VDS

APRIL 3, 2024

Improving the Patient Experience Through Contact Centers The modern healthcare landscape is evolving, with patients increasingly seeking care experiences that are not just effective but also personalized and convenient. A positive interaction can set the tone for the entire patient journey.

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Uniphore

JUNE 16, 2021

How to Train and Onboard (Work From Home) Contact Center Agents in 2021. How do you shorten the learning curve in the contact center and retain more agents when 91% of agents are likely to quit in 2021? There’s no way around it: How contact centers currently train and onboard agents is completely messed up.

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NICE inContact

JULY 18, 2019

IT leaders rely on a set of critical contact center functionalities for efficiency and success. NICE inContact CXone helps IT leaders elevate the performance of their contact centers with the leading cloud call center software in the market. . Watch this video to learn that this is possible and available.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 5, 2019

However, every day in the contact center, supervisors and managers send incomplete messages to their agents, failing to prescribe what “medicine” is needed to correct their performance problems. So how can you effectively “treat” your contact center with invaluable coaching medicine? Select the Right QM Platform.

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NICE inContact

JULY 1, 2019

In the course of planning and traveling, customers contact Swedish Rail for a variety of reasons, from checking on delayed trains to disturbances on the tracks—volume that rises considerably during bad weather and vacations. But physical distance wasn’t the only thing separating the two contact center locations.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2018

And you’re ready for your outsourced customer service RFP to hit the road and bring you some stellar options for a new contact center partner. Here’s the short list of the best questions to ask about AI in the contact center. Looking for more contact center RFP questions? We want to make it easy for you.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

And, a contact center is instrumental in supporting your customers. . Contact center and call center partners are the best to support your customer journey, regardless of your business’s product or service. . Want to learn more about how a contact center can support your customer experience?

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VDS

MAY 21, 2024

To meet today’s high customer expectations, businesses are increasingly turning to a blend of AI technology and human interaction. By integrating these technologies, contact centers are transforming their operations to be more efficient and responsive, ultimately striving to improve the overall customer experience with every interaction.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

Agents remain the most critical resource in any contact center. But, every contact center continues to struggle with big challenges when it comes to engaging, motivating and retaining agents. The number and complexity of interactions is getting higher, but the size of the centers are not increasing at the same rate.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Contact centers are no exceptions. Only about a third of the customers are willing to use bots and virtual assistants to interact with companies AI is not a customer pleaser, yet! Contact center execs are keen on leveraging AI for the right use cases and the one team they rely heavily is IT.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2019

In the contact center industry, for example, there are fewer phone conversations going into customer support centers than in the past. Gartner estimates that by 2021, 15 percent of all customer service interactions will be completely handled by AI, an increase of 400 percent from 2017.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Have you wondered if contact center analytics could “really” work to help you create a seamless customer experience? Using random customer interactions to analyze customer experience or agent performance, hinders the ability to target strategic improvement initiatives. Train more effectively.

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Call Experts

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations. Consider the following questions.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Contact centers of today are not just customer service centers. But there are only so many hours in the day, so how do you scale a highly connected, customer centric culture in your contact center , with limited budget? Today’s contact centers not just have to think about omnichannel.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Contact center managers know that quality monitoring and management is necessary to maintain or improve Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). It can be difficult, however, to tie contact center contributions to CSAT and then to resulting dollars, making it even more difficult to justify needed quality management investments.

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Comm100

MAY 25, 2022

Ultimately, customer service and contact centers have not been immune to these changes. In this article, we’ll look at some of the new challenges that have emerged to impact contact centers. For contact centers, this means that outsourcing, IVRs, and seasonal hiring practices will have to change.

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NICE inContact

JULY 26, 2019

is the average cost saved per chatbot interaction for messaging-based banking bots 11,000 operating chatbots now are on Facebook Messenger $174 billion could be saved across insurance, financial services, sales, and customer service. Most of the chatbots out there remind me of the interactive voice response (IVR) systems built in the 1980s.

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SaleMove

JANUARY 26, 2024

From Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) to Unified Interaction Management, explore how this evolution empowers businesses and increases overall satisfaction. The post On the Horizon: Beyond CCaaS to Unified Interaction Management (UIM) appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

In light of fast-changing customer demands, is your contact center keeping up? Of US consumers surveyed, 56% are highly satisfied with chat interactions, and 47% and 44% of UK and Australian consumers, respectively, say they’re highly satisfied with their recent chat experience. Is your Contact Center Keeping Up?

