Call Experts

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

How do you improve customer service? The answer always lies in your customer experience. Great experiences lead to loyal customers who buy more from you in the future. When you take care of customers from start to finish, they will always come back and refer others to your business. Listen to your customers.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You’re prepared for the future of customer service. And you’re ready for your outsourced customer service RFP to hit the road and bring you some stellar options for a new contact center partner. Here’s the short list of the best questions to ask about AI in the contact center.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

TechSee’s Annual Influencer List For a second year, everyone at TechSee is proud and excited to share our annual list of influential leaders in the space of digital customer service. Brad teaches courses on customer strategy and management, customer service leadership, and CX leadership.

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BlueOcean

JUNE 13, 2019

We talk a lot in this blog forum about partnership and who you should choose as an outsourcer contact center partner, but where you choose to outsource to is almost as important an element in the procurement process. Agents must be able to speak the same language as your customers – and not only in a literal sense. Labor Force.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This lack of efficiency has not escaped the notice of customers. Over a quarter say that getting their questions answered by customer service is becoming harder. Core challenges for contact centers. Although 91% of companies have invested heavily in contact center knowledge bases, very few are seeing real ROI.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Running an effective and efficient procurement process for a contact center partner is easier said than done – even for seasoned indirect sourcing professionals and folks in the C suite. Even with a robust scoring method, however, sometimes shortlisting potential contact center partners comes down to a process of elimination.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I got my start in contact centers by taking customer service calls. One of the big things that hasn’t changed is how people feel about working at a call center. We spend our days thinking of new ways to make lives easier for everyone in the contact center, but we have a special passion for agents.

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BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. We’re both in the business of earning a customer’s repeat business through the quality of the experience we deliver. How do metrics and standards play a role in customer service?

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UJET

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The API integration linking your contact center and your customer relationship management (CRM) tool shouldn’t be holding you back. API integrations are lines of code that connect two or more applications, like your CRM and your contact center. What Exactly Is CRM Contact Center Unification?

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UJET

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The API integration linking your contact center and your customer relationship management (CRM) tool shouldn’t be holding you back. API integrations are lines of code that connect two or more applications, like your CRM and your contact center. What Exactly Is CRM Contact Center Unification?

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Calabrio

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This is especially true for contact centers that, at the forefront of the customer experience, have access to vast amounts of data containing highly valuable customer information. Beyond improving contact center performance, predictive analytics can also produce highly valuable data that can benefit clients.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 11, 2023

As customer service demands continue to grow, contact centers are constantly on the lookout for innovative solutions to enhance their operations. ChatGPT, the advanced AI language model developed by OpenAI, has emerged as a promising tool for contact centers to improve customer interactions and streamline processes.

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Call Experts

JULY 13, 2023

A Customer Journey Contact Center supports clients and improves their experience. It refers to the interconnected set of experiences that a customer has with a company from their initial point of contact through to their ultimate departure. So, what is a customer journey?

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently. Until you start measuring customer experience , you could easily be falling behind the competition.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Call avoidance is a common issue in contact centers and must be dealt with to ensure a positive experience for your customers. But agents can quickly become frustrated and overwhelmed when dealing with irate customers and high contact volumes, leading them to avoid interactions. Examples Of Interaction Avoidance.

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Contact center technology can be the nerve center of your organization’s customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. Depending on the services offered, the contact center can also be called a call center, service desk, or customer service department.

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TechSee

MAY 4, 2021

A gig refers to when an independent worker is hired, often through a digital marketplace, to work on a short-term project or task on-demand, such as freelancers, independent contractors, and temporary hires. These gigs are often created to meet consumer demand via the real-time delivery of services. The Gig Economy – Work On-Demand.

