Global Response

MARCH 18, 2022

Omnichannel contact centers: the evolution of customer communication. Or, for some companies, the majority of contacts come over the phone. What is an omnichannel contact center? Keep reading to understand the different types of contact centers. Omnichannel contact center services.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

It’s that time of year again. Time to start planning for your 2019 customer experience initiatives. Customer Experience will be the primary focus for successful operations in 2019 but is that “unwavering commitment to better CX” controlled by smaller metrics that don’t have a big effect on the experience as a whole?

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. To this end, we have grouped the top contact center trends for 2019 into these three categories: human, effortless and transformative.

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Balto

APRIL 20, 2023

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email Contact centers find themselves at a critical juncture. Contact center leaders are tasked with creating as much value as possible with as few resources as possible, without sacrificing the customer or agent experience. How are they doing this?

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Talkdesk

DECEMBER 30, 2019

With 2019 coming to an end, it is now time to check the rear-view mirror, reflect on the evolving realities throughout this year, and to look further up the road as new trends set the pace of a decade ahead for contact centers and customer service strategy. Resolution 1: Equip Your Agents With the Tools to Succeed.

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Balto

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

So, it comes as no surprise that one of the primary challenges identified by financial services contact center employees is the easy access of available desktop tools. In fact, one in five contact center employees has listed desktop tools among their top operational challenges for four years in a row.

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Fonolo

MAY 22, 2019

In addition to today’s batch of four reports, please check out our new re-issued report on managing call spikes in the contact center. Ventana’s Value Index for Cloud Contact Centers (2018). For the first time, Gartner is including AI as part of their assessment although, it seems, somewhat reluctantly.

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Talkdesk

MAY 10, 2019

Sheila McGee-Smith of McGee-Smith Analytics and Patrick Russell, Principal, Product Innovation Marketing at Talkdesk, joined together in a recent webinar to discuss the five must-haves for the 2019 call center. How to Cultivate an Agent-First Attitude Agents are the front lines of your call center.

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The Northridge Group

MARCH 21, 2022

It’s every Contact Center manager’s worst nightmare, the customer who repeatedly calls back because their issue has not been resolved to their satisfaction. Focusing on First Call Resolution (FCR) is critical for Contact Center success. The value of reducing repeat calls. billion to U.S.

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Cyara

JULY 9, 2019

The contact center has become the inflection point for digital transformation in the enterprise. To accomplish this, the vast majority of enterprises are moving their contact centers to the cloud. What are the drivers of migrating contact centers to the cloud?”. Joe Eisner. Organization: AWS. Steve Nuttall.

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Customer Service Life

MARCH 28, 2019

This article was originally published on the ICMI blog on January 24, 2019. But in my context, it was contact center agents casting a wide net by instant messaging multiple supervisors and managers on duty for help with an issue. The most common use for Slack in contact centers is as an escalation channel for frontline agents.

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TechSee

MARCH 12, 2019

But while happy customers are vital to the success of a business, happy representatives are equally important, especially with high agent attrition rates presenting a real challenge for contact enters in 2019. Bringing visual automation to contact centers. The Value of Automation. The Power of Visual Automation.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Customers who had breakdowns in their interactions rose 10% over 2019 according to The National Customer Rage Study. It’s time to turn to the brain of the operation: your customer service data. Download Now] Use the data that lives in your contact center to improve your customer experience. Report up to key stakeholders.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 31, 2023

Government departments and businesses operate contact centers to connect with their communities, enabling citizens and customers to call to make appointments, request services, and sometimes just ask a question. Unless the hold music is particularly good, callers don’t typically enjoy having to wait—it wastes time and money.

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Contact Center Pipeline

APRIL 9, 2019

It’s a well-known fact that customers hate to wait. In a recent survey on consumer attitudes, researchers discovered that 35% of the respondents stopped doing business with some of their favorite brands after just one episode of waiting too long for a customer service agent to resolve their issue. In light of these facts, it’s […].

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TechSee

JUNE 11, 2019

Conversely, when trying to improve NPS, agents would often spend additional time building relationships with their customers, driving up call durations. Recently, an innovative technology has emerged, transforming contact center operations and customer experience across a wide range of industries: Visual Assistance.

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TLC Associates

OCTOBER 1, 2019

That’s the struggle facing every healthcare payer, but it’s one you can overcome by taking the right preparations for your internal team working with the right outsourced contact center. One way to decrease that difficulty and reduce bad hires is to create the right contact center agent profile in advance of your hiring initiative.

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Yet, 74% of contact center agents are still at risk for burnout. Think about the goals you need to accomplish in your contact center, first. How to do it: Create an agent value proposition to drive purpose and meaningful connection in your contact center. What’s your team’s mission?

