Playvox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Working with virtual teams of agents in your contact center can sometimes mean you feel disconnected from them — or even worried that you aren’t able to properly manage their performance. Agents who felt their contact centers were handling remote work well told us they appreciated: Clear expectations.

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Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 24, 2021

Video Outperforms All Other Contact Center Communications Channels. With digital transformation accelerating across all industries, companies are now leveraging video-based capabilities to transform their customer experience (CX). With the realities resulting from Covid-19, video has become the most e?ective

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Taylor Reach Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The path to contact center modernization has never been straightforward when it comes to its navigating technology infrastructure. Costly,” “crowded,” and “confusing” are how business owners typically describe the process of selecting the right platforms to power their center. Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

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Playvox

AUGUST 15, 2022

Contact centers succeed or fail on agent performance. Today’s top-performing contact center leaders know remote workforce training and agent engagement are the new imperatives for performance optimization. Recent research by Playvox sheds new light on the state of contact center remote work.

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Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 9, 2021

Organizations can’t engage with customers the way they previously did, while still respecting and guaranteeing their privacy! Well, maybe that’s not an accurate statement.

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Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your contact center is planning for the future, be sure to make employee experience and getting the right technology in place top priorities. We recently participated in a discussion with two industry experts that focused on megatrends that will impact contact centers in 2022. Technology always needs focus.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. In our 2022 study of customer support agents and managers, 68% of agent respondents said they didn’t want to return to an office. Leanne Y.,

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is especially true for contact center and customer service professionals – after all, customer behavior is constantly shifting, and it’s critical for businesses to meet their expectations. Fortunately, e-learning has made call center management courses more accessible than ever.

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Aspect

JULY 15, 2020

Contact centers, like most business, have had to find solutions to provide their essential service from somewhere other than densely populated offices where COVID – 19 might spread. Some organizations even resorted to agents using their personal cell phones as tools of customer service.

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Top 10 Contact Center Software for 2022-2023. Before the advent of contact center software, customer service representatives would handle all customer requests and complaints through telephone calls. That transformed call centers into contact centers. RingCentral.

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Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

It involves adding elements of games (think of the best video games or apps) to non-game activities such as working and delivering customer support. In a contact center setting, this can mean badges, a point system, and moving up to the next level when agents perform well. Adding game-like elements is one way.

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Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

While many in the contact center industry are slow to transition away from on-premise software, cloud adoption shows no signs of slowing. In the last year, contact center teams that have embraced cloud-based solutions have learned some important lessons. Customer Chit-Chat. billion in 2020. There were around 6.4

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DMG Consulting

MAY 6, 2022

The Cloud Contact Center Land Grab Is On. THE contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS) vendors have hit their stride by giving enterprises what they want—the ability to meet the dynamic omnichannel needs of their customers on an inbound and outbound basis. The future of contact center technology is in the cloud.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call4You Marketing implemented NobelBiz Omni+, an advanced, full-featured cloud contact center solution equipped with an impressive stack of options and features that can be easily integrated, customized, and optimized to any contact center use case. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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Aspect

JANUARY 3, 2018

If your contact center is not already thinking seriously about the cloud, there might be a lesson to be taken from other soft ware users. What’s the view of cloud software in the contact center at ground level? Of the remaining contact centers that are completely on-premises, 58% will move to the cloud by 2020.

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Enghouse Interactive

MAY 27, 2021

Organizations can’t engage with customers the way they previously did, while still respecting and guaranteeing their privacy! Well, maybe that’s not an accurate statement.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 23, 2022

Running a successful contact center means you’re responsible for keeping customers happy and your agents performing effectively so that your company may thrive. And generating an ROI on your contact center to increase your company’s bottom line is part of that growth strategy. Actually, no, it’s not that simple!

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Contact Center Solutions. Delivered from the cloud “as a Service”… enables you to use these capabilities together across your organization as required, with the maximum amount of operational flexibility and security possible. Metrigy Research: Q3, 2021: UC, Contact Center Integration Drives Business Value.

