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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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When we are talking to organizations in the sales cycle, we will often hear from SaaS companies that the customer success role is too complex, too critical, too deeply embedded in their internal operations to ever be outsourced. But with this new height of significance, is customer success really something you can outsource?

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Talkdesk

MARCH 24, 2020

In my previous blog , I took you through the key characteristics of a true AI-powered knowledge base. Now, we’re going to dive into the different stakeholders within and outside of the contact center who will benefit from this evolution of the traditional knowledge base, and how you can use it to transform your customer experience. .

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Eptica

JULY 4, 2018

Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 Author: Anne-Merete Jensen - Senior Business Consultant How to reduce Average Handling Time and improve quality. The agent simply needs to personalize it and send it on, cutting handling times while preserving accuracy and customer satisfaction. Published on: July 04, 2018.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

The Need for Hyper Efficiency in Call Centers As a call center operations manager, you need to stay on top of the latest trends in hyper efficiency to ensure that your organization is successful. Today, hyper efficiency is no longer a luxury but a necessity for call centers looking to thrive and outperform their competition.

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Call Experts

JULY 28, 2022

Contact center support is a vital part of any business. A contact center can help save you time and money while delivering outstanding service to your customers. The right contact center will improve customer satisfaction , which leads to increased sales and profitability.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Contact centers are always looking for ways to reduce costs. This is particularly true during periods of uncertainty and economic downturn, when call center cost savings contribute to business continuity. The Best Call Center Cost Reduction Strategies. Time – help agents resolve customers’ issue faster.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In our sphere, a successful contact center is defined by its ability to manage customer interactions and meet their needs, while also operating in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Agents who possess excellent communication skills and product knowledge, able to provide seamless interactions.

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TechSee

MARCH 5, 2020

Every customer service professional knows that running a successful call center is a constant balancing act. Managers will often focus on improving employee productivity to keep customers happy and costs down. Overworking employees can actually drive up call center costs by causing burnout and leading to high agent turnover.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Crawl-walk-run, introducing three specific ways to improve your contact center. A robust, comprehensive and sophisticated NLP program, powered by AI, is key to understanding why a customer is calling and route them accordingly. An IVR without Natural Language Processing will struggle to identify why your customers are calling.

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eGain Blogs

JUNE 1, 2021

Moreover, traditional training and onboarding programs have been disrupted across all functions, customer service included. Moreover, when COVID broke out, many companies deployed staff from outside the customer service organization to stem the tide of customer service calls. Supervisors. KEY FEATURES. Content management.

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Kustomer

JULY 8, 2021

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe and Vikas are joined by Darryl Addington from Five9 to learn about integrating cloud support and AI into the CX space. Or would there simply be streamlined customer journeys? Interactions like this help the customer to feel listened to.

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NobelBiz

MAY 21, 2024

While the role of call centers is crucial in customer service, companies often choose between inbound and outbound call centers. Each of these call centers come with unique functionalities, benefits, and challenges. What is an Inbound Call Center? How does an Inbound Call Center Work?

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In part 1 of the blog, we looked at the foundations of building a robust Customer Experience (CX), starting with contact centers. The CX processes tend to be more customer focused rather than internal focused embracing key methodologies like Lean/Six Sigma, value stream mapping and others. CX is a marathon not a sprint.

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

As the pandemic continues and businesses continue shifting focus to accommodate necessary changes, we’ve seen brand new drivers of customer experience (CX) success arise. The below three drivers of CX success will help to keep customer loyalty strong as we move into 2021. Meeting the New Criteria for Customer Experience.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 31, 2023

Government departments and businesses operate contact centers to connect with their communities, enabling citizens and customers to call to make appointments, request services, and sometimes just ask a question. Unless the hold music is particularly good, callers don’t typically enjoy having to wait—it wastes time and money.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In reality, the lines between customer service agents and technicians have become blurred – the technician’s role includes some traditional responsibilities of agents, and the agent’s role includes more responsibilities traditionally held exclusively by technicians. The drivers for changing roles in contact centers.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The contact center agent’s job is getting harder. The ongoing shift to self-service has brought about many positive changes to the customer service field. Call volumes in many contact centers are down along with the cost to serve. What do customers really want?

