BlueOcean

MARCH 3, 2025

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? We cant take an RFP template that was written for manufacturing and use it verbatim for sourcing a contact center.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. Reporting Your customer care program may accumulate more data than any other part of your organization.

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 21, 2019

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. 1. Work Environment.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here are a few green flag markers that help indicate that you’ve found the best-fit outsourced customer care partner. If you’ve taken part in an outsourced customer care procurement process, either as a bidder or as a buyer, we’d lay money on the fact that you’ve got some horror stories to tell.

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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? Sometimes the leadership team shifts, with people moving on to other opportunities or new leaders entering the mix and shaking things up. Are Your Customers Happy?

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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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BlueOcean

JANUARY 27, 2020

You can ask all the right questions in the contact center RFP and still struggle to understand how their culture might or might not align with your own. That’s why, if time and budget allow, we always recommend a site visit before you go to RFP ( read our Guide to On-Site Contact Center Visits here ). Got 15 minutes?

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here are a few green flag markers that help indicate that you’ve found the best-fit outsourced customer care partner. If you’ve taken part in an outsourced customer care procurement process, either as a bidder or as a buyer, we’d lay money on the fact that you’ve got some horror stories to tell.

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CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When we are honest with ourselves, we all know culture is the linchpin for everything we do in the Contact Center. Beth Gauthier-Jenkin, The Vice President of Customer Care at Gopher Sport recently generated a wonderful culture dialog via email. From Jeff Toister: Books To Read: Ken Blanchard's Whale Done.

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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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Zeisler Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2025

Nevertheless, recently I had a very cool discussion with a friend of mine in the CX/UX space, and I posited the following theory, almost right off the top of my head as I was thinking it while I spoke: AI may actually make CX worse in the long run, or at least impede better Customer Experiences. Thats the heart of CX.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 30, 2018

Not to add another thing to your plate (sorry), but there’s another question to ask that can impact all of those answers: is this the year customer care outsourcing takes a more central role in your go-forward plan? We can’t take an RFP template that was written for manufacturing and use it verbatim for sourcing a contact center.

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BlueOcean

JULY 9, 2024

The Intersection of Brand Loyalty and Customer Care Despite the introduction of these three new principles of brand loyalty in the increasingly disruptive (and disrupted) world, customer experience still reigns supreme. Consumers do, after all, still have choices available to them.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the most impactful uses is how AI is transforming customer experience (CX). Advances in technology allow contact centers to use data in much more manageable ways, redefine how to engage with customers, gain efficiencies, and leverage actionable insights to improve quality management (QM) and the customer journey.

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COPC

MAY 23, 2023

Most contact centers recognize the importance of team leaders. This article uses insights from the following research to reveal the quantifiable impact of contact center team leaders on employee satisfaction, retention and performance. US Employee Engagement Research Report COPC Inc.

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Contact Center Engagement Leadership Webinar 88

Integrity Solutions

MARCH 3, 2020

The most persistent contact center challenges can be overcome by making coaching a part of the culture and developing your agents’ listening and problem-solving skills. For several years we’ve been participating in Customer Contact Week (CCW), the world’s largest customer contact event series.

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Kate Nasser

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Listen to the customer voice if you want your business to thrive. Customer experience insights from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX #Leadership. The post Customer Voice Speaks the True Customer Experience | #CX #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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 . 4 – GET COMMUNICATING. Think we can help? Let’s talk!

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Natalie Petouhof

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

This new report looks at the importance of agile customer care. What exactly does agile customer care and agile customer experience mean? Traditional Customer Care Solutions Require Resources from IT and Result in Low Agent Productivity and ROI. that timeline could be weeks or months.

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Customer Care ROI E-support Contact Center 61

Kate Nasser

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Listen to the customer voice if you want your business to thrive. Customer experience insights from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX #Leadership. The post Customer Voice Speaks the True Customer Experience | #CX #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In other words, a loyalty program (and loyalty in general) is inextricably tied to your customer experience and, therefore, to your customer care program. That said, when issues arise, loyalty members seeking support don’t always turn to the contact center team first. Today’s consumers want self-serve options.

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Playvox

MAY 26, 2022

In addition to feeling the mental and emotional weight of consumer-facing jobs, remote contact center agents are experiencing redundancy that can make their jobs feel tedious. With an average contact center agent salary of $42,947, that’s almost $13,000 per agent. Hold times go down, and customer satisfaction goes up.

