CCNG

MARCH 6, 2024

Do you sometimes feel like you are playing buzzword bingo when reading anything about AI in the contact center? You are not alone. A lot of customers who have spent a lifetime in the contact center and survived a world of acronyms like AHT, CSAT, and PICINC are feeling alienated in their own world. Like an outsider looking in. When we read the line “Some companies are already making the most of blockchain technologies for more robust security and efficiency within financial transactions and data

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Tethr

MARCH 6, 2024

Learn how to improve call center agent performance using conversation intelligence to inform agent coaching strategies.

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Amplifai Coaching Category

MARCH 5, 2024

Discover the best call center gamification software for 2024. Boost agent engagement, performance, and customer satisfaction with our expert guide.

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SQM Group

MARCH 5, 2024

Coaching isn't just about identifying areas for improvement; it's about cultivating a culture of continuous learning and development.

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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.

TCN

MARCH 6, 2024

Remember the days when call center customer service consisted of endless hold times? Thankfully, those. The post The Evolution of Call Center Software appeared first on TCN.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

Are you grappling with the complexities of call center metrics, seeking to elevate customer experience, and driving operational excellence through insightful data analysis? As a call center stakeholder—be it an owner, manager, or supervisor—the task of harnessing call center reporting to pinpoint areas for improvement, optimize agent performance, and ultimately enhance customer satisfaction can seem daunting.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 5, 2024

In the past few months, I’ve been to several concerts. I’d say the entertainers were legends in the industry. Two of them were Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr (of the Beatles). Both are talented beyond words. They both have successful careers. They have both been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s important for you to know this, just in case you don’t know who they are.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 7, 2024

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: You have a hidden impact on your return on investment for your customer experience management programs. This hidden impact kicks in between a given moment in your customer process and the customer behavior that results from it.

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TechSee

MARCH 4, 2024

Enterprise leaders are constantly seeking innovative ways to improve their customer experience (CX), ideally while improving their bottom line. Generative AI is more than the hot trend of the year; it has the potential to improve and automate CX. However, the cost of AI talent, AI training, tuning, and refinement, as well as LLM consumption-based tokens at scale, begs the question, is Generative AI in CX a financially sound endeavor?

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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

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Callminer

MARCH 6, 2024

ChatGPT and generative AI have captured the attention of individuals and organizations alike. This blog explores the use of AI in data analytics to process, analyze, and derive insights.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 4, 2024

This episode of  Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken  answers the following questions and more: How can a company create a positive employee experience during challenging times? What strategies can a company use to give back to its local communities? How can businesses foster strong connections between their employees and the communities they serve?

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 8, 2024

Have you ever come across the Abilene Paradox? It’s when everyone agrees to do something that no one really wants to do. Jerry B. Harvey coined “The Abilene Paradox” based on a family incident. They ended up driving 50 miles each way across the scorching Texas desert to Abilene for dinner, even though none of them wanted to go. They all thought everyone else wanted to go, so they reluctantly agreed.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 4, 2024

Amazon Bedrock is the best place to build and scale generative AI applications with large language models (LLM) and other foundation models (FMs). It enables customers to leverage a variety of high-performing FMs, such as the Claude family of models by Anthropic, to build custom generative AI applications. Looking back to 2021, when Anthropic first started building on AWS, no one could have envisioned how transformative the Claude family of models would be.

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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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IdeasUnlimited

MARCH 6, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of business, customer service stands as a pivotal pillar in building brand loyalty and ensuring customer satisfaction. This is where IdeasUnlimited, a leading provider of call center support services, carves its niche. With a decade-long history of excellence, IdeasUnlimited has been instrumental in transforming the customer service landscape for businesses worldwide.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 4, 2024

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 comments about each article and would like to hear what you think too. What Exactly Is Customer Experience? by Annette Franz (CustomerThink) Customer experience is the sum of all the interactions (including with product and price!

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Cisco - Contact Center

MARCH 6, 2024

Talking to your Network Embarking on my journey as a network engineer nearly two decades ago, I was among the early adopters who recognized the transformative potential of network automation.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Many customers, including those in creative advertising, media and entertainment, ecommerce, and fashion, often need to change the background in a large number of images. Typically, this involves manually editing each image with photo software. This can take a lot of effort, especially for large batches of images. However, Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions make it straightforward to automate this process at scale.

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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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Comm100

MARCH 6, 2024

The immediacy and convenience of live chat has catapulted the technology into a go-to support channel for consumers and an essential tool for businesses. Gone are the days when customers could only get slow and often frustrating support via email or phone. And far gone are the days when agents had little to no information about the customer they were speaking to and were restricted to serving one user at a time.

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Playvox

MARCH 7, 2024

March 8th is International Women’s Day and represents a day of reflection, recognition, and celebration for women. On this day, we discuss efforts and struggles to overcome cultural barriers, reflect on how to work for equality, support women in the workplace, and recall the importance of human rights. It is a date of historical significance that builds momentum in diverse social, political, and cultural conversations.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MARCH 8, 2024

Data is the new fuel for business growth Data is at the heart of seemingly everything these days, from the smart devices in our homes to the mobile apps we use on the go every day.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 6, 2024

In this post, we demonstrate how to efficiently fine-tune a state-of-the-art protein language model (pLM) to predict protein subcellular localization using Amazon SageMaker. Proteins are the molecular machines of the body, responsible for everything from moving your muscles to responding to infections. Despite this variety, all proteins are made of repeating chains of molecules called amino acids.

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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.

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Cyara

MARCH 5, 2024

Contact centers and unified communications (UC) services often rely on dual tone multi frequency (DTMF) for customer communications. As such, they need to know their calls are connecting properly and that customers can reach the correct departments.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 7, 2024

Blue Ocean, a world leader in customer care solutions, was named a Finalist today in the “Contact Center Outsourcing Provider of the Year” category in the 18 th annual Stevie ® Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Blue Ocean will ultimately be awarded a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Award during a gala banquet on Friday, April 12, at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MARCH 6, 2024

During his tour of Cisco’s PENN1 smart building, Andrew Gilman, Chief Marketing Officer for NWN Carousel–an integrated cloud communications service provider and Cisco partner–had a lightbulb moment.

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OctopusTech

MARCH 3, 2024

Developing a custom website or web application in-house requires significant investment in a skilled technology team, infrastructure, and overhead expenses. Many companies are now turning to outsourcing as a strategic approach to get their web projects executed faster and more cost-effectively. Outsourcing involves partnering with an agency that provides the web design , development, and technology skills needed to build and launch your online product.

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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.

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Cyara

MARCH 5, 2024

Contact centers and unified communications (UC) services often rely on dual tone multi frequency (DTMF) for customer communications. As such, they need to know their calls are connecting properly and that customers can reach the correct departments.

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Concentrix

MARCH 4, 2024

Discover how a player in file synchronization & sharing partnered with Concentrix on customer journey optimization to drive functional alignment and improve CX.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MARCH 5, 2024

Today, I am thrilled to share exciting changes to Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team that are designed to accelerate our innovation, drive greater simplicity, and double-down on our growth e… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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