BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You’re prepared for the future of customer service. And you’re ready for your outsourced customer service RFP to hit the road and bring you some stellar options for a new contact center partner. Here’s the short list of the best questions to ask about AI in the contact center. You’ve got your game face on.

Contact Center 195

Contact Center Measurement Metrics Omnichannel 195

ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

This week we feature an article by Tim Houlne who writes about the importance of integrating technology into your business to provide the optimum customer experience. – Shep Hyken. Time to start planning for your 2019 customer experience initiatives. Would you consider that a great customer experience?

Blog 94

Blog Customer Experience Contact Center Airlines 94

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. How many physical centers do you operate? Provide examples of standard and custom reporting.

Customer Care 177

Customer Care Contact Center Culture Measurement 177

Lumoa

JANUARY 15, 2024

When customers shop in physical stores, they might have several questions about a product: Is it available in a different size? The scenario is now much the same for online customers who increasingly expect a seamless, personalized experience. But it also allows agents to handle several customer queries at once.

Customer Experience 83

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Touchpoint Omnichannel 83

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This week we feature an article by Brian Cantor who gives us a list of ways to achieve success and consistency when communicating with customers on any channel. – Shep Hyken. Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology.

Blog 95

Blog Omnichannel Average Handle Time Contact Center 95

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

This week we feature an article by Pascal van Opzeeland who writes about the quality of customer support and what it takes to provide great customer support. – Shep Hyken. What makes a customer support interaction good or bad? To be good, a customer support interaction needs to be…. Element #1: Fast. Element #3: Clear.

Blog 106

Blog Effort Score Interaction Article 106

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Naturally, Customer Experience and AI were on the tip of everyone’s tongue. There is no doubt that the contact center industry is poised for massive changes. The AI revolution is truly at the doorstep of Customer Service…and it will change the face of the industry forever. This is not necessarily the case.

Net Promoter Score 140

Net Promoter Score NPS Contact Center Metrics 140

Call Experts

JULY 27, 2023

A customer service call center serves as the backbone of a company’s customer service operations, providing a centralized hub where all customer inquiries, requests, and concerns are addressed efficiently and effectively. When it comes to delivering exceptional customer service, businesses face numerous challenges.

Call Center 52

Call Center Customer Service E Commerce E-support 52

ShepHyken

APRIL 14, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Jaime Scott, writes about how engagement is crucial to delivering an excellent customer service experience. We have already witnessed the rise of technology with performance metrics and targets in the name of Workforce Optimization.

Blog 82

Blog Contact Center Competitive Advantage Engagement 82

SaleMove

JANUARY 20, 2021

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches.

Virtual Agent 98

Virtual Agent Contact Center Management Technology 98

Call Experts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Behind the Scenes: A Day in The Life of a Call Center Agent Have you ever wondered what is it like for the call center agent answreing my phone when I partner with Call Experts? Performance Metrics in the Call Center Call center operations rely heavily on performance metrics to evaluate and improve efficiency.

Call Center 59

Call Center Net Promoter Score NPS Average Handle Time 59

Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Contact centers that embrace a strategic focus on the customer experience (CX) will follow a different evolution path than those who stay the course with a conventional approach to customer service. Otherwise, the agent experience (AX) will be poor and CX will suffer as a result. Provide a Unified Desktop.

Contact Center 78

Contact Center Net Promoter Score Call Center Social Media 78

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 25, 2022

Providing proactive experiences is part of the future I see for Customer Experience , a side effect of Customer Science. For those who read this newsletter, you know that Customer Science is where we have a convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), data, and behavioral sciences. Building a Proactive Experience.

Contact Center 147

Contact Center Hotels Social Media Interaction 147

Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

When it comes to adopting new technology, contact centers prefer easy transitions with minimal impact on continuity. This is fine for routine updates of existing technology, but this is not sufficient for legacy-based contact centers as they try to keep up with digital-first customers.

Omnichannel 78

Omnichannel Contact Center Call Center Technology 78

ShepHyken

APRIL 13, 2018

This week we feature an article by Jaime Bailey who explains why your company is best served by considering every possible source of insight about customer behavior, goals, and expectations, and implementing the tools that most effectively serve your needs. – Shep Hyken. Before Soliciting Feedback.

Contact Center 82

Contact Center Feedback Blog Customer Journey Mapping 82

ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2021

Sh e shares best practices supervisors can use for monitoring call center agents in a work-from-home scenario. COVID-19 has led us to believe that we need to rethink, amend, and strengthen our contact centers with robust technology to stay ahead of the pandemic. Comprehensive Call Center Metrics Report. Here’s how!

Call Center 88

Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time E-support 88

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

This week we feature an article by Pascal van Opzeeland who writes about the quality of customer support and what it takes to provide great customer support. – Shep Hyken. What makes a customer support interaction good or bad? To be good, a customer support interaction needs to be…. Element #1: Fast. Element #3: Clear.

Blog 67

Blog Effort Score Customers Interaction 67

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 the contact center, the leading driver of improvements has been automation. Out with the old, in with the new! Unleash and Unburden Your Employees.

