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Meet Your Future Contact Center Superstar

Contact Center Pipeline

As a customer service expert, you’ll always have age-old problems to solve, like attracting and retaining customers, shipping issues, disgruntled shoppers, and burned out call center staff.

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What Can Contact Center Leaders Learn from Teaching Kindness to Improve Medicare Star Rating Numbers

CCNG

Recent adjustments to the Medicare star rating system have had a negative impact on countless insurers, hospitals, and care providers. Entities that provide Medicare Advantage Plans have been hit particularly hard, as the adjustments may have dropped their star ratings from five to four stars. While many variables contribute to the drop in star ratings, the recent revisions focus on customer experience scores as a driving factor.

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5 tips to supercharge your CS operations playbook

Totango

Challenging economic times really put pressure on teams to retain revenue. How can you ensure you’re aligning resources to the right initiatives that will protect and grow your customer base? Thankfully, customer success operations has come to the rescue. By collecting and analyzing data that helps you implement and understand the effectiveness of customer success initiatives, CS operations can tie impact to key business outcomes and the bottom line.

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Is It (Past) Time to Review Your Contact Center BCDR Plan?

LiveVox

Developing and maintaining a comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan is a demanding and resource-intensive activity. It’s easy to see why so many businesses adopt a “set it and forget it” approach to disaster recovery. But if the last time you reviewed your plan was before the COVID-19 pandemic, you likely have considerable […] The post Is It (Past) Time to Review Your Contact Center BCDR Plan?

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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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How to Reduce Costs in Your Contact Center

Avoxi

How to Reduce Costs in Your Contact Center Rising costs and an economic downturn…It’s a recipe that’s forcing businesses to look at doing more with less. With rising inflation and reducing non-essential spending, IT leaders are being tasked with creating cost-saving strategies across their operations while continuing to grow their contact center scope in the… The post How to Reduce Costs in Your Contact Center appeared first on AVOXI.

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7 Tips to Reduce After-Call Work (ACW) in Your Contact Center

Calltools

After-call work (ACW) includes all of the actions that your agents must perform after ending a phone call. These tasks may vary depending on the nature of your contact center and your internal processes. Contact centers looking to streamline their processes and enhance productivity must consider ways to reduce ACW time. The less time agents spend on tasks after a phone call, the more time they can allocate to taking new phone calls.

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Communication Channels: What Is The Right Choice For Your Contact Center?

NobelBiz

Website, email, social media, SMS, instant messaging, and mobile applications: the evolution of communication channels over the last two decades has increased the number of available points of interaction between businesses and their consumers. Traditional channels have evolved on one hand and new ones have arisen on the other, as a result of the introduction of new digital technologies and new ways of communication.

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7 Key Reasons to Choose Onshore Call Center Outsourcing

Working Solutions

Finding a contact center solution that is both efficient and cost-effective can be challenging. While outsourcing customer service functions overseas lowers operating costs, it carries with it certain risks that may outweigh the savings.

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Critical Issue: How to Increase Your Price Without Losing Customers

Beyond Philosophy

Alan Flower is in a pickle, and he came to us for help on a recent podcast. Flower asks, “How can I increase prices and not lose customers?” Since I figure with rising supplier and material goods costs, not to mention energy costs increases, many of you are facing the same issue, I thought we could also discuss it here. I’ve had many conversations with our clients and heard many TV interviews where people say we need to increase prices, but we can’t raise them that much b

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Reimagining CX: How to Implement Effective AI-Driven Transformations

Speaker: Steve Pappas, Chief Strategist, Startup and Early Stage Growth Advisor, Keynote Speaker, CX Podcaster

As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.

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Ten Reasons Why You Should Deliver an Amazing Customer Experience

ShepHyken

Ten years ago, I wrote an article about why delivering an amazing customer experience is important. While many of those concepts are still valid today, it’s time to modify the list and give a few of the original reasons a facelift to bring them into current times. First, a reminder that an amazing customer experience isn’t about being over the top.

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Do We Know Clouds (Contact Centers)?

Contact Center Pipeline

“I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It’s cloud’s illusions I recall I really don’t know clouds at all” —Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now) The hosted cloud, with solutions and also data on third-party networked servers, has arguably dominated the contact center technology conversation for the past […]

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Maximize Your Investment in Upskilling Agents

TechSee

Today’s customer service personnel are being asked to deliver higher quality service across more products, more complex products, and at more significant volumes than ever before. In response, many leaders in the industry are investing in increasing the skill levels of their contact center agents, often referred to as upskilling. Most service organizations have found that visual support is a force multiplier when upskilling agents, helping them maintain their average handle time (AHT) and first

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Future of Work Expo Recap - Review and Pix

Jon Arnold

Last week was my fifth go-round as Chair of the Future of Work Expo in Ft. Lauderdale, and given my travel schedule, this is the first chance I’ve had to get this recap done. As good as the 2022 edition was, this was even better, and am expecting nothing less for 2024. Speakers are already asking about coming back, and am keen to start mapping out the program.

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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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How to Provide a Personalized Customer Experience that Builds Trust with Bill Bruno

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Customers have different levels of tolerance when sharing their information with brands. Some customers are willing to share everything with a brand, some refuse to share anything at all, and there are those that fall in between. This range makes up the different data personas. Using customer data is an opportunity for brands to create an excellent customer experience, whether it is for preventing fraud, marketing, or enhancing personalization.