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Contact Center Rewards Programs Article Webinar 52

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Customers of health-related products—such as over-the-counter medicines, dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, medical devices, wearables, and animal health products—typically have higher expectations of manufacturers than do users of other types of consumer products. Documentation of contacts. Proactive outreach. Ability to Escalate.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 28, 2019

(Which-50) Every marketer has heard a horror story where a brand went viral for horrible customer experience with social media enhancing the frequency of those stories twofold. My Comment: Too often an organization’s leadership believes the experience and service they provide a customer is better than it actually is.

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2019 Article Social Media Customer Service 103

BlueOcean

AUGUST 20, 2020

Over the years, we’ve written many articles singing the praises of on-site visits with potential customer care outsourcers. And most outsourced customer care companies are leveraging wide-spread work-from-home models with facilities operating at a fraction of their previous capacity.

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Reference Customer Care Leadership Culture 156

Stella Connect

MAY 4, 2017

This year’s ICMI Contact Center Expo & Conference in Orlando (May 22-25) promises to be quite an event. These are the topics we feel are particularly important for contact center leaders to focus on in their efforts to build world-class service organizations and stronger brands. Bancorp Fund Services contact center.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Unless you’ve been under a proverbial rock, you’ve heard and seen a massive amount of change in customer service — particularly in the past year. Many are pronouncing that there is no greater revolution in customer care than what’s happening right now. An IVR can save companies millions of dollars. per minute.

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Kate Nasser

JANUARY 13, 2019

As we explore customer experience leadership, it’s amazing how much we learn from asking the simple question, What do customers wish we would do? The answers to this question ensure that our customer experience leadership focuses on what truly matters to customers. So let’s look at those answers!

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Leadership Customer Experience Customers Hotels 56

Kate Nasser

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Leaders, managers, and team leaders, lead customer service morale w/ these 5 steps from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach, author of new book, Leading Morale. Happy National Customer Service Week! The post Customer Service Morale: 5 Key Leadership Steps | #CustServ #NCSW18 appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Leadership Customer Service Books Customers 74

COPC

JANUARY 9, 2024

Interview with Lance Gruner, Executive Vice President of Mastercard Global Customer Care Mastercard recently achieved certification to the COPC Customer Experience (CX) Standard for Customer Operations , a first for a Fortune 500 company.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Care Customer Centricity 74

ClearAction

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Some companies are lucky enough to be founded by a customer-centered leadership team, and some companies get infused with customer-centered executives somewhere down the road. We began to talk more about these customer care-abouts as our reason for existence and industry leadership.

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Customer Experience White Paper ROI Financial 118

NICE inContact

JUNE 27, 2017

For Carlson Rezidor , one of the globe’s largest hotel groups with 1,400 properties, including the widely known Radisson brand, creating consistency across all guest reservation contact centers had its own challenges. We wanted to give them a personalized experience, but we needed a contact center platform that allowed us to do that.”.

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Omnichannel Contact Center Guest Experience Hospitality 48

Interactions

APRIL 16, 2020

Brands are posed with the difficult task of handling the unexpected without detracting from customer’s experience. . Managing the unpredictable, coupled the stress and concerns around retaining and training agents, creates a perfect storm for contact centers. Contact centers need the ability to handle the unexpected.

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Contact Center Leadership Interaction 2022 71

CSM Magazine

MARCH 20, 2024

This distinctive model, coupled with a leadership team that boasts over five decades of customer support outsourcing experience with Fortune 500 behemoths in the Philippines—including titans such as Microsoft, American Express, Allstate, United Healthcare, and T-Mobile—positions it uniquely.

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Qualtrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Customer care teams have the power to deliver breakthrough experience s , and our latest research shows just how much customers value them. Find out how making the right investments in your service center culture can turn yours from a necessary cost center into a key brand loyalty driver. It’s all about perception.

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Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Metrics 26

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Brenda Lynn Dichoso – Head of Customer Experience Performance Management at PT Smartfren Telecom. Brenda Lynn Dichoso is a customer experience executive with direct vertical market experience in designing, implementing, and managing complex customer care operations in a telecom set-up. LinkedIn : [link].

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