Outsource Consultants

AUGUST 14, 2018

A recent article by Manuel Solis discusses customer engagement. Not just a company’s attempts at engaging with their customers, but customers engaging with the company as well. 4 Social Media Services Contact Centers Provide Businesses. This moderation helps keep your customers and brand safe from attacks.

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NobelBiz

MAY 7, 2024

Call centers are constantly facing the challenge of maintaining high efficiency while adhering to strict regulatory compliance. This gap has paved the way for hybrid dialer solutions, which integrate seamlessly with existing call center technology to offer the perfect blend of automated and manual dialing capabilities.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides an unprecedented opportunity to revolutionize the call center experience for the 59% of your customers who prefer telephone communication. We’re not talking about the time-consuming interactive voice response (IVR) of the past that provided a less-than-optimal customer experience.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Virtual Agent Management 90

Hodusoft

MARCH 6, 2024

E-commerce Customer Support: How BPO Can Elevate Your Service Experience Are you an e-commerce business struggling to provide seamless and efficient customer support services? Primarily, the success of e-commerce or any customer service-related company is measured through increased customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Hodusoft

JULY 19, 2023

In-Depth Guide: Inbound Call Center Software Inbound call center software is an essential tool for delivering optimal customer service. It is designed to help businesses in efficient management and handling of large volumes of incoming customer calls.

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TeleDirect

DECEMBER 14, 2023

There was a time when outbound call centers consisted of a person calling phone number after phone number in search of that one lead. It was a time-consuming process that didn’t always achieve the optimum ROI. In essence, they exist to increase sales, ensure customer retention and promote your brand.

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Expivia

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The landscape of customer service is on the brink of a major transformation, thanks to the upcoming release from NICE CXone. This release is not just an update; it’s a leap into the future of AI-driven customer service. Already a mature tool, it will have a quick ROI when deployed in the right instance.

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Uniphore

JUNE 9, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing rapid digital transformation and the complexity of customer interactions on the rise, most companies recognize the need for new approaches. In the contact center, the leading driver of improvements has been automation. What’s the difference between a result and an outcome?

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Boost Your Sales with Telemarketing Software In today’s digitally connected world a whopping 92% of customer communications still happen through business phones. The quality of your customer service relies on how effective your telemarketing efforts are. What is telemarketing software?

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Balto

MAY 22, 2023

Guest post by Jeremy Watkin If you are a contact center or customer service leader and are reading this article, I have a hypothetical question for you. Full disclosure, $100,000 is a lot for my small contact center. I’m sure you’ve heard things like “We’re sorry to see that person leave your contact center.

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JustCall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Call centers thrive on customer calls and requests, so they need better resource management and a system that reduces waiting times and boosts customer satisfaction rates. Hence, every business needs a customer service system that is fast, smooth, and efficient. This can be frustrating and time-consuming.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? The Need for Hyper Efficiency in Call Centers As a call center operations manager, you need to stay on top of the latest trends in hyper efficiency to ensure that your organization is successful.

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Mindtouch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Is it fair to say that the 2010s were the decade of the customer? Over the past ten years—and especially in 2019—the evolution of the customer journey accelerated dramatically, pushing enterprises like ours to constantly bring value to customers. To drive customer lifetime value, we first had to look inward.

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Monet Software

JANUARY 6, 2020

Forecasts are never 100%, but real-time call center data analysis helps fill the gaps. As we discussed here , contact center leaders spend significant time and energy creating detailed workforce management forecasts. Plan for too few and service levels degrade as agents become overwhelmed. These are essential tasks.

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Skybridge

AUGUST 24, 2023

“Outsourcing helps companies maintain service levels and provide a consistent customer experience across all channels and hours of operation.” Deloitte Digital 2023 Report on New Realities for Contact Center Transformation Have your customers been looking for a better experience at your contact center?

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COPC

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These changes were highlighted during the Optimizing Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop that COPC Inc. hosted as part of this fall’s Execs In The Know’s Customer Response Summit. This channel has become one of the fastest-growing customer service channel offerings.

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24-7 InTouch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

“Staying agile allows brands to adapt to the customers’ needs and desires when it comes to getting support.” ” Many business leaders agree that customer experience (CX) is vital for success, yet only 51% of CX professionals say that customer feedback is a leading factor in their business’s overall strategy.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 13, 2021

How important are auto dialers for call center software. Inundated with an exhaustive call list, auto dialers can make customer service agent’s tasks easier, they can then focus on meaningful customer conversations. At the end of the day, every company will concur that customer experience matters the most. .

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bold360 Blog

MARCH 11, 2020

The number of customer engagement channels we have access to has exploded in recent years. And whether it’s messaging channels, voice assistance, web chat or SMS, we face the challenge of looking at all these ways of engaging our customers and delivering and delivering a seamless experience across each one? Organizational structure?

