ShepHyken

MAY 5, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Dan Rood, writes about the precious commodity of time and why we must use the latest technologies to help customers save time and have amazing customer experiences. I think a great self-service option is key for everyone. Shep Hyken. Three-quarters of U.S.

Self service 203

Self service APIs Surveys Analytics 203

Noble Systems

JULY 15, 2019

Customer care today remains mostly reactive. Businesses wait for a customer to call into the contact center. The agent asks a series of questions to gather information needed in order to answer the customer’s question or solve their problem. Then we’ll cover why you should care. AI Defined.

Customer Care 70

Customer Care Abandon rate Self service Airlines 70

Callminer

APRIL 30, 2018

During our recent CallMiner and IPI Contact Centre Performance Summit, it became clear that when it comes to getting a great ROI from Interaction (or Speech) Analytics, many businesses struggle to identify the right KPIs for their contact centre and the business. There may be other departments involved too.

Analytics 159

Analytics Self service Sales Customer Care 159

CSM Magazine

MARCH 28, 2025

These tools: Centralize all customer queries for easy management. Offer advanced reporting and analytics for insight into your service teams performance. Automate repetitive customer service tasks, improving efficiency and response times. Provide real-time communication via live chat, phone, or email.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service B2B Chatbots B2C 52

Callminer

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Fortunately, there are valuable tools that can help you gain deeper insights, such as speech analytics , to better leverage your data and boost call center performance. It is the percentage of customer questions that could/should be handled in self-service by the customer. Brian Dooley @Brian_Dooley.

Call Center 561

Call Center Metrics Contact Center Wait times 561

ShepHyken

JUNE 2, 2017

To compound all this, traditional service – which waits until customers called the contact center before addressing a problem – has become much less effective. This helps… but it only adds to the scope and complexity of the service role, and can really blur the lines between business functions like sales and marketing.

Wireless 189

Wireless Banking Analytics Call Center 189

TechSee

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Salesforce predicts a 136% increase from 2019 to 2020 in the number of organizations using AI-powered chatbots, which will continue to be integrated across communication channels to provide seamless real-time customer service on a larger scale than ever before. Analytics will drive hyper-personalized experiences.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Analytics Chatbots Self service 136

TechSee

APRIL 10, 2018

Driven by a need to improve the ever-evolving customer experience at scale, the customer care industry is rapidly moving to more digital, multichannel, self service first, automated service practices. all direct revenue generators.

Call Center 139

Call Center Technology outsourcing Self service 139

Interactions

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Gen AI offers enormous potential for efficiency, knowledge sharing, and analytical insight in the contact center. Many companies are approaching Gen AI cautiously, embarking on use cases that are employee-facing or employee-vetted, rather than presenting generated content directly to customers. Is it an API model?

Contact Center 62

Contact Center APIs Analytics SaaS 62

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The proper first step therefore involves identifying a clear pain point or efficiency gap within the customer engagement journey. As an example, evaluate abandonment within your web self-service channels. No matter where or why they interact, customers should sense the same passion for understanding and resolving their issue.

Abandon rate 253

Abandon rate Journey mapping Average Handle Time Customer centricity 253

BlueOcean

MARCH 11, 2025

By understanding these patterns, we can implement proactive solutions whether that’s adjusting self-service options, modifying agent training, or recommending process changes. Voice analytics helps ensure compliance while maintaining positive customer interactions across both digital and human touchpoints.

Customer Experience 62

Customer Experience Calibration Average Handle Time Metrics 62

Fonolo

JANUARY 17, 2023

Along with huge cost savings, AI will be a tremendous boon to customers longing for better self-service, and agents who need relief from repetitive taskwork. It’s clear that AI’s impact on customer care and CX will be profound. Call analytics. By 2031, the savings could grow to $240 billion.

