Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

Running a smooth and efficient contact center can feel like the ultimate struggle, but don’t worry, you’re not alone. Providing noteworthy customer experiences is a top priority for any business, and a well-run help desk, support center, or customer service center is the key to improving contact center performance.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

The strain to balance taking care of employees to protect them from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. As contact volume, customer anxiety and agent stress all still soar, what you once managed can now feel overwhelmingly un-manageable. Every time.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management? It’s also sometimes referred to as quality assurance.

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Global Response

MARCH 1, 2022

KPIs for call centers: 8 critical metrics to track. When it comes to KPIs for your call center, one thing is for sure: less is more. After all, when you’re managing a call center, whether it’s in-house or outsourced, there’s a long list of KPIs (key performance indicators) that you could be measuring.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

For businesses of all sizes, technology has also changed contact centers from an internal and customer-facing perspective. Contact center technology has evolved to enable more on-demand capabilities and scale, thanks to the cloud. So is it worthwhile to upgrade your existing contact center technology?

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Agent burnout directly harms the quality of customer service your business provides and significantly hurts your company’s bottom line. It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. Some contact centers experience almost no turnover at all. Consider this.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 30, 2018

Are you one of the almost 40% of organizations that say reducing effort to improve the customer experience is their primary contact center goal for 2018? The best contact center solution is not worth a penny if it’s not up and running. They will give you the flexibility to customize your solution.

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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. A plethora of data are now available.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Contact center management is hard. You manage employees in an industry that has one of the highest turnover rates out there. Let’s look into some ideas that will help you successfully manage you contact center environment while keeping your cool in the process. Very hard, actually. Consolidate tools.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At some point, every contact center faces the stark reality of needing to modernize. You’ve got teams of agents but only rudimentary quality monitoring. You’re not alone: Determining how to bring your contact center current actually involves a complex web of purchase decisions that can be downright daunting.

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NobelBiz

AUGUST 3, 2021

What are the flaws in your contact center? In order to find the accurate answer to these questions, business owners and managers must go beyond guesses and instinct and rely on scientific, clear, and quantitative facts. Team Management: how dedicated are your agents? Is your client satisfaction decreasing?

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a great wave of contact center system and application overhauls and upgrades. In the past three years, AI has progressed from a concept with great potential to a practical set of technologies that are being used to reinvent the underpinnings of every contact center system and application.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

To properly manage your teams and fulfill your customers and business objectives, you must monitor many KPIs. However, with the volume of calls and data generated on a daily basis in contact centers, managers and supervisors frequently feel overwhelmed. Measurable: We must guarantee that the goal can be quantified.

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Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

This definitely applies to customer needs and preferences, and contact centers are constantly striving to stay one step ahead of evolving customer requirements. How do contact centers not only survive but thrive in this new era? How do contact centers not only survive but thrive in this new era?

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NobelBiz

MARCH 23, 2022

Running a successful contact center means you’re responsible for keeping customers happy and your agents performing effectively so that your company may thrive. And generating an ROI on your contact center to increase your company’s bottom line is part of that growth strategy. Actually, no, it’s not that simple!

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Talkdesk

JUNE 5, 2019

As the leading provider and developer of on-demand shared ride technology, Via experienced significant growth and needed a flexible contact center solution to support its customer service operations.

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Monet Software

DECEMBER 21, 2018

February also featured the debut of our YouTube video series “Headcetera,” a lighthearted look at how two contact centers ­– one with workforce management software, one without – face the challenges of forecasting and scheduling. We debuted our new, modern and more responsive company website this month. Stay tuned!

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Cloud-based contact center infrastructure (CBCCI) vendors have spent most of the last 20 years playing functional catch-up to the leading on-premise vendors. It’s undeniable that contact center platform vendors are having a highly positive disruptive impact on the pace of innovation in the CBCCI sector.

