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

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

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Whatever the driving force behind this transition, it is important to consider the technological advancements that have occurred in the contact center space in recent years. In that regard, Cloud Contact Center Solutions (CCaaS) are replacing old technologies and opening up new potential for organizations.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Contact Center Software Call Center Multi-Channel 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

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Whatever the driving force behind this transition, it is important to consider the technological advancements that have occurred in the contact center space in recent years. In that regard, Cloud Contact Center Solutions (CCaaS) are replacing old technologies and opening up new potential for organizations.

Contact Center Software 52

Contact Center Software Contact Center Software Call Center 52

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

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.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Customer Care Omni-Channel Self Service 52

TechSee

MAY 29, 2018

The following article is the introduction to our contact center KPIs on visual support series. Video is becoming increasingly entrenched in daily life. Businesses in all categories seek solutions for enhanced video engagement with customers. One example is the explosion of product unboxing videos.

Contact Center 95

Contact Center Engagement Call Center Net Promoter Score 95

BlueOcean

JANUARY 20, 2022

In a world where the customer experience matters more than ever, the decision to outsource your customer care has significant impact on your brand and its reputation. At the very least, you should consider how cost-effectiveness, business continuity, and the local talent market intersect in your contact center location strategy.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Customer Care Infographics Sports 156

NobelBiz

APRIL 21, 2022

With the growth of online shopping, brands have had to redefine their engagement strategies and by extension contact centers. Contact centers are becoming more advanced and they are also being impacted by several new technologies. Today we talk about Omnichannel and consumer 2.0.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Call Center Social Media CRM 52

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

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. Actually, no, it’s not that simple!

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Return on Investment Contact Center ROI Measurement 52

SaleMove

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Today’s contact center managers focus primarily on agent performance and customer service level metrics, and using those metrics to drive staffing, training and technology investment decisions. . Available technologies and customer care requirements are changing rapidly.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Self Service Management Metrics 52

Strativity

MARCH 30, 2020

This is especially true for employees working in contact centers and customer care departments who are tasked with providing customers with information, support, and a positive experience. Changes to the modern contact center environment . 4 – GET COMMUNICATING. Think we can help? Let’s talk!

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Guidelines CRM Call Recording 52

NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

Mobility, flexibility, automation… the development of chatbots is the inevitable result of a ten-year technological convergence that has swept across all companies and contact centers. What are its advantages for contact centers? The important things to remember are that: Chatbots help you to take new customers.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Chatbots Virtual Agent Call Center 52

Think Customers

MARCH 15, 2016

Last week at Enterprise Connect , one of the most talked-about topics was video, especially as it can be used by customer care agents to communicate with customers. But thanks to the emergence of WebRTC, Skype for Business, and other developments, these barriers aren't nearly as formidable as they'd once been.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Video Customer Care Communication 40

TechSee

DECEMBER 12, 2017

To enhance customer satisfaction, more and more companies are transforming into an omnichannel contact center – providing a frictionless customer service experience across multiple touchpoints. Considering that contact centers today hold immense repositories of customer data, processing this information is no simple feat.

Omni-Channel 144

Omni-Channel Customer Experience Contact Center Touchpoint 144

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach. Boost KPIs with Visual Self-Service.

Self Service 146

Self Service Metrics Contact Center Virtual Agent 146

SaleMove

JULY 29, 2019

This is the first installment of a blog series that examines the trends driving the transformation, reviews how people work in today’s contact center, and explores what you should do now to staff the contact center of tomorrow. Start Swimming. “ You better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone.”

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Self Service Analytics Sports 40

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 50

Contact Center Omni-Channel Brands Hospitality 50

Upstream Works

JANUARY 25, 2022

For contact centers, digital transformation has surpassed buzzword status. CX innovation is accelerating faster than ever before, and it’s integral that contact centers keep pace. But how can contact centers respond? But how can contact centers respond? Understanding the Customer Journey.

Innovation 78

Innovation Contact Center Omni-Channel Self Service 78

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And it’s one that undeniably impacts our perception of the customer experience. Exploring Customer Care in the Subscription Economy. For those of us in the contact center space, the truly fascinating thing (besides the astounding growth itself) is the impact on customer care and the customer experience.

Customer Experience 194

Customer Experience Customer Care B2C Lifetime Customer 194

TechSee

MAY 28, 2019

He clicks on programming and is met with a series of videos explaining exactly what he needs to do. He follows the video instructions until he has the system programmed exactly as he wants it. Computer Vision AI refers to the processing and analysis of digital images and videos to automatically understand their meaning and context.

