Vonage

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The days of winning over your customers’ hearts and minds based solely on the quality of your product or service are over. This leaves delivering a speedy, personalized and friendly customer experience as the best way to differentiate your business from its competitors. Half of consumers move on after poor customer service.

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Omni-Channel Consumers Self Service Social Media 218

ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2019

Airline agents are still at check-in counters to guide passengers after self-service kiosks and to arrange complicated ticketing. In the contact center industry, for example, there are fewer phone conversations going into customer support centers than in the past. Technology replacing humans.

Contact Center 111

Contact Center Self Service Banking Airlines 111

NICE inContact

JANUARY 24, 2018

So many companies are enjoying the benefits of having moved their contact centers to the cloud over the past few years. Often companies started with a small deployment in one department and gradually grew that implementation to encompass all the contact center applications in the business. Digital Transformation.

Customer Care 186

Customer Care Self Service Contact Center Chatbots 186

Talkdesk

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Opentalk 2017 was packed with thought leadership from some of the most customer-centric leaders and companies of our time. The Opentalk 2017 Video Library is your team’s chance to re-experience those speaking sessions. Bringing Call Centers Into the Modern Age. So, today people prefer self-serve as their first choice.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Self Service Call Center Video 40

Talkdesk

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Opentalk 2017 was packed with thought leadership from some of the most customer-centric leaders and companies of our time. The Opentalk 2017 Video Library is your team’s chance to re-experience those speaking sessions. Bringing Call Centers Into the Modern Age. So, today people prefer self-serve as their first choice.

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Self Service Contact Center Call Center Video 40

Verint

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In the customer service environment, knowledge management (KM) is the systematic management of an organization's information assets, including the efficient handling and distribution of information and data resources residing within, and often outside, an enterprise. However, communities should not be set up and then forgotten.

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Self Service Management Contact Center Social Media 26

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Baphira Wahlang Shylla, a digital marketer at Knowmax , a SaaS company that provides knowledge management solutions for various industries that are seeking to improve their customer service metrics. She shares how BPOs can enhance your customer experience.

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Self Service Customer Experience Multi-Channel Call Center 64

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.

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Contact Center Report Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 104

CSM Magazine

MAY 18, 2017

Over 88% of organisations expect digital customer interactions to overtake voice by 2020 or sooner and 92% say customer experience can be linked to revenue, but just 29% are confident they can deliver a seamless customer experience across multiple channels, according to a new report, State of Customer Experience 2017 from West.

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West Monroe

JULY 24, 2017

Yes, life has changed and so have customer’s expectations. Customer experience comes down to your perception of your interactions with a company. Fewer people are picking up the phone to interact with a company, and companies are putting an emphasis on self-service. I don’t know how I would survive without Siri.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Self Service Technology 53

Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Tweet AI and customer service; it’s a hot topic! But when I talk to customers, they say, “ I get there’s something to AI and customer service, but how do I deliver business results and value with AI? ” Increase First Contact Resolution (FCR). Improve CSAT, NPS, customer lifetime value (CLV)….

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Self Service Customer Service Average Handle Time CRM 89

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

Avaya

MARCH 28, 2017

I recently attended Jeff Pulver’s 2017 MoNage conference to get the latest views on chatbot usage and expectations for serving customers. There is no shortage of software and services companies, including Avaya, that are investing significantly in the field of chatbot technology for contact centers applications.

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Contact Center Chatbots Self Service Conference 40

Customer Bliss

MAY 3, 2017

This especially holds true when it comes to customer service. In fact, CEB data shows that 81 percent of customers today will use self-service channels first before reaching out to a company to speak to a customer service rep live. Customer satisfaction has been in a freefall for four years running.

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Self Service Customer Service Contact Center Airlines 134

Avaya

MAY 31, 2018

A customer could once walk into a local shop and be personally greeted by the sales assistant who very often had a one-to-one, direct—and therefore highly individualized—relationship with the person. Each customer had a unique need, attitude, budget and purchasing pattern. This partnership follows our 2017 release of Avaya Oceana 3.4

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Contact Center Self Service How To Effort Score 42

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.

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Contact Center Self Service Industry Customer Satisfaction 40

NICE inContact

JUNE 28, 2017

Technology has dramatically changed consumer expectations over the last 10 years with companies who want to lead in the digital customer experience finding ways to utilize technology in smarter ways. New technology can enhance both agent-assisted and self-service interactions. So what trends will have an impact in 2017?

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Report Customer Experience Self Service Trends 120

Joe Rawlinson

AUGUST 9, 2017

Mobile technology has been changing consumer expectations for both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers, making it more challenging to deliver satisfactory customer service. The 2017 IBM Consumer Experience Index (CEI) Study says only 3.4 percent of brands are delivering leading-edge customer experience , while 33.5

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Omni-Channel Self Service Consumers Meeting 104

TechSee

APRIL 24, 2018

In addition, a positive unboxing process has been proven to engage customers emotionally and enhance the overall customer experience (CX). If the customer is technologically-challenged, or the model is slightly different, or the environment does not match the one in the video, the customer experience can be negatively affected.

