Cyara

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Per the question in the title of this blog post, let’s examine the phrase, break down the meaning, and then explore how “Last Mile Assurance” is relevant to and important in the context of contact centers and customer experience. A call dropped in the middle of a customer complaint. And “last mile” is… well… exactly that.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Having managed over 3,500 people in contact centers in my previous career, I was sympathetic of organizations at the start of the pandemic. Today, COVID is an excuse for organizations to deliver poor service. While I have my opinions, I do not have all the answers about why experiences are poor today.

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Customer Service Life

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Early in my career as a contact center manager, I did many things that make me cringe nowadays. One such thing was requiring my team to end every call by asking customers, “Is there anything else I can help you with.” Can we please end this call now?”

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business? Today, one in five people speak something other than English as their primary language—a number that’s tripled over the last several decades. The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. But what’s the best approach? And what about offshore?

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Call Experts

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Call routing is pivotal in connecting individuals with the right human experts, as Fit Small Business explains. In this blog, we’ll explore the intricacies of call routing, its significance in modern customer service, and how it can enhance the customer experience. Firstly, it optimizes resource utilization.

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Callminer

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Call centers , in particular, represent just one facet of a large and varied international outsourcing industry. However, the world’s call centers are arguably the most public examples of companies’ outsourcing efforts, facing customer directly in one-on-one interactions. Better Agent Performance.

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

As companies embrace the digitization of customer support, the new standard is much more than a phone conversation with a call center representative or a visit from a field agent. With a career spanning over 20 years, Eric has an extensive amount of experience in Contact Center and 3rd party and onshore vendor management.

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SmartAction

APRIL 11, 2024

Virtual voice agents can be a blessing or a curse for your customers. Done right, they provide a rich, natural, personalized experience that soothes frazzled nerves and either swiftly provides a relevant automated answer or directs them to a live agent who can help. But technology is just part of the answer. Personalize it.

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Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Call routing is pivotal in connecting individuals with the right human experts, as Fit Small Business explains. In this blog, we’ll explore the intricacies of call routing, its significance in modern customer service, and how it can enhance the customer experience. Firstly, it optimizes resource utilization.

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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. Be it as part of a query, on a call, buried in the CRM system, or posted to social media or online groups/forums. Recording – both voice and digital communications should be captured in real-time for agent support.

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Call Experts

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations. However, not all contact centers are created equal.

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Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations. However, not all contact centers are created equal.

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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. Conversational IVR breaks the mold of the traditional contact center, which focuses on efficiency at the expense of customer service.

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Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Streamline Operations and Never Miss Another Call with a Contact Center for Utilities. Today, utilities play an undeniably vital role in our daily lives. In this blog, we’ll explore the topic of using a call center for utilities and how it can enhance the overall customer experience.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It’s easy to get complacent in the call center, taking customer queries one after the other. The Executive Guide to Improving Call Center Metrics. The good news is, we’ve done the heavy lifting and rounded up the best strategies to implement in your call center. Prioritize agent satisfaction.

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s face it — no one contacts your contact center to tell the person who answers the phone, text, or chat to tell your organization that they love your brand, service, or product. Most interactions that contact center agents have daily are to solve a problem or issue, adjust a payment, or ask a clarifying question.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the world of contact center metrics, service level has always held a special place. This metric is universally understood across the industry, and clearly conveys how quickly customer calls are answered by support agents. Its origins go back over five decades, to the earliest days of call centers.

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VirtualPBX

APRIL 19, 2023

Managing call volume is a critical aspect of running any business that relies on phone communication. Whether you are a customer service representative, sales professional, or running a call center, you need to be equipped with the right strategies to handle incoming calls efficiently. What is Call Volume?

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TeleDirect

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Interactive voice response ( IVR ) is considered an essential call center technology. It enhances the customer experience by guiding them through options when they call and, based on their response, directing them to the appropriate agent or relaying the needed information. What Is an IVR?

