Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

When the whole world went remote, people started calling in in record numbers, forcing businesses to reassess their customer service game. Our solution: educate centers on the power of automation and empower agents to use technology to their advantage. 0% Security issues with Agents at Home. Make Legacy Tech Work Smarter.

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Lumoa

JUNE 26, 2023

In fact, several companies, ranging from media to finance, are already investing in an omnichannel customer experience to boost their sales and revenue. For example, Target, one of the top US retail chains, improved its pickup sales with an omnichannel campaign. In This Article: What is omnichannel marketing customer experience?

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CX Accelerator

JULY 1, 2020

Business leaders will benefit from reflecting on how these changes – shutdowns, communication changes, and working from home – have impacted their relationships with their consumers and consider how this season has improved or harmed business continuity. This article will cover the following: · Business Continuity. Changing Expectations.

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Uniphore

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Uniphore completes the acquisition of Jacada and rolls out a powerful platform that will transform the Customer Experience Market. This empowers contact center agents to deliver highly effective, personalized and empathetic interactions. PALO ALTO, Calif. , Superior Business User Friendly UX.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 6, 2021

In our webinar, What Your Call Center Agents Rant About on Social Media , we went beyond the annual Voice of the Employee survey to explore how agents really view the contact centers they work in—and why they’re leaving at an alarming rate. Why Your Agent Experience Matters to Your Customer Experience—And Your Bottom Line.

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BirdEye

MARCH 29, 2024

In a recent survey of our expansive network of over 150,000 customers, it was discovered that 81% of businesses manage their social media strategies at the corporate level. That’s why we’ve created this blog that features seven networks that every realtor should be a part of.

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BirdEye

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Your customers are calling — don’t leave them hanging. It’s not just about making calls; it’s about ensuring seamless communication, enhancing customer service, and supporting your business’s growth. Birdeye – all-in-one platform Improve customer communication with Birdeye. Riiing, riiing.

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Comm100

JUNE 23, 2022

In this blog, we’ll look at the top reasons why universities and colleges are choosing Comm100 Live Chat. Comm100 has all the security and privacy compliances that higher education needs, including: SOC Type II – The highest degree of excellence in security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and customer data privacy.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Interactive voice response (IVR) has been a staple of customer service for many years. The fact that IVRs have been around for a long time and are widely used does not mean, though, that your customers actually like them. For customers, scalable IVRs reduce hold times and make simple services accessible 24/7/365.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service. It represents a holistic approach that is aimed at transforming call center functions into a streamlined, customer-focused powerhouse.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If colleges and universities want to improve student engagement and retention, they need to be where they are – online. This blog will look at the top 5 reasons why higher education institutions need to adopt live chat and chatbots if they want to acquire, engage, and retain today’s students. In both cases, students definitely have.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 2, 2024

Are customers becoming more and more demanding with time? With the growing customer expectations, enterprises are under great pressure to deliver exceptional service. Geared towards smaller-scale operations with fewer agents and lower call volumes. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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Uniphore

JULY 21, 2021

How can organizations more effectively direct customers to the knowledge they’re looking for? Gartner’s newest customer service report “Delivering Relevant Content and Knowledge to Customers Is Key to Great Customer Service” focuses on just these dilemmas. List your CX goals beforehand.

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CX Accelerator

JULY 1, 2020

Business leaders will benefit from reflecting on how these changes – shutdowns, communication changes, and working from home – have impacted their relationships with their consumers and consider how this season has improved or harmed business continuity. This article will cover the following: · Business Continuity. Changing Expectations.

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Vonage

APRIL 25, 2019

Social media teams – both marketing and customer service – often sit by themselves in organizations, likely because management doesn’t quite know what to do with them. Integrating with the core business ensures that the social media team is engaged with other business units to share and act upon customer feedback.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There are many areas where emerging applications are poised to make a big impact during 2023, both for improving the agent experience (AX) and for making the customer experience (CX) smarter. AI applications can recognize these distractions and supress them so agents can better focus on their customers.

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SaleMove

JANUARY 20, 2021

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches. But what about the bots?

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BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Satisfied customers build successful businesses. Every business works to keep its customers happy, provide the best service, and become the #1 choice for its customers. This is especially true for multi-location businesses catering to local customers. Table of contents What is AI-driven customer experience?

