Tue.Jul 02, 2024

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Boutique vs the Big Guys: What Kind of Contact Center Outsourcer Is Right for You?

BlueOcean

Let’s start with our obvious bias: we are a small player in the global outsourcing industry. So, while you’re thinking that this is just going to be a promo piece saying boutique is better than the big guy, hear us out. Our position is: one size does not fit all when it comes to customer care. There are scenarios where one of the Big Four multinational outsourcers is going to be the right choice AND there are scenarios where a smaller partner could be the best option.

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How High's Consistently Achieves CX Goals With Intouch

IntouchInsight

Curious to learn how Intouch Insight's CX Platform and Mystery Shopping Services help High's achieve consistent customer experience goals year after year?

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Email Customer Service: A Full Guide with Examples

Helpware

Think email customer service has gone out of fashion? Think again! Email has remained one of the most trustworthy communication channels for over 30 years. Even with the uprising of instant messaging tools, usually powered by AI, speed is not always the MVP of customer experience.

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Introducing Enhanced Reporting for KIQ Agent Assist

Kustomer

Earlier this year, we launched KIQ Agent Assist , an AI-powered agent copilot designed to empower agents with automated communication personalization capabilities, making them more efficient and effective. Today, we are thrilled to announce the addition of enhanced reporting capabilities as part of Agent Assist. In the realm of customer support, having detailed insights into your team’s performance and the tools they use is crucial.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Training Customers to Do It Themselves

ShepHyken

More and more, customers are open to using self-service solutions. Our customer experience research shows that while customers might prefer the human touch, some expect digital, self-service solutions. In certain cases, they even demand it. And it’s not just in customer service. Consider Amazon, the perfect example of a self-service retailer. From researching to purchasing a product, and even in most customer service situations, everything is a self-service experience.

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July 2024 Atlas Highlights

Lithium

Hello Atlas members! If you still need to sign up to receive the Customer Newsletter, you're missing out on the latest and greatest from Khoros! Sign up today ! Here’s the Atlas content you do not want to miss! Some blog areas are limited to Khoros customers only. If you are a customer and unable to access anything, click the chat bubble (bottom right) and type Customer Access.

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Personalisation Perfected: Unlocking Customer Loyalty

CSM Magazine

In an era where customer expectations are skyrocketing, businesses are scrambling to find the secret sauce for meaningful engagement. Enter ContactBabel’s latest report, ‘ The Inner Circle Guide to Customer Engagement & Personalisation 2024-25 ‘ This report is a true ‘treasure trove’ of insights that promises to encourage new thinking when it comes to how organisations can connect with their customers.

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What is a telemarketing call center and how does it work?

NobelBiz

What is a Telemarketing Call Center ? A telemarketing call center is a specialized contact center where trained agents make and receive calls to promote products or services, conduct market research, or provide customer support. These call centers are crucial for businesses aiming to boost sales, enhance customer engagement, and gather valuable feedback.

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Customer Feedback System [CFS]: A Mini Guide

SurveySparrow

91% of the customers listen to the voice of other customers before purchasing something. Therefore, keeping your customers happy and satisfied is crucial. One way to do this is through implementing proper customer feedback system. What is a customer feedback system, you ask? Well, that’s what we are here for. Read on to learn more about the concept, its importance, and how to create one for your business.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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What’s Happening with Contact Center Workload?

Brad Cleveland Blog

What’s happening with contact center workload? Is the work handled by agents declining as AI capabilities become more robust and prevalent? Are calls being supplanted by digital channels and self-service? These are important questions—the answers will impact your budgets, hiring, … Continue reading → The post What’s Happening with Contact Center Workload?

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Offsite Addressability Presents An Untapped Opportunity For Retail Media Networks

Forrester's Customer Insights

As retail media networks have grown and diversified, so have the problems in adtech. Ad fraud, made-for-arbitrage, and AI-Generated content farms are multiplying, riddling the once “easy” task of programmatic buying with brand-safety pitfalls.

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Beyond NPS: Why Customer Feedback Needs a 360-Degree Revolution

eglobalis

The Imperative for Diverse Metrics and Measurements in Understanding Customer Sentiment Introduction Net Promoter Score (NPS) has established itself as a popular metric for evaluating customer loyalty, satisfaction levels, and the likelihood of customer churn. Widely adopted across industries, NPS has faced increasing scrutiny for its limitations in offering a complete view of the customer experience.

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Access control for vector stores using metadata filtering with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning

In November 2023, we announced Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock as generally available. Knowledge bases allow Amazon Bedrock users to unlock the full potential of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) by seamlessly integrating their company data into the language model’s generation process. This feature allows organizations to harness the power of large language models (LLMs) while making sure that the generated responses are tailored to their specific domain knowledge, regulations, and busines

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints? With customer experience automation, organizations can leverage AI and automation to make it faster and cheaper to provide a superior customer experience acro

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Using digital customer success internally to enable your CSMs

ChurnZero

Think fast – what’s the first thing that pops into your head when I say digital customer success? I’m willing to bet that you just conjured images of automated customer-facing communications. Regardless of any positive, negative, or indifferent emotions the term triggers for you, it’s likely where your thoughts jumped to first. That’s an absolutely fair and logical thought pattern.

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Create an end-to-end serverless digital assistant for semantic search with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning

With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), an increasing number of organizations use digital assistants to have their end-users ask domain-specific questions, using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) over their enterprise data sources. As organizations transition from proofs of concept to production workloads, they establish objectives to run and scale their workloads with minimal operational overhead, while optimizing on costs.

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Rethinking the role of market researchers in the age of AI

Alida

How will AI impact market research and insights teams? The research field has been slower than other industries to adopt AI due to security, transparency, and integration concerns. Yet, as demands for rapid results increase and research becomes more democratized across business functions, AI adoption is expected to grow.

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Accelerated PyTorch inference with torch.compile on AWS Graviton processors

AWS Machine Learning

Originally PyTorch used an eager mode where each PyTorch operation that forms the model is run independently as soon as it’s reached. PyTorch 2.0 introduced torch.compile to speed up PyTorch code over the default eager mode. In contrast to eager mode, the torch.compile pre-compiles the entire model into a single graph in a manner that’s optimal for running on a given hardware platform.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.