BlueOcean

OCTOBER 23, 2023

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. Client Service What is the average length of your client relationships? We hope this makes your RFP process a little smoother!

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Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Employee Engagement 177

CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the Customer Success space, which means there’s now even more content out there on the web for you to research, consume and rely on. Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. As well as their actionable customer success platform they provide a widely respected blog.

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Fox Metrics

AUGUST 14, 2020

Most businesses are leveraging data analytics to get insight into who their customers are, what they do, what they want, and how to reach them. times more likely to retain their customers, and 19 times more likely to achieve above-average profitability. FoxMetrics Blog 5. Moz Blog – Analytics 10. Table of Contents 1.

Analytics 93

Analytics Data Social Media Analysis 93

SaleMove

MARCH 1, 2024

How to evolve to a staffing & operational model that unifies and takes control over ALL of your customer interactions. The post The Rise and Efficiency of a Unified Interaction Team appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained. Imagine: 1 unified interaction team.

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Interaction Customer Service How To Contact Center 85

Eptica

JANUARY 8, 2020

Date: Thursday, January 9, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Marketing Manager 2019 in focus: our top 10 blog posts from the year. Ian Golding’s guest post focused on the vital importance of trust in delivering effective customer experience. As customers become more demanding, can self-service really help?

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Self Service Leadership Customer Centricity Knowledge Base 65

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 4, 2024

Amazon Bedrock is the best place to build and scale generative AI applications with large language models (LLM) and other foundation models (FMs). It enables customers to leverage a variety of high-performing FMs, such as the Claude family of models by Anthropic, to build custom generative AI applications.

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Innovation Travel Financial Exercises 135

AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Processing unstructured data has become easier with the advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and user-friendly AI/ML services like Amazon Textract , Amazon Transcribe , and Amazon Comprehend. In this post, we explain how to build and optimize a custom classification model using Amazon Comprehend.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Generative AI stands out as a groundbreaking development this year, showing particular promise in the realm of customer service. This blog post delves into this question, offering a straightforward explanation of Generative AI and how it really works. Seamless transition is crucial in these instances.

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Chatbots Training Customer Satisfaction Technology 130

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated. Without it, you risk taking a hit to your CSat scores, your brand loyalty, and your bottom line.

Contact Center 310

Contact Center Customer Care Average Handle Time Consumers 310

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

My obsession for Customer Experience (CX) started when I received a package in the mail on a random afternoon. Since my Stacy’s Chips incident, I have been fascinated by CX and continue to pay very close attention to how companies deliver unforgettable experiences to win over customer’s hearts – and wallets.

Hotels 107

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

BigBasket serves over 10 million customers. In this post, we discuss how BigBasket used Amazon SageMaker to train their computer vision model for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) product identification, which helped them reduce training time by approximately 50% and save costs by 20%. Split data into train, validation, and test sets.

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Training Gamification Data Innovation 98

Alliance by IFS

JANUARY 26, 2023

As companies attempt to orchestrate new product-as-a-service business models, adopt circular economy ambitions and rise to increasing customer and employee. The post Five Significant Field Service Trends for 2023 appeared first on IFS Blog.

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Trends Company Customers Employee Experience 107

AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 5, 2024

Many organizations have been using a combination of on-premises and open source data science solutions to create and manage machine learning (ML) models. Integrating multiple tool stacks to build a compact solution might involve building custom connectors or workflows.

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Data Management Effort Score Training 108

AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is recognized as the industry standard technique for ensuring large language models (LLMs) produce content that is truthful, harmless, and helpful. Gone are the days when you need unnatural prompt engineering to get base models, such as GPT-3, to solve your tasks. a written email).

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 10, 2018

This week we feature an article by Jarrin Howard who writes about how predictive analytics can enhance customer relations. – Shep Hyken. These are common examples of sites using predictive analytics catering to individual customer preferences. Segmenting Customers. Choosing Channels.

Analytics 67

Analytics Social Media Travel Banking 67

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 20, 2017

This week we feature an article by Christopher Connolly who shares fascinating information about enterprise-grade assistive AI and how it can help make customer support more effective. AI has come a long way in recognizing the content – and context – of customers’ requests and questions. – Shep Hyken. under an integration layer.

Call Center 86

Call Center Contact Center Omni-Channel Chatbots 86

AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 26, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications built around large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to create and accelerate economic value for businesses. Many customers are looking for guidance on how to manage security, privacy, and compliance as they develop generative AI applications.

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Government Training Data Policies 121

ShepHyken

MAY 25, 2018

This week we feature an article by Matt Nolan who shares five keys to building more compelling, sustainable customer relationships. Customer retention used to be considered just a “service problem.” Service has become an always-on, everywhere requirement – in the customer’s eyes, great experiences have to be connected and fluid.

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Customer relationships Call Center Customer Retention Advertising 74

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This week we feature an article by Dawn Gucciardo who took my model of Six D’s to Creating a Customer-Centric Culture and applied it to developing and implementing a CRM software. – Shep Hyken. Shep Hyken believes customer centricity must start on the inside, with your employees. Guess what? Disseminate it. Delight in it!

