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Pros and Cons of Contact Center Outsourcing

CSM Magazine

Contact center outsourcing has proven to be highly beneficial, but it isn’t without its faults. Call spikes are probably the biggest challenge that contact centers face. Due to this predictability, a business can hire an outsourced team to help their contact center manage the high call volume when needed.

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Top Customer Care Trends to Consider as You Plan for the New Year

BlueOcean

Here’s How Supply Chain and Shipping Visibility Improve Customer Experience In some circumstances, we know that contact center can feel like an island, siloed off from other functional business practices. And UX, of course, is the glue that holds it all together. But if that’s really the case, you’re in for trouble.

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Speech Analytics: Changing the Game for Contact Center Technology

NICE inContact

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. You Still Need Analysts.

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Text / SMS in the Contact Center – Inbound, Outbound, Omnichannel

NICE inContact

Inbound SMS is a relatively new channel, but you should ensure that for routing inbound text interactions, your solution supports a universal queue that simply includes SMS as yet another digital channel with access to all routing options available for other channels (data directed, conditional, skills-based, etc.).

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Don’t Guess at Staffing: Proven Methods for Your Contact Center

Brad Cleveland Blog

In this video from my LinkedIn Learning course “Managing a Customer Contact Center,” I … Continue reading → The post <strong>Don’t Guess at Staffing: Proven Methods for Your Contact Center</strong> appeared first on Brad Cleveland. How about a Thursday afternoon at 2:00 pm?

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How to build a successful outbound lead gen strategy for contact centers

NobelBiz

Welcome to this insightful blog post, where we discuss building a successful outbound lead generation strategy for contact centers. Not even the best salesmen in the universe can make a difference if the calls or contact attempts are not being answered. And no wonder. And no wonder.

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Text / SMS in the Contact Center – Inbound, Outbound, Omnichannel

NICE inContact

Inbound SMS is a relatively new channel, but you should ensure that for routing inbound text interactions, your solution supports a universal queue that simply includes SMS as yet another digital channel with access to all routing options available for other channels (data directed, conditional, skills-based, etc.).