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The biggest challenge facing every contact center is agent churn. Many agents are bored, unengaged, and generally unhappy, and they churn at a rate of 33% across all industries. Not to mention, technology constraints can sometimes make it difficult to improve the agent experience.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2019

Traditionally quality management in the contact center has been focused on evaluating agent-assisted interactions — mainly phone. You know the routine — listen to a phone call, complete a form, send it to an agent, repeat. 2) Create forms to complete ongoing evaluation.

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Team Support

JUNE 20, 2023

Compounding these hurdles is the fact that providing excellent customer support is facing its own set of challenges. As customer support demand continues to increase by 11% per year, reduced staffing levels is causing 75% of customer service agents to face a serious risk of burnout.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

This week we feature an article by Tim Houlne who writes about the importance of integrating technology into your business to provide the optimum customer experience. – Shep Hyken. Time to start planning for your 2019 customer experience initiatives. Would you consider that a great customer experience?

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NICE inContact

APRIL 4, 2019

Businesses of all types and sizes use virtual receptionists to route their customer’s calls based on a menu selection. . Auto Attendants are like a virtual switchboard, often replacing the need for a dedicated resource to answer the phone. Here’s how it works: Virtual receptionists “greet” you with a simple menu.

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Calabrio

JANUARY 2, 2020

As an exciting new era commences as part of Calabrio, Olle Düring celebrates the upcoming journey with Customer Experience (CX) Intelligence and opportunities to connect with the fully blended brand. In June 2019, Calabrio acquired Teleopti, offering the perfect path forward for our team, customers, partners and WFM product.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

There were too many different customer needs and too many inconsistencies. There were too many different customer needs and too many inconsistencies. The contact center agent’s life was not easy, and we saw it just getting more and more complicated. ” And that’s where you’ll find the soul of your company.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 31, 2023

As 2023 unfolds, a key theme for contact center leaders to watch is reinforcing the connection between customer experience (CX) and agent experience (AX). CX must always remain the primary focus for the contact center –this recent blog post identified two 2023 trends that will have a major impact on CX.

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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. This is just one of the many insights we discovered when we surveyed more than 900 global contact center leaders about key customer experience topics, including near-term investment plans.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

While there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to address all operational and customer-related challenges for businesses, Customer Experience Automation (CXA) has emerged as a compelling strategy for a lot of businesses these days. Table of Contents What Is Customer Experience Automation (CXA)?

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BirdEye

JULY 7, 2023

Today’s customers expect answers in real time. That’s why a customer service chatbot is a necessary tool for a successful business. With this tool, you can quickly and accurately respond to customer service questions, even if it’s at midnight. Table of contents What is a chatbot for customer service?

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 12, 2018

With all of the new improvements and changes in modern day customer service technology, it’s no surprise that customer expectations have evolved to follow suit as well. This is the first of four ways that virtual agents are automating the contact center.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This blog post is co-written with Bruno Mateus, Jonathan Diedrich and Crispim Tribuna at Talkdesk. 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.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If you’re reading this blog, then you probably already know that live chat is the most popular digital customer service channel – and it keeps on growing. When a customer is looking for an answer to their question, they want three simple things – speed, ease, and accuracy (plus often a touch of personalization).

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Canada, UK and Ireland—with customized inventory finance solutions. Working with NICE inContact has helped fuel the company’s growth by greatly improving efficiencies in its contact center and enhancing the customer experience. Most importantly, perhaps, NextGear Capital’s customer satisfaction has grown by 10%.

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Comm100

JUNE 4, 2020

There is an abundance of stats on the internet revealing the popularity of live chat for customer service. It’s accessibility and speed meet today’s customer expectations and digital-first preferences. Audio and video chat give agents the ability to speak directly with the customer, seamlessly switching from typing to talking.

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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.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Today, contact center leaders who embrace the cloud are quick to see its benefits – powering engaging customer experiences while positively impacting business outcomes. Unify to Deliver Immersive Customer Experiences. Some have turned to AI to power virtual agents, chatbots and other self-service channels.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This week we feature an article by Rahul Varshneya whos writes about how technology innovations are continuously improving the customer experience. This Maya Angelou quote fits perfectly when talking about the factors responsible for positive brand customer service. Customer experience has not been left behind.

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