Think Customers

JULY 26, 2016

As customers continue to increase their use of digital channels and self-service tools for customer service, it's only natural that the volume of calls hitting contact centers has been shrinking.

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Eptica

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 Using email customer service to build emotional engagement. Published on: February 09, 2016. Author: Steve Nattress Email has been a mainstay of customer service since its inception , providing a digital alternative to the telephone for consumers.

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Eptica

MARCH 31, 2016

Date: Thursday, March 31, 2016 Websites lead the way for UK customer service. Published on: March 31, 2016. The web, in the form of help and self service has remained on top throughout that time and continued to improve between 2015 and 2016. Average performance becomes the norm?

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Eptica

JANUARY 20, 2016

Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Looking into the customer service crystal ball. Published on: January 20, 2016. Looking further ahead, Forrester sees products themselves containing self-service capabilities to automatically provide information to users.

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Eptica

JUNE 24, 2016

Date: Friday, June 24, 2016 The ROI of improved customer experience. Published on: June 24, 2016. The figures have now been updated and released for 2016 , analyzing data that goes back to 2010. However, simply focusing on topline growth actually undersells the impact of good customer experience and superior service.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Recent research by analyst ContactBabel points to a drop in the number of inbound queries between 2015 and 2016. Combined with the growth of AI this has led to much talk about whether we are going to see the end of the traditional contact center, with agents replaced by machines. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Self Service Customer Service Contact Center Social Media 68

Avaya

JUNE 7, 2016

The number of innovations developed on Breeze since its launch in March 2016 has been amazing, especially for an industry that has traditionally been focused on not empowering customers and partners to do things on their own. This Snap-in includes Moxtra’s Dynamic Task Type for Avaya Engagement Designer.

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Eptica

AUGUST 5, 2016

Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 4 lessons from the Forrester CX Index. Published on: August 17, 2016. Author: Pauline Ashenden Forrester has just published its 2016 US Customer Experience Index , providing an update on the state of CX across multiple sectors. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

APRIL 8, 2016

Date: Friday, April 8, 2016 Technology with the human touch. Published on: April 08, 2016. This way they can maximize efficiency, while still providing an engaging, human face to their customer experience. Empower agents Whatever the channel a consumer uses, their query is likely to be routed to an agent in the contact center.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Digital disruption in insurance – why it is all about service. Published on: September 21, 2016. Use self-service to enable consumers to find answers to routine questions on your website and implement chat to provide fast, personal service online.

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Eptica

JANUARY 6, 2016

Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 What were the key customer experience topics in 2015? Published on: January 06, 2016. Author: Olivier Njamfa As we enter 2016, I’m already seeing plenty of predictions about what the year will bring for the customer experience and customer service markets. Read the full post here.

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Self Service Customer Experience Social Media Insurance 48

Tricia Morris

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Customer expectations are changing and growing just as rapidly as the channels and technology consumers are empowered with to engage, encouraging (if not demanding) that brands and organizations embrace a strategy of non-stop, customer-centric adaptation. 2015 Global State of Multichannel Customer Service Report).

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Eptica

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 Is it really time for your company to embrace chatbots? Published on: October 12, 2016. Have you got a centralized, self-learning knowledge base that spans multiple channels, and can provide the information a chatbot needs to respond? Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 The 3 dimensions of customer service conversations. Published on: November 02, 2016. It helps the customer experience by ensuring that consumers have meaningful conversations that engage them with the brand, building empathy and solving their problems. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Date: Friday, February 5, 2016 Meeting Millennial Customer Expectations. Published on: February 05, 2016. Within the contact center team the same applies – you are likely to have a high proportion of Millennials working in customer service, so structure your policies and processes accordingly.

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Eptica

JULY 8, 2016

Date: Friday, July 8, 2016 Delivering what US consumers want. Published on: July 08, 2016. Author: Chris Eideh Knowing your customers is at the heart of designing and delivering the right experience to engage with them successfully. Linguistics is one way to deliver this. Share this page on: Tweet. Share this page on: Tweet.

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TechSee

JUNE 5, 2018

trillion hours in 2016 — a year-over-year app engagement increase of over 50 percent. For example, while CSPs are eager to increase the usage of their self service apps, adoption has been relatively low (estimated as below 30%). 2 Co-browsing and Visual Support.

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Eptica

MARCH 18, 2016

Date: Friday, March 18, 2016 UK retail customer service failing to move forward. Published on: March 18, 2016. Customers are pushing retailers to innovate and deliver new services , improved experiences at lower prices. Author: Pauline Ashenden Retail is one of the most competitive sectors in the economy.

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Eptica

JUNE 3, 2016

Date: Friday, June 3, 2016 Customer service in a mobile-first world. Published on: June 03, 2016. Author: Steve Nattress For increasing numbers of people mobile is their preferred means of connecting to, and communicating with, the outside world. Share this page on: Tweet. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

JUNE 17, 2016

Date: Friday, June 17, 2016 Transforming the customer experience in 5 steps. Published on: June 17, 2016. When choosing new technology look at the impact it will have (backed up by metrics), frequency of use and applicability (the range of uses it will have). Share this page on: Tweet.

