BlueOcean

MAY 11, 2020

Situation: You’re tasked with choosing a new outsourced partner for your organization’s customer care program. It’s clear that the contact center industry has felt the entire spectrum of effects. Did the pandemic expose cracks in your current customer care solution, whether that is in-house or outsourced?

Customer Care 156

Customer Care Travel Contact Center Effort Score 156

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 22, 2020

When the world hit the pause button in the face of COVID-19, putting our client’s customer care programs on hold wasn’t an option. Right off the bat, this will be a cross-functional effort. The post The Pivot to 100% Remote Training in the Contact Center appeared first on Blue Ocean. Request a download here.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Training Effort Score Virtual Agent 156

BlueOcean

MAY 11, 2020

Situation: You’re tasked with choosing a new outsourced partner for your organization’s customer care program. It’s clear that the contact center industry has felt the entire spectrum of effects. Did the pandemic expose cracks in your current customer care solution, whether that is in-house or outsourced?

Customer Care 156

Customer Care Travel Contact Center Effort Score 156

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.

Contact Center 124

Contact Center Net Promoter Score Data Effort Score 124

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).

Contact Center 95

Contact Center Engagement Call Center Net Promoter Score 95

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.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Customer Journeys Self Service How To 40

Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Contact center performance management has, for many brands, changed little over the years. Most contact center leaders aren’t happy with the high costs of agent attrition, their overwhelmed team leaders, the underwhelming CSAT/NPS® scores, and all the other daily realities that cause them heartburn. Does Joe Q.

Contact Center 45

Contact Center Management Effort Score NPS 45

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.

Contact Center 104

Contact Center Report Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 104

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.

Omni-Channel 95

Omni-Channel Self Service Customer Experience Contact Center 95

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With that said, how do you ensure your outsourced customer care partners or potential partners are holding themselves accountable to robust ESG standards? We’re focused on raising those scores to Gold and A within the next 18 months.) A great parallel ESG example is that of fair-trade coffee. Book an appointment here.

How To 177

How To Government Guidelines Effort Score 177

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Blue Ocean, a world-leader in customer care solutions, was awarded a Silver Stevie Award ® in the “Customer Service Team of the Year – Recovery Situation” category in the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Customer Service. Congratulations on great work and team effort!”. This is Blue Ocean’s second Stevie Award.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Effort Score Contact Center Insurance 136

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Your contact center has a vested interest in making the customer experience as smooth as possible. After all, customers want their interactions with your agents to be smooth and without friction. A key performance indicator (KPI) and strategic metric for any business is the Customer Effort Score (CES).

Effort Score 52

Effort Score Contact Center Net Promoter Score Self Service 52

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Zenarate partnered with Execs In The Know to gather current consumer preferences and perceptions related to customer service and customer experience channels. CX leaders can use the report to better understand what consumers value most, where to focus their agent training efforts, and how to win over customers and prospects.

Trends 52

Trends Report Consumers Telecommunications 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Your contact center has a vested interest in making the customer experience as smooth as possible. After all, customers want their interactions with your agents to be smooth and without friction. A key performance indicator (KPI) and strategic metric for any business is the Customer Effort Score (CES).

Effort Score 52

Effort Score Contact Center Net Promoter Score Self Service 52

Stella Connect

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Agents keep up with incoming tickets and customer queries, with little insight into their performance and even less visibility into what they need to do to develop and grow. As a result, the common story of the contact center is one of burnout and attrition. Finally (and worst of all), there’s a disconnect with customers.

Call Center 52

Call Center Management Contact Center Effort Score 52

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. Keynote Presentations.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Omni-Channel Conference Employee Engagement 40

Lithium

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

What effect this has on a brand depends heavily on how robust the brand’s marketing, community, and customer care systems are. This fact is especially true in the diverse world of customer care. This group of people bottlenecks your agent’s ability to help any of your “normal” customers who still need support.

Airlines 52

Airlines Self Service Effort Score NPS 52

Lithium

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

What effect this has on a brand depends heavily on how robust the brand’s marketing, community, and customer care systems are. This fact is especially true in the diverse world of customer care. This group of people bottlenecks your agent’s ability to help any of your “normal” customers who still need support.

Airlines 52

Airlines Self Service Effort Score NPS 52

Call Experts

MAY 20, 2022

As the first point of contact, a contact center answers for your customers and prospects 24-7. Contact centers can help ensure that you never miss an opportunity. What is a Contact Center? A contact center handles voice calls for companies. What is After Hours Service?

Contact Center 98

Contact Center Call Center e-support Self Service 98

Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the most impactful uses is how AI is transforming customer experience (CX). Advances in technology allow contact centers to use data in much more manageable ways, redefine how to engage with customers, gain efficiencies, and leverage actionable insights to improve quality management (QM) and the customer journey.

Contact Center 75

Contact Center Management Effort Score Call Center 75

Think Customers

MARCH 28, 2022

Gig customer experience (gigCX) workers—independent contractors, freelancers, and other temporary workers who provide customer support and other related services—are a natural fit in the contact center space. In this case, customer satisfaction or effort scores are more relevant.

