CCNG

JANUARY 18, 2023

One of the major initiatives abuzz in the Contact Center industry is agent empowerment and how it will improve performance and CX. The concept is simple. Agents who feel empowered are comfortable making decisions on their own, which gives them a keen sense of ownership with every customer interaction. The conventional wisdom states that this is a win-win for all and seems like a no-brainer!

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 18, 2023

The New Year’s message has as its core, promises of better things ahead. And yes, that did happen to some extent in 2022. The worst of the COVID-19 pandemic appears hopefully behind us. The economy—and spending and consequent demand for service for items and services that need contact centers for—has bounced back. And customers have […].

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Genroe

JANUARY 19, 2023

Get the most out of your call centre project with these essential steps to documentation success. Start today! The post Documenting Your Contact Centre Project to Maximise Success appeared first on B2B Marketing | Customer Feedback | Net Promoter Score | Genroe.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 19, 2023

If call center retention keeps you up at night, you’re not alone. In the era of the “great resignation” and in an industry with record staff turnover, employee retention is on every manager’s mind. The numbers are sobering. According to the 2021 ICMI report, a contact center’s average employee turnover rate was 58% per year. This figure is about 10 percent higher than the US average employee attrition rate of 47.2%.

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ConvergeOne

JANUARY 17, 2023

There’s nothing like a chatbot that can’t answer your questions or listening to endless on-hold music to wait for a customer service representative. These scenarios, however, are reflective of today’s customer service environment. Companies face a labor shortage that isn’t going away any time soon. “Companies are trying to hire people that either don’t want to join the workforce, or don’t want that particular job,” says Kathy Sobus, ConvergeOne’s senior director of collaboration go-to-market str

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on Customer Success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. As a Customer Success recruiting firm, we speak with active and passive job seekers all day, every day. Through our candidate outreach and interactions, we acquire lots of qualitative information about why people are looking to leave their current employer and w

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TeleDirect

JANUARY 16, 2023

There are two main parts to your call, the script and the call flow. Let’s start by looking at each component to understand the full experience. . Call Center Scripting vs. Call Flow Process : What are They? Building a contact center for your business? You’ve probably heard the terms “call center scripting” and “call flow process.” These are two major facets of the customer service and call center industries.

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Balto

JANUARY 17, 2023

When it comes to healthcare contact centers, automation is far from new. From the basic switchboard that was patented in 1891 to the automatic call distributor (ACD) algorithm introduced in 1950, the creation and application of artificial intelligence (AI) to autonomously control call distribution has made the modern contact center possible. So, why is automation — a technology that formed the foundation of basic call center operations — still slated to become a top trend in healthcare in 2023?

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 14, 2023

In sales, it can be tough to know when a customer is no longer deciding but already decided—unless, of course, they tell you that out loud. So, it is incumbent upon you to read the signs that a customer has decided to buy. For example, I like to make drawings with pen and paper during my sales presentations with a contact. Then, I position the pen toward them during the discussion as an invitation for them to pick up and draw a little bit, too.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 17, 2023

Dear Contact Center Pipeline bloggers, I read this article this morning about Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks saying he is annoyed that workers aren’t in the office and is “ordering” employees to return to the office 3 days/week. He says that remote work is a privilege. Their “coffee tastings” and “storytellings” were used to build […].

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Callminer

JANUARY 18, 2023

As patients become more engaged in their healthcare, healthcare providers and organizations, like hospitals, need to care more about patient retention and patient experience. Read more in this blog.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2023

Recently I wrote my annual Forbes article featuring customer service and CX predictions and trends for 2023. No. 4 on the list was Personalization Gets More Personal. The best marketers have realized that personalization is a way to get closer to the customer – or at least make it appear to be so. In our customer experience research (sponsored by Amazon), 74% of customers we surveyed said a personalized experience is important. .

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 19, 2023

I love technology, but I can still be old-fashioned when working with clients. How? Meeting with clients, I like to put pen to paper and illustrate what I am saying with a handcrafted visual aid. My analog PowerPoint serves two purposes: These handmade creations will hang on a museum wall with a plaque because of the tremendous amount of raw talent exposed (ahem).

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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!

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 19, 2023

I’m seeing contact center trends change, and how could they not? Coming out of the COVID-19 health emergency, consumer life is largely returning to more familiar patterns and expectations when it comes to customer experience (CX), while some behaviors are changing (more on that below). Employee life is dramatically different from three years ago.

