NICE inContact

AUGUST 24, 2017

Forrester Research, in their annual Customer Experience Index, also finds that banking and credit card companies lead the way in customer experience excellence when compared to other industries. Banks generally make the news for focusing on customer service, look at their commercials, websites, etc.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 24, 2017

Forrester Research, in their annual Customer Experience Index, also finds that banking and credit card companies lead the way in customer experience excellence when compared to other industries. Banks generally make the news for focusing on customer service, look at their commercials, websites, etc.

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SaleMove

JUNE 16, 2020

But when it comes to high-volume, inbound, multi-channel conversations, Zoom-like interactions just weren’t built for that. If you think you’re on a lot of calls nowadays, think about a Contact Center agent. The main challenge with using virtual meeting platforms in a Contact Center boils down to control.

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NICE inContact

JULY 2, 2019

Digital customer service and business both move at the speed of now. This is why digital customer service is such a good fit for business and why integration needs to be seamless. It’s all about increasing efficiency in the contact center. b) Determine the most useful channels for your customers.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Fast forward to 2017: an astounding 15 million plus text messages are sent every minute of the day across the globe, but only a fraction of all those texts are customer service related. Your first contact resolution rates will increase, and so should your customer satisfaction. A true case of 1+1=3.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 2, 2019

It’s an important concept for any company considering digital customer service integration. You don’t simply want to plan for your current customer service needs. Digital customer service is evolving quickly, and this change hopefully comes in tandem with important developments in your business — namely growth.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The article includes 5 things the very best leaders do to prepare for the future as well … Continue reading → The post Prepare Your Contact Center for the Future appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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VDS

MARCH 17, 2023

Customer engagement and contact centers are critical components of any business’s success. They serve as the primary means for organizations to interact with customers, resolve issues, and improve customer satisfaction. While these two platforms share similarities, they also have important differences.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this video from my LinkedIn Learning course “Managing a Customer Contact Center,” I … Continue reading → The post <strong>Don’t Guess at Staffing: Proven Methods for Your Contact Center</strong> appeared first on Brad Cleveland. How about a Thursday afternoon at 2:00 pm?

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Vonage

AUGUST 11, 2015

Businesses can pour money into elaborate advertising campaigns, but poor customer service can undo all that hard work instantly. Excellent customer service can be as good (and often better) for your brand than a well-orchestrated PR campaign: get your customers to do the talking for you!

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Everything to do with getting resources right in a contact center begins with forecasting, predicting what the workload will be.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Interactive voice response (IVR) has been a staple of customer service for many years. Together with its “big brother”, the voice portal, IVRs have been part of contact center solutions for decades, and there is no reason to believe that they will go away any time soon. Don’t “Hide” Behind Your IVR.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

“You are only as good as your weakest channel.” – Nancy Jamison, Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. This is one of our favorite quotes from a leading analyst in the contact center space. See if it sparks you to rethink your weakest channel. Think about your voice channel: is it your weakest?

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 27, 2019

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. Bearing that in mind, here are 10 tips for connecting with customers emotionally. 5) Be channel-focused.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 25, 2019

It’s common for blogs related to customer service and customer experience to talk about how the increasing ubiquity of social media requires fundamental changes in the way that brands should conceive of customer service. Fast, accessible service isn’t all there is to delivering great customer service.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 2, 2019

It’s an important concept for any company considering digital customer service integration. You don’t simply want to plan for your current customer service needs. Digital customer service is evolving quickly, and this change hopefully comes in tandem with important developments in your business — namely growth.

Technology 120

Technology Customer Service Omni-Channel Self Service 120

Brad Cleveland Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The article includes 5 things the very best leaders do to prepare for the future as well … Continue reading → The post Prepare Your Contact Center for the Future appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Avaya

APRIL 27, 2017

But this May 22-25, when you arrive in Orlando for the 2017 ICMI Contact Center Expo and Conference , we think you’ll be heading for what we like to call the second happiest place on earth. We’ll show customer-focused companies our latest innovations. Each demo shows multi-touch channels in action. Done and fun!

