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DECEMBER 12, 2023

We all know that the world of customer service and support is constantly on the move. While some aspects are enduring, each year brings new opportunities and challenges that shift the landscape. This blog will delve into the top four customer service trends that are expected to take center stage in 2024. This blog is written for you, the experienced customer service professionals, who are the driving force behind these changes that will improve CX and internal efficiencies.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Customer experience is not a fad or a trend or a buzzy phrase. And yet, organizations often treat it like it is. They hang a banner, then ignore it. They announce it as an annual theme, then forget it by February. Or they simply talk about it without actually putting any rigor or discipline or even real goals to it. That’s why the foundational work of defining CX at your organization — through a CX Mission Statement and CX Success Statement — is so critically important to accomplishing real ch

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Adrian Swinscoe

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The contact center space is under a lot of pressure right now. As things stand, the status quo doesn’t look sustainable. Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs) play […] The post Three trends reshaping the customer experience outsourcing market first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Cyara

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On Broadway, shows will run for weeks, months and even years. The length of the run is dependent upon how long they keep selling tickets, so the producers must be constantly monitoring ticket sales and making sure that the customer experience (in this case the audience experience) is positive, and one that elicits rave reviews and referrals. Do you think that people would still come from around the world, purchasing high-priced tickets and packing themselves into seats for the opportunity to wat

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Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.

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Magellan Solutions

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Imagine this: You’ve availed yourself of a product or a service but still have a lot of questions in mind. You’ve tried calling their hotline, but the wait time is too long. You’ve sent them an email but heard no response. You even checked their social media accounts and only ended up getting an automated response. Frustrated, right? What if there was a better way to communicate with the seller?

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NobelBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Call flows play a vital role in seamlessly directing customer calls to the right place within your organization. They act as pathways that guide calls from the very beginning to a successful resolution, ensuring a seamless and efficient customer experience. Effective call flow management has the potential to revolutionize customer service, sales, and overall business operations.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’re looking to stay up to date with customer experience (CX) trends, CX expert Jeannie Walters has you covered. Join Jeannie in this short, approachable course on the biggest, most important new trends in the ever-evolving field of CX. Keep your CX knowledge current and relevant by exploring topics like customer journey mapping, employee experience, cutting-edge CX tools, and how to skillfully—and ethically—use AI in CX projects.

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Win the Customer

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the evolving landscape of business, customer experience (CX) has emerged as the linchpin for success. For senior service managers, the ability to understand, measure, and enhance customer engagement is pivotal. The digital era has redefined the dynamics of customer interactions, necessitating a recalibration of strategies to ensure sustainable and successful engagements.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Top Takeaways: The key to transforming companies into customer-centric organizations lies in adopting a customer experience mindset. When leaders prioritize the customer experience, it influences the entire company culture. Empowering employees to take positive actions that benefit customers can significantly impact team morale and reinforce the company’s customer-centric goals.

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Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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IntouchInsight

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It’s the holiday season and with the new year coming up, we wanted to reflect on the year we had. Across the past 12 months, we have released several new features to both the Intouch Insight Platform as well as to our mobile forms and inspection software, IntouchCheck™.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Are you ready to end the year with gusto, and enter the next with a customer-centered game plan? This special episode will guide you through five essential actions every customer-focused leader must take to finish the year strong. Join me, Jeannie Walters, as we reflect on the highs, lows, and even the whimsical customer requests of the past year. We’ll discuss how to gather, categorize, and utilize feedback to identify areas of improvement and celebrate successes.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In this post, we showcase fine-tuning a Llama 2 model using a Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method and deploy the fine-tuned model on AWS Inferentia2. We use the AWS Neuron software development kit (SDK) to access the AWS Inferentia2 device and benefit from its high performance. We then use a large model inference container powered by Deep Java Library (DJLServing) as our model serving solution.

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Alida

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Alida was recently represented at one of the tech industry's largest conferences, Amazon re: Invent, with Daniel Charles, the SVP of Product and Go-To-Market, sharing insights into Alida’s exciting integration of AWS Bedrock.

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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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IntouchInsight

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As we all get ready to jump into a new year, we have one last Flash Points consumer data round-up for 2023.

