Fri.Aug 06, 2021

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Three Ways to Future-Proof Your CX

Contact Center Pipeline

Workplace trends come and go. From the hierarchical corner office setups and cubicle rows that dominated most of the 1900s to open-plan campuses with free lunch and foosball that came with the internet boom of the mid-1990s and early 2000s. From “we need to concentrate more” to “we need to collaborate more.” From IBM calling […].

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Guest Post: Top Benefits of Outsource Call Centers

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Charlotte Blackmore, an SEO Executive and content creator based in Essex. She writes about how using an outsourced call center can be a successful strategy for keeping customers happy. One of the most effective ways of growing a business is through streamlining your customer communications. Providing a quality experience for your customers has a positive impact on generating increased sales and improving overall brand reputation.

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I’m Grading Assignments in my Master Class

Myra Golden Media

Participating in assignments is the number one way we customize my online courses to your specific situations. One of my students typed out the following scenario in an exercise: Situation: The delivery company and the customer feels scammed; they want their money back immediately. My Action: I will recognize the customer’s concern by saying: “I see how frustrating this is for you and how important it is to receive your funds back as quickly as possible.

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The True Cost of Employee Disengagement in the New Normal

Uniphore

Demanding callers. Complex processes. Impossible expectations. These are some of top contact center pain points driving employee disengagement today. In our webinar, What Your Call Center Agents Rant About on Social Media , we went beyond the annual Voice of the Employee survey to explore how agents really view the contact centers they work in—and why they’re leaving at an alarming rate.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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5 Pieces of Career Advice for Starting in Customer Success

ChurnZero

Ranked as one of the top emerging jobs by LinkedIn , you’ll find no shortage of Customer Success careers across SaaS and other markets. Demand for this role only continues to climb as Customer Success becomes an indispensable part of how organizations retain and expand recurring revenue. . As a Customer Success provider with our own fast-growing Customer Success team, we rounded up the best pieces of career advice from our Customer Success team members who know firsthand what it takes to hit the

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On-Premise vs. Cloud Contact Center: What Lies Ahead for Your Business?

CSM Magazine

In order to develop its IT infrastructure, companies must make a number of crucial decisions. Should they maintain the server on-premises and co-locate it in a datacenter, or totally relocate to the cloud? IT infrastructure, quantity of IT personnel, the amount of money a firm is prepared to invest, and industry norms must all be considered when determining the best technological solution.

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5 Pieces of Career Advice for Starting in Customer Success

ChurnZero

Ranked as one of the top emerging jobs by LinkedIn , you’ll find no shortage of Customer Success careers across SaaS and other markets. Demand for this role only continues to climb as Customer Success becomes an indispensable part of how organizations retain and expand recurring revenue. As a Customer Success provider with our own fast-growing Customer Success team, we rounded up the best pieces of career advice from our Customer Success team members who know firsthand what it takes to hit the g

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Alliander Uses Visual IVR to Improve Millions of Interactions

Uniphore

Alliander Uses Visual IVR to Improve Millions of Interactions. With more than 3 million utility customers, the Dutch utility provider Alliander is constantly inundated with customer queries. Jacada’s Customer Assistant solution, combined with WhatsApp integration, helped to reduce call numbers and provide an enhanced digital customer experience. Almost immediately after the launch of Visual IVR on our national line, the number of calls reaching agents has reduced tangibly.

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The Truth About Chatbots Today

USAN

It’s never been more important to offer an excellent customer experience (CX). This means it’s also never been more important to have a CX strategy in place. Research shows that satisfied customers generate 2.6 times more revenue than those who are lukewarm. At the same time, unhappy customers can leave negative reviews that scare away future business.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Higher Education | Agent Assist Streamlines Admissions Processing

Uniphore

Alliander Uses Virtual IVR to Improve Millions of Interactions. With more than 3 million utility customers, the Dutch utility provider Alliander is constantly inundated with customer queries. Jacada’s Customer Assistant solution, combined with WhatsApp integration, helped to reduce call numbers and provide an enhanced digital customer experience. Almost immediately after the launch of Visual IVR on our national line, the number of calls reaching agents has reduced tangibly.

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The Main Reasons Why Your Business Needs IT Support

CSM Magazine

Every business needs to focus on productivity, security, efficiency, and financial management to grow and beat its competitors. All these factors can be effectively fulfilled by integrating IT support with your operations. Today, the benefits and accomplishments portrayed by Information Technology services have increased their procurement. You will not only save money and time but also encourage your employees to work harder.

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How About Better Agent Engagement With Workforce Management?

Voiptime

These days call centers management has supreme importance for call centers that want to deliver astonishing customer experiences. You need to control the workforce as you do it in the real office with agility and 100% remotely.

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9 Ways to Stay Sane and Improve Your Mental Health at Work

CSM Magazine

As the recent pandemic starts to decline, most of us will find ourselves heading back to work. Whether you’ve loved working from home or you’re dying to get back to the office, going back to a traditional workspace is going to need some adjustments. Even if you feel more productive and sociable in the office, a traditional workplace is going to cause challenges at times.

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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5 Benefits of knowledge management & cognitive decision trees in healthcare

Knowmax

5 Benefits of knowledge management & cognitive decision trees in healthcare.

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Aug 06 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Customer Success Director – Remote Location: Los Angeles, CA, US Organization: Echobox As a Customer Success Director, you will empower customers to connect their goals and challenges with solutions in the platform while increasing usage and adoption rates. Monitor customers’ KPIs to drive the usage of the products. Help communicate customers’ needs to the Product team and help shape the product roadmap.

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Best Employee Engagement Software & Tools

ProProfs Blog

Modern employees today are looking beyond just a 9-to-5 job. They are more passionate about their work than ever and want to find true meaning in what they do. . Following this trend, employee engagement has quickly become a popular metric to gauge work satisfaction, employee productivity, and, eventually, business growth. . However, statistics reveal a different story.

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Customer Escalation Management: An Essential Guide

SmartKarrot

Customers tend to leave a business mostly because they think that the company does not care about its presence. A business relies on the money of a customer and this makes the customer skeptical whether companies prioritize revenue over customer experience. In fact, stats prove it. 68% of the customers leave a company because they believe that they are not valued.

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Reimagining CX: How to Implement Effective AI-Driven Transformations

Speaker: Steve Pappas, Chief Strategist, Startup and Early Stage Growth Advisor, Keynote Speaker, CX Podcaster

As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.

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Zendesk vs Freshdesk: How to Choose Your Ideal Help Desk Platform?

CSM Magazine

We live in a time when customer service is just as important as the products you offer. Eighty-six percent of shoppers are willing to pay a premium for excellent customer service. Furthermore, by investing in a customer service plan, you can more than double your income in 3 years. Your first investment in customer service should be in dependable customer service and support tools.

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Taylor Reach to guide transformation for laboratory services organization

Taylor Reach Group

A national medical testing laboratory services organization has contracted The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG) to guide the transformation of its contact center operations. The comprehensive project will involve not only assessing and benchmarking the organization’s multiple contact centers, but will develop the transformation strategy and associated roadmap to support the future mode of operation.