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Self Service Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Knowledge Base 48

Eptica

APRIL 26, 2016

Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 Comparing the customer experience in the UK and France. Published on: April 27, 2016. Driven by the rise of the internet and improved communications, individuals are increasingly happy to look beyond their own country when it comes to buying goods and services. This has increased from 53% in 2012.

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Self Service Customer Experience Social Media Knowledge Base 48

Verint

OCTOBER 24, 2017

After all, John’s issue was resolved and he didn’t need to call your contact center. Your marketing organization has missed an opportunity to engage with this customer, and may now miss future opportunities. 1 Five Reasons Why Investing in Online Communities Pays Off for High-Tech Firms, Aberdeen Group, February 2016.

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Eptica

JANUARY 8, 2016

Date: Friday, January 8, 2016 5 customer experience lessons from the 2015 Holiday Shopping season. Published on: January 08, 2016. So the experience has to be seamless and incorporate self-service systems that provide fast, accurate, and consistent replies to questions. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Self Service Customer Experience Ecommerce Social Media 48

Avaya

APRIL 6, 2016

Customer engagement is a competitive battleground. No business can afford disruptions to service, yet the push to continuously improve can be daunting and expensive. First, Avaya’s complete solution includes self-service, mobile video, and omnichannel. But why should you take advantage of this offer? But that’s not all!

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

It is likely that consumers will be more careful in their spending, with rising prices and inflation leading to overall retail sales falling year on year between September 2016 and 2017. more than in 2016 – with sales increasingly concentrated through online or bigger retailers. Predictions are that Britons will spend just 1.3%

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Retail Customer Experience Self Service Ecommerce 73

Avaya

JUNE 14, 2016

My first exposure to self-service IVR application development was back in the early 1990s. In fact, a study by Marchex released earlier this year estimated that I and my fellow Americans will be on hold in 2016 for more than 900 million hours. That’s a lot of wasted time. So what do I end up doing?

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Tricia Morris

MAY 31, 2016

Brands must approach everything they do, but especially service and engagement, with a customer experience mentality. Notes Dennis Snow, a 20-year Disney veteran and author of Lessons from the Mouse , “If you operate a contact center, the technology has to be great, but it still is about the experience.

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Avaya

DECEMBER 1, 2016

According to the Wall Street Journal, 2016 Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales have already accounted for more than $3 Billion in “desktop spending”—aka, e-commerce. Avaya IP Office Contact Center enables a midsize business to offer web chat, email and voice as an integrated, multichannel customer interaction strategy.

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Tricia Morris

JANUARY 29, 2016

Of course I am referring to their expertise and engagement with the game Minecraft – a game that, once you overcome the lack of impressive graphics and a tad bit of motion sickness, will teach you all you need to know about the most disruptive and transformative shift of control in managing, maintaining, and maturing customer relationships, ever.

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Customer Engagement Engagement CRM Self Service 40

Calabrio

JANUARY 6, 2016

CEO of Calabrio shares his predictions for the Contact Center, for 2016 and Beyond. When it comes to the power of IoT and data, it’s high time customer engagement gets involved, and it all begins with the contact center. For contact center leaders, however, this vision of the future might seem daunting.

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Customer Engagement Omni-Channel Engagement Self Service 133

Eptica

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Making the change from call center to contact center. Published on: February 03, 2016. Author: Laurence Chami 20 years ago customer service existed in a world dominated by voice , hence the widespread reliance on call centers to manage customer service interactions.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 25, 2023

A great number of contact centers are struggling to make ends meet but are still reluctant to make the necessary changes to achieve a better cost to benefits ratio. This article is here to tell you that cost reduction needs to be a top priority for contact centers worldwide in the present-day crisis environment.

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Kustomer

JUNE 27, 2022

A new era in customer service has arrived. The transformed landscape requires engagement like never previously seen, and customer service software is here to help. Selecting customer service software can feel overwhelming and the software market is teeming with options, information and opinions.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Chatbots are like evolved self-service portals or advanced knowledge bases. As a result, they reduce the number of incoming calls to contact centers, improving efficiency and reducing operational costs. Happier agents are also more productive, which means that they can better achieve contact center metrics.

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Comm100

JUNE 13, 2018

According to a study by Inmar , 72 percent of coupons used in 2016 affected purchasing behavior , usually by encouraging shoppers to buy a product they otherwise would not have. Live chat provides businesses with valuable sales and customer service opportunities that aren’t possible through any other channel.

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Pointillist

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It is the only performance metric that “has an effect on almost every other meaningful statistic and measurement in the call center.” ” Today’s call centers must balance many priorities while maintaining an intense focus on customers. As McKinsey & Company explains : The contact center.

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Kayako

JANUARY 5, 2017

In the customer service trends handbook published by Microsoft , “90% of consumers say they expect consistency and continuity from a brand across channels.”. Yet, relatively few contact centers have focused on providing a consistent customer experience. What goes into good self-service?

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