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

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

TechSee

MAY 29, 2018

With clear ROI demonstrated almost immediately upon implementation, C-level decision-makers and call center management have turned to visual engagement as an important stepping stone on their journey towards providing a digital customer-centric experience. Customer Service KPI #2 – FCR (First Contact Resolution).

Contact Center 95

Contact Center Engagement Call Center Net Promoter Score 95

Interactions

JUNE 13, 2019

However, with the right technology, ROI and cost efficiencies can be just as transformational as an IVAs impact on customer care. What does it mean for a contact center to be efficient? Broadly speaking, it’s creating experiences for customers that are both quick and productive.

ROI 63

ROI Contact Center Chatbots Survey 63

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.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Customer Experience ROI Customer Care 40

SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Chatbots are one of the most cost-effective ways to deliver customer service quickly and impactfully. . If you’re currently using or thinking about setting up a chatbot as part of your business contact center , the good news is, there are a ton of KPIs to help you determine its effectiveness. The non-response rate measures this.

Chatbots 59

Chatbots Measurement Self Service Metrics 59

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Cost Factors in Major Urban Centers . In the past 18 months, we have seen more and more interest from companies looking for alternatives to operating customer care centers in or close to their headquarters in major urban centers like Toronto, Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco. The More Affordable Alternative.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Contact Center Transportation Customer Care 136

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 52

Virtual Agent Contact Center Management How To 52

Stella Connect

JUNE 15, 2017

Without rigorous quality assurance measures to ensure data integrity, mystery shopping programs are bound to produce skewed or inaccurate results. For example, some mystery shopping companies deploy shoppers who aren’t demographically representative, aren’t properly screened, and aren’t rotated to ensure objective measurement.

ROI 40

ROI Measurement Brands Omni-Channel 40

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Are Your Customer Care Metrics Customer-Centric? Customer care metrics are a barometer of performance across a variety of customer interactions such as chat, text messages, email, social media and communities. Both of these orientations tend to be company-serving rather than customer-focused.

Customer Care 54

Customer Care Customer Centricity Metrics Social Media 54

Stella Connect

MARCH 8, 2018

WSI was one of the early customers of Stella Metrics, and continues to use the product to measure and improve performance across its customer service and fulfillment operations. Building on the strength of the existing partnership, WSI became one of the first Stella Connect customers after the product launched in 2016.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Net Promoter Score Connections ROI 40

Stella Connect

MARCH 8, 2018

WSI was one of the early customers of Stella Metrics, and continues to use the product to measure and improve performance across its customer service and fulfillment operations. Building on the strength of the existing partnership, WSI became one of the first Stella Connect customers after the product launched in 2016.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Net Promoter Score Connections ROI 40

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.

Contact Center 184

Contact Center Customer Journeys Hospitality Culture 184

Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The report goes into a lot of detail so it’s clear how to calculate the ROI of social customer service: Many brands have experienced incidents where not taking care of an issue turned into a social media nightmare. Customer care extends far beyond the traditional call center. Costs of Investment.

ROI 45

ROI Social Media Airlines Customer Service 45

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

NobelBiz

MARCH 23, 2022

Running a successful contact center means you’re responsible for keeping customers happy and your agents performing effectively so that your company may thrive. And generating an ROI on your contact center to increase your company’s bottom line is part of that growth strategy. The process!

Return on Investment 52

Return on Investment Contact Center ROI Measurement 52

GlowTouch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Did you know… that one of the fastest-growing career fields is Customer Success Manager? This reflects the increased emphasis on the user experience and personalization across virtually every industry for whom customer care is a vital function. By necessity, most organizations had to adopt some measure of working from home.

Trends 52

Trends Customer Service Self Service Contact Center 52

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

Businesses are realizing the power of customer journey mapping to monitor customer experience performance and identify opportunities for improvement. Customer journey analytics is enabling access to tap into the customer behavior across touchpoints and over time to measure the impact of customer behavior on business outcomes.

Customer Journeys 52

Customer Journeys Metrics Analytics Touchpoint 52

Verint

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Verint’s Jon Allen, general manager, communities, will present “Redefining ROI: Win BIG with Social Communities” on October 19 at 6:30 p.m. Attendees will learn why it’s critical not to gamble with customer relationships and how to measure return on interaction by effectively listening to the voice of customers.

Analysis 30

Analysis Customer Service Contact Center Omni-Channel 30

Natalie Petouhof

MARCH 10, 2016

Tweet New Call Tracking For Digital Marketing – Well if you thought the only people who cared about phone calls to brand were people in the contact center, then you may be surprised by DialogTech’s new solution. However, often times those “marketing” type calls go to the contact center.

