Upstream Works

DECEMBER 18, 2019

There are many technology trends impacting the contact center, and as we enter a new decade, it’s only natural to think in broad terms with a longer-term time horizon. Ten years is an eternity in the world of tech, and it’s staggering to consider how much the contact center has changed over the last decade. The coming decade will likely bring just as much change, and in our view, the best way to understand that is through the lens of digital transformation.

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CrazyCall

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In this day and age, companies implement all sorts of tactics to leverage their offerings above the competition. However, as elaborate as some of them seem, it’s really not all that complicated. When you boil down any business with great reviews, it’ll naturally reduce and separate into three simple categories: marketing, sales, and customer service.

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Contact Center Pipeline

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Contact Centers have always had an abundance of data about customers and performance. Unfortunately, that data is not being fully utilized to benefit the company, customers or agents. The unrealized potential of data has never been more urgent than it is right now, as centers focus on the customer experience and agent experience and the […].

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The Call Center School

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Part 3: Intraday Management Skills. If you’ve been following along in this series you know the skills required to produce an accurate forecast and optimized schedules , but without effective intraday management your efforts towards these first two steps of the WFM process will be lost. Therefore, you must take the proper steps to ensure the plan is working.

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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.

Myra Golden Media

DECEMBER 15, 2019

My husband and I were sitting at the big boardroom table at the closing office. We’d just sold our first home, and we were now closing on our new home. We thought we were in great shape, but, something went wrong. The bank didn’t transfer the money for the purchase of our new home. I called our mortgage broker, who had handled every detail up to this point.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 20, 2019

This week we feature an article by Sabio who explains why developing a customer experience strategy is essential for your business to improve its bottom line. Developing a customer experience (CX) strategy for your business has never been more important. Every business can benefit. Whether you oversee a large contact center or teams in various locations, creating a CX strategy that works will improve your bottom line.

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Callminer

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As industrial and economic globalization trends continue to develop in the world’s present market, the use of outsourced talent to accomplish a wide variety of tasks ranging from the rote and repeatable to the complex and mission-critical grows ever more ubiquitous. Call centers , in particular, represent just one facet of a large and varied international outsourcing industry.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Last week, I shared ten ideas to drive a better customer experience in 2020. As promised, I’m back with ten more tips. If you haven’t read part one yet, you can do so here. Or, you can see all these suggestions at once by reading my recent Forbes article. Without any further delay, here are ten more ways to create a better customer experience in 2020.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The customer service game has changed for energy, gas and water companies. When customers contact them to pay a bill, check their usage levels or report an outage, they demand personalized, streamlined and convenient interactions. It’s no longer just about providing a reliable service to customers who have been loyal for decades – it’s about providing effortless utility customer experience.

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Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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VirtualPBX

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This week’s blog will take a look at an often-requested topic of discussion: how to answer the phone at work. Of course, there are many approaches to the practice – ranging from professional to Buddy the Elf (who we admire for his creativity and expeditious approach to office procedures). Your own office likely has its own rules for how to say “hello” to incoming customer calls.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2019

If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. William Thomson , Lord Kelvin. Read, absorb this quote and let’s answer a question-. Do you follow specific customer service objectives as parameters to gauge the performance and efficiency of your support team? . If not, then how do you measure customer success?

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TeamSupport

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Automated phone technology, such as interactive voice response (IVR) menus, can save businesses time and money on customer support. These solutions route callers to the right people without the help of a human operator. Larger businesses should consider IVR menus to streamline the customer support experience. They should not replace account managers and instead are optimized for streamlining after hours and emergency support communication.

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Ameyo

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The aim of any business is to acquire more customers and deliver exceptional customer service. But, without a sound strategy and technological transformation, your business will hit a dead-end and there’s no turning back once you start losing your customers to the competition! Now is the time for businesses to adopt new technologies because 2020 … Contact Center Technology Trends That Will Boom In 2020 Read More » The post Contact Center Technology Trends That Will Boom In 2020 appear

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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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Totango

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Your customers are working with you because your company’s products and services are valuable The quicker you can deliver that value, the more likely you are to build trust and loyalty with customers. When you have customer loyalty, you have the basis for an ongoing relationship that generates customer lifetime value. Thanks to the digitization of business, your customers have more choices than ever before.

