BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That’s what has happened in the outsourced contact center space when it comes to SaaS clients — there’s been a metamorphosis from customer service cost center to customer success revenue protection and generation center. Connecting across all levels of both organizations. How do you outsource that connection?

Customer Success 177

Customer Success Contact Center Average Handle Time Touchpoint 177

NICE inContact

AUGUST 27, 2019

So, the importance of engaging customers and connecting with them emotionally can’t be overstated. That means connecting with customers emotionally is the task of the customer service agent. So, contact center managers need to put the right practices in place and also give agents the right tools. 1) Be personal.

Connections 149

Connections Tips Social Media Multi-Channel 149

NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Optimizing team productivity is the key to achieving this goal, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the steps necessary to unlock your call center’s full potential. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center? This technology is a component that takes calls and assigns them to the appropriate agent.

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Contact Center Call Center Management Gamification 52

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Today, contact center leaders who embrace the cloud are quick to see its benefits – powering engaging customer experiences while positively impacting business outcomes. As contact centers continue to become drivers of business growth, there are significant quantitative and qualitative results to consider.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score Self Service 120

TechSee

JULY 24, 2023

In the contact center world, hold time is often seen as a negative thing. However, what if hold time could be turned into a positive thing? What if hold time could be used to improve the customer experience and even help to resolve issues more quickly? This is where TechSee visual journeys can help.

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Net Promoter Score Contact Center Average Handle Time CRM 109

Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. How do you build a high performance contact center? These enable you to make progress on your most pressing challenges and transform into a high performance contact center. Perhaps not.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Effort Score Metrics 77

NobelBiz

MAY 2, 2023

Welcome to this insightful blog post, where we discuss building a successful outbound lead generation strategy for contact centers. Not even the best salesmen in the universe can make a difference if the calls or contact attempts are not being answered. And no wonder. And no wonder. Learn more here.

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Contact Center Strategy Call Center Multi-Channel 52

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 31, 2023

Government departments and businesses operate contact centers to connect with their communities, enabling citizens and customers to call to make appointments, request services, and sometimes just ask a question. Unless the hold music is particularly good, callers don’t typically enjoy having to wait—it wastes time and money.

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Self Service Virtual Agent Connections Contact Center 79

Call Experts

JULY 28, 2022

Contact center support is a vital part of any business. A contact center can help save you time and money while delivering outstanding service to your customers. The right contact center will improve customer satisfaction , which leads to increased sales and profitability. What Is A Contact Center?

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Contact Center Call Center Knowledge Base Customer Satisfaction 52

Playvox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you’re a contact center professional, you’re probably feeling the pain of agent staffing shortages. This difficulty includes finding contact center agents. There are creative measures every call center can take to address agent staffing shortages. Higher queue times. Don’t despair.

Contact Center 73

Contact Center Self Service Management Abandon Rate 73

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction. It’s our thing. So, of course, we’re biased.

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Contact Center Customer Care Average Handle Time Consumers 310

UJET

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The API integration linking your contact center and your customer relationship management (CRM) tool shouldn’t be holding you back. API integrations are lines of code that connect two or more applications, like your CRM and your contact center. What Exactly Is CRM Contact Center Unification?

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Contact Center CRM Data Customer Service 82

UJET

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The API integration linking your contact center and your customer relationship management (CRM) tool shouldn’t be holding you back. API integrations are lines of code that connect two or more applications, like your CRM and your contact center. What Exactly Is CRM Contact Center Unification?

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Contact Center CRM Data Customer Service 82

Think Customers

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leading contact centers understand that each person and tool has its strengths and weaknesses, and create a better customer experience when combined appropriately. To better understand this, let’s dive into the human and robotic makeup of a modern contact center. What is a contact center associate?

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Contact Center Chatbots Self Service Average Handle Time 52

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2018

This article underlines the value of DSS in customer service and focuses on the potential computer vision brings to call/chat centers, where providing a positive customer experience (CX) at scale is critical to success in the current competitive business climate. Current state of DSS in contact centers.

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Contact Center System Average Handle Time Virtual Agent 95

Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Be less concerned with average handle time, and bring your focus to first call resolution (FCR) as this metric is connected to nearly all other KPIs. #4. The post Prepping Your Contact Center Team for the Holiday Season appeared first on Stella Connect. Make Policy Exceptions When Appropriate.

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Contact Center Policies Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 88

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The data collected, measured, and analyzed for contact centers is an absolute gold mine. This article focuses on the crucial role of customer data analytics in contact center performance and customer experience. These reports also boost your call center and business intelligence by providing actionable data.

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Contact Center Analytics Data Call Center 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Contact Center Customer Experience always starts with how a customer feels before knowing how a particular technology works. And the premise of how customers feel when they call your contact center starts from your IVR messaging. The IVR messaging is what customers hear when they call your contact center.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Omni-Channel Average Handle Time Consumers 52

Innovative CX

AUGUST 10, 2021

The voluminous amounts of data generated from call management systems measure an agent’s performance in talk time, after call work, availability, adherence, quality, accuracy and so on. While average handle time was a frequently used performance indicator for agents, it can be better used as a health metric.