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How the New Normal Impacts Retail

Contact Center Pipeline

Since the dawn of direct-to-consumer retail, customer service has separated leading retailers from laggards. As retail matured and transitioned from brick-and-mortar to online, the contact center’s role in the customer lifecycle gained increasing importance. In today’s post-COVID-19 pandemic world, the contact center continues to be the “front office” for brick-and-mortar and online retailers.

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How to Get Started with Customer Experience Research Now

PeopleMetrics

Picture this: your customer experience (CX) team has gone through your customers’ feedback, identified regular pain points in the customer journey, and found solutions to reduce friction and retain more customers. However, they did this several months ago and suddenly customer retention is starting to dip down again. What happened? Chances are that the change in customer needs wasn’t actually sudden but a gradual shift.

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Accelerating Our Security Cloud Vision: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Valtix 

Cisco - Contact Center

When we think about today’s enterprise infrastructures, at their core, they comprise a few elements: multiple public clouds (primarily, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle C… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of February 20, 2023

ShepHyken

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. Jeff Toister’s Top Tips for Crafting a Successful Customer Culture by Melanie Mingas (CX Network) CX author and keynote speaker Jeff Toister offers his advice for customer experience managers looking to create a winning customer culture.

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How to Re-energize Your VoC Program

Lumoa

VoC — or Voice of the Customer programs — helps businesses learn more about their consumers’ wants, needs, and preferences. While most VoC efforts start strongly, many tend to lose their traction over time— especially if the program isn’t properly implemented or the company becomes complacent. The good news is that there are still ways to get VoC programs back on track.

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Generative AI – The Dawn Of A New Era

kommunicate

Last Updated on February 19, 2023 Let’s play a game. There are 2 short paragraphs of sentences that follow. ChatGPT wrote one of them. The other one was written by yours truly. Can you tell which one is which? The subject is “ Funny way of explaining the layoffs in the US tech industry.” Paragraph [.] The post Generative AI – The Dawn Of A New Era appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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Optimizing the Wealth Management Onboarding Process

Cisco - Contact Center

As our lives have become more digital and our preference for digital services increased, banks have responded by focusing a significant amount of time and attention on the digital customer… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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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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What is the Difference Between a Virtual Receptionist Answering Service vs Call Center?

Abby Connect

In businesses of days past, you may remember a busy lobby or office space populated by endlessly ringing phones. Today, communication and customer service are still vital parts of keeping any business afloat—but more and more, managing these tasks in-house has become as outdated as the rotary telephone.

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Why a Customer-First Strategy Is Your Best Business Investment

C3Centricity

A lot has been written about the benefits to customers of a company that adopts a customer-first approach. But many companies still don’t understand why it is their best business investment for growth as well. So I thought I would (once again) explain why it would be a good idea for all organisations to adopt a customer-first strategy. At its simplest, putting customers’ needs and satisfaction at the heart of a company’s objectives lead to increased loyalty, positive word of mo

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How to Integrate Kommunicate with Sunshine Conversations

kommunicate

Last Updated on February 20, 2023 Zendesk’s Sunshine Conversations enables businesses to integrate messages from various channels into one continuous conversation and create interactive experiences across all platforms. By providing a unified API and built-in connectors for popular business tools such as Slack and Zendesk, every team within the organization can access a consolidated view [.

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AWS and Hugging Face collaborate to make generative AI more accessible and cost efficient

AWS Machine Learning

We’re thrilled to announce an expanded collaboration between AWS and Hugging Face to accelerate the training, fine-tuning, and deployment of large language and vision models used to create generative AI applications. Generative AI applications can perform a variety of tasks, including text summarization, answering questions, code generation, image creation, and writing essays and articles.

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The Truth About Customer Journey Mapping

Speaker: Dave Seaton, CEO of Seaton CX

Is Customer Journey Mapping a tired fad from 2013? Or a critical tool for sparking customer-centric change? 💥 The answer lies not in the map itself, but in the mapping process. When crafted with precision and insight, journey maps emerge as powerful catalysts, transforming customer experiences and steering businesses towards profitable growth.

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AI Escalations – Be The Elephant!

Upstream Works

By: Rob McDougall, CEO, Upstream Works Software They say an elephant never forgets. Unfortunately, many contact centers have the unfortunate habit of doing just that. With the addition of new AI channels, the problem is only going to get worse. Having to repeat information to a contact center agent constantly comes in near the top in the order of things that negatively impact customer satisfaction.

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The future of ambulatory care documentation, part 1: It’s time to challenge the status quo

Nuance

When you stop and consider the work processes you follow every day at your practice—the tools you use, the tasks you do, and the way you do them—do you notice areas where they could be improved? There are always opportunities to optimize a process, whether through something major like switching to new software, or something [.] The post The future of ambulatory care documentation, part 1: It’s time to challenge the status quo appeared first on What’s next.

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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Benefits And Challenges Of Booking Doctors Appointment Online

kommunicate

Last Updated on February 24, 2023 The average patient waiting time for a new doctor’s appointment is 10 days in the United Kingdom, according to this report. In the US, this time can go as high as 22 days. Booking a doctor’s appointment is a cumbersome process, and it must be seamless considering the fact that [.] The post Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Benefits And Challenges Of Booking Doctors Appointment Online appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.