Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience. But deciding on annual goals and specific yearly focuses for a call center isn’t always easy. Where are your customers having a hard time?

Contact Center 106

Contact Center Report Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 106

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Of all the communications channels, the web chat channel is quickly emerging as the leader in customer satisfaction and as a channel that improves agent efficiency, productivity and engagement. Over half of all contact centers offer chat—and another 30 percent say they’re planning to shortly.

Abandon Rate 136

Abandon Rate Net Promoter Score Contact Center Effort Score 136

Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As 2017 comes to a close, call centers are busier than ever fielding calls from customers and planning for the new year. Video #1: 5 Crazy Ideas for Transforming Your Contact Center. His ideas revolutionize the industry and improve customer satisfaction, agent productivity and more.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Video Call Center Hotels 40

Magellan Solutions

JULY 5, 2021

Let’s take a look at the best and worst Philippines Call Center Companies this 2021. There are more than 700 Philippines call center companies – many of which work specifically for small and medium enterprises. So, here are some of the other factors that SME owners should look for in a call center company. .

Call Center 40

Call Center Company Omni-Channel e-support 40

Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. To see all of Talkdesk’s Dreamforce 2017 highlights, visit our Dreamforce 2017 landing page. We’ve all been on a bad customer support call before: you call, you wait, you talk to an agent, you wait, you talk to another agent … It’s very unsatisfying.

Contact Center 42

Contact Center Self Service Innovation Report 42

Talkdesk

JANUARY 31, 2018

When Talkdesk puts together our long-term feature roadmap, we put a lot of thought into where contact center executives want to go in the future and build a product that will give them the tools they need to execute on their vision. From a high level, this is a goal we’ve always tried to achieve.

Contact Center 56

Contact Center Customer Experience Omni-Channel Call Recording 56

Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The final stop on our 2017 Talkdesk Road Show is Austin, Texas on Sept 13th! Don’t miss out on this chance to learn about the latest technologies that can help you increase customer satisfaction and improve agent engagement. Remember, attendance is free. Or, click the button below to visit the Talkdesk Road Show homepage.

Contact Center 47

Contact Center Social Media Consulting Analytics 47

BlueOcean

MARCH 30, 2018

Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, we discussed how securing long-term partnerships with service suppliers like outsourced contact centers can impact your overall business objectives. We can’t take an RFP template that was written for manufacturing and use it verbatim for sourcing a contact center.

Contact Center 184

Contact Center Customer Journeys Hospitality Culture 184

Talkdesk

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The contact center space has been stagnant for decades. Despite the rapid evolution of consumer technology (and consumer expectations), the experience customers have when they call into a contact center is still the same as it’s always been. Anyone who has called a contact center knows the experience.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Self Service Industry Customer Satisfaction 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

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.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Omni-Channel Conference Employee Engagement 40

VDS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Emerging technologies help companies reduce average handle time (AHT), increase customer satisfaction (CSAT), and increase profitability. The idea is to let technology handle mundane tasks, nuisance calls, and authentication, so your agents can focus on everything else. More, customers want seamless, effortless experiences.

Virtual Agent 52

Virtual Agent Customer Service Self Service Contact Center 52

TechSee

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Augmented Reality remote assistance takes this concept further by using AR and streaming videos to link the contact center and headquarters to the customer’s home or the field where the work is being performed, enabling agents to remotely solve hardware issues – seamlessly bridging the physical and virtual worlds.

Call Center 104

Call Center Insurance Customer Satisfaction Video 104

Talkdesk

MARCH 6, 2018

The post is an examination of a Call Center KPI from Talkdesk’s 2018 Contact Center KPI Benchmarking Report. Average Speed to Answer is a commonly used metric that allows call center managers to evaluate their team’s efficiency and ability to effectively satisfy customers. seconds in 2017.

Industry 40

Industry Contact Center Call Center Abandon Rate 40

Talkdesk

MARCH 6, 2018

The post is an examination of a Call Center KPI from Talkdesk’s 2018 Contact Center KPI Benchmarking Report. Average Speed to Answer is a commonly used metric that allows call center managers to evaluate their team’s efficiency and ability to effectively satisfy customers. seconds in 2017.

Industry 40

Industry Contact Center Call Center Abandon Rate 40

COPC

MAY 11, 2017

Featured Event: May 22-25, 2017. will be speaking at CX17, a Genesys-sponsored event that includes four days keynotes, breakouts sessions, networking events, and opportunities to talk with product experts, peers and thought leaders in the customer experience industry. Other Events: May 25, 2017. June 7-9, 2017.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Call Center Omni-Channel Analytics 40

Talkdesk

APRIL 11, 2017

The purpose of Sentiment is to understand the customer on a whole new level: their satisfaction with their service experience, their emotional state and their experiences across the customer lifecycle. Currently, Sentiment consists of two key elements: SMS CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) and Mood. Why measure Mood?

Contact Center 50

Contact Center Self Service Abandon Rate Call Center 50

ShepHyken

JUNE 30, 2017

This week we feature an article by Shaista Haque who writes about the top technology trends of 2017 that she believes will disrupt customer experience benchmarks. Also, the smart customers are becoming more inclined towards the online mediums of interactions like live chat, social media or even email. Shep Hyken.

