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Calculating Contact Center Outsourcing Costs: Insights You Need Right Now

BlueOcean

In this model, where you pay only for the contacts handled, the responsibility to manage efficiency and productivity lies with your outsourced partner. When you operate an in-house contact center, you are responsible for 100% of an agent hour: the employee’s hourly wage, and all associated benefits and taxes, are your responsibility.

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How to Improve the Contact Center Experience in 5 Easy Steps

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A lot of customer experiences hinge on your contact center’s effectiveness, which is why it’s important to ensure it’s a resource your customers find helpful, professional, and expedient. However, building an effective, consistent contact center experiences can be overwhelming.

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60 Customer Care RFP Questions for the Contact Center of Today

BlueOcean

If you’re faced with the decision to find a new customer care outsourcer in the post-pandemic era, now’s the time to dive in. And second, there’s no doubt that the pandemic and the social justice movement have evolved what you need from a customer service provider – and your RFP should reflect that.

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A Comprehensive List of Resources for the Contact Center Sourcing Process

BlueOcean

Your organization is ready to find a new contact center outsourcer. Are you well positioned to integrate AI into your customer care? What does it really look like to source a strategic partnership with an outsourced customer care provider? What’s your next step? We’re here to help! Is It Time to Outsource?

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Top Customer Care Trends to Consider as You Plan for the New Year

BlueOcean

As customer care teams start planning for 2024, we’ve seen how easy it can be to get stuck in a rut. The quickest way to get re-inspired is by getting a finger on the pulse of current news and customer service trends in the industry. The modern customer journey is complex and constantly evolving.

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70 Customer Care RFP Questions (An Updated List + RFP Template)

BlueOcean

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. Reporting Your customer care program may accumulate more data than any other part of your organization.

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Future State of the Contact Center: ChatGPT in Customer Experience

BlueOcean

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. The question of the moment is: what role is ChatGPT going to play in delivering a loyalty-building customer experience? Can AI Handle Complex Customer Care?