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Call Experts

JULY 28, 2022

Contact center support is a vital part of any business. A contact center can help save you time and money while delivering outstanding service to your customers. The right contact center will improve customer satisfaction , which leads to increased sales and profitability.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 3, 2023

Generally speaking, in the contact center space, people tend to look at the one-to-one interaction with an agent as the primary means of obtaining information about products and services. A functioning self-service system generally empowers clients with the tools and resources necessary for their inquiries.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Too often, efforts to improve contact center performance are based business goals like increasing labor efficiency, or lower operating cost. But contact centers are not built to serve managers, they are built to serve customers. Be there when your customers need you. Most interactions occur over the phone.

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Calabrio

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This is especially true for contact centers that, at the forefront of the customer experience, have access to vast amounts of data containing highly valuable customer information. Beyond improving contact center performance, predictive analytics can also produce highly valuable data that can benefit clients.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Let’s face it, the call center of yesteryear is not wholly relevant when looking at customer service operations today. Even the terms “call center” and “contact center” are called into question, given the images they evoke of rows of agents in cubicles lined up to fill a room.

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Integrity Solutions

JULY 28, 2022

The term “call centers” is quickly become a relic of the past, and for good reason. Customer service today is based on far from just taking inbound calls; it’s now omnichannel. The State of Contact Center Conversation Intelligence 2022 report by Observe.AI But that’s the problem.

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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. Today, hyper efficiency is no longer a luxury but a necessity for call centers looking to thrive and outperform their competition.

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Playvox

APRIL 19, 2022

Just an amped up audience of contact center workforce planning rock stars ready to talk about why customer support capacity planning as we know it must change. I wanted to know how contact center leaders were feeling about their staffing plans. Related Article: 3 Tips for Optimizing Your Contact Center Schedule.

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UJET

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Contact center employees are extremely important to the overall success and health of businesses. They’re the front line of customer interactions, and often the only people your customers will ever interact with. When contact center employees aren’t performing their best, the customer experience declines.

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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. Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to recognize, understand, and manage one’s emotions and the emotions of others. Why Does it Matter for Contact Centers?

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 24, 2022

Turnover is natural in a contact center and in any business. So, what are the primary factors that contribute to contact center turnover or attrition? And what strategies, technologies, and tactics may be implemented to avoid excessive agents turnover rate in a contact center ?

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 16, 2022

He writes about ‘quiet quitting’ and how contact centers can resolve this challenge in their organization. The concept doesn’t refer to someone who is slowly leaving their job. This trend is concerning for those within the contact center industry, with employee retention and recruitment already at a record low.

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Playvox

JANUARY 5, 2022

While working from anywhere has its advantages, it also means leaders have the extra challenge of managing contact center agents in multiple locations. Agent experience refers to the journey an employee takes with your company. Agent engagement refers to an employee’s mental and emotional connection to your company.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Your contact center has a vested interest in making the customer experience as smooth as possible. After all, customers want their interactions with your agents to be smooth and without friction. A key performance indicator (KPI) and strategic metric for any business is the Customer Effort Score (CES).

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2022

Here are 10 CRM key performance indicators that may be calculated and assessed using your data and contact center technologies. They are meant to assist your contact center in improving your CRM practice when combined with the KPIs that are unique to your business. Often, the reference time is a year or a month.

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Call Experts

MARCH 5, 2020

What do you do if you can’t build the technology you need or afford to hire full-time staff to answer your phones and support your customers? Cue the experienced live-agent contact center. . Here are our top 4 benefits of partnering with a contact center to support and grow your plumbing business: .

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots. We end by explaining how contact centers can keep AI models up to date using Talkdesk AI Trainer.

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 11, 2016

So you made it through the contact center RFP process and your selection team made their final choice. Can you finally hand over the metaphorical keys and let your new contact center outsourcer take the wheel? At least, not if you want to maintain outstanding customer service performance. Initial Meeting.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In our sphere, a successful contact center is defined by its ability to manage customer interactions and meet their needs, while also operating in an efficient and cost-effective manner. In this article, we will elaborate on the key elements that underlie the success of contact centers.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

On the side of contact centers, having a efficient telephony software provides clear benefits to agents. This can be done in on-going calls or on the basis of recorded ones, and most contact centers employ a combination of the two. Any company from any industry can benefit from the adoption of call tagging systems.

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