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Modernize Your Contact Center – Move to the Cloud

Waterfield Technologies

What does moving your Contact Center to the cloud mean to the customer? Are there benefits? Calling into a contact center is never a favorite task of anyone. We know […]. The post Modernize Your Contact Center – Move to the Cloud appeared first on Waterfield Technologies.

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Does Your Call Center Have The Right Tools For The Job?

Calltools

You need the right tools for any job. A plumber is nothing without a good pipe wrench. So what do you need to provide your call center with? The more comfortable you make your employees the happier and more productive they will be. Does your call center have the right tools for the job? Here 5 things every call center needs to be successful. 1) Comfortable Ergonomic Chairs Your call center employees spend most of their working hours in their desk chair.

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Women who made the modern contact center possible

InTheChat

March is Women’s History Month – which was created to educate and promote the achievements of women who have often been overlooked. Often when we think about the modern telecommunications industry, the pioneers we think of tend to. The post Women who made the modern contact center possible appeared first on InTheChat.

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How To Create Innovative Service

Beyond Philosophy

One thing many positive Customer Experience stories people tell have in common is they involve a moment that surprised and delighted customers. Customer loyalty consultants refer to it as Innovative Customer Experience, and it is the key to getting your customers to talk about your experience to everyone they know. Author, speaker, and customer loyalty expert Dr.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

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

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Look Past the Obvious for a Better Solution

ShepHyken

Winter travel can be stressful with the concern of weather-related delays and cancellations. On a recent trip that had a connecting flight, I was notified the night before that my first flight was going to be delayed, which made me worry about missing my connection. I called the airlines and they suggested changing my connecting flight to a later one, which I was happy to do.

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Solution News: CallMiner Launches Customer Experience Solution Pack

Callminer

The CallMiner Customer Experience Solution Pack is designed to harness data, as well as accelerate time to insight with a categorization framework designed around best practices in measuring CX.

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3 Tools to Measure Authentic Customer Emotions in Real-Time

Beyond Philosophy

I am routinely gobsmacked by the number of organizations that don’t measure customer emotions. Those that do often don’t think about how they will use the information they measure. The classic phrase, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” applies. To measure something like customer emotions in your Customer Experience, you need the proper tools.

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Guest Blog: 3 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Generate Customer Delight

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Jason Milleisen who shares three simple rules that will set you apart from your competition and help provide great customer service. – Shep Hyken. I once heard about a car dealership who had customer satisfaction scores that were the impressively high. When asked about it, the owner explained one of the secrets to their success.

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Seamless Self-Service Starts in the Contact Center

Contact Center Pipeline

Customer Experience (CX) as a term may have many definitions, but it is generally accepted that it is all about creating personalized, seamless, low-effort customer interactions. By its very nature, CX takes a holistic view. It isn’t focused on just self-service or just agent engagement because customers no longer need to make a binary decision […].

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

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!

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6 ways to go beyond the survey with speech analytics

Callminer

Companies look to solicited feedback, surveys, review sites, etc. for how they are doing. Here are 6 ways to go beyond that with speech analytics.

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The Remarkable Effect Facial Recognition Can Have on Your CX

Beyond Philosophy

We develop emotional intelligence as children once we understand how other people feel. Based on the behavior of a few of our fellow humans, some of us more than others. Now, machines are developing emotional intelligence as well. The latest developments in this field are changing the way we can measure authentic customer emotions in real time. We discussed how technology and facial recognition are changing how to measure authentic customer emotions in real time on our latest podcast.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of March 4, 2019

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of 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. Why Is Customer Service So Bad? Because It’s Profitable. by Anthony Dukes and Yi Zhu. (Harvard Business Review) It’s a familiar scenario: A service provider fails to live up to your expectations and you feel some restitution may be in order.

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4 Reasons to Create Job Descriptions & Performance Standards

Call Center Weekly

Errol Allen ? Errol Allen is an operations consultant and customer service expert. Using his 25 + years of corporate experience with companies such as ADT, The Houston Post, TCI Cablevision and GEICO, Errol assists his clients in developing a customer focused environment via documenting processes, creating task manuals, identifying key performance indicators and providing customer service training.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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What to Learn from the Best Customer Experience Companies in 2019

Lumoa

There are clear reasons why companies should create an outstanding customer experience for their customers. Take a look at what you can learn from the best customer experience companies of 2019 and find out how to apply it to your customer experience work.

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Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our March 2019 Issue

Contact Center Pipeline

Welcome to our 10-Year Anniversary issue! The March issue represents 10 years of publishing Contact Center Pipeline! It is with sincere gratitude to our team; Susan, Frank, Mark, Ellen and Sarah for all their hard work in keeping Pipeline fresh and relevant, as well as our writers, sponsors and subscribers! There has been lots of […].

