CSM Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

Contact center outsourcing has proven to be highly beneficial, but it isn’t without its faults. Call spikes are probably the biggest challenge that contact centers face. Due to this predictability, a business can hire an outsourced team to help their contact center manage the high call volume when needed.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In April 2024, the Las Vegas Convention Center will see the return of the Call and Contact Center Expo. The event is focused on the processes used by call and contact centers, with showcases from over 200 different business representatives along with seminars by over 100 industry experts.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

Claude is the latest addition to the Contact Center team, and he’s already making waves. As an AI assistant, Claude is designed to streamline the customer service experience, making it faster and more efficient for both customers and agents.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

As a call center agent, your job is to provide excellent customer service and support customers. In this article we’ll explore ways in which AI can be used to enhance customer service and how call center agents can benefit from this innovative technology.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

Contact center leaders are struggling to keep pace with ‘unrealistic’ demands. Contact centers are struggling to deliver much-needed CX innovation while battling against rising contact volumes, agent attrition and customer churn, according to a new survey of 1000 contact center leaders in the US, UK and Australia from Censuswide.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Customer loyalty is more important than ever, and prioritizing customer service — with an excellent, dynamic, and engaged contact center — can help your company stand out. After all, your customer support team is the heart and soul of the customer experience (CX). Prioritize customer engagement.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 16, 2023

This article will define emotional intelligence, its benefits for contact centers, and how it improves the customer experience. In the next section, we abord the benefits of emotional intelligence for contact centers. Why Does it Matter for Contact Centers? What is emotional intelligence?

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CSM Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

When selecting a contact center to assist your company, you want more than outsourced services. They not only answer calls and questions, but engage your customers in friendly conversation, enthusiastically representing your brand values. Protel BPO agents are selected from a fast-growing contact center labor pool.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 6, 2023

“Calabrio’s long-tenured research, customer collaboration, and partnerships with top-tier universities has established us as a pioneer in enterprise AI innovation for contact centers. For over a decade, our Innovation Center and product teams have been integrating with sophisticated AI and ML tools.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

Calabrio , the workforce performance company, today announced its new workforce management (WFM) integration with Zoom’s omnichannel contact centre platform. The cloud-to-cloud integration gives Zoom Contact Center customers access to the only true-cloud, enterprise-grade WFM solution on the market.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Contact centers are getting new tools in their digital transformation toolbelt. Starting today, Chrome OS offers a fully integrated solution for contact centers. Validated contact center solutions: New contact center solutions optimized for Chrome OS through a new solution track for Chrome Enterprise Recommended.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 17, 2022

Contact centers, and contact center agents, are currently experiencing an unfortunate crunch on two fronts. Complications stemming from ongoing supply chain challenges have led more customers to reach out to contact centers with questions, concerns, and complaints.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. For those solely focused on customer service and experience, pay attention to the comments about AI, chatbots and virtual assistants. Wegmans, Trader Joe’s Master Pandemic Customer Service by Gina Acosta.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A contact center serves as a primary hub for customer service through which customers can connect with the organization around different mediums. Contact centers are the heart of your business and play a vital role in the customer experience approach.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Conversations about the future of work, employee engagement and empowerment have been propelled to the forefront of customer service strategies. The incredible line-up of senior executive speakers includes: Vice President Customer Care, Showtime Networks. Vice President Customer Experience, HealthNet.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 16, 2023

New solution improves contact center operations and captures new financial upsides by uncovering organizational operational inefficiencies. This consultative solution engages all levels of a contact center to uncover process breakdowns and areas ripe for technological transformation.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

2020 was a time of great change for the contact center. Agents began hosting their frontline communications with customers from home offices – fundamentally shifting how the workforce operates – and many companies finally recognized that new strategies were needed to their customers’ needs at the forefront.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 21, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 15 Stats About Post-Covid Customer Service by Blake Morgan. Chief on that list is updating customer service efforts. Our customer service research supports the theme.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

David Singer, Vice President of Product Strategy for Verint , explains why contact centers will need to stay agile to support the evolving needs of customers and employees. New technologies will help contact centers be more agile in the new year. Supporting Customer Engagement as Channel Preferences Evolve.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Talkdesk Research Reveals the Role of Customer Service in Driving Consumer Loyalty Will Expand Beyond Support. A cause or social issue contributes to the customer experience, especially with Gen Z.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

