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Using Omnichannel Contact Center to Drive Customer Satisfaction

InMoment XI

Contact centers are not new by any means. As a matter of fact, the first employed call center agents date back to the 1950s. It wasn’t until the turn of the century that these call centers evolved into multichannel contact centers. The future of the contact center lies in the omnichannel contact center.

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Top 9 Questions: ESG & the Contact Center RFP

BlueOcean

This holds especially true in the world of outsourced customer service, where your vendor is literally representing your brand and your values. Governance Structure Any customer-facing entity should understand the critical importance of transparency and trust. Check for good practices like whistleblower protection policies.

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Contact Center Technology in Your RFP: You’re Asking the Wrong Question

BlueOcean

When it came to the contact center RFP, companies consistently required bidders to “Describe your telephony platform” and those with best-in-class products had a definite edge. So, what should you ask when you’re addressing contact center technology in your RFP? Every contact center approaches security in different ways.

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The 10 Most Important Contact Center RFP Questions [Infographic]

BlueOcean

The document that will make or break your decision of which new outsourcer to partner-up with. A generic vendor RFP template may promise to make things easy, but when you’re about to hand over your customer interactions to an outsourced contact center, generic will only make things more difficult. The necessary evil.

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The Health of the Contact Center: Are You Ready for 2019?

A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era. This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019.

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Are Your Contact Center Agents Empowered to Provide Great Customer Service?

NICE inContact

When I think about “great” service, I envision a customer interaction that required little customer effort, that was resolved on the first contact, by the first agent, and in which the agent served as a positive ambassador for the brand. But, does hiring great contact center agents equate to great service?

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The Future of Debt Collection Agencies: Contact Center Technology and Customer-Centric Strategies

NobelBiz

In the United States, the majority of customer complaints regarding debt collection concern agencies trying to collect debt that the consumer did not owe. This is why automation is especially transformative in contact centers. This feedback is invaluable for continuously improving service quality and agent performance.