BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Great companies are regularly assessing the ongoing value of their partnerships – but how do you measure the true value your contact center outsourcer is delivering? Whether it’s your own culture that shifts over time or that of your outsourcer, keeping a pulse on cultural alignment in your outsourced contact center is essential.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction. The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. It’s our thing. So, of course, we’re biased.

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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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CSM Magazine

MARCH 16, 2023

This article will define emotional intelligence, its benefits for contact centers, and how it improves the customer experience. In the next section, we abord the benefits of emotional intelligence for contact centers. Why Does it Matter for Contact Centers? What is emotional intelligence?

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you want to make a change, consider hiring experts who can look at your entire process and implement award-winning contact center solutions. Then, commit to improving your customer experience by hiring customer experience experts. . This article will dive into how you can improve your customer service.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Optimizing team productivity is the key to achieving this goal, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the steps necessary to unlock your call center’s full potential. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center? Check our guide on what KPIs to follow if you want to have excellent customer service.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

And having the right soft skill is important on all fronts because it is the direct link between the customer and the brand. Find out in this article 10 of the most essential soft skills a contact center agent needs to have in order to deliver an excellent customer experience. Find out more.

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Think Customers

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leading contact centers understand that each person and tool has its strengths and weaknesses, and create a better customer experience when combined appropriately. To better understand this, let’s dive into the human and robotic makeup of a modern contact center. What is a contact center associate?

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Three primary trends are driving the customer care industry: diversified cloud-based solutions. By actively harnessing a set of cloud-based AI-powered technologies, contact centers are infusing intelligence across the entire customer contact landscape. Key 2020 Trends: Cloud Contact Centers.

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Calabrio

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Analytics in the data-powered contact center are proven to drive KPIs across key metrics, including first contact resolution, cross promotions and overall customer satisfaction. Contact center agents are at the forefront of addressing client needs and have a direct and profound impact on customer experiences.

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Avaya

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Sheila McGee-Smith is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant with a proven track record in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for customer care solutions and services. More online activity—improved customer access to digital interaction channels.

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NobelBiz

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Beyond this acceptable level, a contact center must reconsider its strategy and resources in order to lower it as much as possible. Call abandonment is a key performance indicator that may be used to evaluate the effectiveness of a contact center. How to calculate the call abandonment rate for contact centers?

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COPC

APRIL 13, 2022

Getting your organization’s customer service channel strategy right can help reduce operational costs and increase customer satisfaction. Customer support plays a significant role in how customers feel about an organization. Customers want issue resolution as quickly as possible.

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TechSee

MAY 29, 2018

They have found that visual engagement and support have a dramatic effect on KPIs measured in every call center: NPS, FCR and Truck Rolls. Improvements in these areas have been proven to translate into lower customer churn and an improved bottom line. Customer Service KPI #1 – NPS (Net Promoter Score). The Rise of Visual.

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Playvox

MAY 26, 2022

In addition to feeling the mental and emotional weight of consumer-facing jobs, remote contact center agents are experiencing redundancy that can make their jobs feel tedious. With an average contact center agent salary of $42,947, that’s almost $13,000 per agent. Hold times go down, and customer satisfaction goes up.

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Interactions

MARCH 26, 2020

The pain and frustration associated with poor customer experience in contact centers is all too familiar. Hold times that seem to last hours, phone trees that are impossible to navigate, and rigid voice prompts forcing customers to speak like a robot. Treat your customers how they want to be treated.

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Call Experts

AUGUST 12, 2021

What is a Salesforce Integration with a Contact Center? First, our agents and automated technologies seamlessly connect to your SalesForce to pull your customer data directly into your system. Information that can help improve productivity, cut costs and increase customer satisfaction. What does this all mean?

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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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CSM Magazine

MARCH 20, 2024

In the fast-evolving global business landscape, the strategic move of customer support outsourcing to the Philippines has become a critical path for companies seeking to boost operational efficiency and elevate customer satisfaction. The expertise residing within Cynergy BPO’s leadership is unparalleled.