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Customer Centricity CRM Software Culture 88

Retently

MARCH 29, 2023

Total pre-orders for Tesla Model 3 surpassed many expectations at more than a quarter of a million in less than three days. At the same time, the Model S received the highest-ever satisfaction score of 98% , while Model Y and 3 remain at the top of the best-selling electric car chart to date. Tesla Model S was awarded a 5.4-star

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Net Promoter Score NPS Automotive Customer Satisfaction 198

ShepHyken

MAY 5, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Dan Rood, writes about the precious commodity of time and why we must use the latest technologies to help customers save time and have amazing customer experiences. I think a great self-service option is key for everyone. Shep Hyken. Three-quarters of U.S.

Self Service 79

Self Service Omni-Channel Social Media Retail 79

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 25, 2024

Amazon Transcribe is an AWS service that allows customers to convert speech to text in either batch or streaming mode. Amazon Transcribe can be used for transcription of customer care calls, multiparty conference calls, and voicemail messages, as well as subtitle generation for recorded and live videos, to name just a few examples.

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Guidelines Resources Connections Communication 79

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 5, 2018

This week we feature an article by Brad Birnbaum who writes about how important it is for companies to deliver great service and create amazing experiences in order to compete with the big retailers and resellers. – Shep Hyken. To stand out, these brands need to rely on service. Eliminate Choice.

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Consumers Brands Retail Culture 82

AWS Machine Learning

MAY 5, 2023

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by ML, and Amazon Rekognition is an ML service that can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities from images or videos. However, generic search queries would span a wide range of services and across different content creation dates.

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Training Examples How To Data 101

SaleMove

MAY 6, 2022

How Would Your Service Model Be Different? Imagine for a moment if you could configure the perfect service operation for your organization from scratch, without regard to whatever systems and platforms you’re stuck with today. Same number of customers Same issues they need to resolve Same budget available to you Those […].

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System Customer Service Contact Center Customers 78

Optimove

MARCH 18, 2024

Take your customer segmentation to the next level with our advanced guide Download Now Why it Matters: March marks Problem Gambling Awareness Month in the US. It aims to raise public awareness about problem gambling and advocate for prevention, treatment, and recovery services. Tech can contribute to mitigating problem gambling.

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eBook Loyalty Tips Measurement 52

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Chip Bell, shares his concept of kaleidoscope service with some great examples. Kaleidoscope service, I like it! Innovative service has the same emotional influence and poignant hold on customers. Kaleidoscope service at its finest! Shep Hyken.

Hotels 48

Hotels Innovation Customer Retention Examples 48

ShepHyken

MARCH 24, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Manuel Grenacher, writes about how using bots can help manage and improve the customer experience. Used properly, I believe bots can be an customer service excellent tool. When a customer gets in touch, the bot replies instantly. Shep Hyken.

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Company Customer Experience Airlines Chatbots 91

Gainsight

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Before you say, “ thank u, next ” to 2018, check out Gainsight’s top blog posts, webinars, and resources of 2018. Top 5 Customer Success Blog Posts of 2018. You can’t have a business without a product and you can’t maintain a customer base without Customer Success. Click here to read the blog.

Customer Success 71

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer Metrics 71

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This week we feature an article by Darcy Alexander who shares a checklist to guide us through the process of selecting the best CX vendors for our customer experience initiatives. When embarking on a customer experience (CX) change initiative, there are few decisions more critical to success than selecting the right vendor.

Competitive Advantage 101

Competitive Advantage Case Study Communication Insurance 101

Kustomer

JUNE 27, 2022

In a post-pandemic world, consumers have undergone an inadvertent shift in mindset and expectations surrounding customer experience (CX). Today’s consumer, as a result, finds great benefit in a hybrid customer experience that combines the spark of human communication and the convenience of sophisticated digital assistance.

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Consumers Customer Experience Social Media Chatbots 104

ShepHyken

AUGUST 24, 2018

This week we feature an article by Wayne Turmel who writes about how to be successful with a remote customer service team. When you’re trying to serve your customers, your reps must be self-starting, relatively autonomous, and focused on their jobs. Companies all over the world are showing that remote-working models can succeed.

Customer Service 79

Customer Service Call Center Leadership Customers 79

AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 9, 2024

Foundation models (FMs) are often pre-trained on vast corpora of data with parameters ranging in scale of millions to billions and beyond. Large language models (LLMs) are a type of FM that generate text as a response of the user inference. Llama 2 models are autoregressive models with decoder only architecture.

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How To Gamification Resources Training 103

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 6, 2024

In this post, we demonstrate how to efficiently fine-tune a state-of-the-art protein language model (pLM) to predict protein subcellular localization using Amazon SageMaker. This includes large language models (LLMs) pretrained on huge datasets, which can then be adapted for specific tasks, like text summarization or chatbots.

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

Eptica

MARCH 5, 2021

Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Moving forward the needs of customers – and customer service staff – are changing radically. You might also be interested in these posts: 4 key trends from the 2021 ICS UK Customer Satisfaction Index. How can contact centres transform successfully?

Trends 104

Trends Customer Satisfaction Analytics Interaction 104

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This week we feature an article by Brian Cantor who gives us a list of ways to achieve success and consistency when communicating with customers on any channel. – Shep Hyken. Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology.

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Omni-Channel Self Service Policies Abandon Rate 94