Fonolo

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It’s been a journey: The contact center evolved from the humble call center, as more channels of communication became commonplace. In order to keep up with the demands of modern consumers, the contact center is destined to evolve further, into the ‘Customer Experience Hub’ of the future.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. To this end, we have grouped the top contact center trends for 2019 into these three categories: human, effortless and transformative.

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TechSee

JUNE 4, 2019

Everyone knows that time equals money, right? Nowhere is that truer than in call center training – bringing new agents up to speed on products, processes and the productivity expected of them. Call center training priorities. On-the-job learning. We all learn best through practice – not theory. See the bigger picture.

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TechSee

MARCH 12, 2019

But while happy customers are vital to the success of a business, happy representatives are equally important, especially with high agent attrition rates presenting a real challenge for contact enters in 2019. Bringing visual automation to contact centers. The Value of Automation. The Power of Visual Automation.

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The Northridge Group

MARCH 21, 2022

It’s every Contact Center manager’s worst nightmare, the customer who repeatedly calls back because their issue has not been resolved to their satisfaction. Focusing on First Call Resolution (FCR) is critical for Contact Center success. The value of reducing repeat calls. billion to U.S.

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Contact Center Pipeline

APRIL 9, 2019

It’s a well-known fact that customers hate to wait. In a recent survey on consumer attitudes, researchers discovered that 35% of the respondents stopped doing business with some of their favorite brands after just one episode of waiting too long for a customer service agent to resolve their issue. In light of these facts, it’s […].

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. To this end, we have grouped the top contact center trends for 2019 into these three categories: human, effortless and transformative.

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Talkdesk

DECEMBER 30, 2019

With 2019 coming to an end, it is now time to check the rear-view mirror, reflect on the evolving realities throughout this year, and to look further up the road as new trends set the pace of a decade ahead for contact centers and customer service strategy. Resolution 1: Equip Your Agents With the Tools to Succeed.

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Global Response

MARCH 18, 2022

Omnichannel contact centers: the evolution of customer communication. Or, for some companies, the majority of contacts come over the phone. What is an omnichannel contact center? Keep reading to understand the different types of contact centers. Omnichannel contact center services.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The drivers for changing roles in contact centers. According to a Gartner survey in May 2019, 19% of service companies already offered these contracts, and another 26% were expecting to do so within 12 months. Focus on agent engagement.

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TechSee

JUNE 11, 2019

Conversely, when trying to improve NPS, agents would often spend additional time building relationships with their customers, driving up call durations. Recently, an innovative technology has emerged, transforming contact center operations and customer experience across a wide range of industries: Visual Assistance.

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Callminer

APRIL 24, 2020

call center industry is alive and well. According to the data, the industry saw a total of 32,000 new positions added in Q1 2019, with several major companies expanding their call center operations. Using contact center performance management software , like CallMiner , can help streamline the process.

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Fonolo

MAY 22, 2019

In addition to today’s batch of four reports, please check out our new re-issued report on managing call spikes in the contact center. Ventana’s Value Index for Cloud Contact Centers (2018). For the first time, Gartner is including AI as part of their assessment although, it seems, somewhat reluctantly.

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

But if you don’t build call center improvement strategies that put what you find into action, your data is useless. The intel flowing through your contact center feeds a bottomless well of info about your business. Data helps you build a business case for future investments and drive further contact center ROI.

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Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

Simply knowing how to run a call center isn’t enough for success. Not for the weak at heart, only some call center managers have the grace, tenacity, and skills to handle the extreme pressures of the contact center manager’s job. Make Your Contact Center a Great Place to Work.

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Customer Service Life

MARCH 28, 2019

This article was originally published on the ICMI blog on January 24, 2019. But in my context, it was contact center agents casting a wide net by instant messaging multiple supervisors and managers on duty for help with an issue. The most common use for Slack in contact centers is as an escalation channel for frontline agents.

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Talkdesk

MAY 10, 2019

Sheila McGee-Smith of McGee-Smith Analytics and Patrick Russell, Principal, Product Innovation Marketing at Talkdesk, joined together in a recent webinar to discuss the five must-haves for the 2019 call center. How to Cultivate an Agent-First Attitude Agents are the front lines of your call center.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

Utilizing robotic process automation (RPA) in contact centers has been proven to reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies. Back office AI customer service technologies are especially relevant to assisting in workload management, agent productivity and high-level data analysis of contact center performance.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Customers who had breakdowns in their interactions rose 10% over 2019 according to The National Customer Rage Study. It’s time to turn to the brain of the operation: your customer service data. Download Now] Use the data that lives in your contact center to improve your customer experience. Report up to key stakeholders.

