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8×8 and Aryaka: Bringing the World Closer, Together
Introducing your power team to enhance cloud communications and contact center performance across SD-WAN. 8x8 and Aryaka cloud-based services deliver the flexibility, simplicity, and scalability...
2021 Outlook: AI, Knowledge Automation and the Evolving Role of Remote Agents
Already experiencing pandemic change, contact centers can expect even more in 2021, at a more rapid pace. Call and ticket volumes continue to rise,...
Transform Your Contact Center from an Expense to a Revenue Source
No matter the brand, customer service needs to be a priority. Here’s how to make it a revenue source as well. Contact centers are often...
The New Digital Customer Engagement for the New (Ab)Normal
COVID-19, aka Coronavirus, has changed everything. Consumers are still very wary of exposure to the virus and want to get more things done digitally....
Rebooting Your Workforce Management Strategy
Our workforce management (WFM) landscape is changing at breakneck speed. Many organizations are now 100% work-from-home or have a workforce divided between brick-and-mortar and...
How to Get the Best Headsets for Amazon Connect
If you’re looking for the best headsets for your call center agents working on Amazon Connect, here are our top picks. The type of...
Why the Call Center Was Already Collapsing—Even Before COVID-19
COVID-19 has made the fundamental flaws in phone-based support impossible to ignore. Overwhelmed and under-equipped reps are struggling, anxious customers are stuck on hold...
Redefining the Work Experience
As companies realign their workforce during these disruptive times, work-from-home (WFH) is quickly redefining the concept of “business as usual.” Both companies and employees...
Executive Interview with MusicWorks’ David Sandler
It is interesting that what we may perceive as relatively “small” touchpoints can have a considerable impact on our customers’ experience. One such area...
Helping Organizations Adapt and Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The upheaval created by the Coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented. Your customers are understandably concerned and confused, and are likely coming to your organization with...
A Cloud-Based Dialer Checklist
If you are moving from a premise-based system to a cloud-based system, you may not know all of the features to look for. Premise-based...
Five Essential Skills of Top Customer Service Reps
According to Bain & Company, organizations that excel at customer experience grow revenues 4%-8% above the rest of the market. Often, companies don’t understand...
How to Promote Customer Loyalty in the Age of Complexity
Conventional wisdom accepts that it’s cheaper to keep existing customers than to get new ones. Then why is it companies pay so little attention...
AI and KM: From Knowledge Management to Knowledge Automation
When customers have questions for companies they do business with, they might get a set of FAQs to plow through. They might get an...
Coronavirus = Business Continuity Plan
Do you have the appropriate technology for your staff to work from home during a disease outbreak? Operational service delivery has changed rapidly due to...
Call Center Preparation for the Coronavirus
Call centers are a hub of germs! Reps sit close together in pods, they sometimes share headsets with their supervisors, they are stuck inside...
Executive Interview with LogMeIn’s Ryan Lester
We have all used your products for many years. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to sit down and discuss the organization behind...
Why Online Scripting Is So Important to Your Call Center Success
Having your scripting online is one of the most important things you can do to ensure the success of your sales and/or customer service...
Executive Interview with Bob Wienholt, CEO of CallShaper
I love the idea that CallShaper was first developed for use in their own contact center. It was from there that CallShaper became independent....
What to Look for in a Secure Headset
Audio solutions are an effective way to enhance mobility in an office communications network, delivering sophisticated capabilities such as adjustable noise cancellation and directional...