BlueOcean

AUGUST 7, 2018

Contracting a new contact center outsourcer may be one of the most impactful decisions you make all year (no pressure, right?) You’re putting your brand and your customers in the hands of someone new, whose efforts will have a direct impact on your business, its ROI, and all its related KPIs. Draft Your Contact Center RFP.

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eglobalis

OCTOBER 21, 2024

However, this approach requires seamless coordination between public relations, social media teams, and customer service to ensure customer experience consistency. Balancing Efficiency with Customer Care For large companies, managing social media complaints can become a resource-heavy task.

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BlueOcean

JUNE 17, 2021

For many organizations, in-house customer care feels like the right choice. It keeps you close to your customers and ready to serve them with your exhaustive knowledge of your products or services. Customer care is often a 24/7/365 job, and the slightest disruption has the potential to impact your reputation and brand loyalty.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

It’s a trend that has a significant impact on the customer care sector. There are very real service expectation differences between providing customer service to a one-off consumer versus a loyal member. Instead, creating a consistent, differentiated experience is everything. So, what does it take?

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BlueOcean

MARCH 3, 2025

Will your customer experience be strengthened or hit a slump because of the programs in that budget? Not to add another thing to your plate (sorry), but theres another question to ask that can impact all those answers: Is this the year customer care outsourcing takes a more central role in your go-forward plan?

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BlueOcean

JULY 15, 2024

For many organizations, in-house customer care feels like the right choice. It keeps you close to your customers and ready to serve them with your comprehensive knowledge of your products or services. We explore the five biggest challenges of in-house contact centers below.

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Bill Quiseng

MAY 29, 2024

Corporate executives and CX influencers have traditionally advocated their business jargon, and their employees and customers have subserviently understood and followed them. For example, business leaders have defined contact centers when customers “contact” them to ask a question or have a problem with a product or service.

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BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At Blue Ocean, we have long held the position that the customer experience and the employee experience are inextricably linked. We’ve said it so often it’s become cliché, but we stand by the concept that happy employees make for happy customers, and in outsourcing, happy customers make happy clients.

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BlueOcean

APRIL 15, 2019

The trend of personalized customer experience has since transformed almost every industry as we know it. From the retail experience to social media connections to issue resolution via the contact center, customers want their individual needs known and reflected in the interactions, services, and products they pay for.

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BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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. How are other customer experience leaders delivering?

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 9, 2021

Contact center technologies are certainly in the mix of acceleration. In fact, many recent developments promise to reshape the landscape of customer service completely. The most recent publication from Ryan Strategic Advisory surveyed contact center leaders about the state of the industry.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 24, 2022

When it comes to complex B2C customer care, the customer is anything but a faceless number in a sea of consumers. B2C brands had their worlds turned upside down by the pandemic, but what does complex customer care look like now things are leveling out? But that’s shifting—and fast. Modified Recruitment Strategy.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Listen to the audio or read the article Choosing a strategic partner to deliver an outsourced customer care solution is a significant business decision – maybe one of the most significant decisions you’ll make in your career. You’ll task your team with running a tight procurement process to assess potential contact center partners.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Listen to the audio or read the article Choosing a strategic partner to deliver an outsourced customer care solution is a significant business decision – maybe one of the most significant decisions you’ll make in your career. You’ll task your team with running a tight procurement process to assess potential contact center partners.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the current landscape of customer service , brands must put themselves in the shoes of their end-users to stay competitive and differentiate themselves. The customer experience reigns, and frontline agents must deliver on customer expectations with reliability and consistency. But what about when crisis hits?

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BlueOcean

APRIL 28, 2020

And in the world of customer care, an industry that has felt the entire spectrum of effects – from drought to tsunami – we’re asking the big questions in anticipation of a better future. And then there are the customers themselves. How will customer service continue to shift as we move forward? What about you?