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Cyara

JULY 9, 2019

The contact center has become the inflection point for digital transformation in the enterprise. To accomplish this, the vast majority of enterprises are moving their contact centers to the cloud. What are the drivers of migrating contact centers to the cloud?”. Joe Eisner. Organization: AWS. Steve Nuttall.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 16, 2018

To read the three previous posts in the optimizing CX series on creating blended agents , improving the agent experience and reducing Average Handling Time while safeguarding quality, simply click on the links. This builds over time, allowing comparisons between specific periods, such as the Peak season in retail.

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Balto

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

So, it comes as no surprise that one of the primary challenges identified by financial services contact center employees is the easy access of available desktop tools. In fact, one in five contact center employees has listed desktop tools among their top operational challenges for four years in a row.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 31, 2023

Government departments and businesses operate contact centers to connect with their communities, enabling citizens and customers to call to make appointments, request services, and sometimes just ask a question. Unless the hold music is particularly good, callers don’t typically enjoy having to wait—it wastes time and money.

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 17, 2024

Revolutionizing Customer Engagement: The Power of UCaaS Contact Center Software The term ‘UCaaS’ has been in the modern telephony lexicon for quite some time now. In this blog post, we will understand UCaaS contact center software , its features, and its benefits in detail. Read on and thank us later.

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Yet, 74% of contact center agents are still at risk for burnout. Think about the goals you need to accomplish in your contact center, first. How to do it: Create an agent value proposition to drive purpose and meaningful connection in your contact center. What’s your team’s mission?

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Yet, 74% of contact center agents are still at risk for burnout. Think about the goals you need to accomplish in your contact center, first. How to do it: Create an agent value proposition to drive purpose and meaningful connection in your contact center. What’s your team’s mission?

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Fonolo

MARCH 4, 2020

I sat down in conversation with Sidhu at the tail-end of 2019, the year that his team took home the prestigious Customer Obsessed Award from the Customer Service Professionals Network (CSPN) annual conference. We’ve got a solid set up, beginning with 1-800 or contact center agents,” Sidhu explains.

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Callminer

AUGUST 6, 2019

.” – Sandie Simms, 12 Questions to Ask When Choosing Contact Centre Software , West UC; Twitter: @West_UC. Know the latest call center trends. Contact center software has evolved as customers’ expectations and needs have shifted with the rise of mobile devices and social media. Social media.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Author: Anne-Merete Jensen - Senior Business Consultant 4 ways to drive recognition in your customer service team. Published on: September 18, 2019. That’s why pretty much every contact center I visit has a recognition program of some sort in place. telephone) over another.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Contact centers have more in common with sports teams than you might think. In fact, 71% of consumers surveyed in 2019 said that they would be “less likely to use a brand if they knew that brand didn’t have human agents available.” Reduce average handle time. Michael Jordan had Scottie Pippen.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Contact centers have more in common with sports teams than you might think. In fact, 71% of consumers surveyed in 2019 said that they would be “less likely to use a brand if they knew that brand didn’t have human agents available.” Reduce average handle time. Michael Jordan had Scottie Pippen.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In part 1 of the blog, we looked at the foundations of building a robust Customer Experience (CX), starting with contact centers. Voice of the customer, analytics and AI-driven technologies are important add-on pieces in addition to core contact center and CRM systems. CX metrics are not your operational KPIs.

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TLC Associates

OCTOBER 1, 2019

That’s the struggle facing every healthcare payer, but it’s one you can overcome by taking the right preparations for your internal team working with the right outsourced contact center. One way to decrease that difficulty and reduce bad hires is to create the right contact center agent profile in advance of your hiring initiative.

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Customer Service Life

AUGUST 20, 2019

This article was originally published on the FCR blog in partnership with my colleague, Travis Wild on June 18, 2019. Practice #1: Track email average handle time. While average handle time is fairly cut and dry on certain channels, this can be a challenge for email. Here are six best practices.

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Customer Service Life

JUNE 3, 2019

This article was originally published on the ICMI Blog on March 19, 2019. Neither metric is mutually exclusive, requiring the right balance between the two to achieve the positive results you’re looking for in your contact center. Image by Harald Funken from Pixabay. Click here to read the original post. Measuring Productivity.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

With the large volumes of contact center advisors still incentivized based on speed – typically the Average Handle Time (AHT) – CX goals are quite often unachievable. AHT has dominated contact center measurement for decades. But that model has little place in the customer centric market of 2019.

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Talkdesk

JUNE 7, 2019

Why You Should be Tracking Call Center Shrinkage in 2019 Do you know how many of your scheduled call center agents are actually available to take calls at any given time versus how many are on break, attending team meetings, doing after call work, out sick or late to their shift? What is Call Center Shrinkage?

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