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Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our March 2021 Issue

Contact Center Pipeline

Contact Center Pipeline started 12 years ago, 145 issues ago… in March 2008. We had less than a handful of sponsors… and not any more subscribers than that! We built a website with no content and a database with no subscribers. Shucks… we had more people on our team than we did subscribers! But, we […].

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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

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After assessing how the pandemic had changed the call center in 2020 , we decided to peek over the parapet at 2021. We asked the contact center industry’s top influencers and business leaders what they thought the most significant contact center trends in 2021 would be. Contact Center Trends 2021.

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Meet Human Numbers: Our July 2020 Sponsor Wall of Fame Honoree

Contact Center Pipeline

Contact Center Pipeline’s SPONSOR WALL OF FAME Company name: Human Numbers CEO/Founder: Tiffany LaReau, Certified Workforce Manager & Owner When founded: 2008 Describe your company: We create forecasts, generate schedules and develop staffing models for all kinds of contact centers.

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Contact Centers Can Thrive in the Worker Shortage

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The decline continued but stabilized around 2004 until the Great Recession of 2008 hit, which severely affected the labor participation rate. How does conversational AI automation for the contact center fit into solving the issue of not having enough workers for all the demand? It dropped to 63% until it normalized around 2013.

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From 2008 to Today, and Back to the 80s: C3 2018 Day 2 Highlights

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From 2008 to Today, and Back to the 80s: C3 2018 Day 2 Highlights. . that a customer calls to tell you how great your product or service is, right? The post From 2008 to Today, and Back to the 80s: C3 2018 Day 2 Highlights appeared first on Clarabridge.

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Why the Biggest Contact Centers Have the Least Effective Call Scripts

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Call scripts are used in contact centers of all shapes and sizes — across the industry, they are considered an easy way to help ensure all of a contact center’s agents are driving calls to the same goals. These challenges, among others, lead to unique scripting issues at larger contact centers.

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Using Plain Language & Personalization in the Contact Center for Better CX

NICE inContact

It’s plain and simple, using plain language in customer interactions is good business for your contact center. You’re achieving higher first-call resolution (FCR) rates. You’re lowering call volume. This all leads to cost savings in your contact center.