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Your Introduction to Call Center Automation

Fonolo

In the call center world, efficiency is the name of the game. Customers are looking for faster results without sacrificing quality of service. Call center automation software is essential to accomplishing this goal. Is your business up to the challenge?

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6 Reasons Why Retailers Should Embrace Contact Center Outsourcing

Working Solutions

Every year, a larger percentage of retail business is conducted via the online marketplace.

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How Can AI Automation Improve Call Center Workflows?

LiveVox

AI-driven tools have completely changed the way call centers operate, improving their operations through simplified workflows for agents and as a result, better experiences for customers.

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Three Customer Success strategies to safeguard business stability and spur growth in a downturn

ChurnZero

This article was originally published in Forbes. A turbulent economy feels like change is coming at you from all directions. Your most lucrative sales channels can dry up. Your best customers can become flight risks. Your top strategies can turn ineffective.

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How to Build an AI-Powered Contact Center as a Service Platform

Trusted by over 750 customers across industries, the LinkLive AI -Powered Contact Center platform empowers businesses to deliver trusted experiences through voice, video, chat, secure email, and more channels.

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Top Agent Experience (AX) Trends of 2023

Upstream Works

As 2023 unfolds, a key theme for contact center leaders to watch is reinforcing the connection between customer experience (CX) and agent experience (AX).

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What Is Customer Service? A Guide To Improving Customer Satisfaction

Global Response

In 2023, customer service can be the distinction between long-term success and brand loyalty and failure as a business. Seem extreme? Think about it: customers have endless options to choose from, so if they have a negative customer experience, they don’t have to stick around.

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Contact Center Attrition and the RFP: You’re Asking the Wrong Questions

BlueOcean

Attrition seems like it should be an easy enough term to define, and determining which bidders’ attrition results best match your own requirements should be easy enough in a contact center RFP. In this article, we are making the case that it’s not always so straightforward.

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Why is building a powerful customer connection important?

Helpware

Customer connection is often viewed as a more intangible thing than hard data like ROI since people’s feelings and emotions are harder to measure with exact numbers. However, studies show that businesses tend to look far beyond just cold sales rates. Digital CX

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Tactics for call center outsourcing company to manage customers

Blueship Call Center

For e-retailers, peak or holiday seasons like Christmas or New Year’s are crucial in terms of sales and income. E-retailers hope to make a lot of money at these times by enticing consumers with attractive deals and discounts. However, even customers have very high expectations. Everything seems wonderful until you are deluged with customer service emails, nonstop calls, and live chat messages.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enhance your professional development and lifelong learning.

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Upgrade Your Customer Service to a First-Class Experience

ShepHyken

Many years ago, a friend shared some advice with me: It doesn’t cost much more to enjoy a first-class experience. He was referring to spending just a little more in certain situations to get much more out of the experience.

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How to Improve Customer Experience: A Step by Step Guide

Lumoa

Customer experience plays an important, if not the most important role in the success of any business. Nearly all companies (89%) believe that customer experience will be their primary basis for competition. How do you stand in that competition?

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These are the critical questions to see if your segmentation is effective!

Beyond Philosophy

If you have customer segments that read like the drink sizes on a fast-food menu, then this podcast is one you really need. The fact is many organizations get customer segmentation wrong. So, we came up with some critical questions that can get it back on track.

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The Hiring Game Has Changed: Strategies for Solving Staffing Issues

CCNG

While many jobs come with a fair amount of stress, few positions are as taxing as that of an associate in a busy contact center who must regularly handle difficult customer service issues. According to a study by Cornell University , 87% of call center employees report high job stress levels.

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The 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index

Ventana Research named Verint an Exemplary Leader in the 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index, leading in multiple categories including Adaptability, Manageability, Usability and Product Experience. Download the Index.

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Amazing Business Radio: Josh Wheeler

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Learn from outside of your industry. You will commoditize what you offer if you only learn the best practices and strategies within your industry. If you learn from the best across all industries, you can go from being the best in the industry to becoming world-class.

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CallMiner Product Innovation Series: February 2023

Callminer

Bruce McMahon, VP of Product, highlights updates from the 2023.02 release, including introducing new calibration features that empower organizations to continue advancing their automation journeys

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These are the critical questions to see if your segmentation is effective!

Beyond Philosophy

One of our podcast listeners Vijay Patel has a pickle, and many of you probably have the same one. Patel’s company isn’t getting the sales they need, and Patel asked us how we can tell if they are focused on the right segments.

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Deploying A BPO Disaster Recovery Plan Built for Your Business

Transparent BPO

“Hope” is not a plan to mitigate inevitable risk! By Randy Rollins , VP of Information Technology, Transparent BPO A well-worn mantra circulates throughout information technology circles: “it’s not a matter of if something will go wrong, it’s a matter of when something will go wrong.”

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How Mature Are Your Digital Experiences? A Step-by-Step Guide to Improved CX

Read about Verint’s Digital Maturity Model, where we share real tactics and strategies to improve CX, based on what has worked for our clients around the world.

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The Leadership Blueprint for Culture Change with Kevin Oakes

Russel Lolacher

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with author, keynote speaker and i4CP CEO Kevin Oakes on research-backed actions leadership can take to culture change their organization for the better.

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Friendliness is more important than speed for fast food chains

Toister Performance Solutions

Imagine you had to improve customer satisfaction. You are given limited time and a small budget. Okay, you probably don't have to imagine those limitations.) What would you focus on to get the best results?

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A Fractional CIO Can Unlock Your Business’s Potential

Real Blue Sky

Consider adding a fractional Chief Information Officer to your team if your small to mid-sized business or organization is looking to take your Information Technology capabilities to the next level.

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5 Tips for Planning the Growth of your Support Team in the New Year

Nicereply

It can be overwhelming to sit down and start thinking about all of the things that you need to do to sort out the growth of your support team in the new year. If you’re growing your number of customers or orders in the next year, you’ll need to plan how to support them.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?

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San Diego Humane Society Selects Edify for Contact Center Communications

Edify

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Customer Experience in Retail Guide: Explanations, Strategies, & the Future of CX

Lumoa

Before the digital age, customer experience in retail was a completely different world. Success depended on creating an excellent physical environment for shoppers. Businesses focused on product arrangement, purchasing/return processes, and employee helpfulness.

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Winning over Customer Success talent: Four ways to build a better interview process

ChurnZero

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on Customer Success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide.

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Work From Home vs. Hybrid?

Contact Center Pipeline

The pandemic period has proven something really important for contact centers, and that is that Work From Home on scale is a huge win.

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Marketing-Led COVID-19 Growth Strategies: 2022 and Beyond

More than two years in, COVID-19 is far from over. Businesses are tasked with beating pre-COVID numbers, making marketing crucial. This is your time to create brand awareness, bring in the best leads, and play a vital role in new and existing profit.

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Helping Guiding Eyes for the Blind Migrate Servers to the Cloud

ConvergeOne

Guiding Eyes for the Blind is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides trained dogs to people who are blind or visually impaired.

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Data Privacy Day: A Reflection

Nuance

I recently visited the newly reopened MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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The Ultimate Guide to Call Center Training

Fonolo

Call center training has always been one of the key pillars of running a successful call center. As the industry advances, so do the methods we use to ensure our workforce is performing at its best. A strong call center training program should not just be part of your onboarding process.