Self Service 122

Self Service Strategy Chatbots Contact Center 122

NICE inContact

JUNE 27, 2017

For Carlson Rezidor , one of the globe’s largest hotel groups with 1,400 properties, including the widely known Radisson brand, creating consistency across all guest reservation contact centers had its own challenges. We wanted to give them a personalized experience, but we needed a contact center platform that allowed us to do that.”.

Omni-Channel 120

Omni-Channel Contact Center Abandon Rate Guest Experience 120

Stella Connect

MAY 4, 2017

This year’s ICMI Contact Center Expo & Conference in Orlando (May 22-25) promises to be quite an event. These are the topics we feel are particularly important for contact center leaders to focus on in their efforts to build world-class service organizations and stronger brands. Before You Go. Before You Go.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Omni-Channel Conference Employee Engagement 40

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

It’s a trend that has a significant impact on the customer care sector. There are very real service expectation differences between providing customer service to a one-off consumer versus a loyal member. For Carol, empowering contact center agents depends upon three key factors: engagement, communication, and feedback.

Customer Experience 290

Customer Experience Effort Score Contact Center Training 290

Qualtrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Customer care teams have the power to deliver breakthrough experience s , and our latest research shows just how much customers value them. Find out how making the right investments in your service center culture can turn yours from a necessary cost center into a key brand loyalty driver. It’s all about perception.

Contact Center 26

Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Metrics 26

BlueOcean

AUGUST 20, 2020

Over the years, we’ve written many articles singing the praises of on-site visits with potential customer care outsourcers. And most outsourced customer care companies are leveraging wide-spread work-from-home models with facilities operating at a fraction of their previous capacity. The right outsourcer gets it.

Video 156

Video Customer Care Leadership Culture 156

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And it’s one that undeniably impacts our perception of the customer experience. Exploring Customer Care in the Subscription Economy. For those of us in the contact center space, the truly fascinating thing (besides the astounding growth itself) is the impact on customer care and the customer experience.

Customer Experience 156

Customer Experience Customer Care B2C Social Media 156

TechSee

APRIL 4, 2023

While you can send a text or email through the phone, you also have a powerful camera that can connect you to the service center. The video functionality of the camera allows the service desk agent to see exactly what the issue is you are describing and come up with a resolution. Today, most people have smartphones. Interested?

Industry 109

Industry Customer Service Customer Care Customer Service Strategies 109

Playvox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company’s contact center team shifted to a remote workplace just as Sweaty Betty – and the entire athleisure industry – started to see significant market growth. In 2019, the lifestyle brand had 12 customer care agents. But by the end of 2020, there were 150 team members on the Sweaty Betty contact center team.

Management 78

Management Contact Center Gamification Retail 78

TechSee

JULY 21, 2020

Many enterprises struggle to deliver excellent customer care and suffer from a range of operational inefficiencies due to a lack of inter-departmental communication and cross-functional collaboration. A rep may promise a customer next-day service but then field service cannot provide a technician. Through visual assistance.

Knowledge Base 136

Knowledge Base Contact Center Case Study Customer Centricity 136

TechSee

APRIL 10, 2019

Oftentimes, the best business cases are those that both increase customer satisfaction and cut costs by reducing contact center enquiries or technician dispatches. This omnichannel CX is increasingly expected by today’s customers. Boost revenues? Drive long-term loyalty? Reduce the cost to serve?

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience Strategy Omni-Channel Customer Centricity 154

NICE inContact

APRIL 12, 2017

Sheila McGee- Smith, founder of McGee-Smith Analytics, says, “True digital transformation touches every part of the business, but it begins in the contact center with customer care.” Why? How do you get started on the path to transformational change?

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Innovation Video Analytics 120

TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

of major companies around the world are currently using AI customer service technologies, the second most common use of AI after IT. Facial recognition identifies and verifies an individual by comparing facial features from a digital image or video to a face database. Contact Center workload management.

Technology 122

Technology Customer Service Contact Center Gamification 122

Vonage

MARCH 26, 2018

In an age where customers can buy into your products and services from almost anywhere in the world, this has become increasingly complex. Although there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, the following 10-step plan will provide a framework that will allow your contact center to adopt a more personalized approach to customer care.

Omni-Channel 145

Omni-Channel Self Service Customer Experience Social Media 145