InMoment XI

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Contact centers play a significant role in customer experience management. They provide a central platform for handling customer interactions across various channels. Customers expect quick and seamless support when they pick up the phone or type an email. It boosts customer satisfaction.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 27, 2025

In that light, goal-setting often becomes an exercise in mitigation: reducing call volumes, minimizing customer effort, and curbing churn. At times, even the insights that surfaced from customer-agent interactions can feel burdensomean endless inbox of problems to solve.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The insight about exceptional customer service and the customer experience is still rock solid, and so we decided to revisit the article entering 2025. When it comes to customer experience , there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry.

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InMoment XI

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With 87% of consumers actively avoiding buying from brands they don’t trust, understanding and improving the customer experience has never been more critical. Customer experience analytics is the practice that empowers businesses to do just that. What is Customer Experience Analytics?

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TechSee

JANUARY 19, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere these days, and it’s changing how businesses interact with their most prized asset: their customers. Orchestration helps ensure that the right AI or multiple AI solutions come together to handle the right job at the right time, making service smoother and more effective.

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Interactions

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Financial services companies, especially insurance, need the ability to automate complex transactions to ease customer effort and reduce operational costs, while having the assurance that their IVA is compliant with regulatory demands. Whats more, insurance is a true omnichannel experience.

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BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. We’re both in the business of earning a customer’s repeat business through the quality of the experience we deliver. How do metrics and standards play a role in customer service?

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Instead, we live in a customer-centric world, where metrics like Average Speed of Answer (ASA), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Call Resolution (FCR) are, by themselves, short-sighted and more focused on controlling costs instead of enhancing the experience. Fighting the Cost Center Mindset.

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TechSee

AUGUST 10, 2023

With over 30 million interactions logged annually, TechSee has greater than 1,000 customers and is used by industry leaders including 5 of the top 10 global telecom companies, 2 of the top 3 U.S. Visual engagement continues to drive better business outcomes, virtualizing face-to-face interactions.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated. The Impact of Bilingual Support on the Customer Experience When a bilingual solution is offered to the customer, companies quickly find that quality scores increase accordingly. But what’s the best approach? And what about offshore?

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Contact Center Customer Care Average Handle Time Consumers 310

ViiBE Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

On the other, each call must be handled as promptly as possible to ensure that the next caller has a short wait time. Given these opposing demands, how can a center ensure that agents handle each call as efficiently as possible? A classic call center metric to measure this is the Average Handle Time (AHT).

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Analytics Customer Experience (CX) Analytics: A Complete Guide for 2025 Share Today, the experiences businesses offer their customers before, during, and after purchase are every bit as important as the products and services they sell. What is Customer Experience Analytics?

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BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

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? So let’s get into it. Those first three are what we’d expect.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 22, 2025

Conversational intelligence involves analyzing customer interactions with your business to assess engagement, intent, and sentiment. For example, service renewals may not always indicate customer happiness, as some customers may be renewing their subscriptions while actively looking for something better.

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Average Handle Time Contact Center Customer Retention Touchpoint 195

InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

When you analyze the natural language interactions between customers and an organization, conversational analytics unlocks a wealth of insights that can be used to resolve issues faster, enhance agent performance, reduce costs, and demonstrate the value of customer service investments.

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Social Media Average Handle Time Contact Center Call Recording 195

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Every team at an organization must prove how their work contributes to the bottom line — and customer experience is no exception. We know CX teams can deliver significant business advantages: Satisfied customers are much more likely to purchase more Revenue grows 40% faster by providing personalized experiences Businesses achieve a 2.3x

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Metrics Net Promoter Score NPS Effort Score 270

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Modern customers interact with many touchpoints before making a purchase. In fact, 89% of customers say that a quick response to an initial inquiry is important when deciding where to take their business. Therefore, a positive call center experience is essential for business growth.

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Call Center Contact Center Social Media Metrics 195

InMoment XI

JULY 25, 2024

Specifically, negative experiences can cause customers to churn, while positive experiences can restore customer satisfaction trust, and improve your brand equity. What Is a Contact Center Experience? Why is the Contact Center Experience Important?

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

Recent research at McKinsey reveals a strong positive correlation between customer experience (CX) ratings and financial performance. For publicly traded companies, improving the customer experience also leads to an 7-10% average increase in shareholder returns. Make it about the customer Obvious, right?

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 2024 156

BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

Recent research at McKinsey reveals a strong positive correlation between customer experience (CX) ratings and financial performance. For publicly traded companies, improving the customer experience also leads to an 7-10% average increase in shareholder returns. Make it about the customer Obvious, right?