Contact Center 154

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Chatbots Average Handle Time 154

Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2019

Well, it’s that time once again: We invited some of the top contact center experts from Ada , J Arnold and Associates , The Belding Group , Calzilla , Expivia , and other vibrant CX and CS avenues to offer us and you, our dear readership, their best pieces of advice for contact centers in this increasingly complex customer age.

Contact Center 121

Contact Center Self service Call Center Chatbots 121

TechSee

AUGUST 28, 2018

AI technologies have successfully transformed customer care, using smart automation to provide win-win solutions for both customers and agents. These technologies empower agents with automation capabilities, allowing them to enhance their customer care reach. Customer Self-Service for convenience.

Customer Service 95

Customer Service Self service Interactive Voice Response Customer Care 95

ConvergeOne

AUGUST 31, 2021

Utilities hit the CX trifecta: increased efficiency, effectiveness, and empathy, satisfying the needs of Finance, Operations, and the customer. Utilities, Customer Care, and AI. AI is the cornerstone in many new services used in customer engagement applications, call center service, and digital marketing.

Customer Care 55

Customer Care Personalization Finance Chatbots 55

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Offering self-service materials and guided walkthroughs helps clients get what they need. . After onboarding and orientation, your customers are ready to utilize your SaaS products. NPS: NPS measures how likely a customer is to refer your items to a friend. Onboarding is incomplete without it.

SaaS 185

SaaS Customer Experience B2B Feedback 185

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. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services.

Consulting 62

Consulting Consulting Analytics Marketing 62

TechSee

DECEMBER 5, 2017

This customer-centric focus has resulted in 72% of businesses reporting that their top priority is improving the customer experience, according to Forrester. To accomplish this goal, companies must determine the most efficient, yet affordable, way to give their customer care processes a boost. .

Contact Center 116

Contact Center Technology Self service Call Center 116

ConvergeOne

APRIL 20, 2021

ConvergeOne has worked with this customer for three years, and all their customer experience metrics are pointing in the right direction. They’ve beefed up self-service channels, helping customers navigate the systems themselves. Investments were made in the agents’ environment and tools used to help customers.

Customer Care 48

Customer Care Analytics Self service Contact Center 48

Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

This award honors vendors that have embraced technology as a key tool for customer service excellence and distinguish their success as innovators, thought leaders, and market movers in the contact center and customer care industries. This multi-tenant approach benefits Cisco Contact Center customers in two ways.

Contact Center 116

Contact Center Technology contact center solutions Virtual Agent 116

Vonage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When teams have a 360-degree view of a customer, they in turn have the ability to provide better attention to their customers’ needs.” While the personal connection is great, sometimes all a customer wants is a quick answer.”. Creating a great customer experience requires understanding this one simple reality ….

Self service 122

Self service Sales Accountability Customer retention 122

Fonolo

APRIL 24, 2018

For this report they surveyed customer experience, contact center, marketing, customer care, IT, and operations professionals. Our favorite chart: Customer Service Index Report. Compare, for example with State of Customer Care report we covered here. Who wrote it: Five9. Where to get it: [link].

Contact Center 99

Contact Center Call Center Self service Surveys 99

Natalie Petouhof

JULY 16, 2015

But they do expect companies to care. One way to show they care is by providing better customer care. What this Means to Customers: It’s true in today’s connected world, customers expect to engage and be engaged by brand in ways that are most convenient for them.

Analytics 63

Analytics Customer Service CRM Self service 63

ROI CX Solutions

APRIL 22, 2025

Data-backed decisions will help you manage each agents workload, bridging gaps in service and resolving common issues for a proactive approach to quality customer care. Its also opening up new ways to deliver faster, smarter service at every stage of the customer journey.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Call Center Coaching 52

Fonolo

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The reports on today’s list are focused on more specific topics within the realm of the call center such as agent management, journey mapping and self-service. Methodology: CCW Digital surveyed customer experience, contact center, marketing, customer care, IT, and operations professionals in February and March 2017.

