Interactions

MARCH 28, 2019

Recently, I attended two highly informative conferences which looked at AI technologies and their impact on customer engagement – the Conversational Interaction Conference hosted by AVIOS in San Jose and Enterprise Connect conference in Florida. 1 in 4 contact centers could be fully automated in 5 years.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 23, 2021

Never dealing with customers. It’s shockingly easy, in today’s business environment, to never actually interact with customers. Web sites are designed, invoices are sent, and even customer feedback surveys are requested, but everything is so wonderfully automatic! Visit your contact center when you feel out of touch.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 15, 2024

Conversational commerce is all about interacting with customers through various communication tools, like live chat, chatbots, and contact centers. This omnichannel approach gives companies a chance to have a one-to-one conversation with customers on their chosen platform. Let’s explore what forms that technology can take.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

After five years of providing what amounted to call center plumbing, we had really zeroed in on what call centers did and realized that the heart of a call center was and always will be the people that operate the phones. The contact center was even more complicated.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Acquisitions of bot strategy and design leader VoxGen and conversational automation provider Nu Echo position Waterfield Tech for ongoing CAI industry leadership. Waterfield Tech , a leading global customer engagement solutions provider, today shared business growth highlights for 2022.

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BirdEye

JULY 7, 2023

Today’s customers expect answers in real time. That’s why a customer service chatbot is a necessary tool for a successful business. With this tool, you can quickly and accurately respond to customer service questions, even if it’s at midnight. Table of contents What is a chatbot for customer service?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 22, 2021

Traditional business education and even standard business plans don’t include much focus on the customer’s journey beyond the basics of getting the sale and delivering a product or service. Even customer journey maps can neglect key phases of the customer experience. That’s human nature. .

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Kustomer

MARCH 4, 2021

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by Amanda Chavez to discuss human-centered customer service and design. Including the Human Element of CX. How a North Star Mindset Can Bring Success.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

One is productivity and it’s affect on customer engagement. 1) What brands need is a design principle that allows organizations to manage their customer-facing activities in a single experience, with no need to export or switch, drastically reducing the time to completion and saving time by automating fundamental tasks.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Waterfield Tech, a leading global customer engagement solutions provider, today announced research findings detailing a significant lag in the adoption of conversational AI in the contact center. Additional findings from Waterfield Tech’s research include: The Value of Investing in the Contact Center. 80% are using voice.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 4, 2020

Source: Customer Experience Journey Mapping Course from Linkedin Learning and Jeannie Walters. Defining who your customer is, along with what customers you want, is a key step in designing the right experiences for them. But what if you have many different types of customers? Review customer surveys.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 8, 2021

Human behavior is notoriously difficult to predict. Contact center agents, for example, hear about frustrations caused by comparisons to the competition. Customers complain about wait times, for example, and say things like “even my car mechanic has a mobile update system now – why do I have to wait on hold?”

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. To truly modernize your customer service, you don’t need to choose between AI or human involvement. You need both.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Self-service is finally coming of age, with leading enterprises embracing the paradigm of customers helping themselves. But it turns out that not all self-service options are created equal. Walmart axed its Mobile Express Scan & Go self-checkout experience due to negative feedback from customers. Context is key.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Cloud subscription service model, Ascend, helps organizations scale CX-cloud solutions and achieve operational efficiency. Ascend combines an organization’s choice of a Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform with a full end-to-end CX service layer in one, flat-rate subscription. About Waterfield Tech.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MAY 12, 2020

Today’s customer experience is not necessarily available to customers the way it was designed. Your customers will need more help as they navigate these breakdowns. Investing in ways to prevent at least some of these service issues will save money AND save credibility. Stores are closed.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

Waterfield Tech, a leading global customer engagement solutions provider, today announced it was named Avaya North America Partner of the Year for State, Local, and Education (SLED). “Waterfield Tech plays an integral role as a trusted advisor to our shared customers’ unique cloud journeys.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 28, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. What Can Disneyland Teach Us about the Customer Journey? Shrewd customer design choices, of course. For certain customers, self-checkout still makes sense. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Kustomer

JANUARY 7, 2024

And we give them a lot of credit — over the years, Intercom has evolved into an innovative customer service software with all the bells and whistles, offering best in class tools like real-time chat support, proactive messaging, guided product tours, resolution bot, omnichannel support and tons of integrations.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. To truly modernize your customer service, you don’t need to choose between AI or human involvement. You need both.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Operating a successful contact center demands attention to a wide range of factors, from investing in your agents’ well-being and training to implementing the right tools and technology. Revolutionize Your Customer Support Center Productivity: 10 Proven Strategies 1.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Since the organization historically focused on providers, state legislators, and Medicare and Medicaid services, they wanted to change the direction to become more customer-focused. Lean into Your Customers. Build Customer Engagement into the Budget.

