Myra Golden Media

APRIL 11, 2023

A whopping one-third of contact centers have laid off employees in the last 12 months, reducing their headcount by about 33%. Despite fewer resources and fewer employees, contact centers are expected to achieve the same or better results. Learn more about Balto AI’s solutions here.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

After assessing how the pandemic had changed the call center in 2020 , we decided to peek over the parapet at 2021. We asked the contact center industry’s top influencers and business leaders what they thought the most significant contact center trends in 2021 would be. Contact Center Trends 2021.

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Outsource Consultants

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It’s because the ongoing labor shortage, paired with increased Q4 purchasing, is leaving many businesses that rely on contact center support exposed to looming CX disasters. This includes excessive hold times, overwhelmed agents, poor customer satisfaction, and ultimately brand harm. Tip the Scales with Technology.

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CCNG

JANUARY 31, 2024

These generational workers help customers within up to five channels: email, chat, text, phone, and social medial. Customers want better self-serve options to give them the right answer quickly in a multitude of different ways: chatbots, internal customer portals, external websites, and company apps.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Did you know that 70% of customers that had their issues solved favourably in the first call would be willing to return to your business for repeat purchases? This is how important customer experience is, especially in the context of contact centers. What are Contact Center Software Solutions?

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contact centers play a vital role in today’s modern businesses. They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028.

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Spearline

MARCH 2, 2021

Or your customer is struggling to have a conversation with your agent but takes twice as long as it should because the audio quality means you’re constantly repeating yourself. What impact would that have on your customer experience? And how could poor audio quality be affecting your contact center?

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Fonolo

JANUARY 10, 2023

For some, there’s nothing to see but opportunity, and they want to discover everything they can about AI technology for their contact center. . The first thing to know is that AI is not something to fear. On the contrary, it’s an excellent tool to enhance the customer experience and give your contact center a boost.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Optimizing team productivity is the key to achieving this goal, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the steps necessary to unlock your call center’s full potential. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center? CSAT = (number of positive responses / the total number of responses) x 100.

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Balto

JANUARY 17, 2023

When it comes to healthcare contact centers, automation is far from new. So, why is automation — a technology that formed the foundation of basic call center operations — still slated to become a top trend in healthcare in 2023? How a Contact Center Staple Became a ‘New’ Trend.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 15, 2022

That all depends on the goals your contact center sets. It’s up to you to set those standards and provide the right support and motivation for your call center team to achieve them. The first step is deciding where to focus your efforts. The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Contact Center Metrics.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

CRM strategies involve using technology to store and analyze customer data and automate and streamline sales and marketing processes. In a contact center, facilitate managing the large volume of daily customer interactions by using essential CRM strategies. This can lead to increased customer loyalty and repeat business.

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Fonolo

MARCH 9, 2023

CCMC’s Customer Rage Study is a fascinating look at CX, designed to help customer service pros identify pain points and reduce customer complaints in the contact center. The first study was done in 2003 — can you guess which direction the overall trend has headed since then?

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Call centers have always relied on different forms of automation to provide swift service to their clientele. As technology gets smarter and more intuitive, so does the contact center that benefits from it. Read on for an introduction to call center automation, plus our top software picks!

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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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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

For most contact centers, surviving the first months of COVID-19 required swift operational reboots that began with major work-from-home (WFH) transitions. The strain of balancing the need to protect employees from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 17, 2021

To optimize your call center’s performance, you need to think about improving your customers’ experience. After all, customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable. While incredible customer service should always be a call center’s goal, it shouldn’t be your only goal. But it’s not enough.

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Comm100

JUNE 5, 2018

Unsurprisingly, the enthusiasm of AI has spilled over to customer experience (CX) in the hope of improving call center efficiency. This uncertainty has generated myths about AI, such as the popular thinking that AI will replace call center agents or equally popular, that AI will solve all CX problems.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

HubSpot says 80 percent of customers reported that they have stopped doing business with a company due to a poor customer experience. Customer service agents are a company’s most important asset to keeping customers pleased. The customer service role has evolved, but live agents will not go away.

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Global Response

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Your customers are the heart of your brand. Focusing on how to improve customer experience is critical to business strategy. The problems you solve, the services you provide, and the products you create all take into account your customer’s goals, needs, and desires. What Is Customer Experience and Why Does It Matter?

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

There are plenty of call center metrics you can use to help determine how you’re doing, the most important ones being: Average waiting time. Call volume Call abandonment rate. First call resolution. Customer satisfaction (CSat) score. Master the Basics of Call Center Operations Management.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. To this end, we have grouped the top contact center trends for 2019 into these three categories: human, effortless and transformative.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Blog #2 of 3: Self-Service puts the Customer Experience in their Hands. This is where Virtual Assistants/ChatBots using robotic process automation (RPA) or machine learning (ML) are most beneficial as they help reduce queues, wait times and costs while also increasing overall customer satisfaction ratings.

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

“The customer care representative I just spoke to was extremely helpful, patient, courteous, and knowledgeable. I wish all contact center employees were like them.” But is it only about creating a good customer experience? This is the essence of a call center quality assurance.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. To this end, we have grouped the top contact center trends for 2019 into these three categories: human, effortless and transformative.

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Fonolo

APRIL 22, 2021

First Call Resolution (FCR) is one of the best metrics for tracking your success in both these areas. It’s no wonder why it’s one of the most widely used KPIs in the contact center industry. Learn more about its significance and how you can use it to improve your call center’s performance below!

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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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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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. and that each customer interaction will take longer and be more involved because the self-service offering will take care of the routine customer inquiries.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Zenarate partnered with Execs In The Know to gather current consumer preferences and perceptions related to customer service and customer experience channels. CX leaders can use the report to better understand what consumers value most, where to focus their agent training efforts, and how to win over customers and prospects.

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teleopti

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In this new era of Customer Experience Intelligence, frontline staff are able to go beyond the simple ‘what happened?’ to understanding why customers are contacting them in the first place, pre-empting their preferred communication method and even suggesting new outcomes – all in real-time.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 24, 2020

Now, we’re going to dive into the different stakeholders within and outside of the contact center who will benefit from this evolution of the traditional knowledge base, and how you can use it to transform your customer experience. . A true AI-powered knowledge base benefits: Customers.

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JustCall

APRIL 3, 2023

AI-powered IVR is like a traditional IVR equipped with Natural Language Processing engines and AI algorithms that “understand” the customer query and improvise the self-help menu in chatbots accordingly to provide relevant and targeted solutions. It applies to the self-service channels of contact centers too.

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Hodusoft

JULY 19, 2023

Best practices for using inbound call center software Future of inbound call center software What is Inbound Call Center Software? Inbound call center software refers to a suite of tools and technologies used to manage and handle incoming customer calls within a contact center environment.

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ViiBE Blog

MAY 13, 2021

So what exactly do call centers do? What does a call center do? Customer satisfaction is a crucial metric and the priority of every call center employee. At the core of each call center or contact center is the customer interaction. Contact Center.

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Fonolo

APRIL 4, 2023

Customer service expectations in the contact center continue to increase, and only the best businesses keep up. Customer service statistics show that superior CX generates more return customers, increases loyalty, and helps generate higher profits. will result in a $276,000 reduction in annual operational costs.

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