Callminer

APRIL 19, 2020

Big Data represents a major opportunity for companies to turn all this readily available data into business intelligence and transform decision making.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2020

As the saying goes “home where the heart is” and for now, it’s where you’ll find the office and the school and the shops and concerts too. H.O.M.E. is a special four-part series on Inside Intercom exploring what that means for various facets of life and learning how people across many industries and countries are managing to persevere with the help of technology.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 23, 2020

We have a mirror that has been resting against the wall in our garage for the last five years. I want to give it away, but my wife Lorraine keeps saying, “No, we’ll sell that. It’s a nice mirror.”. It is a lovely mirror. But we aren’t going to get that much for it. Still, there it sits. Lorraine is demonstrating how the Endowment Effect works.

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Uniphore

APRIL 22, 2020

It’s fair to say COVID-19 has changed the way businesses operate. Compare everyday life today with your daily concerns from a month ago. The difference is pretty stark. Like everyone else, call centers have been reeling from the aftermath of the coronavirus. Paul Stockford, National Association of Call Centers Research Director, raised concerns about what he called a “pretty high” risk of exposure in those working environments.

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Callminer

APRIL 23, 2020

What are some call center best practices for retaining top talent and improving the customer experience? Take a look in CallMiner’s latest blog post.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 21, 2020

Our mission, as we have often discussed, is to make internet business personal – that goal underpins everything we do and build. One key aspect of forging these personal relationships is not just that customers feel they have a personal connection with a business, but that businesses can actually benefit from knowing their customers. The reason real-world businesses can thrive by having good relationships with their customers is not just down to loyalty and trust, though that is important, but a

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Uniphore

APRIL 21, 2020

How do you create a call center work environment when agents are worried, tired and stressed? As the coronavirus chaos continues, many contact centers face little choice but to allow their employees to work from home. Yet, working remotely has many complications. Overcoming security and privacy concerns and remaining compliant with governmental regulations requires call centers to walk a tightrope.

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Callminer

APRIL 24, 2020

As recent research shows, the U.S. call center industry is alive and well. According to the data, the industry saw a total of 32,000 new positions added in Q1 2019, with several major companies expanding their call center operations. What this means is there’s an imperative for call centers to drive operational performance excellence in order to remain competitive in the industry.

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Fonolo

APRIL 20, 2020

At the risk of blowing our own trumpet, we’ve been hammering on about the necessity of preparing to handle call spikes for years now. No matter what you do as a contact center manager, there’s always going to be something you didn’t prepare for. It could be a freak weather event. Or it could be a sweeping pandemic that sends half the world’s population into quarantine.

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Myra Golden Media

APRIL 23, 2020

It’s not unlike having your firstborn away at college. Your child is in the dorm and on her own. For eighteen years, you’ve prepared her for adulthood. But you worry. Is she making friends? Will she be safe at parties and with alcohol? Can she juggle classwork with fun? Is she eating healthy? Your employees are on their own at home. If a remote employee’s next phone call is from an angry, irate customer, can they handle it?

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Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Heart of the Customer

APRIL 23, 2020

During these challenging times, I’ve been posting weekly videos on LinkedIn, sharing best practices on how customer experience (CX) pros can ensure their companies come out of this pandemic in a position of strength. We’ve also created a LinkedIn group, Managing the Coronavirus Experience (the Other CX), for you all to share your own tips. […].

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Callminer

APRIL 21, 2020

The role of a call center manager is complex and challenging. Call center managers may be involved with hiring and training call center agents , monitoring call center metrics tied to agent performance , using speech analytics tools for ongoing quality monitoring , providing ongoing feedback and coaching, and more. Call center leadership has a significant impact on performance by setting the tone of the workplace and fostering employee morale.

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The DiJulius Group

APRIL 22, 2020

1. Feature Article Be The Best Decision Your Employees Ever Made By John DiJulius, Chief Revolution Officer Your company’s employee experience is on center stage. How we treat the human beings in our organization during this time will be what they remember forever. Every employee is in their most vulnerable state. They need to know. Read Full Article.

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Lumoa

APRIL 22, 2020

B2B companies often struggle with common hurdles when it comes to surveying customers. Conducting B2B customer surveys should be an illuminating process, but instead, they become a nightmare that makes you want to tear your hair out. It’s kind of like making New Year’s resolutions… you know you should stick to them, but somehow you always stray from the righteous path.

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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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Myra Golden Media

APRIL 20, 2020

I read that the average customer service call lasts 2 minutes longer than it needs to. Often, we don’t know how to get an angry customer to back down, or we struggle to move a customer from venting to a solution. Or we don’t want to be rude when trying to wrap things up with a friendly, talkative customer. The problem with longer calls is the impact it has on customers who are on hold waiting for help.

