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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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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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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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Show and Sell: 3 Ways Customer Service can be Used as an Effective Marketing Tool

Fonolo

Customer service is often not seen as the effective marketing tool that it is. It’s no surprise: on the surface, the two departments and their goals seem distinct from one another: Marketing is all about customer acquisition (or, attracting new customers), while customer service is all about customer retention.

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What Happens to Customer Service When Unemployment Hits Historic Lows?

BlueOcean

US unemployment rate as fantastic news – it’s an astronomical improvement over the 10% unemployment rate after the 2008-09 Great Recession. But there’s a hitch for folks who are tasked with hiring, especially those hiring for contact center teams: when more people are working, there are fewer active job seekers.

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Customer Service Fast Facts

TMP Direct

Customer Service Fast Facts. Loss of customer loyalty: “Contact centers leave 18% of customers with unresolved issues. More than half of customers with unresolved issues (56%) are at risk of defection, or have already decided to leave.” customers with unresolved issues indicate the same.