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Callminer

JANUARY 16, 2023

Read this blog to understand why it’s important to measure customer attrition and take action to reduce and prevent customer churn.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 17, 2023

Is Technology Taking Over Customer Service? How Customer Experience Drives Business Growth. Shep Hyken interviews Keith Meier, Chief Operating Officer at Assurant, Inc. , an organization that works with companies that manufacture, sell, or finance their customers’ major purchases. He shares how providing customers with a great experience in every support channel they use is crucial to business growth.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 17, 2023

If there’s one thing managers need to understand about digital transformation, it’s how artificial intelligence is changing CX in the contact center. The cost savings AI offers makes the move to more automation inevitable. Gartner reports that AI chatbots alone can save the contact center industry up to $80 billion in annual labor costs by 2026. By 2031, the savings could grow to $240 billion.

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Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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The Northridge Group

JANUARY 18, 2023

ChatGPT is all over the news, especially since it has been reported that Microsoft may be considering a significant increase to its 2019 investment of $1 billion in OpenAI, the hottest startup in Silicon Valley and the creator of ChatGPT. The $10 billion investment under consideration would increase OpenAI’s value to $29B. A cutting-edge chatbot with advanced capabilities such as writing poems and software code, ChatGPT is capable of formulating human-like answers in seconds and its conversation

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Avoxi

JANUARY 19, 2023

How Much Does IVR Cost? Long wait times, overwhelmed customer service representatives, and frustrated customers who can't find the information they need…these are the types of issues no international organization can afford to have. Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems are tools organizations are utilizing to combat these problems by giving call center managers the power… The post How Much Does IVR Cost?

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 15, 2023

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 10 Ways to Boost Customer Satisfaction by G. Tomas M. Hult and Forrest Morgeson (Harvard Business Publishing) Customer satisfaction is at its lowest point in the past two decades.

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kommunicate

JANUARY 19, 2023

Last Updated on January 20, 2023 The year is 2012. Customer queries are coming into the call center of one of Italy’s biggest car insurance providers. There is a bevy of call center agents, all speaking rapidly on their phones, all looking haggard. Customer queries are on the rise, and the operations manager sees no [.] The post Evolution of Bots in 2022 And Future Trends appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Understanding customers is a key step to success, and organizations do it best when they have a customer experience department in place. This department is tasked with analyzing customer feedback and data and disseminating its findings to improve the organization’s processes, products, and services. Furthermore, customers remember their good and bad experiences with brands.

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Concentrix

JANUARY 16, 2023

We break down our approach to CX transformation through the three phases of design, build, run and showcase their enterprise-wide impact.

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JustCall

JANUARY 19, 2023

We all know that working from home can be pretty great. You can roll out of bed and start working in your PJs, take breaks whenever you want, and never have to commute. But sometimes, working from home can get lonely. If you’re looking for a change of scenery, why not try working from a coffee shop? Before the pandemic, “working from a coffee shop” was a concept almost alien to many.

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ThriveableBiz

JANUARY 18, 2023

In this article Eriks Celmins summarises insights to help find opportunities to engage with customers in a recession, based on research and current marketing thinking. What’s our usual reaction to the dreaded recession? When we hear recession talk, we’re likely to go all doom and gloom. We shut our minds to starting or growing our small business because we think everyone’s going to stop spending.

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Select VoiceCom Blog

JANUARY 15, 2023

Australian and American-owned call center Select VoiceCom (SVC) launches its recruitment hub in Cebu to help local professionals find jobs in the city. The post SVC opens a recruitment hub for job-seeking professionals in Cebu appeared first on Telemarketing & Call Centre Outsourcing in Philippines.

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Toister Performance Solutions

JANUARY 19, 2023

Being friendly is a basic expectation in customer service. That's easy on some days. You're in a good mood. You enjoy helping people and things are going well. The products or services you support work well and customers are generally happy. Friendliness is more difficult on other days. You just don't feel friendly, warm, or upbeat. Customers are grumpy.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 20, 2023

As we enter the new year, the climate for consumers will be different than the past few years. The robust economy of recent times has given way to inflation and interest rate spikes that haven’t been seen in years, if not decades. Everyone has been more cautious about spending, and many sectors are seeing wave after wave of layoffs. These may seem like unrelated events, but they all have a role to play in defining the state of customer service in 2023 and will have implications for contact

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