Engagement 98

Engagement Contact Center 2021 Metrics 98

VDS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Transitioning your contact center to Genesys Cloud can be a daunting task, but with the right strategies, it can be a seamless process. Genesys Cloud is a powerful platform that can help you improve customer experience, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. You can rest assured that your customer data is safe and secure.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Roadmap Customer Satisfaction Communication 52

SaleMove

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Today’s contact center managers focus primarily on agent performance and customer service level metrics, and using those metrics to drive staffing, training and technology investment decisions. Instead of […].

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Management Metrics Blog 52

Call Experts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Often, companies use analytics and dashboards to optimize programs, create custom reports, understand team workflows, analyze different trends, and keep the team focussed and happy. With all of these items to monitor, it’s easy to forget to prioritize your customer’s journey. . How can you monitor your customer experience?

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Contact Center Call Center 2018 78

Think Customers

MARCH 28, 2022

Gig customer experience (gigCX) workers—independent contractors, freelancers, and other temporary workers who provide customer support and other related services—are a natural fit in the contact center space. According to a Pew Research Center report, “The State of Gig Work in 2021,” 9% of U.S.

Contact Center 105

Contact Center Effort Score Metrics 2023 105

Lithium

JANUARY 2, 2024

If you still need to sign up to receive the Customer Newsletter, you're missing out on the latest and greatest from Khoros! Some blog areas are limited to Khoros customers only. If you are a customer and unable to access anything, click the chat bubble (bottom right) and type Customer Access. Sign up today !

2024 52

2024 Social Media 2023 Contact Center 52

Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. When the whole world went remote, people started calling in in record numbers, forcing businesses to reassess their customer service game. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

Call Center 98

Call Center Contact Center Webinar 2021 98

Totango

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Knowing what influences customer satisfaction can help you improve your clients’ experience and increase retention rates. Here we’ll focus on five of the top factors which shape clients’ experience of your brand. We’ll cover a range of variables, spanning customer service performance to customer loyalty incentives.

Customer Satisfaction 88

Customer Satisfaction Net Promoter Score Loyalty Consumers 88

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Acquiring and keeping new customers is obviously at the core of running any successful business, and one thing about it is certain: for customers to keep using your product, they have to like it. When you pursue product-led growth from a Customer Success angle, you’re even more likely to build up that customer loyalty.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Metrics Loyalty 98

SaleMove

JANUARY 20, 2021

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches.

Virtual Agent 52

Virtual Agent Contact Center Management Technology 52

Totango

MAY 5, 2021

It is essential for a company to understand the behavior, opinions, and needs of their customers to provide the best service possible. By measuring customer experience, companies can easily become more educated about customer behavior and opinions. The Importance of Measuring Customer Experience.

Measurement 118

Measurement Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score 118

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Nowhere is this more true than with customer relationships. Without listening to the voice of your customer, you’ll be like a ship without a rudder or a compass…lost and drifting without direction. Customers don’t always take the time to express their feelings. In This Article: What is the Voice of the Customer (VoC)?

Customer Centricity 169

Customer Centricity Voice of Customer Social Media NPS 169

Avaya

APRIL 10, 2019

This blog is authored by Robin Gareiss, President and Founder, of Nemertes Research. 2 technology they expect to transform Digital Customer Experience (DCX), behind customer success analytics tools. 2 technology they expect to transform Digital Customer Experience (DCX), behind customer success analytics tools.

Contact Center 71

Contact Center Virtual Agent Document Roadmap 71

Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

As the pandemic continues and businesses continue shifting focus to accommodate necessary changes, we’ve seen brand new drivers of customer experience (CX) success arise. The below three drivers of CX success will help to keep customer loyalty strong as we move into 2021. Meeting the New Criteria for Customer Experience.

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2021 Average Handle Time Contact Center E Commerce 78

Totango

AUGUST 25, 2022

Six Customer Engagement SaaS Strategies That Work. For software service providers, customer engagement SaaS strategies play a central role in a successful business model. Proactive interactions with your customers can increase satisfaction and retention, driving repeat business and referral revenue.

Customer Engagement 96

Customer Engagement Engagement Net Promoter Score Metrics 96

VDS

JUNE 6, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a vital role in delivering exceptional customer experiences. As businesses strive to meet evolving customer expectations, adopting a cloud contact center solution has become a strategic imperative. Let’s begin!

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Return on Investment ROI Demo 52

VDS

JUNE 6, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a vital role in delivering exceptional customer experiences. As businesses strive to meet evolving customer expectations, adopting a cloud contact center solution has become a strategic imperative. Let’s begin!

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Return on Investment ROI Demo 52

Optimove

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Enhance your customer segmentation with our advanced guide Download Now Informed by our work with thousands of marketing experts representing 1,200+ brands and exclusive insights from our surveys of more than 2,000 consumers, here are the pivotal latest marketing trends we see shaping the landscape in 2024.

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2024 Marketing Consumers Download 72

COPC

APRIL 19, 2023

Previously, we discussed the importance of a well-designed scorecard in our blog, Benefits of a Balanced Scorecard for Performance Management. Let’s explore how to achieve harmony and stimulate the ideal behaviors across your customer experience (CX) operations. quality, service, etc.).

Metrics 71

Metrics Average Handle Time Definition Measurement 71

Call Experts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

How focussed are you on improving customer experience (CX). What is customer experience? CX is the sum of all the moments your customers share during their entire customer journey. Improving this experience is about developing an emotional connection to create a brand perception of your company.

Customer Experience 80

Customer Experience Contact Center Call Center 2018 80