TeleDirect
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Whatever industry you may be in, it’s important that your customer experience and communication services are always on point. That means offering a stellar call center—but even the best can run into issues. Do you want to learn how to tackle common call center challenges? Read on! We’ve compiled a list of 10 of the most frequently seen call center problems and solutions for when they arise. 1.
CCNG
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Our well-being depends on the quality of our connections with others. According to Yale University lecturer Emma Seppälä, "people who feel more connected to others have lower rates of anxiety and depression. Moreover, studies show they also have higher self-esteem, are more empathic to others, [and are] more trusting and cooperative"—all essential attributes of a stable and productive workforce.
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Balto
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Monitoring agent performance is fundamental for keeping your call center running at optimal levels. . There are many metrics and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) that give you insights into agent productivity, customer satisfaction, and employee satisfaction. These metrics can significantly improve your decision-making process and make your agents and customers happier.
Callminer
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
Frank Sherlock, CallMiner's VP of International, will be at Credit Connect’s Technology Think Tank on Nov. 17, 2022 for a session on how economic change has impacted customer engagement.
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Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.
kommunicate
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Last Updated on November 9, 2022 The revolutionary chatting bots can actually boost your sales and revenue – and we call it Sales Chatbot! Yes, we are sure about it, and so should you. After all, Siri and Alexa were not only to have a chat and resolve your issues; rather, they have many more [.]. The post Sales Chatbots: How to Grow 10x Revenue Using Chatbots appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.
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Steve DiGioia
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Wrestlers talk about, “knowing their place on the card.” This means that since they’re not the “headliner” or in the main event, they understand that they are a supporting act for the overall benefit of the show. They still have a job to do and must perform well. They must get the audience riled up and engaged in the action. They’ve learned from the veterans.
TeleDirect
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Your customer relations department and public relations teams are entirely different operations. However, they intersect in crucial ways. In order to succeed in your public relations goals, your business needs to be on top of its customer service and satisfaction game. Unifying customer service and public relations within your business strategy is critical.
ClientSuccess
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
For many in the SaaS world, operations roles are not a new concept. High-performance sales and marketing teams have relied on operations resources for years to streamline operations, optimize workflows, and ensure efficient processes. While some customer success departments may not have dedicated operations resources like sales and marketing departments have, more and more teams are realizing the importance of operations and investing in the solutions and resources needed for long-term success.
A Better Answer
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
To keep your business up and running — and to keep your customers satisfied — you must maintain constant communication channels between you and those customers. There’s just one problem. Customer calls don’t always come in during normal work hours.
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Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper
CX Accelerator
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Collaboration with Ben Motteram and Nate Brown To transform an organization into one that is more customer centric is a complex task that requires many different skills. Customer experience is multi-disciplinary. Those who succeed in the profession do so because they possess a number of different skills or are part of a team comprised specialists in each skill.
Beyond Philosophy
NOVEMBER 5, 2022
What if we told you that we know how you could develop a superpower? You can. We know you can because the method for it it was developed by a Yale’s assistant professor of marketing that was once a door-to-door salesperson and someone who has performed open-heart surgery on a pig. The superpower you can develop is influence and it is essential if you want to make changes in your organization.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Whenever there is a chance to learn from an iconic brand like Amazon, I jump at the chance. Founder, Jeff Bezos, was an early adopter of a relentless focus on the customer experience.? . Did Bezos really believe that Amazon should be so good they didn’t need a customer service department? Did he really have an empty chair in his meetings to represent the customer?
Contact Center Pipeline
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
One of the key missions of banks is to help their customers understand their finances, and the choices and the products and services available, in order to help them make the best decisions. These range from opening a savings account to seeking a mortgage or setting up a financial plan for their future. At the […].
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Fonolo
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
High call volumes are three words that can strike fear into the heart of any call center professional. Without the right preparation, even the most established operations can find themselves struggling with call demand, and trying to stay afloat when faced with an onslaught of customer queries. The occasional call spike is hardly cause for concern — however, if your call center agents are struggling to manage daily volumes , you risk a lot more than a few abandoned calls.
HelpCrunch
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
What would you rather do if you faced a product/service issue and your Internet provider, a movie streaming service, or *insert your option* had no communication channel? Or the ones that they provide, like, a [ … ]. The post SaaS Knowledge Base: The Actual Meaning and Best Examples appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
This week, we feature an article by Claron Kinny, SEO Outreach Specialist at Beaconstac , a company that creates and manages QR codes for brands for an immersive offline and online CX. He shares how companies can use QR codes to improve customer service and experience. We have all encountered QR codes at some point in our lives, and their popularity has only grown throughout the coronavirus outbreak.
