NICE inContact

MAY 12, 2017

2017 was arguably the biggest and best year ever at Enterprise Connect 2017 for those who care about contact centers. For ten years, I have attended virtually every contact center session held at the show, the past few years as the Contact Center Track Chair. Is Cloud Contact Center the New Normal?

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Upstream Works

AUGUST 5, 2021

As momentum continues to build for cloud adoption in the contact center space, the business case for supporting this decision becomes clear. These are a few specific examples of how cloud benefits the contact center and any one of these is sufficient to justify the investment. Cloud Flexibility Enables Greater Automation.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Once you’ve identified where the customer experience is or isn’t delivering, you need to report that, too. For example: It could be easy to report “an increase in transactional Customer Satisfaction after an experience with the contact center.” The same rules apply to journey mapping.

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CX Journey

AUGUST 17, 2018

Image courtesy of Calabrio Did you know that data is a critical component of your journey maps? I've written a lot about journey maps and journey mapping over the last several years. This webinar will also be more focused on the contact center experience and contact center data.

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Upstream Works

JULY 16, 2021

It’s easy for contact centers to build a business case for adopting cloud technology – reasons ranging from meeting the needs of today’s customers to finding an economical path to modernizing the contact center. Learn more about our omnichannel contact center solutions here.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Reducing efforts will only begin when organizations understand customer journeys and personas.”. Customer Contact Week’s report is filled with great tips and facts to help you create better experiences. We’ve been talking about ways to reduce customer effort for a while now. Get your copy here!

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Avaya

APRIL 3, 2017

He extends his vision that messaging is at the center of the digital transformation era. I wanted to explore some of the observations from the conference—especially those about contact center operators leveraging customer journey maps for serving customers effectively via chat, SMS and other messaging communiques.

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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. The current state of customer experience is more challenging. Think Beyond the Contact Center.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 12, 2022

The demands facing contact center systems are getting more complex and more varied than ever before. Driven by a desire to cut costs with operational efficiencies and provide a better omnichannel experience to an increasingly digital customer base, executives are honing in to upskill their contact centers.

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Cyara

MAY 18, 2023

Relationships have always been critical for contact centers. Even in the shortest and simplest calls, that momentary connection between agent and customer can determine the long-range trajectory of the relationship.

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Contact Center How To Connections Customer Journeys 67

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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Playvox

APRIL 11, 2023

Engaged contact center agents are essential to the success of any customer service operation. When employees feel connected to their jobs and have meaningful goals, agent performance increases. And happy agents tend to deliver experiences that delight your customers.

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Call Experts

MARCH 5, 2020

What do you do if you can’t build the technology you need or afford to hire full-time staff to answer your phones and support your customers? Cue the experienced live-agent contact center. . Here are our top 4 benefits of partnering with a contact center to support and grow your plumbing business: .

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BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

If enhancing your customer experience is a strategic priority over the next 12 months, you might be looking at putting out a contact center RFP or RFI early in the new year. These factors require some creativity when responding to and differentiating through the contact center RFP.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 20, 2021

We need to do better, and we can — by considering gathering customer feedback as part of the overall customer journey. This means respecting the customer enough to carefully consider, design and plan for what, how, and where we listen for feedback. A Customer Listening Assessment Can Help.

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Customer Journeys Social Media Feedback Survey 361

Call Experts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

By actively harnessing a set of cloud-based AI-powered technologies, contact centers are infusing intelligence across the entire customer contact landscape. Key providers are building professional services and resources to assist customers with strategic AI plans. Key 2020 Trends: Cloud Contact Centers.

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Call Experts

JULY 28, 2022

Contact center support is a vital part of any business. A contact center can help save you time and money while delivering outstanding service to your customers. The right contact center will improve customer satisfaction , which leads to increased sales and profitability.