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Self Service Call Center Video Consumers 116

Talkdesk

MARCH 14, 2018

Three talent trends emerged from Deloitte’s 2017 global contact center survey that point to the need to rethink the way contact centers handle staffing. These initiatives are all supported by the Talkdesk Enterprise Contact Center Platform , illustrating our overall dedication to improving agent effectiveness.

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Contact Center Self Service Contact Center Software Call Center 40

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This week we feature an article by Mansi Bhatia who looks at ways organizations can transform contact centers into a customer engagement center. I like the idea of a customer engagement center. – Shep Hyken. Customer service has the power to make or break a company.

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Contact Center Customer Engagement Engagement Customer Service 44

Eptica

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 National Customer Service Week: The opportunity of Artificial Intelligence. Published on: October 04, 2017. It is a great opportunity to demonstrate how customer service, and customer experience, has grown to become business-critical for organisations, whatever industry sector they are in.

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Self Service Customer Service Contact Center Social Media 68

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Here are some of the top customer service predictions for 2018, brought to you by Fara Haron is CEO of CRM Solutions, Arvato. Consumers will be engaging with companies via these voice-enabled channels and will have higher expectations on the accuracy and their capability to help answer customer service issues.

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Self Service Customer Service Gamification CRM 80

TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

It seems like every company in every industry wants to harness the power of AI to enhance operations and positively impact the lives of their customers. A Tata Consultancy Services survey found that 31.7% of major companies around the world are currently using AI customer service technologies, the second most common use of AI after IT.

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Technology Customer Service Contact Center Gamification 122

eGain Blogs

JANUARY 4, 2018

This is an extract from an interview* that eGain’s SVP of Marketing, Anand Subramaniam, gave to Contact Center Pipeline for their feature article, Blending AI With Support. What is the key to improved customer (CX) and agent experiences (AX)? Human-assisted service is equally challenging. The second is a consumer survey.

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Self Service Contact Center Touchpoint Omni-Channel 53

VDS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As companies scrambled to drive efficiencies and cut costs, they adopted new ways to improve the experience for both the employee and the customer. There are many innovative ways to improve the experience for both your employees and customers. More, customers want seamless, effortless experiences.

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Virtual Agent Customer Service Self Service Contact Center 52

ProProfs Chat

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Improving customer support has become more important than ever, given the never-ceasing expectations of customers. As leading researchers indicate that organizations lose about $62 million every year due to poor customer service , you can’t expect any good with an average customer support. Social customer service.

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Self Service Trends Chatbots Omni-Channel 111

Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2016

Consequently, as newer technologies enable more ease in performing business transactions, consumers will have higher expectations when it comes to customer service and sales support. In recent years, consumers have placed greater importance on the quality of customer service than on the price and quality of products alone.

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 The 5 rules of Retail Christmas Customer Experience. Published on: 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.

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Retail Customer Experience Self Service Ecommerce 73

TechSee

MARCH 13, 2018

Artificial Intelligence was the talk of 2017. The hype was generated by successive breakthroughs in multiple industries, such as self-driving cars, smart assistants, etc., However, while AI has not yet become the answer to all our customer service challenges, the technology is moving forward at a rapid pace.

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Customer Service Chatbots Virtual Agent How To 95

Avaya

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At the recent Monage Conference , where Jeff Pulver invited me to speak, I talked about chatbots and shared how they can transform customer experiences for large enterprises. It was a perfect topic for the mix of customers and entrepreneurial chatbot developers in attendance. Customers don’t talk to an “agent.”

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Chatbots Customer Experience Self Service Contact Center 57

Talkdesk

JANUARY 24, 2018

To help understand the modern contact center industry as thoroughly as possible, the team at Talkdesk reviewed Deloitte’s 2017 Global Contact Center Survey. A year ago, 2017 was designated as the “ year of the chatbot ” but at the time of the survey, only accounted for 6% of customer contact.

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Contact Center Self Service Social Media Chatbots 46

Talkdesk

JANUARY 24, 2018

To help understand the modern contact center industry as thoroughly as possible, the team at Talkdesk reviewed Deloitte’s 2017 Global Contact Center Survey. A year ago, 2017 was designated as the “ year of the chatbot ” but at the time of the survey, only accounted for 6% of customer contact.

Contact Center 46

Contact Center Self Service Social Media Chatbots 46

Eptica

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 5 tips to transform your social customer service. That makes social customer service a major, growing part of every brand’s customer experience. That makes social customer service a major, growing part of every brand’s customer experience.

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Tips Customer Service Social Media Self Service 55

Talkdesk

APRIL 11, 2017

From its founding, Talkdesk has differentiated itself from its competitors by focusing first and foremost on the end customer. We know that delivering brilliant customer interactions is how forward-thinking brands and companies foster meaningful relationships with their customers. Why collect CSAT through SMS? Why measure Mood?

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Contact Center Self Service Abandon Rate Call Center 50

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?

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Loyalty Customer Engagement Engagement Interaction 44

Eptica

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Balancing the human and the digital in customer experience. Published on: October 11, 2017. She recently contributed the foreword to Eptica’s new whitepaper, Putting the human at the heart of digital customer experience. Meeting these consumer needs seems daunting.

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Customer Experience Self Service Chatbots Consumers 49