Hodusoft

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Current State of AI in BPO Contact Centers Do you know Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently the hottest trend in various industries? AI technology has drastically transformed the BPO contact centers industry by automating repetitive tasks, enabling intelligent routing, and providing real-time analytics. What is AI?

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Callminer

DECEMBER 17, 2019

When dedicated call center agents are focused exclusively on handling calls, there’s often an improvement in important call center metrics like first call resolution. Tools like speech analytics solutions help monitor QA, ensure compliance, and provide insights that aid in agent performance management , as well.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 23, 2015

Whether it’s a new employer or a new Customer, the beginning of a relationship sets the standards for how the two of you will interact moving forward. Treating others as you want to be treated is the first and foremost concept that applies to all relationships, business or otherwise. Tip #2: Do as you would be done by.

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Hodusoft

JUNE 12, 2024

How to Boost E-Commerce Sales with Contact Center Software “What does the sales of an e-commerce company have to do with contact center software ?” ” If this question comes to your mind, then we would like to start the blog post with a famous real-life incident covered in a recent podcast. He was absolutely right.

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JustCall

AUGUST 24, 2024

In fact, research indicates that 80% of contact centers are set to hire new agents in 2022. In this blog, we will look at how a call center functions and understand its key roles and tasks. In this blog, we will look at how a call center functions and understand its key roles and tasks. Let’s jump right in.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

Cisco Webex Contact Center CCaaS honored for improving customer service technology and customer experience. I’m excited to announce that Webex Contact Center was among the 2020 Contact Center Technology Award winners, presented by CUSTOMER Magazine this month. Award Winner Second Year in a Row. Cloud Agility.

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Hodusoft

JULY 24, 2024

Effective Strategies for Enhancing Customer Retention in Call Centers “When the customer comes first, the customer will last.” The next two sectors with the second-worst customer attrition rate (40 percent) are consumer-packaged goods and logistics. But retaining customers is not as easy and simple as it sounds!

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bold360 Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2020

But too often customers who contact a business are put in a queue where they must “wait for the next available agent.” If the customer’s issue can’t be resolved by the first available agent, the service team transfers the customer around like a hot potato until the “right” agent can be found to mercifully resolve the issue.

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Nicereply

APRIL 27, 2022

To understand CXM and its importance, brands must first absorb the impact good (or bad) customer experience has on their customers and reputation. Any brand looking to increase customer retention numbers should first focus on creating an impactful customer experience management framework. What is customer experience management (CXM)?

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BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Talk of ChatGPT is everywhere from your LinkedIn feed to the evening news to, yes, this blog. For many, the buzz about ChatGPT is evoking the same exploratory wonder they once experienced when the Internet itself first debuted. But with ChatGPT in the spotlight, we wanted to bring you a deeper dive into AI in the contact center.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 2, 2024

At the core of this modern transformation lie Enterprise Contact Center Solutions , sophisticated platforms designed to streamline communication, enhance productivity, and drive customer satisfaction. The NobelBiz reporting and analytics tools provide valuable insights into customer interactions, agent performance, and operational efficiency.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 15, 2024

Even though, in the last few years, employee attrition has become a huge concern for many organizations, particularly the ones in the call and contact center industry, it hasn’t always had a negative connotation. So, without further ado, let’s dive straight into the blog post. Mass Layoffs? Quite Quitting? and the U.S.

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Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 17, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). Blog #1 Enhancing the Customer Experience. This new reality presents the contact center industry with an excellent opportunity to integrate with Teams and provide seamless company-wide collaboration capabilities across their customer’s organizations.

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Call Design

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Gamification refers to incorporating gaming elements into the training process or other elements of a workplace to diversify and improve the agent development. Employing systems based on short-term problem resolution can have large long-term implications. Read on to discover what they are. Look Long-Term.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

The two fields attracting the most AI investment last year were automated AI-powered customer service agents, which raised $4.5 In this article, we take a deep dive into the different AI customer service technologies that companies are employing to improve their customer-facing interactions, as well as to enhance their internal processes.

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

And by diving into this customer data , we’re able to significantly improve our overall brand customer experience. But, this average comes from companies that have used live chat for at least two years, so if your number is lower, give it time to grow. So the goal is to make initial contact with customers in a minute or less.

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Win the Customer

DECEMBER 25, 2019

YoY increase in first-contact resolutions and a 6.5% Fewer complaints means more satisfied customers, leading to improved rates of customer retention and lower costs to the organization due to customer churn. Let us first recommend Mike Wiseman Calgary SEO who is the leading provider of SEO Services in Calgary.

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Nicereply

JUNE 18, 2020

Once you know what the issue is, you can use this knowledge to improve your product, educate your agents, or tweak your support process to fix those issues. Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. Simply said, Zendesk’s plain two-button after-resolution survey is all you’re gonna get. Moving past CSAT.

