Calabrio

APRIL 26, 2016

And now that spring has sprung we see flowers in bloom, hear birds singing once again, and look forward to spending time learning about our new contact center software and solutions. We presented our subjects with an extensive list of potential contact center issues for 2016 and asked them to choose all that they felt applied to them.

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Think Customers

JULY 26, 2016

As customers continue to increase their use of digital channels and self-service tools for customer service, it's only natural that the volume of calls hitting contact centers has been shrinking.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 24, 2017

for 2016, and courtesy and helpfulness of tellers or other staff was the top ranking subset, website satisfaction next and call center satisfaction rounding out some of the top categories of rating. The post What are Bank Contact Centers Doing Right? appeared first on inContact Blog.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Contact Center Satisfaction Negatively Impacting the Customer Experience by Andrew Berger. Telecompetitor) Contact center satisfaction has worsened over the last two years despite investments in new customer engagement channels, according to new market research released by BoldChat. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken .

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 12, 2016

When I think about “great” service, I envision a customer interaction that required little customer effort, that was resolved on the first contact, by the first agent, and in which the agent served as a positive ambassador for the brand. But, does hiring great contact center agents equate to great service?

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Eptica

MAY 18, 2016

Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Meeting the needs of contact center agents. Published on: May 18, 2016. Author: Anne-Merete Jensen Delivering a great customer experience is vital to every organization today – and much of the responsibility for delivering this comes down to contact center agents.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 24, 2017

for 2016, and courtesy and helpfulness of tellers or other staff was the top ranking subset, website satisfaction next and call center satisfaction rounding out some of the top categories of rating. The post What are Bank Contact Centers Doing Right? appeared first on inContact Blog.

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Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

As you may know, Temkin Group labeled 2016 “The Year of Emotion” in its annual listing of customer experience trends. Because emotion drives loyalty. And yet, despite its significant impact on customer loyalty, organizations do not focus on emotion enough.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2015

With this post, I’m declaring 2016 “ The Year of Emotion.”. We saw a surge of interest in the topic of culture in 2015, and we expect even more executives to begin the long-term journey of culture change in 2016. It’s once again the time of year for me to publish my CX trends. In my post last year I named 2015 “ The Year of Employee.”

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We Asked, Zappos Answered: Tracking Contact Center Metrics, Omni-Channel & Chatbots by Sharpen. Sharpen) We went one-on-one with Zappos to get a sneak peek into the contact center famous for their customer service. Sure, they are common sense – but, unfortunately they are not always so common.

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Eptica

JANUARY 12, 2017

Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 What were the top customer service trends of 2016? To help we’ve analyzed all 100+ posts published on the Eptica blog in 2016, and picked a top ten, based on a combination of readership and industry feedback. Published on: January 12, 2017. What do the findings mean for companies?

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Some of us have a hard time adjusting to a change in laundry detergent (you want me to switch from Tide to Gain?!) , so it is only natural that we and our agents sometimes have difficulty accepting and adapting to changes in our contact centers. Studies have concluded that 70% of change initiatives fail for a wide variety of reasons.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 30, 2016

While you are surrounded by colleagues, product experts and industry peers, you will expand your knowledge of inContact solutions, develop your technical training skills and learn contact center best practices. Here are five ways to get ready to transform customer experiences at ICUC 2016: 1. Contact Center Manager.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

What if your employees had to work from home and you had to close your contact centers indefinitely? After establishing several businesses in the contact centre industry, Roger co-founded Limitless with Megan Neale in 2016. We all know we should expect the unexpected – that’s the nature of business.

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Storyminers

JULY 7, 2020

What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? At most contact centers, there will be several waves of change within the 2017 calendar year. The answer to this question is the same as it was in 2016 and will be the same as in 2018. #1 1 Deepen your customer profile.

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Comm100

JULY 11, 2019

Closer to home and much more practically, let’s take a look at how AI is changing the contact center and customer experience, and where the impact is most significant. Specifically, we’ll focus on three applications of AI that will forever change how we build and run contact centers: Chatbots, analytics, and the agent experience.

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Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

We touched base with leading customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein to learn how you can make your contact center adaptive to customers’ evolving omni-channel expectations in 2017. What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? Here’s what we learned. 2: Serve before you sell.

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Calabrio

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The contact center as profit driver: it keeps popping up on lists of top business trends for 2016. Surveys show 3 in 4 organizations now view the contact center as a key differentiator—no longer just a cost center. contact centers racked up more than 200 billion minutes of inbound calling.

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NICE inContact

MAY 12, 2017

2017 was arguably the biggest and best year ever at Enterprise Connect 2017 for those who care about contact centers. For ten years, I have attended virtually every contact center session held at the show, the past few years as the Contact Center Track Chair. Is Cloud Contact Center the New Normal?

