ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

More and more people are complaining about bad customer service. The demand for better service continues to grow, as evidenced in our customer experience research (2022 Achieving Customer Amazement study sponsored by Amazon Web Services). However, customer service trends seem to be heading in the wrong direction. Even several years before the pandemic began, The American Customer Satisfaction Index found the overall ratings slipping, even with brands most recognized for high levels of customer s

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CCNG

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As an avid reader, listener and consumer of contact center and CX industry news and insights, I have been actively trying to figure out how to provide value to the industry through multiple mediums. Since I also consume a lot of content I have built up a list of things I was willing to give my time to freely to try and help others. I have spoken at trade shows and events, done videos, written articles and been on countless webinars.

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Customer Contact Central Submitted Articles

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Choosing the right call center metrics is just as important as operationalizing them. Here're five key call center metrics you should keep an eye on.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

CallMiner CX Landscape Report found 62% of companies believe they don’t collect all of the CX data they need, with only 12% collecting an equal amount of solicited and unsolicited customer feedback.

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CX leaders are in a gold rush for AI, lured by the promise of cost savings and a revolution in service delivery. But simply deploying AI in your contact center isn't a magic bullet. There are hidden dangers that can derail your AI dreams. Recent incidents, such as the missteps of an AI chatbot deployed by Air Canada, have underscored the complexities and risks involved in leveraging AI in customer-facing roles.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

What did you do during the lockdown? Did you take up a hobby or a new exercise program? Did you watch hours of news coverage hoping for some good news? Were you in the kitchen working with your sourdough starter? Or were you on the couch watching the entirety of Netflix? All were excellent pursuits, by the way, especially the bread making. However, one of my team was spending the lock down a different way: taking a deeper dive on the data we have collected on our Emotional Signature ® research.

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Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Shaping the Future of Work and Human Potential When thinking of the new competitive advantage, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) has been stating that Adaptability is the new competitive advantage! We read and hear the statement “the future of work is Human.” This is a topic of many webinars, articles, and think tanks and yet […].

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Think about how many phone calls your contact center receives in one day. Thousands, right? Now, think about how many ripe opportunities you have to ask for customer feedback. Thousands again. How? Through after-call surveys. You might confuse them with net promoter score or cSAT, but post-call surveys are a much more specific way to gather real-time feedback.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The partnership stems from an initiative with an electronics multinational to deploy virtual sales agents on retail locations, instantly connecting customers to representatives via AI-based visual engagement. BOSTON , Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — TechSee, the market leader in Computer Vision solutions for customer service, today announced a partnership with NeuraFlash with the goal of bringing the next generation of visual engagement and AI-powered service automation to their existing t

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

How Empathy Drives Business Growth . Creating a Culture that Gets and Retains the Best Employees. Shep Hyken interviews Jon Shanahan, co-founder of Businessolver Inc., a benefits administration solution that combines technology and service to help employees get the most value out of their benefits. He discusses creating a culture that delights and retains loyal customers and the best employees.

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Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It is a common misconception that retaining valuable contact center agents is as simple as a salary increase. Sure, salary is a key driver when agents are considering jumping to new roles, but it’s certainly not the only factor. A new study commissioned by Calabrio found that there is a significant disconnect between the most-asked-for […].

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HelpCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Meet a typical customer of an online shop ?????They made an order and reached out to customer support to fill in the dots. “Oh, the shop has an Instagram account, I’ll contact them there” – [ … ]. The post 7 Multichannel Customer Support Software to Avoid Incoherent Communication appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Date: Monday, September 12, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager The 6 benefits of chatbots for housing associations. Published on: September 12, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager As housing association tenants increasingly embrace digital channels, AI-powered chatbots provide a new way of engaging with customers and meeting their needs.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Organisations should build on pandemic CSR social media messaging to retain customer trust in times of crisis. A study which examined the corporate social responsibility (CSR) messaging of Fortune 100 companies on Twitter during the pandemic has found that organisations could better communicate with their customers during times of crises by strategically embedding their CSR response into international marketing plans.

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Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When a financial slowdown approaches, the smartest businesses look for areas where their investment has the best leverage. Today, the greatest opportunity for efficient growth lies with Customer Success (CS) teams—the purveyors of customer loyalty. Find out how Customer Success builds financial fortitude and resilience in the latest Punk CX podcast, featuring ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang.

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Lumoa

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

NPS is a very sought-after resource that many companies want to use when setting goals for their own NPS strategy. However, one must remember that you should not stare blindly at others’ NPS since there are other factors affecting the score itself. . In this article, we will share some good tips on how you should manage and utilize NPS benchmarks. Net Promoter Score in a nutshell.

