May, 2023

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Please Put Me Back On Hold!

ShepHyken

“Please put me back on hold. I want to keep listening to the music,” said nobody, ever – unless they were listening to the hold music at the Kansas City Foot and Ankle medical practice. The owner of this four-office podiatry practice with seven doctors and 25 staff members, Dr. Mark Green, has always focused on creating a positive, unique and frictionless patient experience.

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Stop using Customer Engagement as jargon and let’s truly understand it

Beyond Philosophy

We have been remiss. In the past five years, we have talked about the Cleveland Browns, a struggling team in the NFL, several times but we haven’t discussed customer engagement once. I became aware of this deficit after receiving an email from Vijay, one of my podcast listeners, asking me what we had on it. So, to remedy that, today we will focus on what customer engagement is and what you can do to promote more of it in your experiences.

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25 tips for improving customer service in call centers in 2023

Callminer

Companies that want to improve customer service in the call center may not know where to begin, so we've created a list of 25 tips from call center experts.

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Be Magnificently Boring to CARE!

Bill Quiseng

Business leaders are happy because customers were satisfied with their product or service. But that’s not good enough. Satisfied customers feel that their experience was good, not better, just average. Nobody raves about average. And satisfied customers will not return as soon as they find an experience that is better or a price that is less expensive.

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The State of Customer Experience 2023 Report: Part 2

JUST RELEASED! The Northridge Group’s State of CX 2023 Part II research report reveals that nearly half of consumers surveyed had knowingly spoken to a customer service associate working from home—and almost 75% of those respondents felt the associate's location did not impact the service or experience. So why do more than ⅓ of business leaders want contact center associates back in the office?

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Key phrases and concepts driving a good customer experience - Tethr

Tethr

Today, Tethr expert Matt Dixon shares some of the key phrases and concepts driving a good customer experience in today's digital world.

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Sometimes Customers Are Just Having a Bad Day

ShepHyken

You’ve probably experienced this. No matter how hard you try to please some customers, they aren’t happy. It’s frustrating, but at the same time, it’s reality. And speaking of reality, no matter how good you are at creating an amazing customer experience, the customer’s perception counts. Their perception is their reality. I once went to an amazing restaurant – at least, I was told it was amazing.

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Lets really understand what Customer Engagement is and how to improve it

Beyond Philosophy

Vijay, one of our listeners, drew my attention to a deficit in my content regarding customer strategy. He asked if we had anything on customer engagement. After a search of both my hard drives (computer and memory), I realized that I didn’t. To remedy this giant hole in our content, we recorded this podcast. Now, part of not having any content on the subject means I didn’t have a definition ready for the term.

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Using AI to address five critical business challenges in healthcare

Callminer

From consumerization to bad debt to staffing shortages, here’s how healthcare organizations can address five of the most critical challenges in 2023 with AI.

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Deploy generative AI models from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart using the AWS CDK

AWS Machine Learning

The seeds of a machine learning (ML) paradigm shift have existed for decades, but with the ready availability of virtually infinite compute capacity, a massive proliferation of data, and the rapid advancement of ML technologies, customers across industries are rapidly adopting and using ML technologies to transform their businesses. Just recently, generative AI applications have captured everyone’s attention and imagination.

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How Government Services Can Provide Better Citizen Satisfaction & Experience

Attention government agencies and BPO partners! CXperts is your go-to solution for improving citizen experience. Our omnichannel and digital contact center solutions are designed to supply superior CX, reducing costs and maximizing efficiency. Plus, we are a Minority Owned Business (MBE). With our certifications, we are the perfect partner to help government agencies meet their CX goals and fulfill federal deal requirements.

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How to measure customer effort: NPS, CES, CSAT, and more – Tethr

Tethr

Ready to learn how to measure customer effort? Let's look at a few of the most common scores used to track effort in customer conversations.

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The Power of Hyper-Personalization in the Contact Center

Fonolo

Customer service is all about meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Contact center managers know this implicitly. But did you know that hyper-personalization in the contact center is one of the best ways to delight your customers? It’s true! Customers want to feel seen. Deloitte reports that 90% of people are attracted to hyper-personalized advertising content, and customers are quickly coming to expect it.

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Customer Service Is Like Dating

ShepHyken

I like the title of this article, but perhaps a more appropriate title might be: Customer Service Is Like Being Married. The buying cycle for a customer typically includes a little research, talking to a salesperson, making the purchase, and whatever happens after the sale. This can include follow-up from the salesperson, dealing with customer service for a problem, or any interaction you have with the company or brand after the sale is made.

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The CXO dream team: ?Why marketing, sales, and CS should unite to drive growth

Totango

Three learnings from TSIA on why your go-to-market leaders have an opportunity to work better together to drive growth. When it comes to understanding customer needs, marketing, sales, and CS teams are the experts, so it’s on us to work together to define today’s most valuable growth opportunities. Last week at the TSIA World: Interact conference in Orlando, I spent time talking with several sales and CS leaders about the opportunity we have to lean into our C-suite partnerships and take the rei

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Improve Contact Center Outcomes with Key Insights

Contact center leaders are skilled at balancing competing day-to-day priorities. They help others make informed business decisions, all while working to keep agents and customers engaged in positive experiences. Rapid access to the most relevant and actionable information is critical to managing agents, supervisors, and communicating with executive leadership to improve efficiencies and business outcomes.

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How to choose the best experience management software in 2023

Callminer

Customer experience management is complex, but the right software can help. Find out how to choose the right experience management software for your business.

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Instruction fine-tuning for FLAN T5 XL with Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart

AWS Machine Learning

Generative AI is in the midst of a period of stunning growth. Increasingly capable foundation models are being released continuously, with large language models (LLMs) being one of the most visible model classes. LLMs are models composed of billions of parameters trained on extensive corpora of text, up to hundreds of billions or even a trillion tokens.

