Fri.Apr 11, 2025

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From Onboarding to Excellence: Your Contact Center Training Guide for 2025

Calabrio

Workforce Management From Onboarding to Excellence: Your Contact Center Training Guide for 2025 Jump ahead What is Contact Center Training? Why Investing in Agent Training is Critical for Contact Centers in 2025 The Foundation: Building Your Strategic Call Center Training Program Building a Core Curriculum: Essential Training Topics for Every Agent to Master 8 Effective Call Center Training Methods & Techniques Call Center Training Ideas & Tips for Success Measuring Training Effectivenes

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How to optimize your customer onboarding strategy: a six-point checklist.

ChurnZero

Your customer onboarding strategy is the foundation of your future retention and expansion revenue. Every task, meeting, and communication serves the ultimate goal of getting that customer to realize value. You aim to identify whats important to the customer, set expectations, and measure success. The right onboarding strategy means more than just getting a customer using your product.

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Lesson #40 Revisited: In-Moment Feedback is the Ultimate VoC Power Move (And AI is Only Accelerating It)

PeopleMetrics

If you want to truly transform your VoC program collect feedback while the customer is still in the experience. In-moment feedback changes everything! Why? Because waiting even a few hours (let alone days) after an experience to ask for feedback adds friction, memory loss, and apathy. But catch customers while they are still engaged while the emotion is fresh and magic happens.

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Can Friendliness Outperform Flavor As The Next Big Pizza Trend?

IntouchInsight

Think back to your last pizza order. The craving was sky-high, and you were hoping for the whole experience to hit just right, from the first interaction to the last bite. Maybe the pizza hit the spot. Maybe it didnt. But what do you remember more clearlythe taste of the toppings or how the experience felt?

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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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How to Build and Sustain Vibrant Customer Communities

Gainsight

Most companies adopting customer community solutions are aware of the key features needed to get started. Tools like community forums, knowledge base articles, and gamification are all great, but how do you build a community thats more than the sum of its parts? How do you capture that certain je ne sais quoi that makes your community become a home for everything your users need?

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What Is a Community Manager for Brands and How Do I Become One in 2025?

Brandwatch CX

Discover the vital roles and skills of a community manager. Learn how they foster engagement and build connections. Read more to enhance your understanding.

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The New U.S. Federal AI Policy Demands Government And Private Sector Tech Leaders Embrace Responsible & Explainable AI

Forrester's Customer Insights

Today, under the headline grabbing geopolitical and geoeconomic volatility a significant, and potentially more consequential transformation, is unfolding in the public sector.

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Mastering Social Selling in 2025: Your Guide to Increasing Sales on Social Media

Brandwatch CX

Discover effective strategies for mastering social selling in today's competitive market. Boost your sales and connect with customersread the article now!

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Four Ways To Mitigate The Impact Of Falling Traffic On Retail Websites

Forrester's Customer Insights

Read this Forrester blog by Emily Pfeiffer and Nikhil Lai to understand if generative AI is impacting retailers' site traffic.

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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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Racing beyond DeepRacer: Debut of the AWS LLM League

AWS Machine Learning

The AWS DeepRacer League is the worlds first autonomous racing league, open to anyone. Announced at re:Invent 2018, it puts machine learning in the hands of every developer through the fun and excitement of developing and racing self-driving remote control cars. Through the past 7 years, over 560 thousand developers of all skill levels have competed in the league at thousands of Amazon and customer events globally.

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Five Takeaways From B2B Summit North America 2025 To Help You Master Buying Mayhem

Forrester's Customer Insights

One of the most common refrains I heard at B2B Summit last week was that its good to know that others are in the same boat.

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How TransPerfect Improved Translation Quality and Efficiency Using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning

This post is co-written with Keith Brazil, Julien Didier, and Bryan Rand from TransPerfect. TransPerfect , a global leader in language and technology solutions, serves a diverse array of industries. Founded in 1992, TransPerfect has grown into an enterprise with over 10,000 employees in more than 140 cities on six continents. The company offers a broad spectrum of services, including translation, localization, interpretation, multicultural marketing, website globalization, subtitling, voiceovers

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Investing in Customer Service

The DiJulius Group

Why Human Moments are More Critical than Ever / How QuikTrip Revolutionized the Convenience Story Industry / Why You May Not Be Investing in Customer Service The #1 Reason Why Companies do not invest in Customer Service One of my favorite books I read was The Slight Edge, written by Jeff Olson. It talks. Read Full Article The post Investing in Customer Service appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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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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Building an AIOps chatbot with Amazon Q Business custom plugins

AWS Machine Learning

Many organizations rely on multiple third-party applications and services for different aspects of their operations, such as scheduling, HR management, financial data, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and more. However, these systems often exist in silos, requiring users to manually navigate different interfaces, switch between environments, and perform repetitive tasks, which can be time-consuming and inefficient.

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Make restaurant Instagram marketing deliciously easy

BirdEye

Instagram isnt just for travel shots, lifestyle influencers, and viral trends its the go-to social media platform for restaurant Instagram marketing. With over 2 billion monthly active users, Instagram is now one of the most powerful tools to drive foot traffic, grow restaurant sales, and turn casual scrollers into loyal customers. From drool-worthy food photos to behind-the-scenes kitchen shots, the right Instagram marketing strategy can ignite your restaurants presence, attract more followers,

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Focus on What Matters Most with Key Driver Analysis

SurveySensum

Your NPS or CSAT scores give you a snapshot of your customer sentiment, but is that enough? To stay ahead of the curve, you need to know not only what your customers think, but also why they think so. And that calls for digging deeper into the metrics and uncovering what really influences them. With AI-driven key driver analysis, you can move beyond intuition and pinpoint exactly what factors matter the most.

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From Timekeeper to Strategic Architect: The Evolution of WFM

Brad Cleveland Blog

It was a pleasure recently to join Doug Casterton on his weWFM podcast for the episode “From Timekeeper to Strategic Architect: The Evolution of WFM.” We discussed how workforce management (WFM) has transformed from a tactical, scheduling-focused function into a strategic role central to business success. Our conversation included a discussion of how AI is amplifying WFM, not replacing it, and how WFM professionals are now key players in shaping customer experience, employee engageme

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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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Feature Management & Experimentation – An Evolving Market

Forrester's Customer Insights

With feature management, engineering teams can engage in the practice of progressive delivery, where features are deployed with flags turned off, tested in production, and then gradually turned on to a progressively larger audience of users until the new feature is completely released. This mechanism can be used for new features, but the most common use case is safely managing continuous updates.

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Four Signs Portfolio Marketers Are Evading Messaging Responsibilities

Forrester's Customer Insights

Four Signs Portfolio Marketers Are Evading Messaging Responsibilities What in the world is going on with messaging? Over the past few months, I have had numerous conversations where it seems that the responsibility for creating messaging has been upended. Messaging development has sprawled across too many areas within B2B teams.