Think Customers

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That’s why your contact center associates need to be faster and better prepared to handle increasing demands while delivering superior service. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Robotic Desktop Automation (RDA) are emerging software that contact center leaders are deploying to tackle the mundane tasks that burden associates.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A good CX is customer-centered. Humanizing the digital experience As businesses focus on digitization and customer interaction becomes more automated, customer experiences lose a personal touch. Help Center : This will serve as a database or library that contains materials, content, tutorials, FAQs, etc.,

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Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. Today, as companies look past the pandemic, one thing remains certain: we now expect more from remote support centers than ever before. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

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Uniphore

MARCH 21, 2018

It seems automation is everywhere these days, allowing people to accomplish a variety of tasks faster, and the customer service industry is no exception, where technological advancements continue to transform the customer experience, and businesses continue to discover the benefits of real-time automation.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Talk of ChatGPT is everywhere from your LinkedIn feed to the evening news to, yes, this blog. Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. So let’s get into it. Those first three are what we’d expect.

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Uniphore

JUNE 9, 2021

In the contact center, the leading driver of improvements has been automation. In fact, 65 percent of executives in a 2020 survey cited automation as a catalyst for modernizing legacy business practices. However, simply automating processes for the sake of automating delivers mixed results at best.

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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. Implementing Omnichannel Communication Gone are the days when customers had limited ways of contacting a business. That said, the trick is to strike a balance.

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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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Call Experts

DECEMBER 29, 2021

At Call Experts, we are dedicated to providing supportive content every week through our contact center blogs. Because contact center blogs can be an essential tool for understanding services from a company and what it might be like as their customer. . What is a call-out line? What is an HR call-out line?

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Contact Center Call Center Trends Healthcare 52

NobelBiz

MARCH 24, 2022

The technology of call queuing is central piece to inbound contact centers. For example, an automated call distributor (ACD) is used in call centers to route incoming calls to certain specialized agents in your contact center. What are the technologies your call center needs for call queueing?

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction. Your outsourced contact center partner will be responsible for QA on the agent side, and the OPI partner is responsible for performance managing interpreters.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 5, 2019

Chatbots are more than just automated FAQ answer generators. These virtual customer experience tools are transforming the way that companies interact with their customers in the contact center environment. Initially, chatbots were little more than a method deployed to take some of the weight off contact centers and their agents.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This blog will delve into the top four customer service trends that are expected to take center stage in 2024. This blog is written for you, the experienced customer service professionals, who are the driving force behind these changes that will improve CX and internal efficiencies.

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Uniphore

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

In 1947, General Motors saw the benefit of reducing labor through automation and established a department to save energy and materials and improve process quality, accuracy and precision.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2019

But a much-ballyhooed automated hotel in Japan recently added more humans and scaled back on its droids due to inefficiency and cost-effectiveness, as did a grocery store which also had to deal with the “creepiness” effect. The question is, can everybody do a job a little bit harder than the one they’re doing now?”

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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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MiaRec

OCTOBER 7, 2023

and many other questions are standard call scoring questions that contact center supervisors try to answer every day. With advances in generative AI and Voice Analytics , automated call scoring is quickly becoming the preferred method for many contact center managers.

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Uniphore

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Contact centers can have the best customer service agents and the latest and greatest technology. Contact center leaders have a lot on their plate–from ensuring customer satisfaction and encouraging technology adoption to keeping agents happy and well-trained. Experience on the Frontline.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

The proliferation of AI and automation into our work and personal lives means that the nature of work is changing. This rings especially true in the contact center, where many of the simpler, repetitive tasks are still performed by humans. The post Guest Blog: Are You Setting the Right Customer Experience Goals?

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Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

The same holds true in the contact center. What Alexa's Smart Display Can Teach Your Call Center. If you’re one of the growing number of contact centers looking to implement a multimodal virtual agent, here are some best practices to get you started. How to build a smarter IVR with a multimodal user expereience.

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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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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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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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MiaRec

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Contact centers are at the forefront of customer interactions, making data analysis an essential part of improving customer service, agent performance, and overall efficiency. Two primary approaches to data analytics in contact centers are real-time analytics and post-call analytics.

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MiaRec

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Contact centers are at the forefront of customer interactions, making data analysis an essential part of improving customer service, agent performance, and overall efficiency. Two primary approaches to data analytics in contact centers are real-time analytics and post-call analytics.

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Uniphore

JUNE 16, 2021

67% of interactions involve a time-consuming diagnosis 60% of customer-assistance occupations are automatable* 30% of common call center tasks are automatable*. Many contact centers, therefore, have opted to favor outcome metrics such as First Contact Resolution or Net Promoter Score, with secondary emphasis on AHT.

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Uniphore

JUNE 16, 2021

How to Train and Onboard (Work From Home) Contact Center Agents in 2021. How do you shorten the learning curve in the contact center and retain more agents when 91% of agents are likely to quit in 2021? There’s no way around it: How contact centers currently train and onboard agents is completely messed up.

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Interactions

MARCH 28, 2024

Dive in as this blog addresses the complexities of achieving excellence in CX within organizations, focusing on the dichotomy between pursuing quick wins versus investing in transformative, long-term innovations. Leaders at GoDaddy have focused on creating a contact center that balances human interaction with AI.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Contact centers are no exceptions. Contact center execs are keen on leveraging AI for the right use cases and the one team they rely heavily is IT. As IT leaders, here are some key aspects to think through as you roll out an AI project in your contact center. But it shows high potential.

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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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MiaRec

JANUARY 9, 2023

Call centers have long used manual call scoring to ensure quality assurance. But with advances in AI and Voice Analytics , automated call scoring is quickly becoming the preferred method for many contact center managers.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Contact centers of today are not just customer service centers. But there are only so many hours in the day, so how do you scale a highly connected, customer centric culture in your contact center , with limited budget? Today’s contact centers not just have to think about omnichannel.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 19, 2019

That you’re taking the right steps towards improvement in the contact center and beyond? Contact center benchmarks , that’s how. Access this webinar now: Analytics and Optimization – Real Results with Automated Benchmarking. How do you know how your organization is really doing?

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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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NICE inContact

AUGUST 19, 2019

That you’re taking the right steps towards improvement in the contact center and beyond? Contact center benchmarks , that’s how. Access this webinar now: Analytics and Optimization – Real Results with Automated Benchmarking. How do you know how your organization is really doing?

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Contact Center Analytics Customer Experience Industry 136

Uniphore

JUNE 22, 2021

No need to dig through thousands of threads across Quora, Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter to hear what your call center agents are REALLY saying about their jobs… We took care of that for you. So, put down that annual voice of the employee survey and get ready for unreal insights gleaned straight from the rants of real call center agents.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 14, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Jaime Scott, writes about how engagement is crucial to delivering an excellent customer service experience. Many have turned to digital channels in an attempt to find a solution, but have discovered to their cost that automation alone doesn’t hold the answers.

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