BlueOcean

MARCH 31, 2022

If you’ve been a reader of Blue Ocean’s blog for any length of time, you probably know we love sports and particularly baseball. Let’s look at what sports can teach us about consistency in achieving contact center service levels—and how to adapt to even the most unexpected outcomes. Practice Makes (Almost) Perfect.

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Contact Center Sports Conference Resources 296

Call Experts

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Welcome to a roundup of our top-performing customer service blogs of 2022! Blogging is a powerful way to share ideas, trends, and strategies in your industry. The best blogs are not only informative but also fun to read. Call Experts Top 5 Customer Service Blogs of 2022 . In 2022, we published many valuable resources!

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Contact Center Customers Trends 52

Blake Morgan

JANUARY 20, 2022

These 30 top blogs cover a wide variety of CX-related topics, from creating a customer-centric culture to refining the contact center or delivering personalized experiences. These blogs are powerful resources to keep you up to date on the ever-changing CX industry. Adam Toporek . Adrian Swinscoe . Bill Quiseng .

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Case Study Customer Journeys Competitive Advantage Customer Centricity 96

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

Follow on LinkedIn Bob Thompson, Founder and CEO at CustomerThink Bob is the CEO of CustomerThink, a research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management, and Founder/Editor-in-Chief of CustomerThink.com , the world’s largest community dedicated to customer-centric business.

Customer Service 207

Customer Service Contact Center Customer Centricity Leadership 207

NobelBiz

APRIL 2, 2024

At the core of this modern transformation lie Enterprise Contact Center Solutions , sophisticated platforms designed to streamline communication, enhance productivity, and drive customer satisfaction. They serve as centralized hubs for managing multichannel interactions, voice calls, emails, chats, social media, and more.

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Contact Center Self Service Omni-Channel CRM 106

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. . To keep reading, click here ! .

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Contact Center Call Center Trends Healthcare 52

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

As companies embrace the digitization of customer support, the new standard is much more than a phone conversation with a call center representative or a visit from a field agent. With a career spanning over 20 years, Eric has an extensive amount of experience in Contact Center and 3rd party and onshore vendor management.

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Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

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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Contact Center Call Center Poor Customer Service System 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.

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Contact Center Call Center Self Service System 105

CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

After demanding a supervisor, the representative said, “I am your highest point of contact of contact in this office. Neal Woodson , directly addressing company culture says: 23) don’t create and maintain a culture of service where management serves employees who serve customers with the best interests of those customers at the center.

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Customer Centricity Company Airlines Net Promoter Score 316

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 23, 2023

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. How many physical centers do you operate? Who on your management team reviews client reports on a regular basis?

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Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Employee Engagement 177

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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Call Center Tools Contact Center Net Promoter Score 105

ShepHyken

APRIL 5, 2019

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. From Customer Service to Customer Experience.

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Chatbots Customer Experience Contact Center Ecommerce 116

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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Contact Center Training Call Center How To 204

Calabrio

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This is especially true for contact centers that, at the forefront of the customer experience, have access to vast amounts of data containing highly valuable customer information. Analytics software is helping contact centers tap into that information for a better understanding of customer preferences, expectations and requirements.

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Contact Center Leadership Self Service Analytics 162

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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Call Center Self Service Contact Center Case Study 246

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

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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Call Center Self Service Social Media Contact Center 219

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

However, I want to discuss one of the crucial elements that companies and their contact centers tend to ignore when aiming to provide good customer service experience and obtain high CSAT rating. That element is employee feedback. Employee Feedback – Pure Gold! However, it cannot always tell you why. It’s an Inside Job.

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Omni-Channel Feedback Customer Experience Data 95

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. Management Competency.

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Contact Center Leadership Training Technology 130

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. Now, it’s about being one step ahead.

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Trends Innovation Customer Service Omni-Channel 195

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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Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 105

Calabrio

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This is especially true for contact centers that, at the forefront of the customer experience, have access to vast amounts of data containing highly valuable customer information. Analytics software is helping contact centers tap into that information for a better understanding of customer preferences, expectations and requirements.

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Contact Center Leadership Self Service Analytics 130

NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

CXA stands for Customer Experience Automation, a strategic approach that integrates automation tools and software within call centers to enhance the customer journey. Interactive Voice Response (IVR) At the core of intelligent contact center automation lies a well-calibrated IVR system.

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Self Service Customer Experience Contact Center Customer Journeys 52

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?

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Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 52

NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! This blog is Part One of a two-part series that aims to demystify these four components.

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Contact Center Management Employee Engagement Call Center 149

NICE inContact

JUNE 26, 2018

In part one of the blog series, we looked at a framework for building a business case to invest in customer experience technologies. In part 2 , we looked at KPIs that drive enhanced customer experience and in part 3 , we looked at how contact centers can increase customer lifetime value. But there are more nuances to it.

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Financial Customer Experience Contact Center Software 194

NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

Agents remain the most critical resource in any contact center. But, every contact center continues to struggle with big challenges when it comes to engaging, motivating and retaining agents. The number and complexity of interactions is getting higher, but the size of the centers are not increasing at the same rate.

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Contact Center Self Service System Training 156

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

SMS (Short Message Service ) has become a pivotal channel in the contact center industry. Ebook | Call Labeling and Blocking for Contact Centers Compliance and Regulation The regulations in the SMS world are ever-changing. Contact centers should ensure that customers explicitly opt-in to receive SMS messages.

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Innovation Strategy Contact Center Multi-Channel 98

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. Recruitment.

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Call Center Leadership Contact Center e-support 76

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.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Analytics Analysis Customer Insights 52

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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Contact Center Analytics Analysis Customer Insights 52

ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

This rings especially true in the contact center, where many of the simpler, repetitive tasks are still performed by humans. These agents will be more skilled and will function more as account managers than reps. The post Guest Blog: Are You Setting the Right Customer Experience Goals? Technology is on your side.

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Customer Experience Contact Center Airlines Average Handle Time 94

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

To deliver superior service, track metrics like First and Average Response Time, and First Contact Resolution Ratio. Your service speed depends on factors like the contact channel (e.g. Your service speed depends on factors like the contact channel (e.g. What makes a customer support interaction good or bad? Element #1: Fast.

Self Service 106

Self Service Effort Score Guidelines Tips 106

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?

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Call Center Report Contact Center Net Promoter Score 59

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. Workforce Engagement Management is absolutely crucial to the success of CX. Without it, you might as well employ a bunch of robots.

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Contact Center Competitive Advantage Employee Engagement Engagement 82

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. This briefing will help you avoid those pitfalls.

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Omni-Channel Self Service Policies Abandon Rate 95