Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 8, 2021

The decision to engage a contact center consultant is not made lightly. We’ve found four main reasons for long-term lack of success after a consulting engagement: Lack of Knowledge. One reason a contact center organization calls us for help is that they simply don’t know what to do next. By Peg Ayers.

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CX Accelerator

MARCH 16, 2020

Written by Jeremy Watkin and Community Dear contact center agent: What if I told you that if you come to work for us you can do the exact same job as you’re doing now but we’ll instead call you a customer service hero, guru, rockstar, or ninja? Be careful about confusing agents and customers. Are you sold?

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd. Eric’s favorite motto is “The Customer Experience is Paramount and must be the driving force to any organization.” Paul Husar, Senior Call Center Manager at LG Electronics. Jim Iyoob, Chief Customer Officer at Etech Global Services.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases Future Contact Center Outlook, 2025 – 2040. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases Future Contact Center Outlook, 2025 – 2040.

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Global Response

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In fact, BPO consulting is a key way to add scalability to your business and grow your business quickly. At its core, BPO consultants will help audit your processes and existing systems in order to improve efficiency, productivity and operations. But customer service isn’t the only function of BPO that supports business growth.

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CX Accelerator

MARCH 16, 2020

Written by Jeremy Watkin and Community Dear contact center agent: What if I told you that if you come to work for us you can do the exact same job as you’re doing now but we’ll instead call you a customer service hero, guru, rockstar, or ninja? Be careful about confusing agents and customers. Are you sold?

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

We spent the last couple of months asking influencers and industry leaders how they thought the pandemic had impacted customer service. Read the Full Industry Report Here: Contact Center Trends 2021. Contact Center Teams Had to be More Empathetic. Bill Quiseng CX Expert, Speaker & Consultant.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 23, 2024

In the United States, the majority of customer complaints regarding debt collection concern agencies trying to collect debt that the consumer did not owe. This is why automation is especially transformative in contact centers. This feedback is invaluable for continuously improving service quality and agent performance.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2018

This is especially true for those of us involved in the cacophony of contact centers; we are essentially the appointed, trusted ‘brand listeners’ who hear many, many voices on a given day, including those of both customers and colleagues. Contact center professionals? We are all customers for something.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

How do you improve customer service? The answer always lies in your customer experience. Great experiences lead to loyal customers who buy more from you in the future. When you take care of customers from start to finish, they will always come back and refer others to your business. Listen to your customers.

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Call Center Weekly

JULY 6, 2018

This is certainly having an impact on contact center strategies as we must determine how to provide support to these new clients. How does a contact center without a formal multilingual support system handle non-English calls? Research also shows a rise in customer defections after only one bad experience!

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ShepHyken

JULY 26, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Negative Employee Experiences Can Translate Into Poor Customer Service, Report Says by Emilie Shumway. (HR How to Build Customer Loyalty with a Thank You Page by Thomas Griffin. Consider the opening stats.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

DMG Consulting Releases New Report on The State of Artificial Intelligence in Contact Centers. Driving a new era in the servicing sector. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services. MEDIA ALERT.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Digital Customer Service Product and Market Report. Digital-first servicing drives improved CX and brand engagement. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services.

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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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NobelBiz

MAY 16, 2023

Hosted technology has been available to the contact center industry for several years, although its market penetration has been modest at best. Contact centers around the globe started experimenting with it to address the challenges posed by the pandemic.

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Call Center Weekly

OCTOBER 9, 2017

How then does a well trained contact center impact customer experience? Higher First Contact Resolution When your staff is well trained, they can provide resolution (when possible) on the first interaction. I have led or consulted contact centers of various sizes across numerous industries.

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HGS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ready to modernize your contact center? Tis the season for contact center trends, predictions, and “must-watch” lists. Gartner ranks trends such as digital experience platforms, Internet of things for customer service, natural language processing, 360-degree view of customers, chatbots, robotic process automation, etc.

