BlueOcean

JANUARY 9, 2018

Instead, in addition to self-serve customer service , the majority of interactions will be driven by AI technology. Forget AI being the future of the contact center. AI is the now of the contact center. What Does AI Customer Service Look Like? How Will AI Impact Customer Experience?

Omni-Channel 191

Omni-Channel Customer Care Contact Center Case Study 191

Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

This article appeared first January 10, 2017 at SharpenCX.com. Customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein sheds light on enhanced customer expectations, AI innovation, and more. How do you expect customer expectations to change in 2017? 2017 won’t be a year of “one thing changes one time.”

Contact Center 50

Contact Center Omni-Channel Brands Hospitality 50

BlueOcean

MARCH 3, 2020

Blue Ocean, a world-leader in customer care solutions, was awarded a Silver Stevie® Award in the “Customer Service Team of the Year” category at the 14th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. The company won a Bronze Stevie in 2017 and a Silver Stevie in 2019. About Blue Ocean.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Insurance Conference Customer Care 156

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. Tip: Begin to examine your existing contact center processes.

Contact Center 104

Contact Center Report Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 104

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

hotel occupancy during summer months, especially since 25% of Americans planned Labor Day travel in 2017. During this “low season,” many hospitality contact centers evaluate previous high season performance and customer satisfaction levels in order to address and improve key performance indicators (KPIs) like call abandonment.

Customer Experience 122

Customer Experience Contact Center Hospitality Hotels 122

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

hotel occupancy during summer months, especially since 25% of Americans planned Labor Day travel in 2017. During this “low season,” many hospitality contact centers evaluate previous high season performance and customer satisfaction levels in order to address and improve key performance indicators (KPIs) like call abandonment.

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Contact Center Hospitality Hotels 120

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Blue Ocean, a world-leader in customer care solutions, was awarded a Silver Stevie Award ® in the “Customer Service Team of the Year – Recovery Situation” category in the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Customer Service. The company won a Bronze Stevie in the same category in 2017. About Blue Ocean.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Effort Score Contact Center Insurance 136

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

BlueOcean

MARCH 30, 2018

Not to add another thing to your plate (sorry), but there’s another question to ask that can impact all of those answers: is this the year customer care outsourcing takes a more central role in your go-forward plan? 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

Grupo Noa

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Ideally, a firm that does not receive an excessive high volume of calls should go for shared call center route. According to Walker statistics, 81% of the customers view customer care service as the necessary determinant of a firm’s long-term success. It is not only effective and influential but faster in operation too.

Call Center Solutions 52

Call Center Solutions Call Center Contact Center Omni-Channel 52

BlueOcean

JANUARY 21, 2020

Blue Ocean, a world leader in customer care solutions, was named a Finalist today in the “Customer Service Success – Technology Industries” category in the 14 th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Blue Ocean is an award-winning provider of innovative customer care solutions.

Customer Service 156

Customer Service Insurance Conference Customer Satisfaction 156

TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

of major companies around the world are currently using AI customer service technologies, the second most common use of AI after IT. The field is becoming increasingly mainstream with a 2017 Tractica report predicting that biometric hardware and software revenue will grow to $15.1 Contact Center workload management.

Technology 122

Technology Customer Service Contact Center Gamification 122

Grupo Noa

JUNE 1, 2018

Ideally, a firm that does not receive an excessive high volume of calls should go for shared call center route. According to Walker statistics, 81% of the customers view customer care service as the necessary determinant of a firm’s long-term success. It is not only effective and influential but faster in operation too.

Call Center Solutions 40

Call Center Solutions Call Center Contact Center Omni-Channel 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

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

ROI’s on the Prize: Twitter Links Social Customer Care and Willingness to Pay by Lia Winograd. When a customer tweets to a company and receives a response, the customer is willing to spend 3-20% more. Where Customer Service is Failing: Top Priorities For Your Contact Center [Research] by Sharpen.

Omni-Channel 48

Omni-Channel Customer Service Trends Contact Center 48

ShepHyken

JANUARY 8, 2018

(Retail Customer Experience) As the new year arrives, it’s a great time to look ahead at what’s to come from those in the trenches. Retail customer experience gurus, leaders and experts shared their insight with Retail Customer Experience via email as 2017 ebbed to a close. My Comment: The future is here!

Customer Service 0

Customer Service Contact Center Retail Competitive Advantage 0

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

Talkdesk

JULY 26, 2017

It allows companies to give contact center admins more power than ever before to customize and manage their contact center technology and integrations. Backed by years of experience in the contact center space, Ytica brings you expertise in running profitable operations in both sales and customer care.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Call Center Healthcare Analytics 40

Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

And AI development is not the core business focus of a contact center. Choose a solution designed to allow customers to easily get the answers they need on their own, your agents to intelligently engage with customers and for you to deliver business results that matter. MIT Sloan and BCG Study, 2017. The result?

Self Service 89

Self Service Customer Service Average Handle Time CRM 89

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

TechSee

APRIL 17, 2018

With all the AI hype in 2017, the customer service industry expected smart machines to truly transform the customer experience. The path to the future of efficient AI in customer service is collaborative – today, humans and AI-based customer service chatbots can collaborate to maximize interactions with customers.

