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25 tips for optimizing your contact center's QA practices

Callminer

Quality assurance does more than ensure regulatory compliance, it helps contact centers deliver the best outcomes for customers. Read our blog for tips on optimizing QA practices.

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How to Engage Employees and Win Customers With Automation

Uniphore

Out with the old, in with the new! With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing rapid digital transformation and the complexity of customer interactions on the rise, most companies recognize the need for new approaches. In the contact center, the leading driver of improvements has been automation. In fact, 65 percent of executives in a 2020 survey cited automation as a catalyst for modernizing legacy business practices.

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How we approach remote employee onboarding at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

We want to give our employees the best possible start to their Intercom careers. That used to mean welcoming them to the company in person but, like everyone, we’ve had to adapt to a new way of onboarding over the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted the way we work and forced us to reinvent how we onboard new colleagues. At the start of March last year, as the scale of the threat became more apparent, we realized we had to transition our in-person employee onboarding experi

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How a simple marketing strategy helps Buc-ee's dominate the competition

Inside Customer Service

Note: The following is an excerpt from The Guaranteed Customer Experience. You can download Chapter One to read the rest of the story about Buc-ee’s. Imagine driving cross-country on a road trip. You need gas, and you need to use the restroom. Choosing a place to stop is a big decision. Gas stations can be miles apart. The station you see on the horizon probably has gas, but there's no guarantee they’ll have a clean restroom.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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The ultimate guide to sentiment and emotion analysis

Callminer

Sentiment and emotion analysis enables businesses to keep track of how customers feel about products and services. This blog shares how these insights deepen customer relationships.

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10 Ways the Best Call Centers Thrive in the New Normal

Uniphore

We’ve learned a lot during the past 12 months: what restaurants deliver, what six feet actually looks like, what makes up a “home office.” We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. When the whole world went remote, people started calling in in record numbers, forcing businesses to reassess their customer service game.

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Why You Don’t Need an AI Support Chatbot

Help Scout

Artificial intelligence (AI) shows incredible promise in 2021, but the experience of interacting with an AI chatbot is more like talking to a distracted toddler than it is to Tony Stark’s Jarvis. Still, using AI chatbots for customer service makes plenty of sense. Perhaps you’ve read about recent AI breakthroughs, seen a compelling demo, or heard that your competition is installing an AI system.

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5 Important Strategies for Agent Engagement in 2021

Fonolo

Look around your call center. Do your agents seem tired, frustrated, or fed up with work? Call centers have a reputation for being difficult places to work, especially for front-line agents. This results in high agent churn or disengaged employees. A poor work culture inevitably has a direct impact on your customer experience ? in other words, if your agents aren’t happy, your customers won’t be either.

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3 Ways Call Center Coaching is Leading to Customer Churn

Uniphore

3 Ways Call Center Coaching is Leading to Customer Churn. And How to Fix it With Agent Assist. It’s no secret that better coaching creates more effective agents and better overall customer interactions. Why then do so many call centers struggle to convert coaching into real, measurable results? The problem comes down to a lack of coaching quality and on-the-floor facetime.

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Customer Success: Building Value for Customers Faster Than They Can on Their Own

Futurelab

There are so many different customer experience roles these days that I wrote a post a few months ago called “ Customer [Insert Term Here]: What Do They All Mean? ” In the past, I’ve written a few times about the difference between customer experience and customer service. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience customer success productivity Facebook Like.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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6 Ways to Boss Customer Service Calls

Myra Golden Media

GET MORE IDEAS LIKE THIS. Now you can give your employees even more great skills for delivering the best customer experience and for handling difficult customer situations. Sign up for my email list and learn specific tips, approaches, and phrases to help your employees help your customers.

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Q&A Session: Mastering Scale with Digital Customer Journeys

Totango

During the live presentation of the Technology & Services Industry Association (TSIA) Interact webinar “Mastering Scale with Digital Customer Journeys”, Totango CCO and COO Jamie Bertasi, Trustpilot Senior Global Director of Customer Marketing Taylor Cunningham, and Monster Senior Director of Customer Success and Client Adoption Karla Russel answered several questions from attendees.

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5 Questions Call Center Leaders Ask About Agent Assist

Uniphore

Sometimes, the key to success isn’t having all the answers, but asking the right questions. One of the most hyped new trends in the contact center is agent assist software. With increased interaction complexity and the adoption of work from home processes, agents have a lot on their plates right now. An agent assist solution could make a world of difference — improving agent performance and preventing burnout.

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Help Scout: A Team Inbox Built for Customer Support

Help Scout

Anyone who’s worked in customer support knows it’s best played as a team sport. Strong individual contributors matter, but the real magic happens when working together. In order to create an environment conducive to collaboration, you need the right tools — and one of the most important is a team inbox. What is a team inbox? A team inbox is a shared mailbox where multiple agents can manage and collaborate on customer conversations from a single email address (support@, help@, etc.).

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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3 Actions to Take on the Road to Leadership Bravery

Customer Bliss

“The best way to learn if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”. – Ernest Hemingway. Companies that practice what I call “ leadership bravery ” are choosing to reverse the trend on business practices that have defined their industries. Through leadership guidance and company actions, they are establishing more balanced relationships, where both sides win.

