SmartAction

JUNE 30, 2023

When it comes to customer service, most people believe that good customer service means receiving timely assistance to resolve any issues that may arise with a product or service. This is the difference between good customer service and a great customer experience.

Customer Experience 85

Customer Experience Customer Service Virtual Agent Self service 85

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. This list is an homage to the business leaders and influencers pushing the envelope when it comes to innovation in customer experience.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Consulting 251

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. My Customer Service Master Class might be a good fit for training on soft skills.

Average Handle Time 156

Average Handle Time Contact Center First call resolution Analytics 156

Cisco - Contact Center

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

“I need the business agility, flexibility, and speed of new feature delivery that cloud offers while protecting my contact center investments.”. “I I need to modernize my customer and agent experiences to remain competitive.”. “I Do These Challenges Sound Familiar? You’re not alone! Highlights of What’s New.

Contact Center 134

Contact Center Enterprise Self service contact center solutions 134

Enghouse Interactive

AUGUST 26, 2020

Register for our upcoming w ebinar “How and Why Customers Use Self-Service” with Steve Morrell, Managing Director and Principal Analyst of ContactBabel . For many businesses, self-service is evolving into becoming a key factor for success. It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series).

Self service 58

Self service Contact Center CRM Customer Support 58

SmartAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

When it comes to customer service, businesses have a variety of tools at their disposal to make the process as smooth and efficient as possible. Each option has a role in customer service depending on what parts of the customer experience businesses want to automate and which parts they want live agents to handle.

Interactive Voice Response 76

Interactive Voice Response Contact Center Virtual Agent Self service 76

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Each year brings new ideas and new challenges to the customer service department. Register for this free webinar and join us on Thursday, Dec 12, 2019 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST (5:00 PM – 6:00 PM GMT). Register for this free webinar – Click Here! Moderator: Nicholas Zeisler, Principal, Zeisler Consulting.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Chatbots Self service Consulting 52

Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2018

It’s going to be a big year in the world of contact center and in customer service technology. Will this be the year that messaging platforms from Facebook, Apple and others reach critical mass as a channel for customer service? Our favorite chart: The Current State of Customer Care.

Contact Center 141

Contact Center Chatbots Finance Healthcare 141

Cisco - Contact Center

JANUARY 27, 2020

Delivering superior customer experiences is more important now than it has ever been for companies of all sizes. In a study by Bain & Company, a 10x disparity was found between how brands perceive their customer service and how customers perceive that same service. Announcement Highlights.

Contact Center 98

Contact Center contact center solutions Enterprise Cloud contact 98

CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a critical role in customer support, sales, and overall communication between businesses and their clientele. Unfortunately, these centers have also become a target for fraudsters looking to exploit the vulnerabilities inherent in these systems.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Engineering Education Banking 52

Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. When the whole world went remote, people started calling in in record numbers, forcing businesses to reassess their customer service game. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

Call Center 98

Call Center Self service Contact Center Interactive Voice Response 98

Serenova

JUNE 24, 2020

Omnichannel Contact Centers: the Why and How in 2020. Even during this time marked by rapid change and uncertainty, the foundation of a successful contact center remains constant: exceptional customer experience. Organizations that deliver consistently positive customer experiences thrive through any crisis.

Contact Center 98

Contact Center Multichannel contact center solutions Cloud contact 98

Serenova

JUNE 24, 2020

Even during this time marked by rapid change and uncertainty, the foundation of a successful contact center remains constant: exceptional customer experience. Organizations that deliver consistently positive customer experiences thrive through any crisis. What Is an Omnichannel Contact Center?

Contact Center 98

Contact Center Multichannel contact center solutions Cloud contact 98

Serenova

JULY 5, 2019

The customer experience movement is rapidly taking hold in many enterprises. Is your contact center there yet? Customer experience that truly differentiates is a strong competitive advantage. But to get it right, brands must incorporate organizational and operational change into contact center architectural design.

Customer centricity 40

Customer centricity Contact Center Journey mapping Self service 40

Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your contact center is planning for the future, be sure to make employee experience and getting the right technology in place top priorities. We recently participated in a discussion with two industry experts that focused on megatrends that will impact contact centers in 2022. Technology always needs focus.

Contact Center 79

Contact Center CRM Entertainment Virtual Agent 79

NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

In light of fast-changing customer demands, is your contact center keeping up? It used to be possible to win with a top product or a competitive price, but more than ever, customer experience is now top of mind for consumers — and crucial for bottom-line growth. Ultimately, digital engagement is what customers demand.

Contact Center 67

Contact Center Benchmark Self service Best practices 67

Playvox

MAY 26, 2022

In addition to feeling the mental and emotional weight of consumer-facing jobs, remote contact center agents are experiencing redundancy that can make their jobs feel tedious. And with 69% of service agents considering leaving their customer service role altogether, it’s best to take action to improve morale.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Morale Cloud contact Coaching 52

NobelBiz

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

According to Forbes : 97% of consumers and 98% of contact center managers say customer service interactions impact whether consumers stay loyal to a brand. 61% of consumers will pay at least 5% more if they know they’ll get a good customer experience. How to measure Your Contact Center’s NPS?

Customer Experience 111

Customer Experience Contact Center Call Center Revenue potential 111

COPC

APRIL 1, 2024

Global Benchmarking Series | Contact Center Technologies Today, executives deploy digital solutions with increased confidence and swiftness. Contact Center Training: A Digital Leap Forward The way we train new hires at contact centers has changed drastically.

