NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

While there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to address all operational and customer-related challenges for businesses, Customer Experience Automation (CXA) has emerged as a compelling strategy for a lot of businesses these days. Table of Contents What Is Customer Experience Automation (CXA)?

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Uniphore

AUGUST 6, 2021

These are some of top contact center pain points driving employee disengagement today. In our webinar, What Your Call Center Agents Rant About on Social Media , we went beyond the annual Voice of the Employee survey to explore how agents really view the contact centers they work in—and why they’re leaving at an alarming rate.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 31, 2023

As 2023 unfolds, a key theme for contact center leaders to watch is reinforcing the connection between customer experience (CX) and agent experience (AX). CX must always remain the primary focus for the contact center –this recent blog post identified two 2023 trends that will have a major impact on CX.

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Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Streamline Operations and Never Miss Another Call with a Contact Center for Utilities. As a result, for those looking to ensure seamless operations and superior customer service, many companies are deciding to use a call center for utilities as it has proven itself to be quite a powerful tool.

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Uniphore

JUNE 21, 2021

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology is dramatically improving contact center efficiency and agent productivity. Automating the right processes can pay huge dividends — from error reduction to shorter call times — creating a measurably better customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX). A faster ROI.

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Call Experts

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations. Why are Call Centers Important?

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Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 105

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Together with its “big brother”, the voice portal, IVRs have been part of contact center solutions for decades, and there is no reason to believe that they will go away any time soon. The advantages of IVRs for call centers are well known. In case you wondered: IVR and voice portal are similar, but not the same.

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Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations. Why are Call Centers Important?

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Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call center optimization is a strategic approach that focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of call center operations. This article delves into the essential aspects of call center optimization, including the tools and best practices that can drive performance improvements.

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Uniphore

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Traditional banks did amazingly well in playing catch-up on digital transformation, but they didn’t necessarily perform as well when responding to the overwhelming volume of ensuing contact center interactions. Banking contact center interactions are expected to remain elevated through 2024.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 20, 2023

These may seem like unrelated events, but they all have a role to play in defining the state of customer service in 2023 and will have implications for contact centers. CX Trend: Make it Personal A weak economy impacts everyone, so it is important for contact centers to understand how this impacts their customers.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Automate routing. This type of automation drastically improves response times, agent utility, and team efficiency. Insights Reports identify trending topics and common customer pain points and use data to execute T-Mobile’s social customer service strategy.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

SMS (Short Message Service ) has become a pivotal channel in the contact center industry. Ebook | Call Labeling and Blocking for Contact Centers Compliance and Regulation The regulations in the SMS world are ever-changing. Contact centers should ensure that customers explicitly opt-in to receive SMS messages.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 28, 2019

That’s why it’s critical that contact centers have solid quality programs bolstered by a strong call center evaluation scorecard. . Whether your contact center is just establishing a quality program, or you’re a quality management veteran, the evaluation scorecard is key to setting the tone for agent performance. .

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The call center industry has been changing faster than ever, due to technological breakthroughs and constantly evolving customer demands. In 2024, businesses have the crucial responsibility of understanding and adopting the latest technology trends in customer service. Among its standout features is the Preview Dialer.

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Uniphore

JANUARY 25, 2022

A blog post from Umesh Sachdev, CEO & Co-founder, Uniphore. We’re seeing the same mass adoption of Conversational Automation today. Our findings showed that 62 percent of consumers responded favorably to using automation or AI tools to improve video conversations. 1 tech trend for 2022. Ah, 2022, a new year.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Over the course of 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) became mainstream for contact centers. As with cloud adoption, the promise of AI has become compelling enough that contact center leaders are no longer wondering if it has a place in their plans. Workflow Automation. In 2023, it will become table stakes.

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Blake Morgan

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Here are five CX trends as we head into 2023: 1) Automation and Self-Service to Ease Staffing Shortages. Automating contact centers and warehouses reduces the need for human workers without sacrificing customer experience. Staffing concerns remain a problem for all companies.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 22, 2022

While the human aspect of CS will never fully disappear, automation can free your team of repetitive processes and customer engagements. When thoughtfully applied, automation makes digitized touchpoints and human touchpoints indistinguishable. Create a dedicated space for collaboration and learning with Success Centers.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? 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.

