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5 Ways to Reduce Average Handle Time Without Sacrificing Quality

Nicereply

Getting the right tickets to the right agent can have a positive impact on average handle time because it avoids the ticket being passed around from agent to agent. As customer support professionals, we’re not strangers to data and metrics. It seems we’re always measuring something. In fact, I think we might be obsessed with data. But data helps us do our jobs, and ultimately helps improve the customer experience.

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7 Ways to Automate Customer Service (Without Sacrificing Quality)

JivoChat

Automating customer service isn’t a fad. While some fears of chatbots stealing jobs persist, the reality is that customers now prefer the convenience of support automation, and businesses are profiting in many ways. Chatbots will drive $142 billion in consumer spending by 2024 — a meteoric surge from $2.8 billion in 2019. This growth is a direct result of an enhanced customer experience, as consumers can get instantaneous, round-the-clock assistance from businesses offering automated support.

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CCaaS – The Bridge to Digital Customer Engagement

Enghouse Interactive

Hybrid Architectures Unlock CCaaS Benefits and Accelerate Digital Channel Adoption. Organizations traditionally invested in their contact center infrastructure, as a standalone premise-based solution, with a view to the long term… that usually meant that they would sweat those assets over a 10-15 year lifecycle. It was solid, reliable, and operated in a controlled environment.

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5 Rules for Successfully Managing Your Company Politics

Beyond Philosophy

There is a surprising lack of literature on company politics. For such an important topic that can be awkward for people, it seems there should be books, podcasts, training, and everything else on it. Today I am going to do my part on being some of the change I want to see in the world. I am sharing the five rules for dealing with company politics that I learned over my career.

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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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Migrating Contact Center Solutions to the Cloud – a Business and Operational Perspective

CCNG

Contact Center solutions have evolved significantly over the last two decades. Before 2005, the vast majority of contact center software was On-Premise based and highly fragmented. At around that time, Cloud-based solutions began gaining popularity, but the first Cloud-based solutions were still point solution-oriented and didn’t offer integration between systems so businesses had to deal with multiple vendors and configure back-end integrations themselves.

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What to Do After Migrating Your Contact Center to the Cloud

Contact Center Pipeline

Over the last year, we’ve seen much of the workforce shift to remote work as companies adapted to operating during a global pandemic. With this transition, businesses turned to digital technologies powered by the cloud to support their contact center operations. In addition, some organizations have taken it one step further by transitioning their contact […].

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Contact Center Agent Jobs: Breaking down The New Gig Model for Contact Center Agents

CX Global Media

Companies have been continuing to increase their interest and adoption of the gig model for their workforce. Like many things about remote working, the pandemic. Read more. The post Contact Center Agent Jobs: Breaking down The New Gig Model for Contact Center Agents appeared first on Customer Experience Strategy and Tactics.

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Why is Occupancy Rate So Important in the Call Center?

Fonolo

Occupancy Rate is one of the most widely used metrics in the call center industry. But what exactly does it mean, and how can you leverage it to better your business? If you’re new to call center KPIs or need a refresher, you’ve come to the right place. Read on for a crash course on occupancy rate! The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics.

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Guest Post: How to Gain Clients During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Derek Goodman, entrepreneur and creator of Inbizability. He shares some tips on how to grow your client list despite a global health and economic crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has slowed many businesses down. At times, it almost feels like the economy has ground to a halt and, as a result, clients aren’t eager to invest in new services.

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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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What Is Your Customer-Centric DNA?

Contact Center Pipeline

The definition of a “truly customer-centric” organization is one that has mastered the ability to intentionally design and consistently deliver the ideal customer experience across all products, channels and brands. The processes to design, organize and oversee every interaction between a customer and an organization is managed through a disciplined customer experience management approach.

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Customer Experience Expectations: 5 Ways To Surpass Your Customer Experience Expectations

CX Global Media

Customer experience revolves around customer expectations and exceeding them at least by a little bit. You do that incrementally, thus improving a customer experience over. Read more. The post Customer Experience Expectations: 5 Ways To Surpass Your Customer Experience Expectations appeared first on Customer Experience Strategy and Tactics.

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Once in a Century

Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor. We are now more than a year into the “new normal” and increasingly contact center organizations are recognizing this fact. I am often asked if I think that contact centers will ever go back to 100% “bricks and mortar”, and the answer I give is no, that ship has sailed. Organizations were forced by the pandemic to deploy work from home and it wasn’t, as many feared, dominated by staff sitting on the couch eating cheese doodles and watching “The Talk”.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of April 12, 2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of 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. Overpromise by Josh Linkner. (Josh Linkner) Put yourself out there in a big, bold, defiant way. Reach for the solutions for which you lack full confidence you can deliver with little effort, but that will delight your customers or colleagues if you reach.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

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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Seven Ways Next-Gen Knowledge Management Is Helping Organizations Respond at the Pace of Change

Contact Center Pipeline

Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, customers have found themselves in completely different circumstances, and support organizations have had to field new requests and new questions—often unprecedented and even unimaginable. How support organizations react and respond is paramount to ensure delivery of a winning customer experience but also to keep employees engaged during chaotic […].

