Natalie Petouhof

APRIL 7, 2016

Customer self-service is one of the key capabilities of any company that actually cares about their customers. Companies contemplating a self-service customer care solution to support digital customer experiences should consider the following five steps: 1. Tweet It’s just not true.

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RapportBoost

OCTOBER 7, 2018

CEO Tony Medrano and Executive VP Dani Apgar will be at Customer Contact Week to discuss how contact centers can: Leverage new channels like chat & SMS that reduce cost. Increase engagement by agents with feedback mechanisms to effectively self-manage & self-train. Drive agent performance, happiness and company culture.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 13, 2015

Operationalizing Social Customer Care on Twitter. One way to operationalize a brand’s ability to track and interact with Customer Service and Twitter is to consider Twitter’s new data and functionality to create improved and transformative customer service solutions for brands.

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Interactions

APRIL 17, 2019

Contact centers, before this change in focus to customer experience, had a straightforward goal: to handle as many calls as possible, as quickly as possible. As company strategies have shifted, the goal has also shifted to include making customers happy. If they weren’t focused on customer experience, what were they focused on?

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Reduce Average Handle Time (AHT). Improve CSAT, NPS, customer lifetime value (CLV)…. With that information, you can begin to strategically decide how to use AI to transform your customer service operations and KPIs, positively impact customer and agent experiences and directly affect your bottom-line.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The proper first step therefore involves identifying a clear pain point or efficiency gap within the customer engagement journey. Alternatively, dissect average handle time for your agents’ phone conversations. Brian Cantor is the Principal Analyst for the Customer Management Practice.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Customer care extends far beyond the traditional call center. Every touch point or interaction with the company (or even content about the company) can affect the customer’s satisfaction and loyalty to the brand. The components of a business case include: Goals and objectives for the social customer care initiative.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 27, 2019

So, the importance of engaging customers and connecting with them emotionally can’t be overstated. Companies that inspire positive emotions will enjoy more loyalty from customers who are willing to spend more over the long term. That means connecting with customers emotionally is the task of the customer service agent.

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Team HGS

AUGUST 13, 2019

The conference panel was moderated by Melissa O'Brien, Research Vice President Customer Engagement, HFS Research , with panelists: . Michael Truett, Head of Customer Success and Engagement, Newsela. Takeaway One: Where does the customer journey start? Customer Experience. Is this at your website? In a store?

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

Major enterprises such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Disney and Google are all actively engaged in the race to build virtual assistants and chatbots that can respond to customer queries and scale the delivery of quality AI-powered customer service. High-level data analysis. Process improvements.

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Magellan Solutions

JULY 4, 2021

With this in mind, let’s explore how outsourcing to a happy customer service firm can contribute to your company’s success: Your AHT is not a problem if you have a friendly customer service. Average handling time (AHT) has been one of the most important metrics to measure in the call center industry.

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Call Experts

JULY 28, 2022

They can handle various special events, from seasonal marketing campaigns to annual healthcare enrollments. . On-demand customer care reduces call center overhead costs while eliminating downtime due to disruptive events, such as power outages or disasters. Superior Customer Engagement. Contact us.

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Magellan Solutions

MAY 23, 2021

They might have experienced handling inbound call centers from the same industries as yours. Therefore, they already know how to deal with customers’ concerns. It is an advantage if you’re a start-up company with minimal experience on how to handle customer care. More engaged agents means higher productivity rate.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Enterprises expect contact center leaders to transform call centers into customer experience hubs, delivering the exceptional experiences that customers demand and drive long-term growth. Advances in digital technology have reshaped customer expectations for exceptional experiences. Failure to Recognize Context Puts CX at Risk.

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Magellan Solutions

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Call center outsourcing is a business activity of subcontracting call center services like customer care and sales-related tasks. A call center provider handles all customer requests from inquiries, bookings to refunds, inbound to outbound, catering to businesses of all shapes and sizes. The average call count per week.

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Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Are the customer care professionals who work with Centurion card members hired for that position or do they need a certain amount of years’ experience before they can move up to a role like that? This information is important because we adjust each customer care professionals’ incentive plan based on the customer’s feedback.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Ultimately delivering outstanding customer experiences should be a strategic business priority for organizations if it isn’t already. For customer support leaders, metrics tied to the goal of delivering and improving upon outstanding customer care and experiences should matter the most and be top priorities.

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Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

But the hidden gems of contact center AI lie in transforming quality management (QM) processes, improving agent engagement, and utilizing intelligent AI tools to assess customer sentiment and intent in various communication channels to anticipate and improve CX. But it goes beyond enabling automation. And the list goes on.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 25, 2022

At the foundation of digital transformation for contact centers are the blending of human and self-service automated engagements to provide a continuous omnichannel CX. Understanding the Customer Journey. The entire customer journey is more important than any single touchpoint or experience. Accelerating Digital Transformation.

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Playvox

MAY 4, 2023

Customers today have higher expectations than ever before. Unlike my favorite fruit seller, you’ve got hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of customer issues that require sophisticated, efficient customer care through the right contact center solutions. We owe that to our customers (and ourselves).

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Zeisler Consulting

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Even operational measures (think: Average Handle Time, First Contact Resolution, etc.) often drive people to do something that negatively impacts the Customers’ experiences. Who wants simply satisfied Customers? What does your Customer care about how you market? I get it, I get it.

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Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2020

For years, many companies struggled to cobble together the best customer experiences they could. They were sold on the idea of omnichannel engagement, but their operations didn’t back it up — what use are all the channels in the world if your customer’s story and data are kept in silos? FCR) and average handle time (AHT).

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Think Customers

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Speech analytics identifies not only the keywords, phrases, and emerging topics that are driving successful engagements, but also the cadence in which they should be said or written during the engagement. Every customer enters into the engagement with a unique set of thoughts and expectations.

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Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2020

For years, many companies struggled to cobble together the best customer experiences they could. They were sold on the idea of omnichannel engagement, but their operations didn’t back it up — what use are all the channels in the world if your customer’s story and data are kept in silos? What is Digital Omnichannel?

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Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

In your customers’ eyes, choosing to contact your business is an important investment of their time. And how you engage with them shows whether you value their business. In fact, 77% of customers say that valuing their time is the most important thing companies can do to deliver good service.

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Team HGS

AUGUST 22, 2017

After a review of the vast benefits of a bots-brains approach—including improved average handle time (AHT) and response time, lessening of Tier I labor, and improved CSAT, Lauren took on pressing questions from our attendees. Then comes the question of whether we enable a bot and a customer care representative?

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Fox Metrics

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

With a Customer Data Platform , you can assemble first-party data on your customer to optimize the customer experience. Metrics like the first context resolution (FCR) and average handling time (AHT) tell you about your company’s customer service performance. Improved Communication.

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Fox Metrics

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

With a Customer Data Platform , you can assemble first-party data on your customer to optimize the customer experience. Metrics like the first context resolution (FCR) and average handling time (AHT) tell you about your company’s customer service performance. Improved Communication.

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