Fonolo

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Contact centers have faced some serious ups and downs in the past few years. Find out how we scored in our latest resource, Contact Center Trends 2022. As for the upcoming year, take a sneak peek at our predictions below: READ THE FULL GUIDE: Contact Center Trends 2022. Trend #1: Customer intelligence.

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Fonolo

JUNE 13, 2023

Today’s customers expect more from customer service. Their patience is never shorter than when dealing with your call center. That’s why call-backs have become a contact center essential. What can a call center manager do? Capture customer information. Eliminate voicemail.

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Ameyo Callversations

JANUARY 19, 2022

Contact centers act as a spine of good customer experiences. A modern contact center is a primary location that shapes both inbound and outbound communications with customers using various customer engagement channels and strategies; however, its success totally relies on meeting and exceeding customer expectations.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 20, 2022

Over the past few years, contact center leaders have had their customer experience, technological innovation, and overall resilience tested like never before. Call center industry trends help us pave a path forward and keep up with the ever-present competition. The first step to success is knowing what to expect.

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Fonolo

MAY 11, 2021

With advances in online communication, and the court of public opinion that social media now provides, brands and their customer service faux pas are more exposed than ever. This is why setting and managing customer expectations and their perceptions is key. Six Crucial Contact Center Trends The Will Shape 2021.

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Fonolo

MARCH 9, 2023

CCMC’s Customer Rage Study is a fascinating look at CX, designed to help customer service pros identify pain points and reduce customer complaints in the contact center. Here are some of the most common customer complaints in contact centers. times as many customers.

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Hodusoft

JUNE 1, 2023

HoduSoft Now Provides an AI Chatbot Feature with Its Contact Center Software In today’s swiftly evolving digital landscape, businesses are continuously striving to improve customer experiences and streamline their operations. 24/7 Support Over time, customer expectations have evolved, and they now require 24/7 support.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 14, 2022

5 Ways to leverage eCommerce Contact Center Software to improve CX. With greater internet accessibility and drastic change in customer behavior, the age of e-commerce began and continues to grow. According to Statista , the e-commerce sales figure is expected to reach 8.1 What does an e-commerce contact center do?

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 17, 2021

Still, it helps to find out if your business has adopted the right approach to live up to customer expectations when they approach you for customer services. You can maintain records of interactions and improve customers’ experiences by the use of contact center software. Customer goes away.

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DMG Consulting

MAY 2, 2021

The Argument for Contact Center Digital Transformation. Contact centers are finally going digital, galvanized by a fast-moving pandemic. Digitization should be very compelling for contact center and enterprise executives, as once customer inquiries are in a digital format (email, chat, SMS, messaging, social media, etc.),

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Question: Should speech and text analytics be used outside the contact center? Answer: Speech and text analytics, known jointly as interaction analytics (IA), can and should be perceived, managed and applied in a way to benefit the entire enterprise and its customers. appeared first on DMG Consulting.

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Hodusoft

JULY 20, 2022

Gartner’s GetApp Names HoduCC a Category Leader in Contact Center Software. It’s pretty exciting to see that HoduSoft has bagged the 6th rank in GetApp’s Category Leader list for contact center software , published by Gartner Digital Markets Report. getapp’s category leader in contact center.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2022

5 Reasons Why Financial Institutions Must Invest In Contact Center Software Financial businesses, like banks and insurance companies, deal with people’s money. 51% of such institutions have realized that improving customer experience is one of the top priorities for their success. Curious to know how?

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Fonolo

JANUARY 15, 2019

This goes for contact center managers and agents as well; for them, January is certainly “reach for the stars and crush your goals” month (as is every month!). Today’s digitally-savvy customers have zero tolerance for bad customer experience; this certainly includes their experiences with contact centers.

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Taylor Reach Group

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Recently I was asked to participate in an expert round-up on How Fortune 500 companies Manage Their Contact Center(s). More specifically, I was asked to provide insight on the importance of consistency among different channels within a Contact Center. This perception forms the basis for our interaction expectations.

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Hodusoft

MARCH 6, 2024

In this blog, we will delve into the details of how BPOs are helping e-commerce businesses improve operational efficiency and customer support services using contact center software. According to a report by Microsoft 95% of consumers consider customer service crucial for brand loyalty. Let’s get started.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2019

Every year we ask: What can contact centers do to bolster their productivity, efficiency, and customer service offerings in the future? This year’s soundbites are rich with well-researched insights that a) act as a warning; and b) can help your contact center win. Learn more about Shaun here and here.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 16, 2019

Essential Role of Contact Centers in Digital Transformations. We’re in the period of digital transformation, but surprisingly, contact centers are sometimes left out of these initiatives. Neglecting to include the contact center in essential business initiatives is not new.

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HoduSoft Shines Bright with Omnichannel Excellence Award at NXTGEN BPO CONFEX 2023 HoduSoft has been awarded the prestigious “ Omnichannel Excellence in Contact Center Solutions ” award at the NXTGEN BPO CONFEX & AWARDS 2023 in recognition of its outstanding service in the field of contact center solutions.