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Callminer

APRIL 21, 2020

This article describes the Voice of the Customer process in great detail and provides a few useful templates and examples of the functions that comprise such a VOC system.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 24, 2020

In each episode of the Daily Dose of OPTIMISM! , I want to share acts of goodness that will drive and will earn both human and financial prosperity, as we work our way out of this. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. In today’s “Daily Dose,” I want to talk to you about the wonderful gestures that so many companies are making on behalf of their employees.

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UJET

APRIL 21, 2020

We’re thrilled to welcome Vasili Triant to UJET as our Chief Business Officer. Vasili joins UJET with more than two decades of experience in the contact center, unified communications (UC), telecom, and SaaS industries. Vasili has held key leadership positions at companies such as Serenova, Shoretel, and Cisco, where as General Manager and Vice President of Cisco’s global contact center business he was responsible for transitioning Cisco’s business into the cloud.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Confirmit

APRIL 19, 2020

The global raise of COVID-19 has many businesses struggling and confused on what steps to take to minimize the economic impact. Although we have seen past crises – natural disasters, business crises, and even health-related issues – the recent global pandemic and its rapid spread is an unprecedented challenge facing today’s businesses.

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Callminer

APRIL 23, 2020

What are some call center best practices for retaining top talent and improving the customer experience? Take a look in CallMiner’s latest blog post.

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Kerry Bodine

APRIL 23, 2020

A couple of years ago, I read a book that changed the way I thought about my business — and my life: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. My main takeaway was Gay’s framework for describing four “zones” that we all function within: The Zone of Incompetence: When you’re in this zone, you’re doing things you’re not good at — and that others are. Gay suggests we all avoid doing these tasks by delegating them to someone else or finding another workaround.

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UJET

APRIL 21, 2020

We’re thrilled to welcome Vasili Triant to UJET as our Chief Business Officer. Vasili joins UJET with more than two decades of experience in the contact center, unified communications (UC), telecom, and SaaS industries. Vasili has held key leadership positions at companies such as Serenova, Shoretel, and Cisco, where as General Manager and Vice President of Cisco’s global contact center business he was responsible for transitioning Cisco’s business into the cloud.

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Myra Golden Media

APRIL 20, 2020

No one likes to deliver bad news to customers, but for a lot of us, delivering bad news is a regular part of business. You know the feeling – you probably get nervous, or you have to transfer a call to your supervisor because the customer won’t accept your word as final. I created my Delivering Bad News course with LinkedIn Learning to take the fear out of giving bad news to customers.

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Callminer

APRIL 19, 2020

This article help round up best tips and resources on the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) from 25 different experts.

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Kerry Bodine

APRIL 19, 2020

We’re in the midst of the most momentous and rapid change to human behavior that many of us will ever see. Even as countries around the world look to ease restrictions on citizens’ movement, this transformation will have a lasting impact on both our personal and professional lives for months and years to come. That means the need to understand your customers’ behaviors, needs, and expectations is greater than ever.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 18, 2020

There is a lovely mirror leaning against the wall in my garage in England. My wife thinks we should sell it. I think we should give it away, to which my wife tut-tuts. She argues it is a beautiful mirror and believes it will fetch a handsome sum on the Internet. I disagree. So, the mirror sits there, ignored for the time being, and not selling, and I hold the Endowment Effect fully responsible.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Totango

APRIL 24, 2020

This week Totango hosted our virtual Customer Success Summit: CXO Connect for executives and leaders of Customer Success. We were fortunate to have David McKenney, SVP Digital Advancement at Bentley Systems, and Marco Innocenti, Head of Customer Success Operations at Zoom, join Guy Nirpaz, Founder and CEO of Totango to share how they’ve adapted their customer success capabilities to face these challenging times and better serve customers.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 20, 2020

Pandemic Proves the Flexibility of CCaaS Solutions. April 2020. By Donna Fluss. If you had any doubt about the benefits of using a contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS) solution, the Coronavirus pandemic has likely put them to rest. In the last few weeks, CCaaS solutions, automatic call distributors (ACDs) and dialers that are delivered from the cloud have demonstrated their flexibility in meeting the needs of companies and government agencies, as many organizations have moved their employees and

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ClearAction

APRIL 18, 2020

Growth Through Customer Experience Action Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience annuities are a compelling source of growth that is commonly overlooked. As a gift that keeps on giving, customer experience annuities free-up resources that were previously dedicated forever to the equivalent of “Band-Aids®”, and re-allocate those resources to higher-value opportunities.

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TeamSupport

APRIL 21, 2020

It’s no secret that more B2B (business-to-business) customers are using live chat than ever before. A simple way to get a response from a business without having to call (and often face hold times) or email, chat is a real-time form of communication many businesses leverage daily. But what happens when most, if not all, of your conversations with a customer happen over chat?

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Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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