Upstream Works

JANUARY 12, 2022

The demands facing contact center systems are getting more complex and more varied than ever before. Driven by a desire to cut costs with operational efficiencies and provide a better omnichannel experience to an increasingly digital customer base, executives are honing in to upskill their contact centers.

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Playvox

MAY 25, 2023

Contact centers have changed drastically in recent years. The once “in-person” centers dealing with inbound calls have been replaced by global, distributed customer experience teams. In addition, new online channels have emerged to help companies serve customers in an increasingly digital landscape.

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Playvox

APRIL 27, 2023

Contact center trends can directly impact success. For the greatest impact and a clear competitive edge, contact center leaders must choose wisely when making business decisions about the trends to prioritize and implement in their organizations — because all change, even positive change, costs time and resources.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

According to Forbes, poor customer service is costing businesses more than $75 billion a year. The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction.

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently. Until you start measuring customer experience , you could easily be falling behind the competition.

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Upstream Works

AUGUST 5, 2021

As momentum continues to build for cloud adoption in the contact center space, the business case for supporting this decision becomes clear. These are a few specific examples of how cloud benefits the contact center and any one of these is sufficient to justify the investment. Cloud Flexibility Enables Greater Automation.

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Contact Center Call Center Omnichannel Customer Journey Mapping 78

Comm100

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Today’s customers expect digital communication channels from the businesses that they connect with. It’s well documented that millennials hate phone calls , and to meet the needs of these customers, businesses are undergoing digital transformation to remain competitive. Meeting Customer Demand. Business Goes Digital.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 12, 2020

As customer expectations evolve, so does the contact center. Humach delivers a differentiated combination of AI-powered digital agents with humans-in-the-loop to remove friction in the customer journey. Customizing the customer journey. Choosing Talkdesk.

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ViiBE Blog

JULY 30, 2021

What is a contact center? Call Center , Customer experience , Remote operations. Considered a relatively new solution, contact center is an omnichannel customer support platform. What is an inbound contact center? How to enhance the contact center experience.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? Therefore, workforce optimization strategies should be front and center to your business goals.

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Contact Center Omnichannel Net Promoter Score Management 77

Upstream Works

JANUARY 25, 2022

For contact centers, digital transformation has surpassed buzzword status. CX innovation is accelerating faster than ever before, and it’s integral that contact centers keep pace. But how can contact centers respond? But how can contact centers respond? Understanding the Customer Journey.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2024

If you have customers, then they’re having an experience with your brand, your products, and at every step in their journey. Customer Experience Management (CEM) is a strategic approach that focuses on proactively designing and delivering the entire customer journey to meet or exceed expectations.

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Pointillist

JANUARY 19, 2022

How are you currently measuring this customer’s experience? Perhaps marketing captures social media engagement, the contact center measures agent transfers and first contact resolution, and the mobile product owner tracks completion rates. That’s why leading organizations are adopting customer journey measurement.

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Before the term “customer experience” (CX) became widely used in the industry, the contact center was focused on “customer service.” ” When customers needed service – whether a question, a complaint, or technical support – they reached out to the contact center.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 31, 2019

I could take you through a litany of common contact center terms and definitions … but why? To understand todays technologies and what they mean to your business is key to help make the right investments in your customer experience – here are some of the most researched contact center terms: .

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time Government 74

Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

In a recent webinar series, Daniel Foppen of Oracle’s CX Service Strategy along with 4 leading service professionals from BISSELL, Pier 1 Imports, Smiths Medical, and Elsevier discuss advanced contact center functionality and how they have future-proofed their respective contact centers.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 11, 2019

Today’s customers are digitally savvy, more demanding and expect instant service. Contact centers face a constant challenge in managing customer expectations. . Here are some key customer expectations and some tips towards managing them . Meet and exceed customer expectations, today! .

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Nowadays, it is a standard practice for businesses to have multiple channels for interacting with customers. In this article, Yasar Jameel takes an in-depth look at omnichannel customer service. In turn, it can help in boosting sales, drive customer retention and assist your customer support team.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

In 2018 it was predicted that voice would soon be dead and chatbots would be controlling the customer experience. However, this prediction missed one critical factor: the customer. With this in mind, here are 10 top trends for contact centers and the customer experience in 2019. Data management will be central.