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Kustomer

JUNE 27, 2022

A new era in customer service has arrived. The transformed landscape requires engagement like never previously seen, and customer service software is here to help. Not one single survey has ever indicated that customers wouldn’t pay more for great service, according to Forbes.

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BirdEye

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

With AI chatbots across your website, social media channels, and other customer engagement platforms, you can be available 24/7 and do much more at a substantially lower cost. AI chatbot is a computer program that can mimic human conversations. Customers are more likely to engage with them if a chatbot is ready to serve them.

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Calabrio

JANUARY 6, 2016

CEO of Calabrio shares his predictions for the Contact Center, for 2016 and Beyond. Reassuringly, he predicts that, although machines will be automating more and more processes, humans will still be in control—and responsible for the outcomes. For contact center leaders, however, this vision of the future might seem daunting.

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Magellan Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By delegating non-core business functions to third-party service providers, they can free up their internal resources to focus on revenue-generating activities. Let’s explore the signs of when do you need to outsource a call center. With this, it’s essential to prioritize customer service as soon as possible.

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SaleMove

AUGUST 20, 2020

Similarly, contact centers have playbooks to address customer issues and opportunities. With the expansion of self-service and the introduction of AI, the scope of the playbook needs to expand. Teaching the Bots to Talk – The Conversational Designers. Knowledge Managers.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This is the first year AWS is giving the award, which showcases VoiceFoundry’s commitment to AWS customers, to empowering them to deliver intelligent, dynamic customer experiences with Amazon Connect, and to the APN Program. AWS has millions of active customers and a dynamic community of over 100,000 partners globally.

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Eptica

MAY 24, 2017

“Gartner award demonstrates our position as a leader of digital customer engagement platforms for the digital customer experience””, Olivier Njamfa, CEO. The functionalities evaluated in this Magic Quadrant include those for knowledge-enabled service resolution, social media/community management and offer management.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 30, 2017

In one of the earliest episodes of my podcast, The CCO Human Duct Tape Show , I talked to Scott Dille of Northern Trust about human-centered design. Northern Trust has their own variation on the customer experience lab. The self-service kiosks they were rolling into restaurants. Their iOS and Android app.

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Solvvy

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Chances are, the last time you called a customer support number, you interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot. If the company had a great AI chatbot, the interaction might have been so natural that it took a while to realize that you weren’t actually talking to a human. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Chatbots.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As we (hopefully) move into an era when we’re responding to customer feedback and allowing for more innovation around experience design, we’ll need to act a lot faster than we are today. Technology WILL replace some roles in customer service and other departments. New roles will be created.

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Call Experts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Focus on self-service benefits. The intention of automation is self-service at all times of the day. Customers seeking simple search requests such as store locations and hours can benefit and quickly get answers. Otherwise, customers will get lost in a maze of options. How Contact Centers Manage the Holiday Rush.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Empirix launches Hammer Voice Explorer to complete its end-to-end portfolio and accelerate cloud contact center transformation. According to Gartner, the Contact Center as a Service market is expected to reach $17.9 We have used HVE at a number of Beta customers and the feedback has been extremely positive,” says Kemmerer.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 12, 2020

As customer expectations evolve, so does the contact center. Director of Technology Enablement at Humach , Jennifer Lundberg, knows what it takes and shares how Humach, a cloud-based customer experience solutions provider, relies on Talkdesk® to deliver seamless, effortless and immediate customer sales and service support.

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SurveySensum

JANUARY 26, 2022

Top customer experience trends in 2022. Giving automation a human touch. A boost in multi-channel service. Optimizing customer experience for mobile devices. Meeting customer expectations. Alteration in the operation of the contact center. Providing instant fulfillment for online customers.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Customer Success Conference 2022 by TSIA. Organized by- TSIA Location- Interact | Orlando Details- May 16th- 18th, 2022 TSIA conferences are ideal for global technology and services leaders responsible for customer success strategy, funding and monetizing a Customer Success function, and managing teams of customer success managers (CSM).

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