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Hodusoft

MAY 17, 2024

If you are in the call center or contact center industry, you must have come across the term at least once. This blog post covers everything from what is Computer Telephony Integration (CTI for short), history and evolution of CTI, how CTI works, benefits of CTI, types of CTI, features of CTI, and how to handpick the right CTI.

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Monet Software

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Whether you are the CEO, COO, QA Analyst or Customer Service Agent, the number one goal of your contact center is to deliver a quality experience that lends itself to an increase in customer satisfaction. Contact Quality. First-Call Resolution. How to Measure Quality. Customer Satisfaction. Average Handling Time.

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aircall

MARCH 12, 2021

It’s essential to track call center performance to gain insight into how your customers perceive your sales and support services, so you can improve and adapt to their needs. The key ingredients to improving call center performance? First thing’s first—let’s define what call center performance is.

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

Shep Hyken offers valuable insights into the customer support domain and how to create a customer-centric culture in your organization. Response: As the term implies, customer support is when the customer has a request or query and they contact the company via different channels, such as phone, email, chat or chatbot.

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Noble Systems

MAY 11, 2021

As a part of the conversation analytics mix, automated speech recognition (ASR) can help companies better understand their customers and improve the brand experience. In this blog, we’ll look at how speech recognition has evolved since it was first introduced. This was the first time speech recognition was used in phone systems.

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Spearline

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But customers value human contact when they want and need it. Toll-free services or local-access numbers that deliver calls to contact centers often transit multiple regulatory zones. Voice quality testing helps to ensure that when customers do make contact, conversations are clear and comfortable. Consumers are busy people.

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Infinity

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In this blog, we’ll look at how customers have changed, how you, as a retailer, can align with these changes, and the ingredients needed to deliver the experiences that today’s customers expect. There’s no business that hasn’t been significantly impacted by the pandemic. For retailers, it’s been 18 months of upheaval and uncertainty.

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bold360 Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

According to our research, 43% of customers say getting a resolution from the first person they contact is what it takes to make them happy, but only 35% of customer support agents say this is possible. At Bold360, we are constantly making improvements to our agent workspace that make life a little easier for everyone.

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Hodusoft

APRIL 5, 2023

This blog post details seven best practices for managing call center operations. In the age of multichannel communication, you can consider investing in high-quality omnichannel contact center software. A recent stat shows that almost 90 percent of customers feel that the experience is as important as the product or service.

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ProProfs Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In addition, Live Chat can actually help improve your overall buying experience by proactively helping you at various touch points such as while you are browsing products or at checkout. Easily build a seamless experience with live chat to resolve queries in real time and improve customer delight rate. Tweet this. Tweet this.

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Noble Systems

JULY 15, 2019

Digital transformation is one of the hottest topics among CIOs of companies that have mandated improving the customer experience as their top priority. Slight improvements are no longer good enough. Businesses wait for a customer to call into the contact center. Customer care today remains mostly reactive. AI Defined.

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Nicereply

JUNE 24, 2021

Customer Effort Score is a metric, which customer service teams are using to evaluate how easy customers thought it was to get a resolution to their recent contact. They measure it by surveying customers after the resolution of their customer service conversation. Ever been burned by a company’s support team?

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Lumoa

JUNE 14, 2023

Moreover, at least two-thirds of Fortune 1000 companies pore over their NPS results religiously, using the metric as a barometer of customer satisfaction and loyalty. In this blog post, we’ll answer all these questions and more. Or, more terrifyingly, when it’s plummeting into negative territory? Well, not so fast.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2019

First, you have to add the tool to your website. Your business needs live chat software to provide instant resolutions to customers at their convenience. Amazing isn’t it! . Businesses are using live chat increasingly because live chat instills confidence in the customers. What is Live Chat? Multimedia live chat software.

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Global Response

MARCH 27, 2023

The data indicates that customer service and customer experiences are directly related to your bottom line—yet many companies overlook the value of improving customer service from good to great. If your support staff is fast, easy to contact and friendly, but they can’t solve the customer’s problem, that’s still a major problem.

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Monet Software

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

You’re looking to improve the customer service being offered by your contact center and you are wondering where to focus your attention first. According to the Huffington Post , 67% of customer churn is preventable if the customer’s issue was resolved at the first engagement. Which metrics should you be tracking?

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aircall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Keep reading to learn more about why customer feedback matters and how it can improve your customer experience. Listening to what the customers like and dislike develops insight-driven product innovations. They are primarily used to derive insights that help you make well-informed decisions and innovations.

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OctopusTech

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Deciding whether or not to choose outsourcing a call center is a tougher decision to make as some may say that it decreases the quality of service and some may argue that it improves profitability. If you are at an early stage of deciding whether to choose this service, then you might be thinking of two things.

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Monet Software

JANUARY 15, 2019

Sounds like the goal every contact center manager sets at the start of a new year. Here are three essential qualities that always result in improved efficiency. The establishment of key performance indicators (KPIs) is the first step toward efficient performance. Common contact center KPIs include: Hold times.

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