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

MAY 11, 2020

Situation: You’re tasked with choosing a new outsourced partner for your organization’s customer care program. It’s clear that the contact center industry has felt the entire spectrum of effects. Did the pandemic expose cracks in your current customer care solution, whether that is in-house or outsourced?

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BlueOcean

MAY 11, 2020

Situation: You’re tasked with choosing a new outsourced partner for your organization’s customer care program. It’s clear that the contact center industry has felt the entire spectrum of effects. Did the pandemic expose cracks in your current customer care solution, whether that is in-house or outsourced?

Customer Care 156

Customer Care Travel Contact Center 2020 156

BlueOcean

AUGUST 27, 2020

From your kid’s first day of school to your epic summer travel plans to your favorite team’s season tickets. And, of course, your company’s plan to launch a new outsourced customer care program. Your customers are already struggling with the times, and now you’re thinking about overhauling the customer care process?

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BlueOcean

MARCH 31, 2021

And, finally, remote work and evolving sleep habits have shifted traditional contact center communication spikes from pre/post-work hours to the middle of the day. COVID-19 has significantly impacted customer behaviors and expectations. This inevitably translates to higher contact volume in the customer care realm.

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Tourism Contact Center Customer Care 2020 156

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Before you unplug and spend time with the people you care about, let’s look back on some of the most important contact center topics from 2021. Read more> The Evolution of Customer Experience in the Travel Industry. Few industries are quite like travel. Happy Holidays from all of us at Blue Ocean.

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Magazine Travel 2021 Hotels 31

BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Call volume forecasts are inarguably an essential tool in the successful delivery of customer care excellence. With it, you’re one significant step closer to delivering an exceptional customer experience. But customer care volume forecasting typically relies heavily on historic trends.

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Interactions

MARCH 26, 2020

The pain and frustration associated with poor customer experience in contact centers is all too familiar. Hold times that seem to last hours, phone trees that are impossible to navigate, and rigid voice prompts forcing customers to speak like a robot. Treat your customers how they want to be treated.

Customer Care 71

Customer Care Contact Center Hospitality Travel 71

BlueOcean

JANUARY 20, 2022

In a world where the customer experience matters more than ever, the decision to outsource your customer care has significant impact on your brand and its reputation. At the very least, you should consider how cost-effectiveness, business continuity, and the local talent market intersect in your contact center location strategy.

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Interactions

MAY 22, 2019

As the weather heats up this time of year, vacation is the top thing on my mind and I start to book my summer travels. In my experience, the major problems with booking travel happen at the worst possible time. The survey that we conducted had more than 1,700 participants –both business and leisure travelers. Book flights?

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 29, 2016

5 Smart Contact Center Strategies Designed to Improve the Customer Experience by Pam Bednarczyk. ShoreTel) Rising customer expectations and changing delivery preferences are forcing many companies to revisit their contact center processes. The Definition of Good Customer Service by Jacob Firuta.

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 15, 2015

Meet Jeannie Walters! – She has been helping companies improve retention, employee engagement, digital experience and social customer care for more than 15 years. Meet Debbie Szumylo! – She specializes in helping organizations balance employee engagement, customer experience & business results.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Other examples are the collaborations between Hilton and Lyft , Shell and Dunkin’ , Macy’s and Dick’s Sporting Goods , and then there is Scene+ in Canada who’s loyalty program brings together company brands offering movies, travel, shopping, dining, groceries and more all under one consolidated program.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Social Media Rewards Programs 177

Interactions

MAY 22, 2019

As the weather heats up this time of year, vacation is the top thing on my mind and I start to book my summer travels. In my experience, the major problems with booking travel happen at the worst possible time. The survey that we conducted had more than 1,700 participants –both business and leisure travelers. Book flights?

Travel 48

Travel Hotels Hospitality Books 48

TechSee

JULY 24, 2018

Visual communication creates intimacy and strengthens the connection between the organization’s representative and the customer, turning it into an interaction between two fellow human beings. Visual engagement has been proven to be a transformative medium for providing customer care. Luckily, Joan had travel coverage.

Customer Centricity 104

Customer Centricity Culture Technology 2018 104

COPC

APRIL 1, 2024

Global Benchmarking Series | Contact Center Technologies Today, executives deploy digital solutions with increased confidence and swiftness. Contact Center Training: A Digital Leap Forward The way we train new hires at contact centers has changed drastically.

Customer Experience 88

Customer Experience Contact Center Banking Technology 88

Thematic

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I still remember one time my husband and I travelled from New Zealand to Singapore with our two little kids. We were on our way to do a European work and travel adventure and decided to spend a few days in Singapore. The intuitive answer is no, since their industry is hospitality / travel. They were 7 months and 2.5

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 20, 2020

Over the years, we’ve written many articles singing the praises of on-site visits with potential customer care outsourcers. Many of us are rethinking the idea of non-essential travel. How do you step out of the pages of the RFP and really see customer care programs in action? Can You See Yourself Working Here?”.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Zenarate’s AI Coach is used globally in over a dozen countries in 13 languages by leading brands in banking, healthcare, insurance, telecommunications, technology, and travel industries to improve CSAT and NPS, Conversion Rate, and First Call Resolution Scores. Voice- and text-based channels dominate customer resolution rates.

