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.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Self Service Multi-Channel Customer Service 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Contact centers are the heartbeats of customer service, enabling seamless communication between businesses and their clientele across the globe. These kinds of challenges often stem from vendors having minimal control over their resale of voice services, leaving many contact centers vulnerable.

Contact Center 105

Contact Center Call Center Self Service System 105

NICE inContact

AUGUST 5, 2019

Contact centers need to manage, engage and retain their contact centers’ most important resource—their people. Workforce optimization can provide the insights, analytics and clarity into productivity to build and keep an expert team. You’ll take away actionable insights you can apply in your contact center.

Tips 137

Tips Brands Contact Center Analytics 137

NICE inContact

AUGUST 5, 2019

Contact centers need to manage, engage and retain their contact centers’ most important resource—their people. Workforce optimization can provide the insights, analytics and clarity into productivity to build and keep an expert team. You’ll take away actionable insights you can apply in your contact center.

Tips 136

Tips Brands Contact Center Analytics 136

NobelBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

Are you grappling with the complexities of call center metrics, seeking to elevate customer experience, and driving operational excellence through insightful data analysis? How do you navigate the sea of data to extract actionable insights and make informed decisions that propel your contact center forward?

Call Center 59

Call Center Report Contact Center Net Promoter Score 59

TechSee

JUNE 10, 2021

Of course, in-person contact puts employees and customers at risk. This blog challenges that status quo. There are more cost-efficient, convenient, and safer options available that assist with truck roll optimization and even elimination, but many organizations have not implemented them. Four Truck Roll Optimization Innovations.

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Self Service Innovation Analytics Transportation 207

VDS

APRIL 3, 2024

Improving the Patient Experience Through Contact Centers The modern healthcare landscape is evolving, with patients increasingly seeking care experiences that are not just effective but also personalized and convenient. A positive interaction can set the tone for the entire patient journey.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Strategy Healthcare Wait Times 52

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?

Contact Center 105

Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 105

NICE inContact

AUGUST 2, 2019

Companies using omnichannel customer service can unify customer requests and conversations from social media, live chat, email, forums, blogs, mobile apps, and contact forms in one platform. For contact center managers, having detailed data to track digital customer service needs helps optimize efficiencies.

Technology 229

Technology Customer Service Omni-Channel Self Service 229

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?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 52

NobelBiz

MARCH 19, 2024

Call center dashboards play a vital role in contact centers. Call center dashboards provide the kinds of insights and metrics that contribute to having improved agent performance and more successful campaigns. Table of Contents What is a Call Center Dashboard?

Call Center 59

Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time Multi-Channel 59

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The call center industry has been changing faster than ever, due to technological breakthroughs and constantly evolving customer demands. The drastic changes of the past few decades have caused a complete shift to high-tech modern solutions, where software has become key in transforming day-to-day call center operations.

Call Center 59

Call Center Self Service Software Contact Center 59

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, North America, report has just been released. Featuring a thorough evaluation of cloud providers by one of the independent analyst firms in the industry, the report is an invaluable tool for contact center leaders considering new technology investments.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Self Service Omni-Channel Call Center 120

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? The best contact center solution is not worth a penny if it’s not up and running. Integrated Workforce Optimization. Consolidated, best of breed interfaces.

Contact Center 186

Contact Center System Self Service Omni-Channel 186

NICE inContact

AUGUST 1, 2019

It’s a challenge more and more companies are facing – and many of them are looking to their contact centers for solutions. Also, by concentrating on current customers, you can make the most of contact center interactions. What can you do when revenue targets keep increasing but your budget stays the same?

Self Service 150

Self Service Contact Center Omni-Channel Loyalty Programs 150

NICE inContact

APRIL 9, 2019

While it’s easy to disregard, it reveals a common business practice: Call Quality Monitoring – a practice contact centers use to review and evaluate the quality of their agents’ interactions with customers. For this reason, most contact centers record their agents’ calls. appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

Contact Center 139

Contact Center Call Recording Policies Software 139

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology. Today’s thought leaders and customer contact professionals clearly understand the importance of delivering exceptional experiences. Are the tools easy to use?

Omni-Channel 94

Omni-Channel Self Service Policies Abandon Rate 94

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, Western Europe, has just been released. Not only that, but we’ve also been evaluated as a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, North America, positioned the highest and furthest overall for its ability to execute and completeness of vision.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Self Service Omni-Channel CRM 120

NICE inContact

JULY 5, 2019

I’ve just returned from Las Vegas where I attended my first visit ever to Customer Contact Week – it’s the world’s largest customer contact event, in its 20th year. This was a great opportunity to meet customer service leaders from all over the world and hear what they are up to “on the frontlines” in their contact centers.

Contact Center 139

Contact Center Omni-Channel CRM Innovation 139

Uniphore

JULY 21, 2021

Why are so many knowledge bases inefficient to use when contact centers invest so much money in them? See where your contact center makes its mark or could use a little improvement. Search Engine Optimization While improving the agent experience is paramount to customer service success, it’s not the only area to focus on.