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5 Influential Ways ProProfs Chat Can Help Improve Your Customer Support

ProProfs Blog

Gone are the days when companies considered integrating live chat to their websites. Today, they are aware of its influence and impact on customers. It is no longer considered but needed to gain benefits like: Building delightful experience with proactive support approach. Learning the customer’s behavior and pain points. Building personalized customer support experience.

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Four Tips for Improving Customer Service in a Healthcare

Fonolo

Customer service is a difficult job at the best of times. However, when your customers are patients, the dynamic becomes all the more challenging. Dealing with patients who are in crisis or pain, and on top of that, are emotionally drained, can create increasingly sensitive scenarios for call center agents to handle. This is why handling call center conversations within the healthcare field requires a unique set of skills.

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Decoding the Call Labeling and Blocking Process

Uncover the complexity behind call labeling and blocking with this infographic. Discover the intricate factors and entities that shape the fate of a call, from illegal activity to user feedback, and understand why numbers get labeled and blocked.

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Insurance Claims Processing Powered by Computer Vision

TechSee

Claims processing is a key touchpoint in the customer life cycle, and insurers have only a short window of opportunity to satisfy policyholders. Companies that strategize their efforts to improve insurance claims processing can expect higher levels of operational efficiency. They’ll also improve financial results and serve happier customers. While each claim is different, standardized elements of claims processing can be streamlined with the strategic implementation of new technologies.

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Publisher’s Message: A Decade of Pipeline

Contact Center Pipeline

In November 2008, the idea of creating a magazine for the contact center industry was born. I had left my job after a number of years in the industry working on training, membership, consulting and publications. My husband Steve and I had sold our family home, purchased a 46-foot Cheoy Lee Trawler and we were […].

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30 Sales Contest Ideas and Incentives to Motivate Your Sales Floor

Nextiva

Brilliant sales contest ideas can motivate your sales team to reach unprecedented heights. Sales competitions tap into core aspects of human psychology, unearthing new levels of drive, focus, and energy in your sales reps. The virtues of healthy competition are well-documented. According to Psychology Today, “good competitiveness is the drive to accomplish a goal, bring […].

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8 Customer Service Networks You Need to Follow in 2019

Fonolo

When I first stepped foot into the Fonolo office nearly a year ago, I was also knowingly dipping my toes into the customer service ecology. With the abundance of experts, thought leaders, Twitter handles, and publications that make up the DNA of both the customer service and customer experience industries, it quickly became clear that the learning curve would be steep.

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

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.

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ACE 2019: It’s Go Time!

Aspect

You may be familiar with ACE, our annual user conference. But what you think you know is about to be turned on its head. This is a new Aspect, and it’s a new ACE. We’re doing things differently. Instead of sticking with the status quo, we’re shaking things up and supercharging the conference based on feedback from past attendees. One of the things we’re most excited about for ACE 2019, which will be held at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, July 29 – August 1, is our revamped agenda.

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I Can’t Believe You Cut Me Off!

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on February 7, 2019. Click here to read the original post. It’s official. I’ve completely caught the fly fishing bug — an unavoidable consequence given the abundance of fishable water here in Oregon. New in 2019, the state moved to an online system for fishing and hunting licenses which means we can now carry our licenses in an app on our phones rather than toting around a piece of paper.Eager to start fishing as soon as possible, I tried to

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Leadership Strategies for a High-Performance Contact Center

Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor. What is a high performance contact center? High performance is generally accepted to mean performing at the top of any possible performance range. So a High performance contact center is one that meets or exceeds the performance parameters or metrics expected of it. In contact center these parameters will include quantitative: grade of services, AHT, ATT, ASA etc., and qualitative: First Call Resolution, Customer Satisfaction, Quality scores etc., measures.

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How to Improve Customer Experience Using Employee Feedback

ProProfs Blog

Organizations gather customer experience data through CSAT (customer satisfaction) surveys that are built into their help desk ticketing systems. Conducting such surveys helps them in finding out the challenges faced by customers over time. Gathering data from customers helps to improve their service experience as well. On the contrary, employee feedback is often ignored by organizations.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein (a One Win Book Review)

Customers That Stick

In this One Win Book Review, we take a look at When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein. Check out the video below to hear Adam’s one win that you can take away from When Genius Failed to improve your organization’s customer experience and customer service. About When Genius Failed. FROM THE PUBLISHER: In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis—Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride of the Gre

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VoIP App 101: Simple Answers to ALL Your Questions About Them

Nextiva

A VoIP app is more common today than it has ever been before. Chances are even if you don’t know what a VoIP app is you’ve already used one. From enterprise corporations to small businesses, many have adopted SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)-based VoIP capabilities that give employees a feature-rich communications solution manageable from one central […].

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Insurance Contact Center Best Practices

Ansafone

In addition to following call center best practices, BPO providers specializing in the insurance industry will strengthen their client relationships and deliver on their promise to implement effective customer relationship strategies by applying these five best practices for optimizing an insurance contact center: Strengthen security protocols to prevent fraud.