Recession-Proof Your Contact Center: How to Navigate a Downturn
LiveVox
OCTOBER 5, 2022
During a recession, contact centers and call centers are still in high demand. But how does an economic downturn effect the industry?
LiveVox
OCTOBER 5, 2022
During a recession, contact centers and call centers are still in high demand. But how does an economic downturn effect the industry?
NobelBiz
OCTOBER 5, 2022
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NobelBiz
OCTOBER 5, 2022
NobelBiz | Blog. How to Measure the Return On Investment (ROI) Of Your Contact Center Solution?
BlueOcean
OCTOBER 10, 2022
The launch of your outsourced contact center implementation may be a strenuous time – there's so much at stake for your business. That said, it shouldn’t be a headache.
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.
Fonolo
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The great migration of contact centers transitioning from on-site to hybrid work environments isn’t slowing down–and an air-tight call center security strategy has never mattered more. There’s a staggering amount of sensitive information that flows through a contact center every day. The personal email addresses, passwords, and credit card numbers that are all in a day’s work for a call center, are very desirable to cyber criminals.
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Comm100
OCTOBER 10, 2022
The life of chatbots in customer service has been turbulent. However, as bot technology has rapidly improved, so too has organizations’ readiness to adopt chatbots in their customer service operations. By introducing a chatbot, organizations are now expanding customer service availability, cutting costs, increasing team efficiency, so much more. In this blog, we’ll look at some of the best chatbot examples across industries, revealing how organizations are using automation and the benefits each
Totango
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Recent years have seen an astonishing rise in the popularity of subscription-based products and services. The world of ownership is being replaced by Spotify, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and a host of other on-demand services. And of course, customers can easily cancel the very second they become dissatisfied, lose interest, or feel they aren’t getting the value they expected. .
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Social customer care may not be the most popular channel to deal with customer issues for most businesses, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. More and more customers are turning to social media to get help. More on why in just a moment. For now, let’s address why companies aren’t using social channels. . When a company tells me they don’t want to participate in social media customer care, I ask why.
Callminer
OCTOBER 24, 2022
In CallMiner’s continued work with mortgage lenders and financial institutions, we’ve identified four key use cases for conversation intelligence technology. Read this blog for more.
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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.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Today, brands must differentiate the experience they provide their customers or risk losing them to competitors. One way to achieve this level of differentiation is through digital self-service experiences, which empower customers to get answers to questions and complete transactions without having to engage a contact center agent. Use cases can include banking customers who […].
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 29, 2022
Neither of us is much of a runner. In fact, to get us to run with any kind of speed would require some motivation—like a tiger chasing us. That’s because fear is a powerful motivator. Fear is also a powerful tool for marketers to get customers or potential customers to care about something. So, why does fear motivate us so much? Safety is an important value for all of us.
Customer Contact Central Submitted Articles
OCTOBER 9, 2022
Improving customer experiences is one of the important areas of focus for leading brands. While it is the responsibility of the entire organization to ensure quality customer experiences for sales and support services, the team contact center agents is the front line for quality interactions.
BlueOcean
OCTOBER 10, 2022
How do you continue to offer seamless customer service and experience in this new world of remote work? Blue Ocean offers some insights on how to create a contact center location strategy in a remote world.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 19, 2022
There are many definitions of the term brand. One of my favorites is this: A brand is a promised delivered. . Is what you’re known for delivered consistently? Consider Ace Hardware, whose brand promise is The Helpful Hardware Place. When you visit an Ace Hardware store, do they keep their promise? Are they helpful? Based on all their awards and the comments from happy customers posted on social channels, they deliver. .
Callminer
OCTOBER 27, 2022
A solid core of loyal customers is essential to any growing company. Read on for our list of strategies to improve CX and boost retention.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The word “load” appears in many familiar idioms and phrases. We might “carbo load” before a race or “get loaded” over the weekend. As well, heavy equipment operators must keep an eye out for “shock load” that throws off the balance of the load and puts the machine at risk of tipping over. The Contact […].
