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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Are their values still clearly aligned with your brand? What Service Level Metrics Are Most Relevant to Your Business Now? Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. Are Your Customers Happy?

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. Without it, you risk taking a hit to your CSat scores, your brand loyalty, and your bottom line. The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated.

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Silencing the Noise: Unveiling the Impact on Contact Centre Agents and Brands

CSM Magazine

In fact, recent research shows that 69% of agents reference background noise around them or customers as a key component of declining mental wellbeing. Yet, when compared to the time spent on drafting and updating website copy, agent training too often takes a backseat.

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Future State of the Contact Center: ChatGPT in Customer Experience

BlueOcean

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. The question of the moment is: what role is ChatGPT going to play in delivering a loyalty-building customer experience? Can AI Handle Complex Customer Care?

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A First-Time Outsourcing Decision Pays Long-Term Dividends?

GlowTouch

But when your value proposition is built on being a lifestyle brand rather than an eCommerce company, this distinction can get blurred. There are certainly worse concerns than rapid growth that a company can face, but when the rate of growth encroaches on the customer experience, a far more serious issue can emerge. The Opportunity.

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. One Metric to Rule Them All. But where do we start?

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Artificial Intelligence and the Customer Journey

Horizon CX

Granted we live in a fast-paced age where average handling time is typically imposed upon an agent as one of their performance metrics and I get that, but some people tend to have this communication problem. Yes, they recommend that you Tweet your issue on their Customer Care Twitter page.