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Qualtrics

APRIL 27, 2020

Customer Care Managers are used to dealing with regular surges in demand. Most customer care centers (also referred to as contact centers) have an established process, planned months in advance to ensure they cope adequately and maintain the customer experience. The results can be drastic.

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Customer Care Airlines Retail Social Media 36

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“Our mission is to help customers provide exceptional customer care through human-to-human engagement. By supporting training in local languages, we empower agents to deliver a superior customer experience, ultimately improving CSAT scores and call outcomes.” For more information, visit www.zenarate.com.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Zenarate, the leader in AI Simulation Training for customer-facing agents, has announced the expansion of its AI Coach platform with the launch of Call Analyzer. For the first time, contact center leaders can seamlessly connect new agent training with live agent assessment and ongoing coaching on one comprehensive platform.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

hotel occupancy during summer months, especially since 25% of Americans planned Labor Day travel in 2017. During this “low season,” many hospitality contact centers evaluate previous high season performance and customer satisfaction levels in order to address and improve key performance indicators (KPIs) like call abandonment.

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Contact Center Customer Experience Hotels Hospitality 49

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

hotel occupancy during summer months, especially since 25% of Americans planned Labor Day travel in 2017. During this “low season,” many hospitality contact centers evaluate previous high season performance and customer satisfaction levels in order to address and improve key performance indicators (KPIs) like call abandonment.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Customer Experience Hotels Hospitality 48

Magellan Solutions

JULY 14, 2021

They see outsourced customer service centre firms as opportunities to decrease costs, improve services, and expand their business with greater flexibility. . Large corporations, particularly those in the telecommunications industry, pioneered this trend by outsourcing customer support to contact centers in the Philippines and India.

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2021 Customer Service Call Center Tourism 52

Magellan Solutions

JUNE 10, 2019

Businesses should ensure that they are present every time an existing or potential customer needs their service to make sure that they give them positive customer experience. E-commerce customer care. E-commerce customer care is simply customer service for online shops. Travel booking.

Call Center 75

Call Center E Commerce E-support Social Media 75

Interactions

APRIL 29, 2022

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal , “The average number of live job openings in call, contact and customer care centers advertised on Ziprecruiter.com in February was more than double that of the average the year earlier before the pandemic, according to the recruitment platform.”. Travel and Hospitality.

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Contact Center Airlines Hospitality Insurance 62

Lithium

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Everyone has had those horrid travel days. Nothing seems to top off a bad travel experience than a flight getting canceled or having a hotel lose your room reservation. Unfortunately for millions of people in recent memory, having a flight canceled is practically baked into the travel plans. For customer Care, it’s quite simple.

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Hospitality Brands Travel Airlines 52

Think Customers

JUNE 1, 2021

Industries that can particularly benefit from automation run the gamut: retail, healthcare, automotive, government, communications, travel and hospitality, financial services, and insurance. And RPA can help employees across the board in an organization: customer care, sales, finance, HR, supply chain, IT, and procurement.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Automotive Hospitality Insurance 52

Uniphore

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Apart from standard benefits such as the availability of information in one go and automated workflow-based tracking, a key advantage of this transformation was work-from-home (WFH) enablement for our customer care associates virtually overnight. came to the fore. came to the fore.

Insurance 40

Insurance Contact Center Travel Download 40

Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

I think the scope of what customers were looking to change back then was much different. Now we are seeing chief customer care officers and CEOs, chief excellence officers. I travel to Japan, to Europe, and I see this innovation happening across all segments across the globe. It was familiar, and he was easy to contact.

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

I think the scope of what customers were looking to change back then was much different. Now we are seeing chief customer care officers and CEOs, chief excellence officers. I travel to Japan, to Europe, and I see this innovation happening across all segments across the globe. It was familiar, and he was easy to contact.

Innovation 40

Innovation Average Handle Time Magazine Contact Center 40

ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Today, according to Gartner , 76% of customer service and support functions have 80% to 100% of their staff working from home. At a time when 92% of customers expect their customer care contact levels to be just like what it was pre-pandemic, companies have to ensure that customers get a good service experience and do not leave.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Net Promoter Score E-support Touchpoint 52

Magellan Solutions

MAY 20, 2021

Customer Support Outsourcing. Multilingual Call Center Services. Omnichannel Contact Center. Types of communication of Magellan Solutions’ inbound call center process. The experience you give your customers makes up a huge part of your company brand. . Phone Answering Service. Virtual Receptionist Service.

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Call Center E Commerce Social Media E-support 40

Qualtrics

AUGUST 1, 2019

Unfortunately, it’s true that bad news travels faster than good news, especially in the age of social media. Most customer service stories online are about bad customer service experiences, and consequently, you don’t always hear about companies who are doing it right. Adobe Customer Care (@AdobeCare) February 28, 2017.

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ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Today, according to Gartner , 76% of customer service and support functions have 80% to 100% of their staff working from home. At a time when 92% of customers expect their customer care contact levels to be just like what it was pre-pandemic, companies have to ensure that customers get a good service experience and do not leave.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Net Promoter Score E-support 2021 52

COPC

JUNE 4, 2020

Beyond the technology and enablement, I find us now being ever more focused on the people and care aspects of keeping connected to one another – without the luxury of being in-person at the office. I think remote working is going to be a key success factor for Asian call centers. This is a great story for you.

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