Upstream Works

JANUARY 31, 2023

As 2023 unfolds, a key theme for contact center leaders to watch is reinforcing the connection between customer experience (CX) and agent experience (AX). CX must always remain the primary focus for the contact center –this recent blog post identified two 2023 trends that will have a major impact on CX.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 12, 2024

Customer demands are ever-changing and more often than not, they become more and more difficult to keep up with for a lot of businesses. Customers today expect seamless and personalized interactions across all touch points. Disjointed experiences not only frustrate customers but also hinder businesses from nurturing loyalty and trust.

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Totango

AUGUST 25, 2022

Six Customer Engagement SaaS Strategies That Work. For software service providers, customer engagement SaaS strategies play a central role in a successful business model. Proactive interactions with your customers can increase satisfaction and retention, driving repeat business and referral revenue.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? Hyper efficiency is a term used to describe the streamlining of processes to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer service. Look no further!

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Everyone is talking about removing siloes these days and trying to find practical ways of blending marketing and social customer service. Of course, it’s important to realize these departments overlap, in part because great customer service stories go viral and make brands stand out as reliable, responsive and fun to interact with.

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Call Experts

JULY 27, 2023

A customer service call center serves as the backbone of a company’s customer service operations, providing a centralized hub where all customer inquiries, requests, and concerns are addressed efficiently and effectively. And high expectations from their customers.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 5, 2023

However, executing new outbound lead generation programs can be challenging, here are the top 15 challenges related to executing new outbound lead generation programs in call centers and how to tackle them. According to a report by SmallBizGenius , sales representatives must make an average of 18 calls to reach one potential buyer.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 19, 2023

The modern world is centered on the concept of immediacy and the ability to obtain information instantly. As businesses, we need to harness this culture of immediate responses to elevate customer service levels. Real-time monitoring offers an unparalleled advantage in achieving this goal. What is Real-Time Monitoring?

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In a competitive market, stellar customer service stands as the cornerstone of a thriving business. As a matter of fact, 49% of customers have left a brand due to poor customer service , as revealed in a study back in 2021. Note that most of these customers were once very loyal to the brands they supported.

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VDS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Transitioning your contact center to Genesys Cloud can be a daunting task, but with the right strategies, it can be a seamless process. Genesys Cloud is a powerful platform that can help you improve customer experience, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. You can rest assured that your customer data is safe and secure.

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Comm100

JUNE 13, 2018

Welcome to the first of a new series of monthly posts where I will be looking at the best of Customer Service, Customer Experience and Customer Success articles that can be found online. Michael Pace on his site, the Pace of Service (I really like the name by the way!) Have a H.E.A.R.T. Pacing Yourself for the Win.

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COPC

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These changes were highlighted during the Optimizing Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop that COPC Inc. hosted as part of this fall’s Execs In The Know’s Customer Response Summit. Leveraging competitive sourcing to revise footprint and address poor performing partners. WFH Insights.

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COPC

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This blog entry was written in conjunction with our upcoming Optimizing Post-Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop during Execs In The Know’s Customer Response Summit. To learn more about these priorities, check out our white paper , The 2021 State of Contact Center Vendor Management.

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NobelBiz

MAY 2, 2023

Welcome to this insightful blog post, where we discuss building a successful outbound lead generation strategy for contact centers. Other shifts include telcos trying to block calls they deem excessive and labeling calls as spam likely. The days of just loading up a list and cold-calling people are gone.

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Think Customers

APRIL 28, 2022

As retailers contend with the latest slate of challenges—inflation, snarled supply chains, the return to experience spending—there’s no overstating the importance of having a high-quality contact center. What is the difference between a captive contact center and outsourcing? Hiring the right people.

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ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

ViiBE Blog Customer service challenges of remote work Anna Gorina January 19, 2022 Share this article Contents Share this article Contents Before 2020, only a few companies across the globe had remote work best practices in place where they were used to allowing team members to work from home for a certain period of time regularly.

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ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

When looking for a best in class AR remote assistance tool, industry leaders turn to ViiBE’s video call Zendesk integration. ViiBE’s Zendesk video call plugin has a proven track record of drastically boosting customer satisfaction and operational KPIs. ViiBE’s Zendesk video call integration.

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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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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

By Steve Offsey The goal of customer journey orchestration is to improve journey outcomes by enabling the most relevant interactions in the context of each customer’s goals and their overall experience. What is Customer Journey Orchestration? Journey orchestration goes beyond traditional personalization techniques.

