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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Is communication still going strong and do you feel comfortable in those interactions? Are you still in regular contact with your partner’s leadership team and do you still trust them to deliver excellence for your customers? This is what relevant service level metrics look like in today’s customer care center.

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

Finding Bilingual Support That Suits Your Customers Best We’re an onshore Canadian contact center outsourcer and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated (bilingual) customer care through strategic partnership. But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business? It’s our thing. So, of course, we’re biased.

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

But calculating how the costs of your customer service solution make an impact on your bottom line can be complicated. For example, at first glance, an hour-long phone call with a customer that doesn’t result in first call resolution or a sale appears to be a high-cost, low-efficiency interaction.

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Chasing Unicorns: Is It Possible to Have a Strategic Partnership with Your Contact Center?

BlueOcean

These metrics are important, but the other side of the ledger is the customer experience – and lifetime customer value. The author of this article writes, “it’s a huge mistake to leave these valuable customer interactions to strangers.” How, after this much interaction, could we ever be considered “strangers”?

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Why Community Is Essential to Your Digital Customer Support in 2018

Verint

I can potentially turn a one-time customer into a lifetime customer by helping them feel empowered, cared for and valued. This podcast explores how leaders in strategy and technology in the digital customer care industry are getting real business results and transforming their businesses and their brands’ reputations.

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The True Cost of Losing a Customer

BlueOcean

One negative customer experience may seem like a drop in the ocean of all your customer interactions, but it’s never that simple. It’s worth mentioning that many customer relationships can be saved even after a bad experience with the actual product or service, particularly if they choose to contact a customer service rep.

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What the Subscription Economy Teaches Us About Kick-Ass Customer Experience

BlueOcean

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.