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Guest Post: 5 Contact Center Best Practices That Make Clients Happier

ShepHyken

Following best practices and applying hacks has proven fruitful for a lot of contact centers. This shortlist of contact center best practice hacks should set you up for success in the pursuit of customer service excellence. You can do the same and improve your customers’ experience.

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The Knowledge Base is Dead, Long Live the Knowledge Base!

Nicereply

The knowledge base has been considered a crucial component of providing self-service for years. And now knowledge bases as we’ve always known them are dead. To accommodate, customer support teams need to rethink how they create, manage, and share knowledge. The traditional knowledge base is fading.

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Call Center Metrics: Examples, Tips & Best Practices

Callminer

Streamline your agents’ call scripts for better first call close results. The best way to improve this KPI is by providing your sales reps/agents with a well thought out guided script that will not only help build your agents’ confidence, but will also guide them through the success-proven process of a sales call.”

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What are some best practices for real-time guidance application?

DMG Consulting

What are some best practices? Real-time guidance solutions are context-sensitive and combine the intelligence of a knowledge base with the workflow capabilities of a script to prompt and guide agents to complete critical steps, say the right things, and take the most appropriate actions on behalf of the customer and organization.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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Best Practices for Call Center Agents

Quiq

Since customers are still dialing, we’ve put together some best practices to help call center agents shine. Take the time to listen to a customer’s complaints before diving into a script. Go off-script. Scripts are great tools to help call center agents solve customer problems, but they can sound stiff and stale.

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Personalized Customer Service: Best Practices and Examples

Nicereply

Here are 6 best practices to deliver personalized customer service. You can then use this information to create knowledge bases and employ those in customer support. survey, 84% of respondents indicated that their experience improves considerably when they feel an agent is not using a script. Know your customer.