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Making Your Contact Center Adaptive: Advanced Management Techniques for Quickly- Changing Customer Expectations

Storyminers

What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? At most contact centers, there will be several waves of change within the 2017 calendar year. There are still many contact centers that put internal performance numbers ahead of customers’ needs. 2 Serve before you sell.

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Everything you need to get started as a WFH contact center agent

Talkdesk

Being an at-home contact center agent can be incredibly rewarding: you get to help customers in meaningful ways, all while working from the comfort of your own home. Wireless headsets can suffer from interference from other wireless devices in the area. Full headset recommendations can be found here.

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How to Improve Contact Center Optimization with Customer Journeys

Pointillist

The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction. Contact centers are now considered more than just service centers. Omnichannel Interaction Data is Siloed or Nonexistent.

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Why the phone is still king for customer support

Vonage

Melanie, a Verizon Wireless technical support rep, took a minor frustration and turned it into a great experience. Read on to learn what Melanie did, why other channels would have failed, and how Verizon Wireless empowered Melanie to make it happen. I dialed Verizon Wireless’s customer service line. The phone is not dead.

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Call Center Work from Home Troubleshooting – Full List

NobelBiz

Smaller contact centers don’t always have an IT department, so in these cases, we recommend escalating the issue to your managers until you find someone that can help. First Level Call Center WFH Troubleshooting: The first thing you should do is a speed test – we recommend Speedtest.net. Next up, do a media packets test.

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Give your agents the right tools to succeed in a remote work scenario

Talkdesk

The contact center space was no exception to this situation: only two months ago, a total of 85% of contact centers, employing a total of 15 million employees , were still operating under on-premises infrastructures and customer support professionals were still tied to desktop technology.

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Smart Home Support – 4 Key Technologies to Simplify Service

TechSee

While in theory, smart devices should be easy to set up – most are wireless and can be remotely connected – in reality, non-technical customers are often insufficiently skilled to set up these products on their own. 2. Indications of Connectivity Loss. Susan is late for work for the third time this week.