Inside Customer Service

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Imagine two customers call a contact center at the same time. The two reps taking their respective calls follow the same routine: Listen to the customer Apologize for the issue Solve the problem The only difference is how each rep communicates. Why do customers prefer concrete language? Alton uses general language.

Customer Satisfaction 226

Customer Satisfaction Contact Center Start-ups Retail 226

Fonolo

MAY 30, 2023

Managers know that call center workforce management matters. Put it another way: if customer interactions are at the heart of a contact center’s success, then effective workforce management is the backbone. That’s why contact centers are investing in it in droves. The results?

Contact Center 106

Contact Center Customer Satisfaction CX CRM 106

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is especially true for contact center and customer service professionals – after all, customer behavior is constantly shifting, and it’s critical for businesses to meet their expectations. Fortunately, e-learning has made call center management courses more accessible than ever.

Contact Center 147

Contact Center Start-ups Education Customer Satisfaction 147

Fonolo

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With the labor shortage, a workforce in transition, and the dynamic (but disruptive) impact of AI, managing a contact center in 2024 can be a real workout. Why not take a break from the heavy lifting for a moment, and check out Fonolo’s annual State of the Contact Center report? What’s inside?

Contact Center 87

Contact Center Artificial Intelligence AI CX 87

Hodusoft

MAY 10, 2024

A Comprehensive Guide to Virtual Call Center and Contact Centers Even though virtual call centers and contact centers have been around for quite some time, they have gained widespread popularity in the last four to five years only. What Are Virtual Call Centers and Contact Centers?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Social Media Compliance Artificial Intelligence 52

Fonolo

JANUARY 17, 2023

If there’s one thing managers need to understand about digital transformation, it’s how artificial intelligence is changing CX in the contact center. Gartner reports that AI chatbots alone can save the contact center industry up to $80 billion in annual labor costs by 2026. What Do Customers Value in CX?

Artificial Intelligence 154

Artificial Intelligence Contact Center CX Machine Learning 154

Fonolo

JANUARY 12, 2023

The same holds when considering how artificial intelligence is changing the contact center. . Most managers also rely on an analytics package (or several, depending on how integrated your software is) to monitor KPIs. More personalization and better customer experience . Improved agent experience .

Artificial Intelligence 138

Artificial Intelligence Contact Center Sentiment Analysis AI 138

Fonolo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Call center automation is one of the best ways to improve your customer experience, increase agent happiness, and light up your KPI dashboard in the best possible way! What is Call Center Automation? They are becoming increasingly popular in contact centers and are one of the first AI-assisted tools many businesses try.

Contact Center 135

Contact Center Artificial Intelligence AI Machine Learning 135

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 25, 2022

The contact center at many organizations doesn’t get the strategic consideration it deserves. My former contact center team at British Telecom seemed to be viewed primarily as a cost center, a necessary expense. However, the contact center should have been valued.

Contact Center 148

Contact Center Management Consulting Gaming Innovation 148

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 6, 2022

We started off the summer with a bang – hosting the Summer 2022 edition of New at Intercom and announcing three huge new product releases: SMS , the next-generation Inbox , and Custom Actions and Custom Objects in bots. Increase engagement and encourage action with two-way SMS that connects you to your customers anytime, anywhere.

Start-ups 210

Start-ups Customer Retention 210

Shep Hyken

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This week we feature an article by Apira Giriharan, a Marketing Manager from Blackchair with extensive knowledge of all matters related to CX solutions. She writes about how contact center agents can maximize productivity and provide a better customer experience. What is a CX management platform?

Customer Experience Management 129

Customer Experience Management Contact Center Customer Experience Engineering 129

Customer Service Life

JANUARY 31, 2024

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Throughout my career in the contact center, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with quality assurance (QA). I was already two years into a role as a customer support manager when I hired someone with actual contact center experience (I had none) who informed me that I should be “doing quality.”

