ShepHyken

MAY 13, 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. 8 Keys to Making Customer Service a More Positive Experience by Martin Zwilling (Inc. Magazine) With the advent of the internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have change

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Call Design

MAY 14, 2024

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of receiving positive feedback on a schedule you just published and ideally hearing that you’ve done a good job. Unfortunately, during my time as a Scheduler, these interactions were often few and far between. Thankfully Workforce Planning has evolved over the years, with a greater focus now on employee engagement rather than just maximising performance.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 10, 2024

A Master Class Part 2: Unlocking the Psychology of Customer Experience In this episode, we continue exploring the psychology behind Customer Experience, focusing on the role of memory. Customer loyalty hinges on how memories are formed and retained. Therefore, understanding memory formation is crucial for designing impactful experiences. Memory formation begins with encoding, where new information is processed and stored in the mind.

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TechSee

MAY 9, 2024

As customer expectations continue to evolve, businesses are increasingly turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance Customer Experience (CX). Leading AI-driven solutions, especially those empowered with visual AI , can analyze and summarize customer interactions, predict behaviors, streamline resolutions, and personalize experiences at scale.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 13, 2024

I am thrilled to see numerous talented and trailblazing Cisco colleagues featured in CRN's 2024 Women of the Channel List. These women are at the forefront of channel thought leadership, and their dedication to our partners' success is a testament to the exceptional caliber of our partner program.

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 14, 2024

For many in sales, negotiation is one of the most challenging aspects of the job. More often than not, these salespeople approach negotiation as a win-or-lose endurance game, a contentious battle that pits two opposing sides against each other. “Winning” means convincing the customer to accept your point of view—even if the outcome isn’t necessarily in the customer’s best interest.

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Bill Quiseng

MAY 13, 2024

Your brand is not a result of your marketing actions. Your brand is the result of customers’ perceptions of your customer service actions. On social media, customers are talking about you whether you like it or not know it or not. World-class or no class. And if they’re not talking world-class or no class, they’re simply not talking about it all. So, when it comes to your customers and customer service, don’t be just good.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 14, 2024

When Strategy and Planning Manager Wendy S. joined Cisco full-time, she knew she had access to incredible benefits she now leans on for support and well-being.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 9, 2024

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) have made these technologies a transformative force across industries. According to a McKinsey study , across the financial services industry (FSI), generative AI is projected to deliver over $400 billion (5%) of industry revenue in productivity benefits. As maintained by Gartner , more than 80% of enterprises will have AI deployed by 2026.

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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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Toister Performance Solutions

MAY 9, 2024

The feedback session was going poorly. A quality assurance analyst was reviewing a contact center agent's calls. The agent was upset about her quality score. The agent bristled at receiving zero points for friendliness. The analyst pointed out that the agent sounded disinterested. Irritated at times. There was no warmth in her approach. "Well, that's friendly for me," was the retort.

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A Better Answer

MAY 13, 2024

Customizing an answering service involves fine-tuning it to meet the unique demands of different industries, such as legal, real estate, and e-commerce. This process is crucial for businesses aiming to enhance customer satisfaction, improve operational efficiency, and stand out in a competitive market. By identifying specific needs, evaluating current services, and implementing targeted features, companies can create a more personalized and effective communication channel.

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Helpware

MAY 14, 2024

Are you tired of juggling the demands of different IT projects and constantly trying to do more with less? You are not the only one. A Clutch study found that over 37% of small businesses currently outsource at least one business process, with IT services making the top of the list. This number grows even larger when we look at enterprises, about 90% of Fortune 500 companies outsourcing at least some portion of their IT needs.

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Outsource Consultants

MAY 14, 2024

In the second episode of The Bald + The Beard , hosts Tom Luther and Andrew Griffiths continue their exploration of outsourcing in the customer experience (CX) sector, this time focusing on the pervasive myths about losing control when outsourcing and how strategic partnerships can actually enhance operational control and data security. Key Takeaways Choosing the Right Outsourcing Partner Matters: It’s not just about handing off tasks; it’s about finding a partner who aligns with you

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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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DMG Consulting

MAY 15, 2024

This is the first in a series of videos that will explore how AI in enhancing things in contact centers across the globe. The post 10 Topics in our A.I. Series appeared first on DMG Consulting.

