NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Hiring remote workers can be a competitive advantage for companies, especially contact centers. But there are a lot of misconceptions about remote workers and how they impact a contact center’s productivity and culture. Companies that offer a remote work program report 63% less unscheduled absences ( PGI, 2013 ).

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In the second episode, Building Continuous CX Improvements in Your Contact Center, Nate Brown, co-founder of CX Accelerator, shared his expertise regarding how to build an all-star contact center. Depending on your customers and what their journey looks like, other data points will be needed to supplement.

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Contact Center Metrics SaaS Customer effort 48

Win the Customer

MARCH 20, 2017

The cost of poor customer service is going up, rising from $41 billion lost in 2013 to $62 billion in 2015 , according to research reported by NewVoiceMedia. Independent retailers are in a unique position to really set themselves apart from big corporations with the special touches they add to customer experience.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 18, 2022

Your customer service should be accessible to everyone. But contact center accessibility doesn’t just help people with disabilities—it helps every customer. Contact center accessibility depends on two main factors: commitment and call center tech. What is Contact Center Accessibility?

Interactive Voice Response 87

Interactive Voice Response Contact Center Call Center Wait times 87

Aspect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

While this turned into an irritating situation for my kids, this same concept behind browser cookies can be a pplied to the contact center to improve the customer experience. Consider a study from late 2013 showed that 89% of consumers say they are annoyed when they have to repeat themselves about the same issue.

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Interactive Voice Response Self service Contact Center Marketing 179

Eptica

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 The widening UK customer experience gap. The rise of social media and increasingly demanding customers has changed all of this. The balance of power has changed – your brand is what your customers say it is, rather than how you define it within your organization. These are: 1.

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Talkdesk

JULY 17, 2019

Indie Campers, one of Europe’s largest campervan rental companies, eliminates any of those comfort issues and offers the freedom and flexibility to create your own ultimate road trip experience. Starting off in 2013 as a 3 van rental company, Indie Campers has grown to a fleet of over 650 vehicles.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

oz contact centers are sometimes too efficient for their own good leading to poor customer service and high agent attrition rates. Running a contact center takes me back to my school days and Aesop’s Fable of the ‘Tortoise and the Hare’. With customer-centric success criteria in place, turn to innovative workforce.

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COPC

APRIL 19, 2022

Twenty director and supervisor-level Express International employees completed COPC® Contact Center Management training.?? . The individual-level COPC Contact Center Management training improves customer experience operations based on the ? has helped transform operations supporting customer experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 15, 2019

This oft-quoted line from Peter Drucker is more pertinent today than ever concerning Customer Experience strategy. Every marketer should measure their performance in Customer Experience to understand what drives value for customers. . We discussed measuring Customer Experience correctly in a recent podcast.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 11, 2022

What is call center management? It’s exactly as it sounds — the daily management and care of a call center and all the employees who work there. Contact center managers have an incredibly important and robust role. They pave the way for the success of their call center agents, and by extension, the rest of the business.

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Vcaretec

JUNE 6, 2022

Customer Care & Contact Center Influencers Mike Aoki Bio: Contact center expert and trainer for Agents (customer service, dealing with "irates," sales skills) and Managers (coaching, presentation skills). Customer Service, Customer Experience, CRM Cloud. corporations.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Figures from Ofgem have revealed that the average number of complaints received by the leading utility companies per 100,000 customer accounts had decreased from 3,510 in Q1 2013 to 2,233 in Q1 2018, but the average number of complaints resolved by the suppliers by end of the next working day dropped from 81 percent to 60 percent in the same period.

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Telecommunications Customer advocacy Chatbots Accountability 221

Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 9, 2020

Everybody wants to improve the Customer Experience (CX) they provide, right? What’s the cost to your organization if nearly three quarters of your customers go elsewhere? In my contact centers, I’ve also offered a graffiti-style feedback system that I’ve written about before ( Taylor Reach Blog ). By Peg Ayers.

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CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Less than half of CX execs trust their company's ability to deliver great experiences. Here are over 100 customer experience stats and trends for you to discover. 99% of Customer Experience and Success leaders believe CEM has a positive impact on their business. Only 8% of their customers agreed.

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Contact Center Geek

JANUARY 14, 2016

A fellow Nor Cal Contact Center Association steering committee member recently recommended the book "The Effortless Experience" by Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman and Rick DeLisi. If you work in a call center, or provide service to customers, this is a must read. and your customer responded with, "I don't know.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 22, 2020

Over the years, innovators have filed applications for nearly 340,000 AI-related inventions, with half of them having been published since 2013. The rapid expansion and impact of AI is well underway across all industries globally, and Talkdesk ® is leading the charge within the contact center industry. Want to know more?

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 24, 2018

So many companies are enjoying the benefits of having moved their contact centers to the cloud over the past few years. Often companies started with a small deployment in one department and gradually grew that implementation to encompass all the contact center applications in the business. So, what comes next?

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 21, 2019

As far back as 2013, Forbes was publishing articles like, 5 Ways Email Makes Your Employees Miserable and How To Get Rid Of Email In Your Company. And yet, it turns out customers like. What is surprising is the number of companies that I work with that are only routing voice interactions via their contact center solution.

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contact center solutions Contact Center Morale Benchmark 54

Insite Managed Solutions

MAY 23, 2013

Top 10 Technological Contact Center Trends Cloud: Cloud-based infrastructure is the fastest growing area in the call center industry, which DMG predicts will almost double between 2013 and 2015. Turning a Contact Center into a Profit Center. 3 Ways Call Center Supervisors Can Reduce Costs.

