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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Customer Care Personalization Finance Chatbots 55

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. “

Customer Care 74

Customer Care outsourcing Chatbots Contact Center 74

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.

Customer Care 70

Customer Care Abandon rate Self service Airlines 70

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!

Customer Service 198

Customer Service B2B CRM Customer centricity 198

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?

Customer Service 41

Customer Service Customer centricity Technology Customer Care 41

CCNG

MAY 10, 2023

You encountered a chatbot that was clueless about what you were inquiring about, one that couldn’t refer you to a “live person” because they weren’t available. Instead of cutting back on service, organizations should be investing in their customer experiences. You waited longer than a few minutes for an answer to a simple question.

Customer Service 195

Customer Service CCNG Journey mapping Consulting 195

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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Contact Center Self service Call Center Chatbots 121

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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Management Journey mapping Analytics Customer centricity 94

BlueOcean

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, at the end of the day, executing on a loyalty-building omnichannel customer service depends upon thoughtful strategy, elegant technological solutions, rigorous process, and sophisticated agent training. Personalization is the New Norm – And It’s Based on Trust. We’ve known for years that personalization breeds loyalty.

Customer Care 71

Customer Care Wait times Self service Personalization 71

CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

(Zendesk, 2022) 54% of customers who report positive emotions like feeling happy, valued, and appreciated are willing to forgive brands that make mistakes. Forrester, 2022) In 2022, an average of 59% of customers trust the brands they interact with, 2 percentage points higher than the 57% of customers who trusted brands in 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. What’s your maximum class training size for in-person training? Download our free customer care RFP template here.

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Customer Care outsourcing Employee engagement Contact Center 71

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.

Customer Care 62

Customer Care Complaint resolution Government Education 62

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. Customer Journey Mapping.

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Cloud contact Contact Center Journey mapping Interactive Voice Response 69

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?

Government 52

Government Customer Care Transportation Benchmark 52

BlueOcean

JULY 20, 2023

In our world of outsourced customer care solutions, one of the big challenges we continue to wrestle with on the sales side of things is the significant change in the contact center RFP process. Buyers held vendor meetings often with an option to attend either in-person at the buyer’s HQ or to dial in.

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outsourcing Contact Center Personalization contact center solutions 117

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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outsourcing Customer Care Contact Center Engineering 62

BlueOcean

JANUARY 20, 2023

2020 marked the workplace like no other year in recent history. If you’re faced with the decision to find a new customer care outsourcer in the post-pandemic era, now’s the time to dive in. Our updated list of customer care RFP questions keeps these facts top of mind. For remote training? Hourly staff?

Customer Care 62

Customer Care Contact Center outsourcing Employee engagement 62

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2019

10 Customer-Centric Questions to Create Irresistible Value by Josh Linkner. Josh Linkner) With our Thanksgiving feasts behind us, ’tis the season of 2020 business planning. 4 Metrics Your Call Center Needs to Track in 2020 by Ben Ringshall. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.

Airlines 136

Airlines Customer Service Customer centricity Call Center 136

Talkdesk

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Salesforce estimates that approximately 30% of all global holiday purchases in 2020 will be returned—about $280 billion worth of lost merchandise sales. Salesforce also forecasts a 30% increase in service demand for the 2020 holiday season. The onboarding experience for new members should be as high touch and personalized as possible.

Sales 106

Sales Personalization Customer Care Surveys 106

TechSee

APRIL 3, 2018

Considering churn is closely linked to customer satisfaction, companies are attempting to transform their customer experience to meet consumers’ high expectations. In fact, data from Walker predicts that customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator for B2B by 2020.

Customer retention 141

Customer retention Technology Analytics Technical Support 141

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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outsourcing Customer Care Contact Center Engineering 62

Creative Virtual

JULY 22, 2020

The closing of physical store and office locations, restrictions on in-person activities, new guidelines to keep contact centre agents safe, rapidly changing information – these challenges and disruptions to business-as-usual have forced organisations to adapt quickly and re-evaluate the needs of their customers.

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Virtual Agent Self service Surveys Customer centricity 52

C Space

JUNE 3, 2020

The Brand Move Roundup – June 3, 2020. By aligning corporate values with what customers care about, companies are hoping to build a sense of loyalty and a deeper sense of personal connection, he said. Brand Move Roundup – June 3, 2020. Brand Move Roundup – June 2, 2020. Read More.

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Education Consulting Consulting Morale 52

Skybridge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

I’ve been writing a lot lately about customer expectations, the changes we’re seeing, and how some customer care providers have been able to step up to meet those expectations. Customer needs, expectations and – critically – even many of their core values are undergoing rapid, seismic shifts. You can read more, below.