Contact Center 83

Contact Center Start-ups Customer Satisfaction Customer Service 83

DMG Consulting

MARCH 27, 2024

AI is key to modifying and enhancing WFM solutions to enable them to properly address the needs of advanced contact centers and other operating environments that handle voice and digital synchronous and asynchronous interactions.

Contact Center 59

Contact Center Artificial Intelligence Innovation AI 59

Fonolo

MARCH 16, 2023

Your contact center may run like clockwork, with engaged agents answering calls quickly, solving problems, and creating satisfied customers in record time. But without the contact center KPIs and metrics that managers use to measure the effectiveness of their operations, you’d never know for sure.

Contact Center 151

Contact Center Sentiment Analysis NPS Customer Satisfaction 151

Fonolo

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Call center leaders are always looking for ways to take their operations to the next level. That all depends on the goals your contact center sets. It’s up to you to set those standards and provide the right support and motivation for your call center team to achieve them. Improve the Customer Journey.

Contact Center 138

Contact Center Mystery Shopper Technology Technology 138

Fonolo

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Self-service is one of the biggest topics in CX and in the contact center world right now. While the industry is no stranger to new technologies and automation, modern self-service tools have really changed the game when it comes to supporting customers. You may have already interacted with self-service tools as a customer.

Contact Center 142

Contact Center CX Gaming AI 142

Fonolo

MAY 16, 2023

Correctly interpreting call center analytics and KPIs is key to improving your operations and your customer’s experience. Today, contact centers are increasingly viewed by businesses as the key to understanding customers. Every contact center uses them.

Contact Center 91

Contact Center Customer Satisfaction Sentiment Analysis Artificial Intelligence 91

Fonolo

MARCH 28, 2023

Customer experience managers in the contact center have never mattered more. Because even though most businesses work hard to offer excellent service , today’s savvy customers notice so much more. They also share and compare their experiences with your business against the biggest brands in the world.

Customer Experience Management 81

Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Contact Center Net Promoter Score 81

DMG Consulting

MAY 15, 2024

Fixing WFM May 2024 The world and workforce have changed, and it’s time for companies to update their workforce management (WFM) solutions and best practices to better meet the expectations of today’s employees, especially Millennials and the rapidly up-and-coming Gen Z. This is particularly important for employees who work from home.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Artificial Intelligence Sales 48

Fonolo

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Contact centers are like people: We’re all at different stages, chugging along healthily but sometimes faltering along the way. As we begin to look back at 2018, one thing is becoming clear: Not every contact center is created equal. All contact centers face barriers, and you certainly know your own intimately.

Contact Center 170

Contact Center Social Media Education Technology 170

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

After assessing how the pandemic had changed the call center in 2020 , we decided to peek over the parapet at 2021. We asked the contact center industry’s top influencers and business leaders what they thought the most significant contact center trends in 2021 would be. Contact Center Trends 2021.

Contact Center 176

Contact Center CX Social Media Omnichannel 176

Fonolo

MAY 23, 2023

Customer service is all about meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Contact center managers know this implicitly. But did you know that hyper-personalization in the contact center is one of the best ways to delight your customers? Customers want to feel seen.

Contact Center 106

Contact Center Machine Learning Social Media Artificial Intelligence 106

Fonolo

OCTOBER 7, 2021

That’s why it’s more important than ever to have a superior customer service strategy — that includes ensuring your retail contact center operations are optimized for a smooth customer experience. The Contact Center Guide to Managing Spikes in Call Volume. Cyber Monday.

Contact Center 141

Contact Center Retail Customer Expectations Technology 141

ECXO

MAY 16, 2024

Customer-centric leadership – what does it mean? In an increasingly competitive world where customer needs and expectations are continuously evolving, the concept of “customer-centric leadership” has become a cornerstone for driving successful businesses. So, what does it mean to be a customer-centric leader?

Touchpoint 69

Touchpoint Customer Journey Map Education CX 69

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.