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 2024 156

TechSee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

At the same time, they must ensure that the initiative does not compromise the quality and efficiency of the brand’s service or lose focus on the ultimate goal of ensuring a positive customer experience. Visual Assistance in Customer Service. Two words: visual assistance. field services. self-service.

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Customer Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Consulting 207

Interactions

APRIL 2, 2025

Innovative features that leverage human-AI augmentation and Gen AI can tip good customer experiences into stellar territory and lead to benefits that drive deeper efficiencies and insights. What sets Interactions apart is our hands-on help with integrations. Interactions IVA eases these exchanges in several ways.

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Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

Table of Contents: Understanding call center agent performance Essential call center agent metrics and KPIs 10 strategies to improve contact center agent performance Understanding call center agent performance Even in our increasingly AI-driven era, human interactions are still central to the work of contact centers and the value they deliver.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 27, 2025

If your contact center feels like its constantly busy but your customer satisfaction scores remain low, chances are there are hidden inefficiencies hampering performance. These inefficiencies dont just hurt your teams productivity; they negatively impact the customer experience , increasing complaints and lowering retention rates.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Call Recording Average Handle Time 52

BlueOcean

JULY 9, 2024

Brand loyalty is a reflection of a customer’s commitment to a relationship with a given retailer or service provider. The way we interact with people and brands has changed—and consumer spending priorities have evolved just as fast. Brand loyalty depends heavily upon customer experience, regardless of the impact of the pandemic.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 10, 2024

Unlike traditional multichannel setups, where each communication channel operates independently, an omnichannel contact center provides a cohesive and consistent customer experience across all channels. While both models involve managing customer interactions across various channels, there are distinct differences in their approaches.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Call avoidance , now known as interaction avoidance, denotes the steps an agent takes to avoid handling a customer interaction. It can take time and resources to determine whether actual interaction avoidance has taken place, but, ultimately, identifying instances of interaction avoidance can save your company money.

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Interaction Contact Center Average Handle Time Article 84

ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

This week we feature an article by Tim Houlne who writes about the importance of integrating technology into your business to provide the optimum customer experience. – Shep Hyken. It’s that time of year again. Time to start planning for your 2019 customer experience initiatives.

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TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2024

In this blog post, we will explore these pain points, discuss best practices, and describe how AI and automation can not only improve call center customer service – they can revolutionize it. One primary concern is long call wait and handle times. Similarly, call center agents are measured on their average handle times.

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 13, 2024

The math provides us with insights on how to improve the customer experience and gain greater value for the client. We’re constantly asking questions like, how fast are agents answering calls (Average Speed to Answer)? What is the Average Handle Time? Is the Service Level Agreement being met?

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TechSee

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Artificial Intelligent applications are revolutionizing the way telecoms operate, optimize and provide service to their customers. Today’s communications service providers (CSPs) face increasing customer demands for higher quality services and better customer experiences (CX). With Gartner forecasting that 20.4

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A Quick Overview of Conversation Intelligence A small sample of customer care interactions has never really been enough to get an accurate big picture of what’s going on in your contact center. The beauty of conversation intelligence solutions is the ability to analyze 100% of customer interactions, through phone, chat, and email.

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Kayako

JUNE 8, 2017

One of the biggest mistakes when measuring customer experience is focusing on what your team is doing instead of what your customers are experiencing. Metrics like time tracking, productivity, and performance take the front seat, but often don’t relate to the experience your customer receives or how they feel about it.

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Metrics Customer Experience Average Handle Time Net Promoter Score 96

Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Workforce Management 9 Contact Center Quality Assurance Best Practices: Modernize Your Approach, Optimize Your Performance Share Even as AI enters the picture, the human interaction between agent and customer is, and will remain, at the core of customer service operations. What is call center quality assurance?

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Contact Center Call Center Customer Satisfaction Metrics 52

TechSee

JULY 9, 2019

According to Gartner , organizations should strive to deliver low-effort customer experiences because simplicity is the most significant driver of loyalty. In fact, 96% of customers who experience a high-effort interaction become more disloyal compared to just 9% who have a low-effort experience.

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Call Center Contact Center Effort Score Average Handle Time 143

SurveySensum

OCTOBER 29, 2024

So, if you want to boost your customer retention rate then better pay attention to those customer interactions. With the help of advanced analytics in the customer service process, you can optimize and streamline your activities and improve your customer experience. What is Contact Center Analytics?

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Touchpoint Customer Journey 52

COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the customer experience (CX) industry, offering businesses new opportunities to enhance their operations. So, let’s embark on this AI-powered journey together and unlock the true potential of customer experience. Nexcom A/S and COPC Inc.

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