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Chasing Unicorns: Is It Possible to Have a Strategic Partnership with Your Contact Center?

BlueOcean

True or false: your outsourced contact center provider is just another vendor. Attempting to establish a strategic partnership with your contact center is like chasing a unicorn. And a partner can make decisions with a comprehensive understanding of what’s important to your organization and your customers.

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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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Happy Holidays from Blue Ocean

BlueOcean

Before you head out of the office for the holidays to grab your mug of eggnog, we want to take a minute to reflect on some of the hottest talking points of the year in the contact center world. With customer service channels in constant movement, what will be the impact on the phone channel? Read more > 2. Read more > 3.

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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Great companies are regularly assessing the ongoing value of their partnerships – but how do you measure the true value your contact center outsourcer is delivering? Whether it’s your own culture that shifts over time or that of your outsourcer, keeping a pulse on cultural alignment in your outsourced contact center is essential.

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What Is the Customer Life Value & Why Your Call Center Should Focus On It!

NobelBiz

Customer lifetime value is a metric used in business to assess how much money a company can expect to generate from a client over the duration of their whole interactions or “lifetime”. Customer lifetime value estimates can be complicated due to variations in product type, price, frequency of purchase, and total buy volume.

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What Is the Customer Life Value & Why Your Call Center Should Focus On It!

NobelBiz

Customer lifetime value is a metric used in business to assess how much money a company can expect to generate from a client over the duration of their whole interactions or “lifetime”. Customer lifetime value estimates can be complicated due to variations in product type, price, frequency of purchase, and total buy volume.

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. How do we use that data to improve the customer experience?

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