Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

Customer service has gone digital — and your contact center needs to evolve with the times. As younger customers make up more and more of the marketplace, they’re shifting service preferences toward digital channels. An omnichannel customer support center connects customers’ interactions no matter where they take place.

Omni-Channel 95

Omni-Channel Self Service Customer Experience Contact Center 95

COPC

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With digital self-service technology advancing at a phenomenal rate, why are interactions with chatbots and interactive voice response (IVR) systems still the sources of so many frustrating customer experiences? There are likely many reasons for this sentiment, including poorly designed IVR systems and chatbots.

Self Service 85

Self Service Chatbots Guidelines e-support 85

Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

Customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein sheds light on enhanced customer expectations, AI innovation, and more. 2017 will be a year defined by how well companies continue to adapt to customer expectations—like the ability to get good service at any time of the day, via any device. Here’s what we learned.

Contact Center 50

Contact Center Omni-Channel Brands Hospitality 50

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Are Your Customer Care Metrics Customer-Centric? Customer care metrics are a barometer of performance across a variety of customer interactions such as chat, text messages, email, social media and communities. Both of these orientations tend to be company-serving rather than customer-focused.

Customer Care 54

Customer Care Customer Centricity Metrics Social Media 54

Qualtrics

APRIL 27, 2020

Customer Care Managers are used to dealing with regular surges in demand. Most customer care centers (also referred to as contact centers) have an established process, planned months in advance to ensure they cope adequately and maintain the customer experience. The results can be drastic.

Customer Care 36

Customer Care Self Service Chatbots Airlines 36

Vonage

MARCH 26, 2018

Last year, Amazon announced that it employs 45,000 robots across 20 fulfillment centers; Yobot the robot ensures customers enjoy conversation-free service at Yotel’s pod hotel in New York; and "chatbots" continue to help businesses deliver everything from online banking to checking in for flights.

Interaction 159

Interaction Self Service Poor Customer Service Hotels 159

Call Experts

MAY 20, 2022

As the first point of contact, a contact center answers for your customers and prospects 24-7. Contact centers can help ensure that you never miss an opportunity. What is a Contact Center? A contact center handles voice calls for companies. What is After Hours Service?

Contact Center 98

Contact Center Call Center e-support Self Service 98

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Customer Service & Experience USA 2020 (November 17-18th) brings together an unrivalled list of senior customer service leaders from the world’s most powerful and innovative brands. Join 5000+ customer care professionals online for a virtual event that is purpose-built to propel your business into the future of customer service.

Self Service 52

Self Service Customer Service Customer Experience Case Study 52

RapportBoost

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We had a great time speaking with host B ruce Belfiore right before the holidays about how to turn your contact center into a profit center. Bruce: Contact centers are under increasing pressure to become profit centers and leverage new channels of engaging customers. …And BenchmarkPortal’s CallTalk.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Chatbots Metrics Sales 40

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

An interactive discussion featuring customer service leaders from the Boston Red Sox, HP, Intuit and UL on: 2019 a year in review, we’ll recap how changing customer expectations and new tech have changed our approaches to support. Fiona Blakesley, Director Customer Care, Intuit. Speakers include: Marcell M.

Self Service 52

Self Service Customer Service Trends Knowledge Base 52

Playvox

MAY 4, 2023

Unlike my favorite fruit seller, you’ve got hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of customer issues that require sophisticated, efficient customer care through the right contact center solutions. What Is A Digital Contact Center? Is your contact center omnichannel?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Customer Expectations Meeting Self Service 52

CSM Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

With a new emphasis on the importance of customer data, support leaders hold some of the companies most valuable insights. In order to feed that back into the organization, their responsibilities and internal footprint are changing and, simultaneously with customer expectations, they must evolve. SVP, Customer Care, Samsung.

Customer Service Strategies 40

Customer Service Strategies Meeting Strategy Customer Service 40

ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Today, according to Gartner , 76% of customer service and support functions have 80% to 100% of their staff working from home. At a time when 92% of customers expect their customer care contact levels to be just like what it was pre-pandemic, companies have to ensure that customers get a good service experience and do not leave.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Net Promoter Score CRM e-support 52

Talkdesk

DECEMBER 18, 2017

We live in a world where customers expect exceptional service in an instant and customer service has become a continual process. This means that more customers who grew up in a world of touch-screen, real-time gratification have exorbitant expectations for customer service. Don’t just take our word for it.

Social Media 40

Social Media Contact Center Omni-Channel Chatbots 40

NobelBiz

JANUARY 17, 2022

The AHT is a KPI that contact centers always strive to improve. Of course, there are rational answers to this organizational challenge, including reducing call center AHT while also ensuring quality work and performances. What is the Average Handling Time (AHT) for Contact Centers? Above all, do not omit anything.

Average Handle Time 52

Average Handle Time Contact Center Management Call Center 52

ProProfs Chat

MARCH 30, 2018

Adam Toporek There are many methods for achieving a higher customer satisfaction level; the key is assessing which methods are most likely to be successful with your customer base. Do your customers prefer speed or quality? Knowing what your customers expect is crucial to creating higher satisfaction levels.