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

After call work (ACW) refers to the tasks completed by a customer service agent once the call with the customer has been completed. Implementing proper after call work processes can go a long way toward improving the customer-company relationship. Why agents often neglect ACW.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 8, 2019

Call Center Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) is, together with other customer related measurements like Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Customer Effort Score (CES), among the most widely recognized and frequently used KPIs in the call center. CSAT is a measurement that is based on customer feedback.

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Eptica

MAY 18, 2016

Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Meeting the needs of contact center agents. Author: Anne-Merete Jensen Delivering a great customer experience is vital to every organization today – and much of the responsibility for delivering this comes down to contact center agents. Published on: May 18, 2016.

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Uniphore

JUNE 7, 2021

One of the most hyped new trends in the contact center is agent assist software. Nearly half of the respondents (46%) reported most often using the software to automate tasks and reduce average handle time. According to Forrester, 8 out of 10 tasks in the contact center can be automated.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

This week we feature an article by Tim Houlne who writes about the importance of integrating technology into your business to provide the optimum customer experience. – Shep Hyken. It’s that time of year again. Time to start planning for your 2019 customer experience initiatives. Would you ever use that airline again?

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As the key to customer relations between companies and consumers, the contact center and more specifically agents, must respect a perfect showcase of a brand for the outside world. AHT is an abbreviation for “Average Handling Time.” In general, contact centers aims to minimize AHT.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As the key to customer relations between companies and consumers, the contact center and more specifically agents, must respect a perfect showcase of a brand for the outside world. AHT is an abbreviation for “Average Handling Time.” In general, contact centers aims to minimize AHT.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Last month, we announced this exciting partnership , which was the culmination of a mutual journey that began with an investment by Salesforce Ventures two years ago, an offering in the Salesforce AppExchange, a mutual award in the TM forum, and recognition in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in CRM Customer Service and Support 2020 report.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 11, 2023

A whopping one-third of contact centers have laid off employees in the last 12 months, reducing their headcount by about 33%. Despite fewer resources and fewer employees, contact centers are expected to achieve the same or better results. My Customer Service Master Class might be a good fit for training on soft skills.

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TechSee

JUNE 4, 2019

Nowhere is that truer than in call center training – bringing new agents up to speed on products, processes and the productivity expected of them. Traditionally, contact centers have trained new agents using one-on-one coaching or classroom-style role-playing, where the focus is on imparting knowledge and customer service etiquette.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Date: Monday, September 28, 2015 The evolution of contact center performance. Author: Pauline Ashenden In the past contact centers were often viewed as a cost cente r, meaning that the primary goal of companies was to run them as efficiently as possible while still responding to customers competently.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. In uncertain economic times, they become even more critical to help navigate business health and growth. What Are Call Center Efficiency Metrics?

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Today, agents can no longer give a shout across the room to a subject matter expert (SME) and supervisors can’t just walk down the aisle to assist agents with the right knowledge while they’re on a call. When backed with a knowledge platform, a chatbot results in better interactions for customers and ticket deflection for agents.

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RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Did you miss this Customer Experience Update Webinar from the end of November? Read the transcript below: Nicholas Rodriguez: …the highest priorities for Contact Centers that focus on the customer. So, Talkdesk Enterprise Contact Center empowers companies to make their Customer Experience a competitive advantage.

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Vonage

MARCH 11, 2016

I recently had a customer service experience over the phone that proved why the phone is still king. Like an estimated 57 percent of customers , I first went online to find some self-help. There were a few knowledge base articles, but none of them fixed my phone. Time to call. But, to a customer, it was awesome.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

It seems like every company in every industry wants to harness the power of AI to enhance operations and positively impact the lives of their customers. of major companies around the world are currently using AI customer service technologies, the second most common use of AI after IT. Customer-facing AI technologies. Biometrics.

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Open enrollment is typically among the busiest times of the year for healthcare plan providers as the volume of consumer calls to the contact center increases significantly. During last year’s open enrollment period, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported more than 5.78

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Qualtrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Customer care teams have the power to deliver breakthrough experience s , and our latest research shows just how much customers value them. Find out how making the right investments in your service center culture can turn yours from a necessary cost center into a key brand loyalty driver. It’s all about perception.

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Bold360

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Every customer expects fast and accurate service. But too often customers who contact a business are put in a queue where they must “wait for the next available agent.” Who is satisfied by this time-consuming routing roulette? I love constantly repeating the same information,” said no customer, ever.

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