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Omnichannel Contact Center Social Media Innovation 52

Taylor Reach Group

MAY 14, 2017

Will AI Mean Less People and More Profit in the Contact Center? . The drive to reduce the number of people in Contact Centers has been around since their inception. Contact Centers increasingly now operate in an omni-channel environment. Contact Center Services Will be Augmented – Not Replaced.

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Contact Center AI Artificial Intelligence Compliance 79

Uniphore

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

More people now use technology to manage their finances than use video streaming services (78%) or social media (72%). Traditional banks did amazingly well in playing catch-up on digital transformation, but they didn’t necessarily perform as well when responding to the overwhelming volume of ensuing contact center interactions.

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Net Promoter Score Contact Center Artificial Intelligence NPS 130

Shep Hyken

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We explore these questions and offer some tips on how to improve your customer journey. . What do customers expect from contact centers? . In order to provide an excellent customer experience, it’s important that your customer journey is aligned with customer expectations.

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Callminer

AUGUST 23, 2018

No matter what industry you serve, chances are your customers have high expectations. As a contact center, it is your primary responsibility to understand and manage customer expectations. That includes determining if customers feel their needs are being met on every call. Actionable analytics is key.

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Return Customer

JUNE 1, 2016

As Internet speeds increase and technology becomes more sophisticated, customer expectations of companies’ online performances have also risen. corporate executives said their customers’ service expectations were higher than three years ago, while 35 percent said they were much higher. Mobile Friendliness.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Call centers have always relied on different forms of automation to provide swift service to their clientele. As technology gets smarter and more intuitive, so does the contact center that benefits from it. To find the answer, you need to evaluate your current call center workflow and identify opportunities for automation.

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Contact Center Omnichannel CRM Sentiment Analysis 142

Fonolo

APRIL 1, 2021

If your customers aren’t happy with the experience you provide, they’ll leave you without a word. That’s where CSAT — or customer satisfaction — scores come in. This KPI is essential for contact centers to measure how their customers feel about their service. Once you gather this feedback, be sure to act on it!

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Contact Center Social Media Customer Satisfaction Omnichannel 152

Callminer

APRIL 26, 2017

First-call resolution (FCR) is an important contact center metric and element of customer relationship management (CRM). The term is self-explanatory: a contact center’s ability to resolve customer problems, questions or needs the first time they call , with no follow-up required.

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Contact Center Social Media Customer Satisfaction Customer Relationship Management 140

MattsenKumar

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As customer experience (CX) and customer loyalty become increasingly important for businesses, especially contact centers, it is essential to implement quality monitoring strategies to ensure that customer expectations are met. This not only helps to improve CX but can also help to increase customer loyalty.

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Shep Hyken

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Steve Miller, Head of Customer Success at Cirrus , a contact center solution that helps companies engage with their customers. He shares the benefits of excellent customer experience for your customers and employees. At the heart of all contact centers sit the agents.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 15, 2024

Conversational commerce is all about interacting with customers through various communication tools, like live chat, chatbots, and contact centers. This omnichannel approach gives companies a chance to have a one-to-one conversation with customers on their chosen platform.

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Qualtrics

MARCH 13, 2020

Frustrating contact center experiences like explaining your issue over and over again, or being handed from agent to agent are usually caused by data silos. Find out how a few simple changes to your set-up can deliver better experiences to customers and agents. First, there was the call center.

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Comm100

JUNE 5, 2018

It’s therefore essential to analyze ‘what’s out there’ in customer service AI and adjust our expectations accordingly. How AI can be Used in the Contact Center. AI has some viable uses in the contact center sphere that managers can employ to improve their CX and the efficiency of call centers.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

An after-call survey is a series of questions requesting customer feedback right after an interaction. The value is in the timing—customers will give the most accurate accounts of their service experiences shortly after they’ve happened. 33% of customers prefer social media communication with a company to phone calls.

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Net Promoter Score Contact Center Healthcare Customer Satisfaction 138

DMG Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2021

As part of this transformation, the channels that customers expect to be supported are expanding. email, social media and more, this now includes the use of video and co-browse channels in contact centers.

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Contact Center Social Media Customer Expectations Customer Experience 78

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

One of our goals with the Fonolo blog is to help you stay current on the many aspects of the fast-moving contact center industry. They feature original research and cover topics such as consumer channel preference, the growth of chat, the ROI of social media for customer support, and much more.

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Comm100

MAY 25, 2022

Further social upheavals amongst workers and customer expectations have also occurred. Ultimately, customer service and contact centers have not been immune to these changes. In this article, we’ll look at some of the new challenges that have emerged to impact contact centers.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2023

View this article on the publisher’s website The short answer to the question posed above: All inquiries should be handled by the contact center (which can encompass customer service, inbound sales, or similar functions), regardless of the channel in which they arrive. This seems to be the crux of the matter.

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