Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

As you may know, Temkin Group labeled 2016 “The Year of Emotion” in its annual listing of customer experience trends. Because emotion drives loyalty. And yet, despite its significant impact on customer loyalty, organizations do not focus on emotion enough.

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Calabrio

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The contact center as profit driver: it keeps popping up on lists of top business trends for 2016. Surveys show 3 in 4 organizations now view the contact center as a key differentiator—no longer just a cost center. contact centers racked up more than 200 billion minutes of inbound calling.

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Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

We touched base with leading customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein to learn how you can make your contact center adaptive to customers’ evolving omni-channel expectations in 2017. What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? Here’s what we learned. 2: Serve before you sell.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Brands Hospitality 133

NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are thrilled to announce that Customer Magazine has selected inContact My Agent eXperience™ (MAX) as a 2016 Customer Product of the Year. Each year Customer Magazine identifies outstanding achievements within the call center/CRM industry and awards the most innovative customer experience technology solutions.

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Net Promoter Score Multi-Channel Contact Center Customer Experience 120

Comm100

JULY 11, 2019

Closer to home and much more practically, let’s take a look at how AI is changing the contact center and customer experience, and where the impact is most significant. Specifically, we’ll focus on three applications of AI that will forever change how we build and run contact centers: Chatbots, analytics, and the agent experience.

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BlueOcean

JULY 5, 2016

With social networks evolving at a breakneck pace, that leads us to the question at the root of this post: what is the state of social customer care in 2016 and beyond? Social customer care is quickly becoming a standard offering in the contact center world. The Facts About Social Customer Care. The evidence is overwhelming.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2015

With this post, I’m declaring 2016 “ The Year of Emotion.”. We saw a surge of interest in the topic of culture in 2015, and we expect even more executives to begin the long-term journey of culture change in 2016. Every interaction has three components: Success, Effort, and Emotion. Effort Metric Expanding.

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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

In the past, contact centers could stay ahead of the curve as long as they ensured to utilize the right solutions and tools to service customers. According to a survey, CCaaS will grow to be the favored adoption model by 50% of contact centers by 2022.

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

For reference, this count is almost 10 million higher than what we saw in 2016. With this steady growth and increase in demand, contact centers are a vital partner to support the holiday rush. . . With this steady growth and increase in demand, contact centers are a vital partner to support the holiday rush. . .

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Avaya

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The evolving demands of digital-savvy customers have a deep impact on the contact center. While these channels provide customers with the information they need, the contact center remains a predominant channel for customers to seek support when they truly need something done.

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Contact Center Customer Experience Self Service Omni-Channel 81

Eptica

MAY 18, 2016

Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Meeting the needs of contact center agents. Published on: May 18, 2016. Author: Anne-Merete Jensen Delivering a great customer experience is vital to every organization today – and much of the responsibility for delivering this comes down to contact center agents.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The contact center is truly the front line in this battle. These interactions will include both voice communications and two-way digital information displayed on mobile devices, all of which will be recorded and stored in compliance with HIPAA standards. Driving new business models.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 25, 2016

The traditional contact center organization has the greatest opportunity to transform its silos into the enterprise epicenter for customer interaction. If Gartner’s predictions ring true, contact centers have the opportunity to transform the enterprise to become the customer experience (CX) hub. Register today !

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Eptica

JANUARY 12, 2017

Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 What were the top customer service trends of 2016? To help we’ve analyzed all 100+ posts published on the Eptica blog in 2016, and picked a top ten, based on a combination of readership and industry feedback. Published on: January 12, 2017. What do the findings mean for companies?

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Trends Customer Service Contact Center Analysis 48

Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2016

As we enter 2016, it appears that this consumer behavior trend will continue through 2016 and beyond. Still, many companies have been slow to adapt their websites and infrastructure to accommodate this technological growth – however, this will change significantly in 2016. billion PC users.) What does this mean for your company?

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Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

We touched base with leading customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein to learn how you can make your contact center adaptive to customers’ evolving omni-channel expectations in 2017. What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? Here’s what we learned. 2: Serve before you sell.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Brands Hospitality 50

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

With 2016 behind us, we’re wondering what we can glean from the flurry of predictions, prophecies and prognostications for 2017. In 2017, we’ll see leading marketing organizations expand to incorporate contact center touchpoints with voice-of-the-customer analytics technology. Contact centers see the answer in the cloud.

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Trends Customer Engagement Engagement Contact Center 153

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

We’ve come a long way since then with social having earned its rightful place in the channel choice of both customers and contact center service providers. Even though social media doesn’t handle the lion’s share of support interactions, customers still demand a lot from it. Customer interactions are growing more complex.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 31, 2023

Government departments and businesses operate contact centers to connect with their communities, enabling citizens and customers to call to make appointments, request services, and sometimes just ask a question. Currently, customers can interact with the contact center via voice and chat channels.

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Vonage

MARCH 28, 2019

It’s called Interactive Voice Response (IVR), and the vast majority of companies are using it – but they’re using it to cut costs, not to enhance the customer experience. In 2016, Bain & Co. consumers want more human interaction when they contact the businesses they deal with. So what role is IVR really playing?