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Optimove

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Enhance your customer segmentation with our advanced guide Download Now Informed by our work with thousands of marketing experts representing 1,200+ brands and exclusive insights from our surveys of more than 2,000 consumers, here are the pivotal latest marketing trends we see shaping the landscape in 2024. Get ready for our top digital marketing trends for 2024.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Vodafone is transitioning from a telecommunications company (telco) to a technology company (TechCo) by 2025, with objectives of innovating faster, reducing costs, improving security, and simplifying operations. Thousands of engineers are being onboarded to contribute to this transition. By 2025, Vodafone plans to have 50% of its global workforce actively involved in software development, with an objective to deliver 60% of digital services in-house.

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MiaRec

DECEMBER 13, 2023

While almost all insurance companies have adopted some form of "traditional" AI and have felt somewhat let down by the lack of transformative change that was promised in the past, there is no doubt that Generative AI has kicked off a tidal shift across the industry that will far surpass previous expectations.

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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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BirdEye

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In January 2023, Apple introduced Apple Business Connect to empower its users to find businesses across its ecosystem of apps, including Apple Maps, Messages, Spotlight, Safari, Wallet, Siri, and Calendar. It is a free and user-friendly platform that serves as a bridge connecting businesses with their local audience. Eddy Cue, Senior Vice President of Services, Apple, said, “Apple Business Connect gives every business owner the tools they need to connect with customers more directly and control

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SaleMove

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Insurance companies are effectively using SMS to send claim status updates, provide billing reminders and re-engage abandoned applications. The post SMS as Part of Insurance Companies’ Interaction Strategy appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Machine learning (ML) models do not operate in isolation. To deliver value, they must integrate into existing production systems and infrastructure, which necessitates considering the entire ML lifecycle during design and development. ML operations, known as MLOps, focus on streamlining, automating, and monitoring ML models throughout their lifecycle.

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Brandwatch CX

DECEMBER 15, 2023

There are various definitions of brand health. Each includes a collection of metrics and approaches, but they all lead to the same thing. Brand health is essentially measured by how effective your brand is in helping you to achieve your aims. That effectiveness can be measured in a number of ways, such as: Brand Reputation Brand Awareness Brand Equity Employee Engagement Brand Positioning Brand Delivery These are just a few examples, but they arguably all fall under brand health.

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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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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A FIRST FOR A FORCE….Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner Steve Turner with the Centre for Public Excellence award The police complaints-handling team from the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s (OPCC) has been recognised for its customer service excellence. Cleveland is one of the only forces in the country to have an external team as the public’s first point of contact for police complaints.

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MiaRec

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Every contact center managers has their tried and true method of evaluating calls they have developed over the years. For me, it was my trusted Excel spreadsheet I had developed to evaluate my agent's performance. So I get it if trading in the trusted spreadsheet or other familiar method you are using for an AI-based QM solution that automatically scores and evaluates agent performance seems scary.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The launch of ChatGPT and rise in popularity of generative AI have captured the imagination of customers who are curious about how they can use this technology to create new products and services on AWS, such as enterprise chatbots, which are more conversational. This post shows you how you can create a web UI, which we call Chat Studio, to start a conversation and interact with foundation models available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart such as Llama 2, Stable Diffusion, and other models availabl

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Customer service and customer experience (CX) are more than what happens after the sale. It’s not just a department to call when there is a problem. It actually begins long before a customer ever makes a purchase. Then, there’s the experience during the sales process and what happens after the sale, which could include a typical customer support call and more.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In a meeting with a long-time client, I learned how pleased they were with their repeat business, which they saw as loyal customers coming back for more. However, when they showed me the repeat business stats, what I saw wasn’t loyalty; it was inertia. I knew these customers would leave my client when the competition had a good enough offer. Now, some of you might be scratching your heads, wondering what I am talking about.

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Brandwatch CX

DECEMBER 15, 2023

There are various definitions of brand health. Each includes a collection of metrics and approaches, but they all lead to the same thing. Brand health is essentially measured by how effective your brand is in helping you to achieve your aims. That effectiveness can be measured in a number of ways, such as: Brand Reputation Brand Awareness Brand Equity Employee Engagement Brand Positioning Brand Delivery These are just a few examples, but they arguably all fall under brand health.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Meeting notes are a crucial part of collaboration, yet they often fall through the cracks. Between leading discussions, listening closely, and typing notes, it’s easy for key information to slip away unrecorded. Even when notes are captured, they can be disorganized or illegible, rendering them useless. In this post, we explore how to use Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Bedrock to automatically generate clean, concise summaries of video or audio recordings.

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