Upstream Works

JANUARY 7, 2021

AI has many valuable uses in the contact center, from providing data and channel options to reducing costs. With AI enabling better forms of self-service, automation can address many contact center challenges with limited cost impact or added strain to the existing pool of agents. Customer Journey Mapping.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

At its core, call center management is the art of overseeing the day-to-day operations of a call center, ensuring that it runs smoothly and efficiently. Call centers serve as hubs for customer interactions, making them a vital element of customer support.

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VDS

JUNE 6, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a vital role in delivering exceptional customer experiences. As businesses strive to meet evolving customer expectations, adopting a cloud contact center solution has become a strategic imperative. Let’s begin!

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Let’s get back to basics with a few of these buzzy terms – what exactly they mean, how they are making an impact on the customer experience industry, and tips for successfully incorporating them into your CX strategy. Omnichannel. It’s important to take the term “omnichannel” with a grain of salt.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Nick Bandy, Chief Marketing Officer at LiveVox , an omnichannel platform that helps brands seamlessly communicate with their customers. He shares how you can align your customer’s journey with their brand expectations. The customer journey is essential to any company’s success.

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VDS

JUNE 6, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a vital role in delivering exceptional customer experiences. As businesses strive to meet evolving customer expectations, adopting a cloud contact center solution has become a strategic imperative. Let’s begin!

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Contact Center Return on Investment ROI Demo 52

Calabrio

APRIL 5, 2016

In the same way, customers choose to use different channels to meet specific needs they have (conflict avoidance, convenience, speed/immediacy, etc.), It has evolved to include email, social media and text messaging, so now companies can analyze data from multiple avenues to understand customer behavior.

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Avaya

APRIL 27, 2017

But this May 22-25, when you arrive in Orlando for the 2017 ICMI Contact Center Expo and Conference , we think you’ll be heading for what we like to call the second happiest place on earth. We’ll show customer-focused companies our latest innovations. We hope to see you at the ICMI Contact Center and Exhibition in Booth 623.

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Avaya

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

If you have customers that are 55 and under you need a customer experience plan to address digital channel preferences and AI in contact centers now, before it’s too late. And Ava provides seamless hand off of the customer experience, with full context of the interaction, to an agent when and if one is required.

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Bold360

MARCH 20, 2020

Customer experience (CX) is fast overtaking price and product as a key brand differentiator. And in a world where social distancing and even sheltering-in-place have become the new norm, an omnichannel approach is now more important than ever. It takes more than one or two interactions to convert today’s customers into loyal buyers.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

Brands of all sizes are learning that customer experience is no longer an afterthought: it’s the heart of what consumers want, and the foundation for profits. In light of fast-changing customer demands, is your contact center keeping up? Furthermore, we’re learning how customers engage differently depending on their goal.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

According to Forbes, poor customer service is costing businesses more than $75 billion a year. The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction.

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Avaya

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The evolving demands of digital-savvy customers have a deep impact on the contact center. In today’s highly connected society, customers are relying on other people around them to find information to solve issues. In reality, the last mile that makes or breaks the customer experience lies in the contact center.

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Think Customers

MARCH 1, 2021

The pandemic accelerated digital adoption of messaging, web, and cloud at light speed, and in doing so contact centers have been at the front-line of large volumes of people in need for support, comfort, and information. Rethink the traditional contact center. The traditional contact center model is facing a reckoning.

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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. Conversational AI.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

Brands of all sizes are learning that customer experience is no longer an afterthought: it’s the heart of what consumers want, and the foundation for profits. In light of fast-changing customer demands, is your contact center keeping up? Furthermore, we’re learning how customers engage differently depending on their goal.

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Contact Center Consumers Net Promoter Score 2018 54

Upstream Works

JANUARY 31, 2023

As 2023 unfolds, a key theme for contact center leaders to watch is reinforcing the connection between customer experience (CX) and agent experience (AX). CX must always remain the primary focus for the contact center –this recent blog post identified two 2023 trends that will have a major impact on CX.

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Interactions

MARCH 28, 2019

Recently, I attended two highly informative conferences which looked at AI technologies and their impact on customer engagement – the Conversational Interaction Conference hosted by AVIOS in San Jose and Enterprise Connect conference in Florida. 1 in 4 contact centers could be fully automated in 5 years.

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Before the term “customer experience” (CX) became widely used in the industry, the contact center was focused on “customer service.” ” When customers needed service – whether a question, a complaint, or technical support – they reached out to the contact center.

