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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

That includes our experience as customers. Modern consumers are no longer willing to accept poor customer service. More than 80% of customers now say the experience a company provides is as important as its products. . More than two-thirds of service providers will move their contact centers to the cloud in 2020.

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Year in Review: What Contact Centers Learned in 2018

Fonolo

In an industry driven by customer gratification, learning the difference between customer service vs. customer care vs. customer satisfaction became quintessential in 2018. Yes, we all know this is a tale as old as the call center, and we also know the importance of the customer experience. Class dismissed.

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Deck the Halls 2018: Coping with Peak Season Holiday Spikes in the Contact Center

BlueOcean

Four years ago, we reported that Americans would spend a forecasted $600 billion during the 2014 holiday season. A few years, during the relentless Polar Vortex, we made t-shirts for our team saying “Winter Suffer Fest 2014. The 3 Hottest Trends Impacting Outsourced Customer Care. Bring it.” We’d love to hear from you.

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Hark the Herald Agents Sing: It’s Holiday Season in the Contact Center!

BlueOcean

Several years ago, during the relentless Polar Vortex, we made t-shirts for our team saying “Winter Suffer Fest 2014. Finally, gamification and creative incentive programs can motivate your agents when holiday demand reaches its peak. Bring it.”

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Top 10 Technological Contact Center Trends

Insite Managed Solutions

Gamification: Gamification promises to make the workplace more fun by applying game design elements to business processes such as customer support, and it’s quickly gaining traction. Gartner predicts that over 70% of Global 2000 companies will have incorporated some form of gamification by 2014.

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The 9 Best Email Support Ticketing Systems 2020 – Reviews & Comparison

Comm100

Customer service isn’t just about your team having the right attitude and training. For your customer support to be great (or even just functional) in 2020, you need the systems to back it up. Your customer help desk software keeps incoming queries from falling through the cracks by turning them into easily manageable tickets.

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24 Experts Reveal the Single Worst Thing a Contact Center Agent Can Do During a Call

Callminer

Hiring the right contact center agents is important, but ongoing agent training and performance management are crucial for customer satisfaction and the success of your business as a whole. If you’re looking for ways to boost your agents’ performance, check out our white paper, Using Gamification to Improve Contact Center Performance.