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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

Fonolo

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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Proactively prepare your contact center for Black Friday.

Spearline

With the built-up excitement for Black Friday about to be unleashed at the end of the week across all retail stores and websites, it’s another sector that can easily get affected and should be prepared for the increase in traffic: Contact Centers. increase since the financial crisis in 2008. billion, a 4.3%

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Why Your Contact Center's Success Depends on Conversational Automation in 2021 (Replay)

Speaker: Derek Roberti, VP Technology, Cognigy

Since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, there has been pressure on all departments to reduce costs, streamline operations, slash headcounts, and become more efficient. Is AI about to take over contact centers entirely? Impact contact center metrics, KPIs, and insights. This is where AI comes into play.

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Contact Centers Can Thrive in the Worker Shortage

SmartAction

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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Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our March 2017 Issue

Contact Center Pipeline

This all started 8 years ago… in March 2008. It was a 24-page issue. We had 3 sponsors… and not many more subscribers than that!! We built a Web site with no content and a database with no subscribers. Shucks… we had more people on our team than we did subscribers! You know the one […].