Call Experts

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Contact center technology can be the nerve center of your organization’s customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. Depending on the services offered, the contact center can also be called a call center, service desk, or customer service department. What Is Contact Center Technology?

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UJET

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Contact center employees are extremely important to the overall success and health of businesses. They’re the front line of customer interactions, and often the only people your customers will ever interact with. When contact center employees aren’t performing their best, the customer experience declines.

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Talkdesk

MAY 6, 2020

With the recent announcement of Talkdesk CX Cloud™, Talkdesk tackles one of the most painful and frustrating issues that customer-focused companies face: trying to deliver great customer experiences in the contact center while improving operational efficiency and reducing costs. One “throat to choke” for all service issues.

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CX Accelerator

JUNE 8, 2020

Listen to customer service call recordings. In contact centers, where calls are traditionally recorded, there’s a ton of voice of customer insight readily available — one only needs to take the time to listen. Listening to call recordings is time-consuming work. Make no mistake.

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Cyara

JULY 21, 2021

According to this recent Qualtrics study that examined more than 2,000 consumers, 100 contact center agents, and thousands of customer journeys, it only takes one interaction with a contact center to change how 78% of consumers feel about a company… permanently. A single interaction. That’s it.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If your contact center isn’t currently focusing on cross-selling and upselling, you’re missing a great opportunity to strengthen customer relationships and increase revenue. Our original contact center research revealed that 28 percent of contact centers generate 11 to 20 percent of their revenue from cross-selling and upselling.

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NICE inContact

JULY 19, 2018

There is no department where this is more true than in the contact center, and one way to increase efficiency is with integrations. The customer experience can be improved upon by making a multitude of information available to contact center agents, while also increasing efficiency.

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Strativity

MARCH 30, 2020

This is especially true for employees working in contact centers and customer care departments who are tasked with providing customers with information, support, and a positive experience. Changes to the modern contact center environment . Modern contact center environments are often fast-paced, stressful, and demanding.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Twenty years ago began a shift to contact center outsourcing to offshore locations, especially the Philippines and India, and away from the local market where customers on the other end of the phone were located. Brands had a very clear business case to cut contact center labor costs by outsourcing to lower-cost offshore locations.

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CX Accelerator

JUNE 8, 2020

Listen to customer service call recordings. In contact centers, where calls are traditionally recorded, there’s a ton of voice of customer insight readily available — one only needs to take the time to listen. Listening to call recordings is time-consuming work. Make no mistake.

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Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

Customer service has gone digital — and your contact center needs to evolve with the times. Make sure your contact center is set up for digital success behind the scenes so that you can provide the experiences your customers demand.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For some, that meant face-to-face interactions had to be replaced by completely new digital engagements. Once the initial shock subsided, however, many companies have been pleasantly surprised by how quickly they are accruing benefits from their cloud contact centers and customer experience (CX) applications.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Whether buying goods online or paying bills over the phone, they happily relay accounts and credit card details to a contact center agent without a second thought, trusting that the company that they are dealing with will manage their card data securely. The view from the contact center. But how secure are they?

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Talkdesk

JUNE 21, 2019

One important way to reduce these important call center metrics is by reducing the amount of work it takes to wrap up previous customer interactions so that your agents are freed up to handle the next one. In this blog, we outline what call wrap up time is and actionable steps you can take to reduce it in your contact center.

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Clarabridge

AUGUST 15, 2017

Contact center efficiencies are intrinsically linked to the customer experience your company delivers as a whole. Once you improve the customer experience, you’ll find that your contact center metrics improve too. The post 5 Ways to Cut Costs in the Contact Center appeared first on Clarabridge.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 31, 2018

When Talkdesk puts together our long-term feature roadmap, we put a lot of thought into where contact center executives want to go in the future and build a product that will give them the tools they need to execute on their vision. Call Recordings. From a high level, this is a goal we’ve always tried to achieve.

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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. Chat Interactions Contact centers aren’t just for the phone.

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Kustomer

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Kustomer is partnering with Amazon Web Services to deliver next-level omnichannel support and experience for enterprises and contact centers. The integrated solution is already live in enterprise-level contact centers in companies such as Ring, the global home security provider.

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NICE inContact

JULY 23, 2015

What is an Intelligent Contact Center? In any given contact center, of any size, you will find a multitude of solutions to manage forecasting, scheduling, IVR, ACD, call recording, quality management, performance management, etc. Some recent additions to the arsenal include: Cross Platform Communication.