Connections 59

Connections Customer Experience Average Handle Time Contact Center 59

NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

As a contact center manager, you’ve got a lot of metrics to choose from as your key performance indicators (KPIs). In this blog, we help narrow down this long list to help you focus on the metrics that, when improved upon, will really help your contact center thrive. Service Quality. Operational Efficiency.

Call Center 120

Call Center Metrics Average Handle Time Self Service 120

TechSee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Visual assistance allows users to instantly stream their mobile device camera or screen via web connection, for real-time, interactive visual engagement. Assisting customers using visuals can add efficiency and significantly cut costs in three areas of customer service: the contact center. field services. self-service.

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Self Service Customer Service How To Contact Center 207

Calabrio

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

That’s why the right analytics platform, applied the right way to the right data, is so critical to contact center leaders right now. the organization that best used Calabrio Analytics to turn contact center data into actionable insights and tangible results. They’ll receive $50,000 for their contact center.

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Analytics Net Promoter Score Contact Center Effort Score 147

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call4You Marketing implemented NobelBiz Omni+, an advanced, full-featured cloud contact center solution equipped with an impressive stack of options and features that can be easily integrated, customized, and optimized to any contact center use case. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

Call Center 105

Call Center Tools Contact Center Net Promoter Score 105

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2021

If you go the extra mile and seek personalized, timely, insightful feedback from your customers, you can identify and improve contact center operations—and strengthen customer loyalty. As we aim to evolve customer experience over time, many of us are identifying problems with these types of surveys.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Survey NPS 52

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 5, 2017

This multinational communications, electronics and IT corporation has a health solutions arm delivering connected devices for which Blue Ocean provides both sales support and customer service support. As such, once customers were connected to a live agent, the agent would need to verify account information and manually enter other details.

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Case Study Study Communication Average Handle Time 149

Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

These drivers will continue into the new year has contact centers strive to meet new customer demands – by upgrading technology while knowing how to deploy the new capabilities. Connectivity and communications will no longer be centralized in the same way. Meeting the New Criteria for Customer Experience.

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Average Handle Time Contact Center e-support Touchpoint 78

BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. What does a “rooms per shift ratio” have to do with contact center operations, you might ask? I tell people that handling those customers is about having empathy. Let us know today.

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Customer Service Hospitality Contact Center Hotels 353

Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction. Contact centers are now considered more than just service centers. Omnichannel Interaction Data is Siloed or Nonexistent.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Customer Journeys Self Service How To 40

TechSee

JANUARY 24, 2023

The earlier that your call center staff can see the problem, the faster they can resolve it. Sending an SMS link to connect the staff person and the customer through video. That will help keep them focused on what they need to do and follow the correct actions at every given point in time. email) should SMS not work.

Engagement 109

Engagement Average Handle Time Call Center First Call Resolution 109

Bold360

MAY 14, 2020

In the first of a three-part conversation, Nate and I discussed how CX leaders are coming from the world of the contact center, what makes a good leader and how Nate took this journey himself. “We’ve Transitioning from the contact center to CX leadership. How much overlap exists between the contact center and CX?

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Contact Center Leadership Customer Journeys Customer Experience 52

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. So, is Average Handle Time (AHT) still a relevant metric and what does it mean for contact centres today?

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Average Handle Time Multi-Channel Contact Center Metrics 59

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Speed Doesn’t Equal Success: The Limitations of AHT as a KPI by Othmar Mueller Von Blumencron (VIPdesk Connect) While top-notch products and services remain vital, the spotlight in recent years has undeniably shifted to the customer experience as a pivotal factor distinguishing one brand from another. Connect with Shep on LinkedIn.

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Customer Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Service Strategies 63

NICE inContact

JULY 12, 2019

Digital customer service streamlines the process so your contact center agents can work more efficiently, and this way, no customer ever gets left out in the cold. First Response Time (FRT) and Average Handling Time (AHT) are the dominant KPIs in many contact centers, with agents judged on how quickly they respond to customer queries.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Net Promoter Score Call Center How To 136

Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It, essentially, had to choose between quick service and meaningful connections. They absolutely do expect speedy, frictionless interactions that produce resolutions on the first contact. They are looking for connections. Customers are unwilling to make that sacrifice. In many cases, the two are actually correlated.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time Customer Centricity 40

RapportBoost

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

– Event, sponsored by Talkdesk, to cover top priorities for contact centers on how to connect with customers, prospects via their preferred channels – San Diego, CA. We’ll showcase real case studies of how leading brands are connecting with customers on their preferred channels,” said Medrano. “In

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Contact Center Innovation Average Handle Time Case Study 40

TechSee

MARCH 12, 2019

Visual support – where service is provided over a live video connection – has proven to be an effective method of driving high customer satisfaction ratings and building customer loyalty through personalized service. Bringing visual automation to contact centers. The Value of Automation. The Power of Visual Automation.

Self Service 111

Self Service Contact Center Net Promoter Score Contact Center Workflow 111