CX Global Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The rate of change in contact centers is accelerating. Fueled by the worldwide proliferation of mobile devices, more interactions are pointed to your contact center than ever before. To survive, you must learn about chatbot best practices in contact centers NOW. And we all know customers want speed.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With corporate budgets tightening, contact center leaders might be tempted to cut into your quality management funding. But quality management is a vital area of your business — it’s what ensures your customers get top-notch service. If they don’t get it, they’re likely to move on, costing your business money in the long run.

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Contact Center Quality management Calibration Coaching 78

CCNG

MARCH 12, 2021

The global pandemic has forever altered customer behavior. A significant opportunity now exists for businesses to expand digital offerings, improve the digital channel experience, and reduce customer effort. Low customer effort drives brand loyalty and reduces cost. Focus on leadership.

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently. Until you start measuring customer experience , you could easily be falling behind the competition.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Contact centers are perfectly placed to predict imminent customer queries. They’re already armed with a wealth of data about the actions customers have or haven’t taken along their journeys and the issues that are likely to arise in the near future. NIA: The balancing metric. Tactics for effective NIA.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Metrics Self service 84

Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

Most companies aspire to excellence in customer experience (CX). But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. How do you build a high performance contact center? What is a High Performance Contact Center? ENJOYING THIS ARTICLE?

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Contact Center Coaching Metrics Average Handle Time 77

VocalCom

MAY 21, 2018

The technologies used in modern contact centers are instrumental in delivering great customer experiences. Customers seek effortless experiences, and the key to satisfying them is by using technologies in ways that serve their needs. Menu options should include all the possible reasons a customer might make contact.

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Tethr

JANUARY 7, 2019

Reducing customer effort has become a major focus for customer experience professionals in recent years after “ The Effortless Experience ” (co-authored by our own Chief Product & Research Officer, Matt Dixon ) was published in 2013.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 10, 2020

With so much of business shifting to virtual spaces, the contact center has taken on a new kind of prominence that no one could have anticipated. Everyone is learning on the fly – businesses, customers and vendors. The Contact Center as an Essential Service. What Customers Really Want.

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360Connext

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

One thing we predict will not change for a long time is the need to reduce customer effort. Customer Contact Week’s report is filled with great tips and facts to help you create better experiences. We’ve been talking about ways to reduce customer effort for a while now. Which trends will matter?

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VocalCom

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

According to a study by Corporate Executive Board, reducing customer effort is key to earning long-term loyalty. The Customer Effort Score, or CES, is an efficient way to measure customer satisfaction and is the KPI your company really needs to keep an eye on. So how can you reduce customer effort?

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Are you measuring Customer Effort Score? First introduced in 2010, Customer Effort Score (CES) is a fairly new contact center metric. Together with the “tried, trusted and true” Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) it helps you to measure just how happy your customers really are.

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Fonolo

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s been an exciting year so far in the world of contact centers. In just the last month we saw the release of Apple’s Business Chat, the announcement of Twilio’s new Flex call center platform and the acquisition of Altocloud by Genesys. You should also check out, 4 Contact Center Reports to Start Off Your Year.).

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Contact Center Call Center Self service Surveys 99

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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Tethr

JANUARY 7, 2019

Reducing customer effort has become a major focus for customer experience professionals in recent years after “ The Effortless Experience ” (co-authored by our own Chief Product & Research Officer, Matt Dixon ) was published in 2013.

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Spearline

AUGUST 7, 2019

5 stars here, "satisfied" scores there, businesses both demonstrate their strengths and weaknesses through the use of customer effort scores on their website, for potential customers and competitors to see. Customer satisfaction is essential. Keeping your customers satisfied and keep your scores high.

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Transparent BPO

AUGUST 5, 2019

Interview with Robert Gofourth, Vice President, Operations Strategy & Performance, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Providing better customer experiences should be every contact center’s number one concern. “People call into contact centers for help, seeking resolution to a problem.

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Contact Center Education outsourcing Customer centricity 94

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Are you measuring Customer Effort Score? First introduced in 2010, Customer Effort Score (CES) is a fairly new contact center metric. Together with the “tried, trusted and true” Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) it helps you to measure just how happy your customers really are.

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Interactions

APRIL 9, 2020

The goal of a BCP for a contact center is to minimize the disruption to both agents and customers, so that business can continue as normally as possible. A BCP for a contact center should be aligned with the overall organization’s BCP to ensure a cohesive message and streamlined protocol throughout the enterprise. .

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Spearline

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What impact would that have on your customer experience? And how could poor audio quality be affecting your contact center? Customer experience It’s important to get the basics right. There are many tactics for improving customer experience.

