BlueOcean

JANUARY 6, 2020

Competitive pressures, customer expectations, and emerging technologies are some of the key factors pushing leaders to elevate and evolve their customer service approach. We often talk about omnichannel as the ultimate goal for any and every customer service solution. Listen to the audio or read the article.

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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. billion by 2024.

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

Best Practices Contact Center Management: Best Practices & Strategies for Peak Performance Share The modern contact center is no longer seen as a mere service function at the periphery of the business. At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity.

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Calabrio

MARCH 31, 2025

Contact Center AI Generative AI in Contact Centers: The Tech and Use Cases Driving a Revolution in Customer Service Share The contact center landscape is undergoing a dramatic shiftone driven by the adoption and innovation of AI. The speed of the shift has been remarkablebut its also far from over.

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SurveySensum

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It’s no secret that your contact center is the first line of defense with your customers – making it the most important touchpoint in the customer journey. Also, 88% of customers say that a good customer service experience is what makes them more likely to make another purchase from the brand.

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BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The highest performing companies will ensure these disciplines coexist, transforming their contact centers (and much of their business) to maximize their business outcomes. Breaking Down the Total Experience Strategy CX The customer experience is one of the elements we are most passionate about here at Blue Ocean. (If

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Nick Bandy, Chief Marketing Officer at LiveVox , an omnichannel platform that helps brands seamlessly communicate with their customers. He shares how you can align your customer’s journey with their brand expectations. What do customers expect from contact centers? .

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Upstream Works

AUGUST 11, 2020

The difference between good and excellent contact center CX is providing customers with a human touch. The key to excellent contact center CX is to create meaningful human connections between the business and its employees. And, it’s this human connection that will drive customer loyalty.

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Upstream Works

MAY 13, 2020

Every contact center has a universal goal: to provide exceptional customer service. It requires a holistic customer experience (CX) strategy, a responsive data strategy and the flexibility to adapt to a changing world. The foundation for omnichannel contact center success is your long-term strategy.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 10, 2020

With so much of business shifting to virtual spaces, the contact center has taken on a new kind of prominence that no one could have anticipated. Everyone is learning on the fly – businesses, customers and vendors. The Contact Center as an Essential Service. What Customers Really Want.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Customers have distinct preferences for how they interact with your organization, making it tricky to know the best places to focus your customer experience efforts. When it comes to building those customer journey maps… well, some things are easier said than done. What is a Customer Journey Map?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 15, 2021

Winning Customer Trust through Omnichannel Communication. Utilizing Omnichannel Communication to Connect with Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Steve Bederman, President and CEO of NobelBiz , a Contact Center Technology Company. Top Takeaways: A customer gives us the gift of trust when they choose us.

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TechSee

APRIL 17, 2022

” The Modern Call Center Customer Journey. The unpleasant experience of being bounced around, waiting on hold as you are passed from one customer service agent to the next is why many consumers dread contacting customer support. Have a great day!” What is a Warm Transfer?

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Upstream Works

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As 2021 unfolds, the stakes have never been higher for contact center leaders to invest in the right technologies. Many contact centers still struggle with the limitations of legacy technology and premises-based systems, and the disruption from COVID-19 has intensified the urgency to modernize.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The term “customer experience” (CX) has gained considerable currency recently, and in many ways has displaced “customer service” as the focal point of the contact center. The current state of customer experience is more challenging. Think Beyond the Contact Center.

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Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

Customer service has gone digital — and your contact center needs to evolve with the times. As younger customers make up more and more of the marketplace, they’re shifting service preferences toward digital channels. What Is Omnichannel Customer Experience?

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Comm100

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Call centers are evolving to become contact centers in increasing numbers, supporting a wide variety of contact channels for customers. Another customer benefit of business going digital is the ability to support a variety of channels. Younger generations demand to connect how and when they want.

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Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

It goes beyond simply collecting feedback; it’s about actively listening to customer sentiment across all touchpoints. In today’s digital landscape, this involves gathering data from diverse sources like surveys, social media, online reviews and, crucially, contact center interactions.