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 9, 2018

In a previous blog, I outlined 14 different metrics that contact centers should be tracking to improve customer experience. However, these metrics are designed to influence real-time decision making in your contact center. Are my customers willing to recommend my product or services to others?

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Outsource Consultants

JUNE 19, 2018

Does your company gather valuable customer insights from your brand’s digital channels? No matter where you get your data from, the most important thing is that you’re using the data to enrich your customers. No matter where you get your data from, the most important thing is that you’re using the data to enrich your customers.

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COPC

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This blog entry was written in conjunction with our upcoming Optimizing Post-Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop during Execs In The Know’s Customer Response Summit. However, respondents shared that 83% of outsourced contact centers now had WFH staff after the pandemic.

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Outsource Consultants

JUNE 26, 2018

What happens when empathy just isn’t enough to satisfy customers? An article by Jeremy Watkin discusses this type of dilemma that occurs within many contact centers. Watkin’s advice for all customer support leaders is to approach CSAT as more than just a number.

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TLC Associates

JULY 24, 2019

Studies by Bain & Company show the effort to increase customer retention by 5% produces 25% additional profits through upsells, cross-sells, and customer referrals. It’s not a stretch to say your ability to retain customers reflects your ability to grow your bottom line. The Importance of Measuring Customer Retention.

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Transparent BPO

AUGUST 20, 2019

If you were to ask many business executives, they would say their customer service contact center is a necessary expense that does not contribute to the bottom line. Worse, some companies are cutting their contact centers altogether, considering them less relevant in this age of digital self-service.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

Businesses are realizing the power of customer journey mapping to monitor customer experience performance and identify opportunities for improvement. Customer journey analytics is enabling access to tap into the customer behavior across touchpoints and over time to measure the impact of customer behavior on business outcomes.

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Outsource Consultants

JULY 3, 2018

What this shows is that artificial intelligence (AI) may not completely overtake human service agents, but it’s also not a fad that’s going away any time soon. Companies need to embrace self-service options in their customer experience, but this can be tricky to implement. 3 Ways to Verify First Contact Resolution (FCR).

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ViiBE Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

ViiBE Blog How can live chat integration with co-browsing improve CX? The variety of services and resources has made customers more sophisticated and to some extent picky, immediately choosing a different service if their query was not addressed quickly enough. What is a live chat? What are the benefits of a live chat?

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TLC Associates

AUGUST 21, 2019

Your healthcare contact center team needs to have a good “bedside manner.” But how do you tell if your customers are receiving positive experiences? The following healthcare call center metrics will help you identify ways to improve your care outcomes. First Contact Resolution. Net Promoter.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Customer experience is now becoming the new tool to compete in this experience economy. Customers are no longer looking for the right service at the right time, they are looking for proactive service that is engaging, immersive and leads them to the next best action. Here are some key take aways from the study.

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aircall

MARCH 1, 2021

Why are customer service skills important? Before asking yourself that, you should perhaps ask: what plays the most significant role in your customer’s experience? Plus, 71% of consumers would decrease their support for a brand if they don’t have a human customer service representative available to speak to at all. .

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Outsource Consultants

MAY 29, 2018

Marla offers the following suggestions for having solid communication between a company and a vendor partner: Ask questions and listen to the answers: No matter how experienced you are, it’s never a good idea to push towards certain ideas or services until you’ve heard what the client has to say.

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SmartAction

MAY 6, 2019

This is the third of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. Gartner predicts that customers soon will prefer using speech-driven interfaces to other forms of self-service when given a choice. Read Part 1 and Part 2 first!

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GetFeedback

JULY 19, 2019

We used to get so excited to talk about the Voice of the Customer (VoC). It sounds so appealing to really hear the customer in their own voice, to understand their intentions and understandings. How to set up your Voice of the Customer (VoC) program for success. Gather your champions. Communicate how you will measure success.

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SmartAction

MAY 6, 2019

This is the third of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. Gartner predicts that customers soon will prefer using speech-driven interfaces to other forms of self-service when given a choice. Read Part 1 and Part 2 first!

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bold360 Blog

JUNE 19, 2019

In recent years, AI-powered chatbots have become an essential part of many business’s customer service operations. Gartner predicts that chatbots will power 85% of all customer service interactions by the year 2020. Everybody wins when customer service chatbots are done right. That’s next year!)

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Natalie Petouhof

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Harness the chemistry of customer and employee experiences. Neuromarketing research such as hers shows that our behavior in general — and customer behavior, specifically — is based on how we feel. And then we’ll explore how these experiences correlate to customer behavior, customer lifetime value and business success.

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