BlueOcean

MARCH 19, 2024

On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about the process of sourcing a strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. The Importance of a Smooth Transition in Your Outsourced Customer Care Transitioning your outsourced customer care program from one partner to another is a complex undertaking.

outsourcing 71

outsourcing Customer Care Best practices Management 71

Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2018

It’s going to be a big year in the world of contact center and in customer service technology. Will this be the year that messaging platforms from Facebook, Apple and others reach critical mass as a channel for customer service? We’re delighted that so many of you subscribe to this blog or visit us every week.

Contact Center 141

Contact Center Chatbots Finance Healthcare 141

Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Which customer service blog posts helped to shape the last decade for you? . When we look back at the customer support industry in 2010, we see a very different beast to the one we work in today. Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020. Customer Think.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Call Center 136

AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As per the Forrester report, The State Of Customer Obsession, 2022 , being customer-first can make a sizable impact on an organization’s balance sheet, as organizations embracing this methodology are surpassing their peers in revenue growth. Refer to Supported Regions to learn more.

Contact Center 87

Contact Center Scripts Interactive Voice Response contact center solutions 87

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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Contact Center Technology contact center solutions Virtual Agent 124

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.

Customer Care 98

Customer Care Customer centricity Contact Center Chatbots 98

BlueOcean

MARCH 19, 2024

On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about the process of sourcing a strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. The Importance of a Smooth Transition in Your Outsourced Customer Care Transitioning your outsourced customer care program from one partner to another is a complex undertaking.

outsourcing 62

outsourcing Customer Care Best practices Management 62

Call Experts

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations.

Contact Center 105

Contact Center Call Center outsourcing contact center solutions 105

Cisco - Contact Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

I would like to share some thoughts pulled together in discussions with developers, customer care system integrators and experts, along one of the many possible journeys to unleash all the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into a modern customer care architecture. ” AI in the Contact Center.

Contact Center 94

Contact Center Customer Care Engineering Telemarketing 94

BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Talk of ChatGPT is everywhere from your LinkedIn feed to the evening news to, yes, this blog. Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. Can AI Handle Complex Customer Care? So let’s get into it.

Contact Center 62

Contact Center Customer Experience Chatbots Customer Care 62

Blueship Call Center

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll go through its advantages and advise on how to outsource customer care services flawlessly. Next, we’ll discuss how to choose the best outsourcing partner before highlighting top-notch customer service outsourcing firms. However, the issue stems from the internal employees that handle customer care.

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outsourcing Customer Care Average Handle Time Call Center 57

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Christopher Connolly is the vice president of solution strategy for Genesys , the global leader in omnichannel customer experience and contact center solutions. The post Guest Blog: Assistive AI for Real Work appeared first on Shep Hyken.

Enterprise 219

Enterprise Engineering APIs contact center solutions 219

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 20, 2019

This week we feature an article by Sabio who explains why developing a customer experience strategy is essential for your business to improve its bottom line. Developing a customer experience (CX) strategy for your business has never been more important. As a consumer, how do you feel when you receive a poor customer experience?

Customer Experience 207

Customer Experience Customer retention Analytics Contact Center 207

Cisco - Contact Center

JUNE 29, 2020

How can an organization design the contact center of the future to keep pace with increasing customer-centric demands? And how do you best serve customers, no matter the current state of the world or where contact center agents are located? Learn more about Cisco Contact Center Advisory Services.

Contact Center 98

Contact Center Call flow Enterprise Customer centricity 98

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Actual customer contact agents, however, prioritize something else: the effort required to perform their work. Agents obviously value bright contact centers and great salaries, but their daily happiness hinges far more greatly on systems and processes. Are the tools easy to use? It Had Better Be!

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Abandon rate Journey mapping Average Handle Time Customer centricity 244

Contact Center Pipeline

MAY 28, 2021

The Pipeline blog also welcomed a steady stream of contact center professionals interested in trends and instructional content for navigating the months ahead as vaccinations continue to rise, businesses restaff and leaders plan for post-COVID customer care operations.

Contact Center 162

Contact Center Customer Care Customer centricity Call Center 162

Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Call Center outsourcing contact center solutions 52

ShepHyken

APRIL 28, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Murph Krajewski, writes about the importance of a single customer view when it comes to serving your customers. This will help lead you to forming important relationship with your customer. – Shep Hyken. Customer service needs customer data.

Customer Service 230

Customer Service Contact Center Technology Big data 230

Avaya

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Sheila McGee-Smith is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant with a proven track record in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for customer care solutions and services. The post Why Artificial Intelligence Now—and Why in Customer Care?