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Current Status of Speech (and Text) Analytics

DMG Consulting

Current Status of Speech (and Text) Analytics. Interaction analytics removes the mystery from customer conversations. It gives companies access into what customers are “talking” (or writing) about and, specifically, insights into their needs and wants. These increasingly sophisticated analytics solutions have evolved from basic keyword search applications that helped companies understand call reasons to advanced business intelligence (BI) offerings that provide insights and an appreciation of cu

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The 5 ways that Amazon is building a fantastic customer experience

Steven Van Belleghem

Build a strong vision & stick to it. In every Annual Report, Jeff Bezos wants a copy of his 1997 Letter to Shareholders attached. That’s the one in which he clarifies the Day 1 mentality that lies at source of Amazon’s success. It’s supposed to be both a culture as well as an operating model that puts customer obsession, a long term focus and permanent innovation at the centre of everything that the company does.

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How to Be the Trusted Business Partner Your Client Can’t Fathom Life Without

The DiJulius Group

If you are a business that serves other businesses (B2B), someone’s vendor, for example, then you are always in danger of being replaced. As you know, every company, including yours, constantly examines its budget and reviews expenses for the year. CEOs are always demanding that their leaders find ways to trim their costs and improve. Read Full Article.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Using Science to Ensure your Price is Right

Beyond Philosophy

Pricing strategy on its face doesn’t seem complicated. The goal is to get as high a price as you can to ensure you have enough margin to make a profit, while also moving inventory at a sufficient rate. So, the strategy is often to move the price around until you find the sweet spot that hits all these metrics. However, like most things that have to do with customer behavior, it isn’t as simple as that.

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7 Games and Activities Designed to Boost Call Center Agent Engagement

Fonolo

Managing a call center team isn’t easy. Call center agents are customer service providers 24/7, which means they need to deal with customers with varying moods all day. Due to the nature of their work, it’s common to see call centers struggle with low agent engagement. And if managers aren’t paying attention, this dynamic can severely impact work performance, customer satisfaction, and other aspects of their operation.

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What is agent experience? (and why it’s good for customers, too)

Zendesk

. . . Companies have long focused on customer experience; some may even say they’re, gasp, customer obsessed. But buzz words aside, all this means is that they’re putting the customer at the center of everything they do. From sales to marketing and support, these companies aim to please at every step of the customer journey. With such a heavy focus on needs of customers, far too often the needs of agents get overlooked.

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How to Create a Single Customer View for Better Customer Experience?

Zonka Feedback

It is not enough for business owners and leaders to know what their customers want; they need to know how their customers are feeling. This is where a single customer view comes in. It enables businesses to track customer sentiment, complaints, and reviews on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter in order to get a better understanding of their customer experience.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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What Customers Want Next: How to Find & Act on CX Clues

Experience Investigators

Human behavior is notoriously difficult to predict. Sophisticated modeling and massive data analysis can help, but these are typically based on past behavior. Past behavior might be helpful for predicting future successes, but what if the context or the entire environment changes from the past to the future? In one study by Concentric , 99% of leaders reported doing some kind of forecasting.

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How to Improve the Customer Journey with Product-led Content

Aquire

Content plays into almost every aspect of your marketing team’s work — your inbound marketing, social media, SEO, and lead nurturing strategy all rely on having great content your users love to engage with. That said, writing content that performs in search results is all well and good but it doesn’t necessarily drive users to your product.

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How to use Facebook Messenger for customer service

Zendesk

Not every quarantine trend has had a long shelf life—if you abandoned your sourdough starter eons ago, you’re not alone. But when it comes to customer service, some habits born out of the pandemic are here to stay. The Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report 2021 found that 64 percent of customers started using a new support channel last year. Among them, 73 percent say they plan to continue using that channel this year and beyond.

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Charting out your CX Excellence with a CX Maturity Roadmap: Part 2

LitmusWorld

Charting out your CX Excellence with a CX Maturity Roadmap: Part 2 Customer experience, or delivering value to your customer doesn’t just happen. It requires certain pillars to be in alignment within an organization for Read more… Charting out your CX Excellence with a CX Maturity Roadmap: Part 2 appeared on LitmusWorld.

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.

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Effective scheduling: Advanced features to improve your appointment management

Qmatic

Today, most service providers enable appointment scheduling for visitors. But the way organizations manage appointments varies. In this article, I’ll describe some features which will streamline your scheduling process regardless of your industry or size.

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This Is One of The Most Powerful Marketing Tools: Peoples’? Aversion to Loss

BeyondPhilosophy

I downgraded one of my online subscriptions recently. I noticed in the process that not only did the platform tell me about all the features and benefits I would lose access to by downgrading, but they put it in red typeface AND had me check off a box for each item I was losing. I couldn’t help but think what a great example this experience was for using Loss Aversion to get customers to do what you want.

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What is a sales funnel? The ultimate guide

Zendesk

The concept of a “sales funnel” is a little misleading. After all, a real funnel is designed to catch and pour out every ounce of liquid you put into it. But not every lead that enters the top of your sales funnel will come out the other end as a customer—there’s bound to be some pretty significant spillage along the way. That doesn’t mean your sales and marketing teams should settle for a slow drip of conversions, though.

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How the Customer Feedback Management Process Works

PeopleMetrics

Collecting customer feedback is one thing. Measuring and managing that customer feedback is quite another! And if you want to be customer-centric, you need to make sure you're doing all three. In this session, we walk you through how the customer feedback management process works when you're using a customer experience management tool like PeopleMetrics as the central hub of your Voice of the Customer (VoC) program.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.