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3 Keys to Q4 Contact Center Success in 2021

Outsource Consultants

It’s because the ongoing labor shortage, paired with increased Q4 purchasing, is leaving many businesses that rely on contact center support exposed to looming CX disasters. Try These 3 Contact Center Strategies for Q4 Success. We can help you too — contact us today for a risk-free, no-cost consultation.

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Battle of the Airlines, Round II: United Airlines and Going Beyond in Customer Service

Fonolo

This blog series explores two separate experiences related to the airline industry. This week, Fonolo’s Digital Marketing Manager describes his interaction with United Airline’s pre-flight customer service. According to onholdwith.com , airlines are the second worst offenders when it comes to hold times.

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Summer Travel Underscores Need for Airlines to Overhaul Customer Service

Aspect

When it comes to customer service departments, few industries underwhelm on an annual basis quite like the airline industry. In fact, despite several recent PR missteps, the airline industry just had its highest rating ever bestowed on it by the American Customer Service Index. Can travelers help airlines by helping themselves?

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Ensure Business Continuity in Your Contact Center: Five Building Blocks

Aspect

To follow the same path as Rumi — at least in a business sense — contact center leaders must have a plan that enables them to rapidly respond and adapt to change. Business Continuity in the Contact Center. ‘The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore’ was once said by the prolific poet, Rumi.

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How Delta Saves $5Million a Year With Conversational IVR Service

Babelforce

But Delta Air Ways won big when they adopted conversational IVR service back in 2013. The US airline invested in conversational IVR with an aim to improve the 36 million calls their IVR handled each year. It’s too late to be an ‘early adopter’ – conversational IVR is close to becoming the default. Refresher!).

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Putting Humanity in Contact Centers

Customer Relationship Metrics

It’s just the nature of the contact center industry. Or is it time to put humanity into your contact center? It’s time to put humanity into your contact center.” Managing a contact center is fast paced and furious. Doing things the popular way in the contact centers no longer works.”

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Workforce AI: The Driverless Contact Center

Aspect

It’s in the autopilot features of commercial airlines that do most of the work in guiding a aircraft from one location to another. Looking specifically at the contact center industry, we have seen a recent flurry of activity around chatbots, intelligent IVRs and virtual agents. billion in 2025.