Customer Satisfaction 111

Customer Satisfaction How To Effort Score Contact Center 111

GlowTouch

JULY 2, 2020

The following best practices are meant to help you build, train, and manage a personable, successful live chat team who delivers exceptional customer care and support. Using a live chat service is a promise—a promise that an actual person will be on hand and ready to address your client’s customers’ concerns in real-time.

Chatbots 52

Chatbots Multi-Channel Training Wait Times 52

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 30, 2022

Majorly, internal staff is overburdened with other customer-related responsibilities like customer care. Outsourced partners with knowledge, expertise and resources can effectively help brands accomplish their customer experience goals. AI-powered customer service chatbots can handle your mundane customer inquiries.

Customer Experience 11

Customer Experience Chatbots Customer Experience Management Social Media 11

Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

This definitely applies to customer needs and preferences, and contact centers are constantly striving to stay one step ahead of evolving customer requirements. A desire for instant-access self-service options is shifting how customers want to engage. Artificial intelligence (AI) can play a part.

Self Service 78

Self Service Management Contact Center Effort Score 78

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Call centers have developed dramatically over the past few years and will continue to do so in 2023. While most classic contact center technologies will continue to be utilized, most will be replaced by chatbots, cloud technologies, AI, and remote work, enabling businesses to enhance the customer experience and save expenses.

Call Center 52

Call Center Omni-Channel Trends Contact Center 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Call centers have developed dramatically over the past few years and will continue to do so in 2023. While most classic contact center technologies will continue to be utilized, most will be replaced by chatbots, cloud technologies, AI, and remote work, enabling businesses to enhance the customer experience and save expenses.

Call Center 52

Call Center Omni-Channel Trends Contact Center 52

Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. What Are Call Center Efficiency Metrics? Call center managers need metrics to successfully measure agent performance and improvements to call center operations.

Call Center 52

Call Center Metrics Contact Center Net Promoter Score 52

Lithium

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Losing and hiring frontline customer care agents can cost more than a few lost customers Can you afford to lose more? Regarding customer care, recent trends show that agents often find themselves in the latter half of the two options. Furthermore, specific contact centers are reporting up to a 100% turnover rate.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center NPS Chatbots Customer Care 52

Lithium

JULY 20, 2022

Losing and hiring frontline customer care agents can cost more than a few lost customers. Regarding customer care, recent trends show that agents often find themselves in the latter half of the two options. Furthermore, specific contact centers are reporting up to a 100% turnover rate.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center NPS Chatbots Customer Care 52

Kustomer

JUNE 27, 2022

What Are the Benefits of Customer Service Software? Customer service tools can transform customer service for companies of any size. Utilizing these tools enables faster, more efficient, personalized support while still imparting a brand-specific and customer-centric experience.

Software 98

Software Tools Customer Service Self Service 98

NICE inContact

JUNE 18, 2019

But sometimes the customer gets lost in all the talk about what brands should do to keep up with the increased speed of today’s interactions. Digital customer service software, especially chatbots, enables brands to be available for customers at all times. 3) Check out chatbots. 5) Practice being proactive.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Omni-Channel Net Promoter Score Social Media 136

TechSee

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Although this information can usually be found in the user manual, customers looking for assistance with these basic tasks drive a large volume of calls to the customer care center, which can be avoided with self-service. Improving the customer experience is an ongoing process.

Self Service 132

Self Service Virtual Agent Knowledge Base Contact Center 132

Interactions

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

This misconception mostly comes from experiences with outdated and inefficient technologies, like IVRs and chatbots. These technologies have limited functionality and often fall short of customer expectations because their purpose is not to elevate customer experience, but rather to contain and deflect.

Self Service 62

Self Service Chatbots Contact Center Knowledge Base 62

Pointillist

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While marketing, CX, customer care and other leaders within your organization may strive to share insights, accessing the data in their systems is cumbersome at best and rarely happens in real time. Using Pointillist, she sees that the decrease in approvals is linked to an increase in self-service chatbot usage and FAQ pageviews.

Customer Journeys 45

Customer Journeys Self Service Customer Experience How To 45

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

‍ ‍Top 5 Tools to Create an Omnichannel Experience for Your Customers. AI-Powered Chatbots. Providing the omnichannel experience to your customers can seem daunting because you would assume that coding separately for every channel will be an individual challenge. Chatbots and website helpdesks can utilize them.

Omni-Channel 52

Omni-Channel Self Service Tools Customer Experience 52

Stella Connect

JANUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, we’ve seen a major shift in brands’ approaches to customer service delivery and contact center performance management. How will emerging and growing trends change the customer service equation? More Companies Will Make Customer Service a Strategic Priority. One strike and you’re out.

Self Service 40

Self Service Trends Customer Service Contact Center 40

Comm100

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Customer advocates and thought leaders agree: providing a friction-less experience for customers is moving from novelty to mandatory. That is why reducing customer effort was voted the number one priority for contact centers in 2018. Recommended for you: Is Your Contact Center Ready for the New Year?

Customer Service 101

Customer Service Social Media Chatbots Knowledge Base 101

Thematic

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Collection of customer feedback – Using methods like surveys, etc. to gather information from your customers. Analysis – Analyzing responses to uncover trends, themes and customer expectations. This can be social media messages, online reviews and text analytics used for customer care interactions.

Voice of Customer 101

Voice of Customer Net Promoter Score Effort Score ROI 101