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Where Are All the U.S. Call Center Workers?

CustomerServ

Encouraging signs of an economic recovery are visible across the U.S. — cities and states are easing restrictions amid widespread vaccinations, businesses are reopening, the housing market is booming, retail sales are strong, and consumers are eager to spend.

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How do you train artificial intelligence?

TELUS International

Every AI and machine learning project requires training in order to excel. Learn what AI training is, how it works and discover some tips for success.

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Data Backup Security in Call Centers

OctopusTech

Call centers deal with huge bundles of data daily. They deal with user info, company data, financial transactions history, and databases of the companies that Outsource to India. As data is the lifeblood of call centers, having a reliable as well as robust data backup system is a must. The data keeps on piling up over time as more user interactions are being driven and new channels are being used.

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The Customer Service Ritual that Takes Place at Every Meeting

ShepHyken

Every Monday morning – or at least the first day of the week I’m in town – we have a team meeting. We begin each meeting with a ritual. We each share a Moment of Magic with the team. This is simply a positive experience we created for either a customer or team member at Shepard Presentations. It can be as simple as returning a call quickly or stepping in to help in a crisis.

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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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Top 10 Customer Service Acronyms to Use Every Day

Steve DiGioia

Great customer service. That’s what our customers want and that’s what we wish to provide. But it’s difficult remembering all the different steps to take to provide it. Thankfully, many have developed useful acronyms to help. In today’s post, I compiled my list of the top 10 customer service acronyms to use every day. Store these in your CS toolbox to use as needed. 1.

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How Good a Liar Are You Really? Does Lying Affect Your Customer Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

I have had a friend for 30 years who is great to be around, the real life of the party. However, you can’t believe a thing he tells you. Despite this fact, we like him a lot and enjoy his company. Lying is not excellent behavior, but everyone does it. From white lies to spare feelings to great big whoppers that deceive people for ulterior motives, lying is a part of life and, unfortunately, Customer Experiences.

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Guest Post: 5 Strategies to Build a Happy and High-Performing Remote Customer Service Team

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article Alexa Lemzy, a Customer Support and?Content Manager at TextMagic , a cost-effective, efficient, and secure way to communicate. She shares 5 strategies to build a happy and high-performing remote customer service team. Remote working has many benefits for customer service teams but also comes with some challenges. Managing your customer service team in a way that enables employees to focus on their tasks, work effectively with their colleagues and maintain a health

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What Makes a Chatbot Experience Great?

CCNG

As consumers today, we greatly appreciate when we have a great chatbot or voicebot experience. With so many poorly built chatbots – that don’t understand us, or don’t give us the information we are looking for and cause frustration – many customers are surprised when a chatbot resolves their inquiry quickly and efficiently. What exactly makes that chatbot experience great?

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What is conversation analytics?

Callminer

Conversation analytics offers the potential for organizations to better understand their customers. Read more about how to get the most out of this powerful technology and why it matters.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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Costco Jason’s Response Makes Perfect Sense

Myra Golden Media

I watched the viral video of former child star, Ricky Schroeder confronting a Costco worker, Jason, about the store’s mask mandate. My first thought was my daughter, Lauren. Lauren worked in the mall here in Tulsa when she was home from college during the early days of the Pandemic. Often, Lauren was the greeter for her store. Like Jason from Costco.

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Amazing Business Radio: Robin Hills

ShepHyken

The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Customer Service. Utilizing Emotional Intelligence Tools in Building Authentic Relationships. Shep Hyken interviews Robin Hills, Director of Ei4Change. They discuss the importance of emotional intelligence in customer service and customer experience. Top Takeaways: In customer service and sales, we build authentic relationships and help our customers to make the right decisions using their logic and emotions.

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7 New Technologies to Improve Customer Service in 2021

TechSee

In the last few years, the customer service domain has experienced an awakening with the rising awareness of the benefits of delivering a good customer experience. Companies have invested in their customer service function to differentiate and personalize their brand and improve overall operational efficiency. COVID-19 has resulted in a further increase in demand for service, with a January 2021 survey indicating that 65% of U.S. consumers required assistance during the pandemic.

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Contact Center Leaders Reach an Inflection Point for Addressing Work-at-Home Challenges

Contact Center Pipeline

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the work-at-home model was hyped as the best approach for the contact center industry. Our research results from early in the process of quarantine indicated that when employees initially transitioned to working from home, they favored the arrangement—and indeed, there was an overall increase in performance.

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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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Good Enough!

Taylor Reach Group

By Turaj Seyrafiaan. There is a classic quote by John D. Rockefeller that says, “ Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great! ”. But is that a good advice? As a consultant I have learned to say it depends!! It very much depends on the situation and what we are trying to achieve. There are times that we should aim for excellence. As an example, we all know how important customer service and customer experience is and for those situations I would say yes, just being ‘Good’ is not good

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-17-2021

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. How to handle customer complaints? 6 tips you must know by Alibaba.com. (Alibaba.com) This article summarizes 4 common types of customer complaints and worked out 6 tips to handle them smartly and strategically.

