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Customer Journey Mapping in the Contact Center

BlueOcean

But in the end, you decide to make the dreaded call to customer service. No matter what action you take, the point is that your journey as a customer started before you made that call. That assumption is very often the catalyst in creating a less-than-satisfactory customer experience. But that’s simply not true.

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How To Avoid Dead Airtime in your Contact Center

NobelBiz

Dead air time refers to the period of inactivity during customer interaction in a contact center; the time between when an agent finishes speaking and when the customer begins speaking or vice versa. Dead airtime can negatively impact the customer experience and make the interaction feel awkward or uncomfortable.

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Call Center optimization: Tools and best practices to increase performance

NobelBiz

Call center optimization is a strategic approach that focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of call center operations. When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service.

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Do More With Less: 3 Effective Strategies to Maximize Your Contact Center’s Potential

Myra Golden

With customer expectations rising and budgets tightening, contact centers are under pressure to deliver excellent service while reducing costs. By optimizing your workforce, using technology, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, you can deliver an exceptional customer experience while improving efficiency and reducing costs.

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Four Key Considerations for Adopting AI for Debt Collection

Interactions

From consumer lending to debt collection, machine learning is increasing the profitability of managing receivables, through streamlined services and data-driven insights that maximize returns on investment, while simultaneously improving customer experience. And that’s why I want to share my insights with you today. 2) Empathy.

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Can You Train Contact Center Agents in Empathy?

BlueOcean

We already know most people hate calling tech support and even in basic customer service scenarios, consumers prefer to use self-serve options over contacting a customer service agent directly. Unless you’re hiring trained actors, the typical agent won’t be able to make a connection with a customer through a canned script.

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Call Centers Go Mobile to Satisfy Higher Customer Service Expectations

CSM Magazine

Until 2015, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) was based on a simple math formula: outsourcing non-core services (including customer call centers) to more cost-efficient partners and markets to reduce spend. In 2015, BPO needs to move beyond managing call center bodies. This is particularly important to inbound call centers.