
ShepHyken
APRIL 18, 2023
For a number of years, I’ve preached that our customers no longer compare us just to our direct competitors, but instead to the brands they enjoy doing business with the most. In other words, the ones that provide the best customer service and experience. In many of my customer service and CX keynote speeches, I’ll ask the audience to shout out the companies they love doing business with.
Steve DiGioia
APRIL 17, 2023
An old boss said this to me once. He was pissed at my “continual complaining” about “so many issues”. That was his take on the matter. Mine was different. I was pissed off too. He refused to address the many nagging problems that my team had to deal with every day. Service suffered. Morale suffered. We were refunding money back to customers for mistakes that could have been avoided.
TechSee
APRIL 21, 2023
A truck roll is when a technician or service provider drives to a customer’s location to install or repair equipment. They are a necessary part of many customer and field service operations. And there will always be situations where a technician needs to be dispatched in-person to solve a problem with their special skills or equipment. However, a surprising number of visits end up being wasted on issues that could have been easily fixed by customers themselves had they have been given a li
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.
Beyond Philosophy
APRIL 15, 2023
We will admit it. We have made mistakes in our lives. It’s only natural that some of the calls you make in your journey are going to be bad ones. Believe it or not, we are thankful for them. One learns a lot from one’s mistakes or at least that is the hope. Some of the calls were good ones, though, and we are thankful for those, too. Perhaps, even we two, like the blind squirrel, can find a nut once in a while.
ShepHyken
APRIL 21, 2023
This week, we feature an article by Josh Centers, Business Journalist at TextExpander. It is a platform that helps teams save time and eliminate repetitive typing with just a few keystrokes. He writes about how successful brands have built consistency and reliability into their customer service. Consistency in customer service is key. Imagine pulling up to a McDonald’s drive-through, and instead of hearing, “Hi, welcome to McDonald’s, may I take your order,” you were greeted with a gruff: “McDon
Eptica
APRIL 19, 2023
Date: Friday, April 14, 2023 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Let your employees work from anywhere with a web UI Published on: April 14, 2023 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Contact centres increasingly needing to support remote working – increasing the need for web user interfaces (UIs). Our latest blog post explains what a web UI is and the benefits it provides.
Totango
APRIL 18, 2023
Welcome to the era of “do more with less.” That phrase has become the earworm of 2023, stuck in our head no matter how many other tunes we try to sing. In this uncertain time, many business leaders are seeing budget cuts, longer sales cycles, and forecasts being continually reexamined … but there is good news. This is the moment for CS to shine. As businesses are laser-focused on retaining and growing current clients, they’re turning to their customer success (CS) teams and leaders to make it h
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!
Lumoa
APRIL 18, 2023
As the volume of data companies collect grows and as artificial intelligence (AI) gets better, analytics is set to become a key differentiator for customer experience management. Think about it. Your organization probably already collects data in many of these categories: Customer metadata (age, location, etc) Product and website usage patterns Survey data (Net Promoter Score, customer satisfaction, etc.
Calltools
APRIL 19, 2023
Predictive dialers and preview dialers have unique features that can meet your campaign’s needs. Which one should you choose for your next outbound dialing campaign? The answer depends on what you want to achieve. Make the right decision by learning more about the benefits of predictive dialers and preview dialers and which option companies in your industry usually choose.
VirtualPBX
APRIL 19, 2023
Managing call volume is a critical aspect of running any business that relies on phone communication. Whether you are a customer service representative, sales professional, or running a call center, you need to be equipped with the right strategies to handle incoming calls efficiently. An effective call volume management strategy can help ensure that your customers are satisfied, your agents are productive, and your business runs efficiently.
Playvox
APRIL 21, 2023
Customer service has gone digital — and your contact center needs to evolve with the times. As younger customers make up more and more of the marketplace, they’re shifting service preferences toward digital channels. No matter where your customers get service, they’ll expect outstanding customer experience (CX), so you’ll have to be ready. Make sure your contact center is set up for digital success behind the scenes so that you can provide the experiences your customers demand.
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.
Cisco - Contact Center
APRIL 17, 2023
International Girls in ICT Day is a global movement encouraging girls and young women to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and careers.
A Better Answer
APRIL 20, 2023
A Better Answer's annual spring cookout is a tradition that has been going on for decades, thanks to our boss, Dee Hawkins. We all look forward to this event and the opportunity to relax, socialize, and enjoy some delicious food!
kommunicate
APRIL 19, 2023
Last Updated on April 19, 2023 1 out of 5. That is the number of US adults who experience some form of mental illness every year, according to this research. Let that number sink in. Now, the number of US adults who have contemplated suicide is as high as 12.1 million. These numbers point to [.] The post Mental Health Chatbots – Changing The Game In 2023 appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.
Call Design
APRIL 19, 2023
As the world becomes increasingly connected, remote working continues to be extremely popular and for contact centres this can offer significant advantages. Here are five reasons why remote agents can be of benefit: 1. Split-Shifts Remote work provides numerous options for scheduling, particularly with split-shifts. Commuting to the office is no longer a concern, making previously impractical schedules more feasible.
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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.
Cisco - Contact Center
APRIL 18, 2023
On April 18, 2023, the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) along with the United States FBI, NSA and CISA published a joint advisory describing how state-sponsored cyber actors were able to… Read more on Cisco Blogs
delighted
APRIL 19, 2023
Online survey distribution methods (think email, link, and website surveys) get great response rates and garner high-quality feedback for two reasons: they’re user-friendly and timed to catch folks while their experience is still fresh. QR code surveys, available with our Link survey distribution method , extend those same benefits to feedback collection during real-world physical interactions.
MiaRec
APRIL 21, 2023
As you see Voice Analytic solutions promote their Topic Analysis capabilities, you start to wonder what is so special about organizing calls by topics. Because Topic Analysis is such a versatile tool, it is hard to give a simple answer on how to best use it. It can boost agent morale, reduce customer churn, catch potential problems before they happen, and so much more.
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