Call Center 117

Call Center Journey mapping Self service Interactive Voice Response 117

JustCall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

For meeting the goal of quality control, speech analytics software examines live or recorded calls and decodes emotional signs. Similar to voice recognition software, speech analytics software analyzes spoken language through artificial intelligence. Give call center agents instructions using call center voice analytics software.

Analytics 52

Analytics Cloud contact Coaching Telecommunications 52

ConvergeOne

APRIL 20, 2021

ConvergeOne has worked with this customer for three years, and all their customer experience metrics are pointing in the right direction. They’ve beefed up self-service channels, helping customers navigate the systems themselves. Investments were made in the agents’ environment and tools used to help customers.

Customer Care 40

Customer Care Analytics Self service Contact Center 40

Tethr

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Now, industry leaders are utilizing speech analytics for insurance to surface insights that help the entire organization achieve goals like reducing customer effort, improving agent enablement, ensuring compliance, and more. Wondering how speech analytics can provide value for your insurance organization?

Analytics 48

Analytics Self service Inbound sales Customer effort 48

COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

This webinar provides a framework for using the multiple types of AI needed to operate the future of customer experience (CX). examine the differences between generative and analytical AI, focusing on the importance of good data and its role in delivering exceptional CX. Nexcom A/S and COPC Inc.

Customer Experience 114

Customer Experience Analytics Technology Average Handle Time 114

HGS

MAY 9, 2018

And this leads to deep brand penetration and retention in customers’ minds. Features like great quality, great customer care, empathy, pride in ownership/use—these all amount to customer delight. In fact, the modern customer demands effortless, do-it-yourself, “over-the-counter” resolution through self-service.

Management 113

Management Brand ambassadors Self service Marketing 113

CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

(Adobe, 2022) 75% of marketing & CX practitioners have observed a surge in existing customers using digital channels (Adobe, 2022) 74% of CX professionals say creating a seamless customer journey across assisted and self-service channels is “important” or “very important.”

Customer Experience 195

Customer Experience Journey mapping Metrics Surveys 195

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2018

With AI, call centers are equipped with a wide range of voice analytics, enabling recognition of customer, accent, gender, and emotion, as well as powering conversational IVRs and voice based virtual assistants. But there is still one missing element that has barred AI from radically transforming the customer experience.

Call Center 84

Call Center Technical Support Contact Center contact center solutions 84

CSM Magazine

MAY 2, 2019

When your customers come to you for answers, they’re most likely visiting your site, since two-thirds of them prefer to first try solving issues on their own. Your website needs to have the tools that enable them to achieve this, with your self-service portal being their first port of call. What your customers care about.

Customer Experience 91

Customer Experience Management Self service Interactive Voice Response 91

Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

In this scenario, it becomes important for call centers to excel at customer service and reduce cost-to-serve without negatively affecting the customer experience. Employ Customer Journey Analytics Customer journey analytics What is Customer Journey Analytics?

First call resolution 75

First call resolution Call Center Self service Analytics 75

Hodusoft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lack of Proactive Customer Engagement Without AI’s predictive analytics, call centers may miss opportunities to engage customers proactively. For example, they may not identify potential issues until customers reach out, leading to a reactive rather than proactive service approach.

Call Center 52

Call Center Customer Service Contact center software Chatbots 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That is why Call center analytics enables you to collect and analyze customer data to prioritize them. The Advantages of Call Center Analytics Call canter analytics provides data such as call duration length, customer satisfaction, and the number of times a consumer contacted you to acquire a resolution.

Analytics 52

Analytics Call Center Big data Contact Center 52

Ansafone

OCTOBER 20, 2017

To understand how your business measures up in this area it’s important to track first call resolution (FCR), average wait time and self-service usage. Understanding these metrics ensures you are satisfying customers quickly and without the need for follow-up.

Interactive Voice Response 91

Interactive Voice Response First call resolution Average Handle Time Contact Center 91