BlueOcean

AUGUST 9, 2021

Contact center technologies are certainly in the mix of acceleration. In fact, many recent developments promise to reshape the landscape of customer service completely. The most recent publication from Ryan Strategic Advisory surveyed contact center leaders about the state of the industry. billion by 2024.

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BlueOcean

JULY 12, 2018

The only constant in the customer care world is change, and if you don’t keep up, you’ll be left behind. That’s why we’ve compiled these must-read articles to keep you updated and give you some food for thought as you think about the future of your outsourced customer care. Strategic Partnerships with Contact Centers. “

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Customer Care Trends Contact Center Chatbots 185

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2018

And you’re ready for your outsourced customer service RFP to hit the road and bring you some stellar options for a new contact center partner. Here’s the short list of the best questions to ask about AI in the contact center. Looking for more contact center RFP questions? CAPABILITIES & PROCESS.

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Contact Center Self Service Chatbots Case Study 195

Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations.

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Call Experts

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations.

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Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 105

BlueOcean

JUNE 12, 2018

Contact center implementation is an art and a science, and over 24 years in business, we’ve learned exactly what it takes to make the smoothest transition possible. Every milestone and every moving part is integral to a controlled acceleration towards a seamless transition that results in a positive customer experience.

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 9, 2018

Siri, Alexa, and OK Google… these are the virtual interactions that Sci-Fi movies have portrayed for decades past. We want intelligent interactions that are personalized to our own situations and we want them on demand – not after we waste our precious time sitting on hold. Forget AI being the future of the contact center.

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Omni-Channel Customer Care Contact Center Case Study 191

BlueOcean

JANUARY 27, 2020

You can ask all the right questions in the contact center RFP and still struggle to understand how their culture might or might not align with your own. That’s why, if time and budget allow, we always recommend a site visit before you go to RFP ( read our Guide to On-Site Contact Center Visits here ). Got 15 minutes?

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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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Calabrio

AUGUST 7, 2019

Anyone working in the contact center industry knows Customer Contact Week (CCW) to be the end-all, be-all event for customer experience, contact center and customer care professionals. ICCU takes a fresh, unique approach to customer service, and it shows. These efforts pay off.

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 21, 2019

Choosing a strategic partner to deliver an outsourced customer care solution is a significant business decision – maybe one of the most significant decisions you’ll make in your career. You’ll task your team with running a tight procurement process to assess potential contact center partners. 1. Work Environment.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If agents are frustrated, we can only imagine that the customers they’re speaking with are too. Finding Bilingual Support That Suits Your Customers Best We’re an onshore Canadian contact center outsourcer and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated (bilingual) customer care through strategic partnership.

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BlueOcean

APRIL 15, 2019

The trend of personalized customer experience has since transformed almost every industry as we know it. From the retail experience to social media connections to issue resolution via the contact center, customers want their individual needs known and reflected in the interactions, services, and products they pay for.

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Playvox

JULY 18, 2022

Contact center agent attrition can be as high as 38% — and it’s not hard to understand why. An agent’s work is frequently monotonous, stressful — thanks to angry customers taking out their frustrations on agents — and overwhelming with too many interactions to handle. What Causes Contact Center Agent Attrition?

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Contact Center Technology Social Media Employee Engagement 73

Interactions

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Over the last three years, Covid has transformed the contact-center industry into a work-from-anywhere (WFA) world. Millions of agents now work outside the traditional walls of a care center. . At Interactions, we’ve thought about this issue since Covid turned the traditional call-center model upside down. .

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Storyminers

JULY 7, 2020

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. . #1 1 Deepen your customer profile. Customers expect an ever more frictionless experience and more proactive service.

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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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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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NICE inContact

MAY 12, 2017

2017 was arguably the biggest and best year ever at Enterprise Connect 2017 for those who care about contact centers. For ten years, I have attended virtually every contact center session held at the show, the past few years as the Contact Center Track Chair. Is Cloud Contact Center the New Normal?

