CX Accelerator

JULY 1, 2020

Business leaders will benefit from reflecting on how these changes – shutdowns, communication changes, and working from home – have impacted their relationships with their consumers and consider how this season has improved or harmed business continuity. This article will cover the following: · Business Continuity. Changing Expectations.

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Lumoa

JULY 17, 2023

Key Drivers of Successful Customer Experience Digitization Today, businesses must continually evolve to address the needs of their customers. Embracing new technology solutions and digitizing customer experience has become a crucial part of this evolution. Seamless experiences 5. Immersive experiences 7.

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Customer Experience Strategy Self Service Chatbots 208

Uniphore

AUGUST 6, 2021

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. Why Your Agent Experience Matters to Your Customer Experience—And Your Bottom Line.

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Comm100

JUNE 23, 2022

In this blog, we’ll look at the top reasons why universities and colleges are choosing Comm100 Live Chat. Comm100 has all the security and privacy compliances that higher education needs, including: SOC Type II – The highest degree of excellence in security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and customer data privacy.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Interactive voice response (IVR) has been a staple of customer service for many years. The fact that IVRs have been around for a long time and are widely used does not mean, though, that your customers actually like them. For customers, scalable IVRs reduce hold times and make simple services accessible 24/7/365.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service. It represents a holistic approach that is aimed at transforming call center functions into a streamlined, customer-focused powerhouse.

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Call Center Tools Contact Center Net Promoter Score 105

SaleMove

JANUARY 20, 2021

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches. But what about the bots?

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There are many areas where emerging applications are poised to make a big impact during 2023, both for improving the agent experience (AX) and for making the customer experience (CX) smarter. AI applications can recognize these distractions and supress them so agents can better focus on their customers.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 2, 2024

Are customers becoming more and more demanding with time? With the growing customer expectations, enterprises are under great pressure to deliver exceptional service. Geared towards smaller-scale operations with fewer agents and lower call volumes. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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Contact Center Self Service Omni-Channel CRM 106

NICE inContact

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The biggest challenge facing every contact center is agent churn. Many agents are bored, unengaged, and generally unhappy, and they churn at a rate of 33% across all industries. Not to mention, technology constraints can sometimes make it difficult to improve the agent experience.

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Uniphore

JULY 21, 2021

How can organizations more effectively direct customers to the knowledge they’re looking for? Gartner’s newest customer service report “Delivering Relevant Content and Knowledge to Customers Is Key to Great Customer Service” focuses on just these dilemmas. List your CX goals beforehand.

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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. Time to start planning for your 2019 customer experience initiatives. Would you consider that a great customer experience?

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NICE inContact

APRIL 4, 2019

Businesses of all types and sizes use virtual receptionists to route their customer’s calls based on a menu selection. . Auto Attendants are like a virtual switchboard, often replacing the need for a dedicated resource to answer the phone. Here’s how it works: Virtual receptionists “greet” you with a simple menu.

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Self Service Call Center Contact Center Customer Satisfaction 136

CX Accelerator

JULY 1, 2020

Business leaders will benefit from reflecting on how these changes – shutdowns, communication changes, and working from home – have impacted their relationships with their consumers and consider how this season has improved or harmed business continuity. This article will cover the following: · Business Continuity. Changing Expectations.

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Contact Center Call Center Call Center Solutions Roadmap 182

NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2019

Traditionally quality management in the contact center has been focused on evaluating agent-assisted interactions — mainly phone. You know the routine — listen to a phone call, complete a form, send it to an agent, repeat. 2) Create forms to complete ongoing evaluation.

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Chatbots Contact Center Self Service Social Media 175

Vonage

APRIL 25, 2019

Social media teams – both marketing and customer service – often sit by themselves in organizations, likely because management doesn’t quite know what to do with them. Integrating with the core business ensures that the social media team is engaged with other business units to share and act upon customer feedback.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The next year should be one of substantial investment by businesses in their service channels, and that’s great news for their customers. This is just one of the many insights we discovered when we surveyed more than 900 global contact center leaders about key customer experience topics, including near-term investment plans.

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Self Service Omni-Channel Contact Center eBook 150

Team Support

JUNE 20, 2023

Compounding these hurdles is the fact that providing excellent customer support is facing its own set of challenges. As customer support demand continues to increase by 11% per year, reduced staffing levels is causing 75% of customer service agents to face a serious risk of burnout.