Chatbots 95

Chatbots Customer Service Call Center Interaction 95

Qualtrics

JULY 15, 2019

So, let’s look at some benchmarks for response times: Call Center: Waiting for more than 90 seconds on hold to talk with a customer support representative will decrease customer satisfaction levels. – View or contact center experience solution here.

Net Promoter Score 41

Net Promoter Score Customer Service Customer Experience Social Media 41

Verint

JULY 31, 2017

Listening, analyzing and acting on the voice of the customer across digital and traditional channels (e.g., She and her team outlined three principles that are part of the foundation of their VoC strategy: Understand the root cause of issues that customers have with our organization—and determine why the defects occurred.

Strategy 28

Strategy Analytics ROI Survey 28

Verint

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

KM is continuing to be enhanced and raised to new levels of prominence as it increasingly becomes supported by a digital, self-service, multichannel approach to reactive and proactive customer care via new and emerging technologies and applications.

Self Service 26

Self Service Management Contact Center Social Media 26

Stella Connect

JUNE 5, 2017

Hiring for Retention: Building Blocks for Staffing your Contact Center for the Next Generation (Master Class). Director Consumer Care Center, Banner Health. Few contact center issues are more pressing (or costly) than employee churn. Conversocial makes social customer care look effortless.

Call Center 40

Call Center Contact Center Conference CRM 40

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Call centers have developed dramatically over the past few years and will continue to do so in 2023. While most classic contact center technologies will continue to be utilized, most will be replaced by chatbots, cloud technologies, AI, and remote work, enabling businesses to enhance the customer experience and save expenses.

Call Center 52

Call Center Omni-Channel Trends Contact Center 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Call centers have developed dramatically over the past few years and will continue to do so in 2023. While most classic contact center technologies will continue to be utilized, most will be replaced by chatbots, cloud technologies, AI, and remote work, enabling businesses to enhance the customer experience and save expenses.

Call Center 52

Call Center Omni-Channel Trends Contact Center 52

Call Center Pros

AUGUST 27, 2018

He also writes that, if businesses don’t pursue 1:1 customer care and engagement, they’ll lose business to their competitors. This book will teach you about how to use the power of technology to more effectively grow relationships with customers around the world.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Call Center Loyalty Customer Service Strategies 40

TechSee

APRIL 10, 2019

A recent report by Forrester takes this concept one step further by proving that improving customer experience in telecoms delivers a boost to all KPIs. Drive Revenue with Great Customer Experience 2017 indicates that after the auto industry and upscale hotels, telecoms has the third highest potential for increasing revenue by improving CX.

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience Strategy Customer Centricity Omni-Channel 154

BlueOcean

JANUARY 21, 2019

Blue Ocean, a world leader in customer care solutions, was named a finalist in the “Customer Service Team of the Year – Recovery Situation” category in the 13th Annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service. The company received a Bronze Stevie in the same category in 2017. About Blue Ocean.

Customer Service 204

Customer Service Insurance Conference Customer Care 204

Qualtrics

AUGUST 1, 2019

Adobe Customer Care (@AdobeCare) February 28, 2017. Want to learn more about how to delight your customers? Check out our recent eBook release, “The Compelling Contact Center Agent Experience” You can download it here. Free eBook: The Compelling Contact Center Agent Experience.

Omni-Channel 8

Omni-Channel Examples Customer Service eBook 8

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

His 23rd book, “Kaleidoscope: Delivering Innovative Service That Sparkles” was released in February 2017 and is an inspirational guide to providing remarkable service. It won a 2017 Best Book Award for business books after winning a silver medal from North American Book Awards. Show podcast and a regular contributor to Forbes.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

Comm100

DECEMBER 11, 2017

According to CX Network’s 2017 Digital Marketing Trends Report , customer experience ranks first as the most exciting opportunity for businesses for the third year in a row. It is no surprise that customer experience ranks highly. Suitable Channels for Your Customer Base.

Customer Experience 117

Customer Experience Social Media Self Service Multi-Channel 117

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

His 23rd book, “Kaleidoscope: Delivering Innovative Service That Sparkles” was released in February 2017 and is an inspirational guide to providing remarkable service. It won a 2017 Best Book Award for business books after winning a silver medal from North American Book Awards. Show podcast and a regular contributor to Forbes.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

Magellan Solutions

JULY 5, 2021

Eastvantage is a Euro-Filipino outsourcing firm that offers the following service to SMEs: Customer Care Support. Boomering is a BPO company established in 2017. They might still improve their services but for now, they’re one of the worst call center companies in the Philippines. Eastvantage Business Solutions.

Call Center 40

Call Center Company Omni-Channel e-support 40

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Brenda Lynn Dichoso – Head of Customer Experience Performance Management at PT Smartfren Telecom. Brenda Lynn Dichoso is a customer experience executive with direct vertical market experience in designing, implementing, and managing complex customer care operations in a telecom set-up. and Crowdvocate.com.

Customer Experience 132

Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

ShepHyken

JUNE 2, 2017

To compound all this, traditional service – which waits until customers called the contact center before addressing a problem – has become much less effective. Sprint Wireless overhauled their customer care program, providing their call-center agents with real-time recommendations to improve retention.

Examples 75

Examples Self Service Wireless Call Center 75