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Contact Center Innovation Ideas: How to Continuously Improve Your Contact Center Performance

CX Global Media

Contact center innovation ideas are all about continuous improvement, which is a neverending process. Basically, it involves looking back and planning using past lessons. In. Read more. The post Contact Center Innovation Ideas: How to Continuously Improve Your Contact Center Performance appeared first on Customer Experience Strategy and Tactics.

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4 Reasons why your Customer Service Needs to be a Profit Generator

TechSee

Is customer service a cost center or a profit center? If you answered ‘cost center’, right now is the perfect time to challenge that assumption. Read on to learn four reasons why this is the case – and how to make the shift within your company. The traditional outlook on customer service. A cost center is a function or department – like customer service – that costs your business money to operate but doesn’t actively generate revenue.

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Amazing Business Radio: Ali Rayl

ShepHyken

Great CX Drives Trust & Engagement. How Customer Support Tools Can Impact Your Internal and External Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Ali Ray, VP of Customer Experience at Slack. They discuss how customer support tools can positively impact the customer experience. Top Takeaways: Slack is an online customer support tool that brings all the people who have the customer at the center of their work together.

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Contact Center Dialers Demystified

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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BPO Vendor Management Part Two: Your Top 3 Training Priorities

Outsource Consultants

In part one of our series, we detailed five tips for targeting better KPIs with your BPO vendor partner. In part two, we’re focusing on how business leaders can work with their BPO partners to set more ambitious training targets. In the last year, organizations with rock-solid training processes were handsomely rewarded, quickly scaling their teams remotely as the need for work-from-home agents skyrocketed.

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What is Call Overflow Handling? 4 Reasons Your Call Center Needs it Now

Fonolo

Managing call spikes during peak periods in your call center can seem like an insurmountable challenge. Whether you’re in retail, healthcare, or the financial industry, understaffed contact centers coupled with increased call volumes create stressful moments for you and your agents. The ROI of Call-Backs for your Call Center. If this sounds familiar, never fear: call overflow handling is here.

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Relieve administrative responsibilities and focus on CX and business success

Talkdesk

Talkdesk offers advanced administrative services to help customers optimize their contact center. We continue to work closely with our customers to improve Customer Experience (CX) and achieve greater revenue. By partnering with leading customer experience consultancies to outsource administrative efforts, we aim to reinforce our commitment towards providing customers with a better agent and customer experience, and increased customer advocacy.

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5 ways collaboration tools benefit customer service

Eptica

Date: Friday, April 9, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager 5 ways collaboration tools benefit customer service. Published on: April 09, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How are collaboration and communication tools benefiting the contact centre? New research from ContactBabel, sponsored by our parent company Enghouse Interactive, highlights five areas where adopting these solutions is helping improve the experience for both agents and customers.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

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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How is your mobile and web checkout affecting your customer experience?

TELUS International

The eCommerce checkout is the most overlooked part of the customer journey. Here are four of the biggest customer pain points, and tips on how to solve them.

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Creating a Customer-Centric Culture That Aligns Employees With Customers

Integrity Solutions

Building a customer-centric culture is more challenging than you might initially think. But every organization has the ability to build a strong customer-centric culture- and it doesn’t have to be complex. The business environment is never static. The economy inevitably goes through boom and bust cycles. Disruptors, emerging trends and unexpected events — like a pandemic, for example — can throw a wrench in your carefully thought-out strategy.

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Three easy ways to develop empathy super powers

Toister Performance Solutions

The webinar software wasn't working. An important client was paying me to facilitate a virtual session for its employees. The client had juggled a lot of schedules to make sure everyone could attend. A lot was riding on this. I could feel a rising sense of anxiety. There was less than 30 minutes before the webinar started. To my surprise, a friendly employee quickly answered my technical support call.

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Onalytica – Who’s Who in CRM

Peter Lavers

We’re happy to report that our founding director Peter Lavers has been recognised as a leading professional and influencer in Onalytica’s Who’s Who in CRM report. You can download the full report by clicking here. This is just the latest recognition of Peter’s influence and thought leadership in the fields of customer experience and customer management.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Increase Brand Consistency by Using a Call Center

Ansafone

Brand consistency is one of the most important factors in a business’s success. When a customer can expect the same experience across all functions of your business, they will feel comfortable returning time and again. Consistency in customer service is key to this formula, and call centers excel at providing this coherence for businesses and … Increase Brand Consistency by Using a Call Center Read More ».

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WFM Operational Tips & Tricks

Aspect

In the recent past, if you really wanted to , you could run a business without Workforce Management tools. It wouldn’t be easy ; you’d be extremely frustrated, probably work 80-hour weeks, and have a lot of operational inefficiencies — and you might only save some money. In 2021, that no longer applies. Any organization that is considering enterprise level software now must employ a WFM strategy and platform.

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9 Key Differences Between Transactional and Relationship Customer Surveys

PeopleMetrics

Voice of Customer (VoC) programs use two types of surveys to gather customer feedback: relationship surveys and transactional surveys. A relationship survey is used to gauge the strength of the overall relationship with a customer, and a transactional survey is used to understand how the latest interactions with customers are going. The best VoC programs use both.

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