How To 105

How To Policies Tips Contact Center 105

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. How do we use that data to improve the customer experience?

Metrics 219

Metrics Customer Care Measurement Contact Center 219

Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

Some of the most common uses of AI have been game changers: Virtual assistants like Siri guiding us on our way and finding information in an instant Fraud detection from our financial institutions Medical diagnoses and healthcare Contact centers are no exception and stand to gain significant business and operational benefits from AI.

Contact Center 74

Contact Center Self Service Net Promoter Score Effort Score 74

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

Customer Journey Analytics will help marketers have a better understanding of how to engage with each customer with respect to the overall acquisition journey. This will enable enhanced personalization efforts and make your customers feel that you truly understand them. Customer Care and Customer Service Team.

Customer Journeys 52

Customer Journeys Metrics Analytics Touchpoint 52

Customer Enthusiast

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This is not a big deal but since a complete set is preferred to an incomplete set, I took a picture of the box and green poker chip and emailed it (along with a brief explanation of the incident and my home mailing address) to the customer care email address I found at the website of the supplier, Cardinal Industries, Inc.

System 49

System Net Promoter Score Contact Center Effort Score 49

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. When Customer Care Isn’t Enough, Call the Customer Delight Brigade by Katie Deighton. I also smiled at his story about the customer who calls him so much, she refers to him as her boyfriend.

Customer Service 26

Customer Service Effort Score Net Promoter Score Contact Center 26

TechSee

APRIL 3, 2018

As general rule, the best way to reduce churn is to successfully address the needs of a particular customer at the right time with minimal effort and disruption to the customer. Harvard Business Review reports that providing customers with short tutorials on product features before disengaging can reduce churn by 6%.

Customer Retention 141

Customer Retention Technology Strategy Analytics 141

ProProfs Chat

MARCH 30, 2018

Do it in a timely and efficient way and you’ll see your scores go up. A customer experience strategy aims at reducing customer effort and improves your sales by making your products and services more attractive. Ensure that they have the empowerment and autonomy to resolve customer issues. Maybe even way up!

Customer Satisfaction 111

Customer Satisfaction How To Effort Score Contact Center 111

NobelBiz

JANUARY 17, 2022

The AHT is a KPI that contact centers always strive to improve. Of course, there are rational answers to this organizational challenge, including reducing call center AHT while also ensuring quality work and performances. What is the Average Handling Time (AHT) for Contact Centers? Above all, do not omit anything.

Average Handle Time 52

Average Handle Time Contact Center Management Call Center 52

CCO Council

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

How buyers and sellers think very differently about Ease of Doing Business —and how that difference can sabotage your efforts. The most common causes of friction that upset your customers and prevent your revenue/profit growth. Remember that high-effort experiences often begin WAAY upstream. Will you call them? Conclusion.

Effort Score 40

Effort Score ROI Call Center Analysis 40

NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

Mobility, flexibility, automation… the development of chatbots is the inevitable result of a ten-year technological convergence that has swept across all companies and contact centers. What are its advantages for contact centers? The important things to remember are that: Chatbots help you to take new customers.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Chatbots Virtual Agent Call Center 52

Qualtrics

JULY 15, 2019

Customer Experience (CX) is the future of business and companies who don’t get on board will have trouble competing in an evolving marketplace. As companies like Amazon and Uber continue to offer great customer experiences, companies must adjust to consumer’s rising expectations. – View or contact center experience solution here.

Net Promoter Score 41

Net Promoter Score Customer Service Customer Experience Social Media 41

Magellan Solutions

JUNE 10, 2019

Customer service representatives who handle inbound calls focus on providing a positive experience by zooming in on their current needs. It minimizes customer frustration and helps in increasing high customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores. E-commerce customer care. Billing paperwork and collections.

Call Center 75

Call Center e-support Social Media Hotels 75

NobelBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

Overall, retaining existing customers is much more lucrative than attracting new ones. As a result, engaging in contact center solutions and technologies yields significant returns for companies. But the questions remain, how do you keep your customers happy? How can a contact center solution enhance customer loyalty?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Loyalty Net Promoter Score Multi-Channel 52

Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

This definitely applies to customer needs and preferences, and contact centers are constantly striving to stay one step ahead of evolving customer requirements. A desire for instant-access self-service options is shifting how customers want to engage. Artificial intelligence (AI) can play a part.

Self Service 78

Self Service Management Contact Center Effort Score 78

Think Customers

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The contact center industry is driven by customer experiences that are easy, difficult, joyful, stressful and everything in between. It’s incredibly important to take these everyday interactions from associates and customers and quantify them in a tangible way. How to improve CSAT. How to improve CES.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center NPS Metrics Effort Score 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In this new revamped consumer experience, these 5 CX trends serve as benchmarks for the future of your contact center. From a contact center perspective, customers now expect to contact a company when and how it is convenient for them. They assist your customer care employees at every client engagement.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Trends Social Media Net Promoter Score 52