Customer Experience 89

Customer Experience Gamification Benchmark Chatbots 89

Altivon

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Experts from Altivon and Leaden Associates recently held a web event focused on ways that healthcare contact centers can be more efficient and future leaning. Customer Services vs Customer Experience. Service is what you do; experience is how customers feel about it. Program Highlights.

Contact Center 58

Contact Center Abandon rate Healthcare Self service 58

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It’s plain and simple, using plain language in customer interactions is good business for your contact center. When you use plain language across the customer journey, you’re offering better customer service. This all leads to cost savings in your contact center. You’re lowering call volume.

Contact Center 54

Contact Center Personalization Scripts Interactive Voice Response 54

NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

In light of fast-changing customer demands, is your contact center keeping up? It used to be possible to win with a top product or a competitive price, but more than ever, customer experience is now top of mind for consumers — and crucial for bottom-line growth. Ultimately, digital engagement is what customers demand.

Contact Center 54

Contact Center Benchmark Self service Best practices 54

Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 27, 2021

By using video agents can interface directly with callers on a more personal level, where empathy becomes tangible while being able to show customers how to resolve issues instead of explaining how to do so: . Help make sure your organization delivers the service experience that exceeds customer expectations.

Contact Center 92

Contact Center Technology Customer centricity Analytics 92

8x8

OCTOBER 25, 2017

All you need is a quick answer by an informed, competent customer service agent and instead, you get lengthy, unhelpful self-service menus, long wait times and apathetic agents without answers. If you took the time to dig into legacy contact center technology (yeah right, who does this?), But where to start?

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Self service Cloud contact Wait times 48

Avaya

APRIL 10, 2019

In Nemertes’ 2018-19 Digital Customer Experience research study of 697 organizations, we found companies already are relying on AI to transform their customer experience. Companies that use any form of AI have seen incredible success metrics, including the following: 95% increase in new customers. 39% growth in digital sales.

Contact Center 71

Contact Center Analytics voip Virtual Agent 71

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call4You Marketing implemented NobelBiz Omni+, an advanced, full-featured cloud contact center solution equipped with an impressive stack of options and features that can be easily integrated, customized, and optimized to any contact center use case. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

Best practices 104

Best practices Call Center Interactive Voice Response First call resolution 104

teleopti

AUGUST 13, 2019

Statistically, the majority of contact centers still use manual processes to adjust their intraday workforce scheduling but why play a constant game of catch-up? Dave Hoekstra of Teleopti outlines 5 reasons to invest in real-time management to balance the workload, achieve service levels and mop-up agent idle time.

Contact Center 71

Contact Center Chatbots Service level Time management 71

Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Access the On-Demand Webinar Playback of “How AI-Enabled Super-Agents Improve CX” with Kate Leggett , Vice President and Principal Analyst Service Application Development and Delivery, Forrester Research, with Steve Nattress , Director, R&D and Jacki Tessmer , Vice President – Product Marketing, Enghouse Interactive.

Self service 76

Self service Contact Center Benchmark Chatbots 76

SmartAction

MARCH 7, 2023

Any business that wants to stay competitive, reduce operational costs, and take its customer service to the next level should take note. This integration will enable voice-enabled self service, a feature that customers are demanding, and the ability to handle complex voice interactions.

Multichannel 85

Multichannel Virtual Agent Self service Accountability 85

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Contemplating the eventual fate of humans in the customer service process leads to some spicy conversations. More broadly, it’s long been true that a focus on boosting self-service capabilities (with or without AI) is going to yield some reduction in agent need. Webinar: The Impact of AI in Customer Experience.

Customer Service 89

Customer Service Banking Contact Center Call Center 89

Tethr

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

One pillar of providing an effortless customer experience is to reduce channel switching which occurs when a customer is forced to bounce between multiple channels (chat, email, help articles, phone calls, etc.) And when done well, great self service options make customers happier.

Self service 62

Self service Customer effort Contact Center Customer Care 62

Serenova

AUGUST 5, 2019

Consistently creating those experiences, though, requires a holistic approach that incorporates organizational and operational change into contact center architectural design. You can access all three webinars in the series here. Here are highlights from the webinar that help make that balance easier. Automation.

Customer centricity 40

Customer centricity Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Customer Experience 40

Babelforce

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

With this in mind, it’s easy to see why you might want to add WhatsApp as a customer service channel. Offering Customer Support With WhatsApp. Whatever your solution, the first step is integrating WhatsApp with your contact center. 6 Major benefits of WhatsApp for customer support. #1 If you don’t… why not?

Customer Support 98

Customer Support Contact center software Contact Center Self service 98

Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 17, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). Register for our Webinar with Robin Gareiss, President and Founder of Nemertes Research . Blog #1 Enhancing the Customer Experience. Collaboration Improvements Drive Customer Engagement and Satisfaction. Efficiently. Consistent Messaging.

Interactive Voice Response 52

Interactive Voice Response Self service Abandon rate Contact Center 52

Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). Register for our Webinar with Robin Gareiss, President and Founder of Nemertes Research. In our first blog, we explored how Microsoft Teams, when integrated into a Contact Center, helps provide a better experience for the end-customer.

Self service 52

Self service Contact Center CRM Quality management 52

Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The term “buyer’s market” is best known for describing the state of the real estate market, but it’s also applicable to contact centers. In a buyer’s market, customers have choices and can take their business elsewhere should they receive less-than-optimal products, service, and support.

Contact Center 73

Contact Center Coaching Real estate Employee engagement 73