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

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

Natalie Petouhof

APRIL 7, 2016

Customer self-service is one of the key capabilities of any company that actually cares about their customers. Companies contemplating a self-service customer care solution to support digital customer experiences should consider the following five steps: 1. As organizations make.

Self Service 40

Self Service Customer Journeys Average Handle Time Government 40

Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

According to Forbes, poor customer service is costing businesses more than $75 billion a year. The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction.

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Contact Center Customer Journeys Self Service How To 40

Natalie Petouhof

APRIL 6, 2016

However, leaders often stigmatize customer service or customer care as a cost center. Unless of course, a company is doing a poor job of customer service and customer experience. Savvy managers understand the value of great customer service and experiences. This paradigm is false.

Self Service 40

Self Service Report Company Social Media 40

SaleMove

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Today’s contact center managers focus primarily on agent performance and customer service level metrics, and using those metrics to drive staffing, training and technology investment decisions. . Available technologies and customer care requirements are changing rapidly. People Issues.

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Contact Center Self Service Management Metrics 52

SaleMove

MARCH 12, 2021

In today’s consumer-driven world where the overall experience is a top differentiator, customer care organizations are now at the forefront of innovation. Those that embrace new technologies to enhance the customer experience often pull ahead exponentially, leaving those that stagnate to fall ever further behind.

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Contact Center Self Service Customer Care Innovation 52

Verint

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

However, in the digital, multichannel customer engagement world of today, the evolving and more astute customer base has higher expectations, as well as a strong desire to do things themselves via self-service applications. Those leaders are followed by social media (25%) and blog posts (20%).

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Self Service Management Contact Center Social Media 26

Vonage

AUGUST 15, 2016

Altimeter Group’s Brian Solis cited a survey in which 88 percent of all businesses believe they deliver great customer service, yet only 8 percent of their customers agree. Putting yourself in your customer’s shoes requires focusing on more than individual transactions. What do customers want?

Self Service 120

Self Service Contact Center Trends Connections 120

SaleMove

JULY 29, 2019

This is the first installment of a blog series that examines the trends driving the transformation, reviews how people work in today’s contact center, and explores what you should do now to staff the contact center of tomorrow. Start Swimming. “ You better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone.”

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Contact Center Self Service Analytics Sports 40

ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2018

Self-service. You will eventually be able to resolve most mundane and simplest issues yourself thanks to: automated processes and responses, better knowledge and self-help recommendations, extra data from devices with sensors in your home (Internet of Things). He’s a Marketing Manager for customer engagement software, RichCall.

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Self Service Chatbots Social Media Insurance 74

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 106

Uniphore

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is a contributed blog post by Dipu KV, President – Operations & Customer Experience at Bajaj Allianz General a recent guest on Uniphore’s Conversations that Matter podcast. We were able to ensure a seamless switch for our customers from contact centers to digital servicing without a glitch.

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Insurance Self Service Contact Center Travel 100

COPC

JANUARY 31, 2018

In our quarterly blog series, Ask the Experts, we ask COPC Inc. experts questions about specific areas for improving operational performance in call centers, customer experience operations, vendor management organizations and procurement. How are these technologies currently being deployed in the contact center?

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Contact Center Chatbots Self Service Call Center 40

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Actual customer contact agents, however, prioritize something else: the effort required to perform their work. Agents obviously value bright contact centers and great salaries, but their daily happiness hinges far more greatly on systems and processes. Are the tools easy to use? It Had Better Be!

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Omni-Channel Self Service Policies Abandon Rate 96

Natalie Petouhof

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Tweet Constellation Research is launching a new program, and I’m happy to share that the vendors that have been listed on the Constellation ShortList ™ for Customer Service and Contact Center Software. phone, tablet, email, chat, text, website, Facebook, other social networks).

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Contact Center Software Contact Center Software Self Service 40

NICE inContact

JUNE 11, 2019

Every business is different, and so is every customer. But when it comes to the benefits of digital customer service, these seem to go across the board. The bottom line: Online retailers can establish trust and loyalty by offering responsive service and self-service options like live chat and chatbots.

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Industry Self Service Customer Service Banking 136

ShepHyken

APRIL 28, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Murph Krajewski, writes about the importance of a single customer view when it comes to serving your customers. This will help lead you to forming important relationship with your customer. – Shep Hyken. Customer service needs customer data.

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Customer Service Contact Center Self Service Call Center Solutions 91

Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

List the strategic metrics you are measured on every day and then think about how AI can help you to: Reduce call volume (call deflection via satisfying self-service). Increase First Contact Resolution (FCR). Improve CSAT, NPS, customer lifetime value (CLV)…. 1) First step? Reduce Average Handle Time (AHT). The result?

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Self Service Customer Service Average Handle Time CRM 89

Lithium

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Check out this audio version of our blog, also found on your favorite podcast platform! What effect this has on a brand depends heavily on how robust the brand’s marketing, community, and customer care systems are. This fact is especially true in the diverse world of customer care. The Khoros effect.