Customer Care 94

Customer Care Government Contact Center Healthcare 94

Real Blue Sky

MARCH 6, 2023

There are many reasons to consider whether to outsource your contact center. Before the internet, customer service was typically limited to a brick-and-mortar storefront, letter-writing, or a phone call to customer service. Thankfully, this perspective on the contact center has shifted significantly.

outsourcing 52

outsourcing Contact Center Real estate Business Process Outsourcing 52

Real Blue Sky

MARCH 6, 2023

There are many reasons to consider whether to outsource your contact center. Before the internet, customer service was typically limited to a brick-and-mortar storefront, letter-writing, or a phone call to customer service. Thankfully, this perspective on the contact center has shifted significantly.

outsourcing 52

outsourcing Contact Center Real estate Business Process Outsourcing 52

Aspect

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The modern contact center must be highly attuned to the emerging technologies that drive customer satisfaction today. By making strides to be an early adapter to emerging technologies, you set your contact center apart from the competition and put yourself in a position to continue exceeding your customers’ needs.

Contact Center 141

Contact Center Chatbots contact center solutions Interactive Voice Response 141

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.

Contact Center 147

Contact Center Enterprise Customer Care Analytics 147

Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contact centers play a vital role in today’s modern businesses. They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Contact center software Self service 52

ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2018

Yura Filimonov is captivated by the potential of AI technology and he wrote a pragmatic guide to using AI in contact centers. He’s a Marketing Manager for customer engagement software, RichCall. Read Shep’s latest Forbes Articles: Cutting-Edge CX Lessons From A Surgery Center.

Self service 186

Self service Chatbots Personalization Interactive Voice Response 186

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Over the years, brands have experimented with a variety of methods to most effectively serve their customers. From contact centers to email marketing campaigns, we’ve seen it all. But when it comes to reaching your customers at exact moments on the precise channel, email and voice have failed to meet customer expectations.

Customer Service 212

Customer Service Customer centricity Enterprise Personalization 212

Blueship Call Center

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

You can achieve that aim without investing valuable time or money by choosing outsourced customer care services. Companies realize that a significant differentiation in today’s market is the excellent customer experience, which is why outsourced customer care services are becoming increasingly popular.

Customer Care 40

Customer Care outsourcing Brand ambassadors Technical Support 40

Aspect

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The role of the contact center has never been more critical to the overall success of your business strategy than it is today. With families displaced, homes destroyed and sadly, lives lost, the disruption of communications has been offset by some contact centers stepping up to become hubs of information.

Contact Center 147

Contact Center Call Center Government contact center solutions 147

Skybridge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As a consumer, I know how I feel when I have to reach out to customer care. But what happens to that short-fused customer who isn’t so lucky? Does your customer care team have the resources to meet the demands of today’s easily agitated customers? contact-form-7]. The long hold times. What’s working?

Customer Care 52

Customer Care Customer centricity Self service Contact Center 52

ShepHyken

JULY 15, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Tom Hoffman shares a personal story that translates into a great lesson for the customer experience. We must always be looking for new and different ways to improve upon the customer experience. Shep Hyken.

Customer Experience 198

Customer Experience Journey mapping Feedback Surveys 198

NICE inContact

JANUARY 24, 2018

So many companies are enjoying the benefits of having moved their contact centers to the cloud over the past few years. Often companies started with a small deployment in one department and gradually grew that implementation to encompass all the contact center applications in the business. Digital Transformation.

Customer Care 74

Customer Care Cloud contact APIs Contact Center 74

Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There are a lot of smart — very smart — individuals managing and directing Call and Contact Centers today. This is my top ten list of really dumb things that smart call and contact center executives do. Contact Center staff is one of the most expensive and important assets within the Contact Center.

Contact Center 111

Contact Center Average Handle Time At home agents First call resolution 111

COPC

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These changes were highlighted during the Optimizing Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop that COPC Inc. hosted as part of this fall’s Execs In The Know’s Customer Response Summit. The outsourcing contact center market is becoming more competitive. WFH Insights.

outsourcing 52

outsourcing Contact Center Journey mapping Best practices 52

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) completely transform the consumer experience and bring contact center software out of the dark ages? It’s not surprising that many contact center leaders feel a little unsure of when, where or why to implement AI in their call center operations.

Customer Care 55

Customer Care Contact center software call center software Benchmark 55

Upstream Works

MARCH 26, 2020

The rationale here for use in the business is clear, but the same tools used for collaboration also has newfound utility in the contact center. This is especially true for video and co-browse customer care solutions. Learn more and see it in action: www.upstreamworks.com/demo.

Customer Care 78

Customer Care Healthcare Banking Finance 78

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 Self service Abandon rate Airlines 70

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. How do we use that data to improve the customer experience?

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Metrics Customer Care Average Handle Time outsourcing 87