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LIVE Q & A on 5/26 at noon CST!

Myra Golden Media

I’m holding office hours, answering your questions about call control, de-escalation, and delivering bad news! Q & A starts LIVE at noon CST on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Ask your questions live or submit ahead of the meetup on my contact page. I can’t wait to see you LIVE on 5/26 at noon CST! Set a reminder for the Q & A.

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Strike While the Iron Is Hot

Contact Center Pipeline

The idiom strike while the iron is hot may be traced back at least to the 1500s and is a reference to the art of blacksmithing. When a blacksmith works iron, he heats it in order to make it malleable and then places it on an anvil and hammers it into shape. Of course, iron […].

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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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Truth Webinar

Peter Lavers

Our founding director Peter Lavers will be participating in the next Truth Customer Loyalty webinar on 2 June, 2pm BST. You are invited to join Truth’s CEO Amanda Cromhout as she debates with Peter, who is a renowned Customer Management and Customer Experience consultant and influencer. We will discuss an array of subjects such as the ever-increasing role of data science, ‘segment of one’ theory, customer value management (CVM, including cross/up-selling), recognition of tenure and ending

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How to Handle Escalations in a Contact Center

Fonolo

We’ve all heard that dreaded phrase before: “I’d like to speak to your supervisor.”. It’s easy to feel nervous after hearing that — nobody wants to deal with angry customers! An escalation request also often means that a customer feels dissatisfied with your service, which can feel discouraging. But, you don’t need to be afraid of escalations. In fact, it’s an opportunity for agents to improve their skills and for a company to learn where they can improve their operations.

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The future of mobile payments in the U.S.

TELUS International

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped accelerate society away from cash. With mobile payments gaining traction globally, discover if now is the right time for the U.S. to make the move towards digital wallets.

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Increasing agent retention in the hybrid workplace

Eptica

Date: Friday, May 21, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Increasing agent retention in the hybrid workplace. Published on: May 21, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Research has found that over 90% of contact centre agents will change jobs in 2021. Stress and burnout are amongst the key reasons for this churn.

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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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A Comprehensive Guide to SaaS Customer Success

HelpCrunch

In the world of SaaS, there is always an ongoing checklist of the things to do, strategies to implement, and customers to guide. In light of this, a SaaS business owner should realize that a [ … ]. The post A Comprehensive Guide to SaaS Customer Success appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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5 Ways Small Businesses Benefit from a Contact Center

Ansafone

Contact centers can provide significant benefits for small businesses. When running a small business, it is crucial to take advantage of potential opportunities. Contact centers provide many opportunities for you to grow your small business and impact it in a positive way. Whether your goals are to increase sales or build customer satisfaction, contact centers … 5 Ways Small Businesses Benefit from a Contact Center Read More ».

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The 11 Best Live Chat Tools for Customer Support

Help Scout

Sometimes customers want to talk to a live person. Maybe they’re not finding what they need in your help documentation, or they want to talk through an issue in real time, and email simply won’t cut it. Offering live support can really take your customer experience to the next level. Though phone support may be what many think of for live support, there’s another option: live chat.

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Find the Right Customer Success Platform with our Scorecard Template

Totango

If you’ve purchased a home in recent years (or if you’re just someone who enjoys real estate “window shopping”), it’s likely you’ve used a tool like Zillow or Trulia to help you in your house hunt. These sites allow you to narrow down your search by categories like price, location, home type, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, etc. Since the purchase of a home is such a major decision, it’s useful to have a tool to help you sift through the available options and narrow down your search to just wh

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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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New CXone Branding for a New Era of Smart Customer Service

NICE inContact

With NICE, it’s never been easier for organizations of all sizes around the globe to create extraordinary customer experiences while meeting key business metrics. Featuring the world’s #1 cloud native customer experience platform, CXone, we’re a worldwide leader in AI-powered contact center software. Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, partner with NICE to transform—and elevate—every customer interaction.

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Identifying Your Customer Care Formula To Maximize Your Customers’ Experience

Transparent BPO

Economic Cycles Can Predict the Typical Customer Service Gap By Scott Newman, CEO, Transparent BPO With tireless regularity, the customer care sector is undergoing its predictable feeding frenzy. Once every decade, large, global corporations with thousands of agents spread throughout countless time zones consume smaller, midsized customer care providers.

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Customer Experience and Marketing: 5 Tactical Ways to Team Up

Nextiva

Customer experience marketing is the strategic shift in driving usage and adoption of your product or service to fulfill your customer needs. It involves exceeding customer expectations throughout the entire customer journey. Think back to the last time you had a memorable customer experience. Did they go above and beyond to solve a problem? Perhaps, […].

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