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BlueOcean

JUNE 27, 2024

The contact center is ever evolving to meet the shifting expectations and habits of today’s customers. That’s why we like to regularly tune in to experts from the world of customer experience to find out what’s new. This aligns closely with the conversation around ESG in the contact center.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As a result, for most companies, any relationship with an outsourced customer care partner is going to have to come with stringent PCI DSS standards well-established, as well as robust data security systems solidly in place. Let’s dig into the state of PCI as it relates to customer care today. PCI Compliance Background.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Either way, we’ve put together this handy infographic to help you compare the cost of in-house vs outsourced contact centers. And hey, we’re also standing by to help you out with a cost analysis and custom quote for your outsourced contact center. Get a custom quote today. Request an estimate today.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While so many of us are off celebrating the festive season for days at a time, there are scores of people on the frontlines working to keep everything running smoothly in industries ranging from health care, to transportation, to broadcasting to, yes, customer care. at Blue Ocean. Constant and Effective Communication.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Great companies are regularly assessing the ongoing value of their partnerships – but how do you measure the true value your contact center outsourcer is delivering? Whether it’s your own culture that shifts over time or that of your outsourcer, keeping a pulse on cultural alignment in your outsourced contact center is essential.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When quality slips, costs climb, or business priorities misalign, moving forward with a new customer care provider may be key to your success. On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about sourcing the right strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. Follow these steps to check all the boxes: 1.

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Think Customers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

That proverb may be traced to Voltaire and Spider-Man, but it’s contact center leaders who see the impact data and analytics are already having on the front line — and the obligations that come with it. Particularly noteworthy is the consensus among CX leaders that contact center associates’ role cannot be overstated.

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Interactions

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Gen AI offers enormous potential for efficiency, knowledge sharing, and analytical insight in the contact center. Many companies are approaching Gen AI cautiously, embarking on use cases that are employee-facing or employee-vetted, rather than presenting generated content directly to customers. Is it an API model?

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 22, 2019

We’re recognized as a world leader in testing for applied knowledge in the contact center environment.). Also read this: Customer Journey Mapping in the Contact Center. or: Secrets to Incredible Customer Service with Paul R. Also read this: Can You Train Contact Center Agents in Empathy?

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 30, 2018

In this environment, partnering with a solid outsourced contact center partner can be the best decision you can make. The key is to find a true strategic partner who you trust to stay ahead of the customer experience curve. More and more customer interactions are happening without any human interaction at all.

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BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Customer experience is pretty much the hottest topic in the contact center and customer care space these days. Where Are Businesses Spending Money on Customer Experience? Read more > The Amazonizing of Customer Experience. billion to $27.12

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Customer care QA processes are moving from limited sampling to real-time, holistic analysis thanks to emerging conversation intelligence technologies that impact every corner of the contact center for the better. The rate at which contact center technology has evolved accelerated during the pandemic years.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 5, 2017

According to Walker , a customer intelligence consulting firm, by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator for B2B. This customer-centric focus has resulted in 72% of businesses reporting that their top priority is improving the customer experience, according to Forrester.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 19, 2024

On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about the process of sourcing a strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. The Importance of a Smooth Transition in Your Outsourced Customer Care Transitioning your outsourced customer care program from one partner to another is a complex undertaking.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And it’s one that undeniably impacts our perception of the customer experience. Exploring Customer Care in the Subscription Economy. For those of us in the contact center space, the truly fascinating thing (besides the astounding growth itself) is the impact on customer care and the customer experience.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 22, 2020

When the world hit the pause button in the face of COVID-19, putting our client’s customer care programs on hold wasn’t an option. Using a countdown clock while agents complete tasks and assessments can encourage efficiency while also mirroring the stress that an agent can experience to meet productivity goals in production.

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 6, 2020

Gartner reveals that of the 70% of customers who start their journey on self-service channels, only 9% resolve their issue there – the vast majority switch channels, creating an exponentially more expensive customer service solution. To put it simply: focus on your holistic customer experience design before you add new channels.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Of course, greater retail sales inevitably lead to higher call volume in the contact center. The best outsourcing partners go to the ends of the earth to prepare for these massive peak season holiday spikes and will not only need to address a sustained customer experience but also team morale, agent stress, and absenteeism.

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 8, 2019

One negative customer experience may seem like a drop in the ocean of all your customer interactions, but it’s never that simple. The LVT calculation can play an important role in determining the ROI of your customer care team, and specifically, the customer save team.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 19, 2024

On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about the process of sourcing a strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. The Importance of a Smooth Transition in Your Outsourced Customer Care Transitioning your outsourced customer care program from one partner to another is a complex undertaking.

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BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In our world, content review shares the same goals of any customer care program: delivering a high-quality experience to the end user. In the next few paragraphs, we will make the case for content review having a natural home with your outsourced customer care provider. Looking to get content review off your hands?

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