Self Service 130

Self Service Customer Service Management Knowledge Base 130

NICE inContact

AUGUST 1, 2019

It’s a challenge more and more companies are facing – and many of them are looking to their contact centers for solutions. Also, by concentrating on current customers, you can make the most of contact center interactions. What can you do when revenue targets keep increasing but your budget stays the same?

Self Service 120

Self Service Contact Center Omni-Channel Loyalty Programs 120

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This week we feature an article by Nogol Tardugno who tells us how to get our contact center interactive voice response (IVR) to deliver the best customer experience. So how can your contact center IVR get there? A cloud IVR can benefit your contact center and your customers from the second a call is placed.

Self Service 92

Self Service Customer Experience Contact Center Interaction 92

Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

3 Ways Call Center Coaching is Leading to Customer Churn. Why then do so many call centers struggle to convert coaching into real, measurable results? Research shows that agent retention rates were nearly double the average when coaches spent 60 percent or more of their time on the call center floor.‡ Did you know?

Call Center 147

Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time eBook 147

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Hiring remote workers can be a competitive advantage for companies, especially contact centers. But there are a lot of misconceptions about remote workers and how they impact a contact center’s productivity and culture. This type of performance management tool will give supervisors room to breathe easy.

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Gamification Call Center Competitive Advantage 136

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Your contact center agents feel the same way when it comes to your quality management process. In the contact center, quality management is often viewed as big brother or a necessary evil. The post Engaging agents in Quality Management Process for Optimal Success appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

Engagement 120

Engagement Management Contact Center Telecommunications 120

Magellan Solutions

AUGUST 17, 2023

The demand for AI video editing tools has dramatically increased. AI video editing tools are increasingly necessary as the demand for high-quality video content grows. The demand for advanced features drives the development of sophisticated editing tools. These algorithms can optimize and evaluate footage.

Video 98

Video Tools Social Media e-support 98

Magellan Solutions

AUGUST 23, 2023

AI has transformed marketing strategies and is a powerful tool. AI marketing tools are shaping the future of marketing. This article is for marketers using AI marketing tools to gain a competitive advantage. It covers various AI marketing tools that are important for marketing success.

Tools 98

Tools Marketing Social Media Advertising 98

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. We have already witnessed the rise of technology with performance metrics and targets in the name of Workforce Optimization.

Contact Center 82

Contact Center Competitive Advantage Employee Engagement Engagement 82

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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Interaction Analytics Contact Center Telecommunications 100

NICE inContact

JUNE 10, 2019

I’m talking about your contact center. So often I hear contact centers say: “We are looking for quality management and performance management, but we don’t really need workforce management.” Many contact center leaders hear WFM and then think purely forecasting, scheduling, and intraday, but really WFM is so much more.

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Employee Engagement Tips Management 136

ModSquad

APRIL 13, 2021

The Importance of Mobile Optimization. Create a mobile-optimized help center. Offer tools to help customers make an informed decision. Break paragraphs in blogs into small chunks so customers aren’t facing a wall of text when reading your blog from their phones or tablets. Contact details.

Ecommerce 119

Ecommerce Customer Experience How To Customers 119

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

First introduced in 2010, Customer Effort Score (CES) is a fairly new contact center metric. If your contact center does not make it easy for customers to do business with you, then you risk losing customer loyalty, and – eventually – run the risk of losing customers. Are you measuring Customer Effort Score?

Net Promoter Score 149

Net Promoter Score Effort Score Contact Center Omni-Channel 149

NICE inContact

MAY 10, 2019

As I searched for ways to discipline my accident-prone, very determined, yet very sensitive and sometimes diva-like 5-year-old daughter, I had a revelation: Dealing with rude customers in the contact center can be similar to this challenge. Do you have the right tools for optimal delivery ? Think compromise and cooperate.

Interaction 200

Interaction Contact Center Guidelines Training 200

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But when you zoom out and think about your customers’ experiences as a whole, you’ll see some common elements: the channels they use to purchase your products, the ways they contact your support team, and the systems they interact with. Your customers are sharing their experiences online. All you have to do is ask (and listen!).

Feedback 208

Feedback Strategy Net Promoter Score Effort Score 208

NICE inContact

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Today, call center scripting is used widely. To understand why that is the case, here’s the arguably five biggest benefits of using agent scripting in a contact center: Decrease agent training. Needless to say that surveys are a great tool to collect customer feedback, too. . Maintain regulatory compliance.

Call Center 121

Call Center Net Promoter Score Contact Center How To 121

NobelBiz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Are you struggling to boost customer satisfaction, enhance agent efficiency, or increase lead generation in your contact center? So, as a call center owner, manager or supervisors how do you tackle these difficult challenges and improving the overall performance within your contact center?

Call Center 52

Call Center Contact Center Contact Center Software Call Recording 52

NICE inContact

DECEMBER 17, 2018

At the risk of stating the obvious, customer experience (CX) can make or break your contact center operation. At the heart of outstanding CX is a true multichannel or omnichannel approach to contact center service. The golden ticket for every contact center is to transform customers into advocates of the brand.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Omni-Channel Roadmap Analytics 120