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It’s plain and simple, using plain language in customer interactions is good business for your contact center. This all leads to cost savings in your contact center. The lack of clear communication in the contact center can result in significant costs to a business over time.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

Agents remain the most critical resource in any contact center. But, every contact center continues to struggle with big challenges when it comes to engaging, motivating and retaining agents. The number and complexity of interactions is getting higher, but the size of the centers are not increasing at the same rate.

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Calabrio

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

You can read the full post on the Waterfield blog, and register for an upcoming webinar featuring Calabrio’s Dave Hoekstra on September 15th. We have talked about the technology side of working from home – a million webinars on how to migrate to the cloud or how adding new technology can reduce the load of inbound customer interactions.

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SaleMove

JULY 21, 2023

By implementing a holistic interaction platform, insurance companies can improve KPIs like first call resolution and average handle time, reducing operating costs. The post Deriving Value from the Insurance Contact Center appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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NICE inContact

JULY 19, 2018

There is no department where this is more true than in the contact center, and one way to increase efficiency is with integrations. The customer experience can be improved upon by making a multitude of information available to contact center agents, while also increasing efficiency.

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SaleMove

MARCH 1, 2024

How to evolve to a staffing & operational model that unifies and takes control over ALL of your customer interactions. Imagine: 1 unified interaction team. The post The Rise and Efficiency of a Unified Interaction Team appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 25, 2019

There is extensive research that shows moving your contact center to the cloud is an inevitable requirement to staying competitive and relevant. Thus, it’s no longer a matter of “if” your contact center will move to the cloud, but rather “where” and “when” that cloud transformation begins.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

If you’ve manage an aging contact center, then you’ve probably identified several inefficiencies which limit your success. Maybe its call volumes that exceed contact center capacity. When you transform contact center inefficiencies into proficiencies you are transforming money “wasted” into money saved.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 17, 2019

What if the only human interaction your customers have with your brand is through an agent working at your contact center? Contact center agents have a significant impact on customer experience and thus the bottom line. Here our are 8 Qualities of Effective Contact Center Agents. Reliability.

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Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations. Consider the following questions.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Inbound SMS is a relatively new channel, but you should ensure that for routing inbound text interactions, your solution supports a universal queue that simply includes SMS as yet another digital channel with access to all routing options available for other channels (data directed, conditional, skills-based, etc.). A true case of 1+1=3.

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MiaRec

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Contact centers are at the forefront of customer interactions, making data analysis an essential part of improving customer service, agent performance, and overall efficiency. Two primary approaches to data analytics in contact centers are real-time analytics and post-call analytics.

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MiaRec

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Contact centers are at the forefront of customer interactions, making data analysis an essential part of improving customer service, agent performance, and overall efficiency. Two primary approaches to data analytics in contact centers are real-time analytics and post-call analytics.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The term “customer experience” (CX) has gained considerable currency recently, and in many ways has displaced “customer service” as the focal point of the contact center. Here are some implications for contact center leaders to consider in making the right buying decisions.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Contact centers are a powerhouse to deliver that exceptional experience across the entire customer journey starting from awareness, interest to purchase, service and advocacy. Contact Center Customer Experience can be enhanced every step of the way as customers interact with the brand.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 29, 2019

But like many companies that transition their operation from call center to contact center as they grow, Radisson realized there was a definite disconnect: it was using an out-of-date, on-premises Avaya system to manage its global network of contact centers and BPOs. million calls and 1.5

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

In light of fast-changing customer demands, is your contact center keeping up? Of US consumers surveyed, 56% are highly satisfied with chat interactions, and 47% and 44% of UK and Australian consumers, respectively, say they’re highly satisfied with their recent chat experience. Is your Contact Center Keeping Up?

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NICE inContact

MAY 10, 2019

As I searched for ways to discipline my accident-prone, very determined, yet very sensitive and sometimes diva-like 5-year-old daughter, I had a revelation: Dealing with rude customers in the contact center can be similar to this challenge. Emotions rise, and customers eventually want one thing: gratification.

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