Tue.Feb 25, 2025

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Stay Focused on Your Business: Introducing Calabrio Managed Services for Analytics and Workforce Management

Calabrio

Workforce Management Stay Focused on Your Business: Introducing Calabrio Managed Services for Analytics and Workforce Management Share Between increasing customer expectations and an influx of new technology, many contact centres are overwhelmed. The reality is, many brands dont have the resources to manage the contact centre in a way that will extract the right insights to inform the business.

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May the Farce Be With You  

ShepHyken

The title may be a bit misleading. You dont want to be a victim of a farce. You want to experience a positive force. Before I go further, lets give a shout-out to one of our Shepard Letter subscribers, Joe Emmet of Empire Marketing, who suggested the title, which activated the creative force that led to this article. We have all been victims of a customer service or experience farce.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Get the CX Executive Role

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Ready to elevate your customer experience game as a leader? In this engaging episode, we explore the pivotal questions every aspiring CX professional should ask during executive interviews. Jeannie shares practical advice on evaluating success metrics beyond traditional feedback loops, and the importance of resource allocation to drive effective strategy.

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Streamlining Spring MVC with Per-Module Connection Pools

Help Scout

At Help Scout, we invest a lot of time to ensure our applications make the best out of their databases. Click through to learn more about how we use a per-module datasource approach to help break down complexity.

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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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The 10 Best X (Twitter) Management Tools in 2025

Brandwatch CX

Discover the top 10 management tools to streamline your social media strategy and boost engagement. Read the article to find the perfect fit for your needs.

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What Testers Need Before They Even Open Your Beta App

Centercode

Testers drop off fast if onboarding is unclear. Heres a checklist to ensure quality feedback can start flowing quickly.

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State of CX 2023 Research Report: Part II

Northridge Group

The State of CX 2023 research report features insights that businesses can use to benchmark their customer service and improve the overall experience. The post State of CX 2023 Research Report: Part II first appeared on Northridge Group.

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The Top 10 Facebook Publishing Tools for 2025

Brandwatch CX

Discover the top 10 Facebook publishing tools to enhance your content strategy and boost engagement.

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How Help Scout Fueled BoxHero’s Global Expansion

Help Scout

Help Scout has become an essential part of BoxHeros growth strategy. It empowered their global expansion, improved response times, and reduced operational costs all while providing a better experience for their customers.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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The Top 5 Best Facebook Management Tools (2025 Guide)

Brandwatch CX

Discover the top 5 Facebook management tools to enhance your engagement strategy. Read on to find the best solutions for effective audience interaction.

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Boomeranging Back to Help Scout

Help Scout

Finding the right customer service tool can be a challenge, but for Mukama, returning to Help Scout wasnt just about switching back; it was about choosing a tool that truly supports their team and customers.

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It’s 2025 And The Consumer Is Hurting

Forrester's Customer Insights

For those of us in the US who track the economy and its implications for consumers and the brands that sell to them, it’s been a head-spinning couple of months. Policies have been coming at us fast and furious as a new administration looks to stamp its mark on the economy.

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10 Chances for Marketing Pros to Up Their CRM Marketing Power at Optimove Connect 

Optimove

Take the next step with our CRM marketer evolution curve Download Now Why it Matters: Optimove Connect 2025 taking place in London on March 19-20th offers exclusive access to cutting-edge tools, expert insights, and real-world strategies that empower marketers to personalize customer journeys, optimize data-driven decisions, and boost campaign performance.

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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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Four Tactics To Manage Through Change

Forrester's Customer Insights

An unwritten truth in large organizations is that the only constant is change. But as the U.S.s largest employer faces widespread transformation, even the most seasoned leaders may find that their usual leadership playbooks no longer apply.

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Top 5 NICE Workforce Management Competitors and Alternatives

Calabrio

Workforce Management Top 5 NICE Workforce Management Competitors and Alternatives Share Todays contact centers cant afford to settle for good enough when it comes to their workforce management (WFM) software. WFM tools are key to not only delivering winning customer experiences but ensuring that the frontline agents that provide service are engaged, educated, and empowered to do so in the first place.

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Derive generative AI powered insights from Alation Cloud Services using Amazon Q Business Custom Connector

AWS Machine Learning

This blog post is co-written with Gene Arnold from Alation. To build a generative AI -based conversational application integrated with relevant data sources, an enterprise needs to invest time, money, and people. First, you would need build connectors to the data sources. Next you need to index this data to make it available for a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) approach where relevant passages are delivered with high accuracy to a large language model (LLM).

