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

BlueOcean

Those data points still play a role in measuring performance, but your partner should have their eyes set on the bigger picture of customer success. Is your partner focused on metrics that help you assess and elevate customer loyalty or promotion and advocacy? Are Your Customers Happy? appeared first on Blue Ocean.

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

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When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. Without it, you risk taking a hit to your CSat scores, your brand loyalty, and your bottom line. But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business? It’s our thing.

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

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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. If that call was cut off at two or three minutes in the name of low AHT, an important opportunity to provide exceptional customer experience would have been lost.

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Why Community Is Essential to Your Digital Customer Support in 2018

Verint

While better customer service was naturally front and center at such an event, what we also examined was how communities can help build customer loyalty and brand trust. A modern digital customer service experience is what customers expect and a great online community, available 24x7, delivers that. Those are big.

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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. If you want to hand the keys for your customer care to a call center and sit back and wait for it to work, chances are your vendor is going to fail to meet your expectations.

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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.

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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.