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

Clarabridge

From 2008 to Today, and Back to the 80s: C3 2018 Day 2 Highlights. . Executive Vice Chairman, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Sid Banerjee took us through the inception of the company and how the Clarabridge product suite has evolved to help brands optimize customer data and transform experiences.

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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. When you use plain language across the customer journey, you’re offering better customer service. This all leads to cost savings in your contact center. You’re lowering call volume.

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Happy Employees Happy Customers: How to Stop Preaching About Building a People-First Culture in your Contact Center and Start Doing Something About it

SharpenCX

New research alert: The stats are in – all this talk about “happy employees, happy customers” isn’t fluff. In August, Glassdoor released a decade of research linking employee and customer experience. From 2008 to 2018, they studied the connection between reported employee satisfaction levels and CSAT scores on the ACSI index.