25 tips for improving customer service in call centers in 2023
Callminer
MAY 23, 2023
Companies that want to improve customer service in the call center may not know where to begin, so we've created a list of 25 tips from call center experts.
Callminer
MAY 23, 2023
Companies that want to improve customer service in the call center may not know where to begin, so we've created a list of 25 tips from call center experts.
CCNG
MAY 24, 2023
CCNG member Dan Smitley shares his thoughts on what we’re going to do once the bots take over the world. A bit of a hyperbole but it’s a great starting point for a very timely conversation. Dan talks about how contact centers are changing and how technology is playing a major role in this transformation. He discussed the use of bots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies that are revolutionizing the industry.
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COPC
MAY 23, 2023
Most contact centers recognize the importance of team leaders. However, the team leader role is also one of the most overlooked from a skills development perspective. This article uses insights from the following research to reveal the quantifiable impact of contact center team leaders on employee satisfaction, retention and performance. COPC Inc. US Employee Engagement Research Report COPC Inc.
Beyond Philosophy
MAY 20, 2023
Journey Maps can be useless exercises. That’s right…we said it. However, these often-used tools don’t have to be as useless as they usually are. Journey Maps are only useless if you don’t include the customer’s emotional journey in them. Emotional journeys are the “squishy stuff” associated with why customers buy from you.
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This comprehensive report explores the evolving landscape of customer and business expectations, with five key trends that will help you understand your customers and stay ahead of the competition. Discover how your peers are implementing AI to improve customer experience with granular insights into their CX investments and specific AI use cases. For the first time, customers prefer digital channels when interacting with a business.
ShepHyken
MAY 24, 2023
You’ve probably experienced this. No matter how hard you try to please some customers, they aren’t happy. It’s frustrating, but at the same time, it’s reality. And speaking of reality, no matter how good you are at creating an amazing customer experience, the customer’s perception counts. Their perception is their reality. I once went to an amazing restaurant – at least, I was told it was amazing.
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Fonolo
MAY 23, 2023
Customer service is all about meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Contact center managers know this implicitly. But did you know that hyper-personalization in the contact center is one of the best ways to delight your customers? It’s true! Customers want to feel seen. Deloitte reports that 90% of people are attracted to hyper-personalized advertising content, and customers are quickly coming to expect it.
Bill Quiseng
MAY 24, 2023
A wife walks into the living room where her husband is reading. She leans over and whispers “I love you.” Nothing. She repeats louder, “I love you.” Complete silence. She stares at him and asks, “I say I love you a LOT to you. You NEVER say I love you back. Why is that?” Her husband turns to her and declares, “Look, I told you I loved you when we got married.
Tethr
MAY 24, 2023
These four strategies are the keys to building customer loyalty for any type of business here in the digital age. Read more.
Global Response
MAY 22, 2023
Who first comes to mind when you consider the most valuable voices in your business? Perhaps you think of the CEO or COO, or other C-Suite leadership. Perhaps it’s a particularly effective visionary among your management staff. Perhaps you consider your on-the-ground employees the foundation of your vision. But what about your customers? How valuable are their voices to your business?
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CX leaders are in a gold rush for AI, lured by the promise of cost savings and a revolution in service delivery. But simply deploying AI in your contact center isn't a magic bullet. There are hidden dangers that can derail your AI dreams. Recent incidents, such as the missteps of an AI chatbot deployed by Air Canada, have underscored the complexities and risks involved in leveraging AI in customer-facing roles.
Beyond Philosophy
MAY 25, 2023
Journey Mapping is an excellent tool in experience design efforts. However, I often complain that they do not include the emotional journey, which is essential to designing an experience that engages emotionally with customers in a way that promotes customer loyalty. So, today, we will look at how you can incorporate the concepts we often talk about in this newsletter into your Journey Mapping efforts.
ShepHyken
MAY 26, 2023
This week, we feature an article by Zsuzsa Kecsmar, CMO and Head of Partnerships of Antavo , a software company that manages brand loyalty and retention programs. She writes about next-generation loyalty programs and how they can enhance customer experience. In an ever-evolving marketplace, traditional loyalty programs are facing increasing challenges in capturing and retaining customer attention.
ClearAction
MAY 25, 2023
Growth via Massive Customer Experience Savings Lynn Hunsaker Customer experience savings are NOT about automation or slashing value to customers! That’s a recipe toward many unexpected costs. Whenever you think about savings, think about value expansion. Your enterprise goals are to continually increase value to investors, so by definition, you must continually increase value to customers.
