Contact Center Pipeline

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Contact centers often see ebbs and flows. 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.

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TCN

DECEMBER 4, 2024

While customer service is an integral part of any contact center, for those in the financial sector who handle sensitive financial information, it directly impacts customer trust, loyalty and your overall business outcomes. In short, the customer experiences you provide can make or break your operations.

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CX Global Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

For many, managing morale and employee engagement in a contact center is a complete mystery. Regardless of how lost you feel now, join Joachim “Joe” Rogers, Senior Director of Customer Care Center for Coca-Cola Bottling Co. The Leadership style that drives contact center success. Seminar Leaders.

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CCNG

AUGUST 21, 2020

During a recent member town hall Pam Plyler of The Northridge Group led a discussion around the changes and successes contact center leaders have shared with her as they decide how to return to customer support operations.

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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. We will continue to update this contact-center-centric resource as new information becomes available.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 24, 2025

When outsourcing customer support whether for the first time or the fifth time your company’s relationship with the contact center is understandably complex. The contact center SOW is the framework for your relationship. Thats where a formal Statement of Work (SOW) comes into play.

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CCNG

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Every contact center or customer experience leader comes to that fork in the road where you have to conduct a self-assessment with that perennial question “How good are we?” The whole discipline of customer experience and contact centers have evolved dramatically over the past 10 years. Where do you start?

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Global Response

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This article will explore the benefits of omnichannel outsourcing and how to effectively communicate with customers across various channels in an omnichannel contact center and adapt to their changing preferences. Beyond in-store experiences, many brands and businesses also began offering support call centers.

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Bill Quiseng

MAY 29, 2024

Corporate executives and CX influencers have traditionally advocated their business jargon, and their employees and customers have subserviently understood and followed them. For example, business leaders have defined contact centers when customers “contact” them to ask a question or have a problem with a product or service.

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CCNG

MARCH 12, 2025

The last thing they want is for your agent to be scrolling through a never-ending document or searching through 10 articles to find the right answer or walking through a 20 page process to complete a customer interaction. Yet, many contact center agents face a huge challenge that slows them down – knowledge overload.

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CCNG

MARCH 21, 2025

And not just because a handful of customers are absolute nightmares or because customer service pay is consistently lower than pretty much every other department. No, the real kicker is that the very structure of contact center work is engineeredalmost comicallyto induce maximum misery.

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CCNG

MAY 27, 2021

Contact Center Leaders are continually being pushed to improve processes, decrease cost, increase customer satisfaction, and improve sales or metrics. Understanding the best path to follow, with the fluidity of the contact center industry, can be a daunting task.

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CX Global Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Service innovation has for years been a central part of my consulting practice, especially those industries with excessive customer contact: hotels, banks, hospitals, retail stores and call centers. If the innovation spotlight was put on a call or contact center, what would be the outcome. Please Share.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JULY 22, 2021

Many companies are “pretty much kind of OK-ish” at responding to customers’ questions or complaints in social media. They do respond to customers’ social posts, and they reply pretty quickly. Some companies are doing darn well at digital customer care. A few are good. A handful are excellent.

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Fonolo

MARCH 16, 2023

Your contact center may run like clockwork, with engaged agents answering calls quickly, solving problems, and creating satisfied customers in record time. But without the contact center KPIs and metrics that managers use to measure the effectiveness of their operations, you’d never know for sure. KPIs matter.

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CCNG

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Jason Mercer-Pottinger was given a seemingly impossible task; take over a Tier 1 contact center from a 3rd-party BPO with no trainers, no supervisors, and no experienced agents while at the same time decreasing costs and improving quality. One hundred and twenty days later they had a perfect switchover with no negative customer impact.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 10, 2021

No matter how great your product or service is, the success of your contact center largely depends on the customer service you provide. Ultimately, if customers don’t have a good experience, they’re likely not going to call back. The Secret Sauce for Increasing Customer Happiness. Your best plan of action?

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 19, 2022

Customer care is vital to any brand’s continued success—and its ability to provide this support service directly impacts both customer satisfaction and loyalty. That’s why contact centers need to […].

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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?