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Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Customer Experience and Contact Center Consultancy, The Taylor Reach Group, has recently completed its in-depth analysis of two contact centers for a national patient support firm. This process identified the centers’ maturity, and allowed for the charting of improvement initiatives to prove the results.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The discussion around how to reduce customer service costs is not a new one. For decades, service organizations have been proposing innovative ways to cut operational costs in customer service: Let employees bring their own coffee? ??. How to Reduce Customer Service Costs Sustainably. field services.

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Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 10, 2017

Colin Taylor, announced today the addition of Peg Ayers to the Contact Center, Call Center and Customer Experience consulting firm. Peg Ayers brings substantial Contact Center and Customer Service experience to Taylor Reach”, said Taylor. Taylor said. “Peg

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 8, 2024

AI and the Contact Center Staffing Challenge March 2024 It’s challenging and costly to hire, train, and onboard new contact center agents, and it’s often more difficult to retain them. Contact centers have always had an employee attrition problem because it’s a tough, underappreciated, and generally underpaid job.

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 13, 2021

DMG Consulting Releases 2021 – 2022 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services. Where: Available at the DMG Consulting online store.

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Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 16, 2021

A major professional sports league with teams and venues in virtually every city in North America has selected The Taylor Reach Group to assess its contact center operations. Award-winning global contact center consultants and customer experience experts, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

AI is the Tailwind for 2024 Contact Center Technology Investments On an annual basis, DMG Consulting conducts a worldwide survey of enterprise, customer experience (CX), contact center, and customer service executives and managers to ask about their top business priorities and technology investment plans for the following year.

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Taylor Reach Group

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Industry-leading Customer Experience (CX) and Contact Center consulting firm, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. TRG), is continuing its forward momentum and growth with the addition of strategic partner and consultant, Steve Edmondson. A global Contact Center, Call Center, and Customer Experience consulting firm.

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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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Myra Golden Media

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday I sat down with author, consultant, and trainer, Jeff Toister, to discuss a familiar problem customer service professionals grapple with in contact centers – conversation control. Continue the Conversation with Me?

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

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Outsource Consultants

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And there’s no shortage of experts at Outsource Consultants., We’ve partnered with digital transformation consulting firms and AI service providers to assist our BPO partners to elevate CX. Corey Kotlarz: “ AI is at the forefront of the CX marketplace , a hot topic everyone discusses.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 18, 2022

Contact centers have experienced a wild ride throughout the pandemic – and it looks like it is continuing in a more positive direction. The global contact center industry was valued at approximately $339 billion in 2020, and is expected to reach $496 billion by 2027!

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 8, 2022

No industry is safe from rising labor costs, especially the contact center industry where a majority of employees are the heavily affected low-wage earners. Aside from just wage inflation, recruiting cost increases and benefits additions have put a major strain on the margins of domestic contact centers.

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Taylor Reach Group

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

by Colin Taylor The rapid advancement of conversational AI has had a profound impact on various industries, and one arena that has been significantly affected is the contact center industry. The emergence of Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRs) in the 1980s marked the initial steps toward automation within contact centers.

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NobelBiz

MAY 16, 2023

Hosted technology has been available to the contact center industry for several years, although its market penetration has been modest at best. Contact centers around the globe started experimenting with it to address the challenges posed by the pandemic.

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Fonolo

JUNE 13, 2023

Today’s customers expect more from customer service. They want prompt, reliable, integrated service and they will not linger if it’s not readily available. Their patience is never shorter than when dealing with your call center. That’s why call-backs have become a contact center essential.

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Taylor Reach Group

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Today, CX and Contact Center consultancy, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. The consultancy will conduct an essential health check of the firm’s customer experiences and Contact Center operations. “We TRG), announced they are administering a Strategic Assessment for a leading stock transfer organization.

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TechSee

MAY 4, 2021

Economic and logistical challenges have resulted in businesses turning to the gig economy to support and scale their customer service and sales efforts while lowering their fixed costs and in-house overhead. The Concept of GigCX: Freelance customer service agents. Why Customer Service is adopting the Gig Model.

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