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.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

NICE inContact

MARCH 14, 2019

Customer experience has never been more important in earning loyal brand advocates — and customers expect excellence when they engage with a brand. Customer expectations are changing, are you prepared to keep up? Consider these statistics: 8 in 10 consumers will switch brands after a bad customer experience.

Customer Expectations 171

Customer Expectations Contact Center How To ROI 171

Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Not only are online retailers enjoying massive revenue from their customers (expected to be over $6 trillion in 2022 ), but the platforms themselves are also becoming increasingly sophisticated. Now, technologies such as AI and machine learning are driving highly personalized customer experiences.

Retail 208

Retail Customer Experience Chatbots Ecommerce 208

CX Accelerator

APRIL 1, 2022

I was in charge of a contact center a few jobs ago and we were having our second outage in as many days. After service had been restored, I got a call from a customer. It just so happened to be from a customer to whom I had issued a service credit just a day earlier in hopes of restoring his confidence in our company.

Tips 266

Tips Contact Center Communication Connections 266

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call center optimization is a strategic approach that focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of call center operations. When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service.

Call Center 104

Call Center Tools Contact Center Net Promoter Score 104

Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

Today’s most popular assistants offer a multimodal experience — the ability to interact on multiple channels — and are a major leap from the voice-only assistants that dominated the market just a few years ago. The same holds true in the contact center. What Alexa's Smart Display Can Teach Your Call Center. View Webinar.

User Experience 246

User Experience Virtual Agent Self Service Contact Center 246

Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

3 Ways Call Center Coaching is Leading to Customer Churn. It’s no secret that better coaching creates more effective agents and better overall customer interactions. Why then do so many call centers struggle to convert coaching into real, measurable results? Call Center Life: Things that make you go "Umm".

Call Center 147

Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time eBook 147

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). Fewer security concerns.

Contact Center 147

Contact Center Call Center ROI Tools 147

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Your customers are sharing their experiences online. No matter what industry you’re in, your customers are eager and encouraged to share their feedback: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Your customers are a wealth of information on how you can improve your marketing, sales, and customer experience.

Feedback 208

Feedback Strategy Net Promoter Score Effort Score 208

NICE inContact

JANUARY 16, 2018

When it comes to delivering exceptional customer experiences, true omnichannel service and quick resolution go hand-in-hand. While the CX Transformation Benchmark Study reveals the emphasis customers place on wanting omnichannel service, it also found that the leading indicator of successful customer service is speed.

Self Service 240

Self Service Customer Experience Omni-Channel Contact Center 240

Horizon CX

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Frontline Experience Gap – Competence, Supervision, and Data by Scott Gilbey “I help identify customer and employee experience gaps that adversely impact the frontline. Customers wait. A customer has purchased $4,500 of lumber and doors, three carts full and all is paid for. It’s 8:13 p.m. on a Friday.

Net Promoter Score 130

Net Promoter Score Survey System Retail 130

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. Emotions rise, and customers eventually want one thing: gratification.

Interaction 200

Interaction Contact Center Guidelines Training 200

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 25, 2019

This week we feature an article by Matthew Smollen who says e nsuring your clients have an amazing call center experience when interacting with your brand is one of the best ways to encourage repeat and referral business. This is multiplied in a contact center as often the customer experience is the main focus.

Call Center 76

Call Center Leadership Contact Center e-support 76

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

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Contact center management is hard. You need to keep up with constantly growing and shifting customer expectations. Let’s look into some ideas that will help you successfully manage you contact center environment while keeping your cool in the process. Choose the right contact center solution.

Contact Center 122

Contact Center Tips Management Gamification 122

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This week we feature an article by Brian Cantor who gives us a list of ways to achieve success and consistency when communicating with customers on any channel. – Shep Hyken. Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology.

Omni-Channel 95

Omni-Channel Self Service Policies Abandon Rate 95

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. Voice and digital, inbound and outbound, agent assisted and self-service.

Contact Center 186

Contact Center System Self Service Omni-Channel 186

Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The pandemic has impacted every aspect of our lives, and the contact center is no exception. There have been several implications in this space that compound each other, with the net result being a more challenging environment for all forms of customer service. Intelligent Contact Routing to Self-Service.

Self Service 78

Self Service Contact Center Customer Experience Chatbots 78

NICE inContact

JULY 16, 2019

We think it’s important to strike a balance between automation and a human touch in digital customer service. The connections between customer experience and loyalty are clear. It’s easy to provoke a reaction, but it’s important for contact center teams to focus on the key emotions that are most valuable.

Loyalty 159

Loyalty Social Media Call Center Chatbots 159

NICE inContact

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The biggest challenge facing every contact center is agent churn. As a contact center leader, you work extremely hard to mitigate these challenges, but because you are pulled in many different directions, it is tough to keep your best agents.

Virtual Agent 120

Virtual Agent Contact Center Resources Training 120

Comm100

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this blog, we’ll look at the technology behind omnichannel digital support, and how colleges and universities can use it to engage with international students. When surveyed by Pew Research Center , 45% of Millennials said that they are online “almost constantly.” have declined for the past five years.

