BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Talk of ChatGPT is everywhere from your LinkedIn feed to the evening news to, yes, this blog. Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. But with ChatGPT in the spotlight, we wanted to bring you a deeper dive into AI in the contact center.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

At first glance, the term “virtual call center agent” sounds like a Siri-like creature who exists in the ether, saving the day for troubled customers. No, a virtual call center agent is a regular human being. Most call centers still have a brick and mortar presence. Is it a bot?

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NICE inContact

JULY 25, 2019

Recruiting excellent agents can be a challenging task. Retaining call center agents doesn’t occur by chance, it happens by implementing practical, proven retention tactics. Retaining call center agents doesn’t occur by chance, it happens by implementing practical, proven retention tactics. 2) Ask for Feedback.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The biggest challenge facing every contact center is agent churn. As a contact center leader, you work extremely hard to mitigate these challenges, but because you are pulled in many different directions, it is tough to keep your best agents.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 2, 2024

At the core of this modern transformation lie Enterprise Contact Center Solutions , sophisticated platforms designed to streamline communication, enhance productivity, and drive customer satisfaction. They serve as centralized hubs for managing multichannel interactions, voice calls, emails, chats, social media, and more.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call center optimization is a strategic approach that focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of call center operations. This article delves into the essential aspects of call center optimization, including the tools and best practices that can drive performance improvements.

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NICE inContact

JULY 17, 2019

It can be daunting to create and scale a team of remote contact center agents. Jill Blankenship, founder and CEO of outsourced customer support service Frontline Group, has experienced the challenges — but also leveraged new technology to capture data, measure and improve KPIs and manage a team of remote agents while on-the-go.

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

As companies embrace the digitization of customer support, the new standard is much more than a phone conversation with a call center representative or a visit from a field agent. With a career spanning over 20 years, Eric has an extensive amount of experience in Contact Center and 3rd party and onshore vendor management.

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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. This powerful tool serves as the cornerstone, revolutionizing the way your contact center operates.

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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. As contact centers continue to become drivers of business growth, there are significant quantitative and qualitative results to consider.

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BirdEye

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Imagine a bustling office brimming with potential, yet held back by missed calls, network glitches, and the consequent loss of potential customers. Studies suggest that 30% of business phone calls go unanswered. The right VoIP service provider can help you turn every call into a business opportunity. What is a VoIP number?

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Increasingly, contact center leaders are making this transformational decision because they’re ready to: Increase efficiency Boost customer satisfaction Keep up with competitors Improve time to resolution Reduce agent costs. How can contact centers keep up with this demand? How can contact centers get the most out of AI?

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BirdEye

MARCH 1, 2024

Juggling customer calls across different locations and time zones can be a nightmare. Missed calls, confused customers, and a strained support team are just a few of the consequences. This is where business call forwarding services can make a huge difference, seamlessly routing calls from one department to the other.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 1, 2020

In my previous blog , I stressed the importance of using cloud technology to quickly move call center agents to a safe, work-at-home environment, to continue support for their customers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. With a modern cloud contact center solution like Talkdesk ®, agent capacity is uncapped.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 12, 2024

To address and overcome this challenge, many companies have started embracing Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified CXM). The challenge lies in tracking interactions across these diverse channels. Challenge Keeping track of thousands of interactions across diverse channels.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Suppose you are at an airport, the airline cancels your flight, and you sit in a call center queue. Suppose you are at an airport, the airline cancels your flight, and you sit in a call center queue. This year has been the year of AI. One thing I appreciate about Mead is how his opinions make me think.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2021

Sh e shares best practices supervisors can use for monitoring call center agents in a work-from-home scenario. COVID-19 has led us to believe that we need to rethink, amend, and strengthen our contact centers with robust technology to stay ahead of the pandemic. They can also snoop, barge, and whisper on a live call if required.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 28, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Murph Krajewski, writes about the importance of a single customer view when it comes to serving your customers. The right contact center technology for a SCV. This will help lead you to forming important relationship with your customer. – Shep Hyken.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 17, 2023

For example, if a call comes into the call center, it’s not a standalone moment; the interaction is part of a more extensive relationship. Watch Colin talking about this on YouTube: Subscribe to our YouTube channel here to see all the latest videos! Your experience provides that for them. It is a significant hole.

