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The Future of Contact Centers is Enriching Human Interactions. Are You Prepared?

Beyond Philosophy

The contact center at many organizations doesn’t get the strategic consideration it deserves. My former contact center team at British Telecom seemed to be viewed primarily as a cost center, a necessary expense. However, the contact center should have been valued.

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

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Declaring Victory in the War on Contact Center Agent Performance

CX Global Media

Whether you’re fighting the battle to stop eating that dessert you love that’s bad for you, or you continuously battle a war with contact center agent performance, it’s time for you to enjoy the sweet taste of victory. In more than twenty years in the contact center industry, improving agent performance has always been a major focus.

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The Making of a Contact Center Superagent

Contact Center Pipeline

The universal agent is certainly not a new concept for contact centers. Next-available agent routing models have long relied on the use of experienced agents who have been cross-trained to handle a wide variety of call types, from technical support to billing to sales.

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The Top 3 Ways to Forecast for Your Contact Center

Forecasting is no easy task. It can be difficult to schedule the right amount of agents at the right time. Download our ebook to learn how to reduce overstaffing and understaffing, lower customer wait times and improve the customer experience with proper forecasting.

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24 Experts Reveal the Single Worst Thing a Contact Center Agent Can Do During a Call

Callminer

Talking to customers on the phone all day isn’t an easy job; that’s why it takes a special set of skills and characteristics to be a successful contact center agent. If you’re looking for ways to boost your agents’ performance, check out our white paper, Using Gamification to Improve Contact Center Performance.

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Guest Post: 4 Ways to Generate Revenue From Your Contact Center This Holiday Season

ShepHyken

Learn how to best prepare your contact center for the holiday season. As the holidays fast approach, many companies are starting to think about how to maximize efficiency within their contact centers. That way you motivate your agents to try to make the sale, rather than just resolve an issue.

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Linking & Networking for a Better Agent Experience

Speaker: Jeremy Watkin, Director of Customer Experience at FCR

If you're a contact center leader you've undoubtedly been inundated with sales people trying to get you to hop on the chatbot bandwagon. But is this the best place to burn our operational calories?

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Executive Report: The Customer Data Too Often Overlooked by the C-Suite

A recent Calabrio research study of more than 1,000 C-Suite executives has revealed leaders are missing a key data stream – voice of the customer data. Download the report to learn how executives can find and use VoC data to make more informed business decisions.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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Top Industry Secrets for Successful Contact Center Scripting

Speaker: Colin Taylor, CEO & Chief Chaos Officer at The Taylor Reach Group, Inc

Scripts have been around as long as contact centers. They attempt to set out an ‘ideal’ path to success on the call, whether that's a sale, a resolved inquiry, or a closed case. But scripts have had a variety of issues. In some cases, legal requirements mandated that scripts be read verbatim, word for word.

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Turning Your Contact Center into a Profit Center by Leveraging Chat

Speaker: Tony Medrano, CEO of RapportBoost.ai

Live chat as a communication channel has significantly grown in recent years as the leading digital contact method, according to J.D Join Tony Medrano, CEO of RapportBoost.ai

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The 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index

Building a successful CX program requires teams to share data seamlessly across multiple functions, including support services, contact center, marketing, and sales. The Value Index is an assessment of how well vendors address buyers’ requirements for CX software and incorporates all criteria.