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Brad Cleveland Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this video from my LinkedIn Learning course “Managing a Customer Contact Center,” I … Continue reading → The post <strong>Don’t Guess at Staffing: Proven Methods for Your Contact Center</strong> appeared first on Brad Cleveland. How about a Thursday afternoon at 2:00 pm?

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 30, 2023

Powered by Amazon Lex , the QnABot on AWS solution is an open-source, multi-channel, multi-language conversational chatbot. Customers now want to apply the power of large language models (LLMs) to further improve the customer experience with generative AI capabilities. We discuss two such use cases in this section.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Everything to do with getting resources right in a contact center begins with forecasting, predicting what the workload will be.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 21, 2015

This process validates the effectiveness of individuals evaluating agent performance and improving customer service. This blog offers tips on adding or revising calibrations as part of your Quality Management program. Agent empowerment is the new norm within many contact centers. Calibrate across all Channels.

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NICE inContact

JULY 23, 2019

It’s an incredibly popular way for people to communicate, and this naturally applies to customers too. Let’s take a closer look at why WhatsApp is the next digital customer service channel you need. Why WhatsApp is exciting for customers. WhatsApp use cases for digital customer service.

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NICE inContact

MAY 8, 2019

Specifically, how do your customers feel about your customer service? How about the latest digital channels? Are you being realistic about whether your customer service really satisfies your customers? Are you being realistic about whether your customer service really satisfies your customers?

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 7, 2019

If delivering extraordinary digital customer service were as simple as following a formula, everyone would be doing it. In fact, 89% of tweets from customers to businesses still go unanswered, and poor customer service is one of the main reasons for customer churn. But not everyone is.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 29, 2019

Why should you use an IVR in your contact center? Some core advantages of an IVR in a contact center environment include: . More accurate definition of customer needs and therefore refined routing, which increases customer satisfaction and reduces the need to requeue or transfer calls.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The following are excerpts from the transcript of Brad’s recent keynote address to Contact Center Expo, hosted by ICMI, the International Customer Management Institute, May 16 and 17, 2023. Hi everyone. Thanks so much for joining us.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The following are excerpts from the transcript of Brad’s recent keynote address to Contact Center Expo, hosted by ICMI, the International Customer Management Institute, May 16 and 17, 2023. Hi everyone. Thanks so much for joining us.

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Avaya

JUNE 28, 2017

There is no doubt that contact center leaders are feeling the pressure to have their centers and their agents perform more efficiently, faster and with more incite. Companies today are mostly competing on customer experience. The traditional contact center decision makers can no longer go it alone.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

There are three immutable laws at work in contact centers that you must keep in mind. Find more videos about contact centers in my LinkedIn Learning course “Managing a Customer Contact Center.” They’re always present.

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NICE inContact

MAY 23, 2019

We live in an omnichannel customer service world now. Emerging technologies and changing consumer demands fundamentally have shifted the way businesses interact with their customers. It’s added a great deal of complexities to the service process as well as to organizations’ relationships with their customers.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

There are three immutable laws at work in contact centers that you must keep in mind. Find … Continue reading → The post Three Immutable Laws of Contact Centers appeared first on Brad Cleveland. They’re always present.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 27, 2019

As a multi-industry manufacturing company, Honeywell develops solutions around energy and efficiency. The company determined that customer experience excellence could be the catalyst for many of the business transformations it wanted to achieve.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Paul Jarman , NICE inContact Chief Executive Officer, discusses the key paradigm shifts that will lead to massive change in the contact center and customer experience market as part of our Transforming Customer Experiences series. After watching Paul’s video, you may want to learn more.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And as long as there have been customers, there has been customer service. Even as professional merchants began to flourish about 3,000 years ago, every exchange of goods and services remained face to face. That meant customer service was tailored to each individual. From phone service to digital.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 7, 2019

If delivering extraordinary digital customer service were as simple as following a formula, everyone would be doing it. In fact, 89% of tweets from customers to businesses still go unanswered, and poor customer service is one of the main reasons for customer churn. But not everyone is.

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Software Customer Service Chatbots Social Media 136

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The next year should be one of substantial investment by businesses in their service channels, and that’s great news for their customers. The latest results and analysis appear in the 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark. Interested in learning more? Download your free copy today.

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