BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

When the world turned upside down in February and March of 2020, no one could have guessed what was ahead. For companies who outsource (or are thinking about outsourcing) their customer care, there is simultaneously a large degree of uncertainty and urgency. Get your copy now. Just fill out the form.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Throughout 2020, many new trends arose and call center solutions continued to evolve to meet fresh challenges in the space. COVID-19 led to new realizations about how call centers need to operate, including a shift to remote work , system-wide stressors and important shifts in customer experience and service expectations among consumers.

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BlueOcean

JULY 13, 2023

However, along with everything else in the world, the pandemic forced them to cancel the 2020 event. As a result, record numbers of attendees and, consequently, record-high inbound customer service volume were projected for the 2022 championships. Every year, this national sports association holds their annual pro championships.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020. We specifically like his wrap-up of customer service blog posts that he curates from a variety of resources and publishes weekly. Top Pick: 20 ways to create an amazing customer service experience in 2020. Nice Reply.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 20, 2020

2020 Customer Experience: 20 Wishes Lynn Hunsaker. 2020 customer experience management is at a turning point. Forces on customers and business may otherwise make some turns that leave you behind. Customer experience is customers’ realities compared to their expectations.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

I’m excited to announce that Webex Contact Center was among the 2020 Contact Center Technology Award winners, presented by CUSTOMER Magazine this month. Cisco Wins UC Today’s Best Collaboration Platform for 2020. A Message to Our Customers: Your Agents Can Work From Home with Your Cisco Contact Center Solution.

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CCNG

JULY 12, 2020

CCNG is working through our network of colleagues and resources to help share information, insights, and ideas on maintaining strong customer care, employee support, and business continuity during this challenging period. March 20, 2020. March 15, 2020. March 18, 2020. February 12, 2020. March 18, 2020.

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Contact Center Pipeline

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Customer preferences change, new tools emerge, and leaders are left with the challenge of dialing up or down specific channels to accommodate evolving customer behavior. For example, at the beginning of 2020, our own research had overwhelmingly shown the importance of digital channels, particularly among younger demographics.

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 6, 2020

2020 has marked the workplace like no other year in recent history. You may have pushed pause on your decision to find a new customer care outsourcer, but now’s the time to dive back in. Our updated list of customer care RFP questions keeps these facts top of mind. We hope they’ll make your life a little easier. (We

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BlueOcean

JULY 12, 2018

The only constant in the customer care world is change, and if you don’t keep up, you’ll be left behind. That’s why we’ve compiled these must-read articles to keep you updated and give you some food for thought as you think about the future of your outsourced customer care. The Role of Chatbots in Customer Care. “

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Noble Systems

JULY 15, 2019

According to Gartner, 55% of companies have started to or plan to invest in AI by 2020. Customer care today remains mostly reactive. Businesses wait for a customer to call into the contact center. Then we’ll cover why you should care. The agent was able to resolve the customer’s issue quickly. AI Defined.

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Contact Center Pipeline

MAY 26, 2021

Contact centers and customer care teams for enterprise brands have been operating in a certain way for decades. Many rely primarily on phone support to serve customers; others use slightly more advanced tools like synchronous web chat or even email.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2019

Now: Ready yourself for the dawn of a new customer service decade, and read this timely and useful advice from the mouths of the experts themselves. Their 20/20 industry insights will propel your contact center to success in, fittingly, the year 2020.*. That won’t go away in 2020, and it will probably still be a requirement in 2050!

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Top 6 Customer Experience (CX) Strategy Tips for 2020 by Raj Roy. MarTech Advisor) In this article, we explain why a CX strategy is critical to accelerate the achievement of your business goals, with the top 6 customer experience strategy tips to prepare you for 2020!

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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. Reporting Your customer care program may accumulate more data than any other part of your organization. Hourly staff?

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Pointillist

MAY 19, 2020

By Stephanie Ventura Customer experience is more important than ever in 2020. But what makes some organizations more effective than others at managing customer journeys, measuring outcomes and improving experiences? “ Hank Brigman Customer Experience Strategist Author of TOUCHPOiNT POWER!

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 2, 2019

If you’ve been following my work, you know that one of my favorite sayings is, “What is happening on the inside of the organization is felt on the outside by the customer.”. The Top 10 Technology Trends In Retail: How Tech Will Transform Shopping In 2020 by Bernard Marr. How Would You Rate Your Company’s Client Experience?