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Horizon CX

MARCH 19, 2022

So, let me share some insights into some recent customer service journey experiences I’ve had with organizations where AI and the cultural/people integration are being (or not) applied. This is where the fun begins or, to put it more crisply, where the customer journey can take a critical and not so smooth turn.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For the contact center industry, customer relationships management has also dramatically shifted. This revolution of channels must enable contact centers to make client relationships even more distinctive by personalizing them and creating a genuine consumer experience.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For the contact center industry, customer relationships management has also dramatically shifted. This revolution of channels must enable contact centers to make client relationships even more distinctive by personalizing them and creating a genuine consumer experience.

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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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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 8, 2021

How to Act on Customer Experience Clues. Future State Customer Journey Mapping. Who is the customer in one year or five? How can your customer journey support them and adapt accordingly? . This exercise is a great way to predict what you need to change to be there for the changing customer journey.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Contact centers must capture data in real-time and enter correctly into CRM systems to provide reporting for your business to make data-driven decisions. . Telephony provider Companies are looking for a partner that can provide telephony and contact center infrastructure. Understanding Contact Center Billing.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 29, 2022

It is becoming increasingly prevalent and noticeable due to digital communication platforms that encourage multichannel interactions between customers and contact centers. In the contact center sector, customer engagement is one of the strategic objectives of many companies today.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 17, 2020

Continuously improving the customer journey in order to achieve the perfect customer experience (CX) is the Everest of the CX-obsessed. This is largely due to complex and inflexible tools that are difficult to customize and require IT resources, developers or professional services to build and manage.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 30, 2024

Get ready to navigate the cutting-edge of customer experience (CX) with Jeannie Walters and special co-host Michelle Morris – Associate Director of CX Business Transformation at Verizon Connect. We’re also confronting CX blind spots regarding AI integration and the declining comfort customers feel around these tools.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That’s what has happened in the outsourced contact center space when it comes to SaaS clients — there’s been a metamorphosis from customer service cost center to customer success revenue protection and generation center. Connecting across all levels of both organizations. Can you do all this in-house?

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NobelBiz

MARCH 12, 2024

Introducing Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified CXM) Unified CXM is the practice of creating seamless and personalized experiences for customers across all support and marketing channels. It leverages a centralized data source to provide consistent interactions throughout the customer journey.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 14, 2021

What can we predict about the supply chain, high-stress customer situations, or what moments are most important in the customer’s journey? Using techniques like root cause analysis and customer journey mapping can help leaders really understand and prepare. Make 2022 the year you close the loop.

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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. s clients encountered similar difficulties, including: Internet connectivity issues.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

Businesses are realizing the power of customer journey mapping to monitor customer experience performance and identify opportunities for improvement. What is Customer Journey Analytics? Why is it important to have Customer Journey Analytics?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 2, 2020

Invite customers into the process. Co-creation sessions , customer advisory boards, or a simple conversation connects your customers with the outcomes they really want. Know the journey. Get that critical outside-in perspective with customer journey mapping. Commit to finding ways to connect.

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Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your contact center is planning for the future, be sure to make employee experience and getting the right technology in place top priorities. We recently participated in a discussion with two industry experts that focused on megatrends that will impact contact centers in 2022. Technology always needs focus.

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Contact Center Trends Omni-Channel CRM 79

ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This trend of call centers for chat support shifted to contact centers for chat support when internet usage became quite popular. And that’s not the only change businesses had to accommodate while running a contact center for chat support. Challenges Faced by Contact Centers. For Customers.

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Upstream Works

MAY 4, 2021

What do customers want when they interact with your contact center? They want to have options in how they choose to contact you with seamless escalations to personalized service. Customers want resolutions on the first contact. Give your customers all that and more with Upstream Works for Amazon.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Most businesses are undergoing some form of digital transformation, which will have a profound impact on contact centers. This provides an on-going opportunity for innovation, and to do so successfully, contact centers should harness the power of their data and embrace technologies like AI.

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Strategy Contact Center Customer Journeys Self Service 78

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Reducing efforts will only begin when organizations understand customer journeys and personas.”. Customer Contact Week’s report is filled with great tips and facts to help you create better experiences. We’ve been talking about ways to reduce customer effort for a while now. Get your copy here!

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