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SaleMove

JUNE 16, 2020

With all of us—and our parents and grandparents—now using virtual meeting software such as Zoom, Teams or WebEx so often, it begs the question, can businesses use these technologies to effectively support consumers? If we’re talking about scheduled interactions with specific people at the company then virtual meetings may be enough.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 5, 2017

TechStyle uses inContact to outsource its entire customer service team of 600-to-1200 agents, who field inbound calls from all across the globe. Streamlined Contact Center Support. With inContact, challenges surrounding agent staffing evaporated, allowing TechStyle to spin from 100 to 1,000 agents virtually overnight.

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Grupo Noa

MAY 11, 2022

Any responsible business owner that gives priority to their customer services would opt for call center outsourcing services. Top American call centers are run by a team of highly experienced and multilingual telecallers. Let’s read more to know why every business needs a call center service-.

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Blake Morgan

MAY 13, 2023

Being a working mother has always come with challenges. But in the last few years, as the pandemic and economic uncertainty affected women disproportionately more than men, those challenges have risen to another level, driving many women out of the workforce or away from leadership positions in what experts call a “Mom-cession.”

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

According to IDC, “AI is the game changer in a highly competitive environment, especially across customer-facing industries such as retail and finance, where AI has the power to push customer experience to the next level with virtual assistants, product recommendations, or visual searches.”. Call Classification / routing. Biometrics.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

One of our most popular blog posts focuses on which contact center predictions from the past few years have come true in the world of outsourced customer service. As any workforce management professional will tell you, excellence in forecasting/prediction is what differentiates the leaders from the also-rans in call center operations.

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Inbenta

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In recent years, virtual assistants and AI-powered conversational chatbots have taken the center stage, popping up in hospitals, labs, pharmacies, and even nursing homes. In this blog post, we’ll explore the key benefits and use cases of healthcare chatbots and why healthcare companies should invest in chatbots right away.

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AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 5, 2024

Data science and DevOps teams may face challenges managing these isolated tool stacks and systems. Current challenges Let’s first understand a few of the challenges the customer’s data science and DevOps teams faced with their current setup. Wipro is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and Managed Service Provider (MSP).

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

NATIVE VISUAL VOICEMAIL DIALER FEATURING VOICEMAIL TO TEXT TRANSLATE FEATURE – ALL MODELS The history Two years ago, in 2021, T-Mobile engineering teams partnered with AWS to launch a new AI-powered feature called Voicemail to Text with automatic language detection and to improve quality and performance for customers. T-Mobile US, Inc.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 15, 2023

However, they will have a more challenging time infiltrating your emotional connection with your customers. Unfortunately, people often form codependent or dysfunctional relationships with brands. To help yours be more beneficial than not, we have five rules about how to build strong brand relationships with your customers. Adventuresome?

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Thematic

APRIL 21, 2020

This brings its own set of challenges and opportunities for customer insights & analytics leaders. One way we’ve responded at Thematic has been to start hosting virtual roundtable discussions for customer insights and analytics professionals to connect and share how everyone is managing. Focus on incoming demand.

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COPC

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These changes were highlighted during the Optimizing Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop that COPC Inc. Read about these three emerging outsourcing priorities in the blog post written in conjunction with our Optimizing Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships workshop.

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BirdEye

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This blog looks at how strategic chiropractor marketing can effectively address the issues of limited awareness, attract more patients, and build loyalty through reputation management. What are the challenges in chiropractor marketing? What are the challenges in chiropractor marketing? Some of the key challenges include: 1.

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Bold360

APRIL 13, 2020

Uncertainty and anxiety have catalyzed a flood of customer questions and calls into service centers. If that wasn’t bad enough, call center agents – like all of us – have been compelled to work from home (or, WFH as it’s known) and companies are scrambling to adjust their CX tools to this new WFH normal.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 23, 2024

As a call center owner, manager, or supervisor, are you grappling with the challenges of elevating customer satisfaction, retention and boosting lead generation? Join us as we guide you through optimizing your customer support and elevating the overall experience of your contact center.

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SurveySensum

JANUARY 26, 2024

Understanding these journeys is not just about mapping out the steps a customer takes – it’s about delving into the emotions, expectations, and challenges they face along the way. Ensure your website is not just a virtual storefront but a compelling experience that reflects your brand’s essence.

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 20, 2022

Looking for ideas for how to create the best customer service training program for your contact center? So there’s no time like the present to create the best customer service training program for your contact center. 6 Do’s and Don’ts for Creating the Best Customer Service Training Program for Contact Centers. #1:

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