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UJET

JULY 7, 2020

30% said there were “lots of silos” when it came to how well their contact center technology integrated with one another. Instead, contact center professionals should look for a solution that’s been developed as a single platform from the beginning or has tight out-of-the-box integrations.

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Talkdesk

AUGUST 10, 2017

For customers and prospects in your contact center, agents are the voice of your company. Talkdesk’s goal is to equip those agents with the right tools to make those interactions as beneficial as possible. This all starts before a call is even made or received.

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Talkdesk

MAY 12, 2020

Because it’s not restricted to a browser tab, it’s a flexible tool that allows for easy, convenient access when making and receiving calls. Set your availability A contact center agent’s day is dynamic. You’ll be constantly moving between being on calls with customers, updating customer contact information and more.

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UJET

JULY 7, 2020

30% said there were “lots of silos” when it came to how well their contact center technology integrated with one another. Instead, contact center professionals should look for a solution that’s been developed as a single platform from the beginning or has tight out-of-the-box integrations.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 11, 2018

We’re seeing greater interest and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our customers’ contact centers, including the use of bots to support the popularity of chat as a channel option and a surge in self-service. Meanwhile, agent-based interaction will reduce to 15% by 2022, with a further 21% being agent-assisted self-service.

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NICE inContact

MAY 10, 2016

Contact center software companies are now providing innovative solutions that are both easy on the wallet and powerful enough to provide deep insight. While every business has differences, there are some key benefits of speech analytics that can be useful for your contact center no matter what it’s function.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 12, 2021

Talkdesk is an enterprise cloud contact center as a service (CCaaS) solution provider empowering companies to deliver customer experience excellence and top-notch quality of service (QoS). Founded to bring a paradigm shift into the realm of call center solutions, it became the first CCaaS unicorn startup in 2018.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 9, 2019

While it’s easy to disregard, it reveals a common business practice: Call Quality Monitoring – a practice contact centers use to review and evaluate the quality of their agents’ interactions with customers. While call monitoring may be performed live at times, it isn’t feasible when there are large volumes of calls.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 4, 2021

One efficient way to take action is to repurpose on-site resources, such as bankers, by leveraging contact center functionality and mobilizing them around a client. Provide a smartphone and mobile-ready contact center software. To achieve this, it’s best to acquire contact center software that is mobile-ready.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 8, 2020

The organization sought out a new contact center solution with skills-based routing, call recording, robust monitoring and the ability to provide listen-in support to coach agents while interacting with customers. Want to know more? Visit Boingo Multifamily customer page.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

Consider this: of people who reached out to a contact center, 73% had tried a digital channel first, according to the Verint Experience Index (VXI): Banking report published earlier this year. However, not all customers will opt for digital first, so it’s important to meet them where they want to interact with you.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

Knowing when to use the word ‘sorry’ sincerely (rather than to pause a difficult interaction) and closing conversations with a positive resolution of, “let’s see how we can put this right,” are simple ways to keep customers on your side while boosting agent confidence, creating a positive experience for both.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Your leaders might never interact with a CRM system or understand its importance. For example, share a good or not-so-good real customer story, a customer call recording, or a social media example. You can state how you believe this visibility will speed up the way the organization can close the loop with customers.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 25, 2024

Call Spotlight goes deep into the conversations and gives you an idea of future steps you need to take. Multi-lingual Support: You can efficiently streamline customer interactions as it can handle 70+ languages. Well, maybe a click) Key Features Call Analytics: Keep a close eye on sales calls without leaving even a single lead.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 7, 2024

In fact, Gartner had predicted that by 2026, conversational AI within contact centers will reduce agent labor costs by $80 billion. By partially automating the process with AI, conversational analytics can save costs on sales outreach, agent labour, data analysis, and reduce interaction time by up to a third.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

You’ve heard of quality management (QM), and your contact center probably has a quality program in place today. Analytics allows you to analyze every interaction to understand what was communicated by agent and customer, identify outcomes and evaluate the overall experience. This means fewer – but higher quality- evaluations.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 2, 2020

.” According to Gartner: “By 2022, CCaaS will be the preferred adoption model in 50% of contact centers with more than 750 agents, up from approximately 10% today. By 2023, customers will prefer to use speech interfaces to initiate 70% of self-service customer interactions, rising from 40% today.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 21, 2020

As a contact center agent, you can be the first and only contact point for customers seeking help, which is why maintaining a high level of etiquette is imperative. These simple tips will go a long way in interacting with the caller in a positive and professional manner. This will instill confidence.

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