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GetFeedback

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Having a great restaurant and serving great food at competitive prices is no longer enough. Your customers want more, so you need to meet and exceed their expectations. Without that, you’ll struggle to earn their loyalty, deal with a bad reputation, and you’ll eventually lose them. But you already know what you need to do: collect customer feedback.

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Ansafone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Active listening is the foundation for any customer service interaction. Each call that comes in is a real person looking for guidance or a solution to a problem, so active listening is critical to make that person feel heard, understood and served. The Importance of Listening in Customer Service The first step in most … What is Active Listening?

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TELUS International

DECEMBER 17, 2019

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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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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Customer emotions have a strong influence on your Customer Experience outcome. From our research in our global Customer Experience consultancy, we know that over 50 percent of experience is about how a customer feels. . Organizations don’t consider customer emotions enough. Moreover, they also fail to recognize the intensity of that emotion. Understanding the significance and managing the power of customers’ emotions is essential to your Customer Experience outcome.

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Hello Customer

DECEMBER 16, 2019

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The Hospitality Mentality. Tips to Creating an Amazing Customer Service Experience in Hotels and Beyond. Shep Hyken interviews Rupesh Patel. They discuss Rupesh’s “secret sauce” to creating an amazing guest experience across his hotels, and how those ideas can translate to the larger customer service world. Top Takeaways: Don’t make the mistake of caring more about money than customer service.

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Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The “holidays” are everyone’s favorite time of year. Time to share a meal with great company, whether family, friends, or coworkers. It’s a happy, festive time for all. But, is it? Those working in the retail industry may have a different take on the holidays. For them, it’s a time for stress, a time to deal with frantic shoppers looking for the perfect gift, and a time to work long hours with little time for themselves.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2019

What is Important in 2020? Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees Coach once said, “Predictions are hard, especially about the future.” Predictions can be difficult; it is true. However, they can also be helpful, especially if you are trying to plan for a new year. I have been in the Customer Experience industry since before there was such a thing.

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Callminer

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Here 25 interesting call center statistics that may prove helpful in deciding whether the use of one for your own business's strategy is appropriate.

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Myra Golden Media

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One of the tools I use to improve the customer experience with my clients immediately is Start, Stop, Continue. I gather a team together and ask them what we need to Start, Stop, and Continue to do with the customer experience. Sitting at my desk just now, I sketched out Start, Stop, and Continue for a restaurant that just ruined a chance for a significant catering event.

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Contact Center Pipeline

DECEMBER 18, 2019

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “coming of age” is defined as the attainment of prominence, respectability, recognition or maturity. It means something has reached an important stage of development and is accepted. The first known use of the term “coming of age” was in 1729 and it was used to describe the point at which […].

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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.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2019

79% of businesses prefer to use live chat at their website instead of email (61%), phone (44%), and social media (48%) platforms to communicate with customers for instant support. Amazing isn’t it! . Businesses are using live chat increasingly because live chat instills confidence in the customers. When customers know that their concerns are being handled by expert humans, they get that assurance that they are trusting the right people with their money. .

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Etech

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In 2017, cyberattack incidents cost companies, consumers, and governments around the world $600 billion. If this figure sounds unsustainably high, consider that projections show it will only continue to rise. Forbes estimates that it will reach $2 trillion by this year. In the past, cybercrime was a problem reserved for more substantial, wealthier companies with money and consumer data to attract hackers.

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InGenius

DECEMBER 19, 2019

With 2019 coming to a close, Upland Software raised a toast to the team and took a retrospective look at the successes of the past year. From the small moments to the landmark events, the thread that joined them all was our clear and unwavering focus on helping our customers do more, coupled with a commitment to innovation and transformation to lay the groundwork for future success.

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