BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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. How are other customer experience leaders delivering?

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Fast forward to 2017: an astounding 15 million plus text messages are sent every minute of the day across the globe, but only a fraction of all those texts are customer service related. With Omnichannel Session Handling you can do exactly that! From a handling perspective, SMS is actually somewhat similar to chat.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Interaction Customer Expectations 120

InMoment XI

JANUARY 12, 2024

Here is a breakdown of how conversation intelligence operates: Data Collection: Conversation intelligence platforms can work as part of an omnichannel contact center to gather data from various sources, including audio recordings of phone calls, video conferences, chat transcripts, emails, and other written communication channels.

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e-support Healthcare Multi-Channel Call Center 260

Omnicus

AUGUST 29, 2022

Poor customer service is costing businesses more than 75 billion dollars a year. That number should scare you – or at least inform you that most contact centers will (and should) consider how they can up their game in the years to come.

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Multi-Channel Poor Customer Service Contact Center System 140

Magellan Solutions

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Empowering Your SME with Omnichannel Contact Centers. As many business practices continue to evolve, so does customer service, continuing to develop its channels in order to provide excellent service in more ways than one. What is an Omnichannel Contact Center?

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Call Center e-support 52

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Contact centers of today are not just customer service centers. They are the epicenters of lasting customer experiences (CX) that help brands differentiate and compete better. Failure to do so will likely push your best customers into the arms of your competitors. Automate with intelligence.

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Contact Center Customer Centricity Culture Omni-Channel 120

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In the fast-paced world of customer service, call center management plays a pivotal role in ensuring efficient operations, customer satisfaction, and improving the customer experience. Understanding the ins and outs of call center management is crucial for both seasoned professionals and newcomers to the field.

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Call Center Strategy Management First Call Resolution 260

CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a critical role in customer support, sales, and overall communication between businesses and their clientele. Unfortunately, these centers have also become a target for fraudsters looking to exploit the vulnerabilities inherent in these systems.

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Contact Center Multi-Channel Contact Center Software Policies 52

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Hitting the Reset Button on Omni-channel Customer Service. Are you where your customers want you to be? . . ? <span &amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; Shep Hyken sits down with Murph Krajewski, discussing the importance of knowing what channels your customers want you to be on.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 26, 2019

The line between traditional and digital communications has blurred, and savvy customers are demanding more from the companies they do business with. One top demand is for true omnichannel customer service , no matter the channel. To find out, we surveyed over 900 contact center decision makers.

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Omni-Channel Contact Center Consumers Report 149

inQuba

MAY 23, 2022

More than ever, customers interact with organizations on journeys that cut across touchpoints, often managed by different functions. As such, their journeys are multi-touch, omni-channel and cross functional. Customers can be guided personally and contextually depending upon their behavior and goals.

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Lumoa

APRIL 28, 2024

More than 80% of business leaders see customer experience as a growing priority in 2024. But how can you support your customers on all the different channels they reach out on and offer a personalized yet unified response? That’s where customer experience platforms come in.

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NICE inContact

JULY 2, 2019

Digital customer service and business both move at the speed of now. This is why digital customer service is such a good fit for business and why integration needs to be seamless. It’s all about increasing efficiency in the contact center. b) Determine the most useful channels for your customers.

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Customer Service Contact Center Omni-Channel Call Center 152

NICE inContact

AUGUST 2, 2019

It’s an important concept for any company considering digital customer service integration. You don’t simply want to plan for your current customer service needs. Digital customer service is evolving quickly, and this change hopefully comes in tandem with important developments in your business — namely growth.

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Technology Customer Service Omni-Channel Self Service 229

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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Contact Center Multi-Channel Management Omni-Channel 52

NICE inContact

JUNE 14, 2017

If you’re like most customer service organizations, probably not as much or as often as you’d like. How do you know if you’re meeting their expectations for Omnichannel service? I’ve got some good news for you, we can help you gain some insight into how consumers are feeling about customer service interactions.

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Omni-Channel Customer Expectations Self Service Meeting 145

Avaya

APRIL 27, 2017

But this May 22-25, when you arrive in Orlando for the 2017 ICMI Contact Center Expo and Conference , we think you’ll be heading for what we like to call the second happiest place on earth. We’ll show customer-focused companies our latest innovations. Each demo shows multi-touch channels in action. Done and fun!

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Customer Journeys Multi-Channel 54

Avaya

JUNE 28, 2017

There is no doubt that contact center leaders are feeling the pressure to have their centers and their agents perform more efficiently, faster and with more incite. Companies today are mostly competing on customer experience. The traditional contact center decision makers can no longer go it alone.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Industry Call Center 49

Magellan Solutions

AUGUST 18, 2021

In fact, 70% of global consumers have a favorable view of brands that contact them with proactive customer service notifications. How about the information shared by clients, the customer feedback, and the requested schedule appointments? Getting an answering service can be a value-adding experience for your business.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 27, 2019

Companies that inspire positive emotions will enjoy more loyalty from customers who are willing to spend more over the long term. That means connecting with customers emotionally is the task of the customer service agent. Bearing that in mind, here are 10 tips for connecting with customers emotionally.

