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Eight Questions Online Retailers Should Ask before Outsourcing Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Does the BPO Company Offer Multichannel and 24/7 Support? It should have multichannel or omnichannel support for seamless communication between agents and customers. Multichannel functions include: Phones (fixed lines and mobile). Enhances business insights and strategies as you align compliance needs with your processes.

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Inbound and Outbound Converge in the New Contact Center

COPC

I found this article in CRM magazine, Inbound and Outbound Converge in the New Contact Center , to be an interesting one because it discusses some of the changes in our industry that are being made possible by process and technology, but with an eye to improving the customer experience. You can read the entire CRM article below.

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Comparing and Purchasing Call Monitoring Software: 20 Experts Reveal the Biggest Mistakes Companies Make (and How to Avoid Them)

Callminer

Lauren Stafford is a Digital Publishing Specialist at Discover CRM. Call centers can forget about the importance of implementing a system that integrates well with their current CRM solution. Despite what you might assume, most contact centre QA tools are not multichannel…”. @discover_crm. and the Office of the Mayor of Taipei.

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5 Customer Expectations Your Brand Needs to Meet

VocalCom

Chatbots Magazine states that 67% of people expect to use messaging apps when engaging with a brand. According to Location World, 40% of adults now use a virtual assistant such as Siri or Alexa once per day. These habits also extend to their interactions with businesses.

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Customer Expectations and Staff Retention Are Biggest Challenges to Outstanding Service

CSM Magazine

Enhance CRM platform to streamline inputting and outputting information related to quality (service defects) and customer knowledge, such as purchase history and intent, preferences, and interests.

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Harnessing CCaaS and CRM Solutions: What’s the Missing Link?

CSM Magazine

Contact Centre as-a-Service (CCaaS) players might have the specialist cloud contact centre expertise and Unified Communications (UCaaS) players additionally offer voice functionality, but both lack the CRM capabilities necessary to fully understand the customer.

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How Generation Z Employees Will Save the World

CSM Magazine

Who can forget that iconic front cover of TIME Magazine in May 2013 that screamed ‘Me, me, me generation – lazy, entitled narcissists?’ From the moment they are recruited, support young staff with technology that blends mobile and desktop applications with CRM and critical business systems. Think about how Millennials were treated.