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.

Call Center 260

Call Center Strategy Management First Call Resolution 260

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Customer care QA processes are moving from limited sampling to real-time, holistic analysis thanks to emerging conversation intelligence technologies that impact every corner of the contact center for the better. The rate at which contact center technology has evolved accelerated during the pandemic years.

Contact Center 177

Contact Center Industry Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 177

InMoment XI

MARCH 5, 2024

Any successful business knows that understanding their customers is key to success. The best way to do that is by being able to understand the vast amounts of unstructured data that come with customer interactions. Other examples of unstructured data sources include social media posts, call transcriptions, and customer reviews.

Data 260

Data Customer Experience Social Media Analysis 260

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 2, 2024

Your relationship with customers is built one step at a time. Touchpoints’ have been a hot topic for marketing, sales, and customer experience teams for decades. Each customer touchpoint is an opportunity to reinforce your brand value and engage customers in meaningful ways. And for good reason! What is a Touchpoint?

Touchpoint 143

Touchpoint Customer Journeys Customer Experience Social Media 143

Calabrio

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

These changes in consumer behavior and expectations, combined with new technologies, are starting to completely transform the contact center. We’ve entered an era where simply keeping abreast with the latest contact center tech advances is not enough. Technology Fuels Contact Center Transformation.

Contact Center 306

Contact Center Self Service Analytics Banking 306

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. As the Head of Customer Support and Engagement at HotDoc, she is responsible for leading the customer support and engagement strategy.

Customer Service 207

Customer Service Contact Center Customer Centricity Leadership 207

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 20, 2021

How Customer Experience Maturity Develops. There is a natural arc to how an organization matures when it comes to customer experience. Let’s look at a common example scenario: First, it starts with an idea: customers are important! Typically, this means collecting customer feedback. All good so far, right?

Customer Journeys 361

Customer Journeys Social Media Feedback Survey 361

Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s face it — no one contacts your contact center to tell the person who answers the phone, text, or chat to tell your organization that they love your brand, service, or product. Most interactions that contact center agents have daily are to solve a problem or issue, adjust a payment, or ask a clarifying question.

Strategy 90

Strategy Contact Center Multi-Channel Social Media 90

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 2, 2024

Your relationship with customers is built one step at a time. Touchpoints’ have been a hot topic for marketing, sales, and customer experience teams for decades. Each customer touchpoint is an opportunity to reinforce your brand value and engage customers in meaningful ways. And for good reason! What is a Touchpoint?

Touchpoint 137

Touchpoint Customer Journeys Customer Experience Social Media 137

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What Does a Customer Experience Professional Do? Customer experience professionals have many different titles and many different job descriptions. There are CX leaders who focus primarily on customer insights, like Voice of the Customer programs. They are looking for ways to include the customer in everything they do.

Customer Journeys 367

Customer Journeys Social Media Contact Center How To 367

Calabrio

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Originally deployed primarily by larger or more sophisticated contact centers, analytics quickly emerged as a “must-have” application for modern customer service teams. You’ve probably heard contact center system vendors touting their ability to provide real-time feeds of data. Look at the term “real-time feed.”

Data 264

Data Contact Center Multi-Channel System 264

Call Experts

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations.

Contact Center 105

Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 105

Playvox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Your customers are talking, and they have a lot to say. As a contact center leader, there’s no question you’re at the heart of the conversation. But do you know how your customers really feel about your brand, products, services, and support? What Is Customer Sentiment Analysis?

Contact Center 93

Contact Center Analysis Measurement Social Media 93

Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call center optimization is a strategic approach that focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of call center operations. When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service.

Call Center 105

Call Center Tools Contact Center Net Promoter Score 105

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 23, 2023

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. How many physical centers do you operate? What reports form the foundation of your quarterly business reviews?

Customer Care 177

Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Employee Engagement 177

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 1, 2024

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has created opportunities to improve the customer experience in the contact center space. With Amazon Lex bots, you can use conversational AI capabilities to enable these capabilities within your call center. pure.cloud ).

Chatbots 92

Chatbots Self Service Omni-Channel Contact Center 92

Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

This definitely applies to customer needs and preferences, and contact centers are constantly striving to stay one step ahead of evolving customer requirements. A desire for instant-access self-service options is shifting how customers want to engage. One thing that’s certain is change.

Self Service 78

Self Service Management Contact Center Effort Score 78

Uniphore

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

By Jeannie Walters The future of customer experience is exciting in many regards, but what’s happening around low code/no code opportunities is downright fascinating. I had the privilege of interviewing Umesh Sachdev, CEO of Uniphore, and Yochai Rozenblat, former CEO of Jacada, soon after the acquisition of Jacada was finalized.

Customer Experience 264

Customer Experience Self Service Contact Center First Call Resolution 264

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

Generative AI technologies truly have the power to change how we work and our ability to deliver a stellar customer experience (CX). What Is Contact Center AI? AI is also finding its way into contact centers, as technology allows machines or computers to process information in a similar fashion, but much faster than humans.

Contact Center 74

Contact Center Self Service Net Promoter Score Effort Score 74

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?