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Calabrio

JULY 5, 2016

rose 15 percent between 2015 and 2016—from a 54 to a 62 out of a possible 100. A major component of that is the customer service provided by contact center agents. Interactions may remain calm, yet still be classified as a negative. Quantify interactions. Evaluate quality interactions. Go the extra mile.

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Customer Service Contact Center Telecommunications Analytics 140

Talkdesk

JANUARY 19, 2017

At the end of the day, contact center jobs are about communicating in the manner that solves a customer’s problems best and new contact center technology has to take that into account. Here are a few predictions about what contact centers (and contact center jobs) will look (and sound) like a year from now.

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COPC

AUGUST 4, 2016

I found this article in CRM magazine, Inbound and Outbound Converge in the New Contact Center , to be an interesting one because it discusses some of the changes in our industry that are being made possible by process and technology, but with an eye to improving the customer experience. You can read the entire CRM article below.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Talkdesk and Salesforce know that every interaction matters in acquiring and supporting your customers. Customers are contacting companies more and expecting a higher level of service. According to a survey by Accenture, 93% of customers agree that they expect every interaction with a company to be excellent.

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Natalie Petouhof

MARCH 3, 2016

Tweet Enterprise Connect 2016 is a leading conference and exhibition for enterprise communications and collaboration in North America. It is being held March 7-9th, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Genesys, a market leader in omni-channel customer experience (CX) and contact center solutions, will be particpating in the event.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Last month, Adobe Marketing VP, John Travis, shared insights from Adobe’s 2016 Digital Trends report, including which opportunities businesses are most excited about this year. Now, in 2016, it’s so important, it pulls other priorities into its orbit,” explained Travis, drawing parallel between customer experience and the sun.

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Customer Experience Contact Center Omni-Channel Analytics 100

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 12, 2016

These are just a few of the ways consumers describe interactions they consider to be “Moments o f Wow” with their favorite brands. We bet you’ll notice how much smoother your customer service interactions go when you apply these words! We Asked, Zappos Answered: Tracking Contact Center Metrics, Omni-Channel & Chatbots by Sharpen.

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Vonage

AUGUST 15, 2016

Solis believes brands try really hard to offer exemplary customer service, but it’s a difficult thing to do with antiquated contact center technology and processes. Modern contact centers must leverage the full spectrum of channels customers are using to connect. What do customers want? Simon Says volunteer!

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Self Service Contact Center Trends Connections 120

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

With 2016 behind us, we’re wondering what we can glean from the flurry of predictions, prophecies and prognostications for 2017. In 2017, we’ll see leading marketing organizations expand to incorporate contact center touchpoints with voice-of-the-customer analytics technology. Contact centers see the answer in the cloud.

Trends 100

Trends Customer Engagement Engagement Contact Center 100

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

With 2016 behind us, we’re wondering what we can glean from the flurry of predictions, prophecies and prognostications for 2017. In 2017, we’ll see leading marketing organizations expand to incorporate contact center touchpoints with voice-of-the-customer analytics technology. Contact centers see the answer in the cloud.

Trends 100

Trends Customer Engagement Engagement Contact Center 100

Stella Connect

MARCH 8, 2018

Building on the strength of the existing partnership, WSI became one of the first Stella Connect customers after the product launched in 2016. Following an initial pilot, the company implemented the full rollout of Stella Connect across its contact center team. Staff attrition is a challenge facing every contact center team.

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Stella Connect

MARCH 8, 2018

Building on the strength of the existing partnership, WSI became one of the first Stella Connect customers after the product launched in 2016. Following an initial pilot, the company implemented the full rollout of Stella Connect across its contact center team. Staff attrition is a challenge facing every contact center team.

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Kerry Bodine

JUNE 20, 2015

I’ve compiled the following list of conferences spanning a variety of topics — like CEM, service design, customer loyalty, customer success, and contact centers — that should be of interest to a wide range of customer experience professionals. CXPA’s 2016 US Insight Exchange. May 3 – 4, 2016. Alibis for Interaction.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Contact Center Satisfaction Negatively Impacting the Customer Experience by Andrew Berger. Telecompetitor) Contact center satisfaction has worsened over the last two years despite investments in new customer engagement channels, according to new market research released by BoldChat. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken .

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Stella Connect

MAY 4, 2017

This year’s ICMI Contact Center Expo & Conference in Orlando (May 22-25) promises to be quite an event. These are the topics we feel are particularly important for contact center leaders to focus on in their efforts to build world-class service organizations and stronger brands. Bancorp Fund Services contact center.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As a part of these publications, Temkin is calling 2016 “The Year of Emotion.” ” Here are the 10 customer experience trends to watch in 2016: 1. The improvement in speech analytics will entice many companies to start pilots for extracting insights from their contact center conversations with customers.

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Trends Customer Journeys Customer Experience Contact Center 40

NICE inContact

JULY 7, 2016

One of the most vital components of any contact center is the training department. No matter what kind of center you operate, it’s critical that those interacting with customers possess and maintain a solid understanding of the overall business, as well as its practices and procedures. Outline Your Needs. test/quizzes).

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