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Connections Tips Social Media Multi-Channel 149

NICE inContact

AUGUST 2, 2019

It’s an important concept for any company considering digital customer service integration. You don’t simply want to plan for your current customer service needs. Digital customer service is evolving quickly, and this change hopefully comes in tandem with important developments in your business — namely growth.

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Technology Customer Service Omni-Channel Self Service 120

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

“You are only as good as your weakest channel.” – Nancy Jamison, Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. This is one of our favorite quotes from a leading analyst in the contact center space. See if it sparks you to rethink your weakest channel. Think about your voice channel: is it your weakest?

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Self Service Customer Service Contact Center Omni-Channel 203

RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Read the transcript below: Nicholas Rodriguez: …the highest priorities for Contact Centers that focus on the customer. So, Talkdesk Enterprise Contact Center empowers companies to make their Customer Experience a competitive advantage. And so in the next slide, Nate Brown is the co-founder of CX Accelerator.

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Contact Center Customer Centricity Omni-Channel Chatbots 40

Joe Rawlinson

JUNE 1, 2016

Omni-Channel Support Options. Texting and social media have conditioned customers to expect instant communication. In fact, many who ask a company a question or leave a complaint on a social channel expect a reply within an hour. Using a cloud-based customer contact center can also help you deliver omni-channel support.

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Omni-Channel Customer Expectations Meeting Multi-Channel 60

Call Experts

JANUARY 23, 2019

Omnichannel is quickly becoming a fundamental concept for businesses. Omnichannel processes utilize various platforms such as social media channels, email marketing, websites, and mobile experiences to communicate with your clients. What makes omnichannel challenging? Retailers have lost millions. What is this process?

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You may have a contact center solution that either includes some version of live chat or offers an add-on live chat option. Many of these omni-channel solutions try to address all possible channels of communication and don’t specialize in any one. This reduces overall service time and increases agent efficiency.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And as long as there have been customers, there has been customer service. Even as professional merchants began to flourish about 3,000 years ago, every exchange of goods and services remained face to face. That meant customer service was tailored to each individual. From phone service to digital.

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Customer Service Social Media Omni-Channel Interaction 120

NobelBiz

JULY 10, 2023

As we speak, AI-powered solutions are revolutionizing how contact centers identify, engage, and convert leads. In this article, we delve into the profound impact of AI on lead generation and explore how your contact center can harness its potential. With AI as our ally, data becomes a goldmine of opportunities.

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Contact Center Call Center Industry Chatbots 40

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The next year should be one of substantial investment by businesses in their service channels, and that’s great news for their customers. The latest results and analysis appear in the 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark.

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Self Service Omni-Channel Contact Center eBook 150

TechSee

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the last few years, the customer service industry has been upended by a combination of new pandemic-driven ways of working, the growing trend of digital transformation, and the continuously rising bar for positive customer service experiences. And they are also not as effective.

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Call Center Trends Self Service Contact Center 124

NICE inContact

MAY 23, 2019

We live in an omnichannel customer service world now. Emerging technologies and changing consumer demands fundamentally have shifted the way businesses interact with their customers. It’s added a great deal of complexities to the service process as well as to organizations’ relationships with their customers.

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Self Service Contact Center Omni-Channel Chatbots 138

NobelBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Measuring your contact center performance is the first cornerstone of your outbound campaign. In order to build an efficient and satisfying customer relationship with your customers, Choosing key performance indicators adapted to your customer service activity is a crucial element to your success.

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NICE inContact

MAY 8, 2019

Specifically, how do your customers feel about your customer service? How about the latest digital channels? Are you being realistic about whether your customer service really satisfies your customers? Are you being realistic about whether your customer service really satisfies your customers?

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Self Service Contact Center Chatbots Omni-Channel 136

NICE inContact

JUNE 25, 2019

It’s common for blogs related to customer service and customer experience to talk about how the increasing ubiquity of social media requires fundamental changes in the way that brands should conceive of customer service. Fast, accessible service isn’t all there is to delivering great customer service.

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Customer Expectations Customer Service Social Media Contact Center Software 136

Oracle

JANUARY 7, 2019

When you consider that over the past year, poor customer service cost US businesses 75 billion dollars —a 20% increase from the previous year, it’s little wonder that 66% of respondents actually prefer self-service systems to speaking with a brand representative. Pros and cons of on-premise and cloud. 3 cost considerations.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

For customers, making a phone call is the simplest and quickest way to obtain information or a resolution to a problem. However, from a customer service point of view, the phone call might be inconvenient. If the telephone is the initial point of contact for the client, it might create a set of customer friction points.

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How To Omni-Channel Multi-Channel Call Center 52

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 21, 2019

When Vera Bradley refocused and listened to customers, zeroing in on important KPIs and overhauling its chat approach, the evolving chat journey was put back on its tracks that led to Vera Bradley’s very successful strategy today.

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