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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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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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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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

Did you know that American businesses risk losing a whopping $494 billion in revenue from poor customer care? In the age of smartphones, where support is only a click away, consumers have massive expectations when it comes to customer service.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Three primary trends are driving the customer care industry: diversified cloud-based solutions. By actively harnessing a set of cloud-based AI-powered technologies, contact centers are infusing intelligence across the entire customer contact landscape. Key 2020 Trends: Cloud Contact Centers.

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BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Higher call volumes leading to longer wait times for your customers and higher stress for your agents? Maybe it’s time to consider the benefits of outsourcing some or all of that customer care volume. At its most basic level, growing your in-house contact center means you’ll need more space. Infrastructure.

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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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BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

So, we’ll take a comprehensive look at the cost of ownership of your in-house contact center – both intangible and tangible expenses – and how it compares to the cost of outsourcing. And that beginning is this – PayScale cites an average $13/hour for a customer service rep. The Cost of Contact Center Infrastructure.

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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

APRIL 28, 2020

And in the world of customer care, an industry that has felt the entire spectrum of effects – from drought to tsunami – we’re asking the big questions in anticipation of a better future. Will companies continue to leverage AI in the same ways or will the pandemic reveal new ways to integrate digital solutions into the contact center?

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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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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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TechSee

DECEMBER 31, 2019

To help you plan, we’ve highlighted nine of the biggest customer service trends for 2020. Customer Service will become increasingly AI-driven. In 2020, automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning are expected to have an even greater impact on contact center operations. Voice will be king.

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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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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Of course, greater retail sales inevitably lead to higher call volume in the contact center. The best outsourcing partners go to the ends of the earth to prepare for these massive peak season holiday spikes and will not only need to address a sustained customer experience but also team morale, agent stress, and absenteeism.

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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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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

The Need for Hyper Efficiency in Call Centers As a call center operations manager, you need to stay on top of the latest trends in hyper efficiency to ensure that your organization is successful. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center?

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For the contact center industry, customer relationships management has also dramatically shifted. This revolution of channels must enable contact centers to make client relationships even more distinctive by personalizing them and creating a genuine consumer experience.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For the contact center industry, customer relationships management has also dramatically shifted. This revolution of channels must enable contact centers to make client relationships even more distinctive by personalizing them and creating a genuine consumer experience.

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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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Zeisler Consulting

APRIL 2, 2024

All the rage these days in Contact Center online webinars and consortia is the topic of automation and “AI”… “Bots”, “ChatGPT” (I still don’t understand what that does, but apparently, as far as you know, I’m using it to write this article right now.) Are the robots going to take over altogether?

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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. The post The Pivot to 100% Remote Training in the Contact Center appeared first on Blue Ocean. Fully transparency: it’s a pre-pandemic resource, but the core elements of training hold true.)

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Think Customers

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leading contact centers understand that each person and tool has its strengths and weaknesses, and create a better customer experience when combined appropriately. 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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SaleMove

MARCH 12, 2021

Those that ignored that crazy computing fad, the overhyped Internet trend or that fleeting cloud craze, for example. In today’s consumer-driven world where the overall experience is a top differentiator, customer care organizations are now at the forefront of innovation.

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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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Integrity Solutions

MARCH 3, 2020

The most persistent contact center challenges can be overcome by making coaching a part of the culture and developing your agents’ listening and problem-solving skills. For several years we’ve been participating in Customer Contact Week (CCW), the world’s largest customer contact event series.

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 30, 2018

In this environment, partnering with a solid outsourced contact center partner can be the best decision you can make. The key is to find a true strategic partner who you trust to stay ahead of the customer experience curve. Automation through AI-driven technologies will never replace the need for human contact center agents.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Customers of health-related products—such as over-the-counter medicines, dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, medical devices, wearables, and animal health products—typically have higher expectations of manufacturers than do users of other types of consumer products. Documentation of contacts. Proactive outreach. Ability to Escalate.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 18, 2022

The average call handling time (AHT) is widely used to assess the efficiency of individual customer care representatives and the overall performance of the company. Customer relationship centers can use it to set criteria for their customer service goals. How is the AHT calculated? Find out more in our article!

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COPC

APRIL 1, 2024

Global Benchmarking Series | Contact Center Technologies Today, executives deploy digital solutions with increased confidence and swiftness. Contact Center Training: A Digital Leap Forward The way we train new hires at contact centers has changed drastically.

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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.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Zenarate , the leading Simulation Training solution, today announced the release of the Consumer Edition of the 2022 CX Leaders Trends & Insights report. Zenarate partnered with Execs In The Know to gather current consumer preferences and perceptions related to customer service and customer experience channels.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 20, 2024

This distinctive model, coupled with a leadership team that boasts over five decades of customer support outsourcing experience with Fortune 500 behemoths in the Philippines—including titans such as Microsoft, American Express, Allstate, United Healthcare, and T-Mobile—positions it uniquely.

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Advantage Communications

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Outsourcing a major part of your business is never an easy decision, but when it comes down to something as important as your customer service strategy , it’s generally the right one.

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SaleMove

MARCH 12, 2021

Those that ignored that crazy computing fad, the overhyped Internet trend or that fleeting cloud craze, for example. In today’s consumer-driven world where the overall experience is a top differentiator, customer care organizations are now at the forefront of innovation.

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Oracle

JULY 14, 2020

The current pandemic is a clear example of a disruption that, in many cases, is accelerating trends that were already happening. We’ll likely see these trends continue to accelerate over time. Sprinklr also enables enterprises to listen to social networks and respond from their customer care organizations.

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GlowTouch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

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