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10 Tips for Connecting with Customers Emotionally

NICE inContact

So, the importance of engaging customers and connecting with them emotionally can’t be overstated. Companies that inspire positive emotions will enjoy more loyalty from customers who are willing to spend more over the long term. That means connecting with customers emotionally is the task of the customer service agent.

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The Impact of Bilingual Support on the Customer Experience When a bilingual solution is offered to the customer, companies quickly find that quality scores increase accordingly. The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. It’s our thing. So, of course, we’re biased.

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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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What’s the State of Work-at-Home in Customer Care in 2017?

BlueOcean

In some cases, we also provide a USB key that boots their computer into an independent operating system that connects flawlessly to the remote environment. Through the use of SIP technology, communications tools (in our case Cisco’s Jabber) can support rich media, and real-time communication. Our contact center is built on that.

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Does AI Mean the End for Contact Centres or Simply Higher Levels of Customer Care?

CSM Magazine

Or can contact centres start to leverage the move towards AI and create a more customer-focused environment that will result in higher levels of customer care? If you are a contact centre, it is time for you to move more of your team to video based live engagement.

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

GlowTouch

The volume was outpacing the in-house support team’s ability to keep up, so for the first time in its history, the company took on an outsourcing partner and incorporated chat into its customer communications channel mix. The all-encompassing nature of the job is a boon to agent engagement as it prevents staleness from appearing.

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Guest Blog: Are You Setting the Right Customer Experience Goals?

ShepHyken

We see numerous instances of contact center operators focusing more on improving the tactical side of operations like reducing average handle time or getting more surveys filled out while ignoring the more strategic goal of improving efficiency and eliminating the redundant. Technology is on your side.