Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 27, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Video outperforms all other communications methods when agents and customers need to quickly resolve an issue. This blog will provide some insight into the benefits that can be extracted from video along with how. Blog #2 of 4: It’s NOT just another channel.

Contact Center 92

Contact Center Technology Customer centricity Analytics 92

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Endemic Problems With The Planning Fallacy However, from a Customer Experience perspective, the danger is that it happens across the organization. Today, we look at why this happens and what you can do about it in the future. The Planning Fallacy is rooted in optimism and affected by how we think about the future. How much time would it take?

Healthcare 221

Healthcare Engineering Banking Accountability 221

Comm100

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To drive business, attract new clients, and retain existing ones, financial institutions must invest in improving their customer experience. Enhancing your customer experience is important not just because it will increase customer loyalty and satisfaction but because customers also expect it.

Customer Experience 82

Customer Experience Brand ambassadors Self service Chatbots 82

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of my clients has done an excellent job in the last couple of years improving their customer experience. They focused their attention on the customer-facing teams at first. They focused their attention on the customer-facing teams at first. That would leave one group with a customer-centric mindset and the rest without one.

Finance 195

Finance Customer centricity Accountability Technical Support 195

Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 23, 2021

Emotions rule your customers’ buying decisions. Sure, their rationality weighs in sometimes, too, but often, it’s the emotional side that drives customers to buy. These two parts of us, the emotional and the rational represent the two ways of thinking that serve as the foundation for understanding customer behavior.

Government 435

Government Consulting Consulting Customer Experience 435

ShepHyken

APRIL 28, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Marcelle Santos, a copywriter at TextExpander , a software that helps individuals and teams communicate efficiently and consistently with their customers. She shares why customer standards matter and how your organization can meet them. Raise your customer service standards.

Customer Service 162

Customer Service Accountability Self service Customer Support 162

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2019

Your customers are people and people’s behavior is complicated, especially as customers. Many psychological theories exist to help explain why people do what they do, and when those theories apply to how people behave as customers, they are called Behavioral Economics. He says they are the four basic summaries of human behavior.

Management 361

Management Consulting Consulting Accountability 361

CCNG

MARCH 8, 2023

As soon as an agent starts “just going through the motions” rather than engaging with customers, interaction quality plummets—and so do customer satisfaction scores. In this blog post, we're discussing how to recognize warning signs and prevent contact center agent apathy before it affects performance metrics (and profits!).

Morale 195

Morale Contact Center CCNG Agent burnout 195

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Customer Experience as an industry is at a crossroads. In our recent podcast, we had a guest Bob Thompson, CEO of Customer Think Corp., an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerThink.com. It’s time to put up or shut up.

Customer Experience 385

Customer Experience Journey mapping Customer centricity Surveys 385

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 2, 2020

We have all been in line or on hold for customer service , waiting for a company to get back to us. Then, when our wait time runs long and our patience runs short we get cranky and think, this customer service crew is really inept today. Last February, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) published, “ Why is Customer Service so Bad?

Customer Service 470

Customer Service Consulting Consulting Wait times 470

Enghouse Interactive

JULY 27, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog Series). Blog #3 Seeing is Believing! I n our previous blogs in this series, we explored how Microsoft Teams, when integrated into the Contact Center, helps provide a better experience for the end-customer and how it helps enhance agent productivity. .

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Education First call resolution Cloud contact 52

Lumoa

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI tools are changing the way we analyze customer feedback. They’re not just speeding up the process; they’re enriching it with deeper insights, making it smoother and more efficient in terms of resources. Think about all the customer feedback we see – tweets, reviews, comments, surveys.

Feedback 157

Feedback Analytics Multichannel Surveys 157

Lumoa

APRIL 28, 2024

Every interaction with your business has the power to build or damage the relationship with your customer – and can directly impact your revenue. 78% of customers have backed out of a purchase due to a poor customer experience (CX). More than 80% of business leaders see customer experience as a growing priority in 2024.

Feedback 83

Feedback Consulting Consulting Enterprise 83

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 100

Automotive Journey mapping Self service Sales 100

BlueOcean

MARCH 19, 2024

On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about the process of sourcing a strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. It’s the implementation piece that keeps new clients up at night, especially when transferring from one customer service outsourcer to another. Yes, Legal, we’re looking at you.

outsourcing 71

outsourcing Customer Care Best practices Management 71

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 25, 2024

Amazon Transcribe is an AWS service that allows customers to convert speech to text in either batch or streaming mode. Amazon Transcribe can be used for transcription of customer care calls, multiparty conference calls, and voicemail messages, as well as subtitle generation for recorded and live videos, to name just a few examples.

Best practices 77

Best practices APIs Transportation Personalization 77

Call Experts

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In an increasingly digital world, where communication often occurs through screens and keyboards, there are moments when we find ourselves saying, I need to speak to someone!” This simple statement underscores the importance of genuine human interaction, especially regarding customer service.

Interactive Voice Response 105

Interactive Voice Response Technical Support call center solutions Technology 105

Comm100

APRIL 2, 2024

Customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores are a vital metric for any business trying to track and improve their customer service and support. The scores provide a snapshot of how satisfied your customers are with your products or services, indicating areas of success and those needing improvement.

Wait times 95

Wait times Feedback CRM Surveys 95

BlueOcean

MARCH 19, 2024

On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about the process of sourcing a strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. It’s the implementation piece that keeps new clients up at night, especially when transferring from one customer service outsourcer to another. Yes, Legal, we’re looking at you.

outsourcing 62

outsourcing Customer Care Best practices Management 62

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I f ChurnZero were to release a greatest hits compilation of our top content, milestones, and life events in 2019, this blog post would be it. With over 70+ published blogs this year, we whittled down our list to the ten most popular posts from the ChurnZero team and friends. . Top 10 Blog Posts from 2019 .