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Xaqt

JANUARY 15, 2021

Paul Stockford of Saddletree Research, a leading analyst firm in the Contact Center industry, published today a Research Brief covering Xaqt's AI powered Vaccination Communication and Scheduling automation platform. Please contact Chris Crosby at chris@xaqt.com for questions or further commentary.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2021

Contact Center call volumes are increasing exponentially, resulting in supervisors dealing with agent assessments on more of an exception basis than as a normal course of business. But unfortunately, agent supervision and quality assurance capabilities have not evolved to meet these new realities.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). In our first blog, we explored how Microsoft Teams, when integrated into a Contact Center, helps provide a better experience for the end-customer. Protect Your Experts with Call Recording and Quality Management.

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Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

Some of the most common uses of AI have been game changers: Virtual assistants like Siri guiding us on our way and finding information in an instant Fraud detection from our financial institutions Medical diagnoses and healthcare Contact centers are no exception and stand to gain significant business and operational benefits from AI.

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Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 24, 2021

Video Outperforms All Other Contact Center Communications Channels. Integrating video will accelerate the transformation of your contact center into a powerful revenue generator. It’s helping them become more customer-centric, increasing their overall responsiveness, and by extension, their success.

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Playvox

MAY 2, 2023

While it might seem like just about everything is in the cloud these days, many contact centers still haven’t taken the leap. But moving to a cloud contact center can have big benefits for your company, your customers, and your agents. Remote work continues to be a highly desirable benefit for contact center employees.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 29, 2021

Who hasn’t heard “This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes”? This notice is legally required so that all parties are aware that the call is being recorded. AI is rapidly being applied in all areas of the contact center. Additional Considerations.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Today, the biggest challenge facing global service organizations and traditional contact centers is delivering a quality of service experience in line with the expectations of the modern customer – one that keeps the customer satisfied and instills loyalty to their brand. You’ll end up thanking them for having done so. .

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In addition to supporting your online web-tools and FAQ, there is also the opportunity to look at establishing a centralized repository of more detailed, specific or even highly technical information that is accessible by customers, contact center agents and technical personnel. your FAQ on steroids.

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Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 13, 2021

will have extended Teams to their contact center for voice and 31.1% Video enablement: either use internally to manage remote agents, or externally for communications with customers. say video is vital for managing remote employees. say video is vital for managing remote employees. Artificial Intelligence: 71.6%

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Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes . Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Unified Communications (UC or UCaaS) are becoming integral to every contact center, with different benefits from each. Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. Understanding the key call center efficiency metrics to track , and more importantly, how to improve them, will set you up for success and help keep your customers happy.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Your Biggest Contact Center Challenge? Figuring Out What Customers Are Telling You. From digital natives to boomers. Anyone with a cell phone and an app, everyone expects more. Customers expect their time to be valued and that any interaction they have with your organization is efficient, leading them to their desired outcome.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 18, 2020

To keep our customers informed of new capabilities available in our Cisco Contact Center portfolio, we’ve created this monthly blog series. Improved Operational Efficiency with Webex Contact Center Analyzer Reports. Welcome to Our Monthly Feature Update Blog Series.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 5, 2022

These days, the contact center is the face of a company. The customer experience can make or break your business, so it’s important to understand the factors that make a great customer service representative and a great contact center. However, managing a contact center doesn’t come without its challenges and risks.

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NICE inContact

JULY 10, 2018

So how can businesses reap the rewards and achieve the most out of an investment in cloud contact center technology? You’ll be looking for a vendor that can provide this as well as who can help you optimize your cloud contact center in these five ways. Deliver omnichannel experiences. Measure performance.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Doing so, will transform your contact center from a cost-center into a revenue generator. Watch for our next blog in this series, coming October 21st: Constant Learning Improves AI Recommendations. Help make sure your organization delivers the customer experience that exceeds their expectations.

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Top 10 Contact Center Software for 2022-2023. Before the advent of contact center software, customer service representatives would handle all customer requests and complaints through telephone calls. That transformed call centers into contact centers. HoduCC – Contact Center Software.

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