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Serenova

OCTOBER 24, 2019

We frequently write about customer experience as a key competitive differentiator. In fact, according to industry data—and anecdotal evidence from the contact center leaders we talk to every day—consumer expectations and the service levels they demand are only increasing. Amazon Flushes Customer Service Down the Toilet.

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MiaRec

JANUARY 15, 2024

Our mission remains unchanged: to empower agents and supervisors, enabling them to deliver exceptional customer service. In 2024, we're set to introduce a range of exciting updates that will revolutionize the way contact centers operate. Curious to learn more?

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Customer service leaders come in all shapes and sizes. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Top 51 Customer Service Leaders and CX Influencers (Editor’s Choice): Adam Toporek.

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Enghouse Interactive

MAY 25, 2020

Best Practices for Securing Video Calls. Video helps maintain relationships in ways that no other type of communication can. We’ve compiled some of the best practices for your organization to consider when using video-conferencing. Resource: Video Conference Security – Basic Checklist. Recommended Best Practices.

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Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 13, 2021

AI, Teams UC and Video. . Customer First” drives success. Customer service has become the top business priority. will have extended Teams to their contact center for voice and 31.1% Video enablement: either use internally to manage remote agents, or externally for communications with customers.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 29, 2021

Who hasn’t heard “This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes”? As a normal order of business, most contact center calls, whether inbound or outbound (via proactive dialer or manually dialed), should now be recorded. AI is rapidly being applied in all areas of the contact center.

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Serenova

AUGUST 11, 2020

Businesses face ever-increasing expectations and the burden of an ever-growing volume and breadth of customer inquiries, which range from order status updates to product support to billing and more. This has further extended the role of the contact center agent and created new complexity for agents. What is a Call Center Agent?

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Brad Cleveland Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Customer service involves many variables. In this video, we’re going to look at customer service as a process. We’ll see where quality standards fit, and why improving processes is where you’ll make substantial progress. Your quality standards set the mark.

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Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes . In our last blog , we explored how successful companies outperform customer expectations by leveraging video – a communications channel that customers have come to prefer.

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Enghouse Interactive

APRIL 13, 2021

Organizations traditionally invested in their contact center infrastructure, as a standalone premise-based solution, with a view to the long term… that usually meant that they would sweat those assets over a 10-15 year lifecycle. So, how is this relevant to an organization that has an on-premise contact center?

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Serenova

OCTOBER 7, 2020

At the outset of the pandemic, as families rushed to stock up on toilet-paper and canned goods, contact center leaders were scrambling to transition customer service agents to remote status. Now as many as 80 percent of call center agents are currently working from home. Provide continuous, individual feedback.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 9, 2021

Remote work can be great, but as a manager, managing remote teams is also a new stressor for many. How do you make sure your customer service agents stay engaged? Let’s look at some practical strategies and helpful resources to make managing your remote teams simpler and more productive. Recognize good work.

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Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes. With the pandemic having forced organizations to increase deployments of remote agents, video has become a baseline communications channel. Here’s how to do the right thing, right now.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Contact Center Solutions. Delivered from the cloud “as a Service”…enabling you to use these capabilities together across your organization as required, with the maximum amount of operational flexibility and security possible. Single-Sourced. Always Available. Unified Communications. Because your organization needs to.

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JustCall

APRIL 5, 2023

Talkdesk often comes up as a worthy VoIP alternative, all thanks to its robust artificial intelligence (AI)-powered contact center tools. JustCall Overview JustCall is a VoIP business phone system and contact center software. However, an opaque pricing process and lack of flexibility can make users skeptical.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Video commerce. One of the ways retailers are getting creative with online commerce is through video. Since associates can’t be with customers “IRL” during the pandemic, they’ve turned to digital channels to communicate. As a result, contact centers have emerged as a critical engagement channel in the customer journey.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In this video, I summarize three tools that we often recommend for their usefulness in customer service settings. This video is from … The post Root Cause Analysis in Customer Service first appeared on Brad Cleveland. Typically, several possibilities surface and they all seem plausible.

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