Chief Customer Officer 64

Chief Customer Officer SaaS B2B Best practices 64

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service. It represents a holistic approach that is aimed at transforming call center functions into a streamlined, customer-focused powerhouse.

Best practices 104

Best practices Call Center Interactive Voice Response First call resolution 104

TeamSupport

JUNE 20, 2023

Compounding these hurdles is the fact that providing excellent customer support is facing its own set of challenges. As customer support demand continues to increase by 11% per year, reduced staffing levels is causing 75% of customer service agents to face a serious risk of burnout. What happens when employees are burnt out?

Best practices 97

Best practices Self service Chatbots Analytics 97

Nicereply

MAY 23, 2024

They ensure every project meets the overall goals, remains within the budget, and gets completed on time. 21 Project Management Skills Needed for Success Project management goes beyond scheduling meetings, setting deadlines, and task allocation. What are Project Management Skills? These skills include soft and hard skills such as: 1.

Management 52

Management Education Quality management Finance 52

Fonolo

MAY 30, 2023

Put it another way: if customer interactions are at the heart of a contact center’s success, then effective workforce management is the backbone. It enhances agent productivity, helps you deliver exceptional customer experiences and improves the agent experience , too. These resources include time, staff, technology, and processes.

contact center workforce 106

contact center workforce Best practices Contact Center Management 106

Momentum Telecom

MARCH 2, 2024

In this blog, we’re diving into managed SD-WAN and its benefits to help you make the best choice for your business. Managed SD-WAN refers to a service where a third-party managed service provider (MSP) maintains a company’s SD-WAN infrastructure. What Is Managed SD-WAN?

Management 52

Management Analytics Technology 52

AWS Machine Learning

MAY 31, 2024

In this blog post and open source project , we show you how you can pre-train a genomics language model, HyenaDNA , using your genomic data in the AWS Cloud. Genomic language models are a new and exciting field in the application of large language models to challenges in genomics.

Biotechnology 79

Biotechnology Scripts Healthcare APIs 79

Customer Service Life

OCTOBER 13, 2020

I recently wrote an article about a new quality process where I coached my team without showing them a score. The other day I was reviewing emails sent to our customers to make sure they were doing all of the following behaviors (Coincidentally, these are the behaviors on our quality form): Making a human connection. History lesson.

Accountability 182

Accountability Customer Service Coaching Contact Center 182

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What is a Customer Advisory Board (CAB)? A Customer Advisory Board (CAB) is a powerful tool for SaaS companies to maximize customer success. It helps drive better relationships between customers and the company, ensure customer satisfaction, and increase loyalty. Build Your CAB with the Right Mix of Customers.

SaaS 87

SaaS Customer advocacy Feedback Enterprise 87

Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 9, 2020

Everybody wants to improve the Customer Experience (CX) they provide, right? Your organization is doing its best with the resources it has. What’s the cost to your organization if nearly three quarters of your customers go elsewhere? Start with your front-line employees, the people who are dealing with your customers.

Consulting 173

Consulting Consulting Contact Center Surveys 173

Quiq

JULY 22, 2022

How do you connect with customers throughout their purchase journey? Many businesses see live chat, also known as web chat, as just another tool for your customer support center. Leaders may see it as a necessary expense in order to connect with today’s online customers. What is customer journey mapping, anyway?

Chatbots 85

Chatbots Journey mapping Customer retention Advertising 85

Zappix

MARCH 6, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of customer service, where convenience reigns supreme, businesses are increasingly turning to digital self-service tools to meet the evolving needs of their clientele. This statistic alone underscores the pivotal role that self-service platforms play in shaping customer satisfaction and retention.

Self service 52

Self service CRM Wait times Chatbots 52

Balto

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This blog post is adapted in part from a webinar hosted by Balto featuring Michele Santagata. Every contact center has the capability to add value to their company through customer acquisition. At the end of the day, that translates to sacrificing customer acquisition and potential revenue. Watch the full recording here.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Scripts Gamification Multichannel 52

Interactions

MARCH 28, 2024

Dive in as this blog addresses the complexities of achieving excellence in CX within organizations, focusing on the dichotomy between pursuing quick wins versus investing in transformative, long-term innovations. 94% of consumers say they expect better customer service than they currently receive. The answer?

Surveys 62

Surveys Customer centricity Contact Center Chatbots 62

Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

In an increasingly digital world, where communication often occurs through screens and keyboards, there are moments when we find ourselves saying, I need to speak to someone!” This simple statement underscores the importance of genuine human interaction, especially regarding customer service.

Interactive Voice Response 52

Interactive Voice Response Technical Support Technology call center solutions 52

NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

AI-based call centers are revolutionizing how businesses interact with their customers. The customer service you provide will either make or break your brand. From improving response times to personalizing interactions, artificial intelligence is now setting new standards in customer service efficiency and effectiveness.

Call Center 105

Call Center Chatbots Virtual Agent Contact Center 105

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. That’s where the “language of their choice” piece of the puzzle can get complex. The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated.

Customer Support 124

Customer Support Bilingual agents outsourcing Contact Center 124

NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

AI-based call centers are revolutionizing how businesses interact with their customers. The customer service you provide will either make or break your brand. From improving response times to personalizing interactions, artificial intelligence is now setting new standards in customer service efficiency and effectiveness.

Call Center 104

Call Center Chatbots Virtual Agent Contact Center 104