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Preempt follow-up calls like a Next Issue Avoidance pro – Tethr

Tethr

When the call is over, the job is done. Right? Next Issue Avoidance is the art of solving the customer's second problem on the first call.

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Empower Your Business with Customer Journey Mapping

Real Blue Sky

The Key to Unveiling Hidden Opportunities and Improving the Customer Experience Have you ever wondered what it’s like for a customer to do business with your brand? Quite simply, customer journey mapping is the journey our customers take when trying to do business with us. It’s a powerful tool that lets us see things from the customer’s perspective, from the moment they first reach out to us to their post-purchase experience and throughout that customer’s relationship with the

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The Complete Guide to Conversational AI for Your Business

In this eBook, you’ll learn how companies are using advanced conversational AI solutions, like Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant, to deliver actionable service and assist their contact center agents in both voice and digital channels. You’ll also see how our easy-to-use, low-code bot-building environment makes for quicker and more flexible conversational AI deployments that deliver an immediate ROI.

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In Today’s Competitive Market, AI is the Key to Winning Customer Loyalty

C3Centricity

If you haven’t already heard, AI is the key to winning customer loyalty today! As the digital revolution transforms the business landscape, customers demand more from their interactions with companies. They expect personalised, seamless experiences across all channels and touchpoints, and they want their needs to be anticipated so they are met both quickly and efficiently.

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Open-ended questions: Definition, examples, and tips

delighted

Asking open-ended questions in your survey uncovers in-depth insights from respondents in their own words. While close-ended questions also provide valuable information, asking both question types in your survey gives you the data and context to make larger business decisions, act on immediate solutions, and plan long-term goals. In this post, we’ll explain what open-ended questions are, the difference between closed and open-ended questions (including when to use both), and examples of open-end

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How to Evaluate Call Center Software Vendors for Customer Data Platform Solutions

NobelBiz

Are you looking to optimize your call center’s efficiency and streamline your business’s data management process? If so, it’s crucial to find the right call center software vendor that integrates with a customer data platform (CDP). But with so many options available, how do you choose the right one? In this article, we’ll explore how to evaluate call center software vendors for CDP solutions and the essential features to look for.

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Host ML models on Amazon SageMaker using Triton: CV model with PyTorch backend

AWS Machine Learning

PyTorch is a machine learning (ML) framework based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing. One of the primary reasons that customers are choosing a PyTorch framework is its simplicity and the fact that it’s designed and assembled to work with Python. PyTorch supports dynamic computational graphs, enabling network behavior to be changed at runtime.

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Using AI to Empower Contact Center Agents and Improve CX and EX

For years now, contact center admins and supervisors have leveraged bots to improve customer and employee experiences but we are at the beginning of a completely new paradigm regarding increased speed and efficiency. Implementing a modern contact center solution, powered by AI, can give contact centers a competitive advantage. While integrating AI is necessary to provide high-quality digital customer service, it is only a piece of the communication platform puzzle.

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Reducing customer effort: Don't miss this essential step - Blog

Tethr

Reducing customer effort is difficult to measure, but one large insurance company is using Tethr to track advocacy to deliver serious results.

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How Customer Success teams can nail their renewal forecast

ChurnZero

Customer renewals are the lifeblood of a subscription business. Responsibility for renewals often falls to the Customer Success (CS) team. For example, survey research shows about half (50.2%) of all CS teams surveyed are directly responsible for customer renewals. It doesn’t end there either. While renewals are a central aspect of CS work, many Customer Success Managers (CSMs) have a mandate for upsells.

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Contact Center Buyer’s Guide

Connect

Download the contact centre buyer’s guide to delve into a transformative world where the convergence of these capabilities enables elegant, simple, efficient, and agile contact centres. Understand the specific capabilities you need to create value for your employees, customers and business. Grounded in research this guide outlines these specific capabilities; technology that will enable enhanced employee experience, the advancement of innovation in automated business processes, sophisticated ana

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Customize invoice QuickBooks Online: How to personalize your invoices

Method:CRM

Everyone knows that sending invoices is crucial to getting paid for your products or services. So there’s nothing more frustrating than doing everything right in the invoicing process but still having to wait forever for payments. But here’s what many businesses don’t realize. When you send a generic invoice with nothing on it but the total amount due, you miss out on your full revenue potential.

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Ramping-up Your Digital CX Strategy: Adaptation of Omni Channel and Conversational Support

Speaker: Michael McMillan - Customer Experience Expert, TEDx Speaker, and Author

Are you looking to elevate your CX support strategy? Customers who have a seamless buying experience, from speaking with sales and purchasing the product to easily finding support, are more likely to return to your organization and recommend it to others. With the numerous changes in the market, it is critical that your CX strategy can evolve and better support your customers regardless of where they are in their journey.

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Furthering the AI-First Security Cloud: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Armorblox

Cisco - Contact Center

Keeping an organization secure has a few basic steps that haven’t changed over the years: identify threats, respond and neutralize them, and put measures in place to prevent them in the future.

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Automate the deployment of an Amazon Forecast time-series forecasting model

AWS Machine Learning

Time series forecasting refers to the process of predicting future values of time series data (data that is collected at regular intervals over time). Simple methods for time series forecasting use historical values of the same variable whose future values need to be predicted, whereas more complex, machine learning (ML)-based methods use additional information, such as the time series data of related variables.

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J.D. Power and Tethr collaborate to fuel customer experience insights – Tethr

Tethr

J.D. Power and Tethr are launching Conversation Analyzer–a new diagnostic that combines J.D. Power’s CX expertise with insights from Tethr.