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Contact Center First call resolution Outbound sales Airlines 52

Taylor Reach Group

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Recently I was asked to participate in an expert round-up on How Fortune 500 companies Manage Their Contact Center(s). More specifically, I was asked to provide insight on the importance of consistency among different channels within a Contact Center. Click here to tweet this image. Click here to tweet this image.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Question: We’re implementing a balanced scorecard to measure agent and contact center performance. Here are 8 primary categories of KPIs that should be used in a contact center to oversee all aspects of its performance: Cost – how much it costs to handle (resolve, sell, collect) each item. implementation process.)

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response CRM Best practices 82

Aspect

JUNE 16, 2017

Get ready for the next big thing in contact center workforce optimization: Speech Analytics. Even though speech analytics was introduced to the contact center industry back in 2003, Aberdeen Group reports that only about 15% of contact centers currently use speech analytics.

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Customer Service Life

MAY 21, 2018

I think we can agree that CSAT (or NPS or Customer Effort) are clearly customer experience metrics because customers are responding to those surveys based on their experience. But how many would list quality assurance, a standard contact center metric, as a customer experience metric? Agent Attrition.

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Metrics Contact Center Customer Experience Average Handle Time 68

DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2017

KPIs for Managing your Contact Center . Contact centers are highly complex operating environments with a lot of moving parts and activities. In other contact centers the data is stale by the time it is received, making it essentially ineffective for helping the manager control their own destiny and performance.

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Etech GS

APRIL 30, 2019

Contacting a company in the hopes of resolving an issue only to receive less-than-impressive service is likely a scenario you’ve personally encountered at least once in your lifetime. Customers have more options than ever, and competition is fierce. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help meet your company’s needs.

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Contact Center Coaching Healthcare Feedback 71

TechSee

MAY 29, 2018

They have found that visual engagement and support have a dramatic effect on KPIs measured in every call center: NPS, FCR and Truck Rolls. Improvements in these areas have been proven to translate into lower customer churn and an improved bottom line. The post How will Visual Engagement Impact Your Contact Center?

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Contact Center Call Center Best practices Customer centricity 95

Customer Service Life

APRIL 27, 2018

As contact center leaders we’re often lightning rods for the latest, greatest technology on the market. Chattermill is a system that allows you to pull customer feedback from NPS (Net Promoter Score), CSAT (Customer Satisfaction), and CES (Customer Effort Score) surveys into one place. Chattermill.

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Contact Center Upselling CRM Feedback 68

Call Experts

MAY 2, 2019

Contact center protocols develop, manage, evaluate, and optimize your customer journey. Advancements in automation technologies and digital channels create new tools for business owners to engage customers. Organizations are redefining their contact objectives. What is the effort level?

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pindrop

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The 5-Point Customer Experience Health Check for Contact Centers. Often when thinking about customer experience most of the thought is dedicated to the online experience, but what about the contact center? CRM tools are the crown jewel of customer interaction. Does Your CRM Need TLC?

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Contact Center Customer Experience Agent Empowerment Call flow 52

NobelBiz

AUGUST 3, 2021

What are the flaws in your contact center? After all, running a contact center without taking human, technological, and managerial facts into account in every operational element is comparable to driving a car without a dashboard. but also qualitative: retention rate, customer satisfaction, Customer Effort Scores, etc.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Coaching Construction 52

DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Contact Center KPIs: Less is More. Contact centers are typically complex operating environments that require many systems and applications to deliver an outstanding customer experience, cost effectively. I would like to receive the monthly DMG Newsletter. By Donna Fluss.

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Contact Center Metrics Enterprise Sales 48

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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Contact Center contact center solutions Multichannel Self service 74

Contact Center Pipeline

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Who decided that three was the optimum number of times an agent should say the name of a customer?” Speech analytics using machine learning and AI are already making an impact within contact centers, but most of the 30-plus vendors I collaborate with are still trying to figure out how to best utilize their own […].

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VHT

MARCH 12, 2019

AI tools like chatbots and digital or IVR self-service were destined to help your customers handle basic issues at their own convenience, drastically cutting down on the transactional calls made to contact centers. Nearly 55 percent admit their customers never can move between channels without repeating information.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Customer effort Wait times 48

Ian Jacobs

APRIL 7, 2015

OK, it is certainly a cliché and clearly suffers from an incomplete view of the world, but many contact center executives would still nod their heads in agreement with the statement, "You can't manage what you can't measure." The key questions for contact center professionals around this data are: What do you measure?

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Contact Center Metrics Customer Service Customer effort 59

Eckoh

JANUARY 6, 2020

What will the Contact Center of the Future look like? In a five-part series, Ashley Burton, Head of Product at Eckoh, explores the radical changes ahead – starting with a new breed of customer that's emerging. To consider the Contact Center of the Future we must first consider the Customer of the Future.

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