Fonolo
OCTOBER 26, 2022
When you think of improving your call center motivation, do you dream of near-perfect customer satisfaction scores ? Impeccable customer service and experience? To get a real sense of how things are going, don’t just look at your customers; look at your agents. If they’re motivated, your customers will likely feel satisfied. If not? Everything goes downhill.
Uncover the complexity behind call labeling and blocking with this infographic. Discover the intricate factors and entities that shape the fate of a call, from illegal activity to user feedback, and understand why numbers get labeled and blocked.
Customer Contact Central Submitted Articles
OCTOBER 9, 2022
For years, effective knowledge management programs have stressed that employee engagement is important, but for more reasons than you may think.
Lumoa
OCTOBER 20, 2022
It’s no secret that customer experience is key to a company’s success. But what may be surprising is that as businesses compete more and more for customers, customer experience is becoming the new competitive battleground. . What does this mean for companies? It means that in order to stay ahead, they need to focus on delivering not just a good product or service, but a great customer experience as well.
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how sales and customer service combine to create an experience – hopefully a positive one. And then, by coincidence, one of our loyal subscribers, Heidi Reslow, shared a story about someone buying a new car. As I read the story, I realized the salesperson didn’t just sell a car. She created an experience for her customer.
TeamSupport
OCTOBER 4, 2022
A customer can expect everything from the ordinary to the seemingly impossible. But whether or not a customer is asking you to take them to the Moon or provide a simple reporting apparatus, your business needs to be able to meet their expectations in at least some manner, or risk the consequences. So in the cases where a customer is asking for something you can't provide, whether that's faster response times or new features (or a trip to the Moon with Wallace and Gromit), your business needs to
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Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Brands have never been more accessible to their customers than they are today. Whether it’s through a voice call, chatbot, or WhatsApp, or via a company’s mobile app, website, or good old-fashioned email – there’s never been as many options for customers to interact with a brand. But after what can only be described as […].
Avoxi
OCTOBER 28, 2022
When to Use Webhooks vs APIs for App Data Sync In the fast data-driven world we live in, it’s critical to provide your teams with a holistic view of cross-departmental data. To do so, integrating your CRM system and other business applications is key– and an easy task with low-code no-code platforms specifically designed for… The post When to Use Webhooks vs APIs for App Data Sync appeared first on AVOXI.
Customer Contact Central Submitted Articles
OCTOBER 10, 2022
If you spent any time at all online today, chances are you encountered a chat bot. Bots are a cost-effective, frontline customer service mechanism, the first channel in omnichannel customer service.
Transparent BPO
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Common Missteps Continually Threaten Successful Implementation By Scott Newman, CEO, Transparent BPO The time has come – you’ve grown to the point that it’s time to outsource your contact center. It wasn’t an easy decision, but you’ve exhausted all your options. Your internal customer experience team is struggling to maintain service levels. The recruiting and […].
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ShepHyken
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The Leader’s Playlist. How Memories, Experiences, and Patterns Impact Leadership Style. Shep Hyken interviews Susan Drumm, CEO & Chief Empowerment Officer of Meritage Leadership Development and the author of The Leader’s Playlist: Unleash the Power of Music and Neuroscience to Transform Your Leadership and Your Life. She shares how to use music to improve your leadership style and make the changes that no longer serve you.
HelpCrunch
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Real estate is the field where customers expect top-tier service all around the clock. They are looking for a place to live, sleep, dream, work, and build their future. You can’t stress enough the importance [ … ]. The post Top 15 Tips for Customer Service in Real Estate to Thrive Your Career appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 20, 2022
On the surface, applying chatbots as virtual assistants for agents and directly for customers, and artificial intelligence (AI) in general, can seem like a daunting and overly complex undertaking. There is serious and creative design, implementation (including problem solving) involved, along with – and most critically – the training of not only the internal teams […].
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