A key to retaining your existing business, growing your brand, and attracting new business is keeping your customers happy. Brian Tuite of Zenarate reveals new technologies that will help improve customer service. Customer service agents are a company’s most important asset to keeping customers pleased.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Empirix launches Hammer Voice Explorer to complete its end-to-end portfolio and accelerate cloud contact center transformation. According to Gartner, the Contact Center as a Service market is expected to reach $17.9 The n ew automated IVR discovery solution reduces test automation development time by 80%.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

Simulation training is one of the fastest-growing training approaches for customer service agents. The new approach helps prepare customer service agents to deliver superior customer experiences before live customer interactions confidently. Simulation Training for Better Human Engagement and Performance.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer service as a differentiator. , Roy Atkinson shares this wonderful insight, "Tony Hsieh and his approach to customer service and CX impacted me and the industry in a big way. Inspiring service workers. He helped to give great pride to an entire generation of service workers. An innovative mindset.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

“The customer is always right” is a timeless phrase. But if your customer is being unreasonable, or worse, abusive, should you simply hang up? Contact center agents are on the frontline of customer interactions, representing the face—or rather, the voice—of a company. Here we explore this complex issue.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aviad Abiri of NICE examines how service organizations will need to incorporate agility in their functioning to succeed in a constantly changing world. Striking a balance between efficiency and customer experience has been a staple of good contact center strategy. This is what we call an agile digital workforce.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2021

If you go the extra mile and seek personalized, timely, insightful feedback from your customers, you can identify and improve contact center operations—and strengthen customer loyalty. CX professionals measure their company’s brand health in terms of customer satisfaction outcomes. Easier callback options?

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The Talkdesk Road Show kicked off last month in Chicago to discuss designing the intelligent contact center. We were lucky to have some incredible speakers to help us share our vision for the future of the contact center space. Nate has been an outspoken leader in the customer support space for quite a while.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

What if your employees had to work from home and you had to close your contact centers indefinitely? From fixed to fluid – wider issues in customer service. Gig customer service is on the rise, with the added bonus that these workers can provide customer service from anywhere in the world.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

The initial costs for a cloud contact center solution , on the other hand, are significantly lower. For example if a contact center is going through a high-volume phones calls, then the cloud solution immediately changes its performance and dynamically allocates more resources.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Conversational AI (aka intelligent chatbots or virtual agents) combines artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to streamline customer interactions across channels. Customer service teams and contact centers have specific needs when considering new technology solutions. A Platform to Handle Complexity.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Personalization as a driver in customer service. With unprecedented advances in algorithms and other machine learning tools, AI-enhanced solutions, such as virtual assistants or chatbots, can learn how to respond, engage or process many standard tasks — including customer service queries. . Virtual Assistants.

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COPC

AUGUST 4, 2016

I found this article in CRM magazine, Inbound and Outbound Converge in the New Contact Center , to be an interesting one because it discusses some of the changes in our industry that are being made possible by process and technology, but with an eye to improving the customer experience. By Leonard Klie – CRM magazine.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 28, 2022

AI Coach helps contact center leaders develop top-performing customer-facing teams with AI Conversation Simulation. Zenarate customers have experienced proven outcomes, including 56% faster Speed to Proficiency, 33% higher CSAT scores, and 32% lower Agent Attrition.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Poor customer service and perseverance in long waiting loops – what we have begrudgingly accepted as the norm can be changed with the help of modern AI software. Cognigy , an internationally successful pioneer in customer service automation, offers one of the leading Conversational AI platforms (think voice- and chatbots).

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer service as a differentiator. , Roy Atkinson shares this wonderful insight, "Tony Hsieh and his approach to customer service and CX impacted me and the industry in a big way. Inspiring service workers. He helped to give great pride to an entire generation of service workers. An innovative mindset.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 13, 2020

“Wow our Customer Satisfaction Rate really went up this week!” Once you’ve identified where the customer experience is or isn’t delivering, you need to report that, too. For example: It could be easy to report “an increase in transactional Customer Satisfaction after an experience with the contact center.”

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