Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations. Why are Call Centers Important?

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 20, 2023

These may seem like unrelated events, but they all have a role to play in defining the state of customer service in 2023 and will have implications for contact centers. CX Trend: Make it Personal A weak economy impacts everyone, so it is important for contact centers to understand how this impacts their customers.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This blog will delve into the top four customer service trends that are expected to take center stage in 2024. This blog is written for you, the experienced customer service professionals, who are the driving force behind these changes that will improve CX and internal efficiencies.

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Calabrio

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

These changes in consumer behavior and expectations, combined with new technologies, are starting to completely transform the contact center. We’ve entered an era where simply keeping abreast with the latest contact center tech advances is not enough. Technology Fuels Contact Center Transformation.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Over the course of 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) became mainstream for contact centers. As with cloud adoption, the promise of AI has become compelling enough that contact center leaders are no longer wondering if it has a place in their plans. Workflow Automation. In 2023, it will become table stakes.

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Call Experts

JUNE 15, 2023

Streamline Operations and Never Miss Another Call with a Contact Center for Utilities. As a result, for those looking to ensure seamless operations and superior customer service, many companies are deciding to use a call center for utilities as it has proven itself to be quite a powerful tool.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 16, 2020

This is the last in a series of blog posts examining key contact center trends for 2020, and the first three lead up to this broader theme of innovation driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This means that AI applications for the contact center do not come fully-formed. 24/7 Self-service.

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Think Customers

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leading contact centers understand that each person and tool has its strengths and weaknesses, and create a better customer experience when combined appropriately. To better understand this, let’s dive into the human and robotic makeup of a modern contact center. What is a contact center associate?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 30, 2017

This week we feature an article by Shaista Haque who writes about the top technology trends of 2017 that she believes will disrupt customer experience benchmarks. Shaista Haque is a marketing enthusiast at Ameyo call center software solutions. Shep Hyken. Consistent innovation is the greatest invention for all generations.”.

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Optimove

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Enhance your customer segmentation with our advanced guide Download Now Informed by our work with thousands of marketing experts representing 1,200+ brands and exclusive insights from our surveys of more than 2,000 consumers, here are the pivotal latest marketing trends we see shaping the landscape in 2024.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be a defining trend for contact centers in 2023, and IT leaders must be prepared to think broadly about the possibilities. When it comes to AI and customer service, automation usually comes to mind. While that’s an important driver, it’s not the only use case.

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Uniphore

JUNE 9, 2021

In the contact center, the leading driver of improvements has been automation. In fact, 65 percent of executives in a 2020 survey cited automation as a catalyst for modernizing legacy business practices. However, simply automating processes for the sake of automating delivers mixed results at best.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 27, 2017

People’s minds wander towards automated voice messaging systems, long hold times, or in today’s day and age, chatting in an online forum with a virtual assistant who, if we’re being honest, really doesn’t understand what you want, how you want it, or when you need it. From contact centers to email marketing campaigns, we’ve seen it all.

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Upstream Works

JULY 16, 2021

It’s easy for contact centers to build a business case for adopting cloud technology – reasons ranging from meeting the needs of today’s customers to finding an economical path to modernizing the contact center. Learn more about our omnichannel contact center solutions here.

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Call Experts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Automated phone lines are a powerful resource for interactions with your customers. The difference in great automation and poor automation can mean the difference in your business. The difference in great automation and poor automation can mean the difference in your business. More Blogs Menu. Data matters.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 18, 2019

There are many technology trends impacting the contact center, and as we enter a new decade, it’s only natural to think in broad terms with a longer-term time horizon. Ten years is an eternity in the world of tech, and it’s staggering to consider how much the contact center has changed over the last decade.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 22, 2022

While the human aspect of CS will never fully disappear, automation can free your team of repetitive processes and customer engagements. When thoughtfully applied, automation makes digitized touchpoints and human touchpoints indistinguishable. Create a dedicated space for collaboration and learning with Success Centers.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 6, 2021

These are some of top contact center pain points driving employee disengagement today. In our webinar, What Your Call Center Agents Rant About on Social Media , we went beyond the annual Voice of the Employee survey to explore how agents really view the contact centers they work in—and why they’re leaving at an alarming rate.

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Call Experts

MARCH 5, 2020

Utilize automated solutions (greeting, phone tree, etc.) Cue the experienced live-agent contact center. . Here are our top 4 benefits of partnering with a contact center to support and grow your plumbing business: . Hire a plumbing contact center that works 24x7x365. More Blogs Menu.