Customer Service 353

Customer Service Hospitality Contact Center Hotels 353

Calabrio

AUGUST 10, 2020

Last week, we announced two Calabrio customers were named finalists in the Society of Workforce Planning Professionals’s (SWPP) “2020 Workforce Management Professional of the Year Award” program. Continues Sharon, “NDR didn’t have official scheduling for its contact center agents before we implemented workforce planning.

Contact Center 243

Contact Center Self Service Meeting Training 243

CSM Magazine

MARCH 22, 2024

The flip side to the technological advancements in the contact center industry is the rising tide of scams specifically engineered to target their vulnerabilities. Account Takeover Attempts An increasingly common scam involves attempts to take over customer accounts through contact centers.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Multi-Channel Financial System 52

Calabrio

AUGUST 7, 2019

Anyone working in the contact center industry knows Customer Contact Week (CCW) to be the end-all, be-all event for customer experience, contact center and customer care professionals. ICCU takes a fresh, unique approach to customer service, and it shows. These efforts pay off.

Contact Center 189

Contact Center Net Promoter Score Effort Score Gamification 189

NobelBiz

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As businesses prioritize customer satisfaction, understanding the nuances of measuring Customer Experience Return on Investment (CX ROI) has emerged as a strategic imperative. The Direct Link Between CX and Revenue Growth To begin, it is essential to understand that positive customer experiences directly correlate to revenue growth.

ROI 111

ROI Net Promoter Score Measurement Customer Experience 111

Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the most impactful uses is how AI is transforming customer experience (CX). Advances in technology allow contact centers to use data in much more manageable ways, redefine how to engage with customers, gain efficiencies, and leverage actionable insights to improve quality management (QM) and the customer journey.

Contact Center 75

Contact Center Management Effort Score Call Center 75

Talkdesk

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Just before wrapping up 2020, we have yet another reason to show appreciation for our customers. We’re also thrilled to announce that we lead the Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) industry in six categories: Best Contact Center Operations Software. Best Telecom Services for Call Centers Software.

Contact Center 139

Contact Center Knowledge Base Call Center Software 139

Playvox

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In face-to-face interactions with customers, you have the advantage of observing eye contact, tone of voice, body language, and other cues that go along with their spoken words. For example, does “it works fine” and “customer support was ok” mean customers are happy, upset, or indifferent?

Analysis 82

Analysis Contact Center Effort Score How To 82

Uniphore

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Contact centers can have the best customer service agents and the latest and greatest technology. They can even implement superb customer experience strategies; but without an able and trustworthy leader at the helm, they will ultimately fail. Experience on the Frontline.

Contact Center 130

Contact Center Leadership Training Technology 130

NobelBiz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Both the customer experience map and the journey map are essential tools for businesses aiming to understand and improve the interactions their customers have with their brand. What is a Customer Experience Map? They can include activities such as visiting a website, reading a product review, or engaging with customer service.

Customer Journeys 104

Customer Journeys Customer Experience Contact Center Touchpoint 104

Uniphore

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For years, contact centers have relied on post-call surveys and audits to measure customer experience, satisfaction, and agent performance—with limited results. Today, customers are having more conversations with businesses than ever. For more details, review our privacy policy. You can unsubscribe anytime.

Infographics 130

Infographics Contact Center Policies Customer Satisfaction 130

Calabrio

APRIL 12, 2021

We’ve seen customers creatively step up to the challenges of this unique year—engaging their workforce and delivering on customer service expectations. We’re proud to share that one of these innovators has been recognized by the Society of Workforce Planning Professionals as a top-notch contact center leader.

Contact Center 147

Contact Center Call Center Social Media Analytics 147

NobelBiz

MAY 9, 2023

Contact centers play a vital role in today’s business landscape, serving as a primary point of contact for customers to resolve issues, make inquiries, or provide feedback. However, running an efficient and effective contact center requires more than just hiring skilled agents and investing in advanced technologies.

Call Center 98

Call Center Software Contact Center Software Contact Center 98

TechSee

MAY 4, 2021

Economic and logistical challenges have resulted in businesses turning to the gig economy to support and scale their customer service and sales efforts while lowering their fixed costs and in-house overhead. The Concept of GigCX: Freelance customer service agents. Why Customer Service is adopting the Gig Model.

Customer Service 182

Customer Service Contact Center Call Center Retail 182

Uniphore

JANUARY 4, 2022

Uniphore Collaborates with Cisco to Enable Better Customer Experiences. How are you planning to leverage conversations to drive revenue and customer retention? Join us as we explore the technology and strategies needed to accelerate key initiatives, improve customer retention and drive revenue growth in today’s enterprise.

Contact Center 317

Contact Center Innovation Multi-Channel Customer Retention 317

Playvox

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Unless you’ve been under a proverbial rock, you’ve heard and seen a massive amount of change in customer service — particularly in the past year. Many are pronouncing that there is no greater revolution in customer care than what’s happening right now. An IVR can save companies millions of dollars. per minute.

Customer Service 79

Customer Service Contact Center Chatbots Call Center 79