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Spearline

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today’s customers are connected customers, they expect personalized, seamless, omnichannel engagement and they are willing to pay a premium for it. Building an ecology of CX excellence takes some effort but you’ll be glad you put the work in. Let’s build a picture of what this environment will look like by first discussing some CX issues that frustrate rather than delight our customers. to track call and data flows to your agents irrespective of location, and receive full Call Detail Records (CD

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Nicereply

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

There is nothing worse than using one of these support phrases and make your customers really angry. Running a business is a stressful job, and even if you are doing everything you can to keep all your customers happy, you’re bound to suffer some meltdowns. That’s why you should prepare your customer service representatives to avoid using expressions or customer support phrases that might seem offensive to clients.

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Quality Contact Solutions

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

After countless hours of planning, preparation, and implementation, you finally have the new telemarketing program kicked off. It seems to be running smoothly and more importantly, client goals and expectations are being met. You have a great operations team in place to keep a close eye on KPIs and make adjustments as needed to continue to reach and exceed client goals.

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Hodusoft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

What is IP PBX Auto Provisioning and How Does it Work? The holiday season is around the corner and people are shopping from your website like crazy. The result is a heavy inflow of calls on order status and many such inquiries. But what’s the use of getting new agents? Your traditional PBX system cannot accommodate new agents as all existing telephone lines are being used at full capacity!

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

On a good day a call center can run a well-oiled machine, but call center shrinkage can derail the best-laid plans. . Picture this: You’ve got 100 agents scheduled to work on a Monday morning—enough staff to cover this notoriously busy shift. But at any given time, some individual staffers will be unavailable. They might be on a break or in a meeting, and some have likely called in sick or arrived late.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Artificial Intelligence is what makes automating voice conversations possible. Companies such as Google and Amazon are continually bringing new iterations of conversational AI technology into the mainstream and integrating different applications of machine learning into our everyday lives. Asking Alexa to play your favorite podcast and have her quickly play it for you is made possible by the same type of technology that allows contact centers across the world to automate voice conversations.

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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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Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Customer Success Playbook Strategies: Mapping a Path to Winning Outcomes. A customer success playbook maps out a game plan you can use to automate successful outcomes for your clients. Having a playbook in place can help you deliver better results for your SaaS customers and yield higher satisfaction, retention, and revenue for your business. Here we’ll show you how to use customer success playbooks to support your CS strategy: We’ll define the customer success playbook and clarify

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Hodusoft

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

How Multi Tenant PBX Software Empowers Telecom Businesses? The dynamics of the telecom industry have dramatically evolved in the last few years. More than 36% of businesses have adopted VoIP technology for improving the quality of customer service. When you have distributed teams, multi-tenant PBX systems become the lifeline of your business communications.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a critical tool that organizations maintain to manage customer interactions and build business relationships. Zendesk is a CRM tool that makes it easy for customers and businesses to keep in sync. Zendesk captures a wealth of customer data, such as support tickets created and updated by customers and service agents, community discussions, and helpful guides.

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MiaRec

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

With the adoption of new data processing technology and Big Data, companies are collecting more data from their customers through the implementation of customer loyalty programs, phone/email/online surveys, order histories, and much more. But this gives you a limited view of the world. For example, survey response rates are at an all-time low ( 18% for a phone survey ), and you are drawing from a very limited pool of survey participants.

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Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints? With customer experience automation, organizations can leverage AI and automation to make it faster and cheaper to provide a superior customer experience acro

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VirtualPBX

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

If you are looking to switch to an internet-based phone system, understanding the key differences between Voip vs SIP Trunking will allow you to pick the best communication solution for your business. The best place to start is to determine whether your business will utilize a voice-only service or if you need a more robust communications solution. While SIP Trunking and VoIP have some similarities, they are not the same.

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delighted

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

You’re faced with many options (and questions) during the survey creation process: What survey type should you use? How should you send your survey? What questions should you ask? And of those, which should be open-ended versus close-ended questions? Today, we’ll tackle the last topic: how close-ended questions differ from open-ended ones, plus how, when, and why to use them.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Register free for NVIDIA GTC to learn from experts on how AI and the evolution of the 3D internet are profoundly impacting industries—and society as a whole. We have prepared several AWS sessions to give you guidance on how to use AWS services powered by NVIDIA technology to meet your goals. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by NVIDIA GPUs deliver the scalable performance needed for fast machine learning (ML) training, cost-effective ML inference, flexible remote virtua

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