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Ambs Call Center

MAY 9, 2024

You're juggling patient care and coordination with colleagues while managing a mountain of sensitive information. Sound familiar ? When every second and detail matters, the last thing you need is to worry about the security of your communication. Data breaches, PHI leaks, and the dreaded HIPAA violation. The solution: HIPAA compliant texting. With nearly a century of experience in handling medical calls, we’ve helped a few medical practices ditch the pager and embrace HIPAA compliant texting.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 13, 2024

When applications are constrained by insufficient resources, the result is poor application performance or even outages. Cisco Full-Stack Observability can help you scale up or down to ensure you have enough resources to support workloads.

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MiaRec

MAY 11, 2024

In my past life, I was a QA manager in a large contact center. One thing that frustrated me the most was the high agent turnover. Not only do you constantly have to train new agents, which often leads to less-than-ideal customer experiences, but you also see the personal toll it takes on an agent. The constant stress and lack of work-life balance can result in agent burnout.

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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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Call Design

MAY 15, 2024

SYDNEY, Australia, 16 May, 2024: Call Design, a leading provider of workforce optimisation solutions, has announced a new strategic partnership with ProHance, an enterprise-grade operations enablement and analytics platform that provides insights for smarter decisions in complex, distributed and hybrid workforces. Call Design has built an international business focused on workforce optimisation solutions and is excited to work with ProHance to offer more advanced optimisation technology to the b

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 15, 2024

ONNX is an open source machine learning (ML) framework that provides interoperability across a wide range of frameworks, operating systems, and hardware platforms. ONNX Runtime is the runtime engine used for model inference and training with ONNX. AWS Graviton3 processors are optimized for ML workloads, including support for bfloat16, Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), and Matrix Multiplication (MMLA) instructions.

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Tethr

MAY 15, 2024

Elevate your agent analytics with conversation intelligence! Learn how to measure, coach, and improve agent performance for exceptional CX.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 9, 2024

This Mental Health Awareness Month, Cisco employees working in sustainability share how they cope with eco-anxiety.

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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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C3Centricity

MAY 12, 2024

Today, most markets are saturated, and companies are fighting for the same customers. This is why organisations should no longer aim for customer satisfaction but rather delight. But how can you delight your customers so they remain loyal? With fewer and fewer differences between the products and services offered, many companies have realised that they can – and should – differentiate by improving their customer experience.

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24-7 InTouch

MAY 14, 2024

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA, MAY 14, 2024 – IntouchCX, a global leader in customer experience management, digital engagement, and technology solutions, won two major awards at the 2024 Customer Experience Interaction Awards presented by BPrO in Cartagena, Colombia. The company won Silver for Best Social Responsibility Initiative, while Marcela Ramírez, VP of LATAM Operations at IntouchCX, was named the Executive of the Year.

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NobelBiz

MAY 14, 2024

Contact centers have always been at the forefront of adopting technologies that can enhance the interaction between agents and customers. One of the most transformative technologies in recent years is conversational analytics. But what exactly is conversational analytics, and why is it becoming an indispensable tool in call centers? What Is Conversational Analytics?

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CustomerServ

MAY 10, 2024

The call center is one of the initial points of contact between a brand and its customers. As such, it plays a pivotal role in shaping the customer experience (CX) strategy. Internal call centers, operated by a brand’s employees, offer a sense of control over the CX ecosystem. However, in-house operations are resource intensive and require a substantial investment.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 15, 2024

Over the last 40 years, Cisco has built one of most sophisticated and extensive Go-to-Market (GTM) engines in the industry. Today, we are taking the next step in that mission.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Avaya and LivePerson have partnered to integrate voice, digital, and AI capabilities into a unified omnichannel solution for enhanced customer experiences and accelerated digital transformation. The partnership allows enterprises to enhance their existing Avaya solutions with digital, automation, AI, and analytics capabilities without the need for migration, resulting in faster transformative outcomes with lower costs and reduced operational risks.

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ChurnZero

MAY 15, 2024

Most CSMs are struggling to hit their goals this year, according to new research. In a poll of CSMs conducted by ChurnZero and SuccessCOACHING , only 41% of CSMs said they could achieve their goals without working extra hours on evenings or weekends, and just 40% said their goals are realistic. Given the last two years of RIFs and pre-emptive job moves, and higher workloads for the CSMs who’ve stayed in place, that’s not entirely surprising.

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