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Interactions

APRIL 17, 2019

Companies have adopted new technologies in their contact centers to support a more customer-first approach. Contact centers, before this change in focus to customer experience, had a straightforward goal: to handle as many calls as possible, as quickly as possible. Traditional Contact Center KPIs.

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SaleMove

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Today’s contact center managers focus primarily on agent performance and customer service level metrics, and using those metrics to drive staffing, training and technology investment decisions. . Available technologies and customer care requirements are changing rapidly.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience. But deciding on annual goals and specific yearly focuses for a call center isn’t always easy. Tip: Begin to examine your existing contact center processes.

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Confirmit

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

As the face of your company, the contact center represents an exceptional opportunity to capture the Voice of the Customer and drive improvements that hit the bottom line. You'll learn: How to apply a proven model to calculate ROI for a customer care contact center.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Building lasting customer relationships is a key objective of outbound voice communication. These conversations establish trust, show genuine care, and foster loyalty, demonstrating a commitment to customer satisfaction and long-term partnerships.

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ProProfs Chat

MARCH 30, 2018

In short, you need to be an expert to understand how you can ensure higher customer satisfaction rate. But in case you’re new to the market or haven’t worked through the road of being an expert, then it’s time you read what market experts have to say on building better customer satisfaction rate. A gap in understanding?

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BlueOcean

MARCH 3, 2020

Blue Ocean, a world-leader in customer care solutions, was awarded a Silver Stevie® Award in the “Customer Service Team of the Year” category at the 14th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. This is Blue Ocean’s third Stevie Award. The company won a Bronze Stevie in 2017 and a Silver Stevie in 2019.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach. Customer Satisfaction.

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SaleMove

JULY 29, 2019

This is the first installment of a blog series that examines the trends driving the transformation, reviews how people work in today’s contact center, and explores what you should do now to staff the contact center of tomorrow. Start Swimming. “ You better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone.”

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COPC

JANUARY 9, 2024

Interview with Lance Gruner, Executive Vice President of Mastercard Global Customer Care Mastercard recently achieved certification to the COPC Customer Experience (CX) Standard for Customer Operations , a first for a Fortune 500 company.

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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.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

By offering fully customizable blinds online, comprehensive customer support, installation, and after-sales care, Blindster has built a loyal customer base and is uniquely positioned to maintain its lead in the window treatment space – whatever challenges may follow. This investment in the customer experience pays off.

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COPC

AUGUST 4, 2016

I found this article in CRM magazine, Inbound and Outbound Converge in the New Contact Center , to be an interesting one because it discusses some of the changes in our industry that are being made possible by process and technology, but with an eye to improving the customer experience. By Leonard Klie – CRM magazine.

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Stella Connect

MAY 4, 2017

This year’s ICMI Contact Center Expo & Conference in Orlando (May 22-25) promises to be quite an event. These are the topics we feel are particularly important for contact center leaders to focus on in their efforts to build world-class service organizations and stronger brands. Bancorp Fund Services contact center.

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Qualtrics

MARCH 13, 2020

Frustrating contact center experiences like explaining your issue over and over again, or being handed from agent to agent are usually caused by data silos. Find out how a few simple changes to your set-up can deliver better experiences to customers and agents. First, there was the call center.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

During this “low season,” many hospitality contact centers evaluate previous high season performance and customer satisfaction levels in order to address and improve key performance indicators (KPIs) like call abandonment. Because our customers are no longer waiting on hold.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

During this “low season,” many hospitality contact centers evaluate previous high season performance and customer satisfaction levels in order to address and improve key performance indicators (KPIs) like call abandonment. Because our customers are no longer waiting on hold.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 30, 2018

Not to add another thing to your plate (sorry), but there’s another question to ask that can impact all of those answers: is this the year customer care outsourcing takes a more central role in your go-forward plan? We can’t take an RFP template that was written for manufacturing and use it verbatim for sourcing a contact center.

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