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9 Call Center Environment Best Practices

Callminer

Cultivating a productive call center environment involves optimizing many different facets of its operations. From facility design to computer systems and software integrations, all aspects of your call center that impact its internal atmosphere can affect employee performance. The power your call center environment has over your staff’s overall level of productivity cannot be overestimated.

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The evolution of support starts now – with our new Resolution Bot

Intercom, Inc.

Today we’re introducing Resolution Bot – the next generation of Answer Bot, our intelligent support chatbot that automatically answers customer questions. We believe automation will transform the way that businesses support their customers. Bots are already enabling customer support teams to scale personalized experiences without added headcount. But until now, support bots have stopped short of fully resolving customer issues.

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Getting Over the “I Want It Now” Mindset

Beyond Philosophy

The wealth of information within academia and doesn’t get used by business is amazing. I blame their naming. Academics have great information, but a terrible naming skills. . Take Hyperbolic Discounting (please!), a significant psychological concept that plays into many decisions we make, that we discussed on a recent podcast. You might think the term describes super-exaggerated markdowns, but it doesn’t. .

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Top Right Quadrant Hasn't Changed, But What's Going on in the Bottom Left?

Uniphore

In reviewing the new 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workforce Engagement Management Report today, I saw something different for a change. The vendors positioned in the MQ Leaders Quadrant are still in the Leaders Quadrant, but what’s really interesting is what is happening in the lower left. Automation is moving up in the ranks for agent engagement.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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9 Call Center Environment Best Practices

Callminer

Here are 9 best practices you can implement right now in order to keep your call center environment both welcoming and productive.

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Intercom’s Fergal Reid and Ciaran Lee on the making of Resolution Bot

Intercom, Inc.

?. Anyone who’s tangled with customer support knows: getting an answer to your question is one thing, but actually landing on a useful resolution to your problem can be another. Two years ago, we introduced Answer Bot to address our customers’ most important questions. It did a terrific job, but we knew we could do even better. This week, we’re proud to unveil its successor: Resolution Bot , Intercom’s upgraded support chatbot that scales your team by answering 33% of common questions.

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Add Agent Specialization to Your Customer Support Strategy

UJET

There’s a saying: jack of all trades and master of none. The meaning behind this is that a person has knowledge of a variety of subjects and skills, but might not be an expert in any of them. So while that person can speak about a subject, they are not necessarily the best source available to dive deep into the matter at hand. This phrase can be applied to numerous industries and roles, however, when discussing customer support agents, it can be even more relevant.

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What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? Definition, Tips & Best Practices

Callminer

Read how Robotic process automation works, our best practices for implementing RPA, and tips for overcoming common challenges faced during implementation.

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Customer Success vs. Customer Service: How They Work Together

Totango

A successful organization operates in much the same way as a prestigious orchestra. Both are made up of individuals with a specialization—say, playing the clarinet or managing a Customer Success team. While individual success is important in both cases, you also need overall harmony. Just as the individual musicians and sections of an orchestra must work well together to make good music, the employees and departments of an organization must work well together to do good business.

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It Is Better to Be Their Favorite Than the Best

The DiJulius Group

1. Customer Service Feature Story It Is Better to Be Their Favorite Than the Best We all have a company or two that we can’t live without. Think about the companies you frequent the most. They may be your favorite local restaurant, cafe, hair salon, or a dry cleaner. All these companies have competitors that. Read Full Article. The post It Is Better to Be Their Favorite Than the Best appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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Service in a World of Customer Obsession

Uplifting Service

Personalized Customer Service. Customer Experience. Customer Centricity. Customer Obsession. These phrases have become central to the language of business in almost every industry. They mean vigilant, unwavering attention to the customer to determine actions and improvements. For some, these words represent a true transformation of organization and culture.

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Are Customer Service Jobs Good?

Customers That Stick

Are customer service jobs good? Well, some are, some aren’t Like any job, a lot depends on where you work and who you work for. More generally, customer service jobs can be excellent depending on what your goals are and what your interests are. If you enjoy working with people — and that is key — helping people get through challenges, helping make people’s days better, then customer service is an amazing field.

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Create a Strong Customer Engagement Strategy

Totango

We all want to believe that we have a strong relationship with our customers. However, the truth is that we’re only as important to them as the value we offer their businesses. The digitization of business has created a customer-centric economy, and people switch services until they find the solution that suits them. So when you get the customer’s attention, you have to maximize every conversation and engagement to prove you are the right partner to nurture their long-term growth.

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A Complete Guide To Choosing The Best Online Course Platform

ProProfs

In the United States, student loan debts have recently jumped to $77 billion , bringing it to a total $1.16 trillion. The skyrocketing cost of college tuition is nudging learners to search for other viable alternatives. It leads them to online learning, which is projected to grow more than $241 billion by 2022. Subject-matter experts are capitalizing on their expertise by creating and selling courses online.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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CRA Service Level Declines for Second Year Running

Fonolo

Despite a considerable investment targeted at improving service levels and reducing waiting times for the CRA’s support channels, recent tests by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) show that service levels have worsened for the second straight year, primarily due to a lack of agent training and knowledge management. CFIB Reports Reveals Declining CRA Service Levels.

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The 80/20 Rule by Richard Koch (a One Win Book Review)

Customers That Stick

In this One Win Book Review, we take a look at The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch. Check out the video below to hear Adam’s one win that you can take away from The 80/20 Principle to improve your organization’s customer experience and customer service. About The 80/20 Principle. FROM THE PUBLISHER: The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations.

