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Why the Marketing Budget Should Include Customer Service Training

ShepHyken

Traditionally, that is marketing and sales. We recently had a client say their training budget didn’t have money allocated to customer service training. Typically, companies spend a lot of money training salespeople, which often falls under the sales budget, not the training budget.

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Aligning Marketing and Training for a Consistent Customer Experience with Barry LaBov

ShepHyken

Training is crucial in aligning employees with the brand’s unique experience. If new hires don’t receive the same training as the rest of the team, the result is inconsistency, which can create a disconnect with customers. The marketing and promotion should be congruent with the actual experience the customer receives.”

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Aligning Marketing and Training for a Consistent Customer Experience with Barry LaBov Copy

ShepHyken

To provide exceptional customer service, it is essential to have a dedicated customer support team that is well-trained and equipped with the right tools and technology. It should be embraced by everyone in the organization, from senior leaders to frontline employees. •

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Guest Post: Cultivate a Customer Service Online Training

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Christopher Jan Benitez, a freelance writer who specializes in digital marketing. He shares the importance of developing online training resources for your customer service team and how to implement one for the success of your business. Why Your Customer Service Needs Online Training .

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Executive Report: The Customer Data Too Often Overlooked by the C-Suite

A recent Calabrio research study of more than 1,000 C-Suite executives has revealed leaders are missing a key data stream – voice of the customer data. Download the report to learn how executives can find and use VoC data to make more informed business decisions.

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Introducing automatic training for solutions in Amazon Personalize

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Personalize is excited to announce automatic training for solutions. Solution training is fundamental to maintain the effectiveness of a model and make sure recommendations align with users’ evolving behaviors and preferences. For this post, you configure automatic training in the training parameters.

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Are You Using This Valuable Marketing Tool For Growth?

Beyond Philosophy

However, if you were a third grocery store trying to enter the market, you would have a bit of a problem. There is no point in marketing to a group of people that are never going to buy your services. To hear more about this marketing tool in more detail, listen to the complete podcast here.

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The Health of the Contact Center: Are You Ready for 2019?

A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era. This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019.

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Study: The Health of the Contact Center

What does it take to engage agents in this customer-centric era? Download our study of 1,000 contact center agents in the US and UK to find out what major challenges are facing contact center agents today – and what your company can do about it.

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Why Do Your Contact Center Agents Keep Quitting?

Speaker: Helena Chen, Director of Product Marketing & Marilyn Cassedy, VP of Customer Success

Combined with the Great Resignation and a candidate-driven market, it’s become a perfect storm for contact centers. To cope with the struggle of hiring and retaining agents, call center leaders are offering more pay, more employee perks, and more training. At the heart of the issue is the monotonous and stressful nature of the job.

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.