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Where Customer Service is Failing: Top Priorities For Your Contact Center [Research] by Sharpen. The post 5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of November 14, 2016 appeared first on Shep Hyken. That stat probably applies to other social channels as well. Check out this article that expand on this information and more.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 23, 2016

While there are a few examples of great culture in the contact center world, there are just as many or more examples of notoriously bad company cultures. Most contact centers fall somewhere in the middle ground. As a contact center leader, where do you start that process? Till Your Land. Let the Sun Shine.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

August 10, 2016 1:00pm ET – 2:00pm ET. Contact centers experiencing a high rate of call escalations due to employees’ inability to handle difficult customers. August 10, 2016 1:00pm ET – 2:00pm ET. September 14, 2016 1:00pm ET – 2:00pm ET. Contact centers experiencing excessive average call talk times.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

August 10, 2016 1:00pm ET – 2:00pm ET. Contact centers experiencing a high rate of call escalations due to employees’ inability to handle difficult customers. August 10, 2016 1:00pm ET – 2:00pm ET. September 14, 2016 1:00pm ET – 2:00pm ET. Contact centers experiencing excessive average call talk times.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2018

billion in annual sales (2016). But the Houston-based company was losing sleep over its two contact centers. The post Mattress Firm’s Contact Center Rises and Shines – Improving QA Scores and Average Handle Time appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are thrilled to announce that Customer Magazine has selected inContact My Agent eXperience™ (MAX) as a 2016 Customer Product of the Year. Each year Customer Magazine identifies outstanding achievements within the call center/CRM industry and awards the most innovative customer experience technology solutions.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 19, 2017

At the end of the day, contact center jobs are about communicating in the manner that solves a customer’s problems best and new contact center technology has to take that into account. Here are a few predictions about what contact centers (and contact center jobs) will look (and sound) like a year from now.

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COPC

AUGUST 4, 2016

I found this article in CRM magazine, Inbound and Outbound Converge in the New Contact Center , to be an interesting one because it discusses some of the changes in our industry that are being made possible by process and technology, but with an eye to improving the customer experience. By Leonard Klie – CRM magazine.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Zenarate leads the learning transformation to develop top-performing contact center agents. His contributions ranged from driving product market fit, persona development, and product messaging to leading a successful rebranding effort for the company in 2016.

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Stella Connect

MAY 4, 2017

This year’s ICMI Contact Center Expo & Conference in Orlando (May 22-25) promises to be quite an event. These are the topics we feel are particularly important for contact center leaders to focus on in their efforts to build world-class service organizations and stronger brands. Bancorp Fund Services contact center.

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Natalie Petouhof

MARCH 3, 2016

Tweet Enterprise Connect 2016 is a leading conference and exhibition for enterprise communications and collaboration in North America. It is being held March 7-9th, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Genesys, a market leader in omni-channel customer experience (CX) and contact center solutions, will be particpating in the event.

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ShepHyken

JULY 19, 2022

Utilizing customers to help other customers does not displace traditional contact center workers. Her passion for “customer & client first” and her constant drive for innovation led her to co-found Limitless in 2016. However, they are sometimes undervalued instead of rewarded for the important work they do.”

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As a part of these publications, Temkin is calling 2016 “The Year of Emotion.” ” Here are the 10 customer experience trends to watch in 2016: 1. The improvement in speech analytics will entice many companies to start pilots for extracting insights from their contact center conversations with customers.

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Talkdesk

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Dreamforce 2016 was a whirlwind adventure jam packed with great conversations, captivating speaking sessions and a few amazing giveaways. Contact center supervisors can also take advantage of SMS reporting in both Talkdesk Live and Salesforce historical reports/dashboards. Not using Talkdesk for Salesforce yet?

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Uniphore

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The hottest trend in business today is what your call center is all about: extraordinary customer service. The writing is on the wall: By 2020, see fast resolution as their #1 need. Customer experience will make you or break you, but what exactly do you need to do to keep your customers satisfied? Read More.

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Stella Connect

MARCH 8, 2018

Building on the strength of the existing partnership, WSI became one of the first Stella Connect customers after the product launched in 2016. Following an initial pilot, the company implemented the full rollout of Stella Connect across its contact center team. Staff attrition is a challenge facing every contact center team.

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Stella Connect

MARCH 8, 2018

Building on the strength of the existing partnership, WSI became one of the first Stella Connect customers after the product launched in 2016. Following an initial pilot, the company implemented the full rollout of Stella Connect across its contact center team. Staff attrition is a challenge facing every contact center team.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 6, 2016

We are officially less than one week away from our biggest event this year, ICUC 2016 ! Make sure to check out all the integrations, software and services they offer that can help improve your contact center. We are excited for this year’s ICUC 2016 conference and can’t wait to see you in Orlando! Pick Your Sessions.

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