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4 Ways to Get Rid of Painful CX Silos

Comm100

Siloed systems are one of the greatest obstacles to a quality customer experience (CX). Your team can spend days crafting the perfect customer journey, but if only some people on your team can see the most recent interaction with the customer, how can your perfect customer journey come to fruition? When customer touchpoints across different channels are not in sync, customers can get inconsistent information – particularly over email, live chat, and social media.

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CSM Team Performance Metrics That Matter

CSM Practice

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. The job of the customer success team entails myriads of responsibilities, including proper onboarding, increasing product usage, proactively managing accounts, customer engagements, and training , expanding and renewing accounts, and so on.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Why You Should Switch Your Phone System to IP PBX Software

Hodusoft

If businesses state that they are still using the good old PSTN for communications then they are stuck in a time warp. The world has moved on to VoIP. It is not plain old PSTN PBX that businesses should use but IP PBX and that too software IP PBX. Of course, you may wish to retain the PSTN lines for a variety of reasons but there are compelling reasons to switch to IP PBX Software solutions for communications.

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Why Customer Service Language is Used?

Customers That Stick

Why Is Customer Service Language Used? This is an interesting question, as it could mean a few things. I assume what the person asking the question means by customer service is language that is thoughtful or carefully worded. There are a few dynamics to why this type of language is taught and used. [link]. To begin, it is simply more effective in producing outcomes in working with others.

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Confirmit ACE Awards: Tricks, Tips, and a Word on “Passion”

Confirmit

I’ve been lucky enough to take part in a number of industry awards events over the last couple of years. To be clear, by ‘lucky’ I’m absolutely not referring to the part that involves lots of enforced grinning and – shudder – networking. Actually, the networking bit isn’t too bad once I man up and get on with it.

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What Factors Make the Best SaaS Onboarding Experience?

ClientSuccess

As your team is planning out the customer onboarding experience , it’s helpful to look at the situation from through a customer’s eyes. Your customer has just been through a whirlwind sales experience that may have been months – even years – long. SaaS sales experiences are not necessarily known to be smooth sailing, and customers might still have plenty of questions about your product and its value coming out of this process.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Agreeing and Disagreeing with the LA Times

InteractionMetrics

The Los Angeles Times ( Sunday, Feb 23, Business Section ) describes me as “a vocal critic of survey culture.” Am I? Only sort of. It’s true, I often see companies pestering their customers with biased surveys. It’s also true I see many companies gleaning grossly gamed data from their surveys. But at the same time, when done well, I see surveys worth their weight in gold.

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Today Is The Day

Dealing With Humans

When I was young, on the night before going to Disneyland, it was far harder to find slumber than it was on Christmas eve. I wanted to sleep so badly, so the morning would come sooner. The moment my eyes opened on that long anticipated morning, I said to myself, “Today is the day”. I work at a Wild West themed Adventure Park in Colorado, helping to manage daily operations.

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4 Ways to Get Rid of Painful CX Silos

Comm100

Siloed systems are one of the greatest obstacles to a quality customer experience (CX). Your team can spend days crafting the perfect customer journey, but if only some people on your team can see the most recent interaction with the customer, how can your perfect customer journey come to fruition? When customer touchpoints across different channels are not in sync, customers can get inconsistent information – particularly over email, live chat, and social media.

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What Factors Make the Best SaaS Onboarding Experience?

ClientSuccess

As your team is planning out the customer onboarding experience , it’s helpful to look at the situation from through a customer’s eyes. Your customer has just been through a whirlwind sales experience that may have been months – even years – long. SaaS sales experiences are not necessarily known to be smooth sailing, and customers might still have plenty of questions about your product and its value coming out of this process.

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Case Study: Key Insights on Wait Times and Customer Service

Faster response times mean happier customers Are your customers on hold too long? Nearly half of consumers find hold times unacceptable, and a quarter will leave your brand because of it. Our latest report reveals how companies are affected by wait times and the impact on customer satisfaction. Read the report to get insights into the impact of long hold times and areas for opportunities.

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Sentient Technology: feelings through sensors

Neosperience

By Sentient Technology we want to highlight the applications of Artificial Intelligence that can read, interpret and respond to human stimuli. . Man is an emotional animal; for this reason, humans search for emotions within what they create. In recent years, we have witnessed a wave of technology development that seeks to imitate, or rather decrypt, human emotions.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Surveys

InteractionMetrics

Have you ever wondered if those surveys companies relentlessly send are biased or missing the point? You’re right. Most surveys are so flawed they’re broken. Bad Customer Surveys are Everywhere. Last year, I wrote about how Whole Foods asks customers to take their survey in a disorganized way. I also examined an Alaska Airlines survey that, with 94 questions, puts the fatigue in survey fatigue.

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Customer Success Financial Metrics That Matter

CSM Practice

Guessing has no place in a changing customer success industry. Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Even Data is reliable, accurate and complete, it can still become overwhelming. Out of the myriads of customer data that can be measured, in this blog, I will emphasize the most important customer success metrics you need to focus on based on best practices.

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Why Your Customer Experience Isn’t Great (and How to Make It Great)

SurveySensum

We all know that great customer experience (CX) can take our business to new heights, get people talking about our company, and set up our business for financial success. Poor customer experience, however, can do the opposite. Customer experience mistakes can cost our business quite a lot in lost revenue. In some cases, customer experience mistakes can undo tons of goodwill – still so many businesses are making them.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever