Or perhaps you’re looking for a better alternative to your current contact center vendor? Can an outsourced contact center really live up to that? That’s where finding out about a contact center’s hiring practices is vital. Diversity in The Contact Center. MORE

For that reason, Speech Analytics software and processes have been gradually picking up steam in the contact center industry for the better part of a decade. Despite this, many contact centers are still struggling to find practical uses, and/or measure the ROI of the technology. MORE

At first glance, attrition seems like a chink in the armor for contact centers. Across every industry, the fact that people leave their jobs and move on is a basic truth, but in the contact center, the attrition metric receives quite of a bit of negative attention. MORE

And now that spring has sprung we see flowers in bloom, hear birds singing once again, and look forward to spending time learning about our new contact center software and solutions. As our research project results clearly indicate, it’s time for a spring cleaning in the contact center. MORE

Contact centers have been going through a change for some time. Self-service has put the customer in charge of their experience , leaving call centers tasked with facing only the most complex and difficult calls. Expectations for contact agents: Quality over quantity. MORE

Looking for an outsourced contact center partner is one of the most complex undertakings for any strategic sourcing professional. Finding the right contact center for you is going to take more than a strategic RFP. Are You Seeking an Outsourced Contact Center? MORE

One of our most popular blog posts is 52 Contact Center RFP Questions to Ask Vendors. Choosing a contact center outsourcer is a huge investment. We’ve compiled a list of 51 contact center RFP questions to help you ensure you’re making the most informed decision. MORE

Looking for a new contact center outsourcer is rarely as simple as it sounds. The End-to-End Contact Center Solutions Buyer’s Guide from Blue Ocean Contact Centers. For more insight, get your End-to-End Contact Center Solutions Buyer’s Guide today. MORE

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One of the fundamental questions that gets asked in the call center services procurement process is: will we have a dedicated team of agents or will they be shared? Say you’ve been charged with putting together an RFP for contact center services. MORE

Some of us have a hard time adjusting to a change in laundry detergent (you want me to switch from Tide to Gain?!) , so it is only natural that we and our agents sometimes have difficulty accepting and adapting to changes in our contact centers. Contact center solutions , like those offered by inContact, directly contribute to increased efficiency, improved customer satisfaction, and much more. Call Center Best Practices Contact Center Management Customer Experience MORE

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For the 2 nd year in a row, inContact was positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s annual Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) Magic Quadrant. Contact Center and Workforce Optimization Need to Evolve Together. Contact Center Management Customer Experience Trends & Insights MORE

The evolving demands of digital-savvy customers have a deep impact on the contact center. While these channels provide customers with the information they need, the contact center remains a predominant channel for customers to seek support when they truly need something done. MORE

Years before this generation’s full influence will be felt, however, millennial preferences have already changed how contact centers think about customer experience. Read on to learn the 9 things that millennials are expecting from the organizations they buy from and interact with, and how you can adjust your contact center to exceed their customer experience expectations. Decades ago, customers only had a couple options for contacting a company: phone or mail. MORE

When you close your eyes and imagine a contact center, what do you see? If you saw the second scene, welcome to the digital age – and new reality – of the contact center. Therefore it’s critical that contact centers make a space for themselves at the table. MORE

Establishing the right measures and objectives is one of the most important responsibilities in leading and managing a contact center successfully. MORE

Contact center efficiencies are intrinsically linked to the customer experience your company delivers as a whole. Once you improve the customer experience, you’ll find that your contact center metrics improve too. MORE

inView™ is a revolutionary performance management system engineered by call centers for call centers. Learn how inView™ can drive agent engagement and visibility into your contact center. Every day we go to work with the objective of helping our companies improve. MORE

We touched base with leading customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein to learn how you can make your contact center adaptive to customers’ evolving omni-channel expectations in 2017. What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? MORE

Contact center software companies are now providing innovative solutions that are both easy on the wallet and powerful enough to provide deep insight. Most contact centers sample 1% or less of their total call volume. MORE

What makes a great contact center agent isn’t as easy to define as you might expect. There’s another layer to be considered as well: generational differences in the contact center workforce. Managing an Multi-Generational Contact Center. MORE

The same is true of any industry including contact centers. Luckily, there are countless solutions available to contact center managers today to help improve productivity, performance and overall customer experience. Here are five helpful tools that can solve common contact center issues and provide a better service. Do you know which topics or issues come up the most during calls in your contact center? MORE

While most think of this as a friendly face at the checkout or a helpful suggestion in the aisle, customer service extends into every facet of your business , including customer interactions with your contact center. The call center is no longer a cost center for retailers. MORE

I recently did a webinar with CRMXchange on one-page journey mapping for contact centers. The post One-Page Journey Mapping for Contact Centers appeared first on inContact Blog. Best Practices Contact Center Management Customer Experience General Trends & Insights CEU Channels Contact Center Customer Journey Improve Customer Experience inContact Journey Mapping Omnichannel Webinar MORE

Contact centers will continue to evolve and improve as the need for better customer support continues to grow. This year, you can expect contact centers to be highlighted by: Total Voice Ownership. Some contact center offerings aren’t solutions, but simply compound issues. MORE

The potential of “omnichannel” when it comes to contact centers is undeniable. Once the Internet came about, that human connection fragmented, and companies found adding a single online communication channel to their legacy call center operations to be a challenge. MORE

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. That makes us curious: can you train contact center agents in empathy? MORE

Your contact center is a superhero? You might be surprised—after all, contact centers are often: Under-valued by the larger organization. Viewed purely as a cost center. Profile of a Contact Center Superhero. MORE

Contact centers also provide channels for inbound and outbound customer interactions , yet many marketing departments don’t consider them part of their voice-of-the-customer (VoC) mix. For CMOs, here are five reasons the contact center should be marketing’s new best friend. MORE

While there are a few examples of great culture in the contact center world, there are just as many or more examples of notoriously bad company cultures. Most contact centers fall somewhere in the middle ground. As a contact center leader, where do you start that process? MORE

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. Cost reduction cannot be a primary driver behind the way your contact center does business. MORE

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One of the most confounding challenges for modern contact center leaders is reporting on any performance metric that requires information from more than one system or application, each of which is a self-contained silo of data. Contact center reporting technology of the future. MORE

As cloud communications companies like RingCentral and inContact have matured, the contact center world has been seeing an increasingly rapid move to the cloud. At the same time, we see a trend away from traditional contact center metrics like average handle time, and towards newer, customer-focused metrics like customer satisfaction, or CSAT. Taken together, these two movements are bringing about real change in the contact center. MORE

But too many contact centers assume the opposite; that your journey starts the moment an agent picks up the phone. As a contact center, we might be checking all the boxes in our call flow process, but that doesn’t mean the customer necessarily had a great experience. MORE

The contact center space is rapidly evolving, due to a range of exciting new technologies that will significantly alter the industry in the near future. New technologies for a new era. MORE

Your contact center is hiding some of the richest, most valuable Voice of the Customer (VoC) information you have. You need to crush contact center silos if you are serious about putting the customer first. Bring your contact center into the CX fold. MORE

To the outside observer, advancements in modern technology have diminished the importance of contact agents. The telephone is no longer the only way to contact a company, and email and social media options are more appealing to a lot of people. MORE