Call Experts

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

“Customer Service” is one of the most commonly used phrases in business. But, do you ever wonder: what is customer service? It is best defined as supporting your customers’ needs by offering and delivering professional, top-notch assistance before, during, and after their requirements are fulfilled.

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Aspect

AUGUST 28, 2017

Nonetheless, you should never stop striving to provide your agents with all the coaching they need to stay engaged, productive and provide a superior customer experience. In turn, they’ll be able to offer your customers greater care with smiles on their faces. 78 percent say engaged agents are the most satisfied in their work.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service. It represents a holistic approach that is aimed at transforming call center functions into a streamlined, customer-focused powerhouse.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 15, 2017

With malls looking at the writing on the wall, businesses are now focused at effective customer engagement strategies. Shoppers are now familiar with the omni-channel choice and quite enjoying it. This is the reason brands are focusing on a customer experience module so that they can handhold customers through this process.

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Aspect

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The past few years have seen digital disruption move at an incredible pace, transforming almost every element of our lives; from our ease of access to services to how we purchase goods, and how we lead our everyday lives both at home and in the working environment. Customers needing to repeat themselves multiple times.

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Peter Lavers

JULY 17, 2017

This blog coincides with the 10 th anniversary of the first signs of the Credit Crunch, which has impacted and continues to affect all our lives. I would like to complement this with my specific viewpoint as a recognised expert and influencer in Customer Experience (CX). Product-centric business models are dying. Trust has been eroded.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Do you allow Customers to use whatever channel they wish to communicate with you, or do you restrict them to one or two channels? The answer to this question can show how Customer centric your company is. This post is the fifth in a series of nine posts that uses our Naïve to Natural customer-centricity assessment.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Many b2b and b2c companies offer antiseptic, commoditized, vanilla experiences for customers. Some, through culture, discipline, and purpose have succeeded in creating consistent, positive experiences which are appealing to customers and which customers consider worthy of passing along through informal conversation and recommendation.

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NobelBiz

MAY 7, 2024

Furthermore, they enable call centers to handle diverse customer engagement strategies, from large-scale outbound campaigns to personalized customer follow-ups. This intelligent routing reduces wait times and enhances overall customer satisfaction by providing tailored interactions. What is a Hybrid Dialer?

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NobelBiz

MARCH 12, 2024

Customer demands are ever-changing and more often than not, they become more and more difficult to keep up with for a lot of businesses. Customers today expect seamless and personalized interactions across all touch points. Disjointed experiences not only frustrate customers but also hinder businesses from nurturing loyalty and trust.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 13, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Understanding Why Transforms the Customer Experience. Blog #2 of 4: Seeking th e Root Cause and Affecting the Right Outcome. But right now, this is still best done in support of agents, who can make the final decision of what to say to the customer and how. It’s doable.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 2, 2024

Are customers becoming more and more demanding with time? With the growing customer expectations, enterprises are under great pressure to deliver exceptional service. May offer less flexibility in terms of customization and integration, with pre-defined workflows and limited compatibility with other systems.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

According to trendwatching.com, the feelings a Customer has when they are getting excellent Customer service are the same as the feelings they have when they feel love. Most excellent Customer Experiences leave Customers feeling valued and important, or, in other words, feeling the love. I couldn’t agree more.

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Aspect

JULY 25, 2017

Omni-channel interactions within the contact center enable businesses to generate more data than they ever have before. Aspect Via is built to sift through the aggregated data and turn it into valuable information companies can use to drive efficiency and service improvement.

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DMG Consulting

MAY 5, 2020

During the past few months, we’ve published a series of newsletter blogs, columns and white papers to help executives and contact center leaders manage through the coronavirus pandemic. The digital transformation that is underway throughout the world has ushered in a new era of omni-channel service.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). Register for our upcoming webinar “When, How and Why Customers Self-Help” with Steve Morrell, Managing Director and Principal Analyst of Contact Babel and John Cray, Vice President – Product Management, Enghouse Interactive. Addressing Customer Needs.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2018

It’s going to be a big year in the world of contact center and in customer service technology. Will this be the year that messaging platforms from Facebook, Apple and others reach critical mass as a channel for customer service? We’re delighted that so many of you subscribe to this blog or visit us every week.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

SMS (Short Message Service ) has become a pivotal channel in the contact center industry. This transition, though challenging, is seen as positive, indicating the channel’s value and the consumer’s desire for SMS engagement. Contact centers should ensure that customers explicitly opt-in to receive SMS messages.