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Contact Center Call Center Management Gamification 52

NICE inContact

MAY 14, 2019

Intraday reforecasting allows for the contact center to reevaluate needs based on the day-of trending of volume, average handle time, and service levels. Typically, the platform will display the number of expected contacts — aka the original forecast — alongside the days’ actuals so far by interval. Don’t Get Lost!

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Call Experts

JUNE 15, 2023

Streamline Operations and Never Miss Another Call with a Contact Center for Utilities. As a result, for those looking to ensure seamless operations and superior customer service, many companies are deciding to use a call center for utilities as it has proven itself to be quite a powerful tool.

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Contact Center Self Service Multi-Channel Customer Service 52

Uniphore

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

AI-powered interaction analytics gives you real-time insights to guide your agents and optimize the conversation as well as post-interaction analytics to inform customer experience decisions and strategies, automate and improve compliance and quality control, and improve agent performance. Highly accurate speech and text recognition.

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Think Customers

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leading contact centers understand that each person and tool has its strengths and weaknesses, and create a better customer experience when combined appropriately. To better understand this, let’s dive into the human and robotic makeup of a modern contact center. What is a contact center associate?

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 16, 2020

This is the last in a series of blog posts examining key contact center trends for 2020, and the first three lead up to this broader theme of innovation driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This means that AI applications for the contact center do not come fully-formed. 24/7 Self-service.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 30, 2017

This week we feature an article by Shaista Haque who writes about the top technology trends of 2017 that she believes will disrupt customer experience benchmarks. Shaista Haque is a marketing enthusiast at Ameyo call center software solutions. Shep Hyken. Consistent innovation is the greatest invention for all generations.”.

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Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The question for online retailers is: how can we embrace this trend and deliver for our customers? Typically, you would see this in the form of a ‘Live Chat’ pop-up that provides automated responses to customer queries. Set up chatbots for a 24/7 contact center. Namely, for contacting prospective customer leads.

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NICE inContact

JULY 12, 2016

It is a necessity that gives the contact center the flexibility, agility, and power required to optimize agent performance while responding to customer needs quickly and effectively. First Call Resolution (FCR) is a metric all contact centers are looking to improve. It will be flexible, adaptable, scalable and efficient.

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Data Contact Center First Call Resolution Return on Investment 120

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.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 27, 2017

People’s minds wander towards automated voice messaging systems, long hold times, or in today’s day and age, chatting in an online forum with a virtual assistant who, if we’re being honest, really doesn’t understand what you want, how you want it, or when you need it. From contact centers to email marketing campaigns, we’ve seen it all.

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Customer Service Strategies Strategy Customer Service Hotels 83

Calabrio

JUNE 5, 2019

This blog is a little different than our usual WFM posts but we have some exciting news! The importance of human connection in business has come back in focus in recent years with the upward trend for customer experience (CX). For more info, read the press release!

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Upstream Works

JULY 16, 2021

It’s easy for contact centers to build a business case for adopting cloud technology – reasons ranging from meeting the needs of today’s customers to finding an economical path to modernizing the contact center. Learn more about our omnichannel contact center solutions here.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be a defining trend for contact centers in 2023, and IT leaders must be prepared to think broadly about the possibilities. When it comes to AI and customer service, automation usually comes to mind. While that’s an important driver, it’s not the only use case.

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Call Experts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Automated phone lines are a powerful resource for interactions with your customers. The difference in great automation and poor automation can mean the difference in your business. The difference in great automation and poor automation can mean the difference in your business. More Blogs Menu. Data matters.

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Avaya

JUNE 24, 2019

Digital transformation is about creating experiences that matter, but what does this look like within the contact center? Gartner predicts that by 2025 , the average contact center organization will be exploiting these benefits to better equip staff and enhance service. What’s driving this move to an ecosystem approach?

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Together with its “big brother”, the voice portal, IVRs have been part of contact center solutions for decades, and there is no reason to believe that they will go away any time soon. The advantages of IVRs for call centers are well known. Optimize Routing. Artificial Intelligence in the IVR.

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Self Service Interaction Multi-Channel Contact Center 120

NobelBiz

JUNE 5, 2023

However, executing new outbound lead generation programs can be challenging, here are the top 15 challenges related to executing new outbound lead generation programs in call centers and how to tackle them. This means that call center agents need to make multiple calls before they can even start the sales process.

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