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Top Customer Care Trends to Consider as You Plan for the New Year

BlueOcean

As customer care teams start planning for 2024, we’ve seen how easy it can be to get stuck in a rut. The quickest way to get re-inspired is by getting a finger on the pulse of current news and customer service trends in the industry. The modern customer journey is complex and constantly evolving.

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What is the Difference Between Call Centers and Contact Centers?

NobelBiz

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?

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5 Ways To Optimize Call Abandonment Rate For Contact Centers

NobelBiz

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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Total Experience Strategy: Everything in the Contact Center Altogether, All At Once

BlueOcean

We’ve said it so often it’s become cliché, but we stand by the concept that happy employees make for happy customers, and in outsourcing, happy customers make happy clients. TX strategy is the ultimate integration of customer experience (CX), employee experience (EX), the multi experience (MX), and user experience (UX).

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10 Tips for Connecting with Customers Emotionally

NICE inContact

That means connecting with customers emotionally is the task of the customer service agent. So, contact center managers need to put the right practices in place and also give agents the right tools. Bearing that in mind, here are 10 tips for connecting with customers emotionally. 5) Be channel-focused.

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Interactions IVA: taking the dread out of contacting customer service

Interactions

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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Using Channel Strategy to Influence Customer Satisfaction

COPC

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. Part of excellent customer experience management involves effective channel strategy.