Customer Care 52

Customer Care Marketing Technology Customer Experience 52

Skybridge

AUGUST 4, 2020

When their most recent results were reported a few weeks ago, I couldn’t help noticing some interesting parallels between their findings and those of Shep Hyken’s 2020 ACA “Achieving Customer Amazement” (ACA) Survey. Not surprisingly, more and more consumers are shopping online and seeking assistance through omnichannel customer care.

Customer Care 52

Customer Care Finance Surveys Sales 52

Comm100

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Why amazing customer experiences matter. By 2020, customer experience (CX) will overtake price as a key product differentiator. While there are many ways to improve CX – ease of use, innovation, and speed are just a few – companies should be paying more attention to consistency and personalization. No problem.

Personalization 55

Personalization Customer Experience Journey mapping Chatbots 55

TechSee

APRIL 10, 2019

Through Digital CX, customers – via social media, chat, email, text, or over the phone – will receive personalized experiences based on their previous interactions. Agents can seamlessly access customer data across platforms, with the system collecting insights, learning from them, and improving its performance over time.

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience Customer centricity Interactive Voice Response Wireless 154

Callminer

JANUARY 18, 2021

Besides nurturing an omnichannel approach to customer care, organisations should carefully consider the operational aspects of their call centres to ensure it is satisfying as many callers as possible, including adequately addressing customer vulnerability. Watch for these skills when recruiting and hiring for your call center.”

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Best practices Call Center Contact Center Scripts 226

Connecting the Dots

JULY 27, 2020

The work of John Goodman and Marc Grainer , two of Customer Care Measurement & Consulting’s principals, led to a customer care revolution in the United States, and for both, an ongoing passion to monitor and continuously optimize the customer experience to create a win-win for buyers and sellers.

Customer Care 48

Customer Care Government Education Engineering 48

Quiq

MAY 28, 2020

Whether your business is interested in opening up several messaging channels, or just one, communicating with customers over messaging can be a breeze. Here are our top picks for digital customer service communication channels in 2020. Connect With Your Customers Effectively. SMS/Text Messaging. Twitter Direct Messages.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Chatbots Customer Care Feedback 52

Fonolo

JANUARY 26, 2021

The First Person Who Was Put on Hold. In the early days of the telephone, being put on hold was something brief that a sweet-sounding operator did while connecting you to the person you wanted to call. We don’t know the first person who was kept waiting on hold, but you can bet they were pretty annoyed.

Technology 108

Technology Call Center Enterprise call center solutions 108

Skybridge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Businesses that survive the onslaught successfully will be those that make shopping easy and safe, including convenient digital ordering, creative and efficient fulfillment and responsive customer service, according to Rob Garf, VP of industry insights for retail and consumer goods at Salesforce.” We would love to talk! By Dom Nicastro.

B2C 52

B2C Sales Marketing Personalization 52

ProProfs Blog

MARCH 13, 2020

Earlier, the synchronicity of customers across multiple channels simultaneously was a challenge for retail or e-commerce companies. Thanks to omnichannel customer engagement , businesses can now engage customers and deliver a personalized and contextual experience for every interaction. Challenges of Omnichannel Support.

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Multichannel Customer centricity Enterprise Sales 165

Babelforce

APRIL 28, 2020

One-third of customers say that the ability to follow up with the same person is a key element of great customer service. Well over half of customer care executives consider call reduction their top priority. Practically nothing is more valuable than the loyalty of your customers. Outbound service and sales.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Self service Best practices 52

Babelforce

APRIL 28, 2020

One-third of customers say that the ability to follow up with the same person is a key element of great customer service. Well over half of customer care executives consider call reduction their top priority. Practically nothing is more valuable than the loyalty of your customers. Outbound service and sales.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Self service Best practices 52

Stafford Communications

JULY 16, 2020

These are key enablers of any customer care operation. Those are the folks who determine the kind of experience that your customers have. Rather than having one in-person meeting, take advantage of the chance to have individual virtual sessions with the company you are evaluating. Contact us today for more information.

Healthcare 92

Healthcare Contact Center Customer Care Coaching 92

aircall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In an effort to provide top-quality support and integrate seamlessly into the lives of their customers, many companies are tapping into WhatsApp as a support channel. But how can businesses use WhatsApp for customer support? And how can you pair WhatsApp with Aircall’s cloud-based phone solution to provide first-class customer care?

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APIs Wait times Customer Support Chatbots 117