BlueOcean

APRIL 11, 2017

With more than 25 million customers in the US, our client’s business was completely crushing it in all areas of their core competency and growing at an extraordinary pace, but managing a contact center operation (not their core competency) within their business was becoming increasingly challenging. The Problem: . Let’s chat.

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Case Study Study Abandon Rate Contact Center 159

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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Trends Self Service Contact Center Omni-Channel 208

Eptica

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 6 factors driving contact center change. Published on: October 26, 2016. Author: Dharmesh Ghedia With customer service being at the top of the business agenda for organizations, what are the trends that are impacting contact centers?

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Contact Center Self Service Knowledge Base Social Media 48

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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Contact Center Meeting Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time 51

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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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?

Trends 48

Trends Customer Service Contact Center Analysis 48

Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

August 10, 2016 1:00pm ET – 2:00pm ET. In this special online workshop Myra reveals the 5 Conversational Aikido principles she has adapted from her 15-year study of the martial art Aikido. Contact centers experiencing a high rate of call escalations due to employees’ inability to handle difficult customers. Register Now.

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Contact Center Training Customer Service Training How To 40

Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

August 10, 2016 1:00pm ET – 2:00pm ET. In this special online workshop Myra reveals the 5 Conversational Aikido principles she has adapted from her 15-year study of the martial art Aikido. Contact centers experiencing a high rate of call escalations due to employees’ inability to handle difficult customers. Register Now.

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Contact Center Training Customer Service Training How To 40

Verint

AUGUST 17, 2017

At the end of 2016, I conducted 20 interviews with customer service professionals who were members of the National Association of Call Centers (NACC). The question was, “What’s keeping you up at night when you think about your contact center in 2017 and beyond.”. Don’t Panic!”

Contact Center 30

Contact Center Employee Engagement Engagement Gamification 30

Vonage

MARCH 28, 2019

In 2016, Bain & Co. This may be the case for some simple transactions, but here’s another bit of data from the PwC study: 82 percent of U.S. consumers want more human interaction when they contact the businesses they deal with. When their customers were asked, only eight percent agreed with them.

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NICE inContact

JULY 25, 2019

According to Deloitte Research (2016), employees value culture and growth almost twice as much as they value compensation and benefits. Avoiding job boredom in the contact center is crucial to keeping them around. The research shows that ideal company cultures prioritize an environment of listening. 5) Provide Coaching.

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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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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

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In July of 2016, inContact conducted a survey of more than 500 Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to gather insights about their workplace environment, motivators and challenges. This deep dive study provides a glimpse into working on the front lines of the customer service industry.

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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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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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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Connections ROI 40

Natalie Petouhof

MAY 11, 2016

Tweet I’m judging the 2016 Constellation SuperNova Awards ! Nominate yourself or someone you know before August 8, 2016. To learn more, apply here: https://www.constellationr.com/events/supernova/2016. If you are doing something really interesting, make sure to send in your case study! About the SuperNova Awards.

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Magellan Solutions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Invoca, a call intelligence service, published a research in 2016 that found that 65 percent of the 50 million calls they studied had customers preferring to contact a business rather than dealing with online web forms, web chat, and email. More than 25 million still prefer phone services.

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Call Center Contact Center Poor Customer Service Wait Times 97

Uniphore

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Studies show that 82% of consumers will stop doing business with you. Our customers and our CEO, Umesh Sachdev, have helped us realize that conversational AI and automation are not limited to just the contact center. Check out our website , connect with me on LinkedIn , or contact us. Contagious: Why Things Catch On.

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Eptica

JUNE 1, 2016

Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 What is holding back chat in customer service? Published on: June 01, 2016. These points are backed up by the latest Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience Study , which highlights that the adoption of chat by UK brands is on an upward curve. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Customer Service Knowledge Base Contact Center Consumers 48

Eptica

MARCH 31, 2016

Date: Thursday, March 31, 2016 Websites lead the way for UK customer service. Published on: March 31, 2016. According to the latest Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience Study , the good news is that most companies understand this, with the web remaining the strongest channel for providing accurate answers to consumer queries.

Self Service 48

Self Service Customer Service Entertainment Fashion 48

NobelBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

These touchpoints are prioritized for analysis since they are a useful source of data for assessing the client journey and it works as follows: The Key role of Contact Centers The increased focus on digital channels and new communication technology allows for new methods to engage with clients.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Contact Center Omni-Channel 52

Avaya

APRIL 3, 2017

He extends his vision that messaging is at the center of the digital transformation era. I wanted to explore some of the observations from the conference—especially those about contact center operators leveraging customer journey maps for serving customers effectively via chat, SMS and other messaging communiques.