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Upstream Works

JULY 16, 2020

This is Part 3 in our 3-Part series about how contact centers can adapt and thrive during a global pandemic. As the pandemic wears on, contact centers face challenges on two different but highly related fronts. The need to provide great CX hasn’t changed, but the environment has changed for both agents and customers.

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Magellan Solutions

APRIL 28, 2021

What is omnichannel contact center for Magellan Solutions. Magellan Solutions is an omnichannel contact center. We are a business process outsourcing service provider that allows our employees to use several isolated channels to communicate with customers. Mapping customer journey.

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TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2020

Companies that deliver smooth, low-effort experiences that grab their customers’ attention will be the ones to thrive. However, enhancing the customer journey requires an equal focus on another dimension of customer service: the employee journey. Omnichannel vs Multiexperience.

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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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Calabrio

APRIL 5, 2016

In the same way, customers choose to use different channels to meet specific needs they have (conflict avoidance, convenience, speed/immediacy, etc.), It has evolved to include email, social media and text messaging, so now companies can analyze data from multiple avenues to understand customer behavior.

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Upstream Works

OCTOBER 21, 2022

As contact centers transition to the cloud, there are several areas where AI is poised to play a leading role, including providing seamless customer experiences (CX). Omnichannel Data. One reason is that many contact centers are more focused on internal performance than the customer.

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Magellan Solutions

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

SMEs can take advantage of an omnichannel contact center through this helpful guide. A transformative omnichannel contact center helped various organizations to solve the broken record syndrome. Often, people assume that multichannel customer support and omnichannel contact center are the same thing.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 7, 2021

AI has many valuable uses in the contact center, from providing data and channel options to reducing costs. With AI enabling better forms of self-service, automation can address many contact center challenges with limited cost impact or added strain to the existing pool of agents. Customer Journey Mapping.

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InMoment XI

JULY 18, 2024

Most often, companies send e-mail surveys for customers to provide feedback about their experience. Contact Center Interactions The customer service department, often run out of an omnichannel contact center , is often the first point of contact for customers who have feedback or complaints.

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently. Until you start measuring customer experience , you could easily be falling behind the competition.

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Avaya

APRIL 27, 2017

But this May 22-25, when you arrive in Orlando for the 2017 ICMI Contact Center Expo and Conference , we think you’ll be heading for what we like to call the second happiest place on earth. We’ll show customer-focused companies our latest innovations. Follow the experience like your customers would.

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Call Experts

MARCH 5, 2020

What do you do if you can’t build the technology you need or afford to hire full-time staff to answer your phones and support your customers? Cue the experienced live-agent contact center. . Here are our top 4 benefits of partnering with a contact center to support and grow your plumbing business: .

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2024

If you have customers, then they’re having an experience with your brand, your products, and at every step in their journey. Customer Experience Management (CEM) is a strategic approach that focuses on proactively designing and delivering the entire customer journey to meet or exceed expectations.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This week we feature an article by Mansi Bhatia who looks at ways organizations can transform contact centers into a customer engagement center. I like the idea of a customer engagement center. – Shep Hyken. Customer service has the power to make or break a company. Use Technology for Self Service.

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Upstream Works

MAY 13, 2021

Bring flexible cloud omnichannel solutions to your contact center to accelerate innovation, transform the customer experience and increase efficiency. Upstream Works for Amazon (UWA) is a solution that is designed to help the entire enterprise, from IT to the contact center and back office.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Three primary trends are driving the customer care industry: diversified cloud-based solutions. omnichannel management that supports digital transformation. By actively harnessing a set of cloud-based AI-powered technologies, contact centers are infusing intelligence across the entire customer contact landscape.

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

When it comes to evaluating the Customer Experience (CX), the contact center is in the unique position of being able to accurately represent what a customer actually did and the service they received. Optimize Customer Engagements with the Right Information at the Right Time. how many times were they transferred?

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Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

Some of the most common uses of AI have been game changers: Virtual assistants like Siri guiding us on our way and finding information in an instant Fraud detection from our financial institutions Medical diagnoses and healthcare Contact centers are no exception and stand to gain significant business and operational benefits from AI.

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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.

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