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CCNG

MAY 10, 2023

Bad customer service is our new normal? In the latest “National Customer Rage Survey” conducted by the Customer Care Measurement and Consulting organization, a whopping 74% of consumers said they had experienced a product or service problem in the past year, up from 66% in 2020. Nope, not on my watch.

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 6, 2020

This concept that the customer care experience should go beyond demographics and preferences and be completely tailored to any customer’s unique current circumstances pushes the limits of the traditional customer journey and relies on cutting-edge data technologies. 2020 Trends in Omnichannel Customer Service.

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 27, 2020

And, of course, your company’s plan to launch a new outsourced customer care program. Your customers are already struggling with the times, and now you’re thinking about overhauling the customer care process? Check out these articles: 60 Customer Care RFP Questions for the Contact Center of 2020.

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Connecting the Dots

JULY 13, 2020

The 2020 National Customer Rage Study was conducted in collaboration with the Center for Services Leadership at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and Kraft-Heinz and just released in June 2020. The 2020 National Customer Rage Study was featured recently in the Wall Street Journal.

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Connecting the Dots

JULY 13, 2020

The 2020 National Customer Rage Study was conducted in collaboration with the Center for Services Leadership at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and Kraft-Heinz and just released in June 2020. It is clear that social media now plays a dominant role in mediating the customer experience.

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Connecting the Dots

JULY 27, 2020

A little more than forty years ago, the marketplace was very different from todays, with little to no attention paid to customer care and complaint resolution. What follows is Vicki’s interview of John Goodman about his storied career in customer experience, customer care research, and the 2020 National Customer Rage Study.

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Russel Lolacher

MARCH 2, 2021

In BC, I’m the public service director responsible for the government social media customer care for our ministry, but my dad still doesn’t understand what I do. How much has the consumer sentiments changed in your space during 2020 and how is 2021 going to look like? What was the biggest lesson you learned in 2020?

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Interaction Analytics Product and Market Report. IA proves essential during COVID-19 for customer insights and employee oversight. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Interaction Analytics Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Interaction Analytics Product and Market Report.

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BlueOcean

APRIL 30, 2021

A couple of years ago, we explored the state of omnichannel customer care , recognizing the fact that consumers have more channel options available to them than ever before. With more than a year of pandemic impacts under our belts, let’s dig into the far-reaching impacts of COVID-19 on omnichannel customer care.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 9, 2018

Gartner also reported that by 2020, 72% of customer interactions will involve an emerging technology such as machine-learning applications, chatbots or mobile messaging, up from 11% in 2017. This type of technology is still very juvenile and even the top tech giants such as Facebook were receiving high failure rates during 2017.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. When: Today, 8 April 2020. Where: Available at the DMG Consulting online store.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Digital Customer Service Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Digital Customer Service Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Digital Customer Service Product and Market Report. When: Today, 30 September 2020.

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Raise your hand if 2020 made you toss old customer service playbooks out the window. If you told me that in 2020, I’d be holed up in my guest room working from a vanity-turned-desk for a year, sheltering in place from an invisible menace terrorizing our society, I would’ve thought you were reciting an episode of the Twilight Zone.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Three primary trends are driving the customer care industry: diversified cloud-based solutions. By actively harnessing a set of cloud-based AI-powered technologies, contact centers are infusing intelligence across the entire customer contact landscape. Key 2020 Trends: Cloud Contact Centers. More Blogs Menu.

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BlueOcean

MAY 11, 2020

It’s late February, 2020. Situation: You’re tasked with choosing a new outsourced partner for your organization’s customer care program. Three months later – May, 2020. Did the pandemic expose cracks in your current customer care solution, whether that is in-house or outsourced? Place: Your office.

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Toister Performance Solutions

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Image source: The American Customer Satisfaction Index. The second study is the 2020 National Customer Rage Study from Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC). Image source: Customer Care Measurement and Consulting. There is some hope. There is some hope. I conducted a survey of 1,084 U.S.

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ConvergeOne

AUGUST 31, 2021

2020 raised the bar on customer experience across the board. In response to the changed landscape, utilities have pivoted to provide more personalized service, helping customers use energy more efficiently while providing access to more services virtually. Utilities, Customer Care, and AI.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Results: Despite the pandemic and related lockdown orders, we launched this new customer care program on time, in April 2020 (cue the fireworks!). The post How a Major US-Based Sports Association Launched a New Customer Care Program in the Middle of a Pandemic appeared first on Blue Ocean.

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