Marketing 40

Marketing Contact Center ROI Advertising 40

CCO Council

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

And ensure you can demonstrate relevant ROI. We’ve chosen the low-hanging fruit: those that have a high impact on customers and are relatively easy to implement, according to a number of criteria we laid out. Now how do you make these urgent hotspots actionable and fix them for customers? And how will you measure it?

Effort Score 40

Effort Score ROI Call Center Analysis 40

Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But when I talk to customers, they say, “ I get there’s something to AI and customer service, but how do I deliver business results and value with AI? ” List the strategic metrics you are measured on every day and then think about how AI can help you to: Reduce call volume (call deflection via satisfying self-service).

Self Service 89

Self Service Customer Service Average Handle Time CRM 89

Natalie Petouhof

MAY 27, 2016

. • Customer Experience IOT in the Automotive Industry-Upcoming. **. Digital Transformation: Customer Engagement, CRM, Innovation, Customer Experience, Customer Service, The Cloud and Analytics. • ROI Of Customer Service & Customer Experience. • ROI of Social Customer Service- Upcoming. •

Omni-Channel 40

Omni-Channel Social Media e-support ROI 40

Verint

JULY 31, 2017

A well thought-out voice of the customer (VoC) strategy has become a strategic imperative for measuring and improving customers’ experiences, satisfaction and loyalty. Listening, analyzing and acting on the voice of the customer across digital and traditional channels (e.g., YoY since 2015).

Strategy 28

Strategy ROI Analytics Survey 28

Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

I think the scope of what customers were looking to change back then was much different. Now we are seeing chief customer care officers and CEOs, chief excellence officers. In the large enterprise they are now coming up with a person who has the title of Chief Customer Care Officer, or Chief Experience Officer.

Innovation 42

Innovation Omni-Channel Average Handle Time Contact Center 42

Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

I think the scope of what customers were looking to change back then was much different. Now we are seeing chief customer care officers and CEOs, chief excellence officers. In the large enterprise they are now coming up with a person who has the title of Chief Customer Care Officer, or Chief Experience Officer.

Innovation 40

Innovation Omni-Channel Average Handle Time Contact Center 40

Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. Understanding the key call center efficiency metrics to track , and more importantly, how to improve them, will set you up for success and help keep your customers happy.

Call Center 52

Call Center Metrics Contact Center Net Promoter 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

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

Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 13, 2015

That customer might be loyal for a while, at least until there’s a better deal from another company. It’s part of why there is so much customer churn. One of the biggest issues is NOT that Customer Service Professionals are not aware of the issues in their contact centers. They know what they would like to do.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Social Media Airlines Hotels 40

Natalie Petouhof

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

announced substantial enhancements to its Verint Workforce Optimization ™ software designed to help contact center, back-office and branch operations better manage the performance of employees and operations. It requires organizational buy-in, transparency, regular measurement and a focus on business-oriented goals.

Innovation 40

Innovation Gamification Management Comparison 40

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

If you answered “no, our social customer care is most definitely not kicking ass” – don’t worry, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve curated five thought-provoking blogs that will help you get on the path to best-in-class social customer care. Social Customer Care Cannot Be Ignored.

Omni-Channel 199

Omni-Channel Social Media Customer Service Contact Center 199

BlueOcean

JANUARY 8, 2019

You have to assume that had that customer had a positive experience – both with your product/service and with your customer service team – they would have continued to buy from you and recommend your brand to others. According to research, only 42% of companies are able to accurately measure lifetime customer value.

Lifetime Customer 299

Lifetime Customer Contact Center Poor Customer Service eBook 299

Comm100

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Second, know who your customers are and address their specific needs to improve your customer experience. Not all customers have the same needs and you can find many different types of customers contacting your contact center – all with different desires and expectations.

Customer Experience 118

Customer Experience Social Media Self Service Multi-Channel 118

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Arie’s Customer Lifecycle Management work is focused on developing Customer Strategy and Improving the performance of: Customer Acquisition, Customer Onboarding, Customer Development, Customer Loyalty, and Customer Winback processes. Show podcast and a regular contributor to Forbes. Ian Golding.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Arie’s Customer Lifecycle Management work is focused on developing Customer Strategy and Improving the performance of: Customer Acquisition, Customer Onboarding, Customer Development, Customer Loyalty, and Customer Winback processes. Show podcast and a regular contributor to Forbes. Ian Golding.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

For instance, a telecom company could hypothesize that an existing customer moving to a new house is a service journey that usually starts on the website but frequently escalates into a phone call to the customer care center. For instance, a common customer service flow could be from website to IVR systems.

First Call Resolution 75

First Call Resolution Self Service Call Center Effort Score 75