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Airlines Self Service Effort Score NPS 52

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

It allows them to feel like they can do something with the service they received, whether it was good or bad. For independent customers, the ability to do things themselves gives them a sense of empowerment. Self-service options let the customer take care of themselves without assistance.

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Self Service Effort Score Guidelines Tips 68

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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Technology Customer Service Contact Center Gamification 122

Natalie Petouhof

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

This new report looks at the importance of agile customer care. What exactly does agile customer care and agile customer experience mean? Traditional Customer Care Solutions Require Resources from IT and Result in Low Agent Productivity and ROI. that timeline could be weeks or months.

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Customer Care ROI Training Report 40

COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the customer experience (CX) industry, offering businesses new opportunities to enhance their operations. This blog article discusses the importance of employing multiple types of AI, implementing effective controls and guardrails, and adapting specific roles within the CX organization.

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Industry Customer Experience Analytics Training 114

Natalie Petouhof

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Tweet This report looks at how companies, using the right software, can gain ROI from Customer Service and Customer Experience. Customer Care as a cost center is an unfounded p aradigm. In fact, executives have long thought of customer service or customer care as a cost center.

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ROI Report Self Service Customer Service 40

Natalie Petouhof

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

announced its acquisition of Contact Solutions , a leading provider of real-time, contextual customer care solutions. Cloud-base Voice and Mobile Self-Service. The combination of Contact Solutions and Verint will increase the value proposition that customers of both companies receive.

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Self Service Customer Experience Customer Service Omni-Channel 40

Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the most impactful uses is how AI is transforming customer experience (CX). Advances in technology allow contact centers to use data in much more manageable ways, redefine how to engage with customers, gain efficiencies, and leverage actionable insights to improve quality management (QM) and the customer journey.

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Contact Center Management Effort Score Call Center 75

Avaya

JULY 22, 2016

Avaya’s Emerging Products & Technology group in conjunction with their Customer Experience Centre in Galway, Ireland—the company’s global R&D facility that is accelerating future technologies in next-generation customer experience applications—is innovating for AI in business communications. The post What’s Next?

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Chatbots Self Service Customer Experience Contact Center 40

Avaya

MAY 4, 2016

Using the latest services and solutions paves the way to guaranteed customer retention and loyalty. One of the leading organizations in the area of customer care, winning multiple awards for its contact centre operations including a Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart Government Award, is the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA).

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Transportation Omni-Channel Multi-Channel Self Service 40

Natalie Petouhof

APRIL 26, 2016

Social media has huge implications to business – many of them not obvious to many – but over the years I’ve spent a lot of time understanding how social media provides business value. For more information on this report, you can find it here.

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Social Media Self Service Engagement ROI 40

NICE inContact

AUGUST 6, 2019

1) Centrally managing next generation digital interactions in the contact center. Today in most company’s ownership of digital channels is siloed outside the contact center, typically in marketing. Some specific examples are: A customer calls the contact center with a billing issue.

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Self Service Omni-Channel Contact Center Fashion 159

NICE inContact

AUGUST 6, 2019

1) Centrally managing next generation digital interactions in the contact center. Today in most company’s ownership of digital channels is siloed outside the contact center, typically in marketing. Some specific examples are: A customer calls the contact center with a billing issue.

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Self Service Omni-Channel Contact Center Fashion 136

Upstream Works

MARCH 26, 2020

The rationale here for use in the business is clear, but the same tools used for collaboration also has newfound utility in the contact center. This is especially true for video and co-browse customer care solutions. Learn more and see it in action: www.upstreamworks.com/demo.

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Customer Care Video Healthcare Self Service 78

Lithium

JUNE 7, 2022

Some blog areas are limited to Khoros customers only. If you are a customer and unable to access anything, click the chat bubble (bottom right) and type Customer Access. With the addition of TikTok’s moderation in Khoros Care, brands can now moderate their public comments on their owned videos in Khoros.

Self Service 10

Self Service Social Media Roadmap Gamification 10

Natalie Petouhof

MAY 27, 2016

. • Experience Management: How to Deliver Integrated Customer Experiences. • How Rackspace Creates the Next-Generation Customer Experience. • The ROI Of Agile Customer Care: Reduce Training and Easy To Add Channels.

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Omni-Channel Social Media e-support ROI 40

Upstream Works

JANUARY 25, 2022

For contact centers, digital transformation has surpassed buzzword status. CX innovation is accelerating faster than ever before, and it’s integral that contact centers keep pace. But how can contact centers respond? But how can contact centers respond? Understanding the Customer Journey.

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Innovation Contact Center Omni-Channel Self Service 78

Kustomer

JUNE 27, 2022

What Are the Benefits of Customer Service Software? Customer service tools can transform customer service for companies of any size. Utilizing these tools enables faster, more efficient, personalized support while still imparting a brand-specific and customer-centric experience.

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Software Tools Customer Service Self Service 98