BlueOcean

MAY 5, 2023

We’ve said it before and we’re not afraid to repeat it until the cows come home: using a boilerplate RFP in the process to find a new customer care outsourcer is a quick road to failure. You’re looking for a strategic partner who will interface with your customers day in and day out. That requires a custom RFP.

Customer Care 156

Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Government 156

BlueOcean

JUNE 17, 2021

For many organizations, in-house customer care feels like the right choice. It keeps you close to your customers and ready to serve them with your exhaustive knowledge of your products or services. Customer care is often a 24/7/365 job, and the slightest disruption has the potential to impact your reputation and brand loyalty.

Contact Center 177

Contact Center Customer Care Measurement Report 177

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? MEASURING SUCCESS.

Contact Center 195

Contact Center Self Service Chatbots Case Study 195

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? Are you still in regular contact with your partner’s leadership team and do you still trust them to deliver excellence for your customers?

Customer Care 156

Customer Care Contact Center Effort Score Net Promoter Score 156

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.

Contact Center 209

Contact Center Abandon Rate Resources Communication 209

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.

Contact Center 105

Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 105

BlueOcean

AUGUST 7, 2018

Contracting a new contact center outsourcer may be one of the most impactful decisions you make all year (no pressure, right?) You’re putting your brand and your customers in the hands of someone new, whose efforts will have a direct impact on your business, its ROI, and all its related KPIs. Draft Your Contact Center RFP.

Contact Center 189

Contact Center Effort Score Culture Fashion 189

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?

Contact Center 177

Contact Center Culture How To Leadership 177

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.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 52

Interactions

APRIL 16, 2024

A dedication to understanding your customers ensures that every interaction is personalized and purposeful, alleviating the pain of lengthy wait times and ensuring each conversation is met with effective, personalized assistance. Failing to invest in customer care risks customers seeking it elsewhere.

Customer Care 62

Customer Care Self Service Omni-Channel Metrics 62

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.

Contact Center 159

Contact Center Culture Leadership Engagement 159

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.

Contact Center 147

Contact Center Customer Expectations Management Wireless 147

BlueOcean

AUGUST 27, 2020

And, of course, your company’s plan to launch a new outsourced customer care program. Your customers are already struggling with the times, and now you’re thinking about overhauling the customer care process? Check out these articles: 60 Customer Care RFP Questions for the Contact Center of 2020.

Customer Care 156

Customer Care Contact Center Sports Case Study 156

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?

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Connections Conference Case Study 120

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.

Customer Care 189

Customer Care Social Media Contact Center Poor Customer Service 189

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.

Contact Center 54

Contact Center Measurement Self Service How To 54

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.

Contact Center 310

Contact Center Customer Care Average Handle Time Consumers 310

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. For most of us, the success measure for the big 2020 pivot was simply staying operational. The post The Pivot to 100% Remote Training in the Contact Center appeared first on Blue Ocean.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Training Effort Score Virtual Agent 156

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?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Call Center Management Gamification 52

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.

Contact Center 133

Contact Center Omni-Channel Brands Hospitality 133

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.

Customer Care 120

Customer Care Social Media Contact Center Entertainment 120

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.

Contact Center 78

Contact Center Omni-Channel Self Service Customer Journeys 78

TechSee

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

As customer service leaders envision the contact center of the future, a key question is whether agents will need to come in to work at all. After all, the costs of operating a physical contact center are immense, and the challenges of training , motivating and retaining staff remain major pain points for all B2C organizations.

Contact Center 84

Contact Center Self Service Contact Center Software B2C 84

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. The outsourcing contact center market is becoming more competitive. WFH Insights.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center ROI Customer Journeys Touchpoint 52

BlueOcean

MARCH 20, 2017

Can a contact center partner really manage a team of agents working remotely as effectively as they can manage someone sitting right beside them? Managing Work-at-Home Call Center Agents. There’s no denying that there is an enormous amount of trust required with a work-at-home model in your outsourced call center.

Customer Care 189

Customer Care Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time 189

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.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Customer Engagement Engagement Call Center 52

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. The post Why Artificial Intelligence Now—and Why in Customer Care?

Customer Care 94

Customer Care Contact Center Government Healthcare 94

BlueOcean

MAY 16, 2017

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. And a partner can make decisions with a comprehensive understanding of what’s important to your organization and your customers.

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Call Center Government Culture 136

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The data collected, measured, and analyzed for contact centers is an absolute gold mine. When used wisely, it can greatly improve the customer experience. In other words, the link between data and customer experience can become a virtuous circle. Here are some more advantages of employing call center analytics: 1.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Analytics Data Call Center 52

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

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

NobelBiz

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The terms call center and contact center are often used interchangeably, which might lead you to think that they are one and the same. What Is a Call Center? A call center is an entity whose vocation is to mobilize human, technical, and technological means. Then, What Is a Contact Center?

Call Center 52

Call Center Contact Center Multi-Channel Social Media 52

SaleMove

JANUARY 20, 2021

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches.

Virtual Agent 98

Virtual Agent Contact Center Management How To 98

NobelBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This ability enables you to comprehend emotions and how to use them in order to nurture good customer relationships. Although it is still simply a “beautiful notion” for far too many businesses and contact centers. Nancy Munro is an expert in contact center training simulations. Can you look at them objectively?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Leadership Self Service Contact Center Software 52

Call Experts

MAY 27, 2021

Do you know the total number of contact centers in the US? Remarkably, finding the right contact center partner is not as challenging as it sounds. . Before you go further, ask yourself, what does your business need from a contact center: Will you require 24-hour service? . Nearly sixty thousand !

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Call Center Training Customer Care 52

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 #2 – FCR (First Contact Resolution).

Contact Center 95

Contact Center Engagement Call Center Net Promoter Score 95

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 105

Contact Center Report Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 105