NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

Agents remain the most critical resource in any contact center. But, every contact center continues to struggle with big challenges when it comes to engaging, motivating and retaining agents. What your agents like the most working in contact centers is helping customers. But that is not where it stops.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 19, 2019

In today’s omnichannel customer service environment, savvy organizations offer their consumers multiple ways to interact with them, including agent-assisted and self-service methods. But are all channels equally effective at delivering a high-quality experience? Here’s what we found out.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This is just one of the many insights we discovered when we surveyed more than 900 global contact center leaders about key customer experience topics, including near-term investment plans. The latest results and analysis appear in the 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark.

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Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your contact center is planning for the future, be sure to make employee experience and getting the right technology in place top priorities. We recently participated in a discussion with two industry experts that focused on megatrends that will impact contact centers in 2022. Technology always needs focus.

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NICE inContact

MAY 23, 2019

We live in an omnichannel customer service world now. With so many touchpoints in play, it’s more important than ever for contact center leaders to have their fingers on the pulse of their customers, and then align their own performance with what customers actually experience. appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Nick Bandy, Chief Marketing Officer at LiveVox , an omnichannel platform that helps brands seamlessly communicate with their customers. And in today’s digital age, customer service is now more important than ever before. What do customers expect from contact centers? .

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NICE inContact

MAY 8, 2019

Are you being realistic about whether your customer service really satisfies your customers? Are you delivering seamless omnichannel customer experiences and creating promotors rather than detractors? These are questions that keep contact center leaders up at night. You won’t be disappointed!

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

omnichannel management that supports digital transformation. By actively harnessing a set of cloud-based AI-powered technologies, contact centers are infusing intelligence across the entire customer contact landscape. In 2019, automatic call distribution sported 23.3% Key 2020 Trends: Cloud Contact Centers.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 5, 2019

And if we’re listening, our customers’ opinions, preferences and expectations will be driving call centre strategy and channel support. The baseline: Customers expect omnichannel choices in our contact centres. And their opinions and channel preferences are constantly evolving. Mobile app use, in particular, is up by 5x?

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Customer service is no different. Much has been written about the growth of self-service technologies, like mobile apps and chatbots. The business wave of the 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark analyzes survey results from over 900 contact center professionals in the US, the UK, and Australia.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2019

It often eliminates the “on hold” frustration of voice calls and lets contact centers increase productivity by having agents work with 3 or 4 customers at the same time. Chatbots are the most common application of AI for customer self-service and are not as successful (yet), as the hype would indicate.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 22, 2019

2019 has brought news that Talkdesk is a finalist in the 2019 Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service in the Innovation in Customer Service – Computer Industries category. Talkdesk is quickly garnering attention from customers and industry leaders as the enterprise cloud contact center.

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RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Take notes – the info will help you create a killer Conversational Selling strategy for 2019! Read the transcript below: Nicholas Rodriguez: …the highest priorities for Contact Centers that focus on the customer. Multi-channel usually includes voice, email, chat, SMS and even fax interactions.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2019

Traditionally quality management in the contact center has been focused on evaluating agent-assisted interactions — mainly phone. We already discussed the gap between the number of digital channels for CX that are supported in the contact center and the number of channels that are evaluated as part of a business’ QM programs.

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Talkdesk

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2019, small businesses generated 44% of the US economic activity and, as a whole, they create two-thirds of net new jobs and drive U.S. Since many banks have shuttered their branches they are leveraging the contact center as their client experience hub. innovation and competitiveness.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

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. Utilizing robotic process automation (RPA) in contact centers has been proven to reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies.

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eGain Blogs

MAY 8, 2020

More with digital self-service; chatbots, for example. More with digital choice— self-service or human-assisted—since they are less expensive than traditional channels such as in-person and phone interactions. More with proactive digital service, which preempts the very origination of customer service requests.

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eGain Blogs

MAY 8, 2020

More with digital self-service; chatbots, for example. More with digital choice— self-service or human-assisted—since they are less expensive than traditional channels such as in-person and phone interactions. More with proactive digital service, which preempts the very origination of customer service requests.