Government 90

Government Technology Trends Social Media 90

Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

One of the big conclusions from Deloitte’s 2017 global contact center survey was that contact centers would see a shift in their primary function. To quote the survey: “Only three percent of companies responding consider revenue growth to be the primary driver for their contact center.

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience Contact Center Survey Customers 40

Talkdesk

JULY 27, 2017

A Services Partnership is an opportunity to work with Talkdesk to help organizations makes the digital transformation from the contact center to the cloud. We wanted to provide this service to customers to deliver high-quality consulting and technical solutions for them. What is a Services Partnership? What’s included?

Call Center Solutions 42

Call Center Solutions Call Center Consulting Contact Center 42

Avaya

OCTOBER 4, 2016

“We’re very conscious of fees,” says the senior telecom and contact center engineer at the top-20 credit union. Having a customer-centric culture during Customer Service Week (October 3-7) and beyond requires a persistent focus on providing a consistently strong contact center.

Customer Service 45

Customer Service Contact Center Banking Call Center 45

Talkdesk

JULY 27, 2017

A Services Partnership is an opportunity to work with Talkdesk to help organizations make the digital transformation from the contact center to the cloud. We wanted to provide this service to customers to deliver high-quality consulting and technical solutions for them. What is a Services Partnership? What’s included?

Call Center Solutions 40

Call Center Solutions Call Center Consulting Contact Center 40

Talkdesk

JULY 26, 2017

As the first enterprise app store, Talkdesk AppConnect unites best-in-breed software to redefine the way your business can integrate with your call center platform. It allows companies to give contact center admins more power than ever before to customize and manage their contact center technology and integrations.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Call Center Healthcare Analytics 40

Verint

DECEMBER 8, 2016

As you start to finalize 2017 planning for your organization, have you looked “outside in” and gathered ideas and insights from other organizations for the customer engagement optimization elements of your planning?

Loyalty 44

Loyalty Customer Engagement Engagement Interaction 44

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.

Contact Center 28

Contact Center Call Center Culture Trends 28

Customer Bliss

MAY 3, 2017

It’s one of the main reasons why we continue to see stories of service failures (and the resulting customer outrage that ensues) all over social media. Customer satisfaction has been in a freefall for four years running. Rethink the contact center environment: . But, it can be done. About Matt Dixon.

Self Service 134

Self Service Customer Service Contact Center Airlines 134

TechSee

APRIL 17, 2018

With all the AI hype in 2017, the customer service industry expected smart machines to truly transform the customer experience. Scale service capabilities to meet rising customer care demands. Value driven by hybrid solutions. Reduce risk of negative CX.

Chatbots 95

Chatbots Customer Service Call Center Interaction 95

TechSee

APRIL 3, 2018

Churn refers to the percentage of customer attrition over a specific period of time. The churn rate is calculated by dividing the number of customers lost by the total number of customers. For example, if a company began 2017 with 50,000 customers and lost 2500 over the course of the year, the churn rate would be 5%.

Customer Retention 141

Customer Retention Technology Strategy Analytics 141

Qualtrics

JULY 15, 2019

It also gives you the data to link customer experience to value in order to prioritize future business initiatives. There are two popular methods for measuring customer experience: Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). NPS measures how likely a customer is to recommend your company to someone else.

Net Promoter Score 41

Net Promoter Score Customer Service Customer Experience Social Media 41

Call Center Pros

AUGUST 27, 2018

Customer Satisfaction Is Worthless, Customer Loyalty Is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know by Jeffery Gitomer. The Nordstrom Way to Customer Experience Excellence: Creating a Values-Driven Service Culture by Robert Spector.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Call Center Loyalty Customer Service Strategies 40

Verint

AUGUST 23, 2017

Rapidly changing technology, shifting work-life priorities, and a surprisingly high “disengagement rate” have all collaborated to drive the need for changes—big ones—in the contact center. According to a Gallup poll from January 2017 1 , a whopping 65.6% Report, 2017. of employees are disengaged.

Strategy 42

Strategy Gamification Contact Center Employee Engagement 42

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.

Employee Engagement 32

Employee Engagement Engagement Contact Center Software 32

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Arie is also an effective leader of call center performance improvement projects, and is particularly adept at balancing the company, customer, and frontline perspectives. Augie Ray is a Vice President Analyst covering customer experience (CX) for marketing and CX leaders. Kate Leggett.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In 2018, the contact center industry will be all about automation. contact center industry, and likely the global contact center industry. contact center industry. percent of our survey respondents currently own a call logging solution.

Management 29

Management Contact Center Call Recording Employee Engagement 29

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Arie is also an effective leader of call center performance improvement projects, and is particularly adept at balancing the company, customer, and frontline perspectives. Augie Ray is a Vice President Analyst covering customer experience (CX) for marketing and CX leaders. Kate Leggett.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

Talkdesk

APRIL 21, 2017

We’re less than a week away from celebrating the New Era of Customer Heroes at Opentalk 2017 in San Francisco! Our panel of leaders from today’s top on-demand companies covers what makes their customers unique, how to handle all the new data and the difficulties of ensuring success for both service providers and customers.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Retail Self Service Loyalty 40

Verint

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This session will explore the expectations of today’s consumers—from customers being able to connect with businesses whenever and however they choose, to businesses being able to interact and maintain context throughout every phase of the customer interaction. Sitecore Symposium 2017. Consero Contact Center Forum.

Analysis 30

Analysis Customer Service Contact Center Omni-Channel 30