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JustCall

APRIL 3, 2024

A surge in call volume is always good news for your business. But, it also leads to chaotic calls and handling long call queues for customer support and sales teams. So, how do you manage call surges during unanticipated high-traffic periods? Let’s explore the top 10 tips high call volume call centers could use.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

TechSee’s Annual Influencer List For a second year, everyone at TechSee is proud and excited to share our annual list of influential leaders in the space of digital customer service. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback last year, so we’re back with another edition – this time even bigger and better!

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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. So, what is outbound call , exactly? At TeleDirect, it consists of dedicated call agents whose job it is to find, verify and qualify leads. Now, back to business.

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Calabrio

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

These changes in consumer behavior and expectations, combined with new technologies, are starting to completely transform the contact center. We’ve entered an era where simply keeping abreast with the latest contact center tech advances is not enough. Today’s consumers demand service 24/7, 365 days a week.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Executives and managers know that contact center goal-setting helps usher in progress and bring about positive change. In a busy customer service department, having an agreed-upon set of milestones helps you cross the finish line because it clarifies decision-making, keeps morale up, and can even reduce agent turnover.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

After five years of providing what amounted to call center plumbing, we had really zeroed in on what call centers did and realized that the heart of a call center was and always will be the people that operate the phones. The contact center was even more complicated.

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Agents work hard every day to help customers, and while the internet and social media abound with customer service horror stories, very few customers publicize their positive experiences. This week-long celebration focuses on a different topic each day, with today’s focus on “Customer Service as a Profession.”

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OctopusTech

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Outsourcing is one tactic that has been more popular recently, especially in the call center services industry. Numerous advantages come with outsourcing call centers, including increased productivity and significant cost reductions.

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TeleDirect

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Anyone who has been in customer service understands that the human connection is impossible to replace. At TeleDirect, we consider our agents the backbone of our company. AI call center technology, however, has made significant inroads into the industry. You may wonder what that has to do with a call center.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

CXA stands for Customer Experience Automation, a strategic approach that integrates automation tools and software within call centers to enhance the customer journey. Automated customer support: Utilizing automation to handle routine customer inquiries and issue resolutions, freeing up human agents for more complex tasks.

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The pandemic has impacted every aspect of our lives, and the contact center is no exception. As pandemic conditions led businesses to shift to work-from-home, many contact centers lacked the capability to properly support remote agents, making their jobs more difficult.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Andrew Yang, founder of “Venture for America” (and a long-shot candidate for president in 2020) said “Google recently demonstrated software that can do the job of an average call center worker … that’s going to result in hundreds of thousands of jobs lost”. Duplex is Not About Agent Replacement. Let’s take this apart.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Advances in technology allow contact centers to use data in much more manageable ways, redefine how to engage with customers, gain efficiencies, and leverage actionable insights to improve quality management (QM) and the customer journey. How Quality Management Processes Have Shifted It could be called the perfect storm for contact centers.

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TeleDirect

DECEMBER 14, 2023

If you have been considering investing in a dedicated call center , the question of its ROI has undoubtedly been raised. To answer this requires, in part, knowing the services your dedicated call center provides. To provide the best customer experience possible and to turn calls into leads into sales. times more.

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Hodusoft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

What’s the Role of Lead Generation in an Outbound Call Center? Outbound call centers come in many shapes and sizes. It’s not uncommon to find different types of outbound call centers performing different activities. In the outbound call center context, there are five types of leads: 1.

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TeleDirect

DECEMBER 14, 2023

If these scenarios apply to you, a full-service call center such as TeleDirect could be extremely beneficial to your company. Our call center solutions are customized to what your company needs to thrive. In the meantime, our call center solutions are fully customizable, giving you just what you and your company need.

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pindrop

AUGUST 22, 2021

In today’s technology-obsessed world, the way customers communicate with businesses has changed. In addition to the good old phone call, we now also have email, mobile apps, live chat, and social media channels. After all, who wouldn’t prefer to interact with someone who is invested and caring? Download the Playbook.

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Blueship Call Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The call center sector has seen a significant transition in the commercial world. Call centers began as internal divisions devoted to sales and customer service. The use of call center outsourcing techniques increased corporate productivity in the latter half of the 20th century.

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