E-commerce 52

E-commerce Contact Center Social Media Gaming 52

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

High call volumes are three words that can strike fear into the heart of any call center professional. Without the right preparation, even the most established operations can find themselves struggling with call demand, and trying to stay afloat when faced with an onslaught of customer queries. Understand Customer Behavior.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Start-ups Technology Technology 156

Fonolo

AUGUST 22, 2018

They have called us from contact centers in the middle of the work day, when we ourselves were working on getting through that jerk chicken during a barely 15-minute lunch break. The contact center industry is now one of North America’s biggest employers. Go gift each agent, even the newbies, with a long summer weekend.

Contact Center 187

Contact Center Social Media Customer Service Sales 187

Fonolo

DECEMBER 8, 2020

AI has been making a relentless assault on the contact center for several years. Read All the Contact Center Trends Here: Contact Center Trends 2021. Contact Center Execs Had Been ‘Back-Burnering’ Upgrades. Read All the Contact Center Trends Here: Contact Center Trends 2021.

Contact Center 154

Contact Center AI Artificial Intelligence Omnichannel 154

Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Call center training has always been one of the key pillars of running a successful call center. A strong call center training program should not just be part of your onboarding process. Instead, it’s helpful to think of it as regular part of your workforce management. Still have questions about call center training?

Contact Center 141

Contact Center Gaming Start-ups Customer Service 141

Fonolo

MARCH 14, 2023

We’ve all heard about the human touch and how important it is in the CX and call center spaces. Your customers want thoughtful and empathetic service, and that’s not something you can get from technology alone. Skilled agents are key to delivering a great customer experience, and agent retention is vital to a healthy contact center.

Contact Center 95

Contact Center Artificial Intelligence AI Technology 95

Fonolo

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This is especially true when it comes to contact center outsourcing. It may be tempting to hire an external team when faced with high call volumes, but in doing so, you risk lowering the quality of your customer experience. The Pros and Cons of Call Center Outsourcing. Guide to Contact Center Technologies .

Contact Center 154

Contact Center Technology Technology AI 154

DMG Consulting

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Report explores how workforce engagement management (WEM) suites are transforming into next-gen platforms that support the increasingly complex and varied requirements of contact centers and all other customer-facing departments that leverage them to improve the customer experience (CX), employee experience (EX), and productivity.

Contact Center 59

Contact Center Artificial Intelligence AI Actionable Insights 59

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A well-designed chatbot can be a powerful addition to your call center toolkit. This is good news because we know for certain that customers want self-service options. And call centers are quickly getting onboard, with as many as 75% of contact centers currently using chat solutions to boost productivity.

Contact Center 75

Contact Center AI Technology Technology 75

Customer Service Life

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A customer contacts us with an apparent product issue. Before reporting to engineering we get a sense of how many customers are impacted by the issue. Upon realizing the wide impact, the question that inevitably arises is: How did it take the customer support team so long to discover this issue?

Contact Center 130

Contact Center Text Analytics Engineering Social Media 130

Fonolo

AUGUST 17, 2021

To optimize your call center’s performance, you need to think about improving your customers’ experience. After all, customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable. While incredible customer service should always be a call center’s goal, it shouldn’t be your only goal. But it’s not enough.

Artificial Intelligence 156

Artificial Intelligence Contact Center Technology Technology 156

Experience Investigators

APRIL 23, 2024

The landscape of consumer expectations is constantly evolving, and understanding the value of customer experience has emerged as a cornerstone for businesses aiming to sustain growth and maintain a competitive advantage. And they will be rewarded for that focus on the customer! But, leaders, take a deep breath!

Net Promoter Score 94

Net Promoter Score CEM CX Customer Experience 94

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

While we’re not all Eternia-born superheroes like him, per se, as mere mortals we can still aim to be the masters of our own universes (contact center universes, if we’re being specific here) and harness the unshakable power to satisfy our customers. Giving your customers their time back is a gift they will be grateful for.

Contact Center 240

Contact Center Social Media Technology Technology 240