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Kustomer

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In this blog post, we share three ideas and concepts that will help you with modernizing customer engagement and transform your CX organization from a cost center into a profit center. 1) Take a True Omnichannel Approach to Modernize Customer Service. for weak omnichannel companies.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 26, 2021

2020 brought a lot of changes to organizations and contact centers all over the world. Meanwhile, customer expectations have also changed, forcing contact centers to adapt innovative technologies and prioritize digital transformation. Provide proactive customer engagements. New Drivers of CX Success.

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Call Experts

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Businesses feel the influence of these negative support experiences on social media channels and email-based customer communications. A well-seasoned contact center will help! . Our seasoned contact center agents, Experts, receive additional training on how to handle tasks during peak hours more efficiently.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 15, 2024

Conversational commerce is all about interacting with customers through various communication tools, like live chat, chatbots, and contact centers. This omnichannel approach gives companies a chance to have a one-to-one conversation with customers on their chosen platform.

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Upstream Works

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

At face value, providing seamless customer service should be the goal of every contact center. With so many technologies to manage, along with rising customer expectations, this can be harder than it seems. By extension, the easier you can make this look to the customer, the better the outcomes.

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Kustomer

JUNE 7, 2022

We must embrace change and adapt quickly to meet today’s consumer expectations for a smart, omnichannel experience powered by a modern CRM—the key to scaling CX, meeting explosive growth, and adapting to change. Omnichannel Customer Experience. That shouldn’t be a surprise—we all know customers want what they want.

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Calabrio

JUNE 30, 2020

Calabrio’s recent Evolving World of Work study —which researched how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted and will continue to impact customer service expectations and contact center operations—found increased expectations around two key elements that make a customer feel heard: Omnichannel access.

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Pointillist

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

But your customers’ journeys don’t begin and end within your product. Customers interact with multiple channels and products to achieve their goals. To optimize engagement, it’s crucial to understand not only what your customers are doing, but why. Omnichannel Interaction Data is Siloed or Nonexistent.

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Qualtrics

MARCH 13, 2020

Frustrating contact center experiences like explaining your issue over and over again, or being handed from agent to agent are usually caused by data silos. Find out how a few simple changes to your set-up can deliver better experiences to customers and agents. First, there was the call center.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 12, 2021

Talkdesk is an enterprise cloud contact center as a service (CCaaS) solution provider empowering companies to deliver customer experience excellence and top-notch quality of service (QoS). Founded to bring a paradigm shift into the realm of call center solutions, it became the first CCaaS unicorn startup in 2018.

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Avaya

MARCH 28, 2017

There is no shortage of software and services companies, including Avaya, that are investing significantly in the field of chatbot technology for contact centers applications. Industry analyst Jon Arnold says contact center operators need to ensure millennials have a chat experience that is fast and personal.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This blog will cover the key reasons why contact centres are adopting a digital-first strategy to meet their customers’ ever-evolving service expectations, and what this means for the future of contact center solution providers. This is known as omnichannel customer engagement.

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Think Customers

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Chatbot and messaging capabilities are the essential tools needed to provide this 24/7, personalized customer service. Chatbots and messaging each serve a vital role in the overall customer journey, and contact centers need to know when is the right moment to deploy an automated or human response.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 16, 2020

This is the last in a series of blog posts examining key contact center trends for 2020, and the first three lead up to this broader theme of innovation driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This means that AI applications for the contact center do not come fully-formed. Chatbots to help map out the customer journey.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

Even before this past year, customers were increasingly choosing digital channels to start their customer journey. Many banks have been encouraging customers to go online for more than a decade. Digital First, But Omnichannel Still Rules. Customer journeys are increasingly complex.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Meeting these expectations requires a comprehensive view of the customer and being accessible on their preferred channel at any time. Talkdesk , the cloud contact center for innovative enterprises, and Salesforce , the industry’s leading CRM system, have been partnering since 2016 to not only meet but exceed customer expectations.

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Bold360

MARCH 20, 2020

And in a world where social distancing and even sheltering-in-place have become the new norm, an omnichannel approach is now more important than ever. Companies are scrambling to keep pace with the shifts in customer behavior since the outbreak of COVID-19. Why you need a strategy for omnichannel customer engagement.

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VDS

MAY 13, 2020

When it comes to evolving customer expectations, companies cannot meet the needs of customers today with what worked in the past. A decade ago, customers expected decent service at a fair price. Just as important as all of this, most customers did not grow up with cell phones in their back pockets.

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