Contact Center Pipeline
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
If you are managing a contact center, your goal everyday is to enrich your customer’s experiences. That is exactly the foundation to which Kustomer built their business. Only in business for seven years now, they are helping organizations build stronger customer relationships and experiences through their interactions. Enjoy reading their story. Tell us the Kustomer […].
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!
Interactions
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Over the last three years, Covid has transformed the contact-center industry into a work-from-anywhere (WFA) world. Millions of agents now work outside the traditional walls of a care center. . It’s a win for business cost efficiencies and worker flexibility. But it opens a can of worms for meeting compliance requirements and it impacts millions of care agents supporting hundreds of thousands of businesses. .
The Northridge Group
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
How a robust QM program can remake the CX. This article was originally published on Contact Center Pipeline and can be viewed here. As customer expectations and channels for outreach continue to evolve, the contact center is becoming more and more complex and critical. Contact center associates need to be able to quickly assess where customers are in their journeys and navigate between multiple systems and screens to solve issues, all while remaining empathetic and professional in the face of po
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Creating Defining Moments for Customers and Employees. Why Businesses Should Invest in EX (Employee Experience) as Much as CX. Shep Hyken interviews Liza Smyth, senior vice president of customer experience at Formstack , a company that helps organizations create workflows that enhance productivity. She shares how to make your internal and external customers feel seen and heard throughout their entire journey with your brand.
Contact Center Pipeline
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Time flies! Here we are at Back to School time … prepping back packs, planning schedules, assigning duties, and gathering tools needed for success. Back to School is a good time to reflect on your own knowledge of Contact Center management. Are there things you need to know, know better, or revisit? Knowledge is a […].
Uncover the complexity behind call labeling and blocking with this infographic. Discover the intricate factors and entities that shape the fate of a call, from illegal activity to user feedback, and understand why numbers get labeled and blocked.
ChurnZero
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Customer Success is gaining ground, influence, and budget within organizations. Nearly two-thirds of CS teams added new members this year. However, CS departments remain underfunded, especially when it comes to their tech stack. These are just some of the findings in this year’s Customer Success Leadership Study, ChurnZero’s third annual report on the top trends and opportunities in Customer Success, presented in partnership with ESG and sponsored by Higher Logic Vanilla and involve.ai.
Quality Contact Solutions
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The right outbound calling center allows an organization to accomplish more with marketing and sales. It also helps improve productivity, revenue, and the value of time and money spent on processes like lead generation and prospecting. As a result, it enables you to streamline your business and accomplish your goals. Read on to learn five helpful outbound calling center services for any organization.
Lumoa
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
If you looked back just a few years ago, the phrase “oh, I forgot my mask” wouldn’t mean much to you. “I’ve been self-isolating” would be equally unusual. And just like these new phrases have become commonplace now, new customer experience trends are popping up as well. Not only has the world changed, but technology has improved, and companies have been finding new ways to provide customers with a great experience.
kommunicate
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Last Updated on November 11, 2022 Looking for some amazing applications for educational chatbots in the education sector? We are here to help! Read on and find how chatbots for education are helping revive the sector. Chatbots in the Education Sector Chatbots today find their applications in more than just customer services and engagement. Rather, [.].
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Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.
Fonolo
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Contact centers are dynamic, evolving workplaces, which makes industry trend spotting an exciting sport — sometimes prone to error — but always full of discovery! Like many industries, contact centers have seen the pace of change accelerate during the COVID pandemic. Last year was no exception. . READ THE FULL GUIDE: Contact Center Trends 2023. (It doesn't cost a cent, we promise!).
Spearline
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
For the full live experience click here. Talkdesk discusses managing remote agents’ networks Watch a replay of our live webinar from Wednesday, November 9th hosted by Tsahi Levent-Levi, Spearline’s Chief Product Officer, and Jacob Rivers, Director of Network Engineering at Talkdesk. One of the bigger challenges with managing remote agents’ networks is handling complaints about connectivity and quality issues when you don’t have insight into their home network environment.
aircall
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Integrations are at the core of Aircall’s cloud-based phone system. They help you get the most out of cloud-based telephony—helping you save time, boost productivity, and enable team performance. To further our commitment to building a best-in-class App Marketplace, we’re excited to share that we’ve partnered with ActiveCampaign , a customer experience automation platform. .
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