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Guavus

JULY 8, 2019

A recent survey by McKinsey & Company of 46 telco CTOs around the globe indicated that the second highest priority, after leadership in the local market, for the rollout of 5G is improved customer experience. The traditional approach is based on a break-fix model and therefore is completely reactive.

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Pointillist

MARCH 20, 2020

By Stephanie Ventura Customer-centric enterprises are increasing their investment in technologies that enable teams to measure and improve CX, while achieving key business outcomes such as maximizing customer lifetime value, reducing costs and more. So, how are leading enterprises using customer journey analytics in the real world?

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BirdEye

AUGUST 28, 2023

In this blog, you will learn actionable steps to create an irresistible social media profile for your business. Your potential customers are doing more on social media platforms than sharing cat memes. You want to be there with a social media strategy that puts your brand front and center.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 28, 2015

Thanks to the surge of the Internet—and the availability of customer reviews, corporate blogs and social media—today’s customer is “smart”. By that we mean that the customer has aggregated a myriad of information about your business, likely before ever interacting with one of your sales reps or call center agents.

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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform.

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Kustomer

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In this episode of Customer Service Secrets, Gabe Larsen is joined by Paolo Fabrizio, author, speaker, and customer service expert, to discuss digital customer service. Listen and subscribe to our podcast on these platforms: What Is a Digital Customer Experience? That makes a difference.”

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Talkdesk

MAY 11, 2015

Over the years, call center software technology has made considerable strides. These technological advances have allowed both call center managers and agents to optimize their performance, giving way to better business outcomes and ultimately increasing profit. You’re unable to listen to live calls or barge into calls.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 8, 2016

Nate chatted with Talkdesk Product Manager, Robert Sur, about the importance of leveraging call center data to develop and refine a phone support strategy. There were four insights in particular that stood out to me in the webinar: Lesson 1: Think outside of the box when it comes to call center metrics.

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Optimove

MAY 18, 2020

With every passing year, brands and customers expect their mutual interactions to take a more personalized, understanding, and relevant turn. ” In this blog, I’ll share Optimove’s interpretation of the 2020 Magic Quadrant results and help marketers better understand them. Driving growth against business KPIs.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Actionability is also, as we believe, one of the essential aspects of customer experience management. Listen to your customers.

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Stella Connect

MAY 4, 2017

This year’s ICMI Contact Center Expo & Conference in Orlando (May 22-25) promises to be quite an event. These are the topics we feel are particularly important for contact center leaders to focus on in their efforts to build world-class service organizations and stronger brands. Amaze Every Customer Every Time.

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Avaya

JANUARY 16, 2018

40% of executives recently polled by Avaya rate their company’s customer experience as “poor” or “average,” and 93% say they’ll be focusing on improving customer experience in 2018. AI technologies like Siri, Google, Alexa and Bixby are all taking shape with different customer experience strategies. New CX Predictions.

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Talkdesk

DECEMBER 3, 2015

A new wave of callers surely already hit your call center – the holiday returns callers. If your frontline of call center agents is scrambling to meet the needs of holiday returns callers, recruit them some backup. Ask agents from other departments to field frontline calls. Leverage at-home agents.

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Kustomer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of Customer Service Secrets, Gabe Larsen is joined by Paolo Fabrizio, author, speaker, and customer service expert to discuss digital customer service. What is a Digital Customer Experience? The Digital Customer Service Assistant.

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CSM Practice

JANUARY 13, 2021

“It costs five times as much to acquire new customers than it does to keep existing ones” is a saying that only begins to scratch the surface of why renewals are so important. In the SaaS world, where revenue generation and business growth depends on the customer’s decision to renew, the customer renewal process demands even more attention.

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Qualtrics

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

With such a growth in the healthcare industry taking hold, getting the experience right for both customers and employees is tantamount. Yet, when it comes to scheduling a doctor’s appointment, people often have to call the doctor’s office and wait on hold to then get told that the next available appointment is weeks out.

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NobelBiz

MAY 9, 2023

Contact centers play a vital role in today’s business landscape, serving as a primary point of contact for customers to resolve issues, make inquiries, or provide feedback. However, running an efficient and effective contact center requires more than just hiring skilled agents and investing in advanced technologies.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 25, 2023

The call center industry is notorious for its high operating costs, making it imperative for businesses to find innovative ways to cut expenses while maintaining or improving the service quality. This comprehensive guide will explore the top 12 call center cost-reduction strategies to help unlock your business’s full potential.

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