BlueOcean

JANUARY 30, 2024

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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BlueOcean

JANUARY 23, 2024

So, we’ll take a comprehensive look at the cost of ownership of your in-house contact center – both intangible and tangible expenses – and how it compares to the cost of outsourcing. The Cost of Contact Center Infrastructure Next, let’s look at the physical space that is home to your contact center.

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 30, 2024

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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Contact Center Insights Call Center Technology 156

CX Accelerator

MARCH 16, 2020

Written by Jeremy Watkin and Community Dear contact center agent: What if I told you that if you come to work for us you can do the exact same job as you’re doing now but we’ll instead call you a customer service hero, guru, rockstar, or ninja? Are you sold? What’s wrong with the traditional terms? And are new titles any better?

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a contact center leader, the top agents you hire, train, and manage are the clutch players. Compounding the challenges, the KPIs used by many contact centers don’t match organizational goals or business goals, affecting your contact center’s overall performance.

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Playvox

APRIL 19, 2023

Excellent time management is crucial in a contact center. Contact center solutions can dramatically change the way your organization operates and functions. Contact center solutions can dramatically change the way your organization operates and functions. What Is Time Management?

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BlueOcean

JUNE 17, 2021

We also took a look at how outsourcing your customer care to the right contact center partner may enable your organization to circumvent these obstacles without sacrificing commitment to your customers. The challenging part of business continuity in the contact center is just how many variables there are.

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 20, 2023

Agent Training Describe your training structure (team, facilities, Learning Management Systems, remote platforms, etc.) Who on your management team reviews client reports on a regular basis? Project Management Who will you be interfacing with once you’ve partnered up with an outsourcer? and outline approach to new hire training.

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Cyara

JANUARY 4, 2024

Contact center technologies continue to evolve and enhance customer experience. As a result, contact center testing is growing in importance. But while the customer may have an easier and more seamless journey, contact center management may not.

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Contact Center 2024 Customer Journey Customer Relationships 76

Call Experts

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. Consider the following questions.

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Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

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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CSM Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

Every interaction counts, and one frequently neglected yet vital touchpoint is the contact center. These centers, where customers engage with a company, hold significant influence over brand identity. For example, a customer calls a call center because they are experiencing difficulties with a product they purchased.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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Playvox

APRIL 25, 2023

How can you spice up remote agent training at your contact center to make it the most engaging and effective it can be? Make A Plan Despite the ongoing debate on the benefits and drawbacks of in-person, hybrid, and remote work, recent data and predictions support remote and hybrid work in a contact center. Engagement.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you’re a contact center professional, you’re probably feeling the pain of agent staffing shortages. This difficulty includes finding contact center agents. There are creative measures every call center can take to address agent staffing shortages. unemployment rate was 5.4% Don’t despair.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

The contact center was even more complicated. The contact center agent’s life was not easy, and we saw it just getting more and more complicated. UpStart was designed with one thing in mind – to simplify the life of the contact center agent. To put information at their fingertips.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With corporate budgets tightening, contact center leaders might be tempted to cut into your quality management funding. But quality management is a vital area of your business — it’s what ensures your customers get top-notch service. What Is A Quality Management Program? of their revenue due to bad experiences.

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Upstream Works

MARCH 16, 2023

We enhance Amazon Connect with a unified desktop, digital channel flexibility, seamless integrations and management simplicity The post 2 Ways AI Can Mitigate Fraud in Contact Centers appeared first on Upstream Works. Upstream Works is excited to introduce you to our newest product offering – Upstream Works for Amazon Connect.

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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. Consider the following questions.

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Contact Center Call Center 2027 Customer Satisfaction 52

Playvox

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Now that we have an overview of the perspectives that will shape our workforce in the next three years, here are four tips to help you successfully manage a multi-generational contact center team. Training, tools, and coaching are elements that each contact center agent needs, regardless of generation.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. In our 2022 study of customer support agents and managers, 68% of agent respondents said they didn’t want to return to an office. The State of Remote Work in Contact Centers.

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Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Providing an ever-improving customer experience while boosting contact center agent productivity is paramount for your business. Here’s the blueprint for achieving greater agent productivity in your call center. The quality of customer service and support can also have an impact on the productivity of a contact center.

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Playvox

JUNE 28, 2022

While presenting a tremendous opportunity for business growth, this trend also creates challenges for contact centers. Customers now expect to do business with an omnichannel contact center that delivers consistent and seamless customer experiences regardless of the channel they use. What Is An Omnichannel Contact Center?

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Cyara

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Every year, the term "Open Enrollment" instills fear into management teams and agents at contact centers across the United States. Despite awareness of its impending arrival, open enrollment continues to pose numerous challenges for contact centers nationwide.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The term “customer experience” (CX) has gained considerable currency recently, and in many ways has displaced “customer service” as the focal point of the contact center. Here are some implications for contact center leaders to consider in making the right buying decisions.

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Upstream Works

JULY 25, 2023

We enhance Amazon Connect with a unified desktop, digital channel flexibility, seamless integrations and management simplicity The post 3 Ways AI Enhances Contact Center Reporting appeared first on Upstream Works. Upstream Works is excited to introduce you to our newest product offering – Upstream Works for Amazon Connect.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 25, 2020

This is the second article in a three-part series about how COVID-19 is impacting contact centers and how they can adapt to this new normal. In the first part of our three-part series, we addressed the important role the contact center plays in business continuity during this global pandemic. What We’ve Learned So Far.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If your contact center is like most, you probably have a robust set of guidelines that document your procedures, detail your standards, and outline how employees should handle various situations. But one thing many contact centers are missing is a remote work company policy. What Is A Remote Work Policy?

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Playvox

AUGUST 15, 2022

Contact centers succeed or fail on agent performance. Today’s top-performing contact center leaders know remote workforce training and agent engagement are the new imperatives for performance optimization. Recent research by Playvox sheds new light on the state of contact center remote work.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They make customers the center of their business strategy, execute on delivering outstanding customer experiences, and strive for continuous improvement. It’s often the continuous improvement or quality management (QM) piece where contact centers struggle. Edwards Deming and Walter A.

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