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Guest Blog: “Zhuzhing Up” Humans in the Contact Center

ShepHyken

In the contact center industry, for example, there are fewer phone conversations going into customer support centers than in the past. The calls that do go through to the contact center agent are for more critical interactions — involving complexities, emotions or higher values.

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70 Customer Care RFP Questions (An Updated List + RFP Template)

BlueOcean

(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 long have you been delivering AI solutions as part of your contact center services?

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What Customers Want Next: How to Find & Act on CX Clues

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

It might be easy to dismiss that if you are in a business that serves other businesses instead of individual consumers. Contact center agents, for example, hear about frustrations caused by comparisons to the competition. Several years ago, Cisco released a report about what healthcare providers and consumers want in healthcare.

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Four Ways to Increase Meaningful Interactions with Your Customers

CSM Magazine

Figures from Ofgem have revealed that the average number of complaints received by the leading utility companies per 100,000 customer accounts had decreased from 3,510 in Q1 2013 to 2,233 in Q1 2018, but the average number of complaints resolved by the suppliers by end of the next working day dropped from 81 percent to 60 percent in the same period.

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It Turns Out, Customers LIKE Email

NICE inContact

As far back as 2013, Forbes was publishing articles like, 5 Ways Email Makes Your Employees Miserable and How To Get Rid Of Email In Your Company. In its second annual global research study of businesses , NICE inContact set out to compare perceptions of business contact center leaders and consumers in key areas of customer experience.

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How Can SMEs Get the Most Out of Telemarketing Philippines By Moving to an Autonomous Omnichannel?

Magellan Solutions

An omnichannel contact center is a customer service strategy that allows customers to communicate with businesses via their preferred method of communication. The use of an omnichannel contact center is beneficial to both businesses and customers. What is Autonomous Omnichannel Services? Social Media, Email, Chat, etc.).

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Is Your Customer Service Department a “Factory of Sadness”?

Customer Bliss

Consumers today prefer to do things on their own – and, most importantly, according to their own timeframe. Rethink the contact center environment: . If you’re interested in how to start dismantling your company’s “factory of sadness,” check out some of our findings and resources on contact center talent management.