Hodusoft

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Contact Center Technology Trends to Watch in 2022. The contact center trends too, changed completely driven by the pandemic. 2020-21 saw most contact centers make a shift to cloud contact center software. So, what contact center technology trends can one expect in 2022.

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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. Industry Report: State of the Contact Center 2022.

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Hodusoft

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

How to Find Best Hybrid workforce Contact Center Software in 2022. Contact centers and several other industries’ survival through the first few months of COVID-19 meant swift operational reboots primarily through work from home transitions. Role of contact center software in managing a ‘hybrid workforce’.

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 3, 2024

Everything You Need to Know About Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) The introduction of Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) heralded the beginning of a new era. An era where small and medium-sized businesses could provide similar customer service as their larger counterparts. What is CCaaS?

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Modern consumers are no longer willing to accept poor customer service. In fact, more than 80% of customers now say the experience a company provides is as important as its products. It’s been a journey: The contact center evolved from the humble call center, as more channels of communication became commonplace.

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Fonolo

MAY 19, 2022

The customer service climate is constantly evolving, which means your contact center’s operation must adapt to keep up. Contact center technology is a key component of the way your business functions. Industry Report: State of the Contact Center 2022. The Shift to Remote Work. Let’s dive in!

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contact centers play a vital role in today’s modern businesses. They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Customers are not forthright with their expectations, but they know a sub-par experience when they encounter one. #CX Here are seven things your customers want your contact center to know: They want easy solutions. That’s why creating reducing friction in your customer experience is so important.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The API integration linking your contact center and your customer relationship management (CRM) tool shouldn’t be holding you back. API integrations are lines of code that connect two or more applications, like your CRM and your contact center. What Exactly Is CRM Contact Center Unification?

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UJET

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The API integration linking your contact center and your customer relationship management (CRM) tool shouldn’t be holding you back. API integrations are lines of code that connect two or more applications, like your CRM and your contact center. What Exactly Is CRM Contact Center Unification?

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Hodusoft

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In today’s time, contact centers for businesses play an important role in managing all the customer interactions across various channels. Also known as e-contact center or customer interaction center, the key role of contact centers is to provide assistance to the customers in the form of customer service and technical 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. As the competition gets fierce over the years, e-commerce businesses are battling for customers’ attention. Promotion, etc.

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Fonolo

MAY 19, 2022

The customer service climate is constantly evolving, which means your contact center’s operation must adapt to keep up. Contact center technology is a key component of the way your business functions. Industry Report: State of the Contact Center 2022. The Shift to Remote Work. Let’s dive in!

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Execs In The Know

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These shifting expectations have paved the way for two unique but often misconstrued customer experience (CX) approaches: omnichannel and multichannel. The lines between omnichannel and multichannel customer experience often blur, and even though the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, they are not the same.

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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

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. Read on for an introduction to call center automation, plus our top software picks!

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Customer Service Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

My first job out of college was as a frontline agent in the contact center for a SaaS startup — and over the next 15 years, I grew into a director role. But things have changed and I now find myself back in a contact center leadership role at a SaaS startup, and I’m now looking to execute on many of the lessons learned and shared.

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Zendesk

JUNE 9, 2022

This business should have invested in an omnichannel customer experience, which would have united online and offline channels—and likely resulted in a sale. But according to the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report 2022 , only a third of companies are omnichannel. Only a third of companies are omnichannel.

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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

MARCH 6, 2024

E-commerce Customer Support: How BPO Can Elevate Your Service Experience Are you an e-commerce business struggling to provide seamless and efficient customer support services? Primarily, the success of e-commerce or any customer service-related company is measured through increased customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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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!). In an industry driven by customer gratification, learning the difference between customer service vs. customer care vs. customer satisfaction became quintessential in 2018.

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Shep Hyken

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. The customer journey is essential to any company’s success.

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Ameyo Callversations

APRIL 21, 2022

A contact center is a facility where customer service representatives answer customer queries over phone calls, emails, chat, social media, and other channels. This facility may be owned entirely by the organization or (as many companies prefer today) may be outsourced to a contact center operator.

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

To ensure the long-term success of a contact center, the management must be aware of what’s going on in the contact center. They must know what went down between their customers and agents during the call and how well agents stick to compliance and quality guidelines.

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Hodusoft

APRIL 14, 2022

Understanding Customer Service Experience Outcomes Through Data. The customer-first approach is gaining importance for businesses in every industry. Today, 73% of people have confessed that customer service experience is one of the top determinators for their purchasing decisions. .

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

While customer vulnerability isn’t new, it’s time companies take action to identify vulnerable customers and implement solutions to better equip company representatives and customer service agents to interact with customers experiencing vulnerability. One thing contact centers need to get better at is…”.

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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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CSAT.AI

JULY 3, 2019

Is AI still predicted to be contact center doom or boom? Is AI Killing or Changing Contact Center Jobs? How about this inflammatory post title: Bots and AI continue their march toward call center obliteration. Industry people are in two camps about this whole AI in customer service thing.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2022

In every business and industry, customers will have questions or need support before, during, and after a sale. Call centers have historically been a popular way to offer that support by employing customer service representatives to assist both inbound and outbound queries from existing and potential customers over the phone.

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Fonolo

MARCH 6, 2020

The ones that develop social media departments undoubtedly grow revenue and can save money on other outdated systems and the use of call centers. It also helps to improve customer satisfaction levels. Handpicked related for you: The Golden Rules of Contact Center SLAs. Making your contact center omnichannel ready.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 25, 2022

Imagine your agents providing stellar customer service to only 75% of your customer base. Every contact center manager works hard to ensure agents provide excellent service, and yet, this will be your reality if you don’t create an accessible contact center. Accessible Customer Service.

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Hodusoft

MAY 5, 2019

Customer satisfaction and great customer experience is the essence of success for any organization. When a business has a large volume of calls, sometimes it is difficult to manage the superior customer experience for all customers on call. GUO Transportation Company Ltd. is a division of G. Okeke & Sons Ltd.

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Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

If you’ve sat through any customer service technology demos or walked the showroom floor at an industry conference, you’ve undoubtedly heard well-meaning sales folks speak of innovation, disruption, and automation. Slack has revolutionized contact center communication. Keep an eye on the customer engagement market.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Which customer service blog posts helped to shape the last decade for you? . When we look back at the customer support industry in 2010, we see a very different beast to the one we work in today. Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020. Peter Lavers @ ThinkCX .

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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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CommBox

JUNE 25, 2023

But what about the world of customer service? Is there a fundamental principle that governs how businesses address the ever-growing volumes of customer communication? It’s a straightforward equation: more customers being served with a high level of service means more agents are required. Indeed, there is.

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