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Customer Journeys Contact Center Conference Chatbots 58

Eptica

MARCH 18, 2016

Date: Friday, March 18, 2016 UK retail customer service failing to move forward. Published on: March 18, 2016. Therefore, you’d expect customer service to be continually improving, but the 2016 Eptica Retail Multichannel Customer Experience Study found that this isn’t the case. However, performance varied.

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Verint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In my previous blog post , I discussed the rise to prominence of employee engagement in today’s contact center industry. As a reminder, 82 percent of participants in Saddletree Research’s recent survey of end-users ranked employee engagement as a highly important component of their contact center operational strategy.

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Magellan Solutions

AUGUST 1, 2022

Technological advancements may slow the growth of some low-end services, perhaps lowering the required manpower from 525,000 FTEs in 2016 to roughly 482,000 FTEs by 2022. The number of mid-skilled jobs is expected to increase from 452,000 FTEs in 2016 to 840,000 FTEs by 2022. percent from 2016 to 2022 hitting US$ 38.9

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Eptica

JUNE 8, 2016

Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 Unhappy holidays? Published on: June 08, 2016. The latest Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience Study suggests that both airlines and package operators are struggling to cope with the move to digital. The state of UK travel customer experience. Turning to social media things were not much better.

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Travel Airlines Customer Experience Social Media 48

Eptica

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Date: Friday, October 28, 2016 Turning service into sales with chat. Published on: October 28, 2016. However, it can be difficult to measure the exact impact of individual customer service interactions on these metrics, leading to the contact center being seen as a cost, rather than a department that boosts the bottom line.

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Sales e-support Contact Center Abandon Rate 48

Eptica

APRIL 26, 2016

Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 Comparing the customer experience in the UK and France. Published on: April 27, 2016. These findings come from the Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience Study , which has tracked the changing face of customer service in the UK, France and latterly the United States , over the last five years.

Self Service 48

Self Service Customer Experience Social Media Knowledge Base 48

Vonage

MAY 11, 2016

The Salesforce World Tour London is on May 19 th and we are delighted to have been selected as one of the Salesforce 2016 Customer Success stories. Also check out Vax’s case study here. How to future-proof your contact center technology and find your competitive advantage.

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Multi-Channel Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Effort Score 60

Eptica

AUGUST 26, 2016

Date: Friday, August 26, 2016 What do consumers want from brands today? Published on: August 26, 2016. The study follows the publication of the latest ICS UK Customer Satisfaction Index (UKCSI) , the organization’s six monthly study based on data from over 42,500 individual customer experiences with 200 brands in 13 sectors.

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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. Share this page on: Tweet.

Self Service 48

Self Service Customer Experience Social Media Insurance 48

Eptica

JANUARY 8, 2016

Date: Friday, January 8, 2016 5 customer experience lessons from the 2015 Holiday Shopping season. Published on: January 08, 2016. Retailers don’t have much time between the end of the 2015 holiday season and beginning to prepare for 2016. Share this page on: Tweet.

Self Service 48

Self Service Customer Experience Ecommerce Social Media 48

Verint

DECEMBER 5, 2017

As Ken Landoline, principal analyst at OVUM, stated in his blog, Back-Office Integration Coming to the Forefront in Customer Engagement , a number of trends are making it easier to link these two functions, including: In-sourcing previously outsourced contact center functions. The increase in channel digitization.

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Contact Center Call Center Culture Trends 28

Eptica

MARCH 16, 2016

Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 The importance of emotion to successful customer experiences. Published on: March 16, 2016. Author: Neil Cox Categorie(s): Contact Center Customer Engagement Customer Experience Customer Service Forrester Linguistics Multichannel Customer Service Social Media At heart, humans are social beings.

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Customer Experience Contact Center Social Media Metrics 48

Eptica

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Digital disruption in insurance – why it is all about service. Published on: September 21, 2016. To find out how they are currently performing, Eptica is currently studying the multichannel service offered by 100 leading US insurers. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Insurance Self Service Transportation Policies 48

Stella Connect

JANUARY 31, 2018

First, customers’ repeated attempts to resolve issues drive up contact center costs. Say you ha ve a team of 100 contact center agents fielding 50 calls per agent per day at a cost of $5.00 million contacts per year. Clearly, first contact resolution has big implications for brands.

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