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

According to Salesforce , “Cyber Week digital traffic is still expected to grow by 28 percent year-over-year (in 2020) — a trend accelerated by nearly ubiquitous access from mobile phones and the fact that fewer people will be rushing to stores on Black Friday.” . Contact us to learn more. Contact us to learn more about this service!

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Businesses that follow the latest strategies for engagement and utilize AI-powered automations ensure lifetime relationships with customers. It is the right time to optimize your CX with proven strategies; contact our team today to learn more. . More Blogs Menu. Key 2020 Trends: Cloud Contact Centers.

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Oracle

JULY 14, 2020

The current pandemic is a clear example of a disruption that, in many cases, is accelerating trends that were already happening. We’ll likely see these trends continue to accelerate over time. We’ll likely see these trends continue to accelerate over time. Contactless consumer experiences: payments.

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Call Experts

JANUARY 15, 2020

Intelligent, AI-powered automations are an essential tool for HR teams. Also, these automations will power real-time messaging and reporting, voice assistants, chatbots, deep learning, predictive intelligence, and machine learning. More Blogs Menu. How Contact Centers Manage the Holiday Rush. FCC blocks Robo-Calls.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Companies need to offer one point of contact linked to 24/7 support. Contact centers must capture data in real-time and enter correctly into CRM systems to provide reporting for your business to make data-driven decisions. . Now, let’s analyze and review the pricing strategies of contact centers.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

The two fields attracting the most AI investment last year were automated AI-powered customer service agents, which raised $4.5 billion, and sales process recommendation and automation, which attracted $2.7 Intent prediction enables call centers to up their game by giving customers the assistance they need in the way they want it.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a critical role in customer support, sales, and overall communication between businesses and their clientele. Unfortunately, these centers have also become a target for fraudsters looking to exploit the vulnerabilities inherent in these systems.

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Lithium

JANUARY 3, 2023

Some blog areas are limited to Khoros customers only. Time to optimize your workflows with automation. Strategic Services: Weekly Trend Report Khoros Strategic Services provides a weekly pulse on the top social trends, the latest social platform updates, and important world events. Sign up today !

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Call Experts

JANUARY 8, 2020

AI-powered tools and contact center solutions offer efficiency and a better understanding of your customer experience. According to the Pew Research Center , "more than one-in-three Americans active in the current labor force (35%) are Millennials." More Blogs Menu. How Contact Centers Manage the Holiday Rush.

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Upstream Works

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The term “digital channels” has become core to the contact center lexicon recently, and for good reason. Much of this pertains to how the adoption of relatively new communication channels is impacting the customer experience (CX) landscape, and contact center leaders need to respond.

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Uniphore

JUNE 21, 2021

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology is dramatically improving contact center efficiency and agent productivity. Automating the right processes can pay huge dividends — from error reduction to shorter call times — creating a measurably better customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX). A faster ROI.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Three primary trends are driving the customer care industry: diversified cloud-based solutions. By actively harnessing a set of cloud-based AI-powered technologies, contact centers are infusing intelligence across the entire customer contact landscape. More Blogs Menu. Key 2020 Trends: Cloud Contact Centers.

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Call Experts

JULY 27, 2023

A customer service call center serves as the backbone of a company’s customer service operations, providing a centralized hub where all customer inquiries, requests, and concerns are addressed efficiently and effectively. That’s where a customer service call center comes in.

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Avaya

APRIL 10, 2019

This blog is authored by Robin Gareiss, President and Founder, of Nemertes Research. But that is driven by those who understand its promise and quickly articulate yet-to-be proven scenarios where it would help automate functions or improve processes. AI is finding a comfortable home in the contact center.

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Call Experts

APRIL 14, 2023

IVR systems are designed to streamline communication and customer service for businesses through automation and simplifying interactions with callers. McKinsey explains that at one North American call center alone, over 10 million customer requests are handled by IVR technology annually.

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Inbenta

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A call center experiencing higher than average call volume is stressful. High call volume happens when your call center is receiving more calls than it can accommodate over a sustained period of time. Let’s walk through them: Read also: How to Offer Excellent Customer Service by Using Automation. Open more support channels.

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Call Experts

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A well-seasoned contact center will help! . This helps us forecast our holiday traffic trends and understand which days and weeks will most likely hit peak times in call volume. Our seasoned contact center agents, Experts, receive additional training on how to handle tasks during peak hours more efficiently.

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Call Experts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Often, companies use analytics and dashboards to optimize programs, create custom reports, understand team workflows, analyze different trends, and keep the team focussed and happy. Partner with an experienced contact center to track and optimize your customer journey. More Blogs Menu. 5 Tips on AI-Powered Phone Lines.

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