Engagement 190

Engagement Omni-Channel Chatbots Social Media 190

NICE inContact

JANUARY 24, 2019

This same rule applies when people call into your contact center. . And if you think that more people are contacting you via your digital channels instead of calling you, think again. And if you think that more people are contacting you via your digital channels instead of calling you, think again.

Self Service 152

Self Service Contact Center e-support Omni-Channel 152

Uniphore

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is a contributed blog post by Dipu KV, President – Operations & Customer Experience at Bajaj Allianz General a recent guest on Uniphore’s Conversations that Matter podcast. That’s the extent to which digitization is being used nowadays to transform the customer service landscape. came to the fore.

Insurance 100

Insurance Self Service Contact Center Travel 100

NICE inContact

JUNE 26, 2019

The line between traditional and digital communications has blurred, and savvy customers are demanding more from the companies they do business with. One top demand is for true omnichannel customer service , no matter the channel. To find out, we surveyed over 900 contact center decision makers. Is it worth it?

Omni-Channel 149

Omni-Channel Contact Center Consumers Report 149

NICE inContact

DECEMBER 12, 2016

When I think about “great” service, I envision a customer interaction that required little customer effort, that was resolved on the first contact, by the first agent, and in which the agent served as a positive ambassador for the brand. But, does hiring great contact center agents equate to great service?

Contact Center 185

Contact Center Customer Service Culture Interaction 185

Horizon CX

MARCH 19, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a contemporary buzzword among industries, but in fact, the term has been around for many years, most commonly rising during the mid-fifties from within the sphere of science fiction—think robots! But I digress, that’s another topic for another blog. A recent study from BCG Gamma got my attention.

Customer Journeys 130

Customer Journeys Touchpoint Average Handle Time Survey 130

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Understanding customers is a key step to success, and organizations do it best when they have a customer experience department in place. This department is tasked with analyzing customer feedback and data and disseminating its findings to improve the organization’s processes, products, and services.

Customer Experience 236

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score How To Customer Journeys 236

NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

Many companies underestimate just how much the customer experience on digital channels matter. Short of breaking up with someone, I communicate most everything over text and email. Short of breaking up with someone, I communicate most everything over text and email. Studies show I am not alone in this preference.

Analytics 136

Analytics Customer Experience Management Contact Center 136

NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

Many companies underestimate just how much the customer experience on digital channels matter. Short of breaking up with someone, I communicate most everything over text and email. Short of breaking up with someone, I communicate most everything over text and email. Studies show I am not alone in this preference.

Analytics 136

Analytics Customer Experience Management Contact Center 136

CX Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

But Customer Experience (CX) specifically holds some challenges that many new leaders can take weeks or months to grasp. Most people know what salespeople or customer service representatives do. Most people know what salespeople or customer service representatives do. Oh, so that’s customer service, right?”.

Tips 208

Tips Customer Centricity Strategy Social Media 208

ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2018

This week we feature an article by Yura Filimonov who shares some of the many ways we can use AI to provide customer support. – Shep Hyken. However, there are enough examples that prove that companies can analyze the data to categorize it, find patterns and provide personalized recommendations to their customers. Proactive support.

Self Service 74

Self Service Chatbots Social Media Insurance 74

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This week we feature an article by Darcy Alexander who shares a checklist to guide us through the process of selecting the best CX vendors for our customer experience initiatives. When embarking on a customer experience (CX) change initiative, there are few decisions more critical to success than selecting the right vendor.

Competitive Advantage 101

Competitive Advantage Case Study Communication Insurance 101

NICE inContact

JANUARY 29, 2019

But in call centers, it can be significantly more challenging. QATC estimates that the turnover rate in the call center industry ranges between 30-45%. If you’re a veteran of the industry, you already know this because hiring and retaining good agents is something successful contact centers constantly focus on.

Call Center 164

Call Center Contact Center Culture Feedback 164

CX Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

But Customer Experience (CX) specifically holds some challenges that many new leaders can take weeks or months to grasp. Most people know what salespeople or customer service representatives do. Most people know what salespeople or customer service representatives do. Oh, so that’s customer service, right?”.

Tips 182

Tips Customer Centricity Strategy Social Media 182

GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

We’re already halfway through 2019 and no one can deny the rising demand for better customer experiences. Companies are now using machine learning technology to improve customer experience and traditional institutions usually resistant to change are coming under pressure from a customer base that wants more. Article No.

Net Promoter Score 210

Net Promoter Score Self Service Financial Customer Centricity 210

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There was a time in our history when touchpoints were…finite. When asked, ‘how does a prospect or customer interact with your brand?’ customer service calls. ’ a brand team might list something like the following. customer service calls. Customer Service Calls. advertising.

Touchpoint 187

Touchpoint How To Customer Experience Professionals Advertising 187

TechSee

JUNE 10, 2021

Absolutely, your customers aren’t happy to wait for service. Of course, in-person contact puts employees and customers at risk. This blog challenges that status quo. Now, survey data is showing that more customers than ever are prepared to engage in self-service activities to avoid technician visits. .

Self Service 207

Self Service Innovation Analytics Transportation 207