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Contact Center Connections Conference Case Study 120

Interactions

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Getting stuck in a loop or being misunderstood by an automated customer care system brings out the worst in humanity. Thankfully, customer service tools have advanced in recent years, and AI is accelerating the change. Our AI is developed specifically for contact centers. We play nice with others.

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Interactions

JANUARY 26, 2023

A Yext survey revealed an even higher percentage of phone preference — 50% of respondents said they call customer support for financial or healthcare service issues. Implementing security protocols like clean desk, access control, and software updates are integral risk prevention policy components for in-office contact centers.

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Comm100

JUNE 5, 2018

It’s therefore essential to analyze ‘what’s out there’ in customer service AI and adjust our expectations accordingly. How AI can be Used in the Contact Center. AI has some viable uses in the contact center sphere that managers can employ to improve their CX and the efficiency of call centers.

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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? CSAT = (number of positive responses / the total number of responses) x 100.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Website, email, social media, SMS, instant messaging, and mobile applications: the evolution of communication channels over the last two decades has increased the number of available points of interaction between businesses and their consumers. For the contact center industry, customer relationships management has also dramatically shifted.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Website, email, social media, SMS, instant messaging, and mobile applications: the evolution of communication channels over the last two decades has increased the number of available points of interaction between businesses and their consumers. For the contact center industry, customer relationships management has also dramatically shifted.

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Contact Center Communication Social Media Omni-Channel 52

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. This is much easier to accomplish for in-person training, where you have control over the physical environment and can maintain physical interaction such as eye contact.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Even though technology has improved in the call center industry, the level of customer experience is still mostly determined by how people interact with each other. Building customer loyalty and setting yourself apart from your competitors also depends on how competent are your agents.

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Contact Center Call Center Communication Omni-Channel 52

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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Contact Center Communication Customer Satisfaction Omni-Channel 52

Upstream Works

MAY 13, 2020

Every contact center has a universal goal: to provide exceptional customer service. It requires a holistic customer experience (CX) strategy, a responsive data strategy and the flexibility to adapt to a changing world. The foundation for omnichannel contact center success is your long-term strategy.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Self Service Customer Journeys 78

GlowTouch

JUNE 21, 2021

Customer Care. Communicate with your customers through their preferred channel: chat, voice/IVR, email, social media, SMS, Facebook Messenger, in-app messaging, and web self-service. . Pro-active chat picks up where bots end; studies show that consumers would rather interact with live agents than with automated chat programs.

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Hello Customer

MAY 19, 2021

Organizations have multiple touchpoints which define their level of customer centricity. We think of touchpoints such as digital channels and salespeople, but many often forget the one that is perhaps the most important, the contact center. Yet, these centers often don’t get the attention and recognition they deserve.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 31, 2022

Let’s look at what sports can teach us about consistency in achieving contact center service levels—and how to adapt to even the most unexpected outcomes. That’s what we’re talking about here – the role of repetitions and preparing for the possibilities in contact center management. Practice Makes (Almost) Perfect.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 29, 2022

It is becoming increasingly prevalent and noticeable due to digital communication platforms that encourage multichannel interactions between customers and contact centers. In the contact center sector, customer engagement is one of the strategic objectives of many companies today.

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Contact Center Customer Engagement Engagement Call Center 52

COPC

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These changes were highlighted during the Optimizing Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop that COPC Inc. hosted as part of this fall’s Execs In The Know’s Customer Response Summit. This channel has become one of the fastest-growing customer service channel offerings.

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BlueOcean

JULY 5, 2016

If the call to customer care is a dreaded and distasteful last resort, how do we adapt and improve the experience? With social networks evolving at a breakneck pace, that leads us to the question at the root of this post: what is the state of social customer care in 2016 and beyond? The Facts About Social Customer Care.

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Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

Overall, it’s really just about providing a quality customer experience. 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. Increasing the focus on your customers is essential.

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Think Customers

JANUARY 18, 2022

Customer service interactions can quickly evolve, requiring different channels and tools. The same is true for a call that begins with an interactive voice response (IVR) system. 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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