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UJET

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The title of this blog post is an important question that many executives are asking. In the past 50 years, the underlying technology powering voice self-service solutions has been transformed but, unfortunately, many of the uses of these solutions have not. This is a guest post by Donna Fluss, the president of DMG Consulting LLC.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #4 of 4 The MORE you know. As we saw in yesterday’s webinar, both enhancing the Customer Experience (CX) and understanding the Voice of the Customer (VoC) are inextricably linked… for the better. Customers now expect: Their time be valued. The more YOU KNOW. .

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It could be argued that customer service is uniformly about a few core things: Giving consumers agency; shepherding them towards a positive outcome to their problems; and providing solutions and smiles by whatever means (and using whatever technology) necessary. Service Levels. Look it up. Call-Backs. Solid Strategy. .

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InGenius

APRIL 1, 2020

As technologies have evolved and customer expectations have increased, the contact center has become a much different place than it was 20 years ago. From email marketing to social media engagement and chatbots, there are now so many ways a customer can interact with a business. The different types of contact center.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

While there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to address all operational and customer-related challenges for businesses, Customer Experience Automation (CXA) has emerged as a compelling strategy for a lot of businesses these days. Table of Contents What Is Customer Experience Automation (CXA)?

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Cisco - Contact Center

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Keeping Customer Experience Top of Mind. Last month I shared some exciting new capabilities with Webex Contact Center, our award-winning contact center as a service (CCaaS) for small and large contact centers. Listening to our customers is critical, but taking action on what they’re telling us is even more important.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 19, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #3 of 4 With context, AI seeks to improve more quickly than ever. Customer Feedback takes many forms and most are relatively static and easily processed – surveys, feedback forms, polling questions, correlated to the customer’s continuity of purchases. Aggregating.

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Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 13, 2021

Blog Series #1 of 4: New decade! Customer First” drives success. Customer service has become the top business priority. Today, customer satisfaction is the top business priority, but successful companies cite it as their 1 priority. 43% using video for customer interactions, and 67.2% New approach?

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2015

In building relationships with customers, and value for them, my long-time observation is that most organizations tend to progress through several stages of performance as they are becoming truly customer-centric: a) customer awareness, b) customer sensitivity, c) customer focus, and d) customer obsession.

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Aspect

JUNE 17, 2019

It’s no secret that customer experience has been rapidly evolving in recent years, with consumer habits and demands changing daily and new communication channels opening continuously. Learn about how we created this interactive chatbot for Lidl to deliver personalised wine expertise to its customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 12, 2017

fashion, home improvement, and electronics), but brick-and-mortar higher for customer service and returns and exchanges. 85% of electronics shoppers, 83% of fashion customers, and 88% of home improvement shoppers said the primary reason they buy in the store was immediacy. So, solicit them. appeared first on.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 12, 2016

A survey by CFI group , global leaders for providing customer feedback, conducted a holiday retail report sponsored by Radial, an Omni channel commerce technology and operations provider. Loyalty Programs with special promotional offers ; these incentives influence 93% of customers to sign up. It doesn’t feel exclusive.

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Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 17, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). Blog #1 Enhancing the Customer Experience. As we know, Teams does not offer a customer experience/engagement solution per se. Collaboration Improvements Drive Customer Engagement and Satisfaction. Help Customers Help Themselves with Self-Service.

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Aspect

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

But how do the public feel about these technologies and are they comfortable communicating with a Google Duplex -style robotic customer service agent? This underlines the importance of being balanced when it comes to adopting new customer service channels, and being wise to the widely varying preferences of consumers.

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UJET

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The title of this blog post is an important question that many executives are asking. In the past 50 years, the underlying technology powering voice self-service solutions has been transformed but, unfortunately, many of the uses of these solutions have not. This is a guest post by Donna Fluss, the president of DMG Consulting LLC.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The call center industry has been changing faster than ever, due to technological breakthroughs and constantly evolving customer demands. In 2024, businesses have the crucial responsibility of understanding and adopting the latest technology trends in customer service. Among its standout features is the Preview Dialer.

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Momentum Telecom

OCTOBER 24, 2022

You may be familiar with a small subset of Momentum’s services – but you and your customers can benefit from knowing about our role as a managed cloud service provider. Because you want the best for your customers, and many of them want to take advantage of the cloud. Momentum’s Managed Cloud Service Offerings.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 17, 2018

In a recent article , Murph Krajewski points out that omni-channel customer service can greatly improve the customer experience/journey. However, there are some contact centers that don’t provide omni-channel services to a high-quality level and may actually be hurting the customer experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 17, 2015

As customer experience consultants who focus on the emotional elements of service and product customer experience and value delivery, we are often asked about the behavioral role of tangible, rational, and functional elements of value and experience. delivery timing rate did not drive higher customer loyalty.

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