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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction.

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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

What Service Level Metrics Are Most Relevant to Your Business Now? Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. Are their values still clearly aligned with your brand?

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. Fighting the Cost Center Mindset.

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