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

BlueOcean

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. Those data points still play a role in measuring performance, but your partner should have their eyes set on the bigger picture of customer success.

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How to Improve Contact Center Optimization with Customer Journeys

Pointillist

In this post, I’ll explore why enterprise contact centers struggle to increase satisfaction while mitigating costs, why journeys enhance contact center optimization and how aligning on and managing customer journeys is the key to improving contact center outcomes. Omnichannel Interaction Data is Siloed or Nonexistent.

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5 Ways to Add Convenience to the Customer Experience

Kustomer

They saw reduced average handle time, an increase in the number of customer conversations had, and an overall more convenient customer experience. Wondering how your company can make a real impact on your customers journey (furry or otherwise) by putting customer convenience first?

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3 Drivers of CX Success in 2021

Upstream Works

This becomes even more evident with home-based agents, as supervisors have less control over their working conditions with limited visibility into real-time performance. For example, with customers feeling more stress, legacy metrics like Average Handle Time (AHT) aren’t going to drive CSAT scores.

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5 Insurance Chatbot Use Cases Along the Customer Journey

Inbenta

Let’s take a look at 5 insurance chatbot use cases based on the key stages of a typical customer journey in the insurance industry. Often, potential customers prefer to research their options themselves before speaking to a real person. What’s more, chatbots support an omnichannel approach.

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How to Create a Successful Customer Experience Strategy: A Complete Guide

CSM Magazine

What is a customer experience strategy, and why is it important? A customer experience strategy is a plan of action to improve the overall customer experience at every touch point in the customer journey, pre and post-sales. Build an omnichannel strategy. Bottom line.

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Voice Needs to Be Part of the Digital CX – Not the Legacy Annoyance

CSM Magazine

When it comes to customer experience transformation, the discussion tends to focus on faster and more efficient digital channels. But unless brands fully integrate voice into customer journeys, it’s hard to claim that they provide a fully joined-up customer experience.