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Customer Experience (CX) Platform: Your Guide to What It Is—and Which Are the Best Solutions

Calabrio

Customer Experience Customer Experience (CX) Platform: Your Guide to What It Isand Which Are the Best Solutions Share Has the digitization of customer experiences been a blessing or a curse to your business? If you answered both, youre far from alone. The digital transformation thats taken over customer engagement and support seems to have created incredible opportunities and vexing complexities in almost equal measure.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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How IDIADA optimized its intelligent chatbot with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning

This post is co-written with Xavier Vizcaino, Diego Martn Montoro, and Jordi Snchez Ferrer from Applus+ Idiada. In 2021, Applus+ IDIADA , a global partner to the automotive industry with over 30 years of experience supporting customers in product development activities through design, engineering, testing, and homologation services, established the Digital Solutions department.

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Aligning Your Sales-to-CS Handoff in the Age of AI

Gainsight

There is no such thing as a dumb question. I disagree. Take this question I asked a customer in a CS kickoff call: Can you walk me through the business outcomes you hope to achieve with our product? Or worse: Just confirming, did you buy the standard or the premium package? I wasnt incompetent. Its just that our Sales-to-CS handoff was broken. CS wasnt looped into deals before closed, CRM notes were threadbare, and there was no Gainsight.

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Accelerate IaC troubleshooting with Amazon Bedrock Agents

AWS Machine Learning

Troubleshooting infrastructure as code (IaC) errors often consumes valuable time and resources. Developers can spend multiple cycles searching for solutions across forums, troubleshooting repetitive issues, or trying to identify the root cause. These delays can lead to missed security errors or compliance violations, especially in complex, multi-account environments.

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Lesson #20 Revisited: Measuring the Prospect Experience with AI

PeopleMetrics

When it comes to customer experience, most businesses focus on what happens after someone becomes a customer. But for B2B companies and high-end B2C businesses, the experience starts long before a contract is signed. The sales process itself is a critical touchpoint that sets expectations, builds trust, and determines whether a prospect will ultimately become a customeror walk away.

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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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AI-Powered Marketing: How to Personalize Without Overstepping Customer Trust

Blake Morgan

Marketing today isnt just about pushing out contentits about understanding customer needs and delivering relevant, valuable experiences. AI is making personalization smarter, automation seamless, and insights more actionable. But where do we draw the line between personalization and intrusion?

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Understanding Mobile Phone Use and 5G Expectations

Northridge Group

New data from The Northridge Group confirms that nearly all mobile phone users have heard of 5G, most can articulate some of its benefits, and most associate 5G with faster speeds. Results from The Northridge Groups new report on Mobile Phone Use and 5G Expectations were quite telling. The post Understanding Mobile Phone Use and 5G Expectations first appeared on Northridge Group.

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Choose the best GMB audit tool to fix listing and rank higher

BirdEye

Your GBP listing might seem completeyouve added your business hours and a few photos and collected some Google reviews. But something isnt rightyour local rankings are dropping, fewer people are clicking on your business profile, and competitors are outranking you in search results. Thats why GMB audit tools existthey scan your profile, spot any issues, and offer insights to help you fix them.

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Holiday Headaches Vanish Following Launch of Sabio’s New Contact Centre Offering

CSM Magazine

Sabio Group , the digital customer experience (CX) transformation specialist, has today announced the launch of a new offering aimed at tackling how contact centres manage employee leave requests. The solution will help contact centres using Genesys Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) to navigate the complex integration between workforce management systems and HR solutions for leave management.

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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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The Role of AI in Call Center Quality Management: Transforming Performance & Efficiency

NobelBiz

Running a call center today isnt just about answering callsits about delivering fast, efficient service while keeping costs in check and staying compliant with regulations. Key Takeaways AI Transforms Call Centers: AI automates quality management, analyzing all interactions and improving service. Real-Time Insights & Monitoring: AI detects issues instantly, ensuring compliance and better agent performance.

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The NFT Market: Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges

CSM Magazine

The NFT (Non-Fungible Token) market has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry, transforming digital ownership and redefining how assets are traded. NFTs represent unique digital assets stored on the blockchain, ensuring authenticity and scarcity. From digital art and collectibles to real estate and gaming items, NFTs have disrupted multiple industries, attracting investors, creators, and traders.

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X-tortion: How Advertisers Are Losing Control Of Media Choice

Forrester's Customer Insights

Reports of X CEO Linda Yaccarino tying appeals for increased advertising commitments to X lawsuits and Congressional oversight reads as extortion and requires advertisers and agencies to take steps to maintain their fiduciary imperative to direct media investments.