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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. Those data points still play a role in measuring performance, but your partner should have their eyes set on the bigger picture of customer success.

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What’s the State of Work-at-Home in Customer Care in 2017?

BlueOcean

They had been outsourcing their customer service to a call center with a predominantly “work-at-home” (WAH) model and one of the first questions they asked us was about work-at-home agents. We won the business with a solution that was based entirely on using agents located in our center.

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The Impact of Bilingual Support on the Customer Experience When a bilingual solution is offered to the customer, companies quickly find that quality scores increase accordingly. The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. It’s our thing. So, of course, we’re biased.

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Call Center Best Practices You Can Apply To Your Small Business

Magellan Solutions

A call center is crucial to the success of any business. The performance of your call center can make or break your relationship with customers. So, whether you take calls in-house or outsource a call center service provider, you need to know how to do it best. . Best practices for hiring.

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5 Reasons Why SMESs Must Have Shared Inbound Call Center Services

Magellan Solutions

5 Reasons Why Shared Inbound Call Center Services Are Excellent for SMEs. Having your own inbound call center services provide tons of benefits for your company. However, there are a lot of contact center services to choose from. They thought that call center service is a “nice to have” feature in the company.

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Future State of the Contact Center: ChatGPT in Customer Experience

BlueOcean

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. The question of the moment is: what role is ChatGPT going to play in delivering a loyalty-building customer experience? Can AI Handle Complex Customer Care?

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Everything You Need To Know About Call Center Outsourcing

Magellan Solutions

Outsourcing a call center is a promising idea, especially if you want to lower costs. What Is An Outsourced Call Center? Call center outsourcing is a business activity of subcontracting call center services like customer care and sales-related tasks. Enhanced customer service.