OctopusTech

MARCH 3, 2024

Developing a custom website or web application in-house requires significant investment in a skilled technology team, infrastructure, and overhead expenses. Risk Mitigation Outsourced projects provide a cushion against losses/delays arising from resource crunch or skills mismatch. The external partner handles contingencies.

outsourcing 62

outsourcing Technical Support Government Metrics 62

OctopusTech

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Organizations are always looking for new and creative methods to improve their operations and remain ahead of the competition in the modern business world. We’ll delve into the key aspects of how outsourcing your call center could transform your company in this blog post.

outsourcing 62

outsourcing Call Center Multichannel call center professionals 62

NobelBiz

JANUARY 30, 2024

Are you struggling with overcoming Call Blocking for your Call Center Business? It’s clear by now that maintaining uninterrupted channels for outbound calling is vital for any business that is aiming to grow, especially call centers. That being said, call center blockage is one of the critical issues in customer service.

Call Center 103

Call Center Interactive Voice Response Telecommunications Contact Center 103

Totango

JANUARY 2, 2024

In an era when customer success (CS) has become pivotal, it’s no longer enough to have a team dedicated to CS. More importantly, you need an organizational strategy that ensures your customers don’t just come to you but stay, thrive, and become your biggest promoters.

Automotive 101

Automotive Journey mapping Self service Sales 101

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Actionability is also, as we believe, one of the essential aspects of customer experience management.

Customer Experience 178

Customer Experience B2C Journey mapping B2B 178

Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

How can you ensure you’re aligning resources to the right initiatives that will protect and grow your customer base? Thankfully, customer success operations has come to the rescue. Chris says, “Your teams should be talking about, ‘What journey do I need to build to get my customer to their outcome?’”

Metrics 85

Metrics Upselling Accountability Enterprise 85

Lumoa

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The customer is a mysterious creature. Just ask any business owner. Deciphering the wants and needs of your customers is essential for sustainable, long-term success. For a company to grow, it needs to convert one-off customers into regular patrons.

Customer Experience 83

Customer Experience Airlines Metrics Feedback 83

Lumoa

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The customer is a mysterious creature. Just ask any business owner. Deciphering the wants and needs of your customers is essential for sustainable, long-term success. For a company to grow, it needs to convert one-off customers into regular patrons.

Customer Experience 83

Customer Experience Airlines Metrics Feedback 83

Fonolo

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the world of contact center metrics, service level has always held a special place. This metric is universally understood across the industry, and clearly conveys how quickly customer calls are answered by support agents. It’s not enough to blindly rely on the 80/20 rule, but many businesses are doing just that!

Service level 142

Service level Call Center Abandon rate Metrics 142

CSM Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

Every successful business knows that providing quality customer service is essential in getting customers to keep coming back. Keep reading for helpful tips and advice on how to use exceptional customer service as part of an effective digital marketing strategy! Finally, never stop listening to your customers.

Marketing 52

Marketing Customer Service Metrics Analytics 52

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 23, 2023

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. You’re welcome to pick and choose from the questions below, tailoring to your unique business needs.

Customer Care 71

Customer Care outsourcing Employee engagement Contact Center 71

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The call center industry has been changing faster than ever, due to technological breakthroughs and constantly evolving customer demands. In 2024, businesses have the crucial responsibility of understanding and adopting the latest technology trends in customer service. Among its standout features is the Preview Dialer.

call center software 59

call center software Call Center Interactive Voice Response Contact Center 59

NobelBiz

MARCH 12, 2024

Customer demands are ever-changing and more often than not, they become more and more difficult to keep up with for a lot of businesses. Customers today expect seamless and personalized interactions across all touch points. CXM has completely revolutionized how brands engage with their customers.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Management Omni-channel support Journey mapping 52

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.

Customer Experience 94

Customer Experience Metrics Feedback Analytics 94

ChurnZero

JANUARY 25, 2024

How will customer success jobs, and the skills they require, evolve in 2024? With technology advancing and customer expectations rising, customer success has become an essential force driving business growth and customer loyalty within the SaaS industry.

Education 52

Education Upselling Consulting Consulting 52

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. The Most Costly Mistake In Business by Vala Afshar. My Comment: What’s the most costly mistake in business? You’ll have to read this excellent article by Vala Afshar, a genius in the world of customer service and CX.

Customer Service 185

Customer Service Personalization Metrics Customer Experience 185

Nicereply

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Customer service trends of 2023! As we approach 2023, it’s time to reflect on everything you’ve learned and develop your strategy for next year. We reached out to seven customer service experts to understand what’s just over the horizon in the customer experience world. Top customer service trends of 2023.

Customer Service 98

Customer Service Metrics Employee engagement Customer Support 98

AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 26, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications built around large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to create and accelerate economic value for businesses. Many customers are looking for guidance on how to manage security, privacy, and compliance as they develop generative AI applications.

Best practices 122

Best practices Government Engineering Accountability 122

Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contact centers play a vital role in today’s modern businesses. They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. As per a report , the customer care BPO market is estimated to rise from US$22,598.82

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Contact center software Self service 52

GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

If you Google customer experience you’ll get about 2,340,000,000 results—articles, videos, reports—with in-depth information about the space. We publish new resources on the regular, so stay in the loop by signing up for our CX newsletter.) . What is customer experience? What is great customer experience?