Cisco - Contact Center
MAY 24, 2023
Cloud computing has become wildly popular among IT organizations for a number of reasons, including its ability to enhance efficiency, security, agility, and cost-effectiveness.
Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions
Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!
MiaRec
MAY 23, 2023
Considering that 83% of companies have already experienced more than one data breach, it is more than likely that your contact center is next. In fact, cybercriminals often target contact centers first.
ShepHyken
MAY 22, 2023
Top Takeaways: There has been significant progress in artificial intelligence (AI), like chatbots and ChatGPT capabilities. This has always been seen as high-potential technology, but in the last few months, it has been used in a more demonstrative way to address challenges faced by contact centers, especially in the post-pandemic environment. Generative AI and other forms of self-service provide a win-win solution for organizations and customers.
AWS Machine Learning
MAY 23, 2023
The seeds of a machine learning (ML) paradigm shift have existed for decades, but with the ready availability of virtually infinite compute capacity, a massive proliferation of data, and the rapid advancement of ML technologies, customers across industries are rapidly adopting and using ML technologies to transform their businesses. Just recently, generative AI applications have captured everyone’s attention and imagination.
Cisco - Contact Center
MAY 26, 2023
It’s evident from the amount of news coverage, articles, blogs, and water cooler stories that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are changing our society in fundamental ways—and th… Read more on Cisco Blogs
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ChurnZero
MAY 25, 2023
Customer renewals are the lifeblood of a subscription business. Responsibility for renewals often falls to the Customer Success (CS) team. For example, survey research shows about half (50.2%) of all CS teams surveyed are directly responsible for customer renewals. It doesn’t end there either. While renewals are a central aspect of CS work, many Customer Success Managers (CSMs) have a mandate for upsells.
MiaRec
MAY 26, 2023
If your customers are not responding to post-call surveys, how will you know how they feel about your contact center? Understanding your Voice of the Customer (VoC) is essential to improving contact center operations.
AWS Machine Learning
MAY 22, 2023
Generative AI is in the midst of a period of stunning growth. Increasingly capable foundation models are being released continuously, with large language models (LLMs) being one of the most visible model classes. LLMs are models composed of billions of parameters trained on extensive corpora of text, up to hundreds of billions or even a trillion tokens.
Cisco - Contact Center
MAY 26, 2023
Unlock more value from Meraki Dashboard By leveraging the power of APIs, you can extend the functionality of the Meraki dashboard — automating tasks, integrating with other services, and creating… Read more on Cisco Blogs
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Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.
Method:CRM
MAY 23, 2023
Everyone knows that sending invoices is crucial to getting paid for your products or services. So there’s nothing more frustrating than doing everything right in the invoicing process but still having to wait forever for payments. But here’s what many businesses don’t realize. When you send a generic invoice with nothing on it but the total amount due, you miss out on your full revenue potential.
AnswerConnect
MAY 23, 2023
Discover common mistakes to avoid and tips for creating job satisfaction in remote teams, plus helpful tools and resources. The post The importance of culture for remote teams and how to cultivate it appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.
Toister Performance Solutions
MAY 25, 2023
If you want to solve a customer service problem, go and see it. That's a performance observation. It's a process for observing employees doing their work to understand how they currently do things and what can be improved. It's a go-to technique for improving performance, designing training, or identifying best practices. You might worry employees won't be truthful if you observe them.
Cisco - Contact Center
MAY 24, 2023
In the past, I have held many discussions on the critical value of the SAP application for businesses. Gartner estimates that 77% of all worldwide business transactions touch an SAP system.
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.
Connect
MAY 22, 2023
Download the contact centre buyer’s guide to delve into a transformative world where the convergence of these capabilities enables elegant, simple, efficient, and agile contact centres. Understand the specific capabilities you need to create value for your employees, customers and business. Grounded in research this guide outlines these specific capabilities; technology that will enable enhanced employee experience, the advancement of innovation in automated business processes, sophisticated ana
AnswerConnect
MAY 23, 2023
The rise of remote work has been a major trend in the past decade, with more and more companies allowing their employees to work from home. According to recent research. The post The importance of culture for remote teams and how to cultivate it appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.
Tethr
MAY 24, 2023
In today’s episode, we're gonna be talking about the fourth behavior we discovered in our study on strategies for B2C sales: De-risk the purchase decision.
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