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Team HGS

JANUARY 9, 2019

HGS Roundtable: Top Customer Experience (CX) Trends in 2019. Each year, we publish our list of top customer experience (CX) trends —our on-the-ground forecast of how BPO partners will be called on to cost-effectively address the next year’s CX and service needs. Michael discusses how, in 2019, customer experience (CX) will be king.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

2019 is coming to a close and the customer support industry is moving into the next decade. To welcome the new year, here are five predictions for 2019. While voice will always remain a critical channel for support, especially for urgent issues, customers today communicate both verbally and visually with one another.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 31, 2021

And, finally, remote work and evolving sleep habits have shifted traditional contact center communication spikes from pre/post-work hours to the middle of the day. This inevitably translates to higher contact volume in the customer care realm. 8am-8pm self-service peaks have evolved into 24/7 requests.

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Kustomer

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Omnichannel Becomes Obvious. Consumers care less and less about the idea of omnichannel. They just want to be able to focus on getting ahold of a company no matter the channel and no matter the time of day. Self-Service Becomes an Expected Approach. Contact Center Turnover Continues to Be a Problem.

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Magellan Solutions

JULY 29, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has been tough on the contact center services Philippines and on a global level. . Intelligent virtual agents work to increase contact rates. Contact center teams can maximize their time and efforts, getting big results that benefit everyone. Lead Generation Call Center.

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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. At the time of the survey, voice support accounted for 64% of contacts, 3.5

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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. At the time of the survey, voice support accounted for 64% of contacts, 3.5

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NICE inContact

MAY 21, 2019

In a way, self-service in the contact centre is kind of like a buffet: You need a strategy, or you might overeat or miss all the best dishes. It seems like self-service options are everywhere these days. And I know I am not the only fan of faster self-service. What’s your strategy? Many Options.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Contact center success is heavily dependent on the agents working the frontlines to service customers every single day. Contact center agent happiness and engagement go hand-in-hand with customer happiness and satisfaction. According to ICMI , contact centers have a fairly high turnover rate of 33%.

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delighted

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Needless to say, many brands are taking notice of the financial benefits improving customer service can have for your bottom line. In 2019, 67% of consumers believe that companies are actively improving their customer service. Failure to listen actively can happen in all contact center channels.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

No other season impacts so many contact centers across so many markets quite like it. To accommodate the volume of sales, returns, and customer service requests, most businesses will hire seasonal contact center staff. Some retailers choose to upgrade technology, moving their call center software to the cloud.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 11, 2018

However, with a firm grasp of some of the advancements that 2018 has brought us, it’s logical to predict that these will continue to make an impact on Customer Experience Management in 2019. Not surprisingly, along with an increase in chat is an increase in self-service overall. AI, Bots & RPA.

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Upstream Works

MARCH 21, 2019

Establishing customer trust and loyalty is the single most important aspect of customer experience, according to the Dimension Data 2019 Global Customer Experience Benchmarking Report. The report also identifies speed of resolution, agent knowledge and ease of contact as key factors which foster that trust and loyalty.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 22, 2019

Customer experience journey management and optimization will take precedence in 2019 as organizations continue to focus on driving greater productivity and efficiency and improved customer experience. Upstream Works for Finesse is an omnichannel agent desktop. When we say omnichannel, we mean it.

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West Monroe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Thousands of Salesforce community members converged in San Francisco last week for Dreamforce 2019. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Salesforce partnership will create new efficiency opportunities – especially for contact center teams – through the newly announced Service Cloud Voice feature.

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Kustomer

OCTOBER 3, 2019

NEW YORK, NY — October 3, 2019 — Kustomer, the SaaS platform that is reimagining enterprise customer service, today introduced KustomerIQ , embedding Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning across the Kustomer platform to enhance the customer service experience of companies competing in today’s on-demand world.

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eGain Blogs

MAY 18, 2022

But if you now look at the last few years, at 2019, 2020, 2021 Forrester index, the government sector is scoring the lowest in citizen experience (in the business sector it’s customer experience, here it’s citizen experience). So, it is basically presented in an omnichannel way. So what’s the common element here?

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

That is why reducing customer effort was voted the number one priority for contact centers in 2018. This statistic comes from CCW Digital’s latest Winter Executive Report – a report that analyzes the customer service priorities of several organizations to discover the most popular goals and strategies for call centers in 2018.

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