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The Top Trends in Customer Service for 2016

Comm100

In recent years, consumers have placed greater importance on the quality of customer service than on the price and quality of products alone. As we enter 2016, it appears that this consumer behavior trend will continue through 2016 and beyond. Self-Service Tools – Good for Everyone. billion PC users.)

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A History of Customer Support Technology

Team Support

1960s-1970s: Emergence of Call Centers The concept of providing on-demand customer support began with call centers in the 1960s. These early call centers were often powered by manual processes, with operators using basic databases to retrieve customer information.

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The Future Customer Experience Will Go Virtual

Win the Customer

According to research by Gartner, 89 percent of executives are betting on customer experience as their primary mode of competition before the end of 2016. We want our personalized customer service to encompass a wide variety of platforms from social media to mobile while still being easy to use with lightning-fast responses.

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Got These On Your 2016-2019 Service Roadmap?

Martin Hill-Wilson

Smartphone addicted customers increasingly use their ‘third hand’ for all engagement touch points including customer service. Visual IVR becomes the GUI of choice: delivering omni-channel fluency together with an infinitely more intuitive way of engaging with service options, relative to its audio equivalent.

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2018: New Ways Cloud Will Enhance Customer Care

NICE inContact

Often companies started with a small deployment in one department and gradually grew that implementation to encompass all the contact center applications in the business. Others started with inbound voice and over time have added omnichannel routing or workforce optimization. Inbenta – Hybrid chat and chatbots with NLP-powered search.

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How Telemarketing Philippines Makes Call Reduction An Advantage To SMEs

Magellan Solutions

Why are Telemarketing Philippines experiencing a large number of calls? Following Google’s announcement that its ads would generate over 30 billion calls last 2016, many declared that “call commerce” is still very much alive. That reference is to the inbound calls and high-value leads for a business. .

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16 Statistics Shaping the Future of Customer Service

Tricia Morris

Only 10% of contact center professionals surveyed for the 2015 Call Center IQ Executive Report on the Omnichannel Contact Center identify their contact centers as omnichannel capable (compared to 68% multichannel and 22% neither) – 25% said achieving omnichannel capabilities will be a priority in 2016.