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Serenova

JANUARY 22, 2020

We’re joining 550 industry professionals to map out a year of customer experience success through networking, interactive discussion groups, workshops, educational sessions and site tours. CCW attendees will learn from experts and share ideas and experiences with peers. First stop: CCW Nashville January 28 through 31.

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Healthcare Customer Care Contact Center Education 52

Serenova

JANUARY 22, 2020

We’re joining 550 industry professionals to map out a year of customer experience success through networking, interactive discussion groups, workshops, educational sessions and site tours. Attendees will learn from experts and share ideas and experiences with peers. First stop: CCW Nashville January 28 through 31. Win a Yeti.

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Healthcare Customer Care Contact Center Education 52

Taylor Reach Group

MAY 1, 2020

In a recent post, we looked at the cost of providing a poor Customer Experience (CX). Research suggests the cost of providing bad CX is climbing rapidly, from $20 Billion USD annually in 2013 to $62B in 2016 ( Forbes-Hyken ) to $83B in 2017 ( Customer Think-Jaiswal ). By Peg Ayers. Talk to Them.

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Consulting Consulting Surveys Feedback 140

Aspect

APRIL 3, 2018

It can be overwhelming to thi nk about how quickly contact centers have changed over the past few years. What did your contact center look like in 2013? In fact, it’s much more problematic if your contact center hasn’t changed at all during this era of digital transformation.

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BlueOcean

APRIL 20, 2023

I first met Sean back in June of 2022 when he was awarded the title of Best Contact Center Executive at The Contact Center World Awards in Orlando, Florida. Because nobody wakes up as a 13-year-old and says, “Oh my gosh, I want to be in the contact center space.” So tell me how you landed here, Sean.

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Contact Center Coaching Airlines Customer Care 62

Talkdesk

AUGUST 8, 2019

Founded in 2013, Lineten brings together the best delivery companies and POS integrations shaping the future of the e-commerce industry. They believe that e-commerce companies should deliver the best value to their customers, instead of investing too many resources outside the companies’ unique selling proposition.

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Wait times call center solutions Contact Center Enterprise 46

LiveChat

JANUARY 20, 2017

In this post, I’d like to focus on customer experience trends. Here’s how customer service of the future will look like. A quick history of customer service. Before we get to the future of customer service, let’s see how it looked in the past. Can you agree with above customer experience trends?

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Fonolo

MARCH 4, 2020

As the conversation unfolded, it became increasingly clear that the secret to a solid customer service program at a household name like ADP comes down to nurturing a positive culture: top-down, bottom-up, inside-out, from agent to leadership, and then on to the customer. ADP Canada: The Inner Workings of Customer Service. “We’ve

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teleopti

DECEMBER 13, 2018

What are some of the key trends that will mold business and customer service operations in 2019? Dick Bucci of Pelorus Associates, a market research, consulting, and marketing communications firm that specializes in the contact center industry, dives into 5 trends impacting customer service and which companies need to stay on top of.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 22, 2021

For one of our customers, Aspiration , every day is Earth Day. A Talkdesk customer since 2014, Aspiration has been disrupting the finance industry by “turning every transaction into positive action”. Speaking of customer experience, one of the reasons Aspiration selected Talkdesk is ease of use.

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Interactive Voice Response Accountability Finance APIs 75

Eptica

AUGUST 21, 2019

Author: Steve Nattress - International Solutions Director Chat is fast becoming a mainstream channel when it comes to customer service. For example, while 7% of UK companies offered chat in 2013, by 2019 Eptica research found that 44% advertised it on their websites. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Advertising Best practices Upselling Analytics 66

Callminer

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

When looking at new infrastructure they need to look at how the changes in the marketplace can improve the way they run their business and improve the employee and customer experience – not simply replicate/improve what they have. Craig joined Software Advice in 2013 after two years as CMO and service strategist for the U.S.

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call center software Call Center Contact Center Analytics 210

Babelforce

JUNE 4, 2020

But Delta Air Ways won big when they adopted conversational IVR service back in 2013. Especially for a medium or large contact center.). That’s a really great example of pre-emptive contact center service. Instead of waiting for customers to explain what they need, the Delta IVR provides some basic information.

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airespring

APRIL 11, 2016

Here’s a scary statistic : in 2013, 51% of consumers switched service providers due to poor customer service experiences. One in every two customers might abandon a company just because they had a bad experience with customer service. Escalation in the Contact Center.

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Coaching Contact Center Call Center Customer Service 48

TechSee

OCTOBER 23, 2018

For organizations to succeed in creating a truly personalized CX, innovative approaches must be implemented that resonate deeply with customers so that they feel valued and appreciated. Personalized product recommendations: AI-driven recommendation engines offer customers products tailored to their preferences.

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Personalization Customer Service Chatbots Analytics 157

Vonage

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Which technologies really can improve customer service? We’ve compiled the opinions of John Goodman, a leading customer experience researcher and author of Customer Experience 3.0: High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service , who shared his findings in our webinar, ‘ Customer Experience 3.0:

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Technology Customer Service Gamification Wireless 113

Tethr

JANUARY 7, 2019

Reducing customer effort has become a major focus for customer experience professionals in recent years after “ The Effortless Experience ” (co-authored by our own Chief Product & Research Officer, Matt Dixon ) was published in 2013.

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