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Answer Dash

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It’s been an interesting quarter in the contact center technology space. Zendesk just announced their new omnichannel platform. Salesforce announced that Desk.com is going away in March 2020 and they’re moving customers to Service Cloud Lightning. He is also the co-founder and regular contributor on Customer Service Life.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 15, 2024

Conversational commerce is all about interacting with customers through various communication tools, like live chat, chatbots, and contact centers. This omnichannel approach gives companies a chance to have a one-to-one conversation with customers on their chosen platform.

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Avaya

MAY 8, 2019

On any given day, contact center agents at C3i Solutions may field inquiries regarding sports drinks, tires, or pharmaceuticals, just to name a few. In an environment driven by a continuous improvement philosophy, C3i Solutions began exploring the market for new contact center innovations.

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Comm100

APRIL 27, 2020

In a truly customer-centric organization, the only real way to deliver cohesive digital support is with an omnichannel approach. Omnichannel platforms give agents visibility into their customers’ entire conversation history, no matter which channel they reach out from.

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Calabrio

APRIL 20, 2016

When you close your eyes and imagine a contact center, what do you see? Is it a dim and dusty room filled with rows of headset wearing agents, half-heartedly responding to customer complaints? If you saw the second scene, welcome to the digital age – and new reality – of the contact center.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 12, 2020

As customer expectations evolve, so does the contact center. Managing this intersection is Jennifer Lundberg’s primary role, and she’s done it for organizations of all types: “I think if you can come up with a function for contact centers, we cover it.”. Customizing the customer journey.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This week we feature an article by Mansi Bhatia who looks at ways organizations can transform contact centers into a customer engagement center. I like the idea of a customer engagement center. – Shep Hyken. Customer service has the power to make or break a company. Conclusion.

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eGain Blogs

MAY 8, 2020

The answer to the soaring consumer demand for digital service and the business need to do more with less lies in digital customer engagement. As phone wait times escalate and in-person interactions remain difficult or impossible, this is a win-win for the business and the customer. The new digital engagement at work.

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eGain Blogs

MAY 8, 2020

The answer to the soaring consumer demand for digital service and the business need to do more with less lies in digital customer engagement. As phone wait times escalate and in-person interactions remain difficult or impossible, this is a win-win for the business and the customer. The new digital engagement at work.

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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

While the proliferation of handheld devices has a lot to do with the inflated expectations of customers, it is also natural. In the past, contact centers could stay ahead of the curve as long as they ensured to utilize the right solutions and tools to service customers.

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Upstream Works

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Unfortunately, many contact centers have the unfortunate habit of doing just that. Having to repeat information to a contact center agent constantly comes in near the top in the order of things that negatively impact customer satisfaction.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Here is some of the data that could be used to influence that interaction: Who are they? What was said during that interaction? Do they have any other interactions in progress? The impact that this information could have on the interaction is huge. It means capturing and using every interaction.

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Call Experts

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Businesses feel the influence of these negative support experiences on social media channels and email-based customer communications. A well-seasoned contact center will help! . Our seasoned contact center agents, Experts, receive additional training on how to handle tasks during peak hours more efficiently.

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Answer Dash

JANUARY 1, 2019

(This article is originally published at ICMI ) Hint: Focus on Agent Performance If you’ve sat through any customer service technology demos or walked the showroom floor at an industry conference, you’ve undoubtedly heard well-meaning sales folks speak of innovation, disruption, and automation. Track what customers are asking.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

To help you prepare for the year ahead, in this article we’ll look at the key customer service trends of 2023 and how you can deliver on your consumers’ support expectations. Personalized support through omnichannel expands. Seventy-one percent of consumers expect companies to deliver personalized interactions.

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Avaya

JUNE 26, 2017

Today, digital interactions account for over 35% of all interactions and, at the current rate, will overtake voice in two years. There is a need for an omnichannel capability to provide the best customer journey and experience possible. But all share the same goal: a satisfying interaction with fast results.

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Calabrio

JUNE 30, 2020

Calabrio’s recent Evolving World of Work study —which researched how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted and will continue to impact customer service expectations and contact center operations—found increased expectations around two key elements that make a customer feel heard: Omnichannel access. More empathy.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Interactive voice response (IVR) systems are the gatekeepers to the contact center. As such, they set the tone for the entire interaction. Does your gatekeeper welcome everyone in with little friction, or is your IVR system more like the troll under the bridge, barring the way until customers answer the riddles correctly?

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