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Contact Center Pipeline

AUGUST 6, 2019

Are your contact center agents increasingly late for work or calling in sick? Are quality and productivity declining while error rates and customer complaints escalate? Do bad moods and negativity dominate the contact center? If this is happening, your culprit may be BURNOUT.

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CCNG

JANUARY 1, 2025

This post was submitted by Lorne Wood , a CCNG member who helps fellow members and leaders revolutionize their contact center operations with expert recommendations and transformative solutions.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 17, 2023

If there’s one thing managers need to understand about digital transformation, it’s how artificial intelligence is changing CX in the contact center. Gartner reports that AI chatbots alone can save the contact center industry up to $80 billion in annual labor costs by 2026. What Do Customers Value in CX?

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The Northridge Group

OCTOBER 20, 2021

With companies across nearly every industry scrambling to create exciting “digital first” customer experiences , it’s easy to imagine that human associates in traditional customer service contact centers could be left behind. Contact centers must respond to this new reality by helping their associates “skill up.”

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The Interview with Sam Lessin: The world is becoming more customer-centric, but not every company is keeping up. There must be more training and coaching present within contact centers and customer-facing roles. Customers now expect companies to be as easy to reach as their friends are. Measurement is everything.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

Cisco Webex Contact Center CCaaS honored for improving customer service technology and customer experience. I’m excited to announce that Webex Contact Center was among the 2020 Contact Center Technology Award winners, presented by CUSTOMER Magazine this month. Cloud Agility.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

ROI’s on the Prize: Twitter Links Social Customer Care and Willingness to Pay by Lia Winograd. When a customer tweets to a company and receives a response, the customer is willing to spend 3-20% more. Where Customer Service is Failing: Top Priorities For Your Contact Center [Research] by Sharpen.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Adapting to a shifting market means making changes to agent engagement processes , team cooperation, agent training and more, while maintaining a positive customer experience. “Call centers can leverage several autonomous and semi-autonomous AI functions to streamline internal processes. Technological Trends. AI is here to stay.

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Vcaretec

JUNE 6, 2022

When it comes to customer care across major industries, like Retail & E-Commerce, Wireless & Telecommunications, and Healthcare, there are plenty of smart minds out there. As a leader in outsourced customer service solutions, the customer care specialists at Vcare voted on fifty of the top thought leaders in our space.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Using AI to Guide Employees Toward Better Customer Care. They discuss the need for more awareness and empathy among customer service agents and how AI and technology can provide that. > When used correctly to support customer service representatives and call center agents, it can help humans be “more human.”.

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 30, 2024

In this model, where you pay only for the contacts handled, the responsibility to manage efficiency and productivity lies with your outsourced partner. When you operate an in-house contact center, you are responsible for 100% of an agent hour: the employee’s hourly wage, and all associated benefits and taxes, are your responsibility.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This has become critical for organizations to focus on, as 9 in 10 businesses say they’re competing primarily on the basis of customer experience. With all the recent advancements in technology, AI can provide more insights and support to the customer service world than ever before. It allows for exceptional customer care.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. When Customer Care Isn’t Enough, Call the Customer Delight Brigade by Katie Deighton. CX Best Practices: Learning from AWS Contact Center Day by Sébastien Stormacq. (No

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24-7 InTouch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Winnipeg, MB – February 13, 2024 – IntouchCX has announced today the acquisition of Beliveo, a leading nearshore contact center and business processing outsourcer (BPO) in Mexico.

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Hello Customer

MAY 19, 2021

Organizations have multiple touchpoints which define their level of customer centricity. We think of touchpoints such as digital channels and salespeople, but many often forget the one that is perhaps the most important, the contact center. Yet, these centers often don’t get the attention and recognition they deserve.

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Vcaretec

AUGUST 8, 2023

However, good customer support outsourcing won't sacrifice quality and may, in many cases, enhance your service. In this post, we'll look at the top 10 factors to consider when picking a customer care outsourcing provider. Providing excellent customer service reflects well on your company.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 28, 2019

While an excellent concept for customers, it is also appropriate for the colleagues you work with. Social media customer care best when humans and bots are at play by Tara Jones. Retail Customer Experience) Here are five considerations for a mindfully sound social care strategy. ” Download it today!

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