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Self Service Chatbots Analytics Knowledge Base 97

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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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This blog post is co-written with Bruno Mateus, Jonathan Diedrich and Crispim Tribuna at Talkdesk. Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots.

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Self Service Contact Center Virtual Agent Chatbots 68

Comm100

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If you’re reading this blog, then you probably already know that live chat is the most popular digital customer service channel – and it keeps on growing. When a customer is looking for an answer to their question, they want three simple things – speed, ease, and accuracy (plus often a touch of personalization).

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Canada, UK and Ireland—with customized inventory finance solutions. Working with NICE inContact has helped fuel the company’s growth by greatly improving efficiencies in its contact center and enhancing the customer experience. Most importantly, perhaps, NextGear Capital’s customer satisfaction has grown by 10%.

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Contact Center Automotive Omni-Channel Leadership 149

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.

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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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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

There were too many different customer needs and too many inconsistencies. There were too many different customer needs and too many inconsistencies. The contact center agent’s life was not easy, and we saw it just getting more and more complicated. ” And that’s where you’ll find the soul of your company.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Here’s the problem: 91% of customers expect a seamless experience when moving from one method of communication with a company to another (e.g., Yet only 24% of businesses give themselves an excellent rating in providing this seamless customer experience (CX). chat to phone). Where can AI add the greatest benefits?

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BirdEye

JULY 7, 2023

Today’s customers expect answers in real time. That’s why a customer service chatbot is a necessary tool for a successful business. With this tool, you can quickly and accurately respond to customer service questions, even if it’s at midnight. Table of contents What is a chatbot for customer service?

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Chatbots Customer Service Social Media Banking 96

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This week we feature an article by Rahul Varshneya whos writes about how technology innovations are continuously improving the customer experience. This Maya Angelou quote fits perfectly when talking about the factors responsible for positive brand customer service. Customer experience has not been left behind.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Today, contact center leaders who embrace the cloud are quick to see its benefits – powering engaging customer experiences while positively impacting business outcomes. Unify to Deliver Immersive Customer Experiences. Some have turned to AI to power virtual agents, chatbots and other self-service channels.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score Self Service 120

Kustomer

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Customer experience (CX) is a determining factor in whether customers are loyal to a brand or not. Over 80% of companies who prioritize customer experience report an increase in revenue. 2020 brought huge changes to the business world and impacted customer service and operations across the board. The result?

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Only about a third of the customers are willing to use bots and virtual assistants to interact with companies AI is not a customer pleaser, yet! While there are various use cases on automation and cost reduction, it is important to balance it with improved customer experience as well. Pilot before you scale.

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Contact Center Self Service Guidelines Chatbots 136

NICE inContact

JANUARY 30, 2018

Are you one of the almost 40% of organizations that say reducing effort to improve the customer experience is their primary contact center goal for 2018? Winter storms, hurricanes, flooding, fires–with a native cloud solution, the flexibility to deal with such disasters is virtually “built-in”.

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Contact Center System Self Service Omni-Channel 186

Comm100

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Besides potential language barriers, institutions also need to be sensitive to cultural differences and customs. Poor engagement can have a severe impact across the student experience – results, satisfaction, and even dropout rates. The Journey to Improving International Student Engagement. Get ebook now. Free eBook.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Companies of all sizes now compete in the experience economy to attract new customers and build customer loyalty and advocacy. No longer able to rely on product quality or price, companies must consistently deliver exceptional customer experience to drive bottom line growth.

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Contact Center Consumers Self Service Chatbots 122

Comm100

JULY 20, 2021

Customer service has long been a slow-moving piece of the broader business landscape, and it’s not hard to see why: business owners are reluctant to experiment with customer service channels they’re unfamiliar with. Nowadays, though, a good customer service experience can be the deciding factor between two competing brands.

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Chatbots Customer Service e-support Customers 143

GetFeedback

APRIL 17, 2019

To relieve customers’ hard feelings about problems with some products or services, companies usually choose to improve the customer service skills of their agents. Not entirely, since to get to the point of using your agents’ skills, customers first need to contact your support. But does this work well?

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Self Service Customer Service Multi-Channel CRM 255

COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the customer experience (CX) industry, offering businesses new opportunities to enhance their operations. So, let’s embark on this AI-powered journey together and unlock the true potential of customer experience. Nexcom A/S and COPC Inc. Nexcom A/S and COPC Inc.

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