Customer Experience 134

Customer Experience Metrics Journey mapping Feedback 134

Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. It develops organically in response to the decisions, behaviors, and policies of the people in the business. What does a customer service culture look like?

Customer Service 139

Customer Service Customer centricity Chief Customer Officer Metrics 139

Totango

DECEMBER 1, 2021

When you bring agile innovation to customer success , you empower your CS strategy with the latest technology. In this blog, we’ll look deeper at what an agile customer success strategy means and why you can benefit from using one. Then we’ll lay out seven steps to bring agile innovation to customer success.

Government 98

Government Journey mapping Accountability Benchmark 98

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 28, 2018

This has been quite a year for the ChurnZero blog. We’ve published +60 posts on a variety of Customer Success related topics like customer churn, product adoption, customer journeys and more. We even got a shout out from HubSpot as a top blog you should be reading in 2018. 10 Punny Customer Success Jokes.

Best practices 49

Best practices Metrics SaaS Sales 49

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In today’s competitive customer success landscape, it is essential that CSMs are adequately and appropriately compensated for their work. When making a switch from one compensation plan to another for your Customer Success Managers (CSMs), it’s important to make the transition as smooth and considerate as possible.

Management 87

Management Accountability Sales Upselling 87

Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

Contact Center 334

Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Real estate 334

Nicereply

OCTOBER 3, 2023

There’s a strong correlation between customer satisfaction and a company’s financial performance. Satisfied customers tend to purchase more, return more often, and bring in more revenue. Engaging customers through feedback can make them feel valued and listened to, deepening the relationship and fostering a partnership.

Surveys 52

Surveys Customer centricity Analytics Feedback 52

ChurnZero

APRIL 5, 2022

This is a guest post by Paula Naba , director of Customer Success at Northpass. Did you know that 32% of customers stop doing business with a brand they love after only one bad experience? How about this: customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies that don’t focus on customers.

Education 98

Education Customer centricity CRM Best practices 98

Anexa BPO

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Customer success agents pick up where sales agents leave off and have the single most influence on the customer journey. They are communicators, listeners, problem solvers, and educators, and ultimately take responsibility for – that’s right – ‘customer success’. Would these customers recommend us to their friends and family?

Bilingual agents 52

Bilingual agents Customer centricity industry standards Metrics 52

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

VoC — or Voice of the Customer programs — helps businesses learn more about their consumers’ wants, needs, and preferences. Focusing Heavily on Metrics The first sign that a VoC program is losing momentum is when it becomes just another way to measure and report performance metrics. Here are some key insights.

Gamification 83

Gamification Journey mapping Feedback Metrics 83

JustCall

APRIL 3, 2023

Did you know that when it comes to SaaS customer success, acquiring a new customer can cost 4 to 5x more than retaining an existing one? Naturally, businesses will want to rely on customer loyalty for sustainable growth and profitability. This is where customer success comes in. In this blog, we’ll learn how.

Upselling 52

Upselling Metrics Best practices Customer centricity 52

Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A customer-centric strategy is about more than just a values statement or a directive to the team. Are your customers truly at the center of your business universe? A customer-centric culture is one that is relentlessly focused on putting what’s best for the customer at the core of everything you do.

Customer centricity 127

Customer centricity Coaching Finance Sales 127

Hodusoft

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Leveraging Advanced Call Center Software- Enhancing FCR in Banks and Financial Institutions Witness the evolution of the banking and financial landscape as it progresses into a new era of customer service excellence, driven by cutting-edge technology and real-time statistical insights.

call center software 64

call center software Banking Call Center First call resolution 64

Uniphore

JUNE 9, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing rapid digital transformation and the complexity of customer interactions on the rise, most companies recognize the need for new approaches. In fact, 65 percent of executives in a 2020 survey cited automation as a catalyst for modernizing legacy business practices.

Contact Center 98

Contact Center Enterprise Education Metrics 98

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In the past decade, we’ve seen the number of companies with an individual in the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) – nicely defined by Wikipedia as “the executive responsible for the total relationship with an organization’s customers” – grow from under 100 to thousands today. They are; Customer Experience and Value Optimization.

Chief Customer Officer 250

Chief Customer Officer Enterprise Customer centricity Consulting 250

Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In the contact center, WFM provides the necessary metrics to gain insights into the number of agents and supervisors with the right skill sets that are required to complete the work at any given time of day, week or month. Workforce Optimization is a business strategy that joins business performance and workforce management.

Management 86

Management Gamification Quality management Schedule adherence 86

Fonolo

MARCH 28, 2023

Customer experience managers in the contact center have never mattered more. Because even though most businesses work hard to offer excellent service , today’s savvy customers notice so much more. They also share and compare their experiences with your business against the biggest brands in the world.

Customer Experience 81

Customer Experience Management Contact Center Call Center 81

Nicereply

MARCH 14, 2023

Every customer support manager has a busy life. Books are a fantastic resource to develop a brand new skill or to complement and improve an existing skill—like leading a team or hiring effectively. But when you’re fighting product fires , helping customers, and managing a team, you can’t afford to waste time on unhelpful books.

Management 98

Management Call Center Metrics Entertainment 98