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ShepHyken
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Top Takeaways: Outsourcing customer service and support functions can be an effective strategy for businesses, especially startups, to offload non-core tasks and focus on their core competencies. Now, investors are looking at retention and customer lifetime value, which all start with customer experience.”
BlueOcean
JANUARY 30, 2024
So, you’ve been handed responsibility for investigating the benefits of potentially outsourcing your company’s customer service for the first time. What math should go into the business case around call center outsourcing costs? (Or On-going technology costs are also generally included. Let’s break it down to the basics.
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InMoment XI
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Whether that be through cost-saving measures, increased operational efficiency, or strategic initiatives to boost revenue, the pursuit of financial success is a constant in the business world. As you look to improve your business, consider contact center optimization. What is Contact Center Optimization?
InMoment XI
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Shep Hyken, a well-known customer service consultant, recently shared that 42% of people would rather clean a toilet than call customer support. And I decided that the reluctance to call customer support came down to three factors: . 3 Factors Impacting the Customer Support Experience. Factor #1: Control.
Speaker: Jeff Toister, Employee Training Expert, Bestselling Author, Speaker
An ICMI study revealed that 86 percent of contact centers don't fully empower their agents to deliver an outstanding customer experience. Contact center leaders worry about agents giving away too much or serving customers inconsistently. And executives worry about the cost of investing in new tools and resources.
Customer Bliss
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Within my five-competency customer experience framework , I often call No. 1 — honor and manage customers as assets — the “clincher competency.” ” This is where you begin to move customers away from being perceived as a cost center and towards being perceived as assets.
Team Support
MAY 19, 2020
The first type thinks B2B customer support is a cost center, or a necessary expense for running a business. The second type thinks B2B customer support is a profit center. How do you know which one your business is, and whether your support team is operating like a profit center on all of its channels?
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Speaker: Nathan Hart, Mary Kane & Imran Mohammed
When Contact Centers face issues with First Contact Resolution (FCR), conducting a root cause analysis to identify the process, systems, and/or behaviors that are failing is the best way to understand the exact drivers contributing to repeat calls. Ways to identify objectives and obstacles, discover actionable insights, and measure outcomes.
Speaker: Rana Gujral, CEO at Behavioral Signals
According to a report from Salesforce, 78% of customers are willing to do business with a brand even after a mistake, but only if the customer service is excellent. This means you can’t afford to put your customers on hold for long or deliver poor communication. Customer service technology has largely been the same for decades.
Speaker: Roy Atkinson, Senior Writer Analyst, HDI and ICMI
Setting aside the large costs involved in high rates of employee turnover that can result from lack of employee satisfaction and engagement, the positive results of good Workforce Engagement Management include increased performance and productivity as well as enhanced customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Aarde Cosseboom, Director of GMS Technology and Product, TechStyle Fashion Group
Adapting to a post-COVID world means recession-proofing your contact center with AI that reduces reliance on live agents with virtual agents that are always on, perfectly trained, and at a fraction of the cost. Also joining is SmartAction, who manages the AI-powered CX for more than 100 brands.
Speaker: Brian Morin & Helena Chen from SmartAction
More and more customers are looking to solve their own issues without human intervention. Enter a conversational AI solution for your contact center. Some customer service interactions require a human —but just because some calls must be transferred to a live agent doesn’t mean they can’t all begin with AI.
Speaker: Francoise Tourniaire - Founder of FT Works, Omid Razavi - Chief Advocacy Officer at SupportLogic, and Gregory Walker - Senior Product Manager at SupportLogic
The 'great resignation' and the 'great talent reshuffle' have impacted contact center and customer support staff as much, if not more than, any other part of the workforce. Attendees will walk away with insight on the following: Critical components for coaching programs.
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