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Yet, 74% of contact center agents are still at risk for burnout. Think about the goals you need to accomplish in your contact center, first. How to do it: Create an agent value proposition to drive purpose and meaningful connection in your contact center. What’s your team’s mission?

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Eptica

OCTOBER 16, 2018

To read the three previous posts in the optimizing CX series on creating blended agents , improving the agent experience and reducing Average Handling Time while safeguarding quality, simply click on the links. This builds over time, allowing comparisons between specific periods, such as the Peak season in retail.

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

But if you don’t build call center improvement strategies that put what you find into action, your data is useless. The intel flowing through your contact center feeds a bottomless well of info about your business. Data helps you build a business case for future investments and drive further contact center ROI.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Contact centers have more in common with sports teams than you might think. In fact, 71% of consumers surveyed in 2019 said that they would be “less likely to use a brand if they knew that brand didn’t have human agents available.” Reduce average handle time. Michael Jordan had Scottie Pippen.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Contact centers have more in common with sports teams than you might think. In fact, 71% of consumers surveyed in 2019 said that they would be “less likely to use a brand if they knew that brand didn’t have human agents available.” Reduce average handle time. Michael Jordan had Scottie Pippen.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Author: Anne-Merete Jensen - Senior Business Consultant 4 ways to drive recognition in your customer service team. Published on: September 18, 2019. That’s why pretty much every contact center I visit has a recognition program of some sort in place. telephone) over another.

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Callminer

APRIL 24, 2020

call center industry is alive and well. According to the data, the industry saw a total of 32,000 new positions added in Q1 2019, with several major companies expanding their call center operations. Using contact center performance management software , like CallMiner , can help streamline the process.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. That’s where leveraging contact center performance management software can help. What is Performance Management?

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RapportBoost

JANUARY 7, 2019

Conversational selling and augmented intelligence are about helping people succeed, and Dani’s loves to help her customers, partners, and the contact center community succeed.”. Dani Apgar RapportBoost.AI About RapportBoost.AI. RapportBoost.AI is the leading chat analytics platform brands use to boost sales and engage customers.

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TLC Associates

JUNE 20, 2019

For starters, your business needs to anticipate 2019 seasonal ticket volumes and scale up your workforce to maintain first call resolution. Let’s start with the timing of your workforce escalation. When will you see the greatest contact center surge from holiday shoppers? But where do you begin your review?

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RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Take notes – the info will help you create a killer Conversational Selling strategy for 2019! Read the transcript below: Nicholas Rodriguez: …the highest priorities for Contact Centers that focus on the customer. Here’s the archived version. So, without further introductions, let’s go ahead and get started.

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USAN

MARCH 18, 2019

March 18, 2019 – USAN, a provider of cloud-based customer engagement solutions, today announced the availability of Agent Desktop for Amazon Connect and Dialer for Amazon Connect. Amazon Connect is a self-service, cloud-based contact center service that makes it easy for any business to deliver better customer service at lower cost.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

Utilizing robotic process automation (RPA) in contact centers has been proven to reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies. Back office AI customer service technologies are especially relevant to assisting in workload management, agent productivity and high-level data analysis of contact center performance.

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Talkdesk

JUNE 7, 2019

Why You Should be Tracking Call Center Shrinkage in 2019 Do you know how many of your scheduled call center agents are actually available to take calls at any given time versus how many are on break, attending team meetings, doing after call work, out sick or late to their shift? What is Call Center Shrinkage?

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Interactions

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

So, if you want to stay ahead of the game, 2019 is your year. A personalized experience — every time. One of the biggest challenges faced by contact centers is agent churn. Over time, agents get bored, disengaged, burnt-out and overwhelmed. Human brains are fascinating.

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Customer Service Life

AUGUST 20, 2019

This article was originally published on the FCR blog in partnership with my colleague, Travis Wild on June 18, 2019. Practice #1: Track email average handle time. While average handle time is fairly cut and dry on certain channels, this can be a challenge for email. Here are six best practices.

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pindrop

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It is commonly understood that KBAs are frustrating, not just for the consumers but for the contact centers themselves. Source: Aite Group interviews with 20 fraud executives from 18 large North American FIs, July to October 2019. A few interesting trends are taking place in contact centers. .

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

With the large volumes of contact center advisors still incentivized based on speed – typically the Average Handle Time (AHT) – CX goals are quite often unachievable. AHT has dominated contact center measurement for decades. But that model has little place in the customer centric market of 2019.

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Customer Service Life

JUNE 3, 2019

This article was originally published on the ICMI Blog on March 19, 2019. Neither metric is mutually exclusive, requiring the right balance between the two